[Music] hello everyone and welcome to English pod my name is Marco my name is Katherine and we have a very fun lesson for you today that's right we're going to talk about toys so uh we're going to actually take a look at a lot of different types of toys and uh we're going to be listening to a couple of commercials that's right so we've got two children who are watching TV and they're listening to a number of different commercials so we're going to learn about some of these very popular products in a moment let's first
listen to our [Music] dialogue SpongeBob square panss will be right back after these brief messages what's that on the horizon a pirate ship raid Villages and find ber treasure with these new pirates Lego set build a ship and decide who rules the sea par cool the new Play-Doh sparkling brights precious gem press make large colorful gems for you and your friends with five special molds comes with a new sparkling bright Play-Doh compound in four new colors Treasure Chest sold separately wow mommy can I get that for my birthday Wolverine Jean Gray Rogue and Professor X
collect all four of these special edition collectible X-Men action figures and decide the future of the mutants in our world no way I want Professor X the new collector's edition nursery rhymes porcelain dolls little B peep come comes with her own sheep and staff her clothes are made with the finest fabrics and real Italian lace and her face has been hand painted by our finest artists only $199 ooh she's pretty I've never had a porcelain doll before I doubt mom and dad will get you that for your birthday she costs a pretty penny plus you'd
most likely break her what is better than a board what is better than one board game three board games in one enjoy playing chess and checkers on this side of the board but if you're looking for some more fun flip it and play the classic game of sorry that's ingenius why hasn't anyone thought of that before now you can take SpongeBob SquarePants wherever you go with the new SpongeBob SquarePants glowing the dark yo-yo and now back to our [Music] show all right we're back so a lot of great toys and actually it's very popular that
while maybe you're watching cartoon carons you get a lot of these commercials that are selling you all types of toys absolutely because normally children watch cartoons and children like toys so it makes sense exactly so why don't we take a look at uh so why don't we take a look at six key words that we have for you on language takeaway language takeaway okay Marco so what's the first word we're looking at here today all right we have actually a brand a very famous type of toy um they're called Legos Legos so Lego Legos Legos
so Legos are basically little pieces that you put together to build things yeah they're like little blocks okay so uh when you see them they don't look like anything but as a child you get to create anything you want mhm so Legos have become very famous they have like special uh types that you can recreate maybe a spaceship from Star Wars a pirate ship a lot of different types now okay so the one in today's commercial is pirate Legos so they're building a pirate ship exactly Legos uh all right and the next toy that we
have is also a proper noun it's a brand and it's called Play-Doh Play-Doh Okay so play like playing with something playing basketball but Play-Doh is it's like clay right it's like clay but it's made out of flow I think and and you can shape it into any thing you want so when I was little I used to make Play-Doh animals you know you could make a ball and then you make another ball and then all of a sudden you have a cow right so it's a very soft texture type of a of a material that
you can mold you can give it different shapes and that's what we call Play-Doh obviously as you say it's it's safe for children I think it's made out of a out of some flour salt and flour and I think a lot of children sometimes eat this so it's it's pretty safe for kids right so yeah that's that's Play-Doh it's a proper noun and I guess everyone just calls it Play-Doh so this is the toy that we're talking about now moving on we are talking about uh the X-Men Wolverine Jean Gray Rogue Professor X and all
of these come in little statues that we call action figures all right so what you're talking about here are obviously the X-Men Marco uh and X-Men there are many different kinds of X-Men you have like you said Wolverine who's maybe one of the most famous and Rogue but when you collect these little statues these little dolls they're called action figures so figure is like a kind of doll right so the X-Men is just an example you have action figures of all sorts of cartoons or movies Star Wars action figures are very popular right or GI
Joe action figures are very popular as well that's right so they're little toy statues that children play with all right moving on now we have an adjective uh a way to describe the X-Men that's right so the the X-Men as you know are not normal people They have special powers some X-Men can fly Wolverine has uh animal abilities he can use his long claws uh so these are mutants that means that um they were humans but something changed in them and it makes them have the these special powers okay so a mutant is a maybe
