324. Drawing Conclusions (B2 story) summer repeat

Right.

Well, I'm going to go into the story phrases straight away.

The title of the story is called Drawing Conclusions.

Drawing Conclusions.

As usual, I'm gonna put these phrases in the show notes or on my website.

That will be podcast 184, and there you can see the phrases in the order that I'm talking about them now and in the order that they occur in the story.

Now, the title of the story is called Drawing Conclusions.

That is to draw, as in D-R-A-W.

Now, here to draw a conclusion means after some consideration, after taking things into consideration, which was a phrase we had in a previous story, if you remember, after taking things into consideration, you arrive at a conclusion, and so that is to draw a conclusion, and that's the title of the story because in the story, the characters, well, after seeing the evidence, they decide on what they think has happened.

So that's the first one.

The next one...

Well, the next one is sort of grammatical really.

It's neither nor, which is a B2 grammatical structure, and it's where we have two things that we are saying are not true.

So in this sentence, which is the sentence which occurs in the story, it reads, "Mrs.

Robinson had neither seen nor heard Lorna since" I'll read that again.

"Mrs.

Robinson had neither seen nor heard Lorna since" So it's neither and nor to say two things are in the negative, and that's a, a B2 structure.

It's useful for you to use that in your B2 writing, for example.

The next phrase is to take great pride in or to take pride in something.

So pride spelt P-I-D-E.

If you take pride in something, you like it very much or you think that it is a very great quality.

You take pride in something perhaps that you do well.

Maybe you play a musical instrument, um, the violin, and to take pride in it is that you play it very well because you practice very hard and people enjoy listening to you.

My next phrase is to go into more detail, means to describe something more fully, to say more about a situation.

You go into more detail.