Hello, everyone, and welcome back（在后） to EnglishPod. My name is Marco. And I'm Erika. And today with Erika, we have an upper（上面的） intermediate（中间的） lesson. That's right. An upper intermediate lesson that's a little bit（一点） strange（陌生的）.

  It's a little bit strange, but it's a real English lesson because that's what we give you here at EnglishPod. So in today's lesson, we've got a lot of really great language for you. We've got language to help you to gossip（闲聊） better. Gossip. Why don't you explain it a little bit, just in case（情况）? Okay（好）.

  So if I gossip, I maybe share news or information about other people with my friends. Like（喜欢） I might（可以〔用于礼貌地提出建议〕） say something like（喜欢）, Marco, did you see what happened in ChinesePod today? You'll never guess what I saw. Exactly（确切地）. That's gossip. And we also have language today to describe things.

  To describe strange things. Strange things. Alright（ 好）, so let's take a look（看） at our vocabulary（词汇） preview. Vocabulary preview（预演）. So in our vocabulary preview, we'll look at a few important words that will help you to understand the dialogue a little bit better. Exactly.

  And the first word is "weird（（苏格兰）命运）". Weird. Now, this is a common word you probably hear all the time and in a lot of different situations. So we wanted to explain it today. Yeah. This word just means（意味） "strange（陌生的）". It's strange. Weird person is a strange person.

  Exactly. But the thing about this word is if you are a young person, let's say under the age of 35, you'll probably use it about a hundred times a day. Weird. Just such a good sounding word. Weird. It is.

  Okay. But the thing is that even though（ 虽然） it is probably more commonly（普通地） used in American English, it's still widely（大大地） used for British English as（ 像…一样） well. Yeah, that's true. So but maybe in British English, you would say something like odd（奇数的）. It's odd. Yeah, that's more common.

  Okay, let's look at our second word. Housewarming gift（礼物）. Housewarming gift. Housewarming gift. Housewarming gift. Now, this is a cultural（文化的） thing.

  It's really common in North America to give a housewarming gift to someone. Yeah. If I move into a new house, maybe some of my friends or family will bring a gift over to make my house a little bit more beautiful. So something like a photo frame（框架） or or maybe a plant or sometimes even like maybe a basket（篮） of pastries or something. Okay. Yeah, I've never gotten one of those because I don't have a home.

  Oh, where do you live on the street? Well, I don't have my own home, so I have never gotten one of those. Okay. Okay. So we're ready now to listen to our dialogue. So we've got two housewives（家庭主妇） who are gossiping（闲聊） about what's going on in the neighborhood（街区） and let's listen to what happens.

  Oh, I don't know if you've heard, but someone moved into that old house down the road. Yeah, I know. I met the owner（物主） of the house yesterday as（ 像…一样） he was moving in. His（他的） name is Armand. Really? What's he like?

  You have to fill me in. Actually（实际上）, he's a bit（一点） strange（陌生的）. I don't know. I've just got a bad feeling about him. Really? Why?

  Well, yesterday I brought over a housewarming gift, but Armand started acting（行动） really weird（（苏格兰）命运） and then he practically（实际上） kicked me out. I tried to sort（种类） of peek into his（他的） house, but everything was so dark inside（在里面） that I couldn't really get a good look（看）. The whole（ 完整的） thing really creeped（爬行） me out. Well, you'll never guess what I saw this morning. A delivery（投递） truck（卡车） pulled（拉） into his（他的） driveway and it dropped off a long rectangular box. It almost（几乎） looked like a coffin（棺材）.

  You see? Why would she... Armand! You scared（ 惊吓） the heck out of me. This is my friend Doris. Pleasure（愉快） to meet you.

  If you're not doing anything tonight, I'd like to have you both for dinner. I mean, I'd like to have you both over for dinner. Ooh, that guy（家伙） seems（ 似乎） kind（种类） of weird（（苏格兰）命运）. You can hear his voice（声音） is like a weird（（苏格兰）命运） guy（家伙）, right? Yeah. Alright, let's take a look at our language takeaway（外卖食品） and look（看） at some of these great words.

  So our language takeaway focuses（使集中） on several（几个的） words from the dialogue that we feel are really important for you to know. Exactly. And we have four of them for you today. Why don't we look at the first one? The first word is a bad feeling. Bad feeling.

  A bad feeling. A bad feeling. So we've got a few examples that will help you to understand how this phrase works. Example one. I don't like Kelly's new boyfriend. I've got a bad feeling about him.

  Example two. It's so dark. We shouldn't be out here. I've got a bad feeling about this. Example three. I've got a bad feeling about this trip.