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!
Hello, what's up you guys?
I'm doing pretty good considering the fact that I quit my job two weeks ago, more or less.
For some reason, I forgot to tell you last time, but yes, I made this pretty big decision.
I just I did not like the projects that I was being assigned at work and I don't like working on things that I don't believe in.
So I decided to take a little time for myself and for Embu and this project and see where this goes.
All right, time for the story.
And today we're going to talk about men's hair.
Pretty specific.
Hello, mom.
Surprise.
I'll be spending the whole weekend here.
Hey, dad.
Oh, my Lord!
My baby!
What have you done to your face?
What?
This?
Oh, come on, Mom.
Beards are cool again.
Don't you know that?
Listen Peter, I don't know what your girlfriend thinks about this or your boss, but as your mom, I have to be completely honest.
You just look shaggy.
Shaggy?
This is barely a stubble.
I'm sorry, Mom.
But I like it, and I'm keeping it.
Oh, Peter, honey, you know how I feel about facial hair.
It doesn't look good on you.
In fact, it doesn't look good on anybody.
You look so much better when you're clean-shaven.
George, tell him something.
Oh, Margaret, he's fine.
Hey, I'm serious.
Honey, please.
Fine.
Let's make a deal then.
I shave it, but you promise you won't mention this again.
Absolutely.
Not even a word about it for the whole weekend.
I promise.
If you shave, I'll shut up about it and not bother you anymore.
Okay, deal.
Just give me a second. goodness gracious.
Peter, what have you done?
What?
You said I should shave.
Well, I shaved.
Happy now?
You shaved your head.
Well, not the whole head.
Yeah, I can see that.
Just the front.
Why would you do that?
Now it looks like you have a receding hairline.
Oh, come on.
Get back into that bathroom.
Mom, we had a deal.
I shave and we don't talk about it.
George, say something.
You're really smart, son.
Really smart.
So peter found a way to trick his mom in the end.
All right, let's look at expression number one shaggy you just look shaggy.
If you have shaggy hair or a shaggy beard, is your hair long or short?
It's usually.
If your beard is shaggy or your hair is shaggy, it's usually pretty long.
Is it tidy or untidy?
It's definitely untidy.
Um, you know, when you look at someone, maybe they haven't uh, brushed their hair or they haven't cut their hair in a long time and it just looks really messy, a little bit tangled then you could say that it's shaggy.
So what do you think when you see someone with shaggy hair or a shaggy beard?
I think especially the shaggy beard has become more acceptable now, at least in my country.
But I think we're still conditioned as a society to think of someone with shaggy hair or a shaggy beard as as someone who's not very professional, someone who's not very, sometimes clean, which obviously doesn't make any sense because you know you could be the richest man in the world and the cleanest man in the world and still have a shaggy beard or still have shaggy hair.
But I think I am still a victim of this first impression thing.
So Sometimes I may judge a person with shaggy hair and a shaggy beard, unfortunately.
Expression number two, stubble.
This is barely a stubble.
If someone has a stubble, do they have hair on their face or not?
Yes, someone with a stubble has hair on their face.
And how long is that hair?
Very long, just a little bit.
So we're talking about like the, the area of the mustache and the beard.
It would be maybe like two days.
That would be if you haven't shaven.
If you're a guy obviously, and you haven't shaven in two days, then you start to get a stubble.
If you're a man, do you like how a stubble looks on you?
And if you're a woman, do you like a stubble on a guy?
I love a stubble on a guy.
Yeah, I think, again, this is all part of what society tells us.
And now I think society is telling us that beards are cool and stubbles are cool.
And so I think, once again, I am being conditioned by it.
And so yes, I definitely like a stubble on a guy.
Expression number three, facial hair.
You know how I feel about facial hair.
Where does facial hair grow?
So when we're talking about facial hair, we're talking about the hair that's on your face.
But when we talk about facial hair in general, we're usually referring to the mustache and the beard.
These are the, so I would say the chin, the cheeks, and, you know, above your upper lip.
How is facial hair seen in your culture slash country now?
I think the whole facial hair thing goes through faces.
There are faces when Now I wouldn't be able to tell you the decades, but I know there have been times when facial hair was considered disgusting and unprofessional and dirty.
And maybe it is still so in some cultures, maybe in your country.
But I think right now, especially in Spain...
I think most guys have a beard right now.
It's considered really cool.
And so, yeah, I think it's considered pretty cool now.
It's really an accessory for a lot of men.
Expression number four, clean shaven.
You look so much better when you're clean shaven.
If a man is clean shaven, does he have a beard?
If a man is clean-shaven, no, he doesn't have a beard.
What about a mustache?
No, not even a mustache.
If you are clean-shaven, that means you don't have facial hair.
That means that you are completely shaven.
Can you say a child is clean-shaven?
No, you can't say that.
It's true that a child doesn't have any facial hair, but a child because they've never had facial hair.
They cannot shave.
So clean shaven is only used for men that shave.
Think about your friends.
Are most of them clean shaven or do most of them have a beard?
Um, well, I don't have a lot of friends.
So, but I'm trying to think.
Some of my boyfriend's friends are clean shaven, but my friends, no, I don't think so.
But then again, it's so common here now.
Even the ones that don't have a full beard, they still have at least a stubble.
Expression number five, receding hairline.
Now it looks like you have a receding hairline.
If you have a receding hairline, is your hair falling or growing?
If you have a receding hairline, your hair is falling.
And if you have a receding hairline, in which part of your head is the hair missing?
It's missing in the front.
So that's why the hairline is where the forehead starts, stops and the hair begins.
So if your hair starts falling um in the front, then you've got a receding hairline, because your hairline is basically receding, is going back.
Do you have a receding hairline or do you know someone who does?
I don't have a receding hairline.
It's usually more common among men because men tend to lose hair more than men.
Women do, especially when they get a little older.
Let's see.
Some of my boyfriend's friends, they do have a receding hairline.
And actually he even told me that one of them, one of his friends, did and he got a hair transplant.
Because, you know, it's the thing where they take some of the hair from the back of your head And they put it in in the front, where the hair is missing.
So yeah, some of his friends had a receding hairline, but now they don't anymore.
And that is it for today.
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