[Music] hello English Learners welcome back to English pod my name is Marco and I'm Erica and today we're bringing you another great lesson for all of you who are interested in shopping especially those of you who are interested in shopping for a car a car exactly so we're going to give you some great language about describing a car or characteristics of a car Y and also some really interesting language for shopping yes especially buying something really big and expensive yeah like the car yeah so before we listen to our dialogue let's take a look at
vocabulary preview vocabulary preview on vocabulary preview today we're bringing you two words the first one is vehicle vehicle vehicle vehicle so again a vehicle is a machine right right a machine that carries people from one place to another so it's important to say that a vehicle could be an airplane a car a car a boat boat even bicycle right y That's a vehicle our second word is sedan sedan sedan sedan so a sedan is a type of car exactly it's a type of car with four doors that can fit five people inside so to make
it more clear most taxis are sedans exactly right they have four doors five people can fit in there including the driver except taxis in Mexico they're not sedans they're little beetles oh they're Volkswagen Beatles so those are not sedans but yeah most countries have sedans as taxis to give you some examples like a Toyota Corolla or a Toyota Camry as a sedan yeah yeah maybe like a a Volkswagen Jetta is that it a Jetta yeah Jetta is a sedan y now we could listen to our dialogue and it's going to be at a normal speed
the first time but you don't have to worry about it we'll come back and teach you some of the important words from the dialogue [Music] hi there can I help you folks I'm just browsing seeing what's on the lot my daughter wants a car for her birthday you know how it is Dad I'm 16 already and I'm like the only one at school who doesn't have a car she's right you know kids these days all have cars let me show you something we just got in a 1996 sedan excellent gas mileage it has dual airbags
and anti-ock brakes a perfect vehicle for a young driver dad I love it it's awesome can we get this one please I see what can you tell me about this one oh that's just an Old World War II tank that we use for TV commercials now about this sedan whoa whoa wait a minute tell me more about this tank well sir if you're looking for quality and safety then look no further 3 in of reinforced steel protect your daughter from short range missile attacks does the sedan protect her from missile attacks it does not well
I don't know let me sleep on it did I mention the tank is a tank I'll take it [Music] Dad I think she's really lucky really she's getting a tank to go to school how awesome is that uh I would be so embarrassed if I had to drive to school in a tank it's like the coolest car oh you're such a boy all right a surprising ending to a relatively easy shopping day yeah uh let's take a look at some language that we saw in our Dialogue on language takeaway language takeaway we have four words
for you today the first one is gas mileage gas mileage gas mileage gas mileage SO gas mileage is how many miles you can travel on a gallon or liter of gasoline well you know what's interesting in some English-speaking countries like Australia New Zealand Canada we use kilometers to measure distance but we still talk about gas mileage M yeah I guess you can't say gas kilom mileage no or or something like that but yeah it's yeah basically how many kilometers or how many miles you can travel on a tank or on a liter or gallon of
gas exactly okay the next word is airbags airbags airbags airbags these are like big bags of air that fill up and come out of the car when there's a crash right so that way you don't hit your head against the steering wheel or something like that so they protect you right I've heard that Volvo has like 18 airbags now in their cars they are very safe cars you know like a big balloon uh-huh okay our third word today is breakes breakes brakes brakes so what are brakes brakes are little what are brakes brakes are what
make your car stop okay so they're the Little Machines maybe that stop your car yeah they're on the wheels they make your car stop you have brakes on your bike yes on your car Etc mhm our last word today on language takeaway reinforced reinforced reinforced reinforced so we have some examples of how we use reinforced because it's a little bit weird yeah these will help you understand the meaning example one so I reinforced all the walls there's no way they're going to fall down example two this plastic stick is reinforced with glass so it's both
light and strong so basically anything that's reinforced is made stronger perfect reinforced steel reinforced table anything okay great so now we could listen to our dialogue again you can practice all these words that we just talked about and we'll come back [Music] shortly hi there can I help you folks I'm just browsing seeing what's on the lot my daughter wants a car for her birthday you know how it is Dad I'm 16 already and I'm like the only one at school who doesn't have a car she is right you know kids these days all have
cars let me show you something we just got in a 1996 sedan excellent gas mileage it has dual airbags and antilock brakes a perfect vehicle for a young driver dad I love it it's awesome can we get this one please I see what can you tell me about this one oh that's just an Old World War II tank that we use for TV commercials now about this sedan whoa whoa wait a minute tell me more about this tank well sir if you are looking for quality and safety then look no further 3 in of reinforced
steel protect your daughter from short-range missile attacks does the sedan protect her from missile attacks it does not well I don't know let me sleep on it did I mention the tank is a tank I'll take it [Music] Dad so we have a couple of interesting phrases to talk about shopping right let's look at these in fluency Builder fluency Builder the first one today is I'm just browsing I'm just browsing I'm just browsing I'm just browsing this is a really useful phrase because usually sales people will come up to you and ask you can I
