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It was just a magnificent sight here
in Hobart this morning. We had four
super maxis coming up the River
Derwent in pretty close proximity. It
was Wild Oats XI that crossed the
finish line first, that made it a 9th
line honours victory for Wild Oats XI
and the celebrations as the yacht
docked here this morning were huge.
It is the first victory since the
Oatley family, which owns the yacht
lost its patriarch Bob Oatley back in
2016 and it was his grandson today
that steered the yacht across the
finish line. So, a special moment for
him.

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Also, a special moment for the
skipper Mark Richards, he kept saying
that it is redemption day and that of
course is in relation to what
happened last year. Wild Oats XI was
first to cross the finish line last
year as well, but was stripped of
line honours due to an illegal tack
at the start of the race. So, it had
line honours handed to Comanche and
also the race record.

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G'day, guys and welcome to Aussie
English. My objective here is to
teach you guys the English spoken
Down Under. So, whether you want to
speak like a fair dinkum Aussie or
you just want to understand what the
flipping' hell we're on about when
we're having a yarn, you've come to
the right place. So, sit back, grab a
cuppa and enjoy Aussie English.

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G'day, guys! Well, g'day, good
evening. How's it going? It is ten
o'clock on a Wednesday night at the
moment while I piece together this
week's episode. Far out, guys, I am
adapting to life as a father. I am
adapting to life with very minimal
sleep. I don't get very much time for
shut eye anymore. It's all about the
baby, all about the baby crying,
waking me up.

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Kel and I we're trying to stay in the
same room because we just like,
obviously, sleeping together in the
same room. You know, it's nice to hug
someone under the blankets, keep warm
in these cold nights, especially when
you live in a house like we do at the
moment with very bad heating and very
bad insulation.

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So, we've been trying that, but
sometimes I tell you what, guys, it
gets difficult. So, the baby's lying
on the bed in his special... I don't
even know the word for it, a bassinet
kind of thing, it's kind of like a
cot, a very small cot with walls and
he can sit in there close to us, so
that any time he makes any noise and
wakes up one of us can get up and
sort him out. Most of the time it has
to be Kel, unfortunately, because he
is famished, he is hungry, he's
thirsty and he wants a feed. He wants
to be breastfed.

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Anyway, enough of that, enough of
that, enough of my whinging, enough
of my complaining. I hope you guys
are going well I hope you've been
having an amazing week, I hope you've
been chilling out, kicking back,
relaxing, enjoying the beautiful
weather that is, well in Australia in
Melbourne at the moment, so it's a
little bit cold and rainy.

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So, intro scene today, guys. The
intro scene was about the Sydney to
Hobart Race. I wonder if you guys in
Australia at least if you're here and
if you've been here over Christmas,
over the new year, I wonder if you
guys have seen the Sydney to Hobart
Race on the TV. So, this is a race
from obviously Sydney to Hobart, it's
held every year, it's a yacht race
and it is just something that always
comes up obviously over Christmas
time or over the holidays.

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It's always on the TV, on the telly,
it's always being talked about, so I
thought I would talk about that in
today's Aussie English fact, but
definitely go check out that video
about Wild Oats Eleven, one of the
yachts that often wins the Sydney to
Hobart Race and that was from ABC
News, a great YouTube channel, a
great channel on the TV as well,
worth watching if you want to learn
more about current affairs in
Australia.

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So, before we get into the expression
today, I've got a joke for you guys,
ok? I've got a joke and it's a
weather joke because the expression
is related to weather. Alright,
here's the joke: what's the
difference between a horse and the
weather? What's the difference
between a horse, you know, and the
weather? You'll need to read this
one, I think, you'll need to read
this to get it because it's a
spelling joke, it's a pun, right? Ok,
what's the difference between a horse
and the weather? One is reined up and
the other rains down. Did you get it?

