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Hello everyone, welcome back to another lesson with us here at EnglishPod.

My name is Catherine and that’s us.

And that’s us. And today we’re going to talk about a very common situation when you’re a couple. When you have girlfriend—

Honey, come on! I want to go. You’re taking foe ever.

All right, who takes longer? Like do you take a long time to get ready, to get dressed?

Okay, I think longer to get ready, but my boyfriend takes longer in general because he’s like, checking his email, playing video games, like just—You know, we call it lollygagging. He’s just slow.

I’m the opposite. I usually start getting ready later. Like, if we have to leave at nine, I start getting ready at 8:30 but I’ll be ready by nine. Cause I take a shower real fast, get dressed and I know what I’m gonna wear and all my clothes are ready. On the other hand, my girlfriend takes forever to get ready. And she’s like– you know the hair—

Girls have make up and tights and shoes.

But this is what I don’t understand. If we’re supposed to leave at 9, why don’t you start getting ready before?

Never underestimate—

procrastination

I understand it’s about procrastination. Sometimes just takes longer to look than other times.

Right. Well, in this case, we’re gonna be looking at a lesson where it’s the opposite. The husband is taking a long time to get ready. And well, I don’t think he has a very good fashion sense, right?

He does not. And we’re gonna learn what that phrase means in a minute here but before we get going, we’ve got a couple of words to preview to help you understand what’s going on in today’s dialogue.

Vocabulary preview

All right, so on vocabulary preview today, we have two words. The first one can be a noun or a verb, to iron

or iron. So, to iron basically means to

to get the wrinkles out of cloths and so we use this, iron is actually a metal. It’s a very important metal and an iron is a machine that we plug-in. We use it to get the wrinkles, the lines out of our shirts and our skirts and everything. And so, it’s actually very important thing to make sure that you look nice and put together.

Right. So, you use an iron to iron your shirt or to iron your skirt. And then we have sandals. My favorite type of shoe.

Mine too.

sandals.

I have a friend who used to say, she had claustrophobic feet, her feet didn’t like to be in closed spaces. And she only wore sandals.

So, these are open shoes, open toe shoes, basically. You wear them at the beach.

Or you ear them in the summer, in general. I’m wearing sandals right now.

And you have different type of sandals, like sandals and flip-flops, right?

flip-flops. I think they’re called that because they sound like—

when you walk. Alright, so those are two words today. Let’s listen to the dialogue for the first time and then we’ll be back.

Honey come on! We are going to be late! Honestly, you take longer getting ready than I do!

I was drying my hair and ironing my shirt! Can you come here for a sec? I need your help.

What is it? Why are all these clothes on the bed?

I don’t know what to wear! Ok, give me your opinion. Do you like the way this looks? The striped short sleeved shirt with this checkered sweater and my lucky sandals. I like the cut and hemline of these shorts so I think I’ll wear these as well.

Are you joking? What am I going to do with you?

We are going to a dinner party not the beach!

Wear the shirt with the silk tie I bought you and these corduroy pants. It’s chilly outside so you can wear this coat.

Thanks honey! You have such great fashion sense. Now, what am I going to do with my hair?

All right, we’re back. So, interesting, this husband sounded a lot like a famous president, I think.

He did but we’ll get that in a minute. Before we do talk about who this guy is, I think it’d be a great idea to talk about some of these clothing terms because they’re very useful for when you want to go shopping and when you’re getting dressed.

Language take away

Okay, so the first word that we have on language take away is striped.

All right. You might’ve heard that the American flag called stars and stripes. Stripes are those lines on clothing or on flags that go up and down or left and right.

Exactly. So, you have a, if you have a striped shirt, you have many lines on your shirt, they’re going up and down the left and right.

Right. And they say with fashion, lines that go left to right make you look fatter. And lines that go up and down make you look thinner

and taller

and taller

Very good. And now, moving on, if it’s summer and you want to wear a shirt, you can wear a short-sleeved shirt.

All right. This is important. So, most people like to wear short-sleeved shirts in the summertime because they’re cooler. And in the wintertime, that means we like to wear long-sleeved shirts.

