Shadowing Practice: Let's Learn English! Topic: Everyday Verbs! ๐๐๐ - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Well, hello and welcome to this English lesson about everyday verbs.
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As you go through your day, there are verbs that you will need to know to describe the actions that you do.
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And the things that you do throughout the day.
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Kind of go from morning until night.
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My lesson though is a little more random.
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As I thought of things, I added them to the list, but it doesn't really go from morning until evening.
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Some of these are related to your daily routine, but I have lessons on that in the past.
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So these are some other common verbs that are kind of about your daily routine.
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And some might be new for you.
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I, I chose some that are common but maybe not familiar to all of you.
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So once again, welcome to this English lesson about everyday verbs.
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I think you will enjoy it.
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To roll out of bed.
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So you can see how I've chosen a phrase here.
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I could say to wake up or to get up.
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Those are the common one.
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But this is a more fun way to talk about it and it's not uncommon.
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Like this morning I rolled out of bed at 6.
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I was up very, very early.
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Usually I don't roll out of bed until 7 or 7:15 lately.
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But when you use this phrase, it's kind of a more interesting way to say that you got up.
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So when you roll something, like if you roll a ball, it goes like this.
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And we also use the same words to describe getting out of bed in the morning.
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So what time do you of bed?
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You would respond by saying, oh, I usually roll out of bed around 6:30 or 7 or 8.
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If you sleep that long.
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I'm not sure how long all of you sleep, but to roll out of bed, to get up, to crawl into bed.
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So like I said, this lesson isn't perfect.
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It doesn't go from morning until evening.
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But you can also at night crawl into bed.
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So when I'm really tired, sometimes I crawl into bed at 9:30.
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The one time a couple weeks ago I craw bed at 9:00pm I normally don't go to bed until 10 or 10:30, sometimes 11:00.
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But if I'm really tired, I might crawl into bed earlier than later.
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You also sometimes use this phrase when you're sick.
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You might say, oh, I called in sick and then I just crawled back into bed because I didn't feel well.
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So to crawl into bed means the same as to go to bed at night to look for.
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So I thought this was a good one.
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In terms of everyday verbs, I'm not sure what your life is like, but I often have to look for things in the morning.
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Sometimes I have to look for my Fitbit.
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My wedding ring is the thing that I like.
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I don't lose.
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But I have to look for this because I put it on a different part of my desk over there all the time.
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And sometimes papers get moved around and I can't find my wedding ring.
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But you might look for your wallet, you might look for your keys, you might look for your watch, you might look for your phone, you might look for your wedding ring if you're married.
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Sometimes during the day you have to look for something because you don't know where it is.
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And then of course, we have the simple verb to lose.
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Sometimes you have to look for something because you lost it.
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That's the past tense.
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I don't like to lose things.
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But sometimes I will again lose my wedding ring on my desk over there.
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What else have I lost lately?
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At school, I made a set of tests for the students and then for some reason I was able to lose them.
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I, I didn't know where they were, so I lost them and I had to look for them.
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So. So a common thing for me at least is that sometimes you will lose things to flip.
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We have a few food related ones here and I tried to pick ones different than to cook or to fry or to bake.
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When you make eggs in a pan, you can see that this person is going to flip the egg.
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You can see the egg closest to me was already flipped.
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So past tense.
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But he's using a spatula and he is going to flip egg or she is going to flip the egg with the spatula.
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There are many things that we make that we need to flip.
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Maybe you're making pierogies in a frying pan and you need to flip them.
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Maybe you're making pancakes and you need to flip them.
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When one side is done cooking, you flip that item so that it can cook on the other side to butter.
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Now, I'm not sure if you eat bread or toast sliced like this.
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Depending on where you're from, you might eat pitas or you might tear your bread, other things.
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But here in North America, we often eat our bread sliced.
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And then usually we butter our bread.
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So we put on either butter or margarine.
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Margarine looks like butter, but it's made from oil.
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And we use that to butter our bread.
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Now it's interesting.
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When you use butter, then you will get some butter and you will butter your bread.
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When you use margarine, you will also Butter your bread.
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The verb stays the same even though what you are using changes.
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So you might put bread in the toaster.
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Oh, wrong slide.
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You might put bread in the toaster to toast it, and then you might butter it in the morning to scramble.