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So, if a horse has reined up it has
reins on it, right? The reins spelled
R E I N S or in this case reined as a
verb R E I N E D, reined up. Reins
are the things that a horse rider
uses to control the horse, so it has
the I think the bit, I think it's
called the bit in its mouth and the
reins are attached to that and
strapped on to the animal's head and
the person, the rider, can hold the
reins and obviously control the horse
so the horse has reined up, right,
it's got reins on its face it's
they've been put on the horse, it's
been reined up and the weather
usually when it's wet and cold it
rains down, right?

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R A I N S in this case, rains, the
verb, rain. They sound the same, but
they're spelt differently, right? To
rain down for it to pour down, for
water to come out of the sky,
precipitation, so yeah, there's the
joke.

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Today's expression, today's
expression is 'Go down a storm'. 'To
go down a storm'. This was from
Alida, who suggested this one in the
Aussie English Classroom, good job
Alida! This is a good one and I hope
today's episode goes down a storm
with you guys and especially with you
Alida.

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So, before we go through the
expression will define the words in
it.

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'To go down'. So, 'to go down'. It's
one of those phrasal verbs that can
mean many different things. Usually,
if you're going down, you are
descending, right? You're moving in a
direction that is down, that is
below, that is to the south, right?
To go down.

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But in this case, If something 'goes
down', that means for something to
happen, for that thing to occur,
right? An event or some kind of
circumstance, you know, if there was
a fight outside my house right now,
if I started hearing shouting outside
I might be like oh what's going down
outside? I want to see what's going
down. I want to see what's happening,
right? What's occurring.

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And a storm,, obviously a literal
definition for a storm is a violent
disturbance of the atmosphere, with
strong winds, rain, thunder,
lightning or snow, but in this sense
it is used figuratively, I believe,
where it means a tumultuous reaction,
an uproar or a controversy, right?
Some kind of full on event, right? A
tumultuous reaction, that's a really
good collocation, a tumultuous
reaction.

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So, the expression, what does it mean
to go down a storm? I wonder if you
guys know. Have you heard this
before? Do you get the context? If
something goes down a storm with you,
to go down a storm like if I said I
want this episode to go down a storm
with you guys, what do you reckon it
means?

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It means to be enthusiastically
received by an audience. So, to be
liked, to be whole heartedly
appreciated, to have great success.
If something goes down a storm, it
succeeds or it is received incredibly
well by a person or group of people,
right? To go down a storm. That thing
was amazing! It went down a storm
with everyone!

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So, as usual, let's go through some
examples of how I would use this
expression in day to day life, right?
If I'm out and about I'm having a
yarn with some friends Down Under, in
Australia, and I want to use some
expressions, this is a good one when
you want to talk about things that
you appreciated or that succeeded,
ok? Let's go through these examples.

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So, example number one: each year
Melbourne hosts the Melbourne
International Film Festival and this
year it's running from the first to
the 18th of August. So, if you're in
Melbourne, if you're around Melbourne
during that month, during the first
two or three weeks of August go check
it out, and it is an event where
there are lot of films from overseas
that are shown in the city of
Melbourne, right? Celebrating other
cultures and other types of film. So,
according to the event runners, "The
Melbourne International Film Festival
hosts a feast of cinematic delicacies
from over 50 countries for 17 days
each winter, heavily garnished with a
range of parties and special events".
So, there's a lot going down in
Melbourne, right?

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So, imagine one year there's a film
that everyone's anticipated. It's
meant to be an amazing doco, so
people are waiting with bated breath,
they're anticipating this
documentary, they think it's going to
be amazing and they are looking
forward to getting a chance to see it
when it comes out at the Film
Festival. So, when it gets finally
shown at the film festival and
everyone loves it, they think it's
fantastic, they could say it went
down a storm. So, it was received
well by everyone. The audience
enthusiastically received it, they
thought it was a great success, it
was a total hit, it went down a
storm. Everyone loved it. It went
down a storm.

