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Good day to you!
I hope you're buckled and ready to go.
"Buckle up for safety.
Buckle up!
Buckle up for safety always buckle up!
Pull your seat belt snug, give an extra tug, buckle up for safety buckle up!"
Because there's no time to fool around, we are going to turn you into a fluent English
speaker and we're going to get you reading at the same time.
I cannot be as optimistic with our friend Gregor, it looks like he's really really really
really trying to get out of bed.
We'll see how he does with that.
If he comes up with any new strategies.
I don't know knooow!
If this is your first time here, you don't even know who our buggy buddy Gregor is.
So start here!
We'll all be here waiting for you.
So quick quick quick!
Start from the beginning and come back to here.
We can't wait to see you catch up.
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Today, after this video, you awesome patrons will be getting the new vocab review videos.
Which will be excellent to review more in depth, more thoroughly, the vocabulary and
the story and any other topic that we discuss.
Besides that, the three dots.
So yeah!
Let's get going, let's find out how Gregor is doing.
Here we go.
Where's the page I'm looking for.
After a while, he had already moved so far across that it would have been hard for him
to keep his balance is he rocked too hard.
The time was now ten past 7 and he would have to make a final decision very soon.
Then there was a ring at the ring of the flat.
"That'll be someone from work."
He said to himself, and froze very still, although his little legs only became all the
more lively as they danced around.
For a moment everything remained quiet.
"They're not opening the door" Gregor said to himself.
Caught in some nonsensical hope.
But then of course, the maid's firm steps went to the door as ever and opened it.
Gregor only needed to hear the visitor's first words of greeting and he knew who it was.
The chief clerk himself.
Why did Gregor have to be the only one condemned to work for a company where they immediately
became highly suspicious at the shortest shortcoming.
Were all employees, every one of them, louts?
Was there not one of them who was faithful and devoted, who would go so mad with pangs
of conscience that he couldn't get out of bed if he didn't spend at least a couple of
hours in the morning on company business?
Was it really not enough to let one of the trainees make enquiries, assuming enquiries
were even necessary, did the chief clerk have to come himself and did they have to show
the whole, innocent family that this was so suspicious that only the chief clerk could
be trusted to have the wisdom to investigate it?
And more because these thoughts had made him upset than through any proper decision, he
swang himself with all his force out of the bed.
And there was a loud thump.
But it wasn't really a loud noise.
His fall was softened a little by the carpet, and Gregor's back was also more elastic than
he had thought.
Which made the sound muffled and not too noticeable.
He had not held his head carefully enough though, and it hit as he fell.
Annoyed and in pain, he turned it and rubbed it against the carpet.
Okay okay okay let's do some review.
To keep your balance means to stay upright.
To not fall over.
The opposite is to lose your balance, that means to fall.
What Gregor realized was that it was hard for him on the bed to keep his balance, so
it was difficult not to fall over.
Upon hearing the knock on the door, he froze. to freeze means not to move.
Often because of fear or anxiety.
If something is nonsensical, it is nonsense.
It doesn't make any sense.
There's no meaning, basically, stupid.
So Gregor understood that his hope was nonsensical, there was no sense it was kind of a stupid
thought.
The chief clerk comes.
If you are the chief of a specific position, like the clerk who's visiting Gregor.
It means you are the highest of that position.
So this is the highest clerk, the chief clerk.
To be condemned can have a few various meanings.
It can be to be censured, to be reprimanded, oh punished, or to be shown disapproval.
And really all of those are what Gregor is experiencing right now.
Gregor says that he is experiencing a pang of conscience.
A pang, it's a sharp and sudden sense of pain.
It can also, like here, be about emotion.
Your conscience is your idea about what is right and wrong.
So Gregor, again, feels like he is doing something bad because he's not at work, so he's getting
these pangs of conscience, he's getting these painful feelings about his emotions.
Finally, he falls off the bed and there is a thump.
This is the sound of a heavy object hittin the ground.
Usually falling down onto the floor.
Then you hear a thump!
His body, after he falls, is more elastic.
If something is elastic, it is more flexible and bendable.
So his body isn't as stiff and rigid as he thought it was before.
And it wasn't too noticeable.
If something is noticeable, it's more obvious, and clear.
Shall we continue?
Yeah why not!
"Something has fallen down in there!"
Said the chief clerk in the room on the left.
Gregor tried to imagine whether something of the sort that had happened to him today,
could ever happen to the chief clerk, too.
You had to concede that it was possible.
But as if in gruff reply to this question, the chief clerk's firm footsteps and his highly
polished boots could now be heard in the adjoining room.
From the room on his right, Gregor's sister whispered to him to let him know.
"Gregor!
The chief clerk is here!"
"Yes I know!"
Said Gregor to himself, but without daring to raise his voice loud enough for his sister
to hear him.
"Gregor!"
Said his father, no from the room to his left.
"The chief clerk has come around and wants to know why you didn't leave on the early
train.
We don't know what to say to him, and anyway, he wants to speak to you personally.
So please, open up this door!
I'm sure he'll be good enough to forgive the untidiness of your room."
Then the chief clerk called, "Good morning, Mr. Samsa!"
Alright, a little bit of review, huh?
Gregor talks about conceding that this could happen to other people.
To concede something means to admit that something is possible or valid.
Especially after denying it.
Then he hears the chief clerk approach in his polished boots.
If a physical thing is polished, it is very shiny and clean.
For a skill to be polished, it means very good.
So after reading this book with me, your English will be so polished!
If a room is adjoining or adjoined, it means that it is the next room, or connected.
Gregor's father tell him "open the door, he won't care about the untidiness of your room"
Untidiness is a noun, noun so common, what is common is the adjective, untidy, or even
more common, just using messy.
Wow!
So that's it for now, what do you think?
The chief clerk is there, it looks like Gregor is in trouble.
Put your predictions in the comments, as well as any questions or to experiment with this
new vocabulary.
Don't forget, you can continue to listen with the podcast, the Fluency Book Club Podcast.
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I hope you don't turn into a bug, so that I can see you next time.
That's it for now, ciao, bye!
"Buckled everybody, buckle up!
The national safety council says, if you don't have seat belts, get them!
If you do have seat belts, use them!
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