E311: 🎙️ Hello and welcome to The English Like a Native Podcast! I'm Anna, and you're listening to Week 35, Day 3 of Your English Five a Day. Here, we are working on expanding your vocabulary while improving your English listening skills, by focusing on five items of vocabulary every day of the working week, from Monday through to Friday.

💉 We start today's episode with the idiom, "to get the needle". Next on the list is the noun "pleasantries" and the adverb "defensively". After that, we explore the noun "empathy" and lastly, we have the verb "darken".

👠 After some quick pronunciation practice and a recap to test your memory, we visit Sophia in today's story, who is feeling low after a breakup and work stress. She gets home and confronts her flatmate for borrowing her shoes without asking. After a defensive response, empathy leads to a resolution and strengthened friendship.

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