Oct 252012
In this episode, The Teacher introduces you to three idiomatic phrases connected with
skating.
1. Get your skates on.
2. Skating on thin ice.
3. Skating over something.
Transcript
Hello, I’m a very interesting and intelligent man.
And today I’m getting together with the sport of ice skating.
I bet you’ve never been taught by the sport of ice skating before!
I’m going to the latest Mr Bean movie.
Oh no, I’m going to be late!
What’s that you say? I’d better get my skates on?
In English, if we want someone to hurry up, we can say ‘get your skates on.’
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