This story is about catching crabs.
We'll look at some irregular past tenses and some useful expressions.
First, listen to the questions Weiping asks:
Hello, I'm Weiping.
I'm Hassan, how are you?
I'm good, how are you?
I'm the man that will be showing you the crabbing today.
Yes, yes.
We take a tub.
What we catch, we put the crabs in there.
Are you sure we will catch that many crabs?
Of course we will.
That's why we're here.
She asks, "Are you sure?"
You ask questions like this when you have doubts about what you're being told.
Weiping doesn't think they'll get many crabs.
Listen to the next question she asks.
If I borrow that, when you catch a crab, all you do is turn around and put it in there.
Okay.
So you don't need to touch?
No, no, no.
This time she wants to be reassured that she doesn't have to handle a crab.
By saying 'so', she's showing that she understands what she's been told, but just wants to be
sure.
Listen again: All you do is turn around and put it in there.
Okay.
So you don't need to touch?
No, no, no.
She uses 'so' to check that she understands correctly.
She could also use 'are you sure'.
Now listen to Weiping talking about going out to where the crabs are:
When I came to the beach and then I realised how far we have to walk to get to the crabbing
place, and I thought it was really hard because it was very muddy and it took a lot of energy
to get to the crabbing place.
She's talking about the past and uses some irregular past tense verbs.
Listen again for the past tense forms of come, think and take:
When I came to the beach and then I realised how far we have to walk to get to the crabbing
place, I thought it was really hard because it was very muddy and it took a lot of energy
to get to the crabbing place.
came thought
took
Now listen to Weiping at the crabbing place: It's there.
There's one, over there.
Come on.
And then turn it, like that.
Okay, you go, you go, you go!
Okay, okay, okay.
Just, turn around.
No, no, no!
Don't do it.
Oh well done.
She says where the crab is like this: It's there.
There's more over there.
Look, look!
There's one, over there.
These phrases are useful to know if you want to point to where something is.
it's there there's one
it's over there Now listen for what to say if you need help:
I almost fell over and I got all wet myself so it's a bit embarrassing.
I need a hand.
She says, "I need a hand."
She means she needs help.
Stop your camera!
Stop filminig!
She also used another irregular past tense, the past tense of fall, fell:
Oh my God.
I almost fell over.
Yes.
Let's finish with one more irregular past tense, the past tense of catch - caught:
So we caught the crabs.
Now we gonna cook it.
Ok guys, grab a plate.
Hurry up.
Crabs were delicious, very tasty and fresh.
That's the best part about crabbing, you get to eat the most freshest crab meat in the
world.