So the first U.S presidential debate between President Trump and Presidential candidate Joe
Biden is now in the books. And if we can only say one thing about it, it's that it was an absolute mess.
Now, as the CNN article put it: "There's wide public agreement that the ugly contentious
presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden on Tuesday night was irritating
national embarrassment. Must-flee-tv." And that's right, they didn't say "must-see-tv."
They said "must-flee-tv." "Must-see-tv" means that it's something that you cannot miss. Now to flee
means to try to escape something, so you must escape from that presidential debate.
So for this lesson we have taken some different parts of the debate that are more comprehensible,
and we will be teaching you the key expressions and words from those. And then we will also be
looking at commentary that different people have made about the debate,
and will be teaching you with those clips as well. This will help you to learn some practical
vocabulary for politics, news and debate, and of course about American culture as well.
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And as we've said or in case you're interested most of the debate was not as peaceful as we
saw in some of these clips. Most of the time it actually went more like this.
I mean, what was that? Even for us natives it was impossible to understand what they were saying most of the time.
So now we're going to actually look at what some different journalists said about the debate,
and this is going to be really fantastic because you'll learn some really colorful
vocabulary and expressions to talk about something that was catastrophically bad.
Hey, if you like learning English with politicians just like we are today, well we have a fantastic
lesson that you're going to laugh a ton with, with President Obama. I highly recommend that you check
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