Learn 2 English Idioms About Politics Advanced English Vocabulary
hi i’m vanessa from speak english with
vanessa calm what can we learn from
politicians let’s get started politics
is a divisive topic of course in any
country anywhere you go politics is
going to create strong emotions in
people but today i want to use this
topic to help you learn two expressions
and also two ideas that we can use in
our daily lives so what can we learn
from politicians the first thing is
campaign promises this is the first
expression that i want to talk about
with you today campaign promises the
campaign is the time when a politician
in this video I’m going to be talking
about the president because it’s the
most current thing happening here in the
US right now but a campaign is when the
president tries to get other people to
vote for him so maybe he’ll give
speeches or she’ll give speeches have
debates go to local cities and try to
meet people this is called a campaign
they’re not elected yet but they’re
saying everything I promise to do this I
promise to do this I promise this and
this how do you feel about those
promises do you believe them typically
we call these campaign promises because
no one believes them if you think that
the the candidate the president the
governor the prime minister is actually
going to follow through on his campaign
promises maybe time to do a little
research
so the expression campaign promises can
be used outside of a political sphere so
we could say I don’t ever want to make
campaign promises I’m going to try to
not make any campaign promises to my
family this expression campaign promises
simply means promises that you’re not
gonna do so we could use this in our
daily lives and also it’s something we
can learn personally let’s not make
campaign promises let’s be careful about
the promises that we make and make sure
that we’re actually going to follow
through on them the second thing I want
to talk about today is the way that
candidates candidate is the person who’s
running for office the way that
candidates speak when someone asks the
presidential candidate what do you think
about education or immigration or
different kinds of social reform what do
you think about them do they ever give a
direct clear answer in your country I’m
not so sure but in the u.s. the answer
is hardly ever maybe never do they give
a direct answer
so the expression we can use for how
candidates speak is beat around the bush
a bush is a kind of small tree like a
shrub or a plant and when we say he is
beating around the bush he’s beating
around the bush it simply means he’s not
speaking directly so candidates always
beat around the bush they never answer
directly maybe this is a kind of tactic
to try to reach the the widest group of
people but this is something that is
pretty typical in politics candidates
beat around the bush all the time so the
second thing we can learn about
politicians is how to not beat around
the bush we don’t want to be like that
we want to do the opposite as an English
Learner
and you are here probably because you
want to improve your English
communication skills as an English
Learner you want to be clear and
understandable
you want your friend
or your audience or your teacher to
completely understand what you’re saying
so let’s not be like a politician let’s
learn how not to do it and instead let’s
just do the opposite let’s speak clearly
don’t beat around the bush and don’t
make campaign promises thanks so much
for watching this video about politics
let me know in the comments below have
you ever made campaign promises and do
you ever beat around the bush I hope
that you can use these two expressions
because that’s the purpose you are here
to use English so in the comments below
this video let me know about these two
questions and I’ll see you again the
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