1 00:00:00,300 --> 00:00:05,930 We've got Dan Rumsey here from the Australian Reptile Park with Gizmo, the Koala this morning. 2 00:00:05,940 --> 00:00:10,190 Nice to see both, Gizmo particularly, very, very cute there. 3 00:00:10,190 --> 00:00:17,580 Dan, so many that native animals, particularly koalas, just had their habitat torched in the last couple of weeks. 4 00:00:18,060 --> 00:00:21,750 If people come across wounded wildlife, what can they do to help? 5 00:00:22,210 --> 00:00:26,550 Yeah, well, obviously, it can be quite difficult at times, particularly for an injured or sick animal. 6 00:00:26,670 --> 00:00:28,830 Obviously, if you approach one of these animals. 7 00:00:28,910 --> 00:00:31,340 They're wild. They're going to be scared enough as it is. 8 00:00:31,350 --> 00:00:41,100 So, the best thing to do if you do see a injured or particular wild animal, I would contact your local wildlife rescue group, whether that's wise and allow professional to deal with that kind of situation. 9 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:42,680 Obviously, use common sense. 10 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:50,280 There's a big difference between maybe catching a kookaburra and putting that in a box and taken to the vet, as opposed to something like an eastern brown snake, which should only be done by professionals. 11 00:00:51,030 --> 00:00:54,510 But you just do your bit. Keep an eye on the animal if you can, maybe provide it with some water. 12 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:59,630 I saw a video yesterday of a koala drinking from a water bottle, you can imagine how dehydrated these animals are. 13 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:05,260 So, just do our little bit and hopefully help some of the wildlife groups as they work really hard. 14 00:01:05,300 --> 00:01:07,410 They're inundated with our rescues at the moment. 15 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:09,780 It's going to be a really long rehabilitation. 16 00:01:15,900 --> 00:01:18,960 G'day guys and welcome to Aussie English! 17 00:01:19,350 --> 00:01:24,070 My objective here is to teach you guys the English spoken Down Under. 18 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:35,280 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. 19 00:01:35,580 --> 00:01:49,970 So, sit back, grab a cuppa and enjoy Aussie English. 20 00:01:49,970 --> 00:01:51,710 Alright. Let's get into it, guys. 21 00:01:51,780 --> 00:01:54,720 Welcome to this episode of Aussie English. 22 00:01:54,750 --> 00:02:05,400 The number one podcast for anyone and everyone wanting to level up their English through the lens of well, through an Aussie lens, I guess, right? 23 00:02:05,430 --> 00:02:07,050 Through the lens of Australian English. 24 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:12,600 So, as you can probably tell by my accent, I'm an Australian, as you can probably tell by the name of the podcast. 25 00:02:13,110 --> 00:02:17,820 This is based on Australian English, but anyone anywhere can use this to level up their English. 26 00:02:17,820 --> 00:02:29,100 Anyway, guys, welcome to this episode of Aussie English, if you want the transcripts for all of these podcast episodes and the downloads, make sure that you go to www.aussieenglish.com.au 27 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:40,020 and sign up for the podcast membership, the special premium podcast membership where you can use the player online, on your phone and you can download everything direct to whatever device you want. 28 00:02:40,350 --> 00:02:53,580 If you want access to all of my bonus courses that I create for these expression episodes, the Australian Culture and History Course, the Natural Dialogues Course and the English Conversations Course, these are all within the Academy. 29 00:02:53,580 --> 00:02:57,390 So, I highly recommend guys that you sign up for the Aussie English Academy. 30 00:02:57,420 --> 00:03:02,310 Just go to www.aussieenglish.com.au/academy. 31 00:03:02,730 --> 00:03:12,210 And not only that, guys, make sure that you join so that you can go to the three times weekly 30 minute speaking calls with teacher Renata. 32 00:03:12,540 --> 00:03:27,210 Now, you may think there are a lot of people in the Academy levelling up their English, but these classes with Renata tend to only have between five and eight people in them, all practising their English, talking about different topics every single week. 33 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:36,780 So, it's a great way of working in a small group with an Australian English teacher, so that you can improve your English three times a week. 34 00:03:36,810 --> 00:03:45,120 So, that's one and a half hours worth of speaking calls, about three different topics and you get to also meet other English learners. 