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Hello and welcome back to your English Fiverr Day on the English Lycanated Podcast. This is your daily dip into the English language so that you can easily expand your English, improve your listening skills, and brush up on your English vocabulary simply through listening to stories. That's the best way to learn, in my opinion. My name is Anna, and this is week eight, day two, of our story following Gabriel, who is having an adventure travelling around the UK, and this week he is in Glasgow. Yesterday, Gabriel arrived in the city with Callum, who described Glasgow as a belter and introduced him to some colourful local expressions. Today, Gabriel discovers something else. Glasgow is famous for.joinelan.com forward slash plus. Let's begin with a snapshot of what's to come. Inside a lively West End pub, Gabriel meets a boisterous group of locals. Callum greets him with a cheeky smile, and Gabriel quickly notices how good humoured everyone is. He is warned that Glaswegians can be very straight talking and sometimes a bit full on. Alright, let's break down the vocabulary that we're focused on today. Starting with the adjective boisterous boistrous. We spell this B-O-I-S-T-E-R-O-U-S. Boistrous. If you are described as boisterous, then you're noisy, energetic, and lively in a cheerful way, for example. The children were boisterous after the football match. Next we have the adjective cheeky cheeky. We spell it C H E E K Y cheeky. This means playfully rude or slightly mischievous, often in a charming way. For example, he gave her a cheeky smile. Next we have the adjective good humoured. We spell the letters out in the air when spelling words. And I'm doing it for you right now. So if you're watching on YouTube or on any streaming platform that offers video, you'll see me waving my hand around. And if you're just listening, then you'll have no idea what I'm talking about. Anyway, let me give you an example of good humoured, which means friendly and easygoing with a positive attitude. For example, she stayed good humoured despite the rain. So she stayed easygoing and positive, friendly. Next we have the adjective straight talking. Straight talking. Straight S T R A I G H T straight hyphen talking. T A L K I N G. I'm doing the finger again. To be straight talking means to speak honestly and directly without hiding your opinions. In the UK, many of us are quite indirect. It's our culture to be polite and indirect. But some people and some groups of people are more straight talking than others. For example, he's known for being very straight talking. It's often refreshing to be with someone who's straight talking because you know where you stand with them. You know what they're thinking, and there's no kind of hiding the truth. Last on today's list of target vocabulary, we have full on. To be full on, full on. To be full on means you're very intense or energetic, sometimes in a way that's overwhelming. For example, the festival atmosphere was quite full on. My children sometimes are a bit full on. Okay, that's our target vocabulary for today. Keep the vocabulary in mind and listen out for it in today's story. Gabriel had checked into his hostel smoothly and spent his first day sightseeing. He went to the Riverside Transport Museum to see vintage vehicles. Then he visited Glasgow Cathedral and the Glasgow necropolis. The latter is a beautiful Victorian garden cemetery with great views. The next day though, it started raining. Well, chucking it down actually. But as Callum had said, gun ain't no greet about it. Gabriel had got a few tips about what to do when, not if, it rained, from Callum. So now he was going to a pub in the West End for a French conversation meetup. This time the chat was supposed to be based around a French film called Yannick. Gabriel knew the film as he'd gone to see it in Lyon with Sophie. Inside the pub, the atmosphere was lively. The room buzzed with the boisterous energy of people getting together over a few drinks. Callum was already there, and he beckoned Gabriel over, giving him a cheeky grin as he asked, Will you have a pint of tenants to begin with, Gabe?

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Gabriel took his glass with a large red capital letter T printed on it over to a table. He quickly noticed how good humoured everyone seemed, and he felt immediately at ease. Callum leaned over to him, saying that everyone there was straight talking and full on, and that they would tell him what they thought without pulling any punches. Gabriel was over the moon to join in with the French conversation. Of course, he also joined in when they switched to English. A second pint of tenants helped him with that. It seemed to him that if he lived here, then he would have very good friends. One of the group, a woman around his age called Isla, invited him to a music festival later in the week. When Callum heard this, he gave Gabriel another cheeky grin. And Gabriel didn't know where to look. All right, let's bring today's vocabulary back into focus. I'll recap each item. I'd like you to repeat each item out loud after me, and I'll give you a reminder of the definition. So, repeating after me, we had boisterous. Boisterous. This means noisy, energetic, and lively in a cheerful way. Next, repeat after me, cheeky. Cheeky. This means playfully rude or slightly mischievous, often in a charming way. Then, repeat after me, we had good humoured. Good humoured. This means to be friendly and easygoing with a positive attitude. Next, repeat after me, straight talking. Straight talking. This means to speak honestly and directly without hiding your opinions. And finally, full on. Full on. This means very energetic and intense, sometimes in an overwhelming way. Okay, so Gabriel has discovered Glasgow's lively social scene. And he may have made a new friend along the way. Tomorrow, Gabriel meets Isla again at a packed live music venue where they break away from the crowd, bump into a familiar face behind the bar, and discover that they might have hit it off rather well. That's all from me for today. If you are enjoying the podcast, take a minute to leave a like, a rating, or a review, and feel free to comment as well. I really enjoy reading your thoughts, so feel free to interact. I hope you'll join me again tomorrow. Until then, take care and goodbye.