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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
flippin' 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, what's going on? So, it
has been a bit of a rough week. It
has been a bit of a rough week,
especially for people living on the
east coast of Australia, because I'm
sure you guys will have heard,
especially if you're living in
Australia and especially if you're
living on the East Coast, we've been
having some devastating bushfires run
rampant through New South Wales and
south east Queensland. So, I thought
today to begin this episode, I would
play the audio from a video from the
New South Wales Rural Fire Service.
It's an ad that they have up on their
YouTube channel, so if you want to
find it and you want to watch it, the
link will be in the transcript or you
can just search NSWRFS on YouTube.
Ok? So, here's the ad.

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Bushfire fact. Having a plan gives
you a better chance of surviving a
fire. So, make sure you get ready
today. Gather the family around a
table and talk about what you'll do
in a fire and then complete the
following steps in the bushfire
survival plan to decide what actions
you'll take. Step one: discuss what
to do if a bushfire threatens your
home. Will you leave early or stay in
risk defending it? Step 2: prepare
your home for a bushfire. Simple
things like cleaning your gutters and
keeping the grass short can increase
the chances of your home surviving a
fire. Step 3: know the bushfire alert
levels. They'll give you an idea of
the danger a fire poses. Step 4: keep
all the bushfire information numbers
website and the smartphone app handy.
It's a great way to stay informed and
may even save your life. Getting
ready for a bushfire is easier than
you think. Get the easy guide to
making your bushfire survival plan at
myfireplan.com.au

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Alright, so for obvious reasons, I
thought that was poignant. I thought
it was important to include that ad
today, guys, just so that you're a
little bit more bushfire aware,
especially as I know that a lot of
you guys are living in New South
Wales and south east Queensland, so
it's very important for you guys to
know how to best manage these sorts
of situations if there are bushfires
near you, ok?

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So, anyway, I wish you all a safe
summer. I wish you all a safe week,
especially this week, because I have
no idea how long these fires are
going to continue for, but again, if
you need to find out information
about what to do, go to the RFS
website that is www.rfs.nsw.gov.au,
again, the link will be in the
transcript and you'll be able to find
out all the information you need to
know on having a fire plan and being
safe. We'll talk a bit more about
this in the Aussie fact at the end of
this episode today, but aside from
that, let's just get into it.

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So, guys, welcome to this episode of
Aussie English. This is the number
one podcast for anyone and everyone
wanting to learn Australian English
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English in general. This is a podcast
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guys get used to the Australian
accent, get used to how quickly
natives speak and how they speak
naturally, right? I'm not really
reading off a script here. It's just
off the top of my head.

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So, the whole point here is to help
you level up your English and get
used to talking about many different
topics. So, let's get into today's
joke, guys, and I've got a good one
for you. It's related to the body
because the expression was 'pull your
head in'. So I thought head, ok, body
joke, it was hard, I couldn't find a
head joke, right? I was looking, but
I couldn't find any good ones. So, I
found one about the nose and the
body, ok? So here's the joke.

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What do you call a nose with no body?
What do you call a nose with no body?
Are you ready?

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Nobody nose!

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No body nose, right? Get it? As in a
nobody nose, a nose with no body, a
nobody nose, no body nose, but also
nobody knows, as in no one has that
information, right? Ok? So, the joke
here is with the word 'nose', like
the bit on your face, NOSE and the
verb 'to know', as in he knows, she
knows, nobody knows. KNOWS, right?
They're pronounced the same, that's
the pun.

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So, today's expression guys is 'pull
your head in'. Oh, man, pull your
head in!'. This one comes from Djib
in the Aussie English Facebook group.
He suggested this in there a while
ago. Guys, if you want to work on
your English together with me and
many other people learning Australian
English, just do a search for the
Aussie English Facebook group and
join. As usual, let's go through and
define the different words in the
expression 'pull your head in',
right? 'Pull your head in'.

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So, if you pull something, obviously,
this is exerting force on something
so as to cause it to move towards
you, right? So, if I have a rope in
front of me and I pull the rope, I'm
exerting force on the rope and it's
coming towards me, right? I'm pulling
it towards me. Just turn off my
phone, seeing as I'm getting some
messages here. Man, my parents going
nuts, sending me a lot of messages
here.

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Alright, so if you pull something in,
it's the same idea here where to pull
something inwards, to pull something
towards you, but we're using the
preposition 'IN' to show that it's
going in an inwards direction as
opposed to an outwards direction,
right? So, if I pull my hands in to
my body, they're coming towards my
body. If I push my hands out from my
body, they're going away from my
body, ok?

