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Hello, everyone, and welcome back to EnglishPod.
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My name is Marco.
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I'm Erika.
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And today we have a great intermediate lesson for you.
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That's right.
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We've got some excellent real English for you all about cleaning the house.
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Cleaning the house.
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That's a real -life situation, so we're going to give you real English.
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Exactly.
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So in today's lesson, we're going to look at language about cleaning the house.
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We're also going to learn a few phrases that you can use if you want to ask someone for help.
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And maybe if you're a little bit lazy like me, a phrase or two to avoid doing work.
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Okay, well, let's get started then with our vocabulary preview.
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Vocabulary preview.
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All right, great.
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We have two great words for you today.
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Erika, why don't you tell us the first one?
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The first word is such a mess.
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Such a mess.
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Such a mess.
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So when something is a mess.
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It's dirty.
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Yeah, or things are everywhere.
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Disorganized.
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Yeah.
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So, you know, you have your clothes on the floor and your shoes on.
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Okay.
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So that sounds a lot like my desk at work.
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Your shoes on your desk.
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Yeah.
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I've seen that.
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I've been wanting to ask you about that.
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Okay.
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Such a mess.
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Really, really dirty.
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Okay.
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Now let's take a look at our second word.
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Chores.
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Chores.
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Chores.
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Chores.
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Chores is a really common word for.
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Things you have to do around the house.
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Like, for example, laundry.
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Or making the bed.
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Or when you have to take out the garbage.
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Those are all examples of chores.
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Chores, yeah.
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I guess everyone can remember when they were kids, they had chores to do.
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Yeah, when I was a kid, it was my chore to chop wood.
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Chop wood?
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Yeah.
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That's a great chore, playing with an axe.
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Maybe if you're a boy, but for a girl, it was not so great.
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That's why you're so strong and fit.
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All right, so let's listen to our dialogue for the first time.
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It's going to be kind of fast.
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But don't worry if you miss something, because we'll explain all of the important language afterwards.
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Honey, the house is such a mess.
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I need you to help me tidy up a bit.
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My boss and her husband are coming over for dinner, and the house needs to be spotless.
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I'm in the middle of something right now.
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I'll be there in a second.
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This can't wait.
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I need your help now.
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All right, all right.
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I'm coming.
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Okay, here's a list of chores we need to get done.
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I'll do the dishes and get all the groceries for tonight.
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You can sweep and mop the floors.
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Oh, and the furniture needs to be dusted.
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You know what?
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I have to pick something up in the mall.
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So why don't you clean the floors and I'll go to the supermarket and get all the groceries.
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Sure, that's fine.
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Here's the list of all the things you need to get.
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Don't forget anything.
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And can you pick up a bottle of wine on your way home?
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Hey, honey, I'm back.
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Wow, the house looks really good.
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Great.
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Can you set the table?
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Just a sec.
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I'm just going to vacuum this rug real fast.
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Wait, don't turn it on!
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oh my god marco what happened there an explosion we love
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a good explosion here at english we're gonna give you as many explosions as possible okay
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so let's take a look at our language takeaway So,
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language takeaway is the part of our lesson where we teach you what we think are some really important words
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that are found in the dialogue.
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Exactly.
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And we have three really important words in our dialogue today.
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So, let's start with the first one.
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Tidy up.
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Tidy up.
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Tidy up.
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So, to tidy up means to...
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Put things in their correct spot, right?
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So put the shoes on the floor Shoes off my desk exactly so tidy up organize things a little bit.
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Yeah, put things away Okay,
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let's take a look at our second word now spotless spotless Spotless spotless So when you want something to be spotless,
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you want it to be really clean Really clean not a spot of dirt on it like your desk Exactly.
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My desk is spotless.
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My desk is not spotless.
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All right.
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Great word.
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Now let's take a look at our last word for language takeaway.
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Mall.
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Mall.
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Mall.
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M -A -L -L.
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Mall.
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Mall.
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Yeah.
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It's a strange sounding word.
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It is a little bit funny sounding, but it basically means a large building with many shops inside, many different stores inside.
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Right.
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Now, in British English, you would say shopping center.
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Yeah, I think that's a little bit more common, but in American English, we say mall.
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Great.
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So, now it's time in our show to look at putting it together.
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Putting it together.
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Okay, so in putting it together, we take a word from the dialogue and we show you how to use this word in real English.
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So, we give you a couple of examples of how this particular word can be used.
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Exactly.
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So, the word that we have for today is groceries.
