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It's finally summer and it feels like we've been waiting for summer to come around for months and months and months.
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It's been raining so much and it's been so wet in England
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and it felt like the winter or the spring were never going to end.
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So now that summer's here, we're going to learn some words about the heat,
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because hopefully it's going to be warm, and some idioms which are related to the summer and heat.
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The first adjective that we have is scorching.
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Scorching means that it's extremely hot but it's not comfortable.
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It's not a nice warm heat.
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It's that type of heat where you can't be in the sun.
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So, in Italy, when I went on holiday,
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it was scorching outside, so I had to spend time under the parasol when I went to the beach.
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sometimes when it is very hot
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and there is a lot of moisture in the air
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and it makes you feel sticky your skin feels sticky then you say that it's humid or muggy
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Sometimes it's cloudy but it's still really really really hot and you can say that it feels muggy.
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When I went to London a few years ago it was extremely muggy
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and I felt the need to have a shower multiple times per day.
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Another word is arid.
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Arid means very dry and hot and it's normally used to describe a desert.
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So in the Sahara you can say that they have an arid climate because it's very hot and very dry.
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When you experience a period of hot weather
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that lasts like several days or a weekend or a few weeks
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and it's not usual then we call it a heat wave.
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We have already had a few heat waves in the UK.
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It was very hot, it was about 30 something degrees
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and maybe that doesn't seem that hot for you
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if you live in a hot country but I think that people don't really realise that
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in warm countries houses are prepared for the heat and
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when you go inside it doesn't seem as hot
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because the buildings are built differently but here
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because houses are built to stay warm in the summer it gets extremely hot inside
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and a lot of people don't have air conditioning at least here in England.
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I know
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that like in America in the United States a lot of people have aircon especially in the south
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but here you might have it in offices
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but people don't normally have it in their houses
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when it's hot some people like to stay in the sun
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i personally don't like the sun i prefer to stay in the shade you have to be careful with
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that word because a a lot of people say shadow.
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The opposite of being in the sun is the shade.
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So I like to stay cool in the shade.
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I normally stay inside when it's too hot out to keep cool.
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But a lot of people like sunbathing.
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So they go outside, they lie in the sun, maybe at the pool or at the beach
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or just in their garden to get a tan tanning is quite a big thing in the uk
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and maybe you haven't heard of it but a lot of people get fake tans fake tans are when you
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go to a tanning studio or salon and they basically spray tan on you so that your skin
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is darker so your skin is like more brown
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but you have to be careful
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because a lot of people sometimes look quite orange some people don't go to Cylons
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and they do it at home
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and what they do is they buy it's like a cream and they basically put it all over their body
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and it washes off so sometimes you see people
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and their hands are a different colour to their arms
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because in the end you wash your hands a lot more than you wash your arms so the colour
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comes off a lot quicker.
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So in the UK a lot of people like tanning, especially when they go on holiday abroad.
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If you want to say that you were under direct and very intense sunlight,
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you can also say bake.
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We normally use the word bake for baking a cake
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or baking a pie but if you say that it was very hot yesterday and we baked in the sun for hours,
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it means that you spent a lot of time in direct sunlight
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and the sun was very strong and you were very hot.
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You You can also say that you're melting.
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If you say can we turn on the aircon,
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the air conditioning or can we turn on the fan because I'm melting it means that you're very hot.
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So you want to turn it on to keep cool.
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Now let's go with some idioms.
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The first one is catch some rays.
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Sun rays are what you call a ray of light from the sun.
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So the beam of light that travels from the sun to the earth.
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And if you say that you're going to catch some rays it means
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that you're going to sunbathe or spend time sitting out in the sunshine.
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You could say that you're going to the beach this afternoon to catch some rays.
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Soak up the sun means to enjoy the sun and enjoy the heat.
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And you normally So you normally soak up the sun when you're relaxed.
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So I love going to the beach in the morning and soaking up the sun.
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And the last one is beat the heat.
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Beat the heat means to fight against the heat and win basically.
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So it means to find different ways to cope with the heat, to deal with the heat.
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So for example, it might be a good idea to install aircon this summer to beat the heat.
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It's important to beat the heat because you might get sunstroke
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or heatstroke which is a medical condition which you might suffer from
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if you spend too much time in the sun or in the heat.
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Some people faint or pass out when they spend too much time in the heat at the beach or just outside.
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It's also important to wear sunscreen or sunblock.
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Sunblock is the American word
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and in British English we normally say sun cream compared to sunscreen or sunblock.
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This is the lotion that you apply to your skin so that you don't burn it.
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It's important to wear sun cream because there is
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so much radiation from the sun and you can get burnt very easily without noticing it,
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especially if you're distracted having a good time outside this summer.
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I'm really looking forward to this summer.
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I really want to unwind which means to relax and to stop thinking about work and stress
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and I'm planning on doing a few getaways
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which means some quick holidays and I'm also planning or doing a staycation for a few weeks.
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A staycation is when you spend your holidays at home or in your local area instead of going somewhere else.
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So it's kind of being a tourist in your own area.
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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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If you have enjoyed this video please give it a thumbs up and subscribe.
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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!

