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Hello Everyone and welcome to English pod. my name is Marco.

My name is Catherine and were going to have some fun today Marco, right?

that’s right, today we are taking a small kid and were going to the park and we’re going to play.

Okay, so there fun things you can do at the park were going to learn all about them. Let’s take a listen to our dialogue.

A: Hey honey! Where were you?

B: I decided to take Kenny to the park and get some fresh air.

A: How was it? Were there a lot of kids?

B: It wasn’t too crowded, but we had a great time! We got on the see-saw together, the went on a couple of different slides and then I tried to go with him in the jungle gym, but I didn’t fit.

A: Sounds like fun! When we go he always just likes to play in the sandbox.

B: Yeah, but today he was really hyper. He even got on the monkey bars and then he went on to go on the swings for a half hour. I’m exhausted!

A: You should go to the park more often since you don’t go to the gym anymore!

All right, we’re back so now let’s take a look at some of this great playground equipment on language take away.

language take away.

so as you said Marco Taday, focusing in language take away on some of these things you can do at the park. The first one is one of my personal favorites from childhood called the seesaw.

the seesaw. That’s right. And so basically it’s that long piece of the wall, sometimes metal or wood and two people sit at each opposite end.

yes and so when one person goes down the other person goes up and when that person goes down the other person goes up so the seesaw.

That’s right. So yes, it’s actually a very common toilet. You can play with at the playground, but also another very common one, am sure everyone knows and has been on is a slide.

slide. Now this is a bit hard to describe. Actually, I’m slides are usually quite colorful but um, there like tubes that are open and the child can go down so you are on top may be 2 m high and then you go down the slide and you come down to the ground.

That’s right. And actually it’s the, the, the, noun, a slide, but what you do is you. The verb is you actually slide down the slide.

yes and sometimes you go very fast and it’s scary.

That’s right. And well, if you want to have something a little bit less scare you can go into the jungle gym.

Allright, jungle. Now the jungle is actually a place. you know in South America for example he have jungles with lots of trees and monkeys and any thing but jungle gym is like many many different metal bars or wood together to make this open structure that boys and girls can climb on. So basically you start on the grant you climb all the way up it.

okay so I think this is why it’s called, like a jungle gym right because you can climb up and down and grab all these bars.

you can hang like a monkey from the bar.

exactly.

yeah so basically it’s just a cage that boys and girls can climb on and play with.

right in it and I guess you call it a jungle gym because when you’re doing all this, you Junior doing exercise.

That’s right.

alright so now maybe for the smaller kids are just one play with some toys they can just hang out at the sandbox.

Allright this is one word, but it’s actually quite literal. You have sand in a box.

that’s right. And the sandbox is very safe and very fun because boys and girls can make casseroles or the egg but there’s nothing to it. Really, it’s just the box.

The box would sand literally. Yes that’s right so that’s also fun for the smaller kids to be at the sandbox, now going back to something very similar to the jungle gym. We have the monkey bars.

okay no monkey bars are a very important part of the park. These are a horizontal bar so there across and you you hang on them with your arms so your body hangs down and when you hang your feet are off the ground. It’s very tall.

right

and you have to move, you have to change from one bar to the other. So it’s like a a ladder that you’re pulling yourself across.

yes exactly so you probably seen it exactly how you describe. It’s a ladder and you just gotta hang on to the different bars with your arms. It’s actually quite difficult to do.

I always used to get upset because I couldn’t go all the way across, because you know you go from one end to the other and right of my arms would get so tired that I had to dropped down onto the grand

realy alright, well, something that’s a little bit less exhausting but also very fun when you go on the swings.

Allright swings are great now. Things are kind of like chairs but they don’t have a back, so you sit down on a piece that’s maybe plastic and I’m someone behind you will push you.

right

because your undies These hanging chairs that push you and you go forward and backward, and you can go very, very high. and You come back down.

exactly so These are swings all of the all of this equipment you most likely seen at any of the of the parks that are nearby but to put some pictures as well so you can see more clearly what they’re all about. Now let’s go and review the dialogue again before we move on to fluency builder.

A: Hey honey! Where were you?

B: I decided to take Kenny to the park and get some fresh air.

A: How was it? Were there a lot of kids?

