Friday English Tips with Tim – April 09, 2010

Leia o script completo e assista outros vídeos aqui – www.timandtammy.com Hey, it´s Tim here, thanks a lot for the e-mails you sent me telling me that you liked this idea of these Friday English talks and giving ideias of topics for us to talk about. And I´ve received a lot of answers already, but keep on sending them; ok ? One of the things people ask me to talk about is American culture; so that will be one of our segments. Then send me other e-mails telling me what other segments you would have us talk about, like pronunciation or, it could be…, I´m gonna read e-mails and answer e-mails, too; so you send me a message telling me what you would like me to talk about every week; ok? So here goes, today our first culture talk. Ok, what is more American than baseball? Baseball is considered the national sport of the United States. So, and what´s interesting, this week is the first game in the baseball season in the United States; so it´s very pertinent. What I want to talk about today is what we eat at ball games. 1 – Hot dogs. We can´t forget those hot dogs! Americans eat lots of those. Here´s an interesting thing: Babe Ruth… Who´s Babe Ruth? You´ll have to research that one, but it has to do with baseball, and it´s very American. Babe Ruth once gobbled down a dozen hot dogs and eight bottles of soda between games of doubleheader. What´s gobbled down? Hum…You don´t have our phrasal verbs with G product yet, do you? Ok, gobbled down means to devoured. He devoured a …