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Groceries.
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Groceries.
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Groceries.
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Erica, why don't you tell us what groceries are all about?
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So, groceries are all of the food items that you need to buy at the supermarket.
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So, like your bread and milk and meat and...
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Vegetables.
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Exactly.
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Those are all groceries.
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Okay.
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So, let's listen to some examples on how we use this phrase.
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Example 1 There's no milk.
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Can you go to the grocery store?
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Example 2 Here's the grocery list.
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I need all of these things so that I can cook dinner tonight.
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Don't forget anything.
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Example 3 I hate grocery shopping.
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I can never find what I'm looking for.
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Okay, great examples.
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We heard some really interesting combinations, right?
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Yeah, we heard grocery store.
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Which is where you buy your groceries.
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Exactly.
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Grocery shopping.
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Buying all your groceries. And grocery list.
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Where you have all the items that you need to buy.
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A list of everything you need to buy.
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Exactly.
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You know, grocery store.
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I think this is quite a common word in Canada.
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Probably North America.
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Yeah.
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Do you say grocery store in America?
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Well, if it's a small one.
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Really?
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Like a small store.
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In Canada, I say grocery store for even like a supermarket.
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Really?
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Yeah.
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I guess, well, I would say supermarket for a large one and grocery store for a little corner shop.
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All of these little differences in American Canadian English.
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Okay, I think it's time for us to listen to our dialogue another time.
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This time it'll be a little bit slower.
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Honey, the house is such a mess.
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I need you to help me tidy up a bit.
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My boss and her husband are coming over for dinner, and the house needs to be spotless.
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I'm in the middle of something right now.
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I'll be there in a second.
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This can't wait.
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I need your help now.
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All right, all right.
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I'm coming.
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Okay, here's a list of chores we need to get done.
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I'll do the dishes and get all the groceries for tonight.
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You can sweep and mop the floors.
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Oh, and the furniture needs to be dusted.
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You know what?
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I have to pick something up at the mall.
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So, why don't you clean the floors and I'll go to the supermarket and get all the groceries.
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Sure, that's fine.
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Here is the list of all the things you need to get.
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Don't forget anything.
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And can you pick up a bottle of wine on your way home?
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Hey, honey, I'm back.
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Wow, the house looks really good.
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Great.
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Can you set the table?
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Just a sec.
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I'm just gonna vacuum this rug real fast.
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Wait!
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Don't turn it on!
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Okay, great stuff.
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Love hearing that explosion.
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That vacuum just is a bomb.
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Yeah.
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In this dialogue, there was some really interesting language
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that you can use if you don't want to do any chores in the house.
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Exactly.
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Exactly.
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So it's time now for Fluency Builder.
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Fluency Builder.
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You know, Fluency Builder is a part of our show
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that we use to take a common phrase or a word
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that you already know and show you how to express that idea more fluently and more naturally.
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Exactly.
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So let's take a look at our first idea
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that we want to explain let's say you're watching TV like the woman in this dialogue
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and your husband wants you to help him do the chores
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and you say no I'm busy right
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or I'm doing something those are two great expressions but we heard something a little bit different in the dialogue
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I'm in the middle of something right now.
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I'm in the middle of something right now.
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Yeah, that phrase is great.
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It means she's busy.
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She's doing something.
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Yeah, I'm in the middle of something.
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Yeah.
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And so, Marco, you can tell us about our next phrase.
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Okay, well, now suppose that you want to say, you'll be there soon.
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You might say, I'll be there soon, or...
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I'm coming.
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Exactly.
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But in our dialogue, we heard something a little bit different.
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Let's listen.
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I'll be there in a second.
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I'll be there in a second.
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So this is a more natural way of saying, I'll be there very soon.
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Yeah, you know what?
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I think I use this phrase almost every day.
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I'll be there in a second.
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Yeah, yeah.
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It's really common.
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Yeah, it means I'll be there really fast.
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Yes.
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Okay, so our final item today in Fluency Builder is a great phrase
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that helps you say the idea could you or would you right
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or can you yeah so can you sweep the floor could you sweep the floor
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but in the dialogue we heard something that's a little bit different
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why don't you clean the floors and I'll go to the supermarket
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why don't you clean the floors and I'll go to the supermarket Great, so this is more natural, and it's giving a suggestion.
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Yeah, it's sort of a polite way of asking someone to clean the floors.
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Right, it's a really good and polite way of saying it.
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Yeah, I would agree on that.
