hello everyone and welcome back to English Pot my name is Marco my name is Katherine and today we're talking about buying clothes that's right we're going to go and get some clothes but on this occasion we are going to get a suit and we're going to have it made especially for us so before we get started why don't we take a look at one key word that we have in vocabulary preview vocabulary preview okay this word makes me think of things that are very rich and soft mhm it's a fabric right that's right it's a
kind of textile it's called cashmere cashmere so maybe you've heard of cashmere wool it's a special kind of wool that comes from animals uh-huh so this is a a textile or a fabric that is commonly used to make pants um nice pants or suits for men or scars or sweaters you've ever had a cashmere sweater you know it's very luxurious very soft mhm so it can be a little bit expensive depending on the quality and that's what we're going to be looking at now we're going to be we're going to be making a suit out
of cashmere so why don't we listen to our dialogue for the first time [Music] welcome to Bill's Fabric World what can I do for you today i was wondering if you guys also tailor clothes sure we do we have the best tailor in the country what is it that you need exactly well I'm looking to get a custommade suit excellent we have the finest cashmere at affordable prices how about we get you measured let's start off by measuring the width of your shoulders now let's measure the length of your arms and this bit around your
neck here can you make sure you leave a little extra space in the collar my neck gets easily irritated no problem now for your pants let me just measure your waist and the inseam you might also want to leave a little extra room in the waist area i tend to gain a few pounds over the holidays okay now you can pick your fabric and pattern design please follow me [Music] so this reminds me of something that people used to do a lot more often so you go to the tailor and you'd have some clothes made
most people don't do this anymore yeah well it's actually really interesting maybe because it's more expensive nowadays or tailor are harder to find that's right so let's learn about the words first and what they mean and then maybe we can talk about this at the end of today's show language Takeaway all right so today on Language Takeaway we have a word that is a noun and a verb so as you mentioned the person that makes suits is a tailor that's right you can say my uncle is a tailor he makes clothes for famous people mhm
but this word is also a verb that means it's an action word we can say my uncle the tailor he tailor clothes okay so to tailor clothes and what does it mean when you say to tailor well it can have two meanings the first is what we learn about in today's dialogue it means to make clothes so to make a shirt or to make a pair of pants but these days we often say to tailor which means to fix something so for example Marco if you buy a pair of pants and they're too long you
can have them tailored you have them tailored and that means that I am going to have them fixed so they fit me properly exactly this is a lot more common right now okay so we're going to be tailoring clothes now if any of you have ever been to the tailor what they do is they measure you and what do they measure well in this case they get the width of your shoulders what's really great about these upcoming words is that they're useful in math as well math and just basic measurements so width is how uh
big something is across across so how how wide something is exactly wide width okay so that's the width now your shoulders they are wide and well your legs on the other hand your legs and arms you don't measure the width usually you measure the length how long they are okay so width and length now just to throw it in there this wasn't in the dialogue but what would be the other measure word so the third word would be height so you think of a rectangle uh you have the width how wide something is the length
how long it is and the height how tall it is how tall it is right so width length and height all right now that we've uh measured our arms and legs now we want to measure our waist okay this is the important one this is also the sensitive one if you find out you've gained some weight we measure the waist okay that's how big you are around your stomach and so usually we measure this in a circle okay okay so you've heard of a 26 in waist or a 32 in waist this is the size
of your stomach okay so it's just above your hips right as you say it's your stomach and well we measure the waist and now in men especially they measure the inseam now this is very particular for tailor and and having suits made what is the inseam of your pants well think of the word in inside this is the inside of your pants so from your foot to the middle of your pants where your zipper starts okay mhm so that's not the outside length it's the inside length okay uh-huh now for example skirts they don't have
inseams right no because there's no inside there's no middle right so it's just like a a circle okay but in pants or shorts you have an inseam that's that's where it's um connected in the middle all right so also in shorts very interesting so you can measure the inseam of pants or shorts all right so very interesting and particular words for tailor why don't we listen to our dialogue again and we'll be back shortly welcome to Bill's Fabric World what can I do for you today i was wondering if you guys also tailor clothes sure
we do we have the best tailor in the country what is it that you need exactly well I'm looking to get a custommade suit excellent we have the finest cashmere at affordable prices how about we get you measured let's start off by measuring the width of your shoulders now let's measure the length of your arms and this bit around your neck here can you make sure you leave a little extra space in the collar my neck gets easily irritated no problem now for your pants let me just measure your waist and the inseam you might
also want to leave a little extra room in the waist area i tend to gain a few pounds over the holidays okay now you can pick your fabric and pattern design please follow [Music] me all right we're back so now we have three key phrases that we found in this dialogue so let's take a look at them now in Fluency Builder fluency Builder this first phrase is the topic of today's lesson uh well we talked a little bit about measurements for a suit but um in particular we're getting a custommade suit okay so this word
custom made well custom is important it means special or unique there's no other like it so we could talk about custom cars that means a car that has been fixed specially for you okay so a custommade suit would be a suit that was made specifically for your height for how big your waist is etc specifically for you right so a suit that I buy at the department store is just a normal suit but a suit that I have made for me is a custommade suit okay and as you said you can use it for cars
a custommade car or maybe for example a custommade custommade kitchen that means that you get to pick every single part of the kitchen that you want many people do that right they have customuilt or custommade homes yeah that's that's always something I've wanted to do but I hear that it's much more expensive than getting a normal homemade all right so that's the first key phrase now moving on when we talk about measuring we say "I measured i measured the length of this street." Right or "Let's measure you so we can see how big you are."