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A head. I'm sure you guys know what a
head is. This is the upper part of
the human body, right? If I tap on my
head, you can hear it's almost
hollow. There's a little brain in
there. But that is where the brain
is, that's where your nose is, your
eyes, your ears, your mouth, your
teeth. Everything there is in your
head, the upper part of the human
body, on top of your shoulders,
right? On top of your neck.

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So, the expression 'to pull your head
in', I wonder if you guys have heard
this expression before and if you
know how to use it? 'To pull your
head in', mate, pull your head in,
pull your head in, mate.

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If you 'pull your head in', it can
mean to withdraw or to discontinue
what you're doing or saying, to back
off, right? So, maybe you're saying
something to someone, it's a little
bit too full on, and they say, you
know, 'put your head in'. It's like a
way of saying, stop doing that. Cut
it out, right? Stop misbehaving. Stop
doing the wrong thing. Start
behaving, start doing the right
thing. Do what's expected of you.

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And, so I was looking to the origin
of this expression, I was trying to
find it like, where did this come
from? Because it's a classic one in
Australia, but obviously, it could
come from, you know, anywhere. And,
so I looked, I did some research
online and it seems that it may have
come from the habit of soldiers
poking their heads out of army troop
trains to make smart remarks, you
know, to other people. So, you
imagine there's a group of army
soldiers walking along in a train in
terms of like a line and one of them
pushes or pulls their head out of the
line, I guess you would say, you
know, pokes their head out of the
line and says something, the sergeant
or the person in charge might say,
'pull your head in'.

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And it could also reference a turtle,
right? Drawing its head back into its
shell for protection, right? And it's
been used since the nineteen
thirties, 'to pull your head in'.

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So, here are three examples of how I
would use this expression and how
I've heard it used in Australia, ok?

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Example number one: so imagine you're
out with a group of mates for a bit
of a piss up after work. You know,
it's Friday night, you want to go out
for Friday night drinks with the
guys. You're all walking down the
street to a local pub, you want to
sink a few beers, you want to have a
chin wag. You know, you want to chat
up some chicks maybe, and this drop
dead gorgeous woman walks past and
one of your mates can't help but
notice her. So, you know, if you've
seen The Matrix, maybe you remember
the woman in the red dress. And just
so she walks past Neo and I think he
notices her, he turns around and then
all of a sudden it's an agent
pointing a gun at him, right?

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So, it's sort of like that woman to
get noticed. As the four of you walk
past, your mate sticks his neck out
to check out this woman, right? So,
maybe you consider it a bit
inappropriate, you might reprimand
him, you might say, 'hey, mate! Pull
your head in. You know, stop perving
on that poor woman, pull your head
in, mate'. And that would be like a
literal example, but also a
figurative one in terms of stop doing
the wrong thing, you know, start
behaving correctly.

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Example number two: imagine you're a
young girl at high school and you're
studying in year 12, the final year
at high school where you're 17 or 18
years old. Your folks and teachers
all want you to do really well, so
that you can finish your exams at the
end of the year and you can get a
great mark and you can get into the
university degree that you want to
do. However, you're a bit of a
misguided youth, you start playing up
in class, maybe start pulling sickies
to avoid class or just wagging school
in general to hang out with your
mates, so you've fallen in with a bad
crowd and your studies start to
plummet, they start to take second
place to hanging out with these
people. So, your marks start to
plummet, they drop.

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When you get your mid-year report
back, your folks and your teachers
might find out how poor your marks
are, how horrible they are, how bad
they are. They may be pretty unhappy,
they may have a meeting with you and
just say, you know, 'you're going to
have to pull your head in, stop
misbehaving, get back on the straight
and narrow, start working hard again,
start studying hard, and remember,
what you want ultimately is to get
into university next year to do the
degree you want to do, right? So,
pull your head in, girl!'.

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Example number three: imagine that
you get a new job at the start of the
year, maybe as a Real Estate agent.
So, you've worked really hard and
initially you've been in this
probationary period. You know,
sometimes when you get a new job for
the first three months or maybe the
first six months, you're on your
probationary period where the
workplace can sort of reserve the
right to fire you if things don't
work out or you can decide to quit.
So, you've been working really hard
on this period, this probationary
period, to try and show your stuff,
you know, show that you're capable of
this job, but the moment that you get
off the probationary period, you
start to slack off. You start taking
it easy and your quality of work
starts to slip, it starts to fall to
the wayside, right? So your boss and
colleagues might start to notice and
they might see that you're being a
little more lazy than you were
previously and they may pull you
aside and say to you, 'look, we want
to keep you here, we think you're a
good fit for this job, for this
business, for this workplace, but
your work is starting to become a
little sloppy, a little average, so
you're going to have to pull your
head in, right? Start working your
butt off again like during your
probationary period, start to pull
your head in, mate, you've got this,
but you need to work harder'.

