Shadowing Practice: Reading for Vocabulary WORD | Level A | Lesson 02 | Brian Stuart I ( Learn English ) - Learn English Speaking with YouTube
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Here we have we brush our teeth with this.
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Here we have we brush our teeth with this.
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We have the picture, not the toothbrush, right?
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That's a toothbrush.
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We're not talking about the toothbrush.
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We're talking about this here.
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What is this?
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What's that stuff?
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We put it on our toothbrush and we brush.
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Chiki-chiki-chaka-chaka-choko-choko, right?
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We brush our teeth with this.
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What do we call it?
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We call it toothpaste.
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Toothpaste.
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Paste is the material that we use to brush our teeth.
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Toothpaste.
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Two words.
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We put it together.
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So this is toothpaste that we put on the toothbrush and we brush our teeth with it.
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Toothpaste.
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Okay, next one.
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We already saw this word, right?
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We just saw this a little bit ago.
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The yellow fruit.
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Yellow fruit.
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It's a fruit because it has seeds in it.
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The yellow fruit that tastes sour.
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Right?
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Lemons taste sour.
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It means, right?
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It's not a really good taste.
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It's not sweet.
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We put sugar in it to make it sweet and we like lemons then,
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but it's a sour taste.
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And what did I say?
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I just said lemon.
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These are lemons.
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So if you have many lemons,
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right, you have many yellow fruits.
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It's yellow fruit that tastes sour.
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Okay, our next word, that's an interesting picture.
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It's the liquid.
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Liquid is like water, right?
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Water inside a bottle.
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that girls use to smell nice.
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So girls like to smell nice.
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They smell so nice, right?
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Usually girls use this thing to smell nice.
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It's made of flowers, many different types of flowers.
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What do we call it?
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We call it perfume.
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Perfume.
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Perfume.
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So we have P, then we have F.
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Be careful because P is P, P.
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F is F, F.
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Do you see the difference?
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P, your lips are together, P.
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F, your lips are not together.
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Your teeth are on your bottom lip, F, F.
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So, perfume.
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Perfume.
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Perfume.
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Perfume is liquid that girls use to smell nice.
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Right?
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They put perfume on their bodies.
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Okay.
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Next one.
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We have another liquid.
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It's also a liquid.
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We cook food in this.
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So we pour this on the pan and put food in there and we cook it.
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We heat it up very hot and we cook food in this.
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What is it?
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It's very slippery, right?
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We call it oil, oil, oil, right?
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Oil, O-I, O-I, oil, oil.
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So we say that this is oil.
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Your mom uses oil to cook in.
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and we call that cooking oil.
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Cooking oil.
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There's many types of oil,
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but when we cook food in it,
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we call it cooking oil.
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Cooking oil.
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Okay.
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What's this here?
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This is very strong, right?
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We can tie it to one place and pull with it.
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A strong line we tie.
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Tie, right?
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Can you tie a rope to something?
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Can you tie your shoes, your shoelaces together?
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You tie something together.
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You tie to things.
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Of course, I just said it.
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It is a rope.
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A rope is very thick, right?
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We call that a rope.
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This is a rope.
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And we tie it to things and we can pull, right?
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So, rope, rope.
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Okay.
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The next word here, we talked about this before, right?
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This is something that you wash with.
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When you wash your face, right?
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You get a little bit on your hand or your cloth,
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and you put it on your face,
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and you wash your face with it.
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When you wash your hands,
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you take this in your hands,
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and you wash your hands with this.
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It helps make your hands very clean.
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If you just use water, that's not so good.
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It's better if you use soap.
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Soap.
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Use soap to wash your hands.
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By the way, it's very interesting.
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You can see here it says 100% vegetal.
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That's a different language.
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It's not English, but it means 100% vegetable.
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This soap is made from vegetables.
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It's very natural soap.
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100% vegetables.
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We use vegetables to make soap.
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Are you hungry?
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Whoa, I'm hungry.
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Just looking at this.
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Whoa, it looks really good.
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Ah, mashita, right?
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This is what we eat to get energy.
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We want energy.
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Sometimes we get tired.
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It's been a long day.
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But if we eat something, we get more energy.
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This looks very delicious.
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What is it?
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It's food.
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Food.
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Food.
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Okay?
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And, by the way, there's two types of food, right?
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This, these are all plants.
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We get this from plants.
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This is meat.
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Meat.
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We get that from animals.
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So, there's two types of food, right?
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Vegetables are plants and meats.
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These are food.
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We eat them to get energy.
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Food.
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Okay.
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Here we have an interesting plant.