35 00:03:45,180 --> 00:03:48,390 Anyway, guys, spiel aside, welcome to this episode. 36 00:03:48,400 --> 00:04:03,780 Now, this week in the News, I'm sure you guys have seen the bushfires are still taking place here in Australia, although they have been quelled a little bit, I think, they've died down, they've been put out by our amazing firies, our firefighters all over the country. 37 00:04:03,780 --> 00:04:15,330 They were working tirelessly, some of them doing things like, I think 12, 18, even 24 hour shifts because there was so much work to be done trying to put out these fires. 38 00:04:15,780 --> 00:04:22,110 So, at the start there, I wanted to show you a little bit about what's happening with Australian wildlife. 39 00:04:22,140 --> 00:04:30,870 There have been a lot of videos going around about especially koalas and how they have suffered as a result of these fires. 40 00:04:30,900 --> 00:04:37,560 So, that was a short clip from Channel Nine News and they were talking about the toll on the Australian wildlife. 41 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:44,700 If you want to check out the full video, guys, make sure that you download this transcript and you'll be able to go check that out on YouTube. 42 00:04:45,480 --> 00:05:00,890 Now, before we get into it, I'll let you know that the fact will be about Australian wildlife and reacting to these bushfires, as well as how Australian aboriginals used fire for millennia in order to manage the land, ok? 43 00:05:00,970 --> 00:05:21,630 So, we're going to be diving into that and a little bit about the political turmoil, the mudslinging that's been going on with all of these different politicians and political parties playing the blame game with one another because of these bushfires, you know, the Greens saying it's climate change, we need to act and it's the Liberals policies that suck. 44 00:05:21,990 --> 00:05:28,290 And, you know, the Liberals saying it's the Greens that are to blame, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 45 00:05:28,290 --> 00:05:33,480 Anyway, guys, as usual, I love telling you a joke before we get into today's expression, ok? 46 00:05:33,510 --> 00:05:36,420 So, this time it's not a question and answer joke. 47 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:40,080 You know, it's not one of those 'what do you call a blah, blah, blah?', 48 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:41,310 and then I tell you the answer. 49 00:05:41,550 --> 00:05:45,030 This time it's four lines, but yeah, I hope you get it. 50 00:05:45,090 --> 00:05:46,570 It's about a platypus, right? 51 00:05:46,800 --> 00:06:00,090 Platypuses. That Australian animal that has, you know, it's in the water, it lives in rivers, it's got a bill like a duck, it's got fur like a little otter, and it's got these little hands like a turtle, right? 52 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:04,200 These little swimming fins, paddles, like webbed feet. 53 00:06:04,290 --> 00:06:05,670 I guess that's probably what I'm looking for. 54 00:06:05,670 --> 00:06:06,870 Webbed feet. 55 00:06:07,290 --> 00:06:09,000 Alright, so here's the joke, guys, here's the joke. 56 00:06:09,900 --> 00:06:15,000 The platypus went into a bar and he bought two sodas. 57 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:18,550 That'll be $2,50, please, said the bartender. 58 00:06:18,550 --> 00:06:21,570 Oh, just put it on my bill, said the platypus. 59 00:06:24,730 --> 00:06:26,360 You get it guys? Did you get it? 60 00:06:28,100 --> 00:06:32,180 'Just put it on my bill', said the platypus, right? 61 00:06:32,210 --> 00:06:38,660 So, a bill is a printed or written statement of the money that you owe for goods or services, right? 62 00:06:38,690 --> 00:06:43,370 So, if you buy some things at a pub or something, they give you the bill, right? 63 00:06:43,430 --> 00:06:47,960 They'll tell you. This is how much you have to pay for those drinks, the food, whatever it is. 64 00:06:48,410 --> 00:06:52,730 But a bill can also be the beak of a bird, right? 65 00:06:52,910 --> 00:06:55,580 So, an albatross has a bill. 66 00:06:55,580 --> 00:06:57,050 A seagull has a bill. 67 00:06:57,280 --> 00:06:58,670 A... what else has a bill? 68 00:06:58,700 --> 00:07:00,560 A duck has a bill, right? 