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Hello and welcome to the English Like a Native podcast. My name is Anna and you're listening to week 29, day 4 of Your English Five a Day, the second season.
I'm here every day of the working week from Monday to Friday to give you the daily dip that you need into the English English language in order to expand your vocabulary, improve your listening skills and feel more comfortable and more like yourself when communicating in English.
So let's begin, as we always do, with a snapshot of what's to come.
Oliver continued to toss and turn in his bed, unable to get comfortable despite feeling feeling exhausted from his long day at work.
Finally giving up on sleep, he slipped on his warm slippers and decided to pad quietly across the landing to the bathroom.
After a quick trip to the loo, he hoped he might finally be able to drift off to sleep.
Fabulous. Let's do a deep dive now into our vocabulary, starting with the phrase, toss and turn.
This is a verb phrase, to toss and turn.
Toss, T -O -S -S, and turn, T -U -R -N, turn, toss and turn.
To toss and turn is to move restlessly in bed, to be unable to sleep.
You're moving around, trying to get comfortable.
You toss and you turn.
It's something that I certainly do when the nights are warmer.
I find when the temperature goes up, it's harder for me to fall into a deep sleep or to get to to sleep at all.
It's hard for me to get to sleep when it's warm so I toss and turn trying to find a spot where I feel cooler and more comfortable and I can finally drift off to sleep.
Here's an example sentence.
She tossed and turned all night worried about the exam.
So what makes you toss and turn in the night?
Do you tend to think about things that have concerned you during the day or is it simple environmental factors?
Heat, noise, light.
Moving on. Next, we have the noun slippers.
Slippers. We spell this S -L -I -P -P -E -R -S.
Slippers. Slippers are comfortable comfortable indoor shoes, typically what you wear in your home.
If you're going away to stay overnight somewhere in a hotel or to a friend's house, perhaps it's quite cold or you just like your home comforts, then you may take your slippers with you.
They are designed to keep your feet warm or protect your feet from the environment.
For example, if you have young children who tend to leave their Lego and little toys around, then you may wear slippers just to stop yourself from having a nasty interaction with a piece of Lego that's left strewn on the floor.
In this country, we tend to wear slippers mostly during the winter when it's colder.
Here's an example sentence.
I like to put on my slippers when I come home from work.
Now I like a pair of slippers, but they have to be quite sturdy.
I don't like the slippers that are too loose that you slide around in.
I move around my house quite a lot, often doing chores and moving things around.
So I like sturdy slippers that I'm not likely to slip in.
And And I also am concerned about my foot health.
How my feet will respond to being in quite loose slippers does bother me.
So I make sure that I wear quite sturdy, strong slippers.
Do you own a pair of slippers?
Perhaps you own several pairs of slippers.
Next we have the noun loo.
Loo. We spell this L -O -O.
This is an informal British term for the toilet.
We often say, I need the loo.
Could you tell me where the loo is, please?
So here's an example sentence.
I need to use the loo before we leave. Now, loo isn't rude.
It is informal, but it's not rude in any way or crude.
It's perfectly fine to use in most situations.
Next, we have the noun landing.
Landing. We spell this L -A -N -D -I -N -G.
Landing. A landing is a level area at the top or bottom of a staircase or rather the area at the the top and the bottom of a staircase.
So it's the area that you land, whether you're walking up the stairs, then you land at the top.
As you come down the stairs, you land at the bottom.
And that area is the landing.
So sometimes my children say, mum, where's my socks?
Or mum, where's my drink?
And I'll say it's on the landing.
It's upstairs on the landing.
Oh, oh, OK. And they are running up the stairs to the landing to grab whatever item it is they're trying to grab.
Here's an example sentence.
We placed a small table on the landing between floors.
Do you have a large landing or a small landing in your house?
In our house, we have quite a large landing.
So large, in fact, I have a huge double set of drawers on the landing, which is very handy because our rooms upstairs are quite small, so fitting in lots of furniture for storing clothes is tricky.
So, having a big space on the landing where I can have a huge drawer unit is useful.
Last on today's list is the verb verb pad, pad, p -a -d, to pad.
To pad is to walk softly or steadily.
It's not as common as some of the other verbs that we use for walking.
Here's an example sentence.
