Shadowing Practice: Learn Real-Life English: Everyday Chores 🧺🧹 | Comprehensible Input - Learn English Speaking with Video
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- Yeah.
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Hello.
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Are you ready to improve your English?
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Well today you are inside of my garbage can and I am going to make you A video of comprehensible input.
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What is comprehensible input?
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Comprehensible input is when a native speaker like me speaks in a way that you can understand.
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I'm going to make a video showing you all of the chores.
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The chores that people do at their homes all around the world.
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But first, I have to take out the trash.
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Let's go.
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Thank you.
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Hey guys, it is your English speaking friend Kyle and today we've got a video full of important vocabulary.
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Today, I'm going to make you guys a video showing you something that we all have to do,
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But I think most of us don't really like doing.
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chores.
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What are chores?
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Chores are the things that you do around your house, to keep your house clean, to make sure that you have a nice place to live.
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But for most of us, it's not really a fun thing.
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People don't usually say, "Oh, I get to do chores today." No, it's more like, "Ugh." I have to do chores today,
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but it is an important part of daily life.
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So today I'm going to be showing you all the chores that we do around the house, how to say them in English.
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And I think that the camera wife is really going to love this video, because she's going to get to see me.
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doing chores.
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All right, this.
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is a vacuum cleaner.
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This is a vacuum cleaner guys.
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And you use a vacuum cleaner to vacuum.
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Okay?
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And what the vacuum cleaner does is it sucks.
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It sucks little pieces of dirt, animal hair, any little thing that's on your floor.
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The vacuum cleaner sucks those things up.
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It sucks them into here and then you can take this off
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and throw it away and get it off of your floor.
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So, So, The vacuum cleaner is for cleaning the floor.
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Now there's another thing that is for getting little things up off of your floor for cleaning your floor as well.
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That is a broom.
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This is called a broom and this is called a dustpan.
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and you use a broom to sweep, to sweep.
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So if they kind of do the same thing, when do you use a broom and when do you use a vacuum cleaner?
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Good question.
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So you can use a vacuum cleaner on a wood floor like this, a floor made out of wood,
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or on a rug or a carpet.
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This is a rug.
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The difference between a rug You put a rug down on the floor.
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A carpet covers the whole floor in the house or the room.
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So when you're trying to clean up the wood floor,
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you can use the broom and the dustpan and sweep it up to sweep to sweep up the dirt.
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Or you can use the vacuum cleaner.
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to vacuum up the dirt.
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But you cannot use a broom to sweep up a carpet.
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It doesn't work.
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So for that reason, you can use the vacuum cleaner.
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Camera wife's gonna love this.
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Right now, I am vacuuming our rug.
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I'm vacuuming our rug.
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Okay.
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Now, another thing that is very common when cleaning floors is to mop.
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This is called a mop and you use it
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to mop the verb is to mop the floor
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but camera wife does a very good job with
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that she already did it
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so i'm not gonna make a mess with a bunch of water
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and a mop just to show you guys but just know That's a mop.
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and you do not use a mop on rugs
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or carpets okay never mop your carpet all right guys if you have seen really any of my videos you know
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you know that I love, I love to cook.
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But the problem with cooking is that it makes one chore in your house a lot more difficult.
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Doing the dishes, cleaning the dishes, washing the dishes.
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There's a lot of ways to say it, but when we're talking about cleaning the dishes,
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the pots, the bowls, the glasses, spoons, we usually just say doing the dishes.
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have to do the dishes.
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All that means is that you're going to clean all of the things that you use to cook, and to eat.
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One tip, one way to use your chore time better is to listen listen to some English,
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or anything you want to learn about while you're doing your chores.
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That's something I always do.
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whenever I'm doing chores.
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Many times I've washed the dishes listening to a podcast in Spanish
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or French or about anything that I was trying to learn.
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So guys, use your time wisely.
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You'd be surprised how much that little bit of extra time can really make a difference.
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All right, guys.
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Now, To do dishes, you need soap, water, and some people use sponges, Some people use washcloths.
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We use this brush usually.
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and whenever the brush part gets dirty you can take it off and put a new one on.
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So we put a little bit of soap on the brush and then you brush the soap on, clean off any food that's on there, then you rinse it with water,
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then you've got a clean plate.