a person that has special powers like uh like as you say Wolverine or and all these types of X-Men but I guess to taking maybe a look at the verb mutate that means to change to change right okay so to mutate is to change so we could say I found a frog that had three legs okay so it clearly mutated because normally frogs have like four legs exactly you see that sometimes with uh chickens that maybe have two heads or something like this these are mutants okay they they have mutated okay very good and now
moving on to our dolls they were talking about these beautiful porcelain dolls okay so let's talk about porcelain because I think everyone knows what a doll is but but porcelain is a special kind of doll right right it's a material mhm uh and usually you can find this material very commonly in your plates all right so it's not clear it's not glass no um it's colored it's normally whitish um and very very fine very pretty mhm so you call it porcelain I guess it's a type of ceramic right that's right okay so yeah you have
porcelain dolls many people also have very fine china that you call it like dinner plates or teacups or teacups and those are usually made of porcelain mhm all right and finally they were talking about a game that has three games in one and one of the kids said wow that's ingenious ingenious this is a great word makes you sound really fluent so ingenious basically means clever right it's a really good idea it's very clever good idea yeah so if something is ingenious it's just wow it's very creative for example I have a pair of gloves
but on the fingers sometimes I can pull a cover over them and they turn into mittens all right I think it's ingenious you have gloves and mittens I have gloves and mittens all the time all right so a lot of interesting words there a lot of specific toys and uh particularly brands that you may or may not know um but why don't we go back and listen to the dialogue again and we'll be back with fluency [Music] Builder SpongeBob SquarePant will be right back after these brief messages what's that on the horizon a pirate ship
raid Villages and find buried treasure with this new pirates Lego set build the ship and decide who rules the sea cool the new Play-Doh sparkling brights precious gem press make large colorful gems for for you and your friends with five special molds comes with a new sparkling brights Play-Doh compound in four new colors Treasure Chest sold separately wow mommy can I get that for my birthday Wolverine Jean Gray Rogue and Professor X collect all four of these special edition collectible X-Men action figures and decide the future of the mutants in our world no way I
want Professor X the new collector's edition Nursery run porcelain dolls little B peep comes with her own sheep and staff her clothes are made with the finest fabrics and real Italian lace and her face has been hand painted by our finest artists only $199 ooh she's pretty I've never had a porcelain doll before I doubt mom and dad will get you that for your birthday she costs a pretty penny plus you'd most likely break her what is better than a board what is better than one board game three board games in one enjoy playing chess
and checkers on this side of the board but if you're looking for some more fun flip it and play the classic game of sorry that's ingenious why hasn't anyone thought of that before now you can take SpongeBob SquarePants wherever you go with the new SpongeBob SquarePants glowing the dark yo-yo and now back to our show [Music] okay so the first phrase here influency Builder a really important one for anyone who's buying anything because you often see this phrase on packages or you hear it in commercials right as you saw as you saw in the Play-Doh
commercial the guy said Treasure Chest sold separately okay sold separately that means the treasure chest is not included you have to buy it extra mhm as you say you usually see it in packaging as well maybe you buy by a toy car and at the bottom it will say batteries sold separately that means there are no batteries in the Box you have to buy batteries extra exactly so that's what the phrase sold separately means it indicates that you it's not included in the product that you are buying mhm all right now moving on again to
the uh action figures and the dolls we saw this very interesting way of describing them for example the action figure said special edition collectible X-Men action figures okay special edition this is really important and it's very common I think with uh with special toys or action figures or even baseball cards special edition means that they're produced specially on one occasion at one time they're not always produced right so for example if you have like you say uh baseball cards or maybe action figures they're produced normally but then a limited amount a special type of the
