Hello and welcome to The English Like a Native Podcast. My name is Anna and we are starting Week 33. Yes, it's Day 1 of Your English Five-a-Day. If you're new here, this series is aimed at increasing your active vocabulary and your listening skills by focusing on five items every day of the working week from Monday to Friday. So let's begin today's list with the idiom bottoms up, bottoms up. We spell this B O T T O M S. Bottoms. Up, U P. Bottoms up. This is something that we say when we're about to drink something completely. Or it's a request or a command to drink something completely in one go. Often it's because you're celebrating something or maybe because you're about to leave and you want to tell everyone to finish their drinks."Okay, everyone, bottoms up. Let's go. Finish your drink completely." Here's an example,"Cheers, everyone! Bottoms up to a successful year! Glug, glug, glug, glug, glug." Alright, next on the list is an adjective and it is rowdy, rowdy. We spell this R O W D Y, rowdy. Rowdy is used to describe a person or a group that is noisy, boisterous and unruly. You would expect to find a rowdy group of people, perhaps in a bar or a pub, especially when there is a big sporting event going on. For example, a championship or a cup final. There will be supporters who are very rowdy in the local bars and pubs, perhaps even in the streets after the game. Here's another example,"The rowdy crowd at the concert made it difficult to hear the music." When I worked in schools, I would find the rowdy classrooms very intimidating. For a long time, I worked as a substitute teacher. I would be the person they would call at a moment's notice at 6 am saying,"You must come into this school that's in central London to cover a sick geography teacher or come and cover our history class, please.""Oh, okay." So I'd go into a group of rowdy 15-year-old boys in a boys' school in central London who didn't like doing history. And it's not my subject either, and I would have to cover the class. Okay, so next on the list is a noun, and it is punter, punter. We spell this P U N T E R, punter. A punter is a person who places a bet on something like sports or events in the hopes of winning money. A punter is also a customer in a pub. So if you work in a betting shop, then you have lots of punters coming in. If you work in a bar, you will serve the punters. Here's an example,"The punter placed a substantial bet on the underdog team, hoping for a big payout. Unfortunately, he lost." Next on the list is another noun and it is shot, shot. We spell it S H O T. Shot. A shot referring to a drink is a very small amount of strong alcohol. So it might be a shot of vodka, or a shot of whiskey, a shot of tequila. Here's an example sentence,"I got the promotion I was after! Tequila shots all round, and put it on my bill. Bottoms up, everyone." Last on the list is the adjective tipsy. Tipsy. We spell this T I P S Y. Tipsy. Tipsy simply means that someone is slightly drunk. They're not completely gone with the wind. They are just maybe a bit wobbly, a bit giggly, and perhaps even slightly flushed. I tend to flush if I've had a drink. Here's an example,"Oh, I'm feeling a bit tipsy tonight! Must be because this is my first night out after two months off the booze!" Alright, so that's our five. Let's do a quick recap. We started with the idiom bottoms up, meaning drink your drink completely, let's go! Next, we had the adjective rowdy, describing a group or a person who is noisy, boisterous and unruly. We had the noun punter, describing a person who places bets or a person who is a customer in a pub. Then we had the noun shot, which is a small amount of strong alcoholic drink. Then we had the adjective tipsy, meaning slightly drunk. So, now it's your turn. Let's do this for pronunciation practice. Please repeat after me. Bottoms up. Bottoms up. Rowdy. Rowdy. Punter. Punter. Shot. Shot. Tipsy. Tipsy. Very good. What's the idiom I use when I want everyone to drink their drink completely to celebrate something, perhaps? Bottoms up, that's right. And if I'm a customer in a pub, what noun could you use to refer to me? I'm a punter, absolutely. And in this pub, if everyone keeps buying drinks and shouting bottoms up and downing those drinks, they might become quite loud, boisterous, and unruly. What adjective could I use to describe them? Rowdy. Yes, all the punters will become quite rowdy if they keep drinking their drinks in one go, as they have been doing. At the end of the night, they might even move on to stronger alcoholic drinks. They might get small amounts of alcoholic drinks. What are these? These small amounts of strong alcoholic drink? Shots, yes, they may move on to shots at the end of the night, and if I just stick to having one glass of wine, I don't drink very often, so I, I just have one glass of wine and I start to feel a little bit drunk. What adjective could we use to describe me? Tipsy. Yes, I'm a little bit tipsy. Whoo hoo! Alright, so let's listen out for these items once again in today's storytime. How did I end up here? Jake wondered to himself. After his studies, he'd struggled to find work as a writer. He had studied English literature, hoping to become an author. His parents wanted him to follow his mum's career path and work in finance. He chose to follow his literary dream instead, but for now, it felt like a nightmare. After sending hundreds of applications for all kinds of writing jobs, the only place he managed to find work was in a rowdy pub, the kind he normally avoided. But, he figured that chatting to the punters might give him inspiration for his novel. Tipsy people tell the barman all kinds of stories. Would tonight bring more inspiration? A young woman came over to the bar to order shots for her group of friends. She told Jake they were celebrating their graduation, so he'd better make them doubles. He heard them shout,"Bottoms up!" just before swallowing the sweet, burning liquid. Although the woman was there to celebrate graduation with friends, she kept looking over at him. When she came back to the bar to order another round, Jake asked her what she had studied."Finance," she replied."But I wish I could have studied literature. My parents made me choose the sensible route." In shock, Jake replied,"I think we're living parallel lives! My parents wanted me to do finance, but I chose literature instead. And now I'm working here!""That's wild. I'm Margot, by the way," she said. I'm Jake," he replied."So, how did you end up here?" Margot asked. That's exactly what I've been wondering," Jake replied, laughing."I try to see it as a way to get ideas for my writing. There are some interesting characters that drink here.""I see," said Margot."Am I one?" Jake blushed. She laughed and wrote her phone number on a napkin."I'd love to talk literature with you somewhere quieter. Give me a call, okay?" Jake nodded and put the napkin in his pocket. That was not the evening he was expecting. For once, he spent the rest of the shift smiling, looking forward to calling Margot soon. And that brings us to the end of today's episode. If you did enjoy your time with me, then please take a moment to leave a like, a rating, or a review. And remember to recommend The English Like a Native Podcast to your English-learning friends. Until next time, take very good care of yourself. And goodbye.