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Now some people wash their dishes and then dry them off with a towel very quickly,
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but we have this, this little rack over here, and you put the dishes standing up like this, and the water slowly,
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comes off of it and they dry just being out in the open in the air
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so that's pretty cool that's doing the dishes guys
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and unfortunately in this house because we cook
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so much we have a lot of dishes but i wouldn't change
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that for the world you guys saw the fast food video i made on that day there were no dishes
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but I did not feel good.
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So I'll keep doing the dishes.
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Well, to be honest, camera wife does more dishes than I do.
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I'm lucky.
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Alright guys, here I am and
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camera wife and my bedroom okay
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and as you can see the bed is a mess okay
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if camera wife comes home and sees
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that i left the bed like this she's gonna be mad she's gonna be so mad at me Just kidding guys. But...
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If your bed looks like this, there's a chore that you can do to make your bed look nice.
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Do you know what that chore is called?
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Making your bed.
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And this is how you make your bed.
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You put your pillows, your pillows up here where your head goes.
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This is called the comforter.
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This part is called a sheet and camera wife likes it when the sheet is nice and tight like this.
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I don't do it.
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And then you take the comforter, put it nice across the bed.
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All right, guys, there's probably ways to make your bed a lot nicer.
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Some people will do something like this.
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I don't really care that much about it.
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I think it looks okay like this.
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And I just am happy to come home after a hard day at work, have a nice clean bed to lay down in and sleep in.
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That's a made bed, okay?
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Making your bed.
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So you probably want to tell your children sometimes, hey, Go clean your room and make your bed.
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Make your bed.
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Guys, something interesting I want to say.
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There's a book about this that I saw before.
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It's...
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Something about making your bed is the title of the book, the importance of making your bed or something like that.
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But the idea is that when you make your bed right
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when you get up when you wake up in the morning
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if you start your day by making your bed your day will be much more organized much more ordered
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and I don't know I don't make my bed every day.
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But I have a wonderful partner who does help me
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so that's the cool thing about being married guys
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when you have your weaknesses your partner can help you
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and you can help them with their weaknesses to be a strong team together.
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Alright, now time to do some clothes.
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Do you guys know what this thing is called?
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I have no idea how to say this in any other language, so I'm sure that many of you do not know how to say this in English.
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This is called
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a clothes hamper but we usually just call it a hamper
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and you put your dirty clothes inside okay put your dirty clothes inside here
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so that you can carry them to your washing machine
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or wherever you clean your clothes so let's go check
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that out i'll show you all the vocabulary you need to
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know in order to clean your clothes chores chores chores all right guys we are down here in my basement
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of some houses that's underneath the main floor, okay?
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The main floor is where we were.
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We were up there where I showed you the vacuum, where I was sweeping the floor.
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That's above me right now.
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Right now we are down in the basement, okay?
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And we are down in the basement because that's where the washing machine and the dryer are in this house.
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So guys, washing machine.
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This is the washing machine.
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You open this, you open the lid, you put, what do they call this?
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Detergent.
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So you open the lid, you put some soap or some detergent in,
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close the lid, turn it start spinning around and washing your clothes.
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Now it's really cool that we have washing machines.
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If we didn't have washing machines it would be much more difficult to wash your clothes.
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You'd have to scrub and scrub and scrub in a a sink in your bathtub.
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I've heard of people doing their clothes in bathtubs
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and one time I had to do some laundry in a bathtub because the washing machine broke at my old house.
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So I know a lot of people still probably don't have these.
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around the world but I'm happy that we have one because I know doing laundry without having a washing machine,
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It's not very fun.
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So I'm using a word maybe you haven't heard before.
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Doing laundry.
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To do the laundry.
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Laundry is another word for your clothes.
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Cleaning your clothes.
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Doing the laundry.
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Doing the laundry is washing your clothes and then over here we have
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the dryer okay so the washing machine washes your clothes it cleans them
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and then you open this and This is called a dryer.
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You throw the clothes in there, turn it on, turn the button on, push the button and it starts spinning them and heating them,
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making them hot so that they dry off.
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That's why it's called a dryer because it dries your clothes.