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Well, this is another way to make eggs.
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You can see that this person, instead of making an egg that's easy over, over easy.
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Sorry, I get that one wrong.
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Sometimes, they've decided to scramble their eggs.
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Scrambled eggs.
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That happens when you mix the egg up in the pan with the spatula and you mix the egg white with the egg yolk in order to make what we call scrambled eggs.
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So sometimes you decide to scramble your eggs.
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You decide that you want them to look like this.
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I enjoy scrambled eggs.
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They're quite tasty.
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And then this was the slide I was trying to jump to, to toast.
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So you will toast your bread in the toaster.
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Maybe you don't like bread.
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Maybe the bread isn't really fresh.
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Sometimes it's nice to toast the bread, and then it becomes toast as a noun.
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And then you will butter the toast and then eat it with your breakfast.
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Really, really yummy.
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Really, really enjoyable.
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And then you might brew some coffee.
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I don't do this anymore.
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Years ago, I used to brew coffee every morning.
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I would put on a pot of coffee.
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That's another way of saying it.
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Or I would make coffee.
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You can use the simple verb to make.
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By the way, make works for a lot of things, like you can make eggs, you can make toast, you can make coffee, you can make tea.
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But sometimes we use a more specific verb for variety.
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So it's nice to smell fresh brewed coffee in the morning.
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It has a very, very nice smell.
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So you might make tea, you might brew some coffee.
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You would do all of the things you do to start your day.
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To walk the dog, to feed the dog.
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Now, you can adjust this.
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If you walk your cat, you could say, usually you walk your cat, but mostly people will walk the dog.
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They'll walk their dog.
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Often when a family has a do, one of the kids will be in charge of walking the dog every day.
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So if you have a pet, you need to take care of the pet.
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If it's a dog, you will walk the dog.
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If it's another pet, you will definitely need to feed it.
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So you need to feed the fish in the aquarium, you need to feed the cat, you need to feed the dog, you need to feed the.
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What other pets do people have?
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You need to feed the bird.
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Maybe you Have a parrot.
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Maybe you have.
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I'm trying to think.
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Maybe you have a horse.
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You need to feed the horse.
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If you have animals, you need to take care of the animals.
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One of the things you would need to do is you need to feed that animal.
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So for us, it's Jen that does this.
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Jen will feed the dog and feed the cats, feed the dogs and feed the cats so that they have something to eat.
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It's not a cute dog.
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Thought that was a nice dog.
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You might need to pack a lunch.
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I don't like to buy food at work.
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I can buy food at work instead.
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I like to pack a lunch.
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I usually take cucumbers, a banana, a small sandwich.
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I think it's just better, it's healthier and cheaper if I pack a lunch.
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So when you pack a lunch, it means in the morning you get out different kinds of food and you either put it into containers, you wrap it in plastic, and then you take it with you to school or take it with you to work.
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So a very common thing for most people to do is to pack a lunch.
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This person has decided to make a traditional sandwich.
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It looks like it has cheese and lettuce.
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There's probably a bit of meat on there.
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Maybe they buttered the bread before, but they are making what looks like a fairly yummy lunch.
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It just needs a banana, little thing of cucumbers, to head out.
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So when you are done getting ready in the morning, eventually you will head out.
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So in today I'm going to head out at around 9:35, I'm going to finish this lesson and then I'm going to head out around 9:35.
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If Jen said when are you leaving for work?
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I would say I'm going to head out at 9:35.
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So I'll probably talk to Jen for a little bit when this live stream is over and then I will head out for work.
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And then you come home from work.
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So at the end of the day I will come home from work.
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So notice these are a little more complex.
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Like I head out to work, I come home from work.
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It's more than just saying I returned from work.
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We don't often say that he left for work.
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We might say and he came home from work.
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That would both in the past tense there.
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So to come home, I like to come home right away when I'm done work.
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It's nice to come home really is, to run out and get.
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So this is, this is a bit of a mouthful Let me say it again.
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To run out and get.
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Sometimes you need to run out and get something.
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Maybe you need to run out and get some milk.
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You need to run out and get some groceries.
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You need to run out and get water.
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We are out of water and we've pick up water in town.
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So I need to.
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Someone needs to run out and get water today.
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It's on my list.