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Alright. So, there you go, guys. I
hope you understand now the
expression 'to pull your head in', it
could mean to withdraw or discontinue
what you're doing or saying, right?
To back off, but generally, it's to
stop misbehaving or it's to start
doing the right thing, right? Do
what's expected of you. Pull your
head in.

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So, as usual, guys, let's go through
a little listen and repeat exercise,
and this is your chance to practice
your pronunciation, practice your
Aussie accent if you're trying to
sound like an Australian, like me,
with an Australian accent, but if
you're working on another accent, you
know, just use these words, use these
phrases as a way of practicing that
accent. You don't need to pronounce
things exactly like me, it's just an
exercise to work on your
pronunciation, ok? Let's go.

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Pull.

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Pull your.

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Pull your head.

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Pull your head in.

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Pull your head in.

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Pull your head in.

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Pull your head in.

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Good job. So, there are a few cool
things going on there, you might
notice that 'pull'. I can say it like
a light L, like that 'L' sound,
'pull', 'pull'. But I can also say
this as a dark L sound where it's
more like, as I say, a reverse W,
right? 'Pull', 'pull'. This is where
your lips kind of close and instead
of using the tongue to make the L
sound, you're using your lips.
'Pull', 'pull'.

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This happens when the L is followed
by any sound that is not a vowel
sound. And in this case it's a semi
vowel, but a consonant kind of 'Y'
sound, right? It's kind of halfway
between a consonant and a vowel, but
it's not technically a full vowel,
ok?. 'Pull your...', 'Pull your',
'pull your'.

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The other thing you might notice is
that the word 'your' I reduce this to
just 'Y'. So, this word isn't the
most important word in this phrase.
'Pull' and 'head' are the more
important words, and so 'your' can be
reduced. I won't say 'pull your head
in', I'll say 'pull your head in'.
'Pull your head in', right? So,
you'll hear 'pull' being emphasized,
'your' is reduced, 'head' is
emphasized, we turn the D at the end
of 'head' into a T flap. 'Head in',
'head in'. And we link it to the word
in, 'pull your head in'. 'Pull your
head in'.

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So, now let's go through a few
sentences, guys. And I'm going to
conjugate through 'I need to pull my
head in', 'you need to pull your head
in', etc., ok? So, listen and repeat
after me.

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I need to pull my head in.

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You need a pull your head in.

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He needs to pull his head in.

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She needs to pull ahead, head in.

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We need to pull our heads in.

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They need to pull their heads in.

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It needs to pull its head in.

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Good work, guys. A few cool things
there you'll notice, 'to' gets
reduced and it kind of joins to the
word 'need' or 'needs'. So, you're
going to hear 'I need to', you need
to', 'he needs to', 'she needs to',
right? This is a very common way that
native speakers will reduce these
words, push them together, contract
them together and speak really
quickly.

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You'll also notice there that the
word 'pull', I'll use the light L
when it's followed by the words 'his'
and 'her' because the H gets taken
off. So, I say 'pull is', 'pull her',
right? There's no H sound, it's not
'pull his'. You can say that, but
when speaking quickly, often there is
something called H deletion where the
H disappears off the front of words.
'Pull his', 'pull her'.

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And you'll see it too for 'pull our'
and 'pull its' because both those
words start with vowels, ok? So,
that's what I wanted to go through
today with that pronunciation
exercise, guys. Pay attention to
those sorts of things if you really
want to sound more natural like a
native English speaker. It doesn't
necessarily have to be that you need
the perfect accent, but quite often
what makes a bigger difference is
using this kind of connected speech.
These kinds of contractions and the
rhythm, right? The rhythm that we
use. So, you'll hear things like 'I
need a pull my head in', 'deh deh
deh' right? It's not just 'deh deh
deh' in terms of rhythm, it's 'I need
to pull my head in', right? Hopefully
that helps.

