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Are you ready for some real life English?
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Welcome to my home.
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Today, you are invited to learn real daily life English,
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not that textbook stuff that doesn't help you in the real world,
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but real daily life English with me in my home.
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If you are new here,
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hi, I'm Vanessa
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and I teach English here on the Speak English with Vanessa
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YouTube channel to help you actually be able to grow your confidence
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and English fluency with real English that real English speakers use all the time.
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So what am I doing here on the floor of my living room covered in laundry?
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Well, I'm here to invite you into my home for this daily life task.
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I'm going to fold this laundry for all the five people who live in my house
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and I'm going to talk to you about it along the way.
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These real life English conversations are how you learn real English.
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So here we are.
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And like always, I have created a free PDF worksheet that is going to include all of the vocabulary,
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definitions, sample sentences, important concepts that you're going to learn in today's lesson.
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This is my gift to you.
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So how can you get it?
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Well, you can click on the link in the description,
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enter your name and email address,
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And voila, just like that,
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the PDF worksheet will land in your email inbox.
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And this worksheet has something special.
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Inside the worksheet, you can click on the link where you can download for free the audio version of today's lesson.
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This is almost like a free podcast episode.
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You can download the audio version and listen to it wherever you want,
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maybe while you are folding your own laundry.
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amazing inception.
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So just click on the link in the description to get the free PDF worksheet for today's English lesson.
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And you'll also get that free downloadable audio.
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It's my gift to you.
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All right, let's get started and see what task lies before me.
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I have laundry here from my youngest daughter,
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my middle son, my oldest son, me and my husband.
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And I just try to fold them and place them all in kind of chronological order,
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youngest to oldest.
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First, if a shirt is inside out like this one was,
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I have to turn it right side out.
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Isn't that kind of a strange expression?
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Right side out.
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Why not left side out,
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inside out, right side out?
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Strange expressions here.
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This is a collared shirt.
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It is my husband's collared shirt.
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And because those get hung up on hangers I just lay them here
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and I take them to the bedroom later to hang up.
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This shirt is also inside out so I put my hand inside it,
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pull it right side out,
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shake it out of it, and fold it up.
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It's nothing magical but it works.
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This is my daughter's dress.
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Isn't it so tiny and cute?
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and because these also get hung up I just kind of gently fold them and lay them here.
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These are my son's shorts.
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These are kind of like sweat shorts.
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They're really comfy and I just fold those once.
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Lay them down.
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Some more shorts for my daughter.
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Another dress for her.
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We have some PJs.
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So these are pajamas but for me and my family we call them PJs.
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You can say pajamas, no problem.
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Sometimes for children, we say jammies.
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For some reason, my family doesn't say that.
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These are also PJs for my daughter.
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Yeah, I don't know why,
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why don't we call them jammies?
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It's kind of cute.
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This is a very specific item.
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I don't know if you would know what this is if you didn't have a baby.
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This is called a sleep sack.
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It is like a wearable blanket because babies can't have a blanket when they sleep.
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They could suffocate.
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They can wear a sleep sack and you zip them up and it's like a little blanket.
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All right, I have another dress,
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these adorable corduroy pants that my lovely neighbor Michelle gave to my daughter.
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If you not yet met Michelle she is on my YouTube channel here we talk about gardening together
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and sometimes she likes to buy clothes for my kids these are sweatpants these are really comfortable pants
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and my oldest son refuses to wear anything else except for
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sweatpants whatever I don't really care it's comfy we got t-shirts
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oh another cute this is a long sleeve shirt Michelle got this for my daughter.
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So it is new, it has not been worn yet.
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Some more sweat shorts.
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Now this is a new item.
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This is a tea towel.
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This tea towel goes in the kitchen and usually you use it to dry your hands.
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I use it sometimes to dry dishes or clean up messes.
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I have a lot of messes around my house.
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Someone is always spilling something.
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I remember one morning I counted five things
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that I needed to clean up off the floor that had been spilled before 8am.
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That's a crazy morning.
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There was always something that needed to be cleaned up.