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Unfortunately, guys, you can see that we have clothes hanging right here because the dryer at this new house, we just got this house not too long ago.
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Our dryer does not work.
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We need to get a new dryer, but dryers are expensive, so we haven't bought one yet.
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So right now we hang our clothes, let them air dry soon.
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when we have a little bit of extra money we'll get a new dryer
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so that camera wife can do the clothes
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and have it a little bit easier
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so guys that's doing laundry you wash your clothes in the washing machine
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if you're lucky enough to have one
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if not you wash them in a sink in the bathtub in a river wherever you have to do it
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and then you can you dry the clothes by putting them in a dryer if you're lucky enough to have one,
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or you hang them up and let them dry in the air.
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It's better to let them dry outside because of the wind, but they will also dry if you just hang them up like this just takes longer.
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So guys that's doing the laundry.
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Okay my friends so those are the chores that I can think of inside of the house.
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Now we're gonna go outside and do a couple chores out there
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but the first one is a chore that starts in the house and ends outside.
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taking out the garbage, taking out the trash.
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Okay, trash and garbage, they mean the same thing.
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You'll hear both of those words when people are talking about the things that they throw away.
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Okay, garbage, trash, it goes in the garbage can or in some countries they might say trash bin.
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All right, But here we call this a garbage can.
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And my garbage can is pretty full, so it's time for me to take out the garbage, take out the trash.
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So you take the garbage bag, then we go take it outside.
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Let's take out the trash.
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All right guys, taking out the garbage.
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This is the garbage can and it's common for there to be a garbage can for things like food, the nasty garbage, okay?
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And a lot of people here have recycling bins, which is just for plastic, paper, cardboard, and glass.
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And that is the one that I recorded the intro in.
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So don't worry, that one is much cleaner.
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And I set it up to where my camera doesn't touch anything nasty.
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So just in case you guys were thinking, oh, this guy's gross.
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I made sure to do that opening shot.
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as clean as I possibly could.
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So we take the garbage out, we put in these garbage cans, and once every week a garbage truck will come and pick it up.
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So on that day we have to take the cans
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out to the front of the house by the street
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and we'll call that taking the garbage up
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or putting the cans out front for the garbage truck something like
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that all right guys here we are in my backyard your backyard is the Space.
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outside of your house, in the back of your house.
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I have a pretty good sized backyard and I love it because Connor can run around.
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We could come out here and cook food on my grill.
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It's a very nice space, but it's pretty big and there is...
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A lot of grass.
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And that brings me to the last chore that we're going to talk about today.
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cutting the grass, okay?
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Now there's different ways to say this, cutting the grass, mowing the lawn.
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That is my lawn mower, okay?
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and it's green because it's electric.
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I thought I would.. do good and buy an electric lawn mower and it would work great.
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But it doesn't really work that good guys because the battery dies very quickly.
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So having a big yard like this, an electric lawn mower is not very good.
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But that's called a lawn mower and you use a lawn mower to mow your lawn.
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or cut your grass.
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So I'm going to start up my lawnmower.
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and mow my lawn or cut my grass.
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So some people really enjoy mowing their lawn, taking nice care of their yard, and I enjoy that too, to make my yard look nice.
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So my family has somewhere nice to be outside.
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but it can be hot.
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and it takes a long time
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with this big yard and especially when I have to keep on charging my battery on my lawn mower.
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So I'm going to go ahead and charge.
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I'm going to go ahead and cut my grass.
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But the one thing I do like about this
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this chore is that one you can listen to something you can listen to a podcast
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or something on headphones while you do it but you also get exercise
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and you can see i'm getting sun which is very good for your body and your brain.
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So guys, I'm going to cut my grass real quick.
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And then I have one last thing I want to share with you guys before we end this video.
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See you in a minute.
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All right, guys.
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It's kind of hot out there.
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I just finished mowing my lawn or cutting my grass.
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Either of those means the same thing.
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To cut your grass or to mow your lawn.
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So my lawn or my yard, which both pretty much means the same thing.
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Your lawn is like the grass and the trees and stuff.
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Your yard is just the space out there.
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outside of your house.
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So my yard is looking pretty good now.
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I'm happy.
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My family has a nice place to be outside.
