Hello Plus Member. Welcome back to another Sunday bonus episode. I do hope that you're well. Now I want you to listen very carefully to this little story and you'll hear a repeated word. So this word is used in many different ways, different phrases, phrasal verbs, and all sorts. So, have a listen, and then I'll break down what I'm actually covering, and then we'll do the story again. So here we go. Yesterday, I decided to squeeze in some exercise during my hectic daily routine. The school run is a 5-mile round trip, and the last time I went for a run, 5 miles was a good distance for me. So, I decided to put my son on his bike and run the school run. On my way back round, I passed the corner shop and quickly tried to run through the shopping list in my head to figure out if I desperately needed something. Hmm. Yes, I had run out of tea bags, so I popped into the shop where I ran into my ex-boyfriend. He looked quite run down, but I didn't say that to him. In fact, I told him he was looking well, to which he replied,"Do I? Oh, that's a surprise. I've been running around like an idiot all week, barely had time to eat." It was an awkward conversation, really. We didn't break up on good terms, as he had run up a huge bill on my credit card and refused to take responsibility. I then accidentally ran over his racing bike, his pride and joy. I really didn't do it on purpose, but he didn't believe me. After a few minutes of torturous small talk, I finally said,"I've got to run." So, I grabbed my tea bags, ran home for a cuppa, and ran myself a nice hot bubble bath. Okay, there we go. Did you hear a repeated word in that story? Yes, I said'run' time and time again. And that's because the word'run' is used in many different ways. So I'm going to run through, here we go, I'm going to run through some examples. I started off by saying going for a run, or I said the last time I went for a run, because, well, we were using past tense there. But to go for a run is a really common way to talk about that type of exercise. I'm going to go for a run."Should we go for a run?" So to run is to move your legs really fast, work up a sweat, raise the heart rate and keep fit. To go for a run. I don't like going for a run very often. Sometimes I just get this urge to just start running, but often I struggle with my joints so often I just find running painful; my toes and my knees and my back. But I do run around the squash court quite a lot. So I think that counts. You can also run out of something, and I talked in the story about running out of tea bags. What a disaster! There's nothing worse than running out of tea bags. That is an emergency situation in this country. If we run out of tea bags, then you do have to run to the shop. So, to run out of something is to have none of it left, so you had a stockpile of it. So normally I have at least 50 tea bags in the cupboard. But when stocks are running low, I say to my partner,"Look, we don't want to run out of tea bags. That would be a disaster. Make sure you pick up some tea bags from the shop." Or I might say,"Run to the shop and get me some tea bags." Now we use run to, like run to the shop, run into town, run to my friend's house, run to school, even when we don't actually mean the physical action of running. You just mean you're going somewhere quickly. It means that you'll be back quite quickly. So if I'm leaving the house and you say,"Anna, where are you going?" And I say,"Well, I'm just going to run to the shop." I might not necessarily run, I might walk fast, maybe I'm cycling, maybe I'm on my scooter, maybe I've got my rollerblades on, who knows, but it doesn't necessarily mean I'm literally running, it just means I'm going quickly. Used in the same way that we use'pop',"I'm popping to the shop." I'm running to the shop, I'm popping to the shop, it just suggests speed. I'm going to do it quickly. I'll be back very soon. So I had run out of tea bags. And then I used the phrase run through as I was trying to think about what I desperately needed. I was running through the shopping list in my head. To run through, it's very similar to go through. It's just to analyse something or if it were a document, then you might read through it, read it again from the beginning all the way through to try to find something specific. Often if you read through a document, you're looking for errors or you're looking to get a better understanding. If I'm running through the shopping list in my head, it's because I'm trying to understand if there's something I desperately needed. Can I remember? Sometimes run through is used when you're practising something. So if you are an actor or a performer, then you run through your performance before you do the live show. You practise it. You practise all your lines, all your cues. Where are you supposed to stand? What costume are you supposed to wear for this scene? You run through the whole thing. Okay, moving on. We have the school run, something that I have to do twice a day, every day from Monday to Friday. The school run. So the school run is the journey that you take to drop off your children at school. So you run there. And you run back, but not literally. Sometimes literally, if you're late leaving the house because the kids didn't get out of bed on time, and then they delayed eating their breakfast, and then they wanted to play with their toys and wouldn't put their shoes on. All the stress of trying to get the school run done on time. So, the school run. Everybody talks about the hectic nature of the school run. Okay, next on the list is run around. If you talk about,"Oh, running around, I feel like I've been running around all day." Again, it's not literal. It's not like you've literally been sprinting or jogging, sweating all day. It just means that you've been doing a lot of things and that you haven't really stayed in one place for very long. So, for example, if I woke up this morning and I did the school run. First, I dropped my youngest son at nursery, and then I dropped my oldest son at school. From there I didn't go home. I walked to the pharmacy to pick up a prescription, and then I walked the long way back via the hairdresser's to book an appointment. And then I got home, I had half an hour to have a cup of tea and do some paperwork. And then I had to go to the post office to post a letter before going into London to have a meeting with somebody. And then I had to get back quickly to do the school run at the end of the day, pick up my youngest son from nursery, pick up my eldest son from school. And then I had to take the children on the bus to go and meet Daddy in the local town because we're going to have a birthday celebration dinner. I mean, I'm making all