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This was Fluency Builder.
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Now we are ready to listen to our dialogue again at its normal speed.
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And this time you'll understand a lot better.
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honey the house is such a mess i need you to help me tidy up a bit my boss
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and her husband are coming over for dinner
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and the house needs to be spotless i'm in the middle
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of something right now i'll be there in a second this
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can't wait i need your help now all right all right i'm i'm coming.
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Okay, here's a list of chores we need to get done.
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I'll do the dishes and get all the groceries for tonight.
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You can sweep and mop the floors.
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Oh, and the furniture needs to be dusted.
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You know what?
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I have to pick something up in the mall, so why don't you clean the floors and I'll go to the supermarket and get all the groceries.
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Sure, that's fine.
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Here's the list of all the things you need to get.
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Don't forget anything, and can you pick up a bottle of wine on your way home?
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Hey, honey, I'm back.
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Wow, the house looks really good.
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Great.
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Can you set the table?
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Just a sec.
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I'm just gonna vacuum this rug real fast.
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Wait, don't turn it on!
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Has this ever happened to you?
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Has your vacuum cleaner exploded in your house?
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Well, not a big explosion like this one.
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Not so dramatically.
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Not so dramatically.
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But I've had this happen to me before.
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Yeah.
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And dust everywhere.
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It's just it's a mess.
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You don't want to have.
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You know, this word vacuum is really a very American word.
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Yeah.
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Vacuum.
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Vacuum the rug.
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Vacuum the carpet.
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Yeah.
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Vacuum cleaner.
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In the UK, what do they say?
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Hoover.
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Hoover.
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Yeah.
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Hoover.
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Hoover the rug.
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Hoover the rug.
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Which is interesting because it's actually a brand.
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Yeah.
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So I guess it's kind of like American English, you say, pass me a Kleenex.
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Oh, that's true.
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That would be like a tissue.
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Yeah.
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So I guess they say Hoover the rug or Hoover the house.
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Wow.
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You know, I really love these small differences in meaning that we have between American English and British English.
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Yeah.
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It's fun.
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Okay.
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Well, another interesting thing about this is that the man was doing the housework.
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I know.
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He's a house husband.
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Yeah.
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So he's the one doing all the chores in the house.
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Yeah.
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That's well, that's the new trend now.
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Now it's more popular for men to stay home and take care of the babies and clean the house.
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Yeah.
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Like when I was growing up, my dad would take out the garbage and that was it.
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My mom had to do everything else.
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But now I think it's becoming a lot more common in
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especially in North America for the household chores to be divided between the man
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and the wife equally yeah i think it's fair me too yeah yeah you'd make a good husband marco
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that's what they say
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but they haven't married me yet okay all right well we're
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out of time folks be sure to log on to our community website
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and you can leave all your comments
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and maybe other house husbands out there can give us their feedback on what they think about this yeah
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so check us out at English pod .com
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and thanks for listening today everyone until next time this is marco and erica saying bye goodbye
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englishpod .com
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honey the house is such a mess i need you to help me tidy up a bit My boss
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and her husband are coming over for dinner, and the house needs to be spotless.
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I'm in the middle of something right now.
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I'll be there in a second.
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This can't wait.
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I need your help now.
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All right, all right.
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I'm coming.
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Okay, here's a list of chores we need to get done.
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I'll do the dishes and get all the groceries for tonight.
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You can sweep and mop the floors.
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Oh, and the furniture needs to be dusted.
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You know what?
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I have to pick something up in the mall.
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So, why don't you clean the floors, and I'll go to the supermarket and get all the groceries.
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Sure, that's fine.
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Here's the list of all the things you need to get.
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Don't forget anything.
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And can you pick up a bottle of wine on your way home?
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Hey, honey, I'm back.
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Wow, the house looks really good.
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Great.
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Can you set the table?
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Just a sec.
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I'm just going to vacuum this rug real fast.
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Wait, don't turn it on!
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The EnglishPod Audio Review Listen to the meaning, then say the vocabulary word.
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Very dirty, disordered.
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Such a mess.
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Put things in place, organize,
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tidy up, perfectly clean, spotless,
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busy doing something at the moment in
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the middle of something common house tasks chores food
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that you buy at a store groceries careful thorough house cleaning usually done in the spring.
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Perfectly clean, having no dirt at all.
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Immaculate.
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Wash the dirty clothes. Do the laundry.
