Take The Leap English Idiom Practice with Cats
hi i’m vanessa from speak english with
vanessa calm are you ready to take the
leap let’s talk about it recently one of
my cat started doing something
absolutely amazing i was walking around
the house trying to find him and i
looked everywhere
under the bed in the closet under the
couch under the pillows in the closet in
my clothes i looked everywhere and then
I saw the door slowly moved it wasn’t a
ghost it wasn’t a thief it was my cats
and where was he
Wow he was on top of the door and he
perfectly showed us how to use today’s
expression so I’m going to show you this
quick video clip that I took and you can
imagine that as we talk about today’s
expression
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you saw my cat jumped up here he was on
top of the door even though it was
really thin somehow he got up there but
he needed to get down he needed to take
the leap and get down well the word leap
in today’s expression means jump jump he
needed to physically jump but in this
expression we’re talking about this
figuratively doing something risky but
something important something that you
want to do to in advance or improve your
life take the leap or take a leap let’s
talk about this in a couple examples
let’s imagine that you got offered an
opportunity to work in Sydney Australia
and you think office is great I could
speak English I could improve my English
a lot but what if I don’t like it there
what if I don’t like to be away from all
of my friends and everything I know it’s
risky it’s risky to do something new and
go to a new country change isn’t always
easy so for you when you’re talking
about this opportunity you could say I
decided to go to Australia
I’m going to take the leak I’m going to
do it and this means you’re going to
jump you’re going to take the
opportunity you don’t know if it’s going
to work out you don’t know what’s going
to happen but you’re going to do it
because
you believe that it will probably be
okay and it’s going to improve your
English improve your life in some way
I’m going to take the leap this full
expression is take the leap of faith
take a leap of faith and the final part
of faith means just that you don’t know
what’s going to happen when you move to
Australia you hope that it will be okay
but you don’t really know so it is a
step in a kind of risky direction it’s
something that you’re not sure about but
you hope we’ll be okay
same as my cat when he was physically
jumping down he hoped that it would be
okay but you could see he was a little
bit uncertain about his decision and
maybe it’s the same for you and lies we
always have decisions that we don’t know
what’s the outcome we don’t know what’s
going to happen so let’s use this
expression to talk about our own lives I
want to ask you when is a time that you
needed to take the leap maybe you got a
new job opportunity like I mentioned or
maybe you decided to get a dog you
didn’t know what dogs were like but you
decided to do this something unknown or
maybe you decided to quit your job and
see if you could start your own business
you could say I took this is past tense
I took the leap and I quit my job and I
started my own business I took the leap
and I got another pet I took the leap
and decided to start a family for me
that’s quite a big leap so I completely
understand this expression take the leap
to take a leap so in the comments below
this video let us know when was a time
that you took a leap of faith
you took a leap
you did something unknown but you hoped
would work out so let’s read each
other’s examples and learn as much as
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