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Vanessa: Hi, I'm Vanessa from SpeakEnglishWithVanessa.com.
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Can you think and speak in English about  your daily life? Let's talk about it.
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If you watch English movies and TV shows,  you've probably heard people ask the question, "Hey, how was your vacation?" but have you ever  asked this question to yourself? Well, if not, that changes today. In this lesson, you will learn  19 common, daily life expressions that you can use to talk about your vacation. I'll be telling  you about my summer vacation and I'll use these expressions so I hope you'll be able to use them  too. Well, like always I have created the free PDF worksheet for today's lesson with all of these new  words, sample sentences, definitions, and you can answer Vanessa's Challenge Question at the bottom  of the worksheet. You can download this free PDF with the link in the description. All right, let's  get started by talking about my summer vacation, and I hope it will apply to you as well. My family went on a four hour road trip to West Virginia to meet up with Dan's  side of the family. Unfortunately, Dan's brother got bronchitis, so he couldn't come. A road trip is when you drive a long distance, and usually, the journey is also important.  These are common trips in the U.S., maybe because the U.S. is so big. Let's  take a look at another sample sentence.
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Some of my favorite memories from childhood  vacations are taking road trips across the country. You also heard me use the phrase  "to meet up with", this is used when you are getting together with someone who you already  know. Let's take a look at this sentence.
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We made plans to meet up with our friends  while we were traveling in Spain. All right, let's continue with my summer vacation story. We rented a cabin in the woods that also had a hot tub or Jacuzzi that my kids loved. The word rent  is commonly used for vacations. You might rent an Airbnb, you might rent a car, or maybe you could  say, "We rented an RV so that we could take a road trip around the U.S." All right, let's continue. We went hiking and rock climbing, we made a bonfire, and we ate amazing  food, including a five course wine tasting that Dan's parents put on. That was amazing. On our vacation, we did three common activities that we do outdoors on vacation. We went hiking,  we went rock climbing, and we had a bonfire. I'm curious if having a bonfire is common in your  country. I know sometimes this is really common, but sometimes it's almost unbelievable,  especially if you live in a big city.
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But personally, I love having a bonfire,  especially because I like to eat marshmallows.
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All right, let's continue with my story. Because it was the summertime and we were in the woods, we made sure that everyone  wore bug spray and sunblock because nothing can ruin a vacation faster than  lots of bug bites and getting a sunburn.
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I don't know if this is true in your country, but  where I live, there are a lot of mosquitoes so we have to wear bug spray often. And what happens  if you don't wear bug spray? You get a bug bite.
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We also have to wear sunblock. Sometimes  people call this sunscreen. What happens if you don't wear sunscreen? Well, you get a  sunburn. Not good. Let's go on with my story.
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Well, we were having so much fun in West Virginia  that we decided to extend our vacation and drive four hours further north to Dan's sister's house  for five more days. And thankfully, our generous neighbor said that she could watch our cats, our  chickens, and our house for a little bit longer.
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Let's take a look at this word, to watch. Yes,  we can use to watch for, "I watch TV," but it's also often used for taking care of something.  "I watched two kids over the summer." Okay, that means you were a babysitter or a nanny over  the summer, you took care of those two kids.
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So we could also say, "Could you watch my  house while I'm gone next week?" That means, "Could you take care of my house while I'm  gone next week?" All right, let's continue.
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In Pittsburgh, we hung out a lot together,  we went to the zoo. And you know what? I got stuck in the elevator at the zoo for  20 minutes. It was a little bit scary.
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This is a lovely phrasal verb that you can use at  any time in your life. To hang out with someone is simply to spend casual time together. "Hey,  you want to hang out?" "Oh, it was great hanging out last week." Great phrasal verb to use. What  about this one? To get stuck. This could be used physically. "I got stuck in the elevator." "He  got stuck in traffic." But we can also use this mentally if you are speaking in English and you  just can't remember the words that you're trying to say, you might say, "Ugh, I just got stuck  and I can't remember the next word." You're not physically stuck, but your brain will not go to  the correct word. So I hope this lesson will help you to find more words in your vocabulary so you  can speak exactly the way that you would like.
