Hello, everyone. Welcome back to another lesson with us here at EnglishPod.
My name is Marco. 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 a girlfriend.
Honey, come on. I want to go. Are you? You're taking forever.
All right. Who takes long? Do you take a long time to get ready to get dressed?
Okay, I take longer to get ready, but my boyfriend takes longer in general because he's like checking his email, playing video games.
We call it lollygagging. He's just being kind of slow.
I'm the opposite. I usually... I usually start getting ready later.
Like if we have to leave at 9, I'll start getting ready at 8.30, but I'll be ready by 9 because I take a shower real fast. and I know what I'm gonna wear and all my clothes are ready.
But on the other hand, my girlfriend, she takes forever to get ready.
And she's like, oh, and then, you know, the hair, Girls have makeup and tights and shoes.
But this is what I understand. If we're supposed to leave at 9, why don't you start getting ready before?
Never underestimate women. I don't know.
Procrastination. Hey, it's not even about procrastination.
Sometimes it just takes longer to look good than other times.
Right. Well, in this case, we're going to 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, I've got a couple of words to preview. to help you understand what's going on in today's dialogue.
Alright, 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 clothes.
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.
It's actually a 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 so she only wore sandals. so these are uh open shoes open toe shoes basically you wear them at the beach Or you wear them in the summer in general.
I'm wearing sandals right now. And you have different types of sandals, like sandals and flip-flops, right?
Flip-flops, I think they're called that because they sound like flip-flop, flip-flop, flip-flop when you walk.
All right, so those are our two words today.
Let's listen to the dialogue for the first time.
And then we'll be back. Honey, come on.
We're 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. Okay, 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're going to a dinner party, not to the beach.
Wear the shirt with the silk tie I bought you and those 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 to 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.
They're very useful for when you want to go shopping and for when you're getting dressed.
Okay, so the first word that we have on language takeaway is striped.
All right, you might have heard the American flag called stars and stripes.
Stripes are those lines. on clothing or on flags that go up or 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 and left and right right and they say with fashion Lines that go left to right make you look better 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. 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 square is 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 together, right? 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 cut 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. 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 much too high, much too short.
That skirt is not appropriate. 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... The skirt, for example. It pretty much tells you the length of something.
Very good. And now... And now the wife steps in.
She's like, no, 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 one 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.
Ooh, see, I don't know. I feel like 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 him to wear some corduroy pants.
Okay, so it sounds like this might be a winter dialogue because corduroy is not something you wear in the summer because it's very heavy and thick.
Corridori actually is a fabric that that usually has these kind of ribs or ridges.
And so there's like little lines in the fabric that make it quite thick and rough when you almost...
Not rough, but they make it feel very unique when you touch it.
Yeah, it's not smooth. It's a little bit rough, the fabric.
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 going to slow it down a little bit and then we'll come back and look at some of the phrases.
Honey, come on. We're 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. Okay, 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 to the beach.
Wear the shirt with the silk tie I bought you and those 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? right we're back so uh 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?
While the person is saying this, they would maybe 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 some 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 she he saying to her She's saying to him, what am I going to do with you?
It means you need so much help. Seriously.
All right. 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.
And so I can say, you know, oh, my friend Kathy, she has amazing fashion sense.
So she always looks good. Right. So combining colors appropriately or wearing the right Types of shoes with the right types of clothing, etc.
Fashion. Or even just being able to wear things that are good on her or telling other people what's good on them.
Mm-hmm. So fashion sense is the ability to identify fashion and look good and make other people look good.
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're 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. Okay, 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?
You're going to a dinner party, not to the beach.
Wear the shirt with the silk tie I bought you and those 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?
Alright, we're back. You lived in Italy for a while.
How is the 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 that that's not how normal people dress.
Well, 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 like stores, for example, big stores, department stores will buy fashions off of the runway And they'll kind of change them a little bit so that they're more appropriate for normal consumption.
That means 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.
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 one season and so Italy definitely counts as a very fashionable country but it's not crazy people you every once in a while you see some more crazy clothes but I think Japan is much more crazy actually yeah Asian countries such as Japan or South Korea they have very also unique fashion as well but it's very extreme to certain point and The color combinations they do is like red sneakers with green pants and like a blue jacket.
It's very crazy. Right. And very bright.
Right. And you often see these shoes, you know, we call them platform shoes.
It's kind of like you're standing on a brick.
Yeah, they're huge. And they're seven inches tall, and you see these little girls wearing these big shoes, and I'm so scared when I see them because I feel like they're going to... fall over.
The other thing is that fashion is so expensive if you actually want to buy something that's in like an authentic I don't know, Carolina Herrera or Oscar de la Renta or something like that.
It's so expensive. It is, but high fashion is expensive.
Fashion is not. It 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 it at the fake market.
Or you can go to the fake market. Exactly.
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That's about it for today. So goodbye, everyone.
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