Welcome to a new episode of English Vocabulary Booster.
My name is Lara and I'm a SALSA-certified English teacher.
Learning new vocabulary usually takes a long time, but we'll do it in a way that's easy, quick and efficient.
In every episode, we'll learn how to use five new English words or expressions, so that you too can start speaking like a native.
So let's get learning!
Well, hello!
How are you?
I am doing great and I can't wait for summer.
We began our trip here in Sicily, in the south of Italy thinking, you know, the weather is going to be much nicer.
It's going to be warmer.
Well, it turns out, the weather is much nicer in the north right now.
I don't know how that is even possible, but i'm here in this room underneath i don't even know how many layers of blankets and sheets, and because it's freezing you guys anyway, looking forward to summer and looking forward to sharing with you this story.
Today, we're going to talk about being at the beach.
I am so happy it's finally summer.
Is that where we're going?
Nah, that beach is pretty dirty.
Let's go to this one.
Alright.
Um, this looks like a good spot, right?
Yeah, this is perfect.
Not too close to the water and not too close to the bar.
Yeah, this'll do.
Alright, so the plan is to spend the whole day here, right?
I brought sandwiches and... Oh, I almost forgot.
Look at my new sunglasses.
Oh, nice shades.
Thanks.
And I just... Oh, no.
What?
I think I forgot to bring sunscreen.
Oh, that's okay.
You can use mine.
It's SPF 50.
Okay, perfect.
Thanks.
Where is it?
Here.
It's in my bag.
You can take it.
I'm just gonna go get us a couple beers.
I'll be right back.
Okay.
I found it, by the way.
Thanks.
Okay, I think we're ready to go home.
I mean, we've been lying in the sun for what, six, seven hours?
We should get going.
Okay, let me just... What happened to you?
What?
What is it?
You're completely red.
What?
No, that's impossible.
I wore your sunscreen.
I'm just tan.
That is not a tan.
You're sunburned.
What?
I wore your sunscreen.
I did.
Look, I've been putting it on every two hours.
That?
That is not sunscreen.
That is my lotion.
I'm just going to say one word.
Ouch.
So let's look at expression number one, shades.
Ooh, nice shades.
Is the word shades slang for a bikini or sunglasses?
Shades is slang for sunglasses.
So instead of saying, hey, look at my sunglasses, you can say, hey, look at my shades.
Or I just bought a new pair of shades, for example.
How many pairs of shades do you own?
I think, well, right now with me, I only have one pair of shades.
I have two more pairs back at home in Valencia in the storage room.
And those are like the, you know the cheap ones that you can buy for what?
Three, four dollars at some stores.
Those are the ones that my mom always told me, please don't buy those.
You know, you're going to go blind.
Right.
Which I don't know if it's really bad for your eyes, but this is what my mom used to tell me.
But now I only have one pair that I regularly use and they're like nicer ones.
They're not super expensive, but they're mom approved.
So yeah.
Expression number two, sunscreen.
I think I forgot to bring sunscreen.
What is sunscreen used for?
To protect yourself from the sun or to prevent sand from sticking to your body at the beach?
You use sunscreen to protect yourself from the sun, to protect your skin from from the sun.
So yeah, it's just that white liquid thing that you put all over your body to make sure that your skin stays protected.
Although I'm just going to throw this idea out there.
It would be nice to invent something that could prevent sand from sticking to your body when you go to the beach, because that's also a big, big problem.
Do you always wear sunscreen when you go to the beach?
Now I do.
I wear it pretty much every day on my face.
And when I go to the beach, yes, I try to wear it on my body as well.
And there's a reason for that, but you're going to have to wait until the end of the episode to hear that story.
Expression number three, SPF.
Yeah, it's SPF 50.
What does SPF stand for?
Seriously Pretty Fabulous or Sun Protection Factor?
It's seriously pretty fabulous.
I'm just kidding.
It's sun protection factor, obviously.
I'm not sure how many people actually knew that.
I didn't know that.
I mean, I knew it had something to do with the sun, but I wasn't sure what it stood for.
So now I know.
Sun protection factor.
