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  • Welcome to English at the movies where we teach you American English.

  • Heard at the movies are expression.

  • Today is touch and go from the Netflix film Holiday in the wild.

  • So you're vacationing in Zambia, huh?

  • The movie tells about a woman who goes to Africa.

  • There she helps rescue a baby elephant and she falls in love.

  • Listen for the words touch and go.

  • Poachers kill the mama for tusks.

  • We don't do some help.

  • That baby we get in two days.

  • I want to help.

  • I didn't see that one coming.

  • Be okay.

  • It'll be touch and go for a while.

  • But we will do our best.

  • Do you know what touch and go means?

  • Is it?

  • We do not think he will live or no one is sure what will happen.

  • Listen again along house first.

  • Well, I took a little detour.

  • It's gonna be OK.

  • It'll be touch and go for a while.

  • But we will do our best.

  • Were you right?

  • The answer is be touch and go means no one is sure what will happen.

  • It might not end well.

  • This expression is often used to describe serious situations about people's health.

  • It could go either way in the film.

  • They did not know whether the baby elephant would live or not, and that's English at the movies, on and Ball.

Welcome to English at the movies where we teach you American English.

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