hello everyone and welcome to English pod my name is Marco and I'm Erica how are you Erica Marco I'm doing really well how about you I'm doing great I'm really excited because today we're talking about travel that's right we're going to give you some real English to talk about travel exactly English that you would use in everyday life that you hear in movies and TV shows English people actually use exactly so why don't you tell us a little bit about this lesson for today okay so today we are going to listen as a husband and
wife get ready to go on a trip all right that sounds a little bit complicated uh-huh well let's look at our two preview words vocabulary preview okay so the first word that we have is road trip road trip road trip road trip okay so road trips are really fun and interesting right road trips are great you get to get in a car with with your family and drive on a vacation yeah those are really fun and they're really popular in North America really popular I've been on a million road trips all right we'll talk about
that a little bit later on but now let's take a look at our second word and it's the cars packed the car is packed the cars packed the car is packed so when your car is packed it means that everything you need is inside the car all right so your bags your food everything that you need for your trip exactly perfect okay so those were our two preview words and now we are ready to listen to the dialogue for the first time okay this dialogue will be at normal speed it will be fast but don't
worry if you don't understand everything after 10 minutes we promise you will understand everything in this lesson so are we all ready to go yep I think so the car is packed we have munchies and music and the maps in the car did you get the camera got it did you fill up the tank yep it's all set you're sure we're not forgetting anything I'm sure we've got all our bases covered well let's get going then I love road trips do you think we can make a pit stop but we've only been on the road
for 10 minutes I know but I forgot to go to the bathroom before we left well she forgot to go to the bathroom yeah I hate it when this happens this happens to me on almost every road trip okay great so so now it's time for our language takeaway we have three words for our language takeaway today language takeaway and the first word is munchies munchies munchies so Munchies are snacks snacks food food chips chips cookies chocolate bars all that good stuff I love munchies and they're really good when you're taking a road trip indeed
okay so let's take a look at our second language takeaway word for today and it is fill up the tank fill up the tank fill up the tank fill up the tank so this is to put gas in your car put gas in the gas tank in the gas tank exactly all right our last language takeaway today is Pit Stop Pit Stop Pit Stop make a pit stop it's a quick stop for you to get some gas food go to the bathroom yeah a pit stop a quick stop great so now it's time for putting
it together putting it together okay so we have two great phrases for you today let's take a look at the first one we've got all our bases covered we've got all our bases covered we've got all our bases covered this is a really great phrase and it's really useful right yeah let's listen to a couple of examples example one we've got all our bases covered in case the hurricane hits example two okay I have my keys wallet and passport looks like I have all my bases covered okay it's clear now but you can use this
in a lot of different situations right you can use this in many situations if I'm at work I could say all right we've got a really good marketing plan we've got all our bases covered exactly you have everything ready you're all prepared Perfect all right now let's take a look at our second phrase and it's let's get going let's get going let's get going let's get going all right so when you say let's get going it just means let's start let's start let's go y okay but the interesting thing about this phrase is you can
change it a little and it means something different uh-huh let's listen to a couple of examples example one I have the chicken so let's get cooking example two this house is really scary let's get out of here example three I have another meeting in 20 minutes so let's get down to business so let's get down to business Marco let's get down to business let's listen to the dialogue one more time but this time it'll be a little bit slower and you'll understand much [Music] better so are we all ready to go yep I think so
the car's packed we have munchies and music and the maps in the car did you get the camera got it did you fill up the tank yep it's all set you're sure we're not forgetting anything I'm sure we've got all our bases covered well let's get going then I love road trips um do you think we can make a pit stop but we've only been on the road for 10 minutes I know but I forgot to go to the bathroom before we left so that was a little more clear this time wasn't it yeah you