69 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:05,150 But we also use it for the muzzle of a platypus. 70 00:07:05,300 --> 00:07:14,620 So, while a platypus is not a bird because it looks like a duck's bill, we refer to its muzzle, the front of its face, as a bill. 71 00:07:14,630 --> 00:07:30,470 And the coolest thing, guys, the coolest thing about platypi, I think that's the plural platypuses, platypi, the coolest thing about them is they actually have these really, really sensitive cells in their bill that they use for electro locations. 72 00:07:30,500 --> 00:07:40,760 So, when they're diving under the water and looking for their prey, if you ever see a video of a platypus doing this, its eyes are closed and it's actually moving its head from side to side. 73 00:07:41,150 --> 00:07:47,090 So, it's kind of like a shark in that sense where, you know, how sharks can feel electro... 74 00:07:47,810 --> 00:07:50,990 I guess the electric pulses from muscles, right? 75 00:07:51,020 --> 00:07:57,590 So, the muscles in fish or say if you're watching Jaws, the movie...and 76 00:07:57,590 --> 00:08:00,050 you're the person swimming, sharks can sense that. 77 00:08:00,340 --> 00:08:11,960 Platypi, and actually echidnas as well, both have very sensitive bills that they can use to sense their prey and capture them with their eyes closed. 78 00:08:12,110 --> 00:08:14,860 So, there you go, a bit of a bonus Aussie Fact today. 79 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:16,820 Pretty cool stuff. 80 00:08:16,820 --> 00:08:22,850 So, today's expression is 'to have what it takes', 'to have what it takes'. 81 00:08:23,690 --> 00:08:28,260 This is from Julia who suggested this in the Aussie English Facebook group. 82 00:08:28,280 --> 00:08:34,910 Guys, if you're not in there yet, make sure that you go to Facebook, type in Aussie English and you can join that group. 83 00:08:34,940 --> 00:08:50,450 This is where we do lots of discussions about things going on in Australia, I like people to talk about themselves, why they're learning Australian English, but also, I share a lot of Australian news stories, current affairs, things like that, so people can stay up to date and also chat about these things. 84 00:08:50,450 --> 00:08:53,720 So get on Facebook, search Aussie English and join that group. 85 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:58,160 So, the expression 'have what it takes', 'to have what it takes'. 86 00:08:58,160 --> 00:08:59,780 Do you guys have what it takes? 87 00:09:00,070 --> 00:09:05,180 Do you have what it takes? Even though all the words in this expression are relatively easy, right? 88 00:09:05,210 --> 00:09:08,090 You got to 'have', which is to possess something. 89 00:09:08,330 --> 00:09:15,440 You've got the word 'what', this is a pronoun, you know, the thing or things that you know, something, something, something. 90 00:09:15,470 --> 00:09:17,390 So, it's used in specifying something. 91 00:09:17,510 --> 00:09:18,830 What do you want? 92 00:09:19,130 --> 00:09:21,860 Is that what I thought it was? 93 00:09:21,860 --> 00:09:31,850 We had the word 'it', another pronoun used to refer to anything that's been mentioned and the verb 'take', which is in this sense to 'require'. 94 00:09:32,060 --> 00:09:34,730 So, do you have what it takes? 95 00:09:35,300 --> 00:09:39,420 Do you have what it requires to achieve something, right? 96 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:49,130 So, if you have what it takes, it is that you have the qualities or character needed to be successful, required to be successful, right? 97 00:09:49,460 --> 00:09:54,460 'To have what it takes', to have the qualities or the character needed to be successful. 98 00:09:54,470 --> 00:10:00,860 So, for instance, I hope you guys have what it takes to learn English to fluency. 99 00:10:00,860 --> 00:10:06,830 So, let's go through some examples, guys, of how I would use the expression 'to have what it takes'. 100 00:10:07,730 --> 00:10:15,620 So, one example could be that before Noah was born, I was thinking, you know, being a dad is going to be incredibly easy. 101 00:10:15,650 --> 00:10:20,270 You know, I'm a nice person, I'm a funny person, I don't hate children. 102 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:25,840 I kind of like hanging out with kids and, you know, being silly, so I thought I would be a really good father, right? 103 00:10:25,940 --> 00:10:36,320 It'll be a piece of cake when my son's born, it's going to be easy and then what actually happened when he was born is that I realised, I suddenly realised how hard things were going to be, right? 