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Objective To teach you some slang words and expressions.<br />
Think about it<br />
Track 25 Englishmen<br />
When was the last time you had a chat about politics?<br />
Who were you with? What did you say? What’s your general opinion of<br />
politicians? What do you like or dislike about politics or politicians in general?<br />
Who are some of the worst or best politicians in your country?<br />
Slang Conversation<br />
politics<br />
Mike and Bob are at the pub, chatting about<br />
politics. Listen once and answer these questions:<br />
1. Who has Mike voted for in the election?<br />
2. What does Bob think of this?<br />
Then, listen again and try to guess the meaning of the following<br />
slang expressions (also marked in bold in the text). Write out a<br />
version of them in Standard English:<br />
Slang expression<br />
1 Gutted<br />
2 To boot out<br />
3 Way out<br />
4 To shaft<br />
5 Crap<br />
6 Scum<br />
7 To bang up<br />
8 Bastard<br />
9 A sleaze bag<br />
10 A bunch of<br />
11 With their snouts in the trough<br />
12 They don’t give a shit about<br />
13 Us lot<br />
14 A mate<br />
15 A piss-up<br />
16 A waste of space<br />
17 Doesn’t know his arse from his elbow<br />
18 Tie the knot<br />
Standard version<br />
Warning<br />
Many of the words and<br />
expressions from this<br />
section are used in informal<br />
situations. So, be careful<br />
how you use them<br />
yourself!<br />
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Dialogue<br />
Mike and Bob are in a pub. They’re chatting about<br />
the latest election results. M=Mike B=Bob<br />
M: So, what did you think of the<br />
election result?<br />
B: I was gutted that the government<br />
got in again.<br />
M: Pretty predictable though. I mean,<br />
with the economy picking up, and the<br />
opposition’s plans to raise taxes.<br />
B: I was hoping to see them get booted<br />
out. Those opinion polls were way<br />
out. So, it looks like another five<br />
years of cuts with the government<br />
shafting us left right and centre.<br />
M: The usual crap. Hey, did you hear<br />
about the MP with the million-dollar<br />
bank account in Lichtenstein that he<br />
hadn’t bothered to declare?<br />
B: Scum!<br />
M: But he still managed to get voted in.<br />
They should have banged him up for<br />
a few years.<br />
B: Thieving bastard.<br />
M: Such sleaze bags, some of them.<br />
B: They’re all just a bunch of pigs with<br />
their snouts in the trough.<br />
M: Yeah... most of them, at least.<br />
B: They don’t<br />
give a shit about<br />
us lot – the little people.<br />
M: No, just helping out their mates. But<br />
you know what? I blame that twat in<br />
opposition. He’s about as useless as<br />
a chocolate teapot in the desert.<br />
B: Yeah, he couldn’t organise a piss-up<br />
in a brewery.<br />
M: I wouldn’t trust him as far as I could<br />
spit.<br />
B: I wouldn’t spit on him if he was on<br />
fire. He’s a complete waste of space.<br />
M: Doesn’t know his arse from his<br />
elbow.<br />
B: [silence] So, who did you vote for?<br />
M: The government.<br />
B: What? I thought... How could you?<br />
What about your principles?<br />
M: Well, you know how it is. They<br />
promised to bring down income tax<br />
for married couples, and as Shirley<br />
and I are about to tie the knot, it<br />
seemed like the logical thing to do.<br />
B: Yeah, very logical! Traitor!<br />
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