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Alright. So, for today's Aussie
English fact, guys, I thought I would
join it to this episode because it
would be a short one and I wanted to
talk about the fires that are
happening at the moment in Australia.
So, you may have seen in the news
this week we've had these devastating
bushfires that are rampaging through
parts of the east coast of Australia
in New South Wales and Queensland.

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Since the start of the bushfire
season, more than 580,000 hectares of
land have been razed to the ground,
they've been burnt. 61 fires are
still burning in New South Wales,
with 51 fires burning in Queensland.
And so far, tragically, three people
have perished in these fires. And
more than 200 homes and sheds have
been lost to the flames.

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And today is Tuesday, and we have a
catastrophic fire warning for the
greater area around Sydney, and so
who knows what's going to happen by
the end of today. It's almost 40
degrees there and they have some
significant bushfires threatening
houses and lives and, you know, we're
just hoping that everything goes well
today and we don't lose any more
lives.

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So, I thought I would talk a little
bit about how you can survive a
bushfire today. And I got the
information here from the Country
Fire Service, the website
www.cfs.sa.gov.au, the link would be
in the transcript if you want to go
and check out their website. I highly
recommend that you do that if you
live in an area where bushfires are
more likely to happen, ok guys? So,
you definitely need to listen to the
rest of this episode if you're living
in that kind of area.

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So the CFS has seven keys to
surviving a bushfire. So, the first
one is making sure that you write and
practice a good bushfire survival
plan. So, your plan is central to
your survival. A good bushfire
survival plan will outline things
like what you need to do to help
safeguard your property. You know, do
you need to make sure that you fill
the gutters with water to clear away
all of the fuel that might be on the
ground, you know, sticks and branches
and fallen trees and everything that
could burn, which actions will each
member of your family take on fire
risk days, and if a fire threatens
the house.

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A really good plan is prepared well
before the fire danger season and
it's reviewed every single year. You
need to write it down, so that the
details are on hand when you need
them. You need to practice it
regularly, so that you know how it'll
go on the day. And it's created with
the whole family and covers everyone,
including the young and the elderly
and it needs to include what to do
before the fire danger season, on a
total fire ban day, during a bushfire
and after a bushfire, and you can
adapt it to unforeseen circumstances.

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Understanding bushfire behaviour.
It's incredibly important to
understand the characteristics and
behaviour of bushfires as well.
They're influenced by things like
vegetation, topography and climate.
So, what do you know about bushfire
behaviour? If you don't know enough,
you might need to learn a little bit
more about this on the CFS website.
Recognising days of high fire danger,
bushfires can be incredibly more
dangerous on certain days, not just
every single day. You need to make
sure that you've learnt to recognise
the characteristics and the
terminology of these days. Do you
know the signs? You know, what makes
a bad day? It tends to be an
incredibly hot day with a significant
amount of wind that will spread that
fire.

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Preparing your home and property. So
you need to obviously prepare your
home and your property in case of a
bushfire on these kinds of days. So,
even if your plan is to just leave
early, a well-prepared home is more
likely to survive a bushfire, right?
You don't want to just leave and save
your family, but do nothing to
prepare your property to hopefully
endure a potential bushfire. So, have
you prepared your property? Do you
know how you're going to prepare your
property? And this would all be in
your bushfire plan.

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Creating emergency kits. These kits
keep all the things that you need
together and accessible. You need to
create a relocation kit where you'll
take the things with you that you
need, a survival kit, what you need
to help survive on the day and a
recovery kit, what you need for
approximately 24 to 48 hours after a
fire. So, have you thought about what
you would pack in a kit like this?

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Acting on days of high fire danger.
Put your preparation and plans into
action on high fire danger days. Have
you thought about what you'll do on a
high fire danger day? And lastly,
consider your physical and emotional
preparation. It's important to be
realistic about what you can and
can't do, and you need to ensure that
you and your family understand fully
what a bushfire can mean in terms of
fear, stress and threat to personal
life. So, how prepared are you?

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Alright, guys. So, that's some food
for thought. If you're living in any
areas where there may be bushfires
this summer in this bushfire season,
make sure that you check out the CFS
website. If you want to find out more
information about putting together a
survival plan in case of a bushfire,
but ultimately, you just need to make
sure that you're prepared, ok? If
you're in one of these areas with a
lot of bush, it's hot, it's windy and
it's bushfire prone, be prepared and
you will have the best chance of
survival.

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Anyway, guys, thanks for joining me
today. It's an absolute pleasure.
Don't forget to check out the
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www.aussieenglish.com.au and until
next time! I wish you all the best.
See ya!

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