#Jokes
They say to never go shopping for food when you’re hungry but it’s been a week already and I keep getting hungrier and hungrier.
They say to never go shopping for food when you’re hungry but it’s been a week already and I keep getting hungrier and hungrier.
#Jokes
When i was younger i once beat up the school bully with a baseball bat. Both his arms were completely broken.
That is what gave me the courage to do it.
When i was younger i once beat up the school bully with a baseball bat. Both his arms were completely broken.
That is what gave me the courage to do it.
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#6_Minute_English
Football songs:
Why are crowds so quiet these days?
A football match! There's nothing like it, is there? The action, the drama, the atmosphere! Except that football fans don't seem to be singing as much as they used to and some managers are complaining it's having a negative effect on the players! So why is this happening? Follow Dan and Neil to find out and learn six related pieces of vocabulary.
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Football songs:
Why are crowds so quiet these days?
A football match! There's nothing like it, is there? The action, the drama, the atmosphere! Except that football fans don't seem to be singing as much as they used to and some managers are complaining it's having a negative effect on the players! So why is this happening? Follow Dan and Neil to find out and learn six related pieces of vocabulary.
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#Jokes
I wonder what happened to those people who asked me for directions!
I wonder what happened to those people who asked me for directions!
#CBC
When you trust someone else to take care of your car, can you trust that they're not taking you for a ride? Our undercover investigation reveals ripoffs at a popular oil change chain. We're going in for the advertised $19.99 oil change, but you won't believe the charges we end up with. And did they even do the work? We go up on the hoist to show you what’s really going down at these oil change shops.
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When you trust someone else to take care of your car, can you trust that they're not taking you for a ride? Our undercover investigation reveals ripoffs at a popular oil change chain. We're going in for the advertised $19.99 oil change, but you won't believe the charges we end up with. And did they even do the work? We go up on the hoist to show you what’s really going down at these oil change shops.
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#Jokes
If you're going to argue publicly on a cellphone, be fair and turn the speakerphone on so everyone can hear both sides.
If you're going to argue publicly on a cellphone, be fair and turn the speakerphone on so everyone can hear both sides.
#Jokes
American kids are really looking forward to the summer holidays
No more studying or getting shot at until the Autumn.
😜
American kids are really looking forward to the summer holidays
No more studying or getting shot at until the Autumn.
😜
#Jokes
My dad has the heart of a lion and a lifetime ban at the Zoo.
My dad has the heart of a lion and a lifetime ban at the Zoo.
#Jokes
Burglars broke into my house last night and said they were searching for money...
So I laughed and searched with them
Burglars broke into my house last night and said they were searching for money...
So I laughed and searched with them
#Announcement
Hello Everyone!
Hope you are doing well and things have been going well for you all.
It has been quite a long time since the last time I posted a useful thing for learning English. Tonight I have decided to post a video after a long period of absence. Hope you like it and find it useful.
I am still alive if you've been wondering 😜.
Hello Everyone!
Hope you are doing well and things have been going well for you all.
It has been quite a long time since the last time I posted a useful thing for learning English. Tonight I have decided to post a video after a long period of absence. Hope you like it and find it useful.
I am still alive if you've been wondering 😜.
#6_Minute_English
Why do men want to be fathers?
Why do men want to have children? Evolutionary anthropologist Anna Machin wrote a book about it and tries to answer this question. Catherine and Neil - a father himself - discuss her theories and teach you six items of related vocabulary.👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
Why do men want to be fathers?
Why do men want to have children? Evolutionary anthropologist Anna Machin wrote a book about it and tries to answer this question. Catherine and Neil - a father himself - discuss her theories and teach you six items of related vocabulary.👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
Upper Intermediate
#6_Minute_English Why do men want to be fathers?
Vocabulary
admit to something
say something is true, even if it might make you look a little bit bad
to be keen on something
to be very interested in and enthusiastic about something
going along with something
agreeing to do something even though you don't really want to do it
an absent father
a father who is not at home to spend time with his children
disciplinarians
people who have strict rules and they give out punishments when these rules aren't followed
to be hands-on
to be very much involved in something
admit to something
say something is true, even if it might make you look a little bit bad
to be keen on something
to be very interested in and enthusiastic about something
going along with something
agreeing to do something even though you don't really want to do it
an absent father
a father who is not at home to spend time with his children
disciplinarians
people who have strict rules and they give out punishments when these rules aren't followed
to be hands-on
to be very much involved in something
Upper Intermediate
#6_Minute_English Why do men want to be fathers?
Transcript
Note: This is not a word for word transcript
Catherine
Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English, I'm Catherine.
Neil
And I'm Neil.
Catherine
Now, Neil, you're a dad, aren't you?
Neil
I am a dad. How did you know? Is it the grey hair in my beard? Is it the wrinkles around the eyes?
Catherine
I thought that was just your age.
Neil
Well, yes, maybe.In today's programme we're going to be talking about fathers and how being a father has changed over the years. But before we hear more about this topic, our question for the day. According to recent research in the UK, what percentage of men are present when their children are born? Is it…
a) 55%
b) 75%
c) 95%
What do you think?
Catherine
I think a lot of men these days like to see their children born. It's not culturally inappropriate so I'm going to go for 95%.
Neil
Well, we'll find out if you're right at the end of the programme. Now, Dr Anna Machin is an evolutionary anthropologist. She studies, among other things, how human behaviour has changed and is changing. She's written a book called The Life of Dad. She's been studying new fathers and spoke about her research on the BBC's Woman's Hour programme. She asked why men want to become fathers. She starts by saying that there are lots of reasons but how many does she mention in her answer?