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Soap used to wash plates,
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knives, forks, bowls, etc. Dish detergent Garbage,
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American English
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Trash Garbage, British English Rubbish Let's try that faster.
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Perfectly clean Spotless Careful, thorough house cleaning usually done in the spring Put things in place,
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organize Tidy up Garbage, British English Rubbish
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Common house tasks Chores Soap used to wash plates,
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knives, forks, bowls, etc. Dish detergent Perfectly clean,
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having no dirt at all.
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Immaculate Garbage, American English Trash Wash the dirty clothes
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Do the laundry Very dirty,
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disordered Such a mess Food that you buy at a store Groceries
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Busy doing something at the moment In the middle of something Now say the word and hear it in a sentence.
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Such a mess.
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Your room is such a mess, you need to clean it.
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Such a mess.
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The garage is such a mess, I can't find anything in here.
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Such a mess.
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When you cook, you always make such a mess.
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Tidy up.
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I want to tidy up my closet today because my clothes are all over the floor.
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Tidy up.
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Since I cooked dinner tonight, you can tidy up the kitchen.
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Tidy up.
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If you want to go outside and play, you need to tidy up your room.
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Tidy up Every morning, I tidy up my room before leaving for work.
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Spotless I spent all morning cleaning my car, so now it's spotless.
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Spotless You did a great job cleaning the kitchen.
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It's spotless.
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Spotless We need to make sure that the house is spotless before the guests arrive In the middle of something
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I'm in the middle of something right now,
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so I'll call you back in 10 minutes In the middle of something I can't go to lunch now.
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I'm in the middle of something really important.
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In the middle of something.
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I hate it when people interrupt me when I'm in the middle of something.
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Chores When I was younger, I used to help my mother with the daily chores.
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Chores I wish I could go with you guys, but I have to finish my chores.
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Chores I hate doing chores, especially washing the dishes.
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Groceries We need to go buy some groceries for this week.
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Groceries I forgot the grocery list at home, but don't worry.
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I remember everything that was on it.
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Groceries Don't forget to buy some milk from the grocery store on your way home.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questo video contiene 410 frasi e 2989 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 23:31. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 127 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. Solo il 81% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è impegnativo.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| groceries sostantivo | /ˈɡɹoʊ.s(ə.)ɹiz/ | spesa |
| tidy aggettivo | /ˈtaɪ.di/ | ordinato, pulito |
| dialogue sostantivo | /ˈdaɪəˌlɑɡ/ | dialogo, conversazione |
| vacuum sostantivo | /ˈvæ.kjuːm/ | vuoto |
| mall sostantivo | /mɔːl/ | centro commerciale |
| supermarket sostantivo | /ˌsupɚˈmɑɹkət/ | supermercato |
| honey sostantivo | /ˈhʌni/ | miele |
| phrase sostantivo | /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/ | espressione, polirematica |
| desk sostantivo | /dɛsk/ | scrivania |
| garbage sostantivo | /ˈɡɑɹ.bɪd͡ʒ/ | immondizia, spazzatura |
| sweep verbo | /swiːp/ | spazzare, scopare |
| dust sostantivo | /dʌst/ | polvere |
| explosion sostantivo | /ɛkˈsploʊ.ʒən/ | esplosione, scoppio |
| dish sostantivo | /dɪʃ/ | piatto, scodella |
| furniture sostantivo | /ˈfɝ.nɪ.t͡ʃɚ/ | mobilio |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| pick up verbo | tirare su, sollevare |
| take out verbo | cavare, cacciare |
| grow up verbo | crescere |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 99 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come I'm, don't, I'll. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “th”: cloth /klɒθ/, thorough /ˈθʌɹoʊ/
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: explosion /ɛkˈsploʊ.ʒən/, dish /dɪʃ/, shoe /ˈʃu/, wash /wɑʃ/, tissue /ˈtɪʃ.(j)u/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: supermarket /ˌsupɚˈmɑɹkət/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, intermediate /ɪn.tə(ɹ)ˈmi.di.ət/, combinations /kɑmbɪˈneɪʃənz/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Fai shadowing frase per frase a velocità normale, ripetendo ognuna finché il tuo ritmo coincide con quello di chi parla.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come groceries, tidy, dialogue.
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| “Used to” used to + verbo — un’abitudine o uno stato passato che non è più vero | used to wash |
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | be dusted · are found · be divided |
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | I've seen · I've had · haven't married |
| Past continuous was/were + -ing — un’azione in corso in un momento del passato | was doing · was growing |
Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?
Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.