104 00:10:36,350 --> 00:10:41,240 He was crying all night, there was lots of lack of sleep. 105 00:10:41,570 --> 00:10:43,460 We didn't get to do what we wanted anymore. 106 00:10:43,530 --> 00:10:45,500 You know, the baby had to come first. 107 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:57,800 So, when the penny dropped, I realised things weren't gonna be a piece of cake, they weren't gonna be as easy as I had hoped, so I thought, though, I hope I have what it takes to be a good father. 108 00:10:58,100 --> 00:11:01,900 You know? I hope I have what it takes to be the father that Noah deserves. 109 00:11:02,210 --> 00:11:08,780 I hope I have the qualities or the character needed to be successful, to be a good father. 110 00:11:08,780 --> 00:11:12,220 So, this might be the same for you, guys, in learning English, right? 111 00:11:12,290 --> 00:11:28,150 So your goal is to learn English to a very high level, you want to be fluent in English or maybe even beyond fluency, you want to become incredibly proficient in English so you can get a job, so you can migrate to Australia so that you can be successful and achieve your dreams. 112 00:11:28,420 --> 00:11:36,400 So, ultimately, though, you might realise that things are incredibly difficult when you get to those upper levels in learning a language, right? 113 00:11:36,430 --> 00:11:41,200 It doesn't necessarily get easier the further you go, you still have to keep pushing. 114 00:11:41,220 --> 00:11:44,860 You have to keep trying to improve, you have to keep learning. 115 00:11:44,920 --> 00:11:48,760 So, hopefully you guys have what it takes. 116 00:11:48,820 --> 00:11:54,640 I hope that all of you guys have what it takes to get to the level that you deserve in English. 117 00:11:54,700 --> 00:11:58,480 I hope you have the qualities and the character to be successful. 118 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:03,190 And the third example here is imagine you're trying to get the job of your dreams. 119 00:12:03,460 --> 00:12:23,080 So, you've been at uni, you've been studying for years, you finally graduate, you know, you're at the top of your class, you got dux, you are brilliant, but when you come out into the real world and you start applying for jobs, you realise how much of a dog eat dog world it is out there, how tough it is to try and land the job of your dreams. 120 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:30,580 So, ultimately, when you start applying for these jobs, you hope you have what it takes to get that job, right? 121 00:12:30,610 --> 00:12:36,130 Every time you submit an application, you hope you have what it takes to get to the interview stage. 122 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:42,490 And then when you go to the interview, you hope you have what it takes to progress further and then be offered the job, right? 123 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:47,440 You hope you have the qualities and the character needed to be successful. 124 00:12:47,440 --> 00:13:00,970 So, there you go, guys. Hopefully now you understand the expression 'to have what it takes', it means to have the qualities or character needed to be successful, required to be successful, 'to have what it takes'. 125 00:13:01,420 --> 00:13:17,440 So, as usual, let's go through a little listen and repeat exercise here, guys, where I will go through the phrase 'to have what it takes' and sort of build this out like a word pyramid, one word at a time adding to it and then we'll go through the sentence 'do I have what it takes?', 126 00:13:17,680 --> 00:13:19,000 'do you have what it takes?' 127 00:13:19,030 --> 00:13:20,050 etc. 128 00:13:20,050 --> 00:13:30,210 So, pay attention to things like connected speech, intonation and rhythm when you're repeating after me, guys, and if you don't want to practice your Australian accent, that is cool. 129 00:13:30,490 --> 00:13:35,830 But if you do, try and pay attention, particular attention to my pronunciation, ok? 130 00:13:36,190 --> 00:13:37,840 So listen and repeat after me, guys. 131 00:13:38,110 --> 00:13:38,610 Let's go. 132 00:13:44,710 --> 00:13:44,890 To. 133 00:13:44,890 --> 00:13:45,370 To have. 134 00:13:45,370 --> 00:13:49,300 To have what. 135 00:13:49,300 --> 00:13:53,910 To have what it. 136 00:13:53,910 --> 00:14:00,450 To have what it takes. 137 00:14:00,450 --> 00:14:07,040 To have what it takes. 138 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:13,690 To have what it takes. 139 00:14:13,690 --> 00:14:15,850 To have what it takes. 140 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:22,650 To have what it takes. 