Learn English with podcast conversation season 1 | episode 2 – YouTube Dictation Transcript & Vocabulary

1.[Music] hello everyone and welcome to English pod my name is Marco and my name is Katherine and today we have a very exciting Elementary lesson for you that's right we are going to take our clothes to the dry cleaners okay so that means we have some dirty clothes they need to be cleaned let's listen to this dialogue one time and when we come back we'll be talking about the words and phrases that you hear in it thank God you are open I have an emergency hello Mr Henderson what can I do for you I need this dress and this suit dry cleaned ASAP okay I can have it ready by the end of the week no you don't understand I need this tomorrow morning I accidentally spilled beer all over my wife's dress and we have a wedding to attend tomorrow she's going to kill me okay I can have it ready tomorrow afternoon but this suit is also very stained I can't guarantee we can remove it completely fine can you also iron and starch this shirt certainly great this is our secret if you see my wife say nothing to her about [Music] this all right we're back so now there are probably a couple of words that you didn't understand so why don't we look at those now in language takeaway language takeaway Marco you already told our listeners about one phrase uh to dry clean so dry cleaned all right so that's when you take your clothes to a professional who doesn't only wash them right you don't just put water and soap on it they actually put some special chemicals and use special machines to get very hard to remove stains from it exactly and so this is often what we use when we clean coats or fancy shirts and dresses you don't want to clean those yourself right you can't put those in the washing machine no so this is the dry cleaner that's the name of the place and the action what they do is they dry clean clothes okay very good all right well I mentioned that we take them to the dry cleaners because we want to remove stains okay so a stain is a Mark or some color that does not come off does not go away all right so for example um sometimes you can have a wine stain ooh wine stains are the worst they're red and they never come off or blood stain or blood stain right so you can a stain is a noun but you can also use it as an adjective my shirt is stained okay so it's stained my pants are stained and I can't wear them again again now that's also you can also use it as a verb I stained my pants all right so it's a verb it's a noun and an adjective all in one easy to remember well there's another word that's well related to this word we spilled something okay so I spilled wine and it stained my shirt okay so to Spill and that means that you took some liquid and you put it onto your clothes or you dropped it and it made a mess okay so spill I spilled some milk okay spilled now it's pronounced differently from spell right that's right SP an I spilled all right now our next word is also a noun and a verb to iron to iron means means to make something flat with no lines okay to smooth it out so we use an iron to iron exactly so it's a metal electronic object it gets very hot so you wash your shirt for example and your shirts are wrinkled because you just washed them so you need to iron them that's right and so you smooth them out you flatten them with this object and iron okay and well usually if you take them to the dry cleaners they will iron them and also starch them okay so to starch something means to use uh some powder or chemical to make something stiff or uh hard mhm so the the noun or the the chemical is also called starch exactly so you think of a shirt with many buttons that a man wears to work he has a collar around his neck and that needs to be high and Tall it can't be flat and wrinkled and so a dry cleaner will use starch to make sure that this stands up okay very good so those are five key words for the dialogue today let's listen to the dialogue again and we'll be back with fluency Builder thank God you are open I have an emergency hello Mr Henderson what can I do for you I need this dress and this suit dry cleaned ASAP okay I can have it ready by the end of the week no you don't understand I need this tomorrow morning I accidentally spilled beer all over my wife's dress and we have a wedding to attend tomorrow she's going to kill me okay I can have it ready tomorrow afternoon but this suit is also very stained I can't guarantee we can remove it completely fine can you also iron and starch this shirt certainly great this is our secret if you see my wife say nothing to her about this all right we're back now so let's take a look at fluency Builder thank God thank God all right what is this phrase thank God okay this is a is a phrase we use in English to say that we're happy about something or that we're relieved okay so maybe I'm nervous that the male isn't going to come today and then the male comes and I say oh thank God the mail came yeah I'm happy I was I was hoping it would come so you're relieved Thank God now uh is it well we are using the word they God but it doesn't really have a like a religious connotation that much right not anymore no it's usually just a phrase exactly okay now what about this acronym ASAP or ASAP ASAP so as soon as possible it's an acronym so the first letter comes from the word it means as soon as possible very quickly right away you always hear that in in an office setting as well I need those papers ASAP I need those reports ASAP exactly so you can say it either way ASAP or ASAP and it means immediately okay and he said that he needed the suit ASAP and he said I can have it ready by the end of the week okay so that might not be fast enough for the client for the person here who has the stain but uh the end of the week is a very very useful phrase because it means um that maybe today's Monday or Tuesday by Friday or Saturday we'll have this ready for you because we think of the end of the week as Friday maybe Thursday Friday so I can say the end of the week or the end of the day exactly the end of the month or the end of the year exactly so the end of is usually um the last the last time so um thank goodness it's the end of the week I'm ready for my weekend very good okay so great phrases there as well let's listen to the dialogue for the last [Music] time thank God you are open I have an emergency hello Mr Henderson what can I do for you I need this dress and this suit dry cleaned ASAP okay I can have it ready by the end of the week no you don't understand I need this tomorrow morning I accidentally spilled beer all over my wife's dress and we have a wedding to attend tomorrow she's going to kill me okay I can have it ready tomorrow afternoon but this suit is also very stained I can't guarantee we can remove it completely fine can you also iron and starch this shirt certainly great this is our secret if you see my wife say nothing to her about [Music] this all right we're back so now dry cleaning ironing are are you good at this or do you get a lot of your clothes dry cleaned I'm pretty good at this actually I don't like to wash clothes I get really bored with the washing machine but I actually really like ironing really yeah I find it very relaxing really mhm I usually find it very frustrating really why is that because I I can't really iron well because I you know I start on one side and and I'm getting all the lines out and then the other side gets wrinkled or you know lines appear where I don't want them to appear it's very frustrating for me it is frustrating it takes some practice uh my suggestion is to use the the spritzer you know that in the iron there's some water that can come out like that well if you if you spray the water it it makes the the lines go out for longer right because if you iron over that it's more permanent I've also seen some sprays sometimes that you can spray your clothes with some special chemical that's not actually starch but it helps remove the wrinkles quicker exactly I I don't use that I use water generally but uh they're all available all right so that's all the time we have for today if you have any questions or comments you can visit our comment section on english.com and we'll see you guys there bye everyone [Music] bye