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Example number two: each year my
family gets together for Christmas
Day, so we all get together on
Christmas Day to have our, you know,
celebrations together and we do this
at my nana and grandpa's house, up in
Melbourne in a suburb called
Camberwell. So, we pile the presents
up underneath the Christmas tree once
we arrive and then, you know, people
kind of trickle in over the late
morning, so by about lunchtime
everyone shows up and they've put
their presents under the tree. We
sort of all gather around and open
all the presents. So, one by one the
different families hand out the gifts
to each person that they've bought
them for in the sort of circle that's
created in the lounge room of my
nanna and grandpa's house. We all
open them in front of everyone, we
say thanks, we give our gifts and
then we get to eat an amazing meal
and have a yarn, and have a laugh,
and have a chat.

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So, for the last 32 years of my life
the food has pretty much always been
the same thing. Meat and three veg. A
meat and three veg roast, right? It
could be lamb, could be chicken,
could be turkey, but it tends to be
that with gravy and some vegetables,
you know, things like carrots,
potatoes, maybe some broccoli. So,
imagine this year nanna's decided to
go all out, she wants to mix things
up and, you know, try something
completely novel, try something
totally different. So, maybe she
wants to try a new recipe that's
totally new, she found it online
somewhere and she wants to cook a pig
or a lamb on a spit roast in the
backyard and then serve it up with
rice and curry, right? Something
completely different from what my
traditional nanna would usually do.

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So, she's got her fingers crossed
hoping that it's going to be a
success with everyone. She's hoping
that everyone's going to love it,
she's hoping it'll go down a storm,
right? She's hoping it'll be received
enthusiastically.

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Example number three: imagine there's
a new TV series that's just come out
and your friends are ranting and
raving about it. They're saying it's
all the rage, they're saying it's the
best thing ever, it's amazing. You
need to get your hands on it and
start binge-watching it as soon as
possible. So, you finally get around
to buying it, maybe you head down to
the local JB Hi-Fi, that's a store in
Australia that tends to sell
electronics and DVD and Blue ray
discs and everything like that. So,
you go down there and you lash out a
few bucks on the entire series, you
buy it.

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You take it home, you whack it on the
TV, you know, you jump in the sofa,
kick your legs up and from the word
go you fall in love with the TV show.
So, it's amazing, it's perfect, it's
total hit. So, you binge watch the
entire thing from start to finish in
a single sitting, and then you call
your friends up and you let them know
how much you loved it, that it was a
great success, you thought it was the
bomb, it was epic and it went down a
storm. You absolutely loved it,
right? It was a great success.

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So, hopefully now, guys, you
understand the expression to go down
a storm. If something goes down a
storm with someone or just in
general, it goes down a storm, that
is that it was enthusiastically
received by a person or group of
people. It was liked wholeheartedly
or it received great success in
general.

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So, as usual, let's go through a
little listen and repeat exercise,
guys, where you guys can work on your
pronunciation. As I always say, if
you're working on your Australian
pronunciation, obviously, copy me as
best you can. If you're working on
any other accent whatever it is, try
not to focus too much on my exact
pronunciation and use it more as a
way of prompting you to just practice
saying these sentences in these words
out loud, ok?

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To

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To go

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To go down

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To go down a

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To go down a storm x 5

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Pay attention to that rhythm too, I
just noticed that after saying that
sentence a few times, you'll hear,
how does it sound? To go down a
storm. Which words am I emphasizing,
to go down a storm? Down and storm,
right? The rhythm's kind of...  to go
down a storm. Let's keep going.

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What I did went down a storm.

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What you did went down a storm.

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What he did went down a storm.

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What she did went down a storm.

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What we did went down a storm.

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What they did went down a storm.

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What it did went down a storm.

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Good job, guys! Good job! Now, that
is...that is a really good exercise
today. I've just noticed, did you
hear how many different ways the T at
the end of the word what changes when
it joins with the following word,
which is the pronoun in those
sentences, right? So, have a listen
here and I want you to try and notice
the what is called Assimilation, so
this is where two sounds sort of
merged together and change the
sounds, so you'll have T and I, T and
a U sound, T and H, T and SH, T and
W, T and TH and T and I again, ok?
So, have a listen to this:

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What I. What I.

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What you. What you.

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What he. What he.

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What she. What she.

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What we. What we.

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What they. What they.