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But when you run out and get something, it, it's like you're doing something quickly.
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Maybe. So it's kind of interesting.
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When you run out of milk, you have to run out to get milk or run out and get milk.
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So I kind of used it in two different ways there.
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When you run out of something, you don't have any left.
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And then you need to run out and get that thing.
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A good example would be toilet paper.
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If you run out of toilet paper, as in you have none.
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Someone in the house or apartment needs to run out and get toilet paper to get dressed to get undressed.
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So when you are getting ready for work, one of the things you need to do is you need to get dressed.
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At the end of the day when you get home from work, you might get undressed, you might decide to undress and put on more comfortable clothes, or you might undress before you go to bed and put on pajamas or whatever you sleep in.
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So they're kind of again, two sides of the same thing.
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So you get dressed and then you, you can also say you get undressed.
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By the way, I should have taught both.
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So I can. Yeah, when I, When I put on clothes, I say I get dressed.
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When our kids were little, we would dress our children.
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So you don't use the get.
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The get implies that I'm doing it.
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So I get dressed every morning.
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In the past tense, I could say I got dressed at 6:30 this morning after I had a shower.
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And then you can also undress or get undressed.
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Both will work just as well.
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So there's a phrase to get ready and I'm going to teach it in general as well.
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But you can get ready for bed, you can get ready for work, you can get ready.
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When people are coming over, you can get ready, which means you're cleaning the house and getting everything in the spot it's supposed to be.
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This lady has decided to get ready for lunch or to get ready for supper.
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A very general phrase that we use to talk about what we do just before something else.
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So when I'm done this livestream, I need to get ready for work, I need to find my laptop, I need to find my phone, I need to find my keys.
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It's a general term.
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You can also get ready for bed.
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So at the end of the day, you can get ready for bed so that you can have a good night's sleep.
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So you brush your teeth, you go to the washroom or bathroom.
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Say washroom because I'm Canadian, but definitely we use this phrase a lot.
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When Jen goes to market, before she leaves, she needs to get ready for market.
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When my kids go to school, they need to get ready for school.
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So it's the act of preparing to do something.
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You get ready to do that thing to lock, to unlock.
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Now, there might be a time where you lock your car.
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There might be a time where you unlock your car.
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You might lock your front door when you leave.
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You might unlock your front door when you come home.
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We use lock and unlock for a variety of things.
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When you go to the gym, you might lock your locker.
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You might have a locker in the change room, and then you will unlock it when you're done working out.
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You might have a gate in front of your house, and you might lock the gate when you leave and unlock the gate when you come home again.
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You can see the little pictures on here of an actual lock.
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This is called a fob or key fob for a car.
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When you press lock, your car might go beep, beep.
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And when you press unlock, you might just hear it click.
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But this is what you might do several times a day.
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When I leave, if I'm the last one to leave, I lock the house, I unlock my van to get in my van.
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When I get to school, I get out of my van, and I will lock my van.
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And then at the end of the day, I will unlock my van, and then I will go home and unlock the door and go into the house to start to turn off.
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It's weird how we use not quite the matching verbs.
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When you get in your vehicle, you start your vehicle.
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Someone might say, hey, start the car so the car can warm up.
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In the winter, we will often start our car earlier in the day.
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So you push a button or you turn the key to start your car, and then when you're done driving, you turn off your car.
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So I'm assuming this person is going to turn off their car because the green lights already on.
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So I'm assuming the car is running.
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But yes, you will unlock your car, get in your car, and then you will start Your car.
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Then you will, of course, drive your car.
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And I didn't include a slide for that.
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And then you will off your car.
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So you don't turn on your car, but you do turn off other things.
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So let me explain this.
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You turn on your tv, you turn on your computer, you turn on the stove.
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I need to turn the stove on.
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You turn on.
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I'm trying to think of other things you would turn on.
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Turn on your laptop.
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Turn. Why is my camera not working?
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You need to turn it on.
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So when you turn something on, it means that you.
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It has power and it comes to life, so to speak.
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You can see in the background, it's a bit blurry.
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When you turn on the tv, it lights up and it starts to work.
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And then you can turn off your tv, you can turn off your computer, you can turn off the radio, you can turn off many, many things.
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To head home.
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I should have put this slide earlier in the lesson.
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Probably when you are done work, you can head home.
