English through Films: Sachin’s first interview

In this post, we obtain our spoken English lesson from an old interview of the legendary Sachin Tendulkar. We get to see the glimpse of his genius in his easy confidence.

Watch the video and answer the questions in the quiz at the end.

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This video doesn’t have so many difficult words as such but watch it for the flow of spoken English communication.

Some useful phrases are summarized as under:

You must be getting tired = तुम थक जाते होगे. This is a fairly common but very useful sentence structure which you frequently use in spoken exchanges. You can have sentences like: He must be very busy OR Sudhir must be having a lot of difficulty in paying the fee of the expensive school.

Must can also be used with verbs in past tenses to generate a similar meaning but in the past:

You must be getting tired vs You must have got tired (तुम थक गए होगे )

You must be very busy vs You must have been very busy.

Too young = Very young. Too is used in the sense of very much and so much that it could have negative impact. Thus tea which is very sweet may be good but tea which is too sweet is undrinkable. Anything with a too means there is so much of it that it has become negative.

Concentrate = Focus, put more energy in (I want to focus on my studies now)

Prefer = Like something more than the other (I prefer action movies to love stories)

Now answer the following quiz:

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