141 00:14:27,550 --> 00:14:33,830 Good job, guys. There are some interesting stuff going on there, as usual, 'to', 'to have', 'to have', 'to have'. 142 00:14:33,850 --> 00:14:41,860 You'll notice it gets it gets reduced instead of 'to', it is 'to', that schwa sound, 'to have', 'to have'. 143 00:14:41,860 --> 00:14:48,490 With the word 'what', if I say that with nothing after it, 'what', what', I can mute the T. 144 00:14:48,790 --> 00:14:50,710 So, I can unreleased the T. 145 00:14:50,740 --> 00:14:57,310 I can leave that T unreleased, so that instead of 'what', you hear 'what', 'what'. 146 00:14:58,300 --> 00:15:03,720 However, when 'what' is followed by 'it', the word 'it', right? 147 00:15:04,180 --> 00:15:11,980 Again, if you release the T, 'it', if you don't release the T, 'it', the word 'what', the T at the end there becomes a T flap. 148 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:13,930 'What it', 'what it'. 149 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:25,630 And lastly, with the word 'it' and then the word 'takes', because there's two Ts there next to one another, we have a sort of slight delay between the pronunciation of the T. 150 00:15:25,660 --> 00:15:27,820 So, you'll hear 'it takes'. 151 00:15:28,570 --> 00:15:29,950 'It takes'. 152 00:15:30,460 --> 00:15:32,530 'To have what it takes'. 153 00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:35,800 'To have what it takes'. 154 00:15:36,980 --> 00:15:38,840 'To have what it takes'. 155 00:15:40,580 --> 00:15:48,370 There you go, there's the rhythm as well. Alright, so now let's go through the phrase 'do I have what it takes?' 156 00:15:48,380 --> 00:15:51,290 and or conjugate through each of the different pronouns. 157 00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:53,810 Let's go. 158 00:15:53,810 --> 00:15:55,880 Do I have what it takes? 159 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:04,310 Do you have what it takes? 160 00:16:10,470 --> 00:16:12,900 Does she have what it takes? 161 00:16:19,100 --> 00:16:27,960 Does he have what it takes? 162 00:16:27,960 --> 00:16:36,440 Do we have what it takes? 163 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:38,630 Do they have what it takes? 164 00:16:44,760 --> 00:16:47,130 Does it have what it takes? 165 00:16:53,820 --> 00:16:58,280 Good job there, one thing that I'll tell you about that section, I think the rest of it, right? 166 00:16:58,290 --> 00:17:16,870 You guys will have just heard me explain when I was talking about 'to have what it takes' because you've got 'have what it takes' at the end of all of those, but when you hear things like 'do I', 'do you', 'does she', 'does he', 'do we', 'do they', 'does it', how do you hear the word 'do' and 'does' being pronounced? 167 00:17:16,890 --> 00:17:19,930 Is it 'do' or is it 'do'? 168 00:17:20,670 --> 00:17:23,970 Is it 'does' or is it 'does'? 169 00:17:24,570 --> 00:17:31,770 Again, because these are auxiliary verbs, we can just say them very quickly, reducing them and just pronouncing the schwa sound. 170 00:17:32,070 --> 00:17:35,930 So, you'll hear instead of 'do I have what it takes?', 171 00:17:35,940 --> 00:17:37,530 you'll hear 'do I...', 'do I...', 172 00:17:37,530 --> 00:17:38,860 'do I...', 'do you...', 173 00:17:38,860 --> 00:17:39,590 'do you...'. 174 00:17:39,930 --> 00:17:55,220 This will happen really quickly when speaking incredibly fast and I go through all of this in my course, the Spoken English course, which you can get on www.aussieenglish.com.au/courses, 175 00:17:55,230 --> 00:18:09,810 guys. If you want to learn how to do these sorts of contractions in spoken English with reductions, everything like that so you sound much more natural, you get your head around the schwa and things like rhythm, I definitely recommend that you check out that course. 176 00:18:09,810 --> 00:18:12,120 Anyway, guys, this has been a bit of a long episode. 177 00:18:12,150 --> 00:18:17,430 I hope you enjoy it. Stay tuned for the next one where we're going to be talking about bushfires in Australia. 178 00:18:17,460 --> 00:18:31,080 We're going to be talking about the effect on flora and fauna, and we're going to be talking about Aboriginal traditional burnings and what's been going on recently with the mudslinging between all the different political parties. 179 00:18:31,140 --> 00:18:36,810 Ok? So, I hope you enjoyed this episode and I'll see in the next one. 180 00:18:36,810 --> 00:18:40,510 Peace! 181 00:18:40,510 --> 00:18:43,760 G'day, mate! 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