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All right, let's continue my story. During our trip, my sister-in-law found out the gender of her third baby. It was quite a  surprise, and it was so fun to celebrate with her.
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This is another phrasal verb, to find out  something means that you are learning a new piece of information. Let's take a look at the  sample sentence. I found out about the surprise party because I heard them talking on the phone.  Oops. All right, let's continue with my story.
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During the week, we rented a private  karaoke room for Dan's sister's birthday, and there were about 20 people there. Dan and his  friend sang an improvised Happy Birthday song, and it was hilarious and quite a crowd pleaser. This word, a crowd pleaser, means that everyone loves it. You might say this. "I went to the  circus and I saw a woman shoot flaming arrows from her bow with her feet. It was a crowd pleaser.  It was incredible." All right, let's keep going.
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Then we went to our friend's wedding, which  was actually at her mom's house, and it was perfect. This was my kid's first wedding, and  I think it was the best wedding they could have gone to. The ceremony was blessedly short.  They had homemade pizza made for each person and they had a blast dancing. This is a lovely expression, to have a blast, and it just means that you're  having so much fun. You might say, "We went to the beach last week and you wouldn't believe it.  We had a blast just staying in our beach house, laughing and playing games. We only went to the  beach two days." I hope that you have a blast on your vacation. All right, let's keep going. Something amazing happened at that wedding.
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Our friend, the bride, hired a silhouette artist  to cut a silhouette for each of the guests.
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It was an amazing souvenir. I'll show it to you  here. This is really something that I'll treasure forever. Can you believe she hand-cut that by just  looking at us in about 10 seconds? Incredible.
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This word, a silhouette, is a fun one. It usually  means the outline of something. So you might say, "Before I got glasses, I could only see  the silhouette of the trees. And then when I got glasses, I could see the leaves. Amazing." Have you ever been traveling and gotten a souvenir for my son? You know what he loves to get as  a souvenir? A rock. Wherever we go, it might be a rock from a parking lot, it might be a rock  from a creek. His favorite souvenirs are rocks.
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All right, let's keep going. In both West Virginia and Pittsburgh, we had so much fun bonding  and just spending quality time together.
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Both of these words, to bond with someone  and to spend quality time with someone, mean that you are deepening your relationship  with someone else. Let's take a look at this sentence. The COVID-19 pandemic was a really hard  time, but my family got to spend a lot of quality time together, and in the end, we really bonded  during that tough time. All right, let's continue and go to the end of my vacation story. Finally, after our eight hour trip home, which ended up being something like  11 hours total, we made it home and it was time to get back to the real world. This phrase, to get back to the real world, is one we often use at the end of vacation,  you've almost been living in a fantasy world.
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Maybe you've been at the beach, maybe you went  to another country, and then when you get home, boom, the real world hits. So you might say, "Oh,  I'm not ready to get back to the real world." Or on the other hand, you might say, "You know what?  I'm kind of ready to get back to the real world.
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This vacation was great, but it was long enough." So I want to know for you, what was your summer vacation? Have you had your summer vacation  yet? Let me know in the comments and don't forget to download the free PDF worksheet for  today's lesson with all of these wonderful daily life expressions, definitions, sample  sentences, my story about my vacation, how you can use them, and of course, you can  answer Vanessa's Challenge Question at the bottom of the PDF worksheet. There's a link in  the description and you can download that now.
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Well, thanks so much for learning English with  me and I'll see you again next Friday for a new lesson here on my YouTube channel. Bye. The next step is to download the free PDF worksheet for this lesson. With this  free PDF, you will master today's lesson and never forget what you have learned.  You can be a confident English speaker.
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Don't forget to subscribe to my YouTube channel  for a free English lesson every Friday. Bye.

