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The Flatmates episode 53 (including Video/Vocabulary)



Episode 53: The morning after
Michal: Morning everyone. What a great barbeque yesterday! Coffee and biscuits Alice?
Alice: Oh no, I feel dreadful. I was throwing up all night long!
Tim: One too many cocktails?
Alice: No! I hardly touched a drop. One minute I was having a ball ...
Helen: Getting chatted up more like!
Alice: Yeah, I saw a completely different side to Paul.
Michal: Who?
Alice: Doctor Laver.
All: Oooh!
Alice: Oh don't! Give me a break!
Tim: So, was it the good doctor who made you ill?
Alice: No, it must've been something I ate.
Helen: But we all ate the same things.
Michal: It looked gorgeous, but I didn't have any of the salmon. Did you?
Helen: No.
Tim: No.
Alice: Yes....oh, no!

Vocabulary: 
barbeque  or barbecue, abbr. BBQ (noun) - food that has been cooked on a barbecue, barbecued food, a flat metal frame that is used to cook food over hot coals or an open fire, an outdoor meal or party at which food is cooked on a barbecue

biscuits (noun) - Brit : cookie;  U.S.: a small  light roll that is eaten as part of a meal

dreadful (adjective) - very bad or unpleasant

to throw up (verb) - to be physically sick

cocktail (noun) -  an alcoholic drink that is a mixture of one or more liquors and other ingredients (such as fruit juice)

to hardly touch a drop (phrase) - to not drink much alcohol

to have a ball (noun phrase) - to have fun : to spend time in a very enjoyable way

to chat up (verb phrase) -to get to know someone and talk to him or her in a romantic way 

different (adjective) - not of the same kind, partly or totally unlike, unusual

give me a break (verb phrase) - stop annoying me

to annoy (verb) - to cause (someone) to feel slightly angry

ill (adjective) - sick or unhealthy

gorgeous (adjective) -  very beautiful or attractive, very enjoyable or pleasant

salmon (noun) -  a large fish that is born in streams but that lives most of its life in the ocean and that is commonly used for food

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