Hello and welcome to The English Like a Native Podcast. My name is Anna and you're listening to Week 50, Day 5 of Your English Five a Day. This is the series that gives you a healthy daily dose of English vocabulary so that you can expand your knowledge of English as well as improve your listening skills and overall communication. It's Friday, which means you have to listen closely. Why? Because I am running a competition every Friday and I want you to take part. If you win, then you'll be winning access to one of my exclusive Pronunciation classes. These classes I hold every fortnight in my community for Community Members. And so if you're not already a Community Member, this is an opportunity for you to gain access to one of those classes, all you have to do is listen out for something specific in the podcast. When you hear it, select the correct answer using the form below and you will be entered into my prize draw. The winner will be contacted and announced in my newsletter. So are you up for the challenge? In today's episode, I want you to listen out for a famous author, a famous author. I'm going to mention a famous author somewhere in this podcast. And when you hear it, just fill out the form below and you could be a winner. And with that, let's start today's episode. We begin the episode with the adjective cheeky, cheeky. We spell this C H E E K Y. Cheeky. If you call someone cheeky, then you are saying that they are slightly rude, or they're showing no respect, but often in a way that makes you laugh, in a funny way. So, for example, if my child disrespects me or is a little bit disobedient, but the way they behave makes me giggle, even though it's being rude, then I could say they're being cheeky. They're being a bit cheeky. Here's another example,"The cheeky pupil was always getting into trouble with his teacher." So in this scenario, a cheeky student, we've all experienced someone being cheeky in a classroom. It might be that what they're doing is funny to some people, but not to others. So in a classroom situation, a pupil might chat back or say something rude or disrespectful that makes all the other students laugh, but the teacher doesn't find it funny. The teacher might be quite annoyed and may tell that student that they are in detention or to go to the headmaster's office. So, to be cheeky. My sons are a bit cheeky, particularly my youngest son, Caspian, who's three years old, soon to be four. He is a very cheeky little boy and we love him for it. Okay, next on the list is the noun, row, row. This word's becoming familiar, isn't it? But here we're talking about a line, so a row of something. We spell it R O W. So if everything is arranged in a line, then it's in a row. So you line everything up in a row. You might want to put all the little ornaments that you have in a row on a shelf. You might want to line them up on the shelf. Here's another example,"The children lined up in a neat row outside the classroom, eagerly waiting for the bell to ring and signal the start of break time." Next on the list is the noun detention. Do you remember that word? I used that when I talked about a naughty pupil upsetting a teacher. I said the teacher might put the pupil in detention, detention. We spell this D E T E N T I O N. Detention. Detention is the punishment. That's given to students and the punishment is being kept at school for a period of time after the other students have gone home. So most schools end around 3:15 in the UK. And if you are in detention, you might have to stay behind until 4:30 or 4 o'clock, and then you're allowed home. And during that time, you may have to sit and study in silence, or you may have to do some really boring task. So you are in detention. I think I may have had detention a few times when I was at school, but generally, I was a very good compliant student. So if I was ever in detention it was probably for something minor like chatting at the back of class when I should have been listening. I was a bit of a chatterbox. Can you believe it? Okay, here's an example sentence,"James got into trouble a lot in school and often found himself in detention." So you are in detention or you get detention. Next on the list is the noun wit, wit. We spell this W I T, wit. Wit is the ability to say or write things that are both clever and humorous. So, clever and funny. Here's an example sentence,"The writer, Oscar Wilde, was known for his wit." If someone has wit, then you could also describe them as being witty. The adjective witty. They are clever and funny, all at the same time. Okay, last on the list is the adjective wry, wry. We spell this W R Y, wry. That W is silent. Wry. Wry. If you describe something as wry, then it's showing that you find a bad or difficult situation slightly funny. We often talk about having a wry look or a wry smile. Here's an example sentence,"She responded to the bad news with a wry smile, finding humour in the absurdity of the situation." Okay, so that's our five. Let's do a quick recap. We started with the adjective cheeky, which means slightly rude or showing no respect, but in a funny way, usually. Then we had the noun row, meaning to line things up, or people, or animals, all arranged in a line next to each other. We had the noun detention, describing the punishment of being kept at school after everyone else has gone home, usually because you've done something naughty. We had the noun wit, which is the ability to say or write something that's both clever and funny. And we had the adjective wry, which describes something that shows that a bad or difficult situation is slightly funny. Okay, let's do this now for pronunciation purposes. Please repeat after me. Cheeky. Cheeky. Row. Row. Detention. Detention. Wit. Wit. Wry. Wry. Very good. What was the adjective that we use when someone's a bit rude, but also a bit funny? Cheeky. That's right. But if you're cheeky at school, you may end up being punished by being kept back at school after everyone else has gone. What is that? What do we call that punishment? Detention. Very good. Sometimes people can be quite funny and clever. What noun would we use to describe the ability to say something that's both clever and funny? Wit. Wit. Very good. And if I smile in a way that shows that the difficult situation that we're experiencing now is slightly funny, what adjective would you give my smile? Wry. Wry. I have a wry smile. And then if I want to arrange a number of objects in a line, all next to each other, what noun could I use? Rather than saying in a I could say in a what? In a row. Very good. OK, listen out for these items once again in today's storytime. Tommy was a cheeky kid. His wit often got him into trouble, but he didn't seem to mind. One day, Tommy arrived at his English class without having done his homework, as usual. He sat in the back row, a cheeky look on his face. When his teacher, Mrs Brown, asked him to hand in his homework, Tommy told her that he didn't have it. When she asked where it was, Tommy told her that he cared too much about trees to use paper. Without hesitation, Mrs Brown gave Tommy detention that afternoon. Tommy responded with a wry smile, undisturbed by the punishment. It was just another day for him. Later that afternoon, Tommy found himself in the familiar detention room. He sat on the back row, as always, and began writing his lines:"I must not be cheeky in class." But Tommy had other plans. As he wrote, he also started sketching. His pen flew across the paper, bringing to life the characters and scenes from his school day. His wit shone through in every panel of the comic he was creating. Page after page, Tommy's comic book grew. It told the story of a boy much like himself, always in and out of trouble, but with a heart of gold. The teacher in the comic looked suspiciously like Mrs Brown, but with a softer side that saw the good in the troublemaker. As detention ended, Tommy gathered his things, including his new comic book. He gave the teacher on duty a cheeky wink and headed out, already planning his next adventure and his next comic. Little did anyone know that Tommy's comic would one day make him famous. But for now, he was just the cheeky kid with the wry smile, ready to face another day of school and inevitably, another detention. And that brings us to the end of today's episode. Did you hear the name of the famous author? If you did, and you're ready, then click on the link in the show notes and fill out the form, letting me know the correct answer. And if not, then you might have to go back and listen once again. But either way, I do hope you had a good time with me this week, and I hope you enjoyed having your eardrums tickled. Until next time, take very good care, and goodbye.