Episode 33 – 10 Things you DIDN’T know about France

Did you know you can marry a dead person in France? ? Find out other crazy facts and also why Dan the Man HATES librarians ?, why SNAILS need train tickets ?, an idiom that involves an Uncle called Bob ? and lots and LOTS of RnR vocab and grammar – ROCK ON baby! ???

Speaking of RnR vocabulary, here is today’s:

It’s a weight off your shoulders
My sister is threatening to tell many people
Yes I feel free without you hassling me to take the photo
Let’s look at some facts about France and hopefully they’ll help you settle in
I’m going to France just to mix things up a bit
You’re so commercial going to France, I’m a bit more underground so I live in Sicily
I’ve still got hay-fever
The French are famous for eating snails
English people don’t hate anyone, they just look down on everyone
Find a dead person, call the President and Bob’s your uncle
Do we have to use this show to give shout outs to your childhood heroes?

RnR Grammar

Some nice simple 2nd conditional from Dan the Man today. What was best was how he changed the sentences around. The first was:

“if they did give Nobel Prizes for putting potatoes in mouths, then I’d be in luck”

This is the standard second conditional (if + past / would + verb), but in the next sentence he changed the order and said:

“How annoyed would you be if I won a Nobel Prize?”

Also, notice how when the ‘if’ clause comes second, there is NO comma…. now that’s Rock n’ Roll baby!