He padded quietly across the room to avoid waking the baby.
Okay, that's our five.
Let's do a quick recap.
cap. We started with the verb phrase toss and turn.
To toss and turn. To toss and turn is to move restlessly in bed, unable to sleep.
To toss and turn. We had the noun slippers, which are comfortable indoor shoes.
Slippers. We had the noun loo, the informal British term for the toilet.
toilet, the loo. We had the noun landing, which is that area at the top or bottom of a staircase, landing.
And we had the verb pad, to walk softly or steadily, to pad.
Okay, now it's time for you to raise your voice as we do this for pronunciation purposes.
Please repeat after me.
Toss and turn. Toss and turn.
Slippers. Slippers.
loo loo landing landing pad pad pad.
Very good. All right.
I'm going to test your memory now.
What's the name for the comfortable indoor shoes?
Slippers. Absolutely.
You slip on your slippers.
And if you need to use the toilet, but you're speaking to a Brit, what term might you use?
Loo. I need the loo.
And what's the area at the top and bottom of a staircase called?
The landing. Very good.
If you're walking across the landing softly or steadily, what verb could you use?
Pad. Yes, you pad across the landing in the night trying not to wake the children.
And finally, if you yourself cannot sleep and you're moving restlessly in bed, what verb phrase would you use to describe what you're doing?
Toss and turn. Yes, fantastic.
Okay, let's listen to our snapshot once again.
Oliver continued to toss and turn in his bed, unable to get comfortable despite feeling feeling exhausted from his long day at work.
Finally giving up on sleep, he slipped on his warm slippers and decided to pad quietly across the landing to the bathroom.
After a quick trip to the loo, he hoped he might finally be able to drift off to sleep.
Okay, it's time to listen for our target vocabulary once again as I head into Storytime.
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How do you find them?
Where do you even start?
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Rachel stared at the ceiling for what felt like the hundredth time that night the red numbers on her alarm clock glowed 2 47 a .m she had been trying to fall asleep for over four hours but her mind wouldn't switch off work stress unpaid bills and her mother's illness all swirled around round in her head like a storm that wouldn't pass.
She turned onto her side, then her back, then her other side.
No matter how she positioned herself, sleep wouldn't come.
Rachel began to toss and turn, pulling the duvet up to her chin, then kicking it off when she felt too warm.
The sheets twisted around her legs like ropes.
This is ridiculous, she muttered to herself.
self. She sat up and rubbed her tired eyes.
Maybe a warm drink would help.
Rachel slipped her feet into her fluffy slippers and padded quietly across the bedroom floor, trying not to wake her sleeping partner, David.
The wooden floors creaked as she made her way across the landing and down the stairs to the kitchen.
She filled the kettle and put it on to boil, then searched through the cupboard for something soothing.
Chamomile tea! That was supposed to help with sleep, wasn't it?
While she waited for the tea to brew, Rachel stared out of the kitchen window into the dark garden.
The street was completely silent except for the distant hum of a night bus.
She felt like the only person awake in the entire world.
Back upstairs with her mug, Rachel tried reading a book.
But after 20 minutes, the words blurred together and she felt more awake than before.
She put the book aside and tried some deep breathing exercises she'd learned online.
In for four counts.
Hold for four. Out for four.
She felt silly, but she was desperate.
By 4 .15am, Rachel was back downstairs.
this time in the living room doing gentle stretches on the carpet.
She'd read somewhere that yoga could calm the mind, but as she attempted a single pose, she felt more frustrated than relaxed.
Perhaps a warm bath would work.
Rachel ran the water and added some lavender bath salts.
She soaked in the warm water for half an hour, feeling her muscles relax.
Surely this would do the trick.
But when she returned to bed, her mind started racing again.
She thought about tomorrow's important presentation at work, about how tired she'd be, about how this insomnia was becoming a regular problem.
Rachel glanced at the clock.
5 .30am. In two hours her alarm would go off.
She made one final trip to the loo then climbed back into bed.
As she lay there, she heard the first birds beginning their morning songs outside.
Just as the sky began to lighten with the first hints of dawn, Rachel finally felt her eyelids growing heavy.
But it was too late.
In 30 minutes, she'd have to get up and face another exhausting day.
day. And that brings us to the end of today's episode.
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