So what does the SPF number tell you?
Um again, I think it tells you well, the higher it is, the more protected, so to speak, you are from the negative effects of the sun.
So you want that number to be as high as possible.
And I believe the highest SPF is 50, but I may be wrong.
So double check.
What SPF do you usually use?
Well, now I use SPF 50 both on my face and my body.
In the past, I used to try to go as low as possible.
But now I have gotten a little bit better about taking care of my skin.
I know what the sun can do to you.
So I always wear SPF.
SPF 50 or I guess I heard that if it's lower than 30, it's really not doing anything for you.
So yeah, the higher the better.
Expression number four, be tan.
What?
No, that's impossible.
I wore your sunscreen.
I'm just tan.
If you're tan, is your skin darker or lighter than usual?
If you're tan, your skin is darker than usual.
And what should you do if you want to be tan?
If you want to be tan, you have to lie in the sun or go to a tanning salon where...
I don't know what happens over there because I've never been to one.
But you come out of there and you're tan.
But if you don't want to waste any money, just go lie in the sun and wait a few hours.
Make sure you wear sunscreen and then you're going to be tan.
Are you tan right now?
I am as pale as it gets.
I'm basically see-through.
You can see through me.
That's how little sun my skin has seen over the past few months.
Yeah, you probably look at me right now and be like, Laura, are you okay?
You're looking a little pale.
So no, I'm not tan at all.
Expression number five, be sunburned.
That is not a tan, you're sunburned.
If you're sunburned, does that mean you've spent too much time in the sun or very little time in the sun?
If you're sunburned, that means you've spent too much time in the sun.
You were probably not even wearing sunscreen, and it's just bad.
If you're sunburned, what color does your skin get?
So your skin tends to get redder.
Obviously, the paler you are, the more the sunburn is going to show.
Do you feel pain when you get sunburned?
Oh boy, do you feel pain?
It is one of the worst feelings ever.
I don't know if you've ever gotten sunburned.
I personally have quite a few times in my life.
And it's just unbearable.
Because usually what happens with when you're sunburned is that you don't realize right away that you're sunburned.
So you're, You know you're at the beach.
Whatever you get home, you take a shower, everything seems fine.
Now you start to look a little red.
And then I think it's really a nighttime that it hits you, because you go to bed and anything that touches your skin hurts.
So even lying in bed and trying to sleep is impossible when you're sunburned, because no matter, you know how you move it's just really, really painful.
One of the worst feelings ever, really.
Think about a time when you were sunburned.
What had happened and how did you feel?
So I forget if I've already told this story, but this happened when I was a teenager.
And this is the reason why I wear sunscreen regularly. these days because I didn't used to.
The only time I would wear sunscreen was when my mom was telling me to or forcing me to.
Otherwise, I was just like, please, I just I want to be tan.
I don't care about sunscreen.
This is just going to slow things down.
I need to speed things up.
And I remember this one time I was out all day.
I was at the beach with a friend of mine and we got home at night and I realized that I was sunburned.
But what was unusual about it is that my face was particularly sunburned.
And I remember not thinking much of it that night.
But then the following morning…
I woke up and my friend was like, what the hell is wrong with your face?
And so I went, I looked at myself in the mirror and I was, my entire face was covered in blisters.
They were like filled with this liquid.
It was disgusting.
It looked.
It really looked like someone had cracked an egg open on my face.
That's what he looked like, that's the best way i have to describe it.
And i remember panicking.
I remember calling my mom.
Obviously she was like i told you, so you had to wear sunscreen.
This is because you didn't wear sunscreen um, and i was just like okay, what's gonna happen?
She said well, it's gonna scar, you're gonna get, you're gonna get spots.
And she was right to an extent.
I did get this one very dark spot on my cheek.
But then thankfully, it wasn't too bad.
The scarring wasn't too bad, but I got really scared.
And that's when I was, I think I was maybe 16 at that time.
And that's when I started to wear sunscreen every single time I go to the beach, especially on my face, because I'm traumatized by that one time.
So yeah, guys, please wear sunscreen.
And that is it for today.
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