can definitely understand better about what we've been talking about yep okay so now it's time to look at fluency Builder Erica why don't you explain what fluency Builder is in fluency Builder we give you some great useful phrases to help you express your ideas clearly okay great so let's look at fluency Builder fluency Builder all right so we all know how to ask the question are we ready to go that's right you can say can we go now or you can say are we ready to go exactly but there's another way that we can say
this and we heard it in our dialogue so let's listen so are we all ready to go so are we all ready to go wow that sounds really good it sounds a lot more fluent fluent exactly yeah okay so another simp phrase that we all know how to say is it is ready it is prepared it is ready right so these examples are fine they're right mhm yeah they're correct English no problem but there's another way to say this that we heard in the dialogue and it sounds a lot more fluent yep it's all set
yep it's all set it's all set that sounds much better yes and we're all set to listen to this dialogue for a third time and this time it's going to be at its normal speed so are we all ready to go yep I think so the car is packed we have munchies and music and the maps in the car did you get the camera got it did you fill up the tank yep it's all set you're sure we're not forgetting anything I'm sure we've got all our bases covered well let's get going then I love
love road trips M do you think we can make a pit stop but we've only been on the road for 10 minutes I know but I forgot to go to the bathroom before we left so Erica you said you've been on million road trips what was that all about where have you been okay well maybe not a million road trips but many road trips every summer I used to go on a road trip with my family and we would drive many many hours probably eight hours in one day up to Northern Canada oh wow nice
yeah and then we would go camping and we would sleep outside and we would have a campfire at night it was great ah family road trip yeah but maybe 8 hours and a car is a little too long well yeah well I've been on a different kind of road trip with some uh buddies of mine some friends we would drive to Las Vegas really yeah so that's really fun a bunch of crazy guys in a car going to Las Vegas and then just having fun and talking about everything so that's a much different experience than
the family road trip maybe that sounds a little bit more fun yeah 8 hours in a car is not really that boring with all your friends all right folks we're out of time time for today but be sure to visit our website at englishpod do.com and leave all your questions and comments okay well thanks for listening and until next time goodbye [Music] bye the English pod audio review listen to the meaning then say the vocabulary word prepared ready to leave all ready to go full everything is inside packed snacks [Music] food Munchies put gas in
the car fill up the tank ready all set have everything ready got all the bases covered start leave depart get going long car trip road trip quick stop for food or gas pit stop the luggage area of a car trunk person in a car not the driver passenger highway freeway a car you rent a car you pay to borrow rental car fee paid for using the highway highway toour let's try that faster long car trip road trip a car you rent a car you pay to borrow Rental Car have everything ready got all the bases
covered person in a car not the driver passenger snacks [Music] food Munchies quick stop for food or gas pit stop highway freeway start leave the depart get going put gas in the car fill up the tank prepared ready to leave all ready to go ready all set full everything is inside packed fee paid for using the highway highway to the luggage area of a car trunk now say the word and hear it in a sentence road trip I don't like road trips road trip let's take a road trip to Las Vegas road trip do you
want to take a road trip packed my suitcase is packed so we're ready to go packed did you pack the car packed we can't leave yet I didn't pack the car Munchies I'm starving do you have any munchies munchies let's get some munchies for the trip Munchies we don't have any Munchies can we go to the store fill up the tank did you remember to fill up the tank fill up the tank I can't fill up the tank I only have $5 fill up the tank I filled up my tank on the way home from
work Pit Stop we need some gas can we make a pit stop Pit Stop we're making a pit stop in an hour we'll eat lunch then pit stop I'm sorry I was late I made a pit stop on the way home we've got all our bases covered in case the hurricane hits so I've got my keys wallet and passport looks like I have all my bases covered this sounds like a great plan you've got all the bases covered get going we have a long trip today so let's get going get going what time do you
want to get going in the morning get going we didn't get going until lunchtime all set I've got everything ready so I'm all set for the trip all set are you all set to go to the airport all set we're all set this is going to be a great trip all ready to go it's time to get in the car we're all ready to go all ready to go it's time to leave are you all ready to go all ready to go come on I'm all ready to go to the airport [Music]
