Hello Everybody my name is Steve Ford and welcome to How to Speak English Challenge 6
So let's go and talk about those vacation packages
Everybody wants to travel, everybody loves to travel, everybody wants to travel the world
so when you go on a shopping spree, that means when you want to splurge, you want to spend a lot of money
on your shopping, we say that you shop until you drop
this means that you shop as much as you can, spend as much as you can, carry as much as you can
until you can't shop anymore and whether you're shopping for clothes, smartphones, laptops, perfume, alcohol
you want to do some shopping around and shopping around means that you want to compare prices
between one store and another
now some people may be shopaholics
you might know the word alcoholic, somebody who is addicted to alcohol
but a shopaholic is somebody who can't stop shopping
and I hear stories from my students that shopaholics do exist
some people who spend hundreds if not thousands of dollars on shopping
and when they get their credit card bill, they're like, "oh my God" , they get a shopping hangover
now the opposite to a shopaholic would be someone who's a bargain hunter
they're a little bit more tight with their money which means that they are spending their money the best way possible
if you don't want to spend any money, of course you can go window shopping
this just means that you're looking
another great vacation package is a historical vacation package that's for all of you people
who are very curious and want to know more about world history, you wanna see it up close
when people go and see megalithic structures like the pyramids, something like that can be very breathtaking
you go to Machu Picchu and it's just stunning
stunning or when you feel stunned means that you feel very very amazed
your mind stops in amazement
now many people, when they go to these historical places find it very intriguing
how the heck did they build those things thousands of years ago?
intriguing means that it stimulates your curiosity
so intriguing is very curious
you want to know more and a more informal way of saying that is
things that make you go hmmm
you don't know how those things were built, but you want to investigate more
things that make you go hmmm
next we have adventure vacations
this is for people who want to take a walk on the wild side
to take a walk on the wild side means that normally in your day-to-day living you do boring and monotonous things
they're repetitive, it's a routine
so when you take a walk on the wild side, you step out of that routine and you do something radically different
and there is no better way to do that than on an adventure or sports vacation
OK our last one is getaway vacations
and get away means exactly that
it's a way for people to escape from their stressful lives
from the long winter months so that they can go somewhere nice and chill out
and to chill out means to relax, so it's a relaxing vacation quite often at the beach
warm weather, take a dip in the ocean and just chill out
during a get away vacation, a lot of people can put their feet up
to put your feet up means exactly that
it means sit down and put your feet up so that you can relax
Well everybody, I've given you 4 different types of vacations
which one would you prefer to take and why?
please leave your comments below and I look forward to reading them
Bye for now!
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