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What it. What it.

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Very cool! So, there's some instances
there where it's becoming a CH sound.
It's joining to the TH sound, it is
turning into a T flap, 'what it".

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Practice that, guys, if you want to
sound a lot more natural when you're
speaking your English, because there
are always those little subtleties,
you know, that are kind of hard to
wrap your head around. Anyway.

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Let's go through the Aussie fact,
guys, and then we'll finish up for
the day.

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So, today I wanted to talk about the
Rolex Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. At
the moment, it is called the Rolex
Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race because
it's sponsored by the watch brand
Rolex. So, the Rolex Sydney to Hobart
Yacht Race is an annual event, which
is hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club
of Australia. It begins in Sydney,
which is the capital of New South
Wales on Boxing Day, the 26th of
December, and it finishes in Hobart,
Tasmania, usually within 48 hours the
first boat arrives in Tasmania.

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So the race covers a distance of
approximately 630 nautical miles,
which translates to 1,170 kilometres.
It's run in conjunction with the
Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania and is
widely thought to be one of the most
difficult yacht races that exists.

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In the beginning, the race was
planned to be a cruise by a fellow
named Peter Luke. He's got two first
names and some mates of his, who had
formed a club for anyone who enjoyed
cruising as compared to racing.
However, when they were visited by a
British Royal Navy officer named
Captain John Illingworth, he
suggested the cruise be turned into a
race, and thus the Sydney to Hobart
Yacht Race was born.

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Over the decades, since the inaugural
race in 1945, it's grown to become
one of the top three offshore yacht
races in the world and it now
attracts maxi yachts from all around
the globe, and the 2019 race this
year will be the seventy fifth
edition.

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Race winners are determined based on
yacht dimensions like length, shape,
weight and sail dimensions and the
ultimate winner receives Australia's
foremost Offshore Sailing prize, The
Tattersall's Cup. However, much of
the public attention is focussed on
the race for line honours, which is
the first boat across the finishing
line, which is almost always the
newest and largest maxi yacht in the
fleet, and the fleet is the group of
boats that race that year.

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The "Holy Grail".

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So in 1999 the yacht team Nokia
absolutely smashed the Sydney Hobart
Race record alongside a host of other
super fast boats completing the
course in less than two days for the
first time ever. The idea of
completing the race in less than 40
hours had previously been considered
the Holy Grail of the Sydney to
Hobart Race, and despite previously
being thought to be out of reach,
after 1999, it became a real
possibility of being attained. Many
yacht skippers competing in the race
in the 21st century coveted the Holy
Grail desiring to be the first to
complete the race in under 40 hours.

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However, it took another 18 years to
finally occur. In 2017, a yacht named
Comanche set a new race record when
it finished the race in a mere 1 day,
9 hours, 15 minutes and 24 seconds,
beating the previous record set by
Perpetual Loyal's of one day, 13
hours, 31 minutes and 20 seconds,
which had been set the previous year.
Even though the yacht named Wild Oats
crossed the line first that year, she
received a one hour penalty for her
role in a near miss-collision at the
beginning of the race, as well as the
team's disregard for the starboard
rule, which handed the line honours
to Comanche.

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That said, Wild Oats XI completed the
course in an unofficial record time
of 1 day, 8 hours, 48 minutes and 50
seconds. Wild Oats XI has won line
honours on nine separate occasions
and is the first boat to have claimed
the hattrick of race record, line
honours, and overall winner.

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So, aside from that, guys, another
reason the Sydney to Hobart yacht
race is well known by a lot of people
in Australia is that tragically
during 1998 the Sydney to Hobart
Yacht Race occurred when there was a
super cell storm that was stirred up
in the seas, once the race had
reached Bass Strait, between Victoria
and Tasmania, and it led to six
fatalities among the sailors.

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So, there you go, there's a bit of
information about the Sydney to
Hobart Yacht Race, guys. I hope you
enjoyed it, I hope you enjoyed this
episode, I hope you have a great
week. I'm sure you're going to get
more sleep than me and I'll chat to
you soon. Peace out.

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