native

my name is Anna and today is number

twelve of 25 bite-sized lessons which

I'm doing especially for you because

it's Christmas

so today's lesson is all about the word

floor now

very simply the floor is comforting you

are standing on its the lower level of a

room so today I'm on a hard floor not a

carpeted floor but we can also use floor

to refer to the level in a building so

at the moment i'm on the ground floor

I didn't have to walk any steps to be in

this room

this is the lower level if i go up one

set of stairs to the next level I'll be

on the first floor if i go up another

set i'll be on the second floor and so

on if I got into a fight and someone

punched me and I fell to the floor

probably unconscious then that person

floored me he floored me with his right

hook

that's my left a flawed me with his left

hook

we could also use the word floored to

mean completely baffled

so if I ask you a really random question

that confuses you and battles you then

we could say my question floored you if

you're in a public environment and

someone says please take the floor or

you have the floor

that means all eyes are on you and you

now have everybody's attention so you'll

hear dancers being told to take the

floor other rather than or a lawyer

might take the floor to deliver his

closing argument in a trial we can also

use the phrase wipe the floor with to

wipe the floor with someone means that

you've outperformed them you've done

better than may have it can be referring

to something physical or something

intellectual so if i was in a

competition for example and I was so

much better than everybody else you

could say I wiped the floor with my

competition if I was in a boxing match

and I literally knocked out my opponents

I wiped the floor with my opponent

because i was so good so there you go

another English lesson learned

so soon you'll be able to wipe the floor

with even the natives because you'll

know more english grammar and vocabulary

than anybody else you will floor me with

your knowledge i may have to have a lie

down on the floor right now

well I hope you found that helpful don't

forget we still have 13 more lessons to

go the last one will be on Christmas Day

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christmas day

all right take care and goodbye