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Oh, you have to see this shirt.
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This is one of Dan's t-shirts that I got him.
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It says, it's not a dad bod, it's a father figure.
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So this phrase dad bod is often used to describe when men who are 30s and 40s have a little belly.
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So they're not really super fit anymore.
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They call it a dad bod,
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but instead of being a dad body, father figure, his figure.
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But this phrase, father figure,
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also means someone who is the man in your life who you look up to,
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who is like a father.
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Maybe he is a father.
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He might not be your actual father,
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but we could say he's like a father figure.
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It's very important impressionable in your life.
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So I'm not sure if you can get the joke of that t-shirt.
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It's not a dad bod.
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It's a father figure.
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It's very silly.
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Usually on Father's Day, I like to get Dan silly father-related t-shirts.
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He has several of them at this point.
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This is a cloth napkin.
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I don't know why I fold these
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because they just get messed up very quickly
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but there you have it sometimes I do we have some
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more pjs for my daughter shorts these are shorts regular shorts
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for my son this is kind of a weird time of year when we have both shorts and long pants
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So it kind of means more organization for me because I have to put different piles of clothes out for each kid.
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There's short sleeve stuff and shorts,
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long pants, long sleeve stuff.
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So it's all, it's a little bit more to manage,
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but when you have five people in your house,
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three children, two adults, there is always something to manage, right?
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always have to fold some kind of laundry,
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do some kind of dishes.
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Now, Dan, my husband, he is in charge of dishes.
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So he does dishes every night and I do laundry every couple days.
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Have you ever seen this before?
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This is not extremely common in the US, but I love it.
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it's these little reusable zippable bags it's like got a plastic
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lining on the inside we have probably 20 of these
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and we use them for school lunches
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because in the U.S you have to you can buy a lunch at school
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but at my kids school they don't offer lunch you have to bring your own lunch from home.
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So we have these little bags that we put carrots,
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apples, sandwiches, whatever in these little bags and we can reuse them.
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How great is that?
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I love it.
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It makes my heart happy.
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This is a washcloth.
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I use this to remove some makeup so you can see there are still,
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I don't know if you can see this,
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but there's still some stains on it.
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It doesn't bother me because I'm just going to use this to take off some makeup.
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So this is just for me.
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Socks.
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I usually leave socks in a big old pile.
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And then at the end,
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when I'm done doing all the laundry, I sort the socks.
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This is my shirt and it will get hung up.
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I will lay that there.
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All right.
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We are almost done with one whole basket.
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What a dream.
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Empty success.
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Yes, but I have some bad news.
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I have more.
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Sometimes it feels like I'm doing all of the clothes that exist in our entire house.
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Now for some shirts like this one,
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it's inside out, but I don't really care.
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I'm going to just fold it wrong way out, inside out.
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This is my dress.
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I am going to turn this one right side out.
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This we would call a sundress.
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It's light.
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It's only for the hottest days of summer.
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And even though it's probably more fall-like now,
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I still wear this because some afternoons are just so hot.
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And I am someone who gets hot very easily, sweats very easily.
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So I like to wear light clothes,
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things that keep my body cool longer.
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All right, we got some more sweatpants.
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These, a new item.
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This is a placemat.
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It goes on the table underneath your plate.
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And for these, I just fold them in half.
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There'll probably be a bunch of them because I usually grab all of our placemats at once and wash them all.
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Just a quick note, when we're talking about laundry,
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when we're talking about the whole process,
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washing it, drying it, folding it,
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putting it away, we say do the laundry.
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I need to do the laundry.
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This verb do is essential.
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You can't say I'm making the laundry, I'm having the laundry.
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You have to say I'm doing the laundry.
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Now for some of those other tasks,
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these are my workout shorts for working out, getting strong.
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For the individual tasks, we can say, I'm washing the clothes.
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I'm putting the clothes in the washing machine,
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which is what I have.
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Then after I take them out of the washing machine,
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I put them in the dryer because in the US,
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some people do hang their clothes,
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but I would say it's pretty rare.
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It's pretty rare.