Okay, so the sleeves are basically the arms of the shirt

Exactly

so you say short-sleeved. Very good and then we have a checkered shirt or a checkered sweater in this case.

Okay so checkered means there are little squares on the shirt and usually one square is one color, and the next wears another color. So, it looks like a checkerboard.

very good

That game, you know, checkers

Or like a chessboard.

exactly and so in this case we’ve got a guy who’s trying to wear a striped shirt and a checkered sweater.

That does not go well, right?

No, too much stuff happening.

It’s too busy

too busy

all right and not only that but he wanted to wear shorts because he liked the cuts and the hemline.

Okay, these are actually terms that we normally use with women’s clothing because you could say, I like the cut of this dress, I like the shape that it has.

very good

and hemline is the bottom of your skirt or your trousers or your shorts. And hemline we could say, my mother used to say this to me, the hemline is must too high.

Must too short. That skirt is not appropriate, yeah. So, it’s nice to have a hemline at the knee.

Alright, so the cut is the shape that the piece of clothing has like pants or skirts, and the hemline would be the place where it ends, right? The skirt, for exam.

Like it pretty much tells you the length of something.

very good. And now the wife steps in, she’s like no, you’re not wearing this. She’s telling him that she has to wear nice clothes, and among those items is a silk tie.

Okay, so classic Father’s Day gift.

silk tie.

I’ve given this on a couple of times. A silk tie is a, you know, a necktie, a long necktie that’s made of silk.

Silk is a very soft material, right? Very expensive as well.

It can be especially Italian silk.

And I’ve always actually wanted to have silk sheets.

See, I don’t know. I think they would get very warm in the summer.

Yeah. Well, in the winter it would be awesome, but probably very cold in the winter as well.

Yeah, I don’t know.

Well, it’s one of those things. And then she’s also telling them to wear some corduroy pants.

Okay, so it’s like this might be a winter dialogue because corduroy is not something you wear in the summer because it’s very heavy and thick. Corduroy actually is a fabric that usually has these kind of ribs or ridges, and so there’s like little lines in the fabric that make it quite thick rough, almost– not rough but they make it– feels very unique when you touch it.

Yeah, it’s not smooth. It’s a little bit rough, the fabric.

Yeah

Very good. So those are all the clothing items that we’ve looked at today. There’s a lot of them and obviously we’ll post a couple of pictures on the site so you can see, so you can see better what a silk tie looks like or especially corduroy pants.

Corduroy, yeah

All right, so let’s listen to this dialogue again. We’re gonna slow it down a little bit and then we’ll come back and look at some other phrases.

Honey come on! We are going to be late! Honestly, you take longer getting ready than I do!

I was drying my hair and ironing my shirt! Can you come here for a sec? I need your help.

What is it? Why are all these clothes on the bed?

I don’t know what to wear! Ok, give me your opinion. Do you like the way this looks? The striped short sleeved shirt with this checkered sweater and my lucky sandals. I like the cut and hemline of these shorts so I think I’ll wear these as well.

Are you joking? What am I going to do with you?

We are going to a dinner party not the beach!

Wear the shirt with the silk tie I bought you and these corduroy pants. It’s chilly outside so you can wear this coat.

Thanks honey! You have such great fashion sense. Now, what am I going to do with my hair?

All right, we’re back. So now let’s start with fluency builder.

Fluency builder

Okay, these are classic couple phrases, right? These are phrases, you hear among couples. And the first one is maybe more common to hear from the female end but it’s not unknown on the male end. So, we have this question: Do you like the way this looks?

So, while the person is saying this, they would maybe like be moving to the side a little bit—

modeling it

do you like the way this looks? So, basically you’re saying, do you like what I’m wearing? Does it look good on me?

Does it look good, exactly. You could also say, hey I like the way this looks, when you’re trying to buy something at the store. And so, do you like the way this looks, is a way for you to ask the other person’s opinion of how you look.

And also, another common phrase, especially with men who have no fashion sense; the wife says, what am I going to do with you.

