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

My name is Catherine and today were going to very special place market, place where men and women alike, but usually women are associated with it and we would like to go. What is this place were going to.

That’s right, today we are going to a beauty spa.

All right. Let’s check that out in today’s vocabulary preview.

vocabulary preview.

All right, so this place a beauty spot. It’s interesting because it’s not just a normal spot. It’s a particular spot where you get treated for some things.

that’s right. So, a beauty spa is a place where you go to feel good so women and men like to have their nails on their faces and their skin taking care of. Maybe their makeup and hair as well. So it’s not just a place for you. Maybe go for massage you. You get a lot of other services that make your your skin nice make you look and feel good.

Alright so that’s where were going today were to go to beauty spa and were to talk about all the different things that you can do there, so let’s listen to a dialogue for the very first time.

A: You want to go get a facial with me today?

B: Dude, what are you talking about? Only girls do that.

A: Not at all, guys also get facials, manicures and pedicures. There is nothing wrong with looking after your skin and looking good.

B: True. So what do they do to you at your beauty spa?

A: Well, first they exfoliate my face, getting rid of all the dead skin. Then I get a face mask with nutrients that keep my skin healthy and young. Afterwards, they apply some moisturizer and you leave feeling like a million bucks.

B: That doesn’t really sound like something I would be interested in. In any case, I just wash my face every night and use sunscreen during the day.

A: Well you should come with me one day, I’m sure you’ll love it.

B: Uh… no.

all right were back some now. Let’s Take a look at language take away.

language take away.

got a lot of great phrases and words and language take away today. The first one though is from the very first line of dialogue you want to go get a facial with me today.

That’s right, we are asking her friend if he wants to go with us to go get a facial. Now, what exactly does it mean to get a facial.

Or the facial here is a saying in this case a service that we would pay for and basically a facial is just a skincare treatment regimen for your face, so maybe you’ll get some cream and cleansing and you know in the advertisements. You often see someone getting a facial with like cucumbers on their eyes and so is just a way to make your skin feel really good.

Okay particularly on your face.

Yes your face and the verb here is to get so I’m going to get a facial or I got a facial yesterday.

Okay, very good. No week apart from getting a facial getting special treatment on your face. You can also get a manicure and pedicure.

That’s right some manicure pedicure. These were going to keep together because they’re very similar but there little bit different. Manny manicure Manny that means something to do with the hands. so manicures actually when you have your fingernails can I’ve cleaned and taking care of and then they will apply some paints and nail polish. so basically having your nails treated and then colored.

okay and then pedicure imagines the same thing but for your feet.

That’s right, Patty refers to feet so pedicure is the same treatment the same service but for your toes. In this case, you have very you know nice nail polish on your toes.

All right, now going back to skin treatment because will manicure and pedicure for your fingernails and for hands and feet. We are talking about getting your face exfoliated Or he says will firstly exfoliate my face.

so exfoliate you think X means taking something away. In this case to exfoliate means to to take the dead skin away and sometimes this can be a little bit painful because you think at first, you have some dry skin some dead skin you they have to take it away. They have to use something rough. you can do it on your feet as well. But when the exfoliate your face, they use some kind of cleanser or some kind of maybe sponge to clear the dead skin and then afterwards you have the fresh new skin and it’s very smooth and and nice looking.

Okay so that’s what it means to exfoliate the skin I can be on your face your feet much anywhere in your body. And lastly, we also are just using sunscreen during the day to protect our skin and to keep it healthy.

That’s right. So sunscreen is a kind of cream do you sunscreen Marco?

no.

No you don’t have do. Well I often use on things I’m very pale and so when I go in the sun. Maybe at the beach. It’s very easy for me to burn my skin to turn red and so sunscreen helps me protect my skin.

so that’s exactly what it does. Sunscreen is a specific type of lotion that you put on your skin, and it prevents you from getting sunburned her from getting or from darkening your skin.

That’s right. So those are the words we have relating to skincare and some of these services at the beauty spa, but we’ve got some more phrases for your thoughts versus into our dialogue again and we back in a moment.

A: You want to go get a facial with me today?

B: Dude, what are you talking about? Only girls do that.

A: Not at all, guys also get facials, manicures and pedicures. There is nothing wrong with looking after your skin and looking good.

B: True. So what do they do to you at your beauty spa?

A: Well, first they exfoliate my face, getting rid of all the dead skin. Then I get a face mask with nutrients that keep my skin healthy and young. Afterwards, they apply some moisturizer and you leave feeling like a million bucks.