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This is a plant with a fresh smell.
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Smells very fresh.
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And it tastes fresh.
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It tastes very fresh.
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It's really good.
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Sometimes we have this in ice cream.
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Sometimes they put it into hot chocolate, right?
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It makes the hot chocolate taste fresh or good.
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It makes our ice cream taste good.
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What is it?
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It is mint.
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Mint.
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So you know mint ice cream,
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like mint chocolate chip ice cream.
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Wow, really good, right?
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It's green.
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Mint hot choco.
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Don't say hot choco, say hot chocolate.
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Mint hot chocolate.
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If we put mint in it, it tastes fresh.
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It tastes fresh.
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It's very good.
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So we put mint in food sometimes,
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but we also use mint for other things, like perfume, soap, toothpaste.
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If you have mint toothpaste,
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for example, it tastes fresh and it smells fresh.
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Mint.
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Okay, what's our next word?
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We talked about lemons before.
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We talked about lemons before.
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But this is a drink with a lemon flavor.
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A drink with a lemon flavor.
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And you can see lemon is here.
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But this is a drink.
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So we put lemons in,
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we put sugar and water.
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Mmm, it's very delicious.
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What is it?
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It's called, big word, lemonade.
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If you say it quickly, it sounds like lemonade.
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So this is very delicious, right?
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If it's hot on a summer day,
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I'm very hot, drink some cold lemonade.
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It's very refreshing.
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It tastes good.
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So it's a drink with a lemon flavor.
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We say lemonade.
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Okay, the next one.
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Ah, this looks good, right?
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Are you hungry?
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I was hungry before.
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Now I see this.
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I'm hungry again.
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this is a long it's long yellow this is the color of yellow.
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This is green, this is yellow.
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Yellow is this color here,
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yellow vegetable that has a green skin.
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So this is yellow, this is green.
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The skin is green and then you pull back the skin underneath, it's yellow.
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It's yellow and there are many little pieces that we eat.
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It's very good with butter.
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What is it?
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Of course we say it's corn.
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Corn is what we eat as a vegetable.
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It's a long yellow vegetable that has a green skin,
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but we use corn for many other things.
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Corn.
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Corn.
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Okay.
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Wow.
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What's this girl doing?
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She has had a lot of food,
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she has a lot of energy, right?
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She is doing something, she is exercising.
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It's an exercise, exercise, something you do to make your body strong.
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An exercise in which the player,
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the player or the person jumps over a rope many times, right?
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is going around and around and around and that person is jumping, right?
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They have to jump over the rope many times.
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I'm getting tired.
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Okay, what is it?
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It's called jump rope.
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Very easy.
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Remember we said that this is like a rope here and you jump over it?
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It's jump rope.
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Jump over a rope.
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Jump rope.
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Two words, jump rope.
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Jump rope.
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Okay.
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This is another fun exercise or game,
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right, that you can use a rope.
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One is jump rope.
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The other is people pull, pull on the rope.
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A game in which two teams,
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one team, two teams, and it can be many people,
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but two teams, one team,
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two teams, two teams hold a rope and pull against each other.
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They pull against each other.
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So these guys are pulling this way.
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This team is pulling that way.
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They pull against each other.
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Who will win, right?
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Who will win this game?
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What is this game?
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We say it is tug of war.
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It's like war.
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Two teams, they're fighting the war.
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Tug means pull, like this, pull.
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That's tug.
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So tug of war.
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Tug of war.
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Tug of war.
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It's called tug of war.
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Let's play tug of war.
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It's a fun game you can use with many people.
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You have two teams.
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Make sure the teams are even, right?
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It's not fair.
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Teams should have the same number of people.
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So tug of war, two teams.
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Okay, it's a fun game.
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- Use of Descriptive Phrases: The speaker describes items using clear, descriptive phrases, such as "yellow fruit that tastes sour." This structure helps convey meaning effectively and encourages learners to utilize adjectives and nouns in their speech.
- Present Simple Tense: The speaker frequently uses the present simple tense ("We brush our teeth with this") to describe habits and routines. Practicing this tense can help you talk about your daily activities.
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- Toothpaste: The word "toothpaste" can easily trip up learners because of its syllable structure. Focus on breaking it down: "tooth" + "paste."
- Lemon: The pronunciation of "lemon" could be tricky if you are unfamiliar with the correct vowel sounds. Pay attention to how each syllable flows together to maintain clarity.
- Perfume: The word "perfume" might vary in pronunciation depending on your accent. Be attentive to the stress on the first syllable and the clarity of the "fume" part.
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