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Diese Sprechübung auf Niveau B1 basiert auf dem Video „THINK and SPEAK in English: your vacation“. Diese Wörter kommen am häufigsten vor: vacation, word, lesson, trip, continue. Dieses Video enthält 27 Sätze und 1750 Wörter zum Nachsprechen. Der gesprochene Teil dauert 10:02. Der Sprecher spricht in natürlichem Tempo, etwa 174 Wörter pro Minute, ähnlich wie im Alltagsgespräch. 84 % der Wörter gehören zu den 3.000 häufigsten im Englischen; den Rest solltest du dir vor dem Üben ansehen. 12 der 27 Sätze sind Fragen – gut, um Frageintonation und kurze Antworten zu üben.

Wichtiger Wortschatz in diesem Video

Die 15 anspruchsvollsten Wörter aus dem Video, mit Aussprache und Bedeutung:

WortAusspracheBedeutung
worksheet SubstantivArbeitsblatt
bonfire Substantiv/ˈbɑnˌfaɪɚ/Freudenfeuer
silhouette Substantiv/ˌsɪluˈɛt/Silhouette, Schattenriss
souvenir Substantiv/ˈsu.vəˌnɪɹ/Andenken, Reisemitbringsel
blast Substantiv/blæst/Windstoß
phrasal Adjektiv/ˈfɹeɪzəl/phrasalisch, Ausdrucks-
verb Substantiv/vɝb/Verb, Verbum
spray Substantiv/spɹeɪ/Spray, Sprühnebel
sunburn Substantiv/ˈsʌnˌbɝn/Sonnenbrand
sunscreen SubstantivSonnencreme, Sonnenkreme
hike Substantiv/haɪk/Wanderung
climb Verb/ˈklaɪ̯m/klettern, steigen
physically Adverb/ˈfɪz.ɪ.kli/physisch
phrase Substantiv/ˈfɹeɪ̯z/Redewendung, Phrase
bite Verb/baɪt/beißen

Phrasal Verbs, die du hören wirst

WortBedeutung
get back to Verbsich melden
find out Verbherausfinden, erfahren
end up Verbsich herausstellen, am Ende irgendwo / etwas sein

Sätze zum Wiederholen

Kurze, vollständige Sätze aus dem Video, die du im Alltag wiederverwenden kannst:

  • Let's  take a look at another sample sentence.
  • Let's take a look at this sentence.
  • All right, let's continue with my summer vacation story.
  • What happens if you don't wear sunscreen?
  • Have you had your summer vacation  yet?

Grammatik in diesem Video

Die Strukturen, die der Sprecher am häufigsten verwendet, mit den genauen Worten aus dem Video:

StrukturIm Video
Present Perfect have/has + Partizip Perfekt – eine vergangene Handlung, die jetzt noch wichtig istyou've probably heard · you've been · have learned
Relativsätze who / which + Satz – eine Zusatzinformation über eine Person oder Sachesomeone who you · wedding, which was
Möglichkeit mit „might / may“ might/may + Verb – etwas ist möglich, aber nicht sichermight rent · might say
Past Continuous was/were + -ing – eine Handlung, die zu einem Zeitpunkt in der Vergangenheit im Gange warwere traveling · were having

Aussprache, auf die du achten solltest

Der Sprecher verwendet 27 Kurzformen und abgeschwächte Formen, zum Beispiel I'm, don't, I'll. Sprich sie in der kurzen Form, so wie du sie hörst.

  • Die Laute „sh“ und „zh“: marshmallow /ˈmɑɹʃˌmɛl.oʊ/, treasure /ˈtɹɛʒəɹ/, casual /ˈkæʒ(u)əl/
  • Lange Wörter – auf die Betonung achten: elevator /ˈɛləˌveɪtɚ/, karaoke /ˈkæ.ɹiˌəʊ.ki/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, unbelievable /ˌʌnbɪˈliːvəbl̩/, hilarious /hɪˈlɛə.ɹi.əs/

Laute, die Deutschsprachigen schwerfallen:

  • Stimmhafter Auslaut — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ am Wortende nicht verhärten: verb /vɝb/, phrase /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/, improvise /ˈɪm.pɹə.vaɪz/, subscribe /səbˈskɹaɪb/, bride /bɹaɪd/
  • /æ/ — offener als „ä“: blast /blæst/, karaoke /ˈkæ.ɹiˌəʊ.ki/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, cabin /ˈkæbɪn/, arrow /ˈæɹəʊ/

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  1. Höre dir das ganze Video einmal an, ohne zu sprechen, und notiere die Wörter, die du nicht kennst.
  2. Beginne mit 0,75-facher Geschwindigkeit, sprich Satz für Satz nach und wechsle zur normalen Geschwindigkeit, sobald es leichtfällt.
  3. Nimm dich auf und vergleiche mit dem Original; achte dabei auf Wörter wie worksheet, bonfire, silhouette.

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