Mhm but if you notice in the dialogue we use the passive voice he says "Let's get you measured." Okay i got measured or it got measured to get measured as you say is the is the passive voice now what's the difference between passive and active all right so basically what happens here is we are concentrating on the person and the action falling upon you for example so I got measured what happened to me i got measured who did it who measured you we don't know we don't know we don't care right all right the point
the important part is that uh you were measured you got measured but we could have a different phrase we say for example um I will measure this table or he measures the height of the door and we know he measures I will measure we know who the actor is that means it's active voice because the focus is on who's doing this action but in passive voice the important thing is who is receiving the action right now it's a little bit complicated because as you can see measured is in the past but we're not really talking
about the past so it may get a little bit complicated we can take a more in-depth look at that in the community section you can ask a couple questions we'll place a couple of examples but it's kind of hard to get into the grammar uh over an audio podcast right that's true so that's why we have the practice space on the website all right now moving on we have our last phrase and when he was talking about the waist and how he should leave a little bit of extra room it's because he tends he tends
to gain a few pounds okay so to gain a few pounds is like gaining a kilo it means to gain weight over the holidays and and in this case to tend to I tend to means I normally or I usually so for example Marco what do you tend to eat for breakfast i tend to eat scrambled eggs and and a glass of yogurt that's healthy do you tend to run late in the morning uh yes true right so tend to it's a tendency is what usually happens it's normal it's normal all right so very interesting
phrases very interesting words why don't we listen to our dialogue for the last time [Music] welcome to Bill's Fabric World what can I do for you today i was wondering if you guys also tailor clothes sure we do we have the best tailor in the country what is it that you need exactly well I'm looking to get a custommade suit excellent we have the finest cashmere at affordable prices how about we get you measured let's start off by measuring the width of your shoulders now let's measure the length of your arms and this bit around
your neck here can you make sure you leave a little extra space in the collar my neck gets easily irritated no problem now for your pants let me just measure your waist and the inseam you might also want to leave a little extra room in the waist area i tend to gain a few pounds over the holidays okay now you can pick your fabric and pattern design please follow me all right so we talked earlier about how most people buy their clothes at a department store or a clothing store have you seen much of this
you know maybe back in Ecuador it's more common than in America um yeah usually people just go to a a department store and get suits for example but um it's actually very common as well because it's kind of in their artisans to be like a shoe maker or to be a tailor so actually people like it more and go to tailor because they kind of become renowned like oh he used to make suits for the president so you know people really really like to get suits made there and obviously they they fit much better you
feel more comfortable and you look better yeah I've who buy all these suits my brother for example they never quite fit right you can tell it's a little too big in the shoulders my brother's tall so his his pants are always a little bit too short but when you come to a place like China and most people can get these these suits made for them they just look fabulous it looks very very nice yeah so um maybe you guys can tell us if you've ever had anything tailor made not only guys suits but girls also
get tailor made dresses tailor made blouses i always get coats made actually because my shoulders are broad and so it's hard for me to find coats that fit right but if I get one customade it looks really good right so come to our website englishpod.com leave your questions and comments there and we'll see you guys later until next time guys bye [Music] the English Pod audio review listen to the meaning then say the vocabulary word made especially for the needs of one person custom made to assertain the dimensions quantity measure be sure make sure be
more likely tend an artistic or decorative design that repeats pattern design let's try that faster an artistic or decorative design that repeats pattern design be sure make sure be more likely tend made especially for the needs of one person custom made to assertain the dimensions quantity measure now say the word and hear it in a sentence custom made brad got a custommade motorcycle it looks amazing custom made i want to get a custommade sports car custommade her dress was custom made in Italy measure i need to measure the length of this street measure help me
measure the width of this box measure many people tried to measure the diameter of the earth make sure Make sure you make some extra food just in case make sure please make sure you leave the door unlocked make sure can you make sure those reports are done by the end of this week tend don't buy cheap things they tend to break easily tend i always tend to forget my keys in my car tend people tend to forget what happened in the past pattern design this flower pattern for my dress looks really nice pattern design i
bought wallpaper that has a black and red circle pattern pattern design i want a simple and elegant dress pattern [Music]
