Everyday English - Learn Vocabulary & Test English Listening Skills

It's time to learn some everyday English the kinds of words that you would hear

natives using in general conversation and in fact like with all these lessons

I have taken these words from things that I've said in my adventure blog,

which is on a channel not specifically aimed at non natives.

So once you've learnt these words you should head on over to that particular

vlog which will be linked in the description box below, have a watch, have

a listen, see if you can spot the words that we've covered, if you can fantastic!

The first word that you have to try and spot is the word stretching and this

means to lengthen something. To extend it to its full length. You could stretch

your body. Oh stretching. The next word to look out for

is the word wimp, now if someone calls you a wimp they are saying that you are

not brave, you are not confident, and you are not strong. The next word is harder

to spot in the video and it's the word snotty, snotty. Now if something is snotty

then it means it's covered with mucus from the nose I really don't like snot

so if something is covered with snot it is snotty. You often hear people

saying a snotty nosed kid, because kids tend to have snot in their nose, hanging

out of their nose, mmm. Next we have a phrase keep your eyes open.

If I say to you keep your eyes open I don't mean for you to physically try and

open your eyes and hold them open, I mean look carefully, be observant,

perhaps I've lost a ring and I'm saying to you

I've lost my ring will you keep your eyes open see if you can see it. The next

phrase is an interesting one and it's general consensus, general consensus. If

I'm talking about the general consensus I'm talking about what everyone mostly

agrees with. So what do most people want to happen, what is the general consensus?

So if I'm in a classroom and I say do you want to go out to play or would you

rather stay in the classroom and play? Let me know, show of hands,

let's see who wants to do what, and most of them say they want to play outside,

then the general consensus is to play outside.

You might hear the word Footwear, Footwear. You'll notice I don't really

hit the T - Footwear Footwear Footwear natives generally drop it - it's easier

Footwear. Footwear refers to any kinds of shoes, I guess you could potentially

suggest socks are Footwear because you wear them on your feet but most of the

time if I say Footwear I'm talking about shoes. The next word is something that we

all should be which is hydrated, hydrated. To hydrate is to have enough water so if

I hydrate it means I'm drinking water. If I'm hydrated it means I have enough

water in my body to function normally. Next are a group of words which you hear

in the video which refers to parts of the body.

First of all muscles, muscles, notice how I don't pronounce the c we don't have

musCles, just muscles. Next is the joint between the leg and the foot and it's

the ankle, ankle. Hamstring is the muscle at the back of the leg the muscle that

runs between the back of the knee and your bottom your hamstring. I don't know

why I'm doing that, maybe it helps to illustrate my point from the knee down

to the ankle at the back of the leg we have the calf muscle and if we're

talking about both we're talking about your calves but if

we're just talking about one leg muscle we're talking about the calf. Calves, calf,

whoa that's the door, bear with me! That was the delivery man, paper bags

this was because I was sick the other day I get terribly travel sick, travel

sick, I feel sick when I am on long journey sometimes in a plane or in a car

and so my partner has been very kind to order me some sick bags, sick bags, how

thoughtful! Alright where were we if we go to the

front of the leg and we're talking about the muscle that runs between the knee

and the foot at the front is your shin, your shin muscle or your shin bone but

we generally talk about this area as your shin. And the final word is the

muscle at the front of the leg between the knee and your hip I'm doing this

again that is called your thigh muscle it's a th-th IgH it's a very complicated

looking word but it's just like thigh thigh like I'm saying I but with the th

at the beginning thigh.

Your thigh muscle. Okay there you go a whole bunch of words.

I hope that one or two of them are new to you. Now is the time to first give me

a thumb-up and then head straight over to the vlog that I've been using to find

these words it'll be linked in the description box and hopefully appearing

above my head go over there watch the vlog see how many words you spot and if

there's anything you don't recognise come back and tell me about it

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Until next time take care and goodbye!