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Yeah.
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It's pretty rare, especially for someone to hang all their clothes.
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And I know in some countries it's unheard of to actually use a dryer,
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but in the US it's really common.
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I know it's not good for energy and for the environment,
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but we use them all the time.
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And I think when you get in the habit of using a dryer,
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it's hard to break that habit, right?
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And when you have this much laundry,
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I just don't have time to hang it up,
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fold it, then it's all crinkly.
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When you put things in the dryer, they get soft.
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So it feels like, yeah,
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I don't need to iron them.
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It's just nicer.
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Sorry if that's really bad for the environment,
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but that's the way it is.
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These are some green placemats and these,
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this is my son's short sleeve shirt.
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We call this a t-shirt,
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a t-shirt or just a short sleeve shirt.
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These are, they have ripped off the lining on the outside,
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but these are some tie-dye washcloths that my children use.
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They were not originally tie-dye.
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We had some kind of tie-dye project and they tie-dyed them.
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So whenever I do laundry,
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there's three of them, I tie-dye them.
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You might be wondering, Vanessa,
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why do you not cut off this long string?
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It's because my kids love it.
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I don't know why.
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They play games with the,
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their bath toys with these strings.
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I don't even know.
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Sometimes kids find the strangest things to have fun with.
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So I leave it.
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And I'm sure someday when my kids are grown,
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I'll look back fondly on those silly things.
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All right.
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So what have we got left?
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Still a nice little pile here.
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This is my husband's colored shirt.
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So I would call that a short sleeve colored shirt
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and it gets hung up in the closet ideally so I will put it on the couch.
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These are some sweatpants, these are my husband's sweatpants and I will loosely fold those.
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We've got some more pjs for my kids.
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Usually for my kids because they're small,
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they're young, they can turn their clothes right side out,
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but I think if I do it while I'm doing the laundry,
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it kind of saves some hassle.
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I can imagine later when they're about to go to bed and they get their PJs and they're so tired,
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it's the end of the day,
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and then their PJs are inside out,
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like, oh, they're inside out.
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I can't put them on.
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If you are a parent, you know that situation.
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So I try my best for my kids' clothes,
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especially to turn them right side out.
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That's a fixed phrase you have to use altogether.
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I turn it or turn them right side out, right side out.
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I think I've said that a lot during this video.
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Like these, I will turn them right side out.
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Wow, we have quite an impressive stack of folded clothes already.
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And we're almost done.
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All right, this is my workout shirt.
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So we could say tank top.
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It's just a tank top.
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A tank top has no sleeves,
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kind of like this shirt.
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It's a tank top.
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It has no sleeves and it's because when I work out,
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I sweat a lot.
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These are also PJs, adult PJs for me.
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And now we are left with almost just socks.
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All right.
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So I have a skirt.
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This is my skirt and it's said on the tag,
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so you can read the tag and it says how to wash it.
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it said wash with cold water,
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but I don't have time for that.
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I wash everything altogether.
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I don't separate things by color.
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I don't separate delicate things from not delicate things.
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The only things I separate are generally towels,
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like big bath towels, or if I'm washing a little rug or something.
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I'll put that in separately,
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but if it's clothes, it's all going in together at the same time.
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I don't know.
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Do you separate clothes if you have to do laundry for your whole family?
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Are you dedicated and do you actually separate clothes?
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I know when I was growing up,
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I was taught, I don't know who taught me this because I don't even know if my parents did this,
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but I was taught you should have lights and darks.
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Maybe it's that nowadays we don't care for our clothes in the same way.
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Excuse me.
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It's another little bag and you can just throw them in the wash and they're clean.
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It's amazing.
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You can even throw them in the dishwasher and wash them.
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Yeah, I don't separate things lights and darks and maybe my clothes won't last as long.
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Maybe it damages my clothes,
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but some socks, but in the end,
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I would rather save the time.
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I don't have fancy clothes.
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Maybe that's it.
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If I had fancy clothes,
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then I would take more care to separate them, but I don't.
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All right, now we are left with this lovely pile of socks.