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Video này là một công cụ tuyệt vời để bạn luyện nói tiếng Anh, đặc biệt là vào mùa hè. Mùa hè gợi nhớ đến những hoạt động ngoài trời và thời tiết nóng nực, tạo cơ hội cho bạn học các từ vựng và cụm từ liên quan đến thời tiết. Việc luyện nghe nói qua video không chỉ giúp bạn cải thiện khả năng phát âm mà còn mang lại cảm giác như bạn đang tham gia vào cuộc hội thoại thực tế. Khi bạn nghe và lặp lại, bạn bắt đầu quen với cách mà người bản xứ sử dụng ngôn ngữ trong ngữ cảnh cụ thể.

Ngữ pháp & Cụm từ trong ngữ cảnh

Trong video, có một số cấu trúc ngữ pháp và cụm từ quan trọng mà bạn nên chú ý:

  • Scorching: một tính từ mô tả thời tiết cực kỳ nóng mà không thoải mái. Ví dụ: "It was scorching outside."
  • Muggy: từ này dùng để chỉ cảm giác oi ả, ẩm ướt. Bạn có thể nghe thấy: "It feels muggy today."
  • Heat wave: cụm từ này ám chỉ một đợt nóng kéo dài. "We have experienced a heat wave in the UK."

Việc sử dụng những cụm từ này không chỉ làm phong phú thêm vốn từ vựng mà còn giúp bạn diễn đạt ý tưởng một cách tự nhiên hơn, biến cuộc hội thoại trở nên thú vị hơn. Để thực sự nắm vững, hãy thử lặp lại chúng trong bối cảnh riêng của bạn.

Bẫy Phát âm Thường Gặp

Khi luyện nghe, bạn có thể gặp một vài từ phát âm khó khăn. Một số từ có thể gây rắc rối là:

  • Scorching: Nên chú ý vào âm "sc" và "ch", vì nhiều người có thể phát âm sai.
  • Muggy: Âm "g" có thể khiến người học gặp khó khăn, hãy tập trung vào cách phát âm nhẹ nhàng.
  • Shade: Lưu ý tránh nhầm lẫn với từ "shadow". "Shade" có nghĩa là chỗ râm mát, trong khi "shadow" là bóng tối.

Để cải thiện phát âm tiếng Anh chuẩn, bạn có thể áp dụng phương pháp shadowing tiếng Anh. Điều này không chỉ giúp bạn nắm rõ âm điệu mà còn làm cho phát âm của bạn tự nhiên hơn. Hãy thử luyện nghe và nói theo từng câu trong video để cảm nhận sự khác biệt trong cách bạn giao tiếp.

Phương Pháp Shadowing Là Gì?

Shadowing là kỹ thuật học ngôn ngữ có cơ sở khoa học, ban đầu được phát triển cho chương trình đào tạo phiên dịch viên chuyên nghiệp và được phổ biến rộng rãi bởi nhà đa ngôn ngữ học Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Nguyên lý cốt lõi đơn giản nhưng cực kỳ hiệu quả: bạn nghe tiếng Anh của người bản xứ và lặp lại to ngay lập tức — như một "cái bóng" (shadow) đuổi theo người nói với độ trễ chỉ 1–2 giây. Khác với luyện ngữ pháp hay học từ vựng bị động, Shadowing buộc não bộ và cơ miệng phải đồng thời xử lý và tái tạo ngôn ngữ thực tế. Các nghiên cứu khoa học xác nhận phương pháp này cải thiện đáng kể phát âm, ngữ điệu, nhịp điệu, nối âm, kỹ năng nghe và độ lưu loát khi nói — đặc biệt hiệu quả cho người luyện IELTS Speaking và muốn giao tiếp tiếng Anh tự nhiên như người bản ngữ.