help you are you interested in something and you're just looking so yeah you maybe you don't really want to buy today so you're just uh I'm just browsing so then they'll just leave you alone yeah they won't bother you as much yeah it's a good good phrase another good phrase sleep on it sleep on it sleep on it sleep on it so we have some examples of how we use sleep on it example one I don't know if we should buy that house it's perfect for us but it's so expensive let's sleep on it example
two why don't you sleep on it and tell me tomorrow example three this is a bit more than what I can afford let me sleep on it to sleep on it means to like to think about it overnight to think about it right so maybe you want to buy this really expensive car but you need to think about it right so you'll sleep on it so yeah you go home sleep on it think about it twice and then make a decision exactly okay great words and great dialogue so yeah I love this dialogue yeah it
was it's kind of funny so we could listen to it again and then we'll come back and talk a little bit about [Music] it hi there can I help you folks I'm just browsing seeing what's on the lot my daughter wants a car for her birthday birthday you know how it is Dad I'm 16 already and I'm like the only one at school who doesn't have a car she's right you know kids these days all have cars let me show you something we just got in a 1996 sedan excellent gas mileage it has dual airbags
and anti-ock brakes a perfect vehicle for a young driver dad I love it it's awesome can we get this one please I see what can you tell me about this one oh that's just an Old World War II tank that we use for TV commercials now about this sedan whoa whoa wait a minute tell me more about this tank well sir if you are looking for quality and safety then look no further 3 in of reinforced steel protect your daughter from short range missile attacks does the sedan protect her from missile attacks it does not
well I don't know let me sleep on it did I mention the tank is a tank I'll take it Dad so Marco have you ever driven a tank well I mean I know you're in the Army so yeah um yeah actually I did I did drive a a tank before really yeah really old one kind of like a World War II Type tank but yeah they're really fun and interesting you have it's not like driving a normal car you have pedals and you have so there's no steering wheel no no no you have um levers
yeah and um what many people don't know is that actually tanks are manual transmissions you have to change gears oh really and it's really hard to change gears on those things and what's the gas mileage like in a tank I don't know maybe like 5 miles per gallon well they run on diesel which is a different type of fuel right yep okay well very cool I never knew that my podcast partner had driven a tank that's pretty awesome yeah well it was it was fun definitely and uh I hope I get to do it again
someday all right well uh guys have you ever driven a tank or a submarine or any type of uh armored vehicle yeah tell us about it at our website englishpod dcom right we'll be there to answer all your questions I'll also be there to maybe post some more crazy stories or some pictures of a tank or something maybe yeah all right guys we'll see you there until then it's goodbye bye [Music] the English pod audio review listen to the meaning then say the vocabulary word look around to see if anything is interesting browse a car
with four doors sedan the amount of gas used per mile gas mileage dual airbags a device that slows down or stops something break something that carries people from one place to another vehicle strengthen make something stronger reinforce think about something further and make a decision later sleep on it a vehicle that is larger than a car has four doors and is shaped like a box minivan a large vehicle that is suitable to run on rough surfaces SUV an event where goods or services are sold sold at a price lower than usual sale something that is
done to increase sales promotion the amount of reduction in price discount something bought or sold at a price lower than its actual value bargain let's try that faster a vehicle that is larger than a car has four doors and is shaped like a box minivan the amount of gas used per mile gas mileage a car with four doors sedan something that is done to increase sales promotion a large vehicle that is suitable to run on rough surfaces SUV look around to see if anything is interesting browse something that carries people from one place to another
vehicle a device that slows down or stops something break do dual airbags think about something further and make a decision later sleep on it an event where goods or services are sold at a price lower than usual sale strengthen make something stronger reinforce something bought or sold at a price lower than its actual value bargain the amount of reduction in price discount now say the word and hear it in a sentence browse I'm just browsing I don't need any help browse Lena was browsing through the department door when she saw Tom browse there's a lot
of people browsing through the store but no one is buying sleep on it I don't know if we should buy that house it's perfect for us but it is so expensive let's sleep on it sleep on it why don't you sleep on it and tell me tomorrow sleep on it this is a bit more than what I can afford let me sleep on vehicle there were a lot of vehicles on the road today vehicle three vehicles were involved in the accident vehicle remember do not leave any valuable items in your vehicle gas mileage what kind
of gas mileage does this car get gas mileage the gas mileage is great the car gets 30 mil to the gallon gas mileage the gas mileage improves if you drive on the highway break there's something wrong with the car's breake I can't stop break make sure you get your bike's brakes checked I don't want you to get in an act break the brakes didn't work and he crashed into a tree reinforce so I reinforced all the walls there's no way they're going to to fall down reinforce the plastic is reinforced with glass so it's both
light and reinforce the building is made with reinforced steel so it is quite [Music]
