Publication Date: 2017-09-10
Learn Australian English in this episode of Aussie English where I teach you the expression TO PULL THE WOOL OVER SOMEONE’S EYES. Subscribe to the podcast: iTunes | Android | RSS Download the PDF + MP3 AE 339 – Expression: To Pull The Wool Over Someone’s Eyes What’s going on guys? Welcome to today’s expression episode. Today’s expression episode is going to be “to pull the wool over someone’s eyes”, and this one was voted by everyone in the Virtual Classroom, The Aussie English Virtual Classroom Facebook group. And it won. It got the most votes. And it was suggested by Petinka. Thank you so much Petinka for suggesting this expression that everyone voted on and chose it as this week’s expression. So, if you want to do that in the future if you want to suggest an expression, and if you want to vote on the expression that will be the expression for the week, then definitely jump over to the Aussie English Virtual Classroom. Just click join. I’ll add you. We chat in there. We do all sorts of exercises, video exercises, and once a week we vote on which expression I’ll be discussing on the weekends. So, I hope you guys are having a good day. I haven’t yet set a time for these live streaming episodes. I kind of just do them when I have time now on Saturdays. Last week was the very first one, and it seemed that that was a great idea. This is the second one, obviously. The basic format’s going to be the same thing. I open it up, tell you about my week, tell you about the different words and everything in the expression, tell you about the expression, give you examples, and then we’ll go through some listen and repeat exercises. And I guess the best bit is that at the end you can ask me questions about this expression and about anything else related to Aussie English, English, Australia, anything that you want to chat about. So, keep those questions for the end. Anyway, let’s dive into today’s content, guys. Crazy Australia fact number 2. I guess, we started last week, and I’m going to try and do this at the start of each episode. But, Australia fact… today, the crazy Australia fact is that Australia is the driest continent on earth, except for Antarctica. So, it’s the driest continent on Earth, except for Antarctica. And it’s a pretty crazy thing, when you actually go and check out a map of where in Australia it’s populated you’ll see the entire continent, most of which is desert, and then there’s the Great Dividing Range that goes from Cairns, up in the north of Queensland, all the way down to Melbourne. And then, you’ll have a little bit of green that goes all the way over to Perth, and that’s the area that’s the most densely populated of the entire country. I think probably 99 percent of people live along t...
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