B: That doesn’t really sound like something I would be interested in. In any case, I just wash my face every night and use sunscreen during the day.

A: Well you should come with me one day, I’m sure you’ll love it.

B: Uh… no.

all right, so now it’s time for some fluency builder. Let’s check out three key phrases.

fluency builder.

so we got this first phrase here and not at all, so one person says only girls go to the beauty spa. What is the other person say.

right. He says no not at all not at all. So basically he’s responding by saying no, that’s not true. Now you could’ve said no but why do you say, not at all.

you can say no but no is almost rude. Not at all is a way to say actually in reality this is different. so it’s it’s a more polite way of disagreeing with what the person just said.

okay so you can said no not at all like I guess you can say both right and not at all or together. No, not at all.

No, not at all. You could say women don’t like to watch football.

and you can say all not at all.

you can say only men like to watch football.

right and then if I disagree or you say actually I can say no, not at all actually girls like to watch football as well.

That’s right.

okay so now continuing on with this skincare topic. We saw this interesting verb to apply some moisturizer so the verb here is to apply something on your skin.

All right, so the verb to apply means to put on okay or to use, and this is over, we often use with beauty care products like apply the shampoo to your head or apply some fingernail polish easier going to yet to put it on yourself.

right so When we say apply some moisturizer is to use moisturizer.

He had to put it on your skin like I apply my makeup. That means I put the makeup on my skin is moisturizer is a great cream that we use when our skin is dry and we wanted to be more healthy we want to be less dry and we are yet this.

okay. And lastly, after you exfoliate your plate moisturizer. You do everything he says that you leave the beauty salon feeling like a million bucks.

right to feel like a million bucks. This is a phrase that we often used to say you feel wonderful.

you feel great.

you feel really good and so this is the main reason to go to the beauty spa right Marco?

right so you go there because you want to feel like a million bucks, so you feel very, very, very good.

sometimes when I buy a new outfit and I tried on, I’m really excited. I say I feel like a million bucks.

so I guess the other form of this word will actually be. You look like a million bucks. some one can look like a million.

exactly. So I see my friend coming from the beauty spot. I say what you look like a million box. You look great.

All right, so let’s listen to our dialogue one last time there’s review everything and will be back in a bit.

A: You want to go get a facial with me today?

B: Dude, what are you talking about? Only girls do that.

A: Not at all, guys also get facials, manicures and pedicures. There is nothing wrong with looking after your skin and looking good.

B: True. So what do they do to you at your beauty spa?

A: Well, first they exfoliate my face, getting rid of all the dead skin. Then I get a face mask with nutrients that keep my skin healthy and young. Afterwards, they apply some moisturizer and you leave feeling like a million bucks.

B: That doesn’t really sound like something I would be interested in. In any case, I just wash my face every night and use sunscreen during the day.

A: Well you should come with me one day, I’m sure you’ll love it.

B: Uh… no.

all right. So facials of this sort of thing is commonly mostly associated with women but as we saw in the dialogue. More and more men are actually taking care of their skin and their appearance.

That’s right. So while this might have been traditionally a woman’s event going is the spa having a girls day at the spa. you right Marco, A lot of men like to do this just because you get a manicure doesn’t mean you have to have pink fingernails. You can actually just have your nails taken care of and cleaned and caught in your cuticles taking care of feels really nice.

That’s right. Actually, it’s a common new trend that we’ve even heard in the news about the and the term that men are labeled with when the take excessive care of their skin and their peers exceed their metrosexuals.

metrosexual.

right

now. This is a man who, like you say likes to dress nicely takes care of his hair as nice and someone who really takes care of their body and it’s different from from being a homosexual. For example, where maybe that the stereotype that we have. We say oh well you know some people some people who are homosexual like to dress right while in and take care of their skin. metrosexual people Men are straight. They’re not gay but they still like to to do these things to go to the spa or to take care of their appearances.

right so it’s very it’s a very interesting topic. Specifically, nowadays, where this type of thing is more and more common and yet still in many places and cultures. It’s very much taboo obviously being manly men associated with that is you know. you don’t really take care of your. You know you wake up and you still look kind of messy year and half-asleep half asleep or you know you guy has scars and beards and stuff so you don’t really associated much but is very interesting to see these types of different cultural aspects so we would like to know if in your culture your country. This is a common practice is is acceptable or is it very very rare.

and if you go to the beauty spa whether you’re a man or a woman. What’s your favorite service. Do you like the facials did like the pedicures, let us know. Our website is English pod.com.

All right we see you guys there. Bye.