Dr Anna Machin
There's lots of different reasons why men want to be fathers ... for some of them it's just a stage in life they've reached. They've got the house, they've got the job, now it's time to have a family. Sometimes they admit that actually they're not that keen, but their partner wants a baby, so they're kinda going along with it. And a reasonable number actually say they do it because they want to undo what their father did to them, so rewrite history in relation to fathers and the experience of fathering, to be a better father than their father was.
Neil
How many reasons does she mention?
Catherine
She mentioned three reasons. The first was that it was that time in life – the guys had a home and a job and having children was the thing to do next.
Neil
Another reason was that it was what their partners wanted, even if they weren't that keen themselves. If you're not keen on something it means you are 'not enthusiastic about it', it's not really something you want to do, but because it's what their partner wants they agree to it, or as Dr Machin said, they're going along with it.
Catherine
Yes, going along with something, is a phrase that means 'agreeing to do' something even though you don't really want to do it. It's interesting that Dr Machin said that some men admit to this. To admit to something is to 'say or agree that something is true even if you're perhaps ashamed of it or you don't want it to be true'.
Neil
There was one more reason she mentioned and that was that some men become parents because they want to be a better father than their own father had been. Let’s listen again.
Dr Anna Machin
There's lots of different reasons why men want to be fathers ... for some of them it's just a stage in life they've reached. They've got the house, they've got the job, now it's time to have a family. Sometimes they admit that actually they're not that keen, but their partner wants a baby, so they're kinda going along with it. And a reasonable number actually say they do it because they want to undo what their father did to them, so rewrite history in relation to fathers and the experience of fathering, to be a better father than their father was.
Neil
So what is it about some father's own dads that they didn't like? Here's Dr Machin again.
Dr Anna Machin
Well, in some cases, you know, the father would be neglectful, some fathers were absent and others they just felt they were a very, I suppose, we'd say a 1950s father so distant, disciplinarian not actually involved in their children's daily life and certainly not involved in their care. So today's generation fathers, even in the 10 years that I've been studying dads we've seen a massive evolution in how hands-on fathers are.
Note: This is not a word for word transcript
Catherine
Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English, I'm Catherine.
Neil
And I'm Neil.
Catherine
Now, Neil, you're a dad, aren't you?
Neil
I am a dad. How did you know? Is it the grey hair in my beard? Is it the wrinkles around the eyes?
Catherine
I thought that was just your age.
Neil
Well, yes, maybe.In today's programme we're going to be talking about fathers and how being a father has changed over the years. But before we hear more about this topic, our question for the day. According to recent research in the UK, what percentage of men are present when their children are born? Is it…
a) 55%
b) 75%
c) 95%
What do you think?
Catherine
I think a lot of men these days like to see their children born. It's not culturally inappropriate so I'm going to go for 95%.
Neil
Well, we'll find out if you're right at the end of the programme. Now, Dr Anna Machin is an evolutionary anthropologist. She studies, among other things, how human behaviour has changed and is changing. She's written a book called The Life of Dad. She's been studying new fathers and spoke about her research on the BBC's Woman's Hour programme. She asked why men want to become fathers. She starts by saying that there are lots of reasons but how many does she mention in her answer?
Dr Anna Machin
There's lots of different reasons why men want to be fathers ... for some of them it's just a stage in life they've reached. They've got the house, they've got the job, now it's time to have a family. Sometimes they admit that actually they're not that keen, but their partner wants a baby, so they're kinda going along with it. And a reasonable number actually say they do it because they want to undo what their father did to them, so rewrite history in relation to fathers and the experience of fathering, to be a better father than their father was.
Neil
How many reasons does she mention?
Catherine
She mentioned three reasons. The first was that it was that time in life – the guys had a home and a job and having children was the thing to do next.
Neil
Another reason was that it was what their partners wanted, even if they weren't that keen themselves. If you're not keen on something it means you are 'not enthusiastic about it', it's not really something you want to do, but because it's what their partner wants they agree to it, or as Dr Machin said, they're going along with it.
Catherine
Yes, going along with something, is a phrase that means 'agreeing to do' something even though you don't really want to do it. It's interesting that Dr Machin said that some men admit to this. To admit to something is to 'say or agree that something is true even if you're perhaps ashamed of it or you don't want it to be true'.
Neil
There was one more reason she mentioned and that was that some men become parents because they want to be a better father than their own father had been. Let’s listen again.
Dr Anna Machin
There's lots of different reasons why men want to be fathers ... for some of them it's just a stage in life they've reached. They've got the house, they've got the job, now it's time to have a family. Sometimes they admit that actually they're not that keen, but their partner wants a baby, so they're kinda going along with it. And a reasonable number actually say they do it because they want to undo what their father did to them, so rewrite history in relation to fathers and the experience of fathering, to be a better father than their father was.
Neil
So what is it about some father's own dads that they didn't like? Here's Dr Machin again.
Dr Anna Machin
Well, in some cases, you know, the father would be neglectful, some fathers were absent and others they just felt they were a very, I suppose, we'd say a 1950s father so distant, disciplinarian not actually involved in their children's daily life and certainly not involved in their care. So today's generation fathers, even in the 10 years that I've been studying dads we've seen a massive evolution in how hands-on fathers are.