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The mixer tap.
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Brilliant invention, and yet something that seems to have passed Britain by.
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You'll get Americans coming over here and asking why our taps look like they're from the 1940s.
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And even here, in my parents' bathroom, I'm visiting my folks this weekend, and I just have a new bathroom put in.
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Separate hot and cold taps.
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And there are all sorts of theories out there about why that might be, generally revolving around that we're British and stiff upper lip, and, you know, we don't need mixer taps, we've never had them and,
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well, that's partly true, but it also goes back to how houses in Britain were constructed after World War II.
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In most old British houses, there's a cold -water storage tank up in the attic.
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It's reasonably sized, about 250 litres, and that, in turn, feeds a hot -water storage tank that's for the central heating
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and for hot water in the bathroom and the kitchen and so on.
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But the trouble is, that might not be entirely safe drinking water, because that cold water storage tank, in some houses that weren't properly maintained,
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might have been open to the elements, or silted up, or covered with iron rust, or in one particular case that you can read about, have a couple of dead rats floating in it.
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That water might technically not be drinkable, and under the regulations it is not counted as drinking water.
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The cold, meanwhile, at least certainly in the kitchen and sometimes the bathroom too, that cold water comes straight from the mains.
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That counts as drinkable.
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So here's the thing, you have cold, safe, the regulations call it wholesome drinking water, and you have, well, almost certainly safe,
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but not technically, not legally under the regulations, hot water.
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And never the twain shall meet.
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If you have a mixer tap, then technically, the unsafe hot water, in worst -case scenario where there's a backwash valve failure and the mains turns off,
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that unsafe water could go back, backwash through all the systems and go out to contaminate the rest of the street or the rest of the water system.
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That's not legal, therefore, no mixer tap.
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You don't cross the streams.
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Nowadays, of course, it's a little bit different.
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This house had its hot water tank ripped out a few months ago.
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The attic is now just a big empty space again.
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And, well, there's a very modern, shiny bit of technology downstairs that heats up water on demand.
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All new -build houses, go this way, they've got mixer taps, it'll be absolutely fine.
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But, I remember being told as a kid, never drink from the hot water tap.
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And that stuck with me.
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Even now, if there is a mixer tap and I want to drink from it, I will run the cold water for a few seconds, just to make sure that anything that's unsafe has come out of it.
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Even now, old habits die hard, and sometimes these things just feel a bit safer.
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Thank you.
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이 레슨의 어휘와 말하기 포인트

이 B2 수준 말하기 레슨은 영상 “Why Britain Uses Separate Hot and Cold Taps”을(를) 바탕으로 합니다. 가장 자주 반복되는 단어는 다음과 같습니다: tap, cold, hot, mixer, bathroom. 이 영상에는 섀도잉할 문장 32개와 단어 510개가 있습니다. 말하는 구간의 길이는 2:49입니다. 화자는 분당 약 181단어로 빠르게 말하므로 연음과 약하게 발음되는 소리가 많습니다. 단어의 83%가 영어에서 가장 많이 쓰이는 3,000단어에 속합니다. 나머지는 연습 전에 미리 확인해 두세요.

이 영상의 핵심 어휘

영상에서 가장 어려운 단어 12개를 발음, 뜻과 함께 정리했습니다.

단어발음뜻
mixer 명사/ˈmɪksə(ɹ)/믹서
technically 부사/ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/이론상, 이론적(理論的)으로
attic 명사/ˈætɪk/다락방
litre 명사/ˈli.tɚ/리터
downstairs 부사/daʊnˈstɛɹz/아래층에, 아래층으로
rust 명사/ɹʌst/녹, 록
stiff 형용사/stɪf/딱딱한
invention 명사/ɪnˈvɛnʃən/발명
nowadays 부사/ˈnaʊ.ə.deɪz/요즘
valve 명사/ˈvælv/밸브
rat 명사/ɹæt/쥐
scenario 명사/sɪˈnɛəɹioʊ/각본, 대본

영상에 나오는 구동사

단어뜻
go back 동사돌아가다
turn off 동사끄다, 턴오프하다

주의할 발음

화자는 don't, I'm, it'll 같은 축약형과 약화된 형태를 10번 사용합니다. 들리는 대로 짧게 발음하세요.

  • “sh”와 “zh” 소리: backwash /ˈbæk.wɑʃ/, invention /ɪnˈvɛnʃən/
  • 긴 단어 — 강세 위치에 주의: technically /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/, contaminate /kənˈtæmɪneɪt/, reasonably /ˈɹiː.zən.ə.bli/

이 영상으로 연습하는 방법

  1. 먼저 말하지 않고 영상을 끝까지 듣고 모르는 단어를 적어 둡니다.
  2. 0.75배속으로 한 문장씩 섀도잉을 시작하고, 익숙해지면 보통 속도로 돌아갑니다.
  3. 자신의 목소리를 녹음해 원본과 비교하고, mixer, technically, attic 같은 단어에 특히 주의합니다.

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