B: It wasn’t too crowded, but we had a great time!

We got on the see-saw together, the went on a couple of different slides and then I tried to go with him in the jungle gym, but I didn’t fit.

A: Sounds like fun! When we go he always just likes to play in the sandbox.

B: Yeah, but today he was really hyper. He even got on the monkey bars and then he went on to go on the swings for a half hour. I’m exhausted!

A: You should go to the park more often since you don’t go to the gym anymore!

all right we’re back. so now it took a look at three phrases on fluency builder.

fluency builder

So a first phrase today is actually something that the parent is talking about. She wants to take Kenny to the park and get some fresh air. Now what it means to go get fresh air?

Oh basically you it means to go out and maybe walk or just be outside and get air from the outside because sometimes you’re in your house all the time and that’s not fresh air.

That’s right. So basically this means exactly what you’re saying it means going outside, so kids often need to go get some fresh air, but also adults due to.

right.

Sometimes I feel like when I’m working in the office for a long time. I really need to get some fresh air. Um, So that means I go outside for a walk.

that exactly so you and you can tell your friends all excuse me for a minute, I’m going to go get some fresh air.

Or, you know what you’re looking a little bit pale. Maybe you should go get some fresh air.

exactly and talking about all this great equipment and how much fun you can have the wife said wow that sounds like fun.

Okay, so sounds like fun is not actually a sound. It this phrase is really important because we say it a lot but it actually just means that it sounds like it will be a fun time writer.

Right

Or I think it will be fun.

yeah. So from what you’re telling me I think it’s fun.

That’s right so we can say this about a lot of things I could say hey Marco we’re going to go play some football after work to want to come?

Sure, that sounds like fun.

Alright, so he thinks it sound like a good idea. You probably come right?

Yeah, exactly so something sounds like fun. alright and moving on to our last phrase that we said that it was a great idea they were going to the park and getting fresh air because we don’t go to the gym anymore.

Oh okay now this is a really important phrase to keep as a phrase. first of all, we have a gym, What did you gym Marco?

well you work out

yeah exercise maybe run on the treadmill or you lift weights, but it’s important to run with the verb here is to go to the gym. so I could say I go to the gym three times a week. How often do you go to the gym?

Okay so that’s the phrase you go to the gym.

I stopped going to the gym and I gained a little weight.

Okay so that’s the way you that you don’t use any other verb when you’re talking about the Jimmy so you go to the gym.

I go to the gym. He goes to the gym regularly.

All right, very good. So that’s all. The fluency builder for today, let’s review our dialogue one last time.

A: Hey honey! Where were you?

B: I decided to take Kenny to the park and get some fresh air.

A: How was it? Were there a lot of kids?

B: It wasn’t too crowded, but we had a great time!

We got on the see-saw together, the went on a couple of different slides and then I tried to go with him in the jungle gym, but I didn’t fit.

A: Sounds like fun! When we go he always just likes to play in the sandbox.

B: Yeah, but today he was really hyper. He even got on the monkey bars and then he went on to go on the swings for a half hour. I’m exhausted!

A: You should go to the park more often since you don’t go to the gym anymore!

all right. So growing up. There are many many different games at the park so you can probably find especially now you have such great playground equipment, but I think these are the most basic ones that everyone knows about.

That’s right. these are pretty standard. The things that you’ll see it at a playground member that a park doesn’t have to have these things.

right.

Parks are just public places. Maybe with benches and trees, but a playground is the part of the park where you’ll see these kinds of things like a sly door swings and so important to remember that they’re not the same.

right, right and now did you ever have a bad accident or did you fall off the swing nor the seesaw or it may be full of the slide,

Oh I though I felt all the time. Never a serious accident, but swings I like to swing and when I was forward. You know up in the air. I used to let go and jump.

Ahu, you jump off the swing.

I would jump out the swings and when you’re very high in the air feels like you’re flying from and my mother hated it because he thought I was going to break my arms but I loved it.

is great fun and actually we would really like to know. Maybe you have some pictures that you can share with those of some specific playground equipment that we may have missed. There a lot of things out there and maybe. Locally there even some more fun things that we don’t have.

so let us know what do playgrounds look like in your country. We hope to see you@englishpot.com.

all right. We’ll see you guy’s there.

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