real-life English accidents injuries
injuries and emergencies hey
hey there i'm drew badger co-founder
co-founder of English anyone . com
com
com and
and this is a special video in a brand
brand new series all about real-life
real-life English yesterday I was
was in a really bad car accident so
so i'm sorry if my face doesn't look
look as beautiful as it usually does
does but it's an excellent opportunity
opportunity to teach you some really
really good phrases that you can use
use if you're ever hurt or in an emergency
emergency or in in a car accident
accident or something like that so
so first let's begin with just a few
few little short phrases about levels
levels of car accidents a slight accident
accident
accident you
you can maybe bump the other car in
in front of you if you are driving
driving and you you bump the other
other car just a little bit this
this is called a fender bender offender
offender is the the front right below
below the the hood or the the trunk
trunk of the car in the front in the
the back
the back this
this is just a little piece on the
the car made of usually plastic that
that if you hit it it's ok it may
may be the the front part of the car
car gets damaged a little bit so we
we say that the fender gets bent that's
that's why it's a fender bender so
so a fender bender is usually a light
light hitting of the car in front
front of you or getting hit by car
car behind you a little bit more serious
serious we call that a car wreck a
a car wreck is when there is serious
serious damage to the car this
this is more than just a scrape on
on the side of the car maybe
maybe you have a broken window or
or the car is bent or damaged or crushed
crushed in some wave and the most
most serious you can have is a car
car being totaled -
- total a car means to basically destroy
destroy the whole car maybe
maybe you are driving and not
not looking where you were going and
and you fall off a cliff and you blow
blow up the car this
this is to total the car so yesterday
yesterday I was in a car wreck the
the car is still ok but basically
basically it flipped over on its side
side and the car was badly scraped
scraped and many of the the windows
windows were broken so
so the tires were broken and the the
the front was also a little bit broken
broken on the car so I was in a car
car wreck
car wreck luckily
luckily I was not in a car that was
was totaled or
or maybe i would be totaled as well
well not being able to teach you excellent
excellent English anyway let's continue
continue with some kind of basic scrapes
scrapes and injuries that you can
can get if you look at my face I
I was sitting in the passenger seat
seat so you have the driver who's
who's driving the car and the person
person sitting next to the driver
driver in the front we
we call this the passenger or we say
say you are riding shotgun riding
riding shotgun is an expression from
from old english old American English
English in the the western United
United States where people would be
be riding in a carriage with a horse
horse and someone would be holding
holding the reins holding the ropes
ropes for the horses and another person
person would be sitting next to the
the the driver of the carriage and
and that person would hold a shotgun
shotgun to make sure that nobody else
else would try to come up and robbed
robbed or steal anything from the
the stagecoach or the the carriage
carriage
carriage so
so I was riding shotgun and when I
I was in the car wreck the car flipped
flipped over and I was on my side
side and I got some a little bit of
of glass that came the the front window
window shattered to shatter is to
to break into many pieces and usually
usually glass shatters if you have
have a regular pane of glass like
like a window and you just hate it
it a little bit you can crack the
the glass but this glass shattered
shattered
shattered so
so the whole in
in broke and it turned into many many
many little pieces to this is to shatter
shatter something so the glass shattered
shattered and hit me in my face a
a little bit the
the rest of my body is ok but just
just a little bit of a few scrapes
scrapes on my face so again to scrape
scrape something is just to make a
a little cut on your face if
if it's more serious than that you
you can have a gash a gash is kind
kind of a deeper cut a little bit
bit more serious than a scrape and
and there are many more serious injuries
injuries that you can have but
but basically i only have some scrapes
scrapes over here some light scrapes
scrapes on my face so
so hopefully i will be back to normal
normal very soon and I won't scare
scare any little children when I walk
walk around outside so
so let's continue with some phrases
phrases that you can use when you
you are in an accident remember
remember that if you are in a bad
bad accident like a car wreck when
when you have something really serious
serious that happens to you other
other people will come over and they
they will be talking very quickly
quickly because they want to find
find out if you need any help so
so yesterday i'm in a car wreck in
in japan so I have to use my japanese
japanese and maybe there are some
some words I don't know because I
I don't know for every situation in
in Japanese what the different words
words or phrases i have to use so
so right now i'll go over a few simple
simple phrases that you can use and
and also phrases that you should listen
listen for if you are in an accident
accident
accident so
so first just if you are in a slight
slight accident you fall down some
some stairs or something and you are
are not that hurt people will walk
walk up and ask you are you okay or
or are you all right now if they don't
don't think you are that badly hurt
hurt or injured so to have an injury
injury or to be hurt means there is
is a problem with you so
so if you are you in a situation where
where it looks like it's not very
very serious they
they will
they will use
use a probably a longer English sentence
sentence like are you okay but
but if you are in an emergency and
and there is a really big problem
problem and you have a big cut or
or you have blood coming down on your
your face then they will ask you shorter
shorter English sentences like you
you okay
you okay so
so they drop the are are you okay
okay
okay becomes
becomes you okay you okay you hurt
hurt
hurt are
are you hurt you hurt are
are you injured you
you injured and you have to remember
remember to stay calm and listen for
for keywords really
really people are just asking if you
you are okay or if there is a problem
problem
problem so
so if you are hurt or can you move
move
move can
can you move a little bit so yesterday
yesterday i was stuck in the car when
when it was on its side like this
this and I could move ok
ok but maybe you can't move so if
if you are hurt you
you can tell the people that are trying
trying to help you I'm
I'm hurt and you can say my head hurts
hurts or my hand hurts or my elbow
elbow hurts or my eyebrow hurts anything
anything like that to give specific
specific information to people so
so that they can help you and
and so you don't get injured anymore
anymore
anymore so
so remember these phrases are you
you hurt
you hurt and
and listen because usually the the
the sentences will get shorter if
if you are in a real emergency so
so remember to explain how you are
are feeling if
if you are feeling hurt and to take
take your time just to to explain
explain how you're feeling or
or if there is a problem with you
you so that you can get the help you
you need
you need well
well I hope it's been an interesting
interesting lesson for you we
we will continue with more of these
these lessons in this new real-life
real-life English series and
and it should be an interesting one
one and i hope you enjoy it well
well have an excellent day remember
remember to buckle up so
so this means to buckle your seat
seat belt to buckle up and be safe
safe out there and we will see you
you next time with another video from
from English and 1.com have an excellent
excellent day and be safe bye-bye
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