this up, but that would be running around, doing a lot of different things, moving around a lot. So at the end of the day, I'd say,"Oh my goodness, it's so nice to sit down. I've been running around all day." Sometimes people use the phrase to run around like a headless chicken. That's when you're kind of running around in a bit of a flap, aimlessly, and not really achieving very much. So normally it's because you're nervous or stressed about something,or emotional. You're running around like a headless chicken. I normally run around like a headless chicken before we have guests in the house, or if there's a birthday party or something that I've organised. As a perfectionist, I find it very stressful and I am a good host. I like to think of myself as a good host. I like to make sure my guests are comfortable. I'm very conscientious. I'm very aware of other people and how they're feeling and their experience. And so I definitely run around like a headless chicken in preparation for people coming to the house. Okay, next on the list was run over. I said I ran over my ex's racing bike. Now, to run over something is to drive over something. Normally people don't run over anything, but on occasion, unfortunately, people get run over. If they step out in front of a car, then the car will drive over the top of them, so they go underneath the car. Animals often get run over, which is very unfortunate. And occasionally possessions are run over. It's crazy, but when I was a teenager, around the time when everyone started having a personal mobile phone, like, mobile phones didn't exist when I was a child, so they started coming into fashion and being popular around the time when I was a teenager, and my first, I think, three handsets that I had, I ran over them. Isn't that crazy? I think it's because they either fell out of my pocket as I was getting into my car or I put one on the roof of the car and as I was manoeuvring off the driveway, it slipped down and then I reversed over it. Oh, so yes, three handsets I had to get replaced. Luckily I had insurance because I was so careless and I ran over them and destroyed them. Anyway, let's move on into run into. So I talked about run into earlier, so I can run into the shop. That means I go in quickly. I run into town. But you can also use this to say that you unexpectedly meet somebody. So if I say,"Hey, I ran into town earlier and guess who I ran into." So as soon as you introduce a person with the phrase run into, it means that you've met someone by chance, and it's a surprise. So, I ran into my best friend yesterday. Or, in the story, I ran into my ex-boyfriend in the shop. So, to meet someone unexpectedly. I said that he was looking run down. Now, run down is a phrase I use all the time because I am often, myself, run down. I work too hard. I don't sleep enough. I do a lot of very physical activities with my squash and looking after children and doing the school run. So to be run down is to be tired and often a little bit unwell. What we would say is under the weather because you're doing too much. So I tend to get a bit of a sore throat, my glands will be swollen, but I'm not fully ill. I'm just tired and feel like I could get poorly. I could get sick if I don't try and slow down and take care of myself a little bit more. So, to be honest, right now I'm feeling a bit run down. It's been a hard week. I haven't had much sleep. I've worked a lot. I worked all weekend. So I'm a bit run down. I need to get some more rest and have some R&R, which is rest and relaxation. Okay, so hopefully you're not feeling run down. Hopefully, you're feeling as bright as a button and energetic and healthy and strong. Next is to run up a bill. So, to run up a huge bill is what I said."He ran up a huge bill on my credit card." To run up a bill is just basically to create a lot of costs. So, you know, if I had a teenage son, and he kept having all his friends over and they were playing video games till all hours of the night and leaving all the lights on around the house and playing music and putting on all the appliances and not turning them off. Then I'd say,"Excuse me, can you be a little bit more respectful? You're running up a huge electric bill." Okay, so to run up a bill, to run up a bill. And last on my list, when I was at the shop with my ex-boyfriend, in my made-up story, I said,"Ah, I'm sorry, I've gotta run." I've gotta run. I have got to run. I've gotta run. I've gotta run means I need to go. I have somewhere else to be or I just don't want to be here anymore. I've got to run. Okay. So let me quickly run through that list once more. We had go for a run. We had run out of."Oh no, there's none left." We had run through, to go through something once again, to check all the details. We had the school run, getting the kids to school and back. We had run around, so not staying in one place for very long, moving around a lot, doing lots of tasks. We had run over, which is very unfortunate because it can lead to serious injury or death if a person or animal is run over with a car. We had run into, which can either be go into a place very quickly or to meet a person by chance. We had run down to be sick or tired because of too much activity. We had run up a huge bill. Which is to create a large bill by doing too much of something. And I've gotta run, meaning I need to go. OK, so with those in mind, I'm going to read the story once more. Yesterday, I decided to squeeze in some exercise during my hectic daily routine. The school run is a 5-mile round trip, and the last time I went for a run, 5 miles was a good distance for me. So, I decided to put my son on his bike and run the school run. On my way back round, I passed the corner shop and quickly tried to run through the shopping list in my head to figure out if I desperately needed something. Yes, I had run out of tea bags, so I popped into the shop where I ran into my ex-boyfriend. He looked quite run down, but I didn't say that to him. In fact, I told him he was looking well, to which he replied,"Do I? That's a surprise. I've been running around like an idiot all week, barely had time to eat." It was an awkward conversation, really. We didn't break up on good terms, as he had run up a huge bill on my credit card and refused to take responsibility. I then accidentally ran over his racing bike, his pride and joy. I really didn't do it on purpose, but he didn't believe me. After a few minutes of torturous small talk, I finally said,"Ah, I've got to run." So, I grabbed my tea bags, ran home for a cuppa, and ran myself a nice hot bubble bath. Okay, that's all for today. I do hope you enjoyed this episode. Until tomorrow, take very good care of yourself and goodbye.