same action figure will be produced so that's a special edition or also commonly known as a Collector's Edition all right so PE some people collect stamps you know stamps for letters that you send and I know many countries like America um offer special edition or collector's edition stamps these are produced once and usually they Mark a special occasion like the Olympics in 1996 we had special edition stamps right so these uh special edition objects are usually not used they're for collectors like like the name says right collector edition right so you plan to sell them
later on or you collect them for yourself uh they're not normal right they usually go up in value because they're very limited that's right okay so collector's edition special edition and now when they were talking about the porcelain dolls as well it's pretty expensive right almost $200 that's a really expensive doll and so one of the kids said you know what I think uh mom and dad won't buy you that because uh it costs a pretty penny a pretty penny this does not mean that the penny is beautiful right a penny is a 1 cent
coin in the United States that means uh it's very very low in value the coin but a pretty penny is actually the opposite it means it's very expensive mhm so what would how would you uh use this in another in another example H I've always wanted to buy a Ferrari but man Ferraris cost a pretty penny Okay so you have to add the word cost before you say pretty penny right that's right you can't say it is a pretty penny you have to say it costs a pretty penny or it's worth a pretty penny exactly
it's worth a pretty penny okay very good and for our last phrase I think this one is a very good phrase uh because it describes a lot of different toys that glow in the dark glowin the- dark toys okay so something that glows in the dark the verb here is to Glow means that uh it can be seen even when when it's dark okay so for example when I turn the lights off and um I can see this yo-yo in my room that means it's glowin the dark it has light even in the dark right
so there are a lot of different toys and things like this usually glowi in- the dark toys they have a a green glow right they look green in the dark I used to have stars so they were stickers star stickers and I put them on my ceiling so that when I was in bed I could look at them and they were glow-in-the-dark so when the lights were off I still had you can still see them right so yeah glow in the dark it's a way of describing an item an object that you are able to
see in the darkh all right so that's all we have for you on language all right so that's all we have for you on fluency Builder why don't we go back listen to the dialogue one last time and we'll be back to talk some [Music] more SpongeBob square pans will be right back after these brief messages what's that on the horizon a pirate ship raid Villages and find berri treasure with this new pirates Lego set build a ship and decide who rules the SE hard cool the new Play-Doh sparkling brights precious gem press make large
colorful gems for you and your friends with five special molds comes with a new sparkling brights Play-Doh compound in four new colors Treasure Chest sold separately wow mommy can I get that for my birthday Wolverine Jean Gray Rogue and Professor X collect all four of these special edition collectible X-Men action figures and decide the future of the mutants in our world no way I want Professor X the new collector's edition nursery rhymes porcelain dolls little B peep comes with her own sheep and staff her clothes are made with the finest fabrics and real Italian lace
and her face has been hand painted by our finest artists only $199 ooh she's pretty I've never had a porcelain doll before I doubt mom and dad will get you that for your birthday she costs a pretty penny plus you'd most likely breaker what is better than a board what is better than one board game three board games in one enjoy playing chess and checkers on this side of the board but if you're looking for some more fun flip it and play the classic game of sorry that's in genius why hasn't anyone thought of that
before now you can take SpongeBob SquarePants wherever you go with the new SpongeBob SquarePants glowing in their dark yo-yo and now back to our [Music] show all right so talking about toys these are really interesting toys are there any specific toys that you had when you were growing up or that you really really liked I had an amazing Brio train set okay this is when I was young and uh a train set is basically like Legos with train so you build a track and you push the train around the track and so I used to
have um a track that was as big as the living room and my my challenge my goal was to use every single piece wow which is very hard because some pieces don't fit with other pieces and so that was my favorite toy because I got to be very creative and then you would turn on the train and it would go away it wasn't electric so I had to push it myself ah okay what was your favorite toy um actually when I was growing up I used to collect little toys cars I had a lot surprise
