Libraries and Books Idiom Review | Top 20 Countdown Number 12 PODCAST | An Idiom a Day Episode 170-Transcript and Idiom Notes Friday, 10 August 2018 Once upon a time… INTRODUCTION An Idiom a Day…Top 20 Countdown Number 12 Episode 81| once upon a time From the theme …Libraries and Books This episode originally aired on 3 April 2018 MUSIC The three most read books in the world are -The Holy Bible, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, and Harry Potter. MUSIC There are more public libraries than Starbucks in the U.S. – a total of 17, 566 including branches. Nearly 100% of the public libraries in America provide Wi-Fi and have no-fee access to computers. Public access to books is not new. Romans made scrolls in dry rooms available to patrons of the baths, and tried with some success to establish libraries within the empire. MUSIC Hello and welcome to episode 81…of… An Idiom a Day I’m Gina Johnson and the idiom of the day …is… once upon a time QUOTE If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero MUSIC once upon a time … if you say that something happened once upon a time, you mean that it happened in the past and you wish it still happened now…something that existed in the past that no longer exists, especially when it was better than the situation now In the past, everyone knew their neighbors. Here is the same sentence using the idiom… once upon a time Once upon a time, everyone knew their neighbors. Here are a few more sentences using the idiom … once upon a time We could leave our cars unlocked once upon a time. Once upon a time, politics was an honest profession. Once upon a time, I was paid to work 8 hours a day and that included 1 hour for lunch. once is used as an adverb in the idiom …once upon a time once means at some time in the past This restaurant was once popular. #CONVERSATION STARTER QUESTION What is your favorite fairy tale? An Idiom a Day is sponsored by Native Tongue English. NTE is an online resource for ESL students, teachers, and tutors who study, live and work abroad. For today’s podcast transcript and idiom notes visit Native Tongue English. That’s WWW–dot–NAT–IVE–TON–GUE–dash– ENG–LISH– dot– com MUSIC If you like the podcast, leave a review or comment. If you love the podcast, tell a friend. Thank you for listening and the next idiom is… Number 11 on the Top 20 Countdown Remember…Learn Something New Every Day IDIOM NOTES USAGE spoken literary | idioms that are used in books, plans and poetry VOCABULARY once | ADVERB at some tie in the past ©Copyright, Native Tongue English, 2015-2018. All rights reserved.
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