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Going
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- Let's go for a drink! / Let's go down the
pub! / Let's go out for a few bevvies. / a few jars.
- Let's go to my local public house - the
pub - for some drinks.
- We're going to paint the town red. / We're going to
go on a bar crawl. - We're
going to several pubs or bars.
- I'll get the booze!- I'll buy
the beer!
- A glass of bubbly - A glass of
champagne or sparkling wine.
- That wine is corked! It tastes like vinegar.
- the wine is bad.
- A chaser - A measure of a spirit
such as whisky or rum which you drink with beer.
- A double - 2 measures of spirits.
A single measure is usually 1/5 of a gill - 25 ml.
- A drop of the hard stuff - Some
spirits rather than beer or wine.
- A soft drink - A non alcoholic
drink.
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Music
Health
Sport
Relationships
Food
Going out
Moods
Work
Texting
Money
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- It's my round. What will it be? - I'm
buying the drinks - what would you like?
- Mine's a pint! - A traditional
measure of beer, equal to 0.57 litre.
- A spritzer - wine mixed with soda water.
- A Red Bull and vodka / A gin and tonic / Rum and cola - Some
spirits
and their mixers.
- Happy hour - A time at the beginning
of the evening when some bars sell drinks for half price.
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Too
much!
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- I'm over the limit, so let's get a cab. -
I'm over the legal limit for being allowed
to drive so we should get a taxi.
- I've been partying all weekend! - I've
been out socialising the whole weekend!
- I've got a really bad hangover - I'm
feeling bad this morning [after drinking too much the night before].
- I went on a real bender last night. My head's killing
me!
- He got really smashed last night! He was well under the
influence! These are ways of describing
that you had a great time, drank too much and maybe don't feel
your best right now.
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Going
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- Fancy going for something to eat?
- What about going to that new Russell Crowe film?
- Let's go and do some theatre. Medea has had some great
reviews.
- I fancy seeing that new Italian exhibition.
- bring
a bottle - if you're asked to dinner
it's polite to take with you a bottle of wine
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Staying
in
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- I'm going to stay in and veg -
I'm going to stay at home and do nothing [vegetate]
- Jack's such a couch potato - Jack
loves to spend his life sitting on the sofa
- I'm going to go back to mine and chill -
I'm going home to seriously relax.
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let's get a takeaway - food you order
from a restaurant to eat at home, usually a curry or Chinese
food
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Lingo
Challenge
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Try using as many of these phrases
as you can in a one-minute conversation! How many will you manage
to use? Have fun!
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