Prática de Shadowing: Summer 🌞⛱️ British English Podcast - Listening Practise for Intermediate English Learners - Aprenda a falar inglês com vídeo

It's finally summer and it feels like we've been waiting for summer to come around for months and months and months.

It's been raining so much and it's been so wet in England

and it felt like the winter or the spring were never going to end.

So now that summer's here, we're going to learn some words about the heat,

because hopefully it's going to be warm, and some idioms which are related to the summer and heat.

The first adjective that we have is scorching.

Scorching means that it's extremely hot but it's not comfortable.

It's not a nice warm heat.

It's that type of heat where you can't be in the sun.

So, in Italy, when I went on holiday,

it was scorching outside, so I had to spend time under the parasol when I went to the beach.

sometimes when it is very hot

and there is a lot of moisture in the air

and it makes you feel sticky your skin feels sticky then you say that it's humid or muggy

Sometimes it's cloudy but it's still really really really hot and you can say that it feels muggy.

When I went to London a few years ago it was extremely muggy

and I felt the need to have a shower multiple times per day.

Another word is arid.

Arid means very dry and hot and it's normally used to describe a desert.

So in the Sahara you can say that they have an arid climate because it's very hot and very dry.

When you experience a period of hot weather

that lasts like several days or a weekend or a few weeks

and it's not usual then we call it a heat wave.

We have already had a few heat waves in the UK.

It was very hot, it was about 30 something degrees

and maybe that doesn't seem that hot for you

if you live in a hot country but I think that people don't really realise that

in warm countries houses are prepared for the heat and

when you go inside it doesn't seem as hot

because the buildings are built differently but here

because houses are built to stay warm in the summer it gets extremely hot inside

and a lot of people don't have air conditioning at least here in England.

I know

that like in America in the United States a lot of people have aircon especially in the south

but here you might have it in offices

but people don't normally have it in their houses

when it's hot some people like to stay in the sun

i personally don't like the sun i prefer to stay in the shade you have to be careful with

that word because a a lot of people say shadow.

The opposite of being in the sun is the shade.

So I like to stay cool in the shade.

I normally stay inside when it's too hot out to keep cool.

But a lot of people like sunbathing.

So they go outside, they lie in the sun, maybe at the pool or at the beach

or just in their garden to get a tan tanning is quite a big thing in the uk

and maybe you haven't heard of it but a lot of people get fake tans fake tans are when you

go to a tanning studio or salon and they basically spray tan on you so that your skin

is darker so your skin is like more brown

but you have to be careful

because a lot of people sometimes look quite orange some people don't go to Cylons

and they do it at home

and what they do is they buy it's like a cream and they basically put it all over their body

and it washes off so sometimes you see people

and their hands are a different colour to their arms

because in the end you wash your hands a lot more than you wash your arms so the colour

comes off a lot quicker.

So in the UK a lot of people like tanning, especially when they go on holiday abroad.

If you want to say that you were under direct and very intense sunlight,

you can also say bake.

We normally use the word bake for baking a cake

or baking a pie but if you say that it was very hot yesterday and we baked in the sun for hours,

it means that you spent a lot of time in direct sunlight

and the sun was very strong and you were very hot.

You You can also say that you're melting.

If you say can we turn on the aircon,

the air conditioning or can we turn on the fan because I'm melting it means that you're very hot.

So you want to turn it on to keep cool.

Now let's go with some idioms.

The first one is catch some rays.

Sun rays are what you call a ray of light from the sun.

So the beam of light that travels from the sun to the earth.

And if you say that you're going to catch some rays it means

that you're going to sunbathe or spend time sitting out in the sunshine.

You could say that you're going to the beach this afternoon to catch some rays.

Soak up the sun means to enjoy the sun and enjoy the heat.

And you normally So you normally soak up the sun when you're relaxed.

So I love going to the beach in the morning and soaking up the sun.

And the last one is beat the heat.

Beat the heat means to fight against the heat and win basically.

So it means to find different ways to cope with the heat, to deal with the heat.

So for example, it might be a good idea to install aircon this summer to beat the heat.

It's important to beat the heat because you might get sunstroke

or heatstroke which is a medical condition which you might suffer from

if you spend too much time in the sun or in the heat.

Some people faint or pass out when they spend too much time in the heat at the beach or just outside.

It's also important to wear sunscreen or sunblock.

Sunblock is the American word

and in British English we normally say sun cream compared to sunscreen or sunblock.

This is the lotion that you apply to your skin so that you don't burn it.

It's important to wear sun cream because there is

so much radiation from the sun and you can get burnt very easily without noticing it,

especially if you're distracted having a good time outside this summer.

I'm really looking forward to this summer.

I really want to unwind which means to relax and to stop thinking about work and stress

and I'm planning on doing a few getaways

which means some quick holidays and I'm also planning or doing a staycation for a few weeks.

A staycation is when you spend your holidays at home or in your local area instead of going somewhere else.

So it's kind of being a tourist in your own area.

I think that a lot of times we forget how nice it is to live where you live and it's

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easy to not do things like visit your local art galleries,

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spend time in nature nearby

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and I think that a staycation can be very enjoyable especially if you don't want to travel far away.

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Hopefully this summer we can make a lot more videos.

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Let me know if you've enjoyed it and I'll see you in the next one.

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Bye!

O que é a Técnica de Shadowing?

Shadowing é uma técnica de aprendizado de idiomas com base científica, originalmente desenvolvida para o treinamento de intérpretes profissionais. O método é simples, mas poderoso: você ouve áudio em inglês nativo e repete imediatamente em voz alta — como uma sombra seguindo o falante com 1-2 segundos de atraso. Pesquisas mostram melhora significativa na precisão da pronúncia, entonação, ritmo, sons conectados, compreensão auditiva e fluência na fala.

Prática de Shadowing: Summer 🌞⛱️ British English Podcast - Listening Practise for Intermediate English Learners - Aprenda a falar inglês com vídeo

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