Okay, this is an interesting phrase and it needs an explanation, I think, because the meaning is well– This is very difficult, right? So, you’re being difficult or wow you need some help from me. I’m gonna help you.

How am I going to help you this much or all the time like this.

Right, because she’s pretty much saying he has no idea about clothing and fashion. So, he’s saying to her, what—she’s saying to him, what am I going to do with you. It means you need so much help.

Seriously. Alright, so and the third phrase that we saw and we said at the very beginning, is fashion sense.

Okay, so this is actually what the man needs help with

fashion sense

He needs help with his fashion sense, because he has zero fashion sense. And this is pretty much a way to say, how much someone knows about fashion or appearances. So, I can say, my friend Kathy, she has an amazing fashion sense. She always looks good.

Right. So, combining colors appropriately, you’re wearing the right types of shoes with the right types of clothing, etc, fashion sense.

or even just being able to wear things that are good on her, or telling other people what’s good on them. So fashion sense is the ability to identify fashion and look good and make other people look.

all right. Very good. Let’s listen to this dialogue for the very last time and we’ll come back and talk a little bit more about fashion because it’s a very interesting topic.

It is.

Honey come on! We are going to be late! Honestly, you take longer getting ready than I do!

I was drying my hair and ironing my shirt! Can you come here for a sec? I need your help.

What is it? Why are all these clothes on the bed?

I don’t know what to wear! Ok, give me your opinion. Do you like the way this looks? The striped short sleeved shirt with this checkered sweater and my lucky sandals. I like the cut and hemline of these shorts so I think I’ll wear these as well.

Are you joking? What am I going to do with you?

We are going to a dinner party not the beach!

Wear the shirt with the silk tie I bought you and these corduroy pants. It’s chilly outside so you can wear this coat.

Thanks honey! You have such great fashion sense. Now, what am I going to do with my hair?

All right, we’re back. You lived in Italy for a while. How is fashion over there? Is it extreme like we see on the runways? Because I honestly don’t understand fashion.

Well, the thing about runways is it, that’s not how normal people dressed.

Yeah, that’s what I understand. Why do they have these fashion shows if people don’t really buy these types of clothing?

Well sometimes people, likes stores for example, big stores, department stores, will buy fashions off of the runway and they kind of change them a little bit so that they are more appropriate for normal consumption. That is for normal people who want to wear them. But the runway fashions are actually, they’re kind of like exaggerations of trends that will happen in the shopping world, right? In the commercial world. So, the things that you see are like big blown up exaggerations and we take bits and pieces of those in our daily lives to dress up. So, different colors or fabrics, or like oftentimes you see kind of military outfits and so that will translate into military jackets that are very popular one season. So, Italy definitely counts as a very fashionable country, but it’s not crazy. People, you every once in a while you see someone with crazy cloths, but I think Jepan is much more crazy.

Yeah, actually yeah, Asian countries such as Japan or South Korea, they have very also unique fashion as well, but it’s very extreme to a certain point. And the color combinations they do like red sneakers with green pants and like a blue jacket, it’s very crazy.

Bright

and very bright

and you often see these shoes, you know, we call them platform shoes. It’s kind of like you’re standing on a brick on a book. And there you know there are 7 inches tall and you see these little girls wearing these big shoes. I’m so scared when I see them cause I think they’re gonna fall over.

The other thing is that fashion is so expensive if you actually want to buy something that’s in like an authentic Catalina or Oscar dela renta or something like that, it’s so expensive.

It is, but you know, high fashion is expensive. Fashion is not, doesn’t have to be. You can be fashionable just looking at different stores and going to secondhand shops and making your own clothes. I mean, it’s all about a sense of personal style and dressing yourself to be unique

or you can get at the fake market.

Or you can go to the fake market, exactly.

All right, that’s all it that we have for today guys. I hope you enjoyed this lesson. Please come to the website and comment at Englishpob.com and if you have any other suggestions or maybe your own pictures of crazy fashion, you can post. We’re glad to see them so we’ll see you guys there.

As Marco said, hope to see you on the website. That’s about it for today so goodbye everyone.