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I'm just gonna doze off here for a sec

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do you know what that means

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doze off doze off means to fall asleep

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and SEC is short for second well

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actually it doesn't really mean second

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if I say I'm gonna doze off for a sec

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it's gonna be more than a second right

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it's gonna be for a few minutes or maybe

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even half an hour right we usually use

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the phrasal verb doze off hey that's one

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of the phrasal verbs in my intermediate

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phrasal verbs book you might have seen

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it if you've been using my phrasal verbs

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book to learn phrasal verbs but if I say

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I'm gonna doze off for a sec that means

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I'm going to fall asleep for a few

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minutes and usually we use the phrasal

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verb doze off when we talk about

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sleeping in the daytime we don't really

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use that at night you could use it at

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night but I think most of the time we

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use it to mean we're going to take a

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short nap and it sort of has the idea

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that you're going to lie down and maybe

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sleep but you're not really planning on

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sleeping you're you're just going to to

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lie down and see what happens right

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you're not really planning to sleep but

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if it happens you're okay with it right

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I'm just going to lie down and just see

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what happens right just stretch out a

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bit ah just gonna just gonna doze off

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here for maybe a few minutes right like

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I just it sort of means take a nap right

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it's another way to say you're just

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gonna you're gonna take a nap and you

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know maybe you don't even want to take a

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nap but maybe sleep just just comes to

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you when you don't even want it to come

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right then you can also use the

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phrasal verb doze off right you could

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say oh I dozed off during the movie what

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happened I didn't see the end of the

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movie I dozed off that means you you

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know you wanted to watch the movie

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but you got tired and you you fell

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asleep so you know you missed the end of

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the movie and you weren't you weren't

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planning to but it just happened because

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you know sometimes we get a bit tired

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right now my last video was on the

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phrasal verb nod off nod off do you know

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what that means well I'll tell you what

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that means okay to nod off means that

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you fall asleep a little bit in an

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upright position okay so you're not

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lying down when you nod off so this is

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what it means to nod off you're nodding

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off when you're sitting up maybe you're

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you're sitting on a bus somewhere and

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you get a bit sleepy and you start to

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nod off nod off that means your head

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moves to one side and you you fall

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asleep a little bit okay so it's it

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means like when you fall asleep without

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something to support your head right

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your head just sort of falls over like

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that and and you can't you know it's

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probably not comfortable because there's

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nothing to support your head right and

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then maybe suddenly you'll jolt awake

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jolt jolt means a sudden movement okay

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so if you start nodding off you might

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jolt awake

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maybe suddenly the bus slams on the

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brakes right if someone slams on the

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brakes and the bus stops really suddenly

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and then you Joel - wait what was that

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are we okay oh I must have fallen asleep

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I didn't mean to fall asleep I just I'm

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so tired I just I was just nodding off

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okay so that's what nodding off means so

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there's a there's a little difference

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between nod off and doze off you could

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say doze off as well if you're sitting

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on the bus I just dozed off for a bit I

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dozed off but you know the difference is

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that nah

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off is always in an upright position

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right where is dough is off could be in

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a lying position or or in an upright

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position right you could use doze off

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for that too now if you're sitting in a

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car right and let's say you're sitting

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in the backseat of a car right and

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you're feeling sleepy so you you fall

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asleep with your head against the window

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then you could say I'm just gonna doze

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off for a few minutes here I'm just

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gonna doze off there you wouldn't really

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say nod off because your head has

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something to rest against right it has

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like a support so in that case I think

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it would be better to say doze off or

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you could say I'm gonna take a quick nap

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so you can see there are just some small

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differences between these different

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terms in English they all basically mean

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the same thing but there are some small

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differences like nod off doze off what

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are some other ones here I wrote down

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some ones that I wanted to teach you

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drift off you could say drift off now I

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think drift off is almost the same as

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doze off I think that they're basically

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the same you know if if you lie down on

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your couch you could say I'm gonna drift

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off for a few minutes I'm just gonna

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drift off right drift off I think that

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means exactly the same as doze off or

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you could say snooze I'm gonna take a

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quick snooze or I think you could use it

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as a phrasal verb I'm going to snooze

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off I think you could say I'm gonna

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sneeze off for for a few minutes right

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they all basically mean the same thing

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or another one is catnap have you ever

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heard that before a catnap a catnap is

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just a short nap actually when I was a

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kid I had some British friends and they

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would say Kip I'm gonna take a quick Kip

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I'm just gonna go for a Kip Kip means a

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nap right so I mean there are different

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ways to say there's probably you know a

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lot of different ways that you could you

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could describe falling asleep but if you

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want to take a nap you know maybe next

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time you should try using one

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these one of these other words right you

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could say I'm gonna doze off for a few

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minutes or I'm gonna lie down on the

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couch and drift off for a sec remember

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SEC doesn't actually mean second it

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means a while just a little while I'm

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gonna I'm gonna drift off for a sec I'm

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gonna I'm gonna take a snooze I'm gonna

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take a catnap

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I'm gonna take a nap I'm gonna take a

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Kip or if you just want to be boring you

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could say I'm going to fall asleep for a

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little bit right I'm just gonna fall

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asleep you can use that too sometimes

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it's okay to use the most basic word

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just the easiest word you can do that

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too but it's good to try new things in

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English right that's how you improve

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your English vocabulary if you you know

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take some risks try some new things use

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some new phrasal verbs so the phrasal

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verb nod off is in my advanced phrasal

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verb book and the phrasal verb doze off

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is in my intermediate phrasal verb book

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so if you want to learn new phrasal

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verbs like this I think both my books

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will really help you take your English

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to another level a whole new level I

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hope so anyway

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thank you to everyone who has bought my

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books I really appreciate it and right

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now I'm starting to work on some idioms

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books idioms are fun too so I'll let you

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guys know when those books are ready but

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anyway I just wanted to teach you some

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other ways to say sleep hope you're

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having a great day or a great night

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maybe you're watching this at night and

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I'll see you guys over in the next

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episode of Mad English TV have a good

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snooze

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