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My son, Loves to go out there and run around.
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So anyway, chores are done.
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I got some exercise.
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I got some sun.
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Now I just want to share something with you guys because I'm excited about it.
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Let's see, as I'm recording this, it is August 21st, okay?
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And August 28th is my birthday.
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I will be 34 years old and we're going to do something cool to celebrate my birthday.
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We're going to go on a little trip, a little vacation, just a small one, three days.
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And we're not leaving the country, but we're going to see something.
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beautiful, absolutely stunning that is here in the United States.
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We are going to fly from Chicago, close to where I live,
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we're going to fly to Colorado, a state called Colorado.
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And there's something in Colorado that is one of the most beautiful.
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places in all of the United States, one of the natural wonders of my country.
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and I have never seen it.
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the Rocky Mountains.
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Guys, I cannot wait.
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We're going to see incredible lakes like this.
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This is a famous lake called Bear Lake.
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We're going to see the mountains.
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We're going to rent a car and drive.
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way up high into the mountains
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and I have a lot of things I want to do there and I'm going to make some awesome videos.
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I'm thinking I might wait to make my questions and answer video.
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for when we're there because that way it'll give you guys a few days to post good questions for me
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and I could record the questions and answers video with an incredible view behind me.
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I might just do that because I want to make a bunch of content while we're there.
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So in a week, it will be my birthday.
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I'll be 20 or 24.
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I wish I'll be 34 years old and we'll be seeing something incredible.
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Me, camera wife and my son are going to go explore a beautiful part of my country.
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I'm going to show you guys what it looks like too.
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Just wanted to share that with you because I'm excited and I wanted you guys to know
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We've got some awesome content coming up here on the channel.
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So my friends, I hope that you learn some useful vocabulary here about chores.
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You know, it's not something super fun, but it's something that we do pretty much every day.
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So if you're going to live your life in a new language, you've got to know these things.
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Thank you all for all your support.
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for leaving me your nice comments, for watching my videos, for spending your valuable time with me.
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I appreciate every single one of you.
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See you in the next video, my friends.
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Why practice speaking with this video?
Practicing your English speaking skills by engaging with real-life contexts, such as everyday chores, can significantly enhance your fluency and comprehension. This video, featuring the speaker Kyle, is a perfect example of comprehensible input, where a native English speaker articulates common household tasks. By shadowing this video, you can improve your pronunciation and gain familiarity with daily vocabulary like "vacuum cleaner" and "broom." This method supports learners at all levels, making it an effective choice for those who want to learn English with YouTube and refine their speaking abilities.
Grammar & Expressions in Context
Throughout the video, several key grammatical structures and expressions come into play, providing valuable templates for your own speech:
- Present Simple for Habitual Actions: Kyle uses the present simple tense to describe what people do regularly, such as “I have to take out the trash.” This structure is central to discussing routines and chores.
- Imperatives for Instructions: Kyle often uses the imperative mood, evident in expressions like “let’s go” and “show you.” This direct form is useful for giving commands or making suggestions.
- Comparative Questions: When comparing a broom and vacuum cleaner, he poses questions like “When do you use a broom and when do you use a vacuum cleaner?” These questions encourage learners to think critically and engage with the material.
Utilizing these structures will enrich your vocabulary and enhance your ability to articulate daily tasks, preparing you well for scenarios like IELTS speaking practice.
Common Pronunciation Traps
As you practice with this video, pay attention to some challenging pronunciation aspects that could trip you up:
- Chores: This word is often mispronounced; aim for the correct pronunciation to sound more natural.
- Vacuum: Many learners struggle with the "v" sound at the beginning. Practice this word in isolation before incorporating it into sentences.
- Broom: The "r" sound in "broom" can be difficult for non-native speakers. Make sure to practice this in the context of related phrases to gain confidence.
By focusing on these tricky words and sounds, you'll find your ability to engage in day-to-day conversations improving, bringing you closer to mastering English fluency. Using a shadowing app or participating on a shadowing site can further enhance your practice.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is called |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | have seen · I've washed · I've heard |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | bins, which is · sun which is |
| Verb + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — verbs that are followed by the -ing form | start spinning · starts spinning · enjoy mowing |
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.