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- (sighs) It's summer in England,
I guess we should do some summer expressions.
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Yeah, it's England, and we don't have summer here.
Actually, yeah, this year we had one day,
one day of sunny weather.
So let's start there.
I wanted to check the weather
like is the weather gonna be good or bad,
so I needed to check the forecast.
You can say weather forecast,
but people just generally say the forecast.
So the forecast says it's gonna be sunny today,
so let's have a barbecue.
And yeah, that weather, sunny.
And luckily, we did have a barbecue.
Me and my friends, we got together.
It was a great day,
but that was the only sunny day this summer.
The rest has been rain. It's terrible.
So yeah, that is the adjective for that weather, sunny.
That's the only adjective you need, sunny.
Hmm, but adjectives for temperature.
The most common adjectives for temperature are it's hot
or it's boiling.
Those are the most common adjectives for temperature.
There are others but less common:
roasting, sweltering, scorching, baking.
Yeah, they're very good adjectives for very hot weather,
but those are not as common as just it's hot.
It's very hot.
It's really hot.
Or it's boiling.
Those are the most common adjectives that we use.
And when it's hot,
I look disgusting because I get very sweaty.
The noun of the water is sweat.
Pronunciation? Sweat.
Ugh, sweat!
So the adjective to describe me with this disgusting mess,
I am sweaty.
The verb is also sweat.
So I can say, "I was sweating," for example.
And if you're sweaty, you don't have to stay in the sun.
You could ha go under a tree.
This is what we call shade.
The shade is the escape from the sun.
So if you are in the sun, ugh,
the sun is in your face and it's really hot.
But if you're under a tree, you're in the shade.
In the sun, in the shade.
This is a shadow.
If you are confused by those two words,
that's the difference.
The sun hits the tree, creates the shadow,
but to talk about being out of the sun,
escaping the sun, you're in the shade.
Hi, in a few moments,
I'm going to say the phrasal verb cool down
but not teach it to you.
The phrasal verb cool down means
to lower the temperature of something.
In this context, lower my temperature.
Thank you. Back to the list.
So as a sentence, I could say,
"Ugh, I'm boiling.
I'm gonna cool down in the shade for a bit."
Also, also, maybe you've heard the expression
to throw shade at someone.
Nothing to do with this kind of shade.
It's about criticizing someone or insulting someone,
not necessarily in a direct way.
This usually happens on Twitter
or public forums like...
This didn't happen but let's imagine that the Queen said,
"American singers who are married to Jay-Z
are kind of stupid."
Just imagine.
We could say the Queen threw shade at Beyonce.
It's not necessarily direct.
She could say Beyonce is stupid,
that is still throwing shade,
but usually it's more subtle than that.
Usually.
Imagine if the Queen did that, that'd be crazy.
When it's sunny, hot, boiling,
I prefer to stay in the shade, to cool down a little bit,
but sometimes we all really like to enjoy the sun and
sunbathe, that's the verb.
Pronunciation? Sunbathe.
Bathe, not bath.
It's got the word bath,
but that magic E changes it to sunbathe.
Other ways we can say sunbathe are to tan.
Yes, that's a noun, like, "Ooh, I have a tan,"
but we use it as a verb.
To tan, I'm tanning.
For example, she's tanning.
So if you're sunbathing or tanning all day
and your skin gets darker, how do we say that?
Remember, we can use tan as a noun so you can get a tan.
"Oh, wow, you really got a tan," or to catch the sun,
"Wow, you really caught the sun."
But if you stay too long in the sun, you might,
you might get a sunburn.
Now sunburn is the whole word, that's a noun,
but usually we just say, "I got burned."
That is the most common way we say that situation.
"Ugh, I got burned. I look like a lobster."
Actually, this is how you can always spot
a British tourist on holiday.
One time I went to Disneyland
and I bet everyone I could tell exactly who was British.
And everyone, I was like,
"That guy's British, she's British,
that family, they're all British."
They went and asked. They checked.
They asked them, "Hey, sorry, are you British?"
Every single one was British.
You know why?
One, we sunburn very easily.
Two, we have skin texture like pancake batter
or bricks or leather
because we don't know how to handle the sun.
We're so rubbish at taking care of our skin in the sun.
So next time you see someone who's dying in the sun,
please give them water, they're British.
What does this guy need to do?
He needs to wear this, sunblock.
You can also call it sun cream or sunscreen.
So, yeah, don't be like British people in the sun.
Don't stay in the sun all day.
Find some shade, wear some sunblock, wear a hat.
We have bad skin.
It doesn't mean that you have to too.
We're just stupid.
Have a really nice summer.
I hope you enjoyed this video.
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See you in the next class.
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