Speak Better English with Harry | Episode 67

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• 00:10

  Hi there.

• 00:10

  This is Harry, and welcome back to our english grammar lessons, where we try to help you with some aspects of the english language to improve written and verbal skills.

• 00:21

  I thought I'd make a little change this week for a couple of our sentences.

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  So instead of actually having sentences, I'm going to use some english expressions and I'll explain those to you.

• 00:32

  So for the first podcast, we're going to talk about english expressions concerning time.

• 00:41

  So I'm going to give you three particular expressions using time, explain them and give you examples when you can use them.

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  So the first one, time to spare.

• 00:55

  Time to spare.

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  Spare, spelt spare.

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  And when we have time to spare, it means we have time on our hands, we have free time, and time when we don't have to do something.

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  So a good example of this would be we have to produce some document or some paper for our boss or a professor, whoever that might be.

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  And there's a deadline, a time deadline.

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  And he tells you or she tells you it has to be submitted by 05:00 on Wednesday afternoon.

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  So you're working really hard to produce and prepare it, and you get it completed by 04:00 so you're absolutely thrilled, you're delighted because you have completed your assignment, your document with time to spare, meaning I have saved myself an hour.

• 01:51

  I was supposed to have it in by 05:00.

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  I got it completed by 04:00 so I have time to spare.

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  Time that you didn't expect to have.

• 02:01

  Okay.

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  Another way in which we can use time to spare is when we are talking to a friend and he wants the help to paint a room or fix his car or go and collect something, and you say, yeah, I've got a bit of time to spare, meaning I've got some free time, I can help you.

• 02:21

  Okay, so that's the expression, time to spare.

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