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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! guys and welcome back so let's talk about today's episode and today we're gonna talk about in the car all right guys ready for this road trip did you put all your stuff in the trunk yep yes i call shotgun stella please can i sit in the front i don't like sitting in the back Nope.
Sorry, Ryan.
I called shotgun.
You know the rules.
Okay, everybody buckle up.
And here we go.
Woohoo!
Road trip!
Put on some music, Ryan.
Ryan?
Ryan?
Are you okay?
Uh, I think I'm getting car sick.
Gosh, Ryan, don't you dare get sick now.
It's my dad's car.
He'll kill me.
Stella, check the glove compartment.
See if there's a bag or something.
Guys, I don't think I can hold it in much longer.
Fine, fine.
I'll stop.
Stella, switch seats with Ryan, please.
Yeah, yeah, sure.
Got you guys.
Guess who's not really sick, but he's sitting in the front now, Stella.
Seriously, Ryan?
Ugh, unbelievable.
You're such a baby.
Ryan, Ryan, Ryan.
What a naughty boy.
All right, let's begin with expression number one.
Trunk.
Did you put all your stuff in the trunk?
Where is the trunk of a car located?
Is it in the front, in the back, or in the middle of the car?
A trunk is the part that's in the back of the car.
And what is the trunk used for?
The trunk is that part of the car that you have to fill with.
You don't have to fill it, but you can fill with, for example, your luggage when you go on vacation.
Or if you go to the grocery store, you can put the grocery bags in there.
So all the food.
You can put a dead body in there.
Yeah.
At least that's what they do in movies.
But that is what the trunk is for, to hold stuff so that it doesn't bother the passengers.
What do you have in your trunk right now?
And if you don't have a car, what would you keep there if you had a car?
I don't have a car.
My boyfriend does.
And that's a little messy.
Right now, our trunk is a little messy.
There's nothing special, really.
I think there's maybe a half empty water bottle.
And then actually there's a stick that I found in the mountains when I was on a hike, because I am not very good at walking in general.
I think I've said this before.
And so my boyfriend found this stick that could help me walk better, And so it's an actual stick, like it's a branch or something from a tree or a plant.
And so I liked it so much and it helped me so much on that hike that I decided to keep it and it's now in the trunk.
Expression number two, call shotgun.
I call shotgun.
If you call shotgun, that's because you want to sit in the back. or the front of a car.
This is a really cool expression, something that it's used a lot, especially among teenagers.
And you say that you call shotgun when you want to sit in the front.
Can the driver call shotgun?
No, the driver needs to sit in the front.
He's got no other option.
It would be really hard to drive while sitting in the back of the car.
So only the person that wants to sit next to the driver is going to call shotgun.
And that's what you have to do, okay?
When you're with your friends, you say, hey, I call shotgun.
And if you're the first one to say it, you get to go sit in the front.
When you are with your friends, are you the one to usually call shotgun or not?
Uh, no, not really.
Um, I love sitting in the front.
Don't get me wrong.
Uh, but usually I don't want to take this opportunity away from other people.
So I'm not going to say anything.
If somebody else decides to call a shotgun, I'm not going to complain.
Expression number three, buckle up.
Okay, everybody, buckle up.
If you buckle up, do you fasten your seatbelt or do you unfasten it?
If you buckle up, you fasten your seatbelt.
It's what you do right before driving off.
Which is more formal, buckle up or fasten your seatbelt?
Fasten your seatbelt is more formal, which means buckle up is more informal.
That's why when you fly on a plane, the flight attendant is going to say fasten your seatbelt.
She's not going to say buckle up, although that's what you do.
You buckle up.
When do you usually buckle up?
Before the car starts or when the car is already moving?
Personally, I prefer to buckle up as soon as I sit in the car.
That way, I guess I don't even have to think about it anymore because it's so automatic.
But I've seen people that start driving literally like the driver will start driving, and then as they go they buckle up, which I don't think is very safe.
So I think it's better if you buckle up before the car starts moving.
Expression number four, carsick.
I think I'm getting carsick.
If you are getting carsick.
What are your symptoms?
Um, if you are getting carsick well, first of all you're in a car and you'd be feeling nauseous, so you'd feel like you want to vomit uh, maybe a little dizzy um so yeah not, just not very good in general.
What can you do to prevent getting carsick?
I guess so the reason why you get car sick is because of the movement of the car.
From what I understand,
And there are like pills that you can take that help you with that.
And I think they do help to a certain extent.
I can't think of anything else really that would help you not get car sick.
It's a really tricky thing.
If you get car sick, you know what I'm talking about.
Do you get carsick?
Oh, yes, I do.
The last time I got carsick was when I was in Sri Lanka and I was riding on this bus and the curves were just crazy.
It was horrible and it was a long, long ride.
It was like four hours long.
And I think I lasted two hours and there were so many people on the bus.
And I think two hours into the trip, I just couldn't hold it in anymore.
And I just threw up.
And I was so embarrassed because everybody was watching.
But they were nice.
Like I think somebody gave me a bag or something.
I was trying not to look at the people surrounding me because I was so embarrassed.
But yes, that was the last time that I got carsick.
But I get carsick a lot.
I've always had this problem.
It was even worse when I was younger.
Now it's a little bit better.
But as you can tell, I haven't overcome it yet.
Expression number five, glove compartment.
Stella, check the glove compartment.
See if there's a bag or something.
Where is the glove compartment located?
Right in the front of the passenger's front seat or right in the front of the driver's seat?
So the glove compartment is always located right in front of the passenger's front seat.
So if you're driving, it's either on your right or on your left, but it's never in front of you.
So what is the glove compartment for?
Well, if you know what I'm talking about, it's that little kind of like a drawer, but it's not a drawer.
But it's that compartment, that part where you put, it's called the glove compartment because I guess people used to put their gloves there.
Now, I don't think it's used for that.
But you can put all sorts of stuff in there.
But mostly, I think most people leave their documents, the card documents, maybe maps in the past.
Now we don't use maps anymore.
But yeah, pretty much anything you want.
Tissues, money, I don't know.
What do you keep in your glove compartment?
I don't know.
There's a lot of stuff in there, but I wouldn't be able to tell you what it is.
We have the vehicle registration and a bunch of other papers which I'm pretty sure we could throw out because I have no idea what they are.
And that is it for today.
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