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Let's talk about how we,
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the expressions we use to talk about socks.
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And if you have made it this far into watching someone else fold laundry, congratulations.
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All right, so I have two socks that are a matching pair.
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Pair is the word that I would use for these socks,
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a pair of socks, and they are a matching pair.
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Hooray!
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Now, sometimes if my kids are around,
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right now two of my kids are at school and one is taking a nap,
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but if my kids are around,
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I do have them help me do the laundry,
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and sometimes it works out, sometimes it does not.
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Sometimes someone walks through all of the beautifully folded clothes,
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and it's a disaster, but I'm generally trying to also teach them how to fold things,
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how to separate.
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These are your clothes.
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These are his clothes.
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And I think in general,
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just helping kids learn chores is good.
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But if you are a parent and you have ever tried to teach children how to do chores,
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you will know that it is 10 times the amount of effort.
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Oh, I have so many unmatched socks.
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It is 10 times the amount of effort to teach your kids to do chores than to just do them.
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But in the long run,
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it's helpful to do it.
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So I try to teach my kids how to do chores whenever they're around.
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All right.
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We have purple, yellow, gray, blue, green, brown, blue.
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Oh, it's a different blue.
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Three of Dan's socks and three of my daughter's socks.
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bad news.
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Where did the rest of the socks go?
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Oh, I see.
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Oh, no, that's a dirty sock.
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Oh, I mismatched these.
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Okay.
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We have a brown sock.
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So I'm going to match these.
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And when I put them incorrectly together, I said mismatched.
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I mismatched the socks, but now they are correctly matched.
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All right.
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These ones, because they're my kids and my kids don't care
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if their socks are the same color I am just going to fold them together
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and they will not care I don't know
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if your kids care about this kind of stuff
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but for me my kids reach into the sock drawer grab whatever they want
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and put them on all right I have a bonus sock so it's just going to go in the drawer.
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These three socks are surprise.
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Oh, I found one.
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Well, those two socks need a matching pair.
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Their matching pair has been stolen by little elves somewhere.
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These three socks, my daughter doesn't care either.
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So I'll just put a yellow sock and a blue sock together.
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Who cares?
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And this sock is going to just have a little solo party.
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All right.
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Well, there we have it.
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All of the clothes are folded.
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The laundry baskets are empty.
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My job is still not done
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because I need to put all of these clothes back in my kid's room and my room.
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It's a big job to do the laundry,
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but thank you for joining me for this daily life task.
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I hope that it was somewhat enjoyable for you.
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I hope you could spend the last few minutes with me just immersed in English.
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Thank you so much.
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I want to know in the comments,
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how often do you do laundry and do you separate your laundry?
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Do you separate it lights and darks, delicates and not delicates?
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What do you do when you do the laundry?
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And like I mentioned before,
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I would like to give you the free PDF worksheet that goes with today's daily life English lesson.
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While I was talking about the laundry and just chit chatting,
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I used a lot of daily life vocabulary.
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All of those yellow words that you saw appear here will be in the PDF worksheet with their definitions,
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extra sample sentences, and in the PDF worksheet is the bonus audio.
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So you will be able to just click on the link in the PDF and boom,
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You will have the free downloadable audio of today's lesson so that you can listen to real life English wherever you are.
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To get the free PDF worksheet,
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just click on the link in the description,
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enter your name and email address,
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and voila, just like that,
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the free PDF worksheet plus downloadable audio will be in your email inbox.
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It is my gift to you.
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So thank you so much for learning English with me,
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and I'll see you again next Friday for a new lesson here on my YouTube channel.
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Bye.
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But wait, do you want more?
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I recommend watching this video next where you will join me
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in my kitchen where I bake a loaf of fresh bread and a little mystery drink.
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And you can also be immersed in daily life English and have a little fun.
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I'll see you there.
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重要な語彙とフレーズ
- inside out - 裏返しに
- right side out - 表返しに
- collared shirt - 襟付きシャツ
- hang up - かける
- laundry - 洗濯物
- fold - たたむ
- task - 仕事、作業
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