I used to have a lot of little toy cars and uh I even had a little special I don't know like a box for them when you can so I could see them and then as time went on I I got to collect the scale cars you know the ones that are 1 to 10 one to four did you build them or did you buy them made no usually I I bought them made I actually tried the whole um building model cars model airplanes but it's so hard very hard even a adults have a hard
time with that it's very difficult so I don't know what type of kid actually does that when they're growing up but uh but yeah so many toys out there so many people collect them play with them you have childhood toys that uh you're very fond of so that's what we want to know what type of toy that you grew up with what did you like to play with when you were a kid or if you have kids what toys do your kids like uh because we're not too familiar with toys these days we'd be curious
to hear about those that's right the English pod audio review listen to the meaning then say the vocabulary word a container used to give its shape to something mold considered valuable by collectors collectible a posable plastic figurine of a character action figure a kind of toy yo-yo an animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants a toy set of Lego Pirates Lego set a group of similar things that belong together set a fictional superhero team X-Men a modeling compound used by children Play-Doh a chest filled with valuables Treasure Chest let's try that faster a chest filled with valuables
Treasure Chest a fictional super hero team X-Men considered valuable by collectors collectible a container used to give its shape to something mold a modeling compound used by children Play-Doh a group of similar things that belong together set an animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants a posable plastic figurine of a character action figure a kind of toy yo-yo a toy set of Lego Pirates Lego set now say the word and hear it in a sentence set the little girls took out their tea set and had a tea party set this Lego set comes with five men a
dragon and two horses set on all three set sets of exotic toy animals and create your own Zoo mold he pressed the Play-Doh into the mold mold she poured the cake batter into the cake mold and then placed it in the oven mold he gently lifted the mold off of the sand and smiled at the Sand Castle he had made collectible I keep this doll on the Shelf in its original box because it is a collectible doll collectible I have have a lot of collectible items such as baseball cards and model airplanes collectible every year
for my birthday my uncle gives me a collectible coin action figure this action figure can shoot a laser from its arm action figure my sister has several Toy Story action figures action figure the actress thought it was weird to see her face on her character's action figure yoyo this guy in my school does crazy tricks with his yo-yo during recess yo-yo she looped the string around her finger through the yo-yo grabbed the string several times and performed a trick yoyo the only thing I know how to do with a yo-yo is how to throw it
the English pod audio review listen to the meaning then say the vocabulary word a container used to give its shape to something mold considered valuable by collectors collectible a posable plastic figurine of a character action figure a kind of toy yo-yo an animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants a toy set of Lego Pirates Lego set a group of similar things that belong together set a fictional superhero team X-Men a modeling compound used by children Play-Doh a chest filled with valuables Treasure Chest let's try that faster a chest filled with valuables treasure chest a fictional superhero team
X-Men considered valuable by collectors collectible a container used to give its shape to something mold a modeling compound used by children Play-Doh a group of similar things that belong together set an animated television series SpongeBob Square Pants a posable plastic figurine of a character action figure a kind of toy yo-yo a toy set of Lego Pirates Lego set now say the word and hear it in a sentence set the little girls took out their tea set and had a tea party set this Lego set comes with five men a dragon and two horses set own
all three sets of exotic toy animals and create your own Zoo mold he pressed the Play-Doh into the mold mold she poured the cake batter into the cake mold and then placed it in the oven mold he gently lifted the mold off of the sand and smiled at the Sand Castle he had made collectible I keep this doll on the Shelf in its original box because it is a collectible doll collectible I have a lot of collectible items such as baseball cards and model airplanes collectible every year for my birthday my uncle gives me a
collectible coin action figure this action figure can shoot a laser from its arm action figure my sister has several Toy Story action figures action figure the actress thought it was weird to see her face on her character's action figure yoyo this guy in my school does crazy tricks with his yo-yo during recess yo-yo she looped the string around her finger through the yo-yo grabbed the string several times and performed a Trick Yo-yo the only thing I know how to do with a yo-yo is how to throw it [Music] [Music] [Music]
