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Hello everyone and welcome back to English pod. My name is Marco.

My name is Catherine and today we have an elementary level lesson for you.

That’s right, we are going to talk about winter, but specifically about the clothes you wear during winter when it’s very very cold outside.

That’s right. And I hear you’re not too familiar with some of these practices because where you come from. You don’t really have winter.

You don’t have Windsor. We have dry season and rainy season but same temperature.

Well, Chicago definitely has a snowy season, so I’m very familiar with these things so. Let’s jump right into today’s dialogue will be hearing it one time and in a minute will be back to talk about it.

A: Bye, mom!

B: Wait, Jimmy, it’s cold outside. Put a hat on!

A: Ok. Bye!

B: No, wait, you will be too cold without mittens.

A: Alright. See ya!

B: Hold on, with that wind, you’re going to catch a cold. Wear this scarf.

A: Ok, see you after school—

B: Oh— and ear muffs! Put these on— here we go.

A: Mom?

B: Yes, honey—

A: I— I can’t breathe.

Alright we’re back. So there were a couple of different items of clothing that we saw in this dialogue. So let’s look at them now in the language take away.

Language take away.

Okay will personally have mom and Jimmy. Jimmy is a boy’s name was a little boy and mom is saying goodbye to him. But first she wants him to put on clothes. So the first item the first thing she asked him to put on his hat.

A hat. Now you probably seen like a baseball cap on many different types of hats but and sometimes in other languages, they have specific names for hat for winter right but in English it’s hat.

Anything that covers your hat is kind of like the category.

So maybe this one is a warm wool hat, but it’s in the end it’s a hat.

It’s a hat.

Okay so he’s put on the hat know what else is to put on.

But when need to keep our fingers warm. Okay, so there are two kinds of ways to keep your fingers warm and the way in this dialogue that the boy keeps his fingers warm. As with mittens.

All right, so mittens you put on your hands know what’s the difference between mittens and gloves.

Okay gloves have special places for each finger 12345 on each hand. Right. And mittens, There’s two spaces, one for your thumb and one for all your other fingers.

Okay. Okay so that means you can’t really hold things.

So you kind of look like a penguin or someone.

Yeah, you look like yeah exactly like a penguin and it’s mostly for children. Adults don’t wear mittens because adults need to hold things like keys and groans and car cars during meals. So in this case mittens is usually for children.

Okay so mittens and while the mother is still a little bit worried, so she tells him to wear a scarf.

Okay, a scarf is all along. What usually made of wall. A long piece of fabric that you put around your neck to keep your neck warm.

Okay, so a scarf. Scarf. Okay and he’s put on the mittens. The scarf that had and he’s missing some earmuffs.

Okay this is a little funny because usually if you’re wearing a hat you don’t need earmuffs but earmuffs are like had funds, but they keep your ears warm. Right. And we wear these they don’t cover your head. They just cover your ears and usually there just to round circles over your ear.

So, as you say exactly they look like big earphones and they keep your ears warm. Now you say you usually don’t wear this if you’re wearing the hat because well you would put your years inside a half, right.

So looks pretty silly. He’s wearing all of this together. Alright and so those four key items with four key pieces of clothing are for our language, take away today when we listen to this dialogue again and will come back soon to talk about fluency builder.

A: Bye, mom!

B: Wait, Jimmy, it’s cold outside. Put a hat on!

A: Ok. Bye!

B: No, wait, you will be too cold without mittens.

A: Alright. See ya!

B: Hold on, with that wind, you’re going to catch a cold. Wear this scarf.

A: Ok, see you after school—

B: Oh— and ear muffs! Put these on— here we go.

A: Mom?

B: Yes, honey—

A: I— I can’t breathe.

Alright, we’re back. So now let’s take a look at four key phrases on fluency builder.

Fluency builder

Okay this first phrase, as I said before, has to do with the mom and the boys saying goodbye to each other. So he says all right see ya! see ya! ya!

Okay so see as into look to write you, you see something. And what about why a ya! ya!

So this is very spoken language way of saying you. So we could say see you later. But if you want to make it shorter. You can say see ya!

So ya. Bye. Bye. Goodbye

All right, so see ya! And then what’s our next way of saying goodbye.

Hold on. Oh, way, That’s— Or not there yet know, I’m hold on is our next phrase and this is a way to say, wait, wait, hold on.

So you just say hold on. It means wait. It’s not really rude right is just a little bit more casual.

Exactly is very casual so you cannot say hold that is a make sence. You have to use these two words together. Hold on. So like I said before, with Marco who wants to go fast. I get the hold on, hold on, wait a second.

Alright, okay so hold on, see ya and now you gotta be careful because you’re going to catch a cold, to catch a cold.

Okay, so a cold is when you, you know when you coffee of a sore throat. It’s starting to get cold outside and you don’t feel well. Okay so you’re have a runny nose. It’s a it’s the illness and most people get this every year. It’s very common but you don’t get a cold, you catch a cold. Okay?

Okay. So catches the same where we use for when we we talk about sports like throwing and catching. Okay. It’s almost like it just hits you. It’s so fast. You just catch a cold.

So that’s really important what you just said because you don’t use the verb get, you don’t get a cold. You catch a cold or if you say your bad, you were sick last week because you had a cold. You would say oh I caught a cold or I had a cold.

Exactly. So member present tense. I catch a cold presence. I caught a cold last week.

Okay. And our last phrase for fluency builder is here we go. Here we go.

Okay so when do we hear this phrase. The mother says to the boy. Put these on here we go, so she’s doing something with him she’s helping him put his earmuffs on and here we go is a way to say okay I finished, okay I’m done, okay your earmuffs are on you.

So you’re ready here you go. Here you go. Right so we say here we go. Like everything is ready your earmuffs are on.

Exactly so maybe on the computer and I have a problem. I’m waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, and you know in the bars loading and finally ding it’s ready. Here we go. Here we go.

Now at a start it’s ready. for sometimes a waitress will come and serve you food and so here we go here’s your order. Exactly. So this is a way to say what you been waiting for is ready now.

Okay, great. So I think it’s time for us to listen to the style of one last time before we come back. Here we go.

A: Bye, mom!

B: Wait, Jimmy, it’s cold outside. Put a hat on!

A: Ok. Bye!

B: No, wait, you will be too cold without mittens.

A: Alright. See ya!

B: Hold on, with that wind, you’re going to catch a cold. Wear this scarf.

A: Ok, see you after school—

B: Oh— and ear muffs! Put these on— here we go.

A: Mom?

B: Yes, honey—

A: I— I can’t breathe.

Alright, we’re back. So as you mentioned in Chicago. It’s very very cold so I imagine you had all of these winter clothes, right?

That’s right and it’s funny because I remember being a small child and my mother doing this to me. Putting on snow pants and boots and earmuffs and hats and gloves and scarves and all the sudden it’s so hot inside. Because you’re wearing everything and so you can’t even walk like you’re saying Peggy look like a penguin walking out the door and you get to school when you’re sweating, right?

And so in school we had to take. We had a special room and we had to take everything off because there’s snow everywhere and snow can be very dangerous because it melts and it turns into water.

Okay so I have very strong memories of all of this playing mind taking them often is being warm all the time.

they will yeah when it’s colder you live in a place with cold weather you have to have these items of clothing because otherwise you might catch a cold.

Exactly. So I hope that no one out there catches a cold but if if you want some suggestions where scarf cover your neck that’s the most important your head and your Scott Horton. all right and if you guys have any other questions or comments you can visit our website English pot.com and will see everyone there.

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