Shadowing Practice: ENGLISH VOCABULARY IN MY CAR - Learn English Speaking with Video

Hey guys, welcome to my channel and welcome to my Porsche.

Today we're going to talk about vocabulary associated with driving cars

and I'm going to teach you words that describe the inside of the car and outside of the car.

So first of all, when I'm in my car, I want to start it.

And I started by putting my key into the ignition

and in this particular model i also need to press the

brake pedal with the brake pedal you stop the car

so i press the brake pedal put my key into the ignition and start the car

this thing is called the steering wheel and i use it to turn left

and to turn right this thing here is called the stick shift

and i use it to either park my car to drive

or to drive backwards the thing is this car has automatic transmission this means

that the speed changes automatically so what i do here i press the brake pedal again

and i put this stick shift into the drive mode

and this way when i take my leg off the brake pedal the car starts moving

but we're not going to move because we're going to talk about other things

that we can see here in the car moved a little

so to prevent this kind of moving there is also another brake

that this car has it's called emergency brake

and in Porsches it's right here on the left

but in some cars there's an additional handle that you can engage

and this is called emergency brake candle now everything that's right here is called the dashboard and it has different gauges.

So it has diesel gauge for example because this car runs on diesel.

It has speedometer that shows the speed.

It also has the screen and all the buttons so you can turn on the air conditioning, you can turn on the radio,

you can turn on whatever you're connecting maybe an iPhone or whatever.

Another thing that we have here this glass in front of me is called windshield in the US.

And if it's raining, there are wipers.

I can also use wipers just to clean my windshield.

This mirror is called rear view mirror and I also have a rear view camera.

So whenever I'm driving backwards, I can use either the rear view mirror or the rear view camera.

When you have a glass It's actually called a moon roof in your car.

So, I don't know, well, we can guess where this word is coming from.

Moon roof is that, is when you just lay down

and enjoy the moon just by being in your car and looking upwards.

So this is called moon roof.

Let's talk about something non-technical.

So this is a cup holder.

We actually have two cup holders, but we use it for hand sanitizer and for bubble gum.

We also have a so-called glove compartment glove compartment.

Again, we don't have any gloves there.

We have a CD, we have a face cream, and we have some documents that relate to this Porsche.

By the way, some Americans say Porsche, which I think is really wrong because the car is produced in Germany, and in Germany you say Porsche.

If you press in the middle of the steering wheel, and I'm only going to do it once because we're in a residential neighborhood.

Here we go.

This is called horn.

Whenever you're driving, please make sure you're wearing a seatbelt.

So you can wear a seatbelt.

The process of putting the seatbelt on is called tightening the seatbelt.

So with this button, you activate emergency lights and all the lights start blinking.

And then if you want to open the window, you press the button that is called window power and the window goes down.

In the same way, it goes up.

This thing is called a visor.

A visor protects driver's eyes from direct sunlight.

And this one also has a mirror and a light.

So if we want to start driving I need to press the gas pedal.

By the way this is the passenger seat this is the driver's seat.

Now let's talk a little about what we have outside of our car.

So here we have our door and we have the door handle that helps us open and close the door.

This is our side

mirror so if you're a driver

and you look at the side mirror you see what's happening

on the left side of your car now my car also has a car seat for the baby

and it's a rear facing car seat because whenever Emily's here she's facing rear

and for all the infants

and all the small babies you have to have a rear

facing car seat in the US this is my car's trunk

and I can open it by pressing this button on the key.

Welcome to the trunk.

It's actually empty.

I like when my car is empty.

I like to have a lot of free space here.

And I'm closing it.

This right here is called a license plate.

In California, you're required to have two license plates, one in the back and one in the front.

They also give us these stickers that certify that we have paid our taxes and fees this year.

Of course every car has four wheels.

We have the wheel itself.

This is the whole construction but the black rubber thing here is a tire.

Sometimes that happened to me actually three times in my life.

You have a flat tire so whenever you hit something with your tire

and it goes flat Then it's called a flat tire

and then you just have to go to a car shop to fix it.

Now here we have our gas tank.

So I come to the gas station, I fuel my car and I close it.

Every car has a lot of lights.

So we're going to start with a brake light this light lits whenever the car is braking.

We also have indicator lights that lit whenever the headlight is on.

I'm going to show you the headlights so they indicate that the car is here.

Then we have signal lights that start flashing whenever we're turning right or left.

Now here we also have fog lights that lit

when the weather conditions are poor for example when it's raining

or when it's snowing

and you want just this extra attention for people who are driving behind you here we also have exhaust pipes

so whenever you're driving whenever the car is activated whatever the car is producing is coming from these pipes

and we also have a spare tire it's in the trunk but some cars would have it here underneath.

Here in the front of the car we have our hood and the engine is there all the technical details are there.

We also have our headlights and here they have two modes.

We can have our headlights in the high beam mode

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when it's very dark outside and we can't see and there is also a low beam mode.

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In the US for example we're required to have our headlights on on the low beam mode

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when we're driving in the evening.

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Now here, we also have, guess the name.

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I really like the name, because it really reminds me of a grill.

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This is called the radiator grill.

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Here we have a front plate and our bumper.

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This is our fog light, and this is our turn indicator light.

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And there is another indicator light on the side of our car.

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Now I'm gonna lock my car with my car key.

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