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So we had head out.
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So in the morning, I will head out to work.
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And when I'm done work, I will head home.
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We use the verb to head to mean going in a certain direction.
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Okay, So I could head to Toronto.
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I can head home.
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I can head to the grocery store.
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It means you are going somewhere.
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It means that you are in one place and you're going to walk or drive somewhere else.
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So after work, want to head home.
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But I have to head to the grocery store to get some cheese, and then I have to head to the water filling station to get water.
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So you can use to head to be.
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It's the same as to go, really?
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And then to grab.
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This is a universal verb in English.
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If my car was broken, I could grab an Uber.
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In order to get to work, When I go to the grocery store, I need to grab some cheese.
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At work, I need to go to the photocopier to grab the thing that I printed out.
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Let me see.
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You can also say to someone, do you want to grab lunch?
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Do you want to go to the pizza place and grab a slice of pizza?
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This is a very, very common and useful word.
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So before this lesson, I grabbed a cup of water.
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I grabbed some water so that I could take a sip when I needed to.
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Before I leave for work, I will grab my phone.
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Before I go to buy hay, I will grab some money.
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Here's some Canadian money for your viewing pleasure.
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There's like a huge $50 bill here.
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Hay is expensive, by the way.
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I'm not sure if you knew this, but our money in Canada.
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Off topic here, but.
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Oh, not really.
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You might need to grab some money before you head out.
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Yeah, our money in Canada is all different colors and it has like a special plastic strip in it that makes it hard to counterfeit.
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But the verb to grab, very, very common.
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When you go on a trip, you want to make sure you grab your camera before you leave so that you have it with.
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Why practice speaking with this video?
Engaging with everyday verbs is essential for building a strong foundation in English, and this video offers an excellent opportunity to learn English with YouTube. Practicing these verbs enhances your ability to describe daily actions, which is invaluable for effective communication in everyday situations. By shadowing the speaker, you will not only increase your vocabulary but also improve your fluency and confidence in speaking. Shadowing involves listening and simultaneously mimicking the speaker, allowing you to internalize the rhythm and intonation of English speech, which is crucial for english speaking practice. Furthermore, such an approach allows you to absorb the natural flow of language, making your speech more authentic.
Grammar & Expressions in Context
In the transcript, several key expressions stand out:
- To roll out of bed: This idiom adds color to common phrases like โto wake upโ or โto get up.โ It provides a fun and relatable way to discuss morning routines, inviting you to try using it in your conversations.
- To crawl into bed: This phrase describes a gentle way of getting into bed, often used when someone is very tired. This expression not only conveys information but also adds emotional context.
- To look for: This simple verb phrase is vital for discussing actions involving searching or retrieving items. In practical situations, you might say, โI need to look for my keysโ or โCan you help me look for my book?โ
- To lose: Understanding how to use the verb โto loseโ in various contextsโespecially its past tense usageโcan refine your communication and help express past experiences effectively.
Each of these expressions helps immerse you in the language, making daily conversations more meaningful and relatable.
Common Pronunciation Traps
As you practice your shadow speech, pay attention to these tricky words and potential pronunciation challenges:
- Look for: The connected speech in this phrase may lead to a pronunciation trap. Make sure to practice blending these words properly, emphasizing the "l" sound in "look" and the transition to "for."
- Crawl into: The blend of sounds in this phrase can be tricky. Focus on clearly pronouncing the โcrโ and โlโ sounds to enhance clarity.
- Wedding ring: This term may pose challenges for non-native speakers, especially in fluid conversation. Ensure to stress both syllables lightly to maintain a natural rhythm.
By improving your pronunciation through these common hurdles, you can improve English pronunciation and make your speech more intelligible while engaging in everyday conversations. Utilize the techniques demonstrated in this video and embrace the opportunity to enhance your language skills effectively!
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb โ a condition and its result | If it's a dog, you will walk ยท If it's another pet, you will definitely |
| Passive voice be + past participle โ the focus is on what happens, not who does it | are related ยท was already flipped ยท is done |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle โ a past action that still matters now | I've chosen ยท they've decided ยท has decided |
| Possibility with โmight / mayโ might/may + verb โ something that is possible but not certain | might be ยท might crawl ยท might say |
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 โ like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1โ2 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 โ making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.