Boost Up Your English Skills | English Podcast Conversation | Episode 25 |

[Music] hello everyone and welcome to English pod my name is Marco hi everyone my name is Katherine and today we have an elementary level lesson for you that's right today we are dealing with a house that is filled with different types of bugs ew bugs well it's summertime so it's not that uncommon but not a pleasant thing to deal with that's right so we're going to call an exterminator so you might be asking yourself what that is but before we explain why don't you listen to the dial for the first [Music] time hi did you

call for an exterminator yes thank goodness you're here these bugs are driving us crazy what sort of pests are we dealing with we just bought this house and it is infected with just about everything we have termites in the wood cockroaches all over the place and last night I saw a huge rat out in the backyard well there's nothing that we can handle I'll spray the floorboards and walls to get rid of the Cockroaches but the turits will be harder to get rid of we will have to cover the entire house and fumigate it unfortunately

that means you will have to find a place to stay for the next 3 days no problem just get rid of the bugs all right we're we're back so now we have six key wordss that we've chosen out for you let's take a look at those now on language takeaway language takeaway well Marco you've already told our users the very first word that would be Exterminator what is an exterminator it's a person right that's right it's a person that has the job to exterminate or to delete or eliminate um different types of bugs or pests

so an exterminator job is to kill bugs that's right and usually an exterminator comes to your home or your office to do this right that's right so uh maybe in your house you have a lot of different types of bugs maybe you have uh I don't know spiders so an exterminator will come and he will try to get rid of the spiders great so an exterminator in a general sense gets rid of pests and pest is our next word that's right a pest now uh we're talking about bugs and they can be considered a sort

of pest well pest though is a more General term right so you can say pested about something like rats or mice that's right so basically some type of animal that uh is very annoying and also causes some sort of harm or danger right so there's a movie if I remember correctly in the 1990s it was terrible and it was called the pest yeah that's right and it's all about this person who is very annoying so you can even say an annoying person or a bothersome person is a pest that's right you're such a pest Okay

so so uh obviously our home is filled with bugs and that's what the person said that it is infested okay so a place like an office building or like you said Marco a home is infested if it is filled with something and so infested means it's filled with something bad that's right so in this case the house is infested with bugs they're living upstairs downstairs in the basement in the kitchen they're everywhere that's right and she said that we well actually they have termites in the wood all right so termites are a special kind of

bug that almost always live in Wood right that's right they're little bugs that I think eat the wood and uh this is why they're so dangerous because they make the house uh weak because they eat off all the wood that that supports it so we can say the house fell down because it was infested with termites that's right termites and also we have a very common pest or a bug we have cockroaches oh I hate these and they're everywhere this summer cockroach come in different sizes some are big some are small but they're very very

strong bugs they can live through anything that's right they're small usually brown but sometimes I think you can't see black cockroaches that's right and they love to be near food and decaying things like garbage bins that's right so a very common type of pest cockroach and in order to get rid of termites and cockroaches and all these uh types of bugs we have to fumate at the house okay so this is one method that the Exterminator uses to kill bugs and like in the dialogue when you fumigate a house um basically you fill the house

with fumes or gases that kill bugs so people like you and me we can't be in the house when that happens right that's right actually if you see an exterminator he will always fumigate wearing a mask so he doesn't inhale those uh poisonous gas right so it's very dangerous for people and you'll have to make sure you talk to your exterminator to make sure that the gases he's using uh aren't getting into your your body that's right okay so why don't we listen to the dialogue again and we'll be back in a [Music] bit hi

did you call for an exterminator yes thank goodness you're here these bugs are driving us crazy what sort of pests are we dealing with we just bought this house and it is infected with just about everything we have termites in the wood cockroaches all over the place and last night I saw a huge rat out in the backyard well there's nothing that we can handle I'll spray the floorboards and walls to get rid of the Cockroaches but the turits will be harder to get rid of we will have to cover the entire house and fumigate

unfortunately that means you will have to find a place to stay for the next 3 days no no problem just get rid of the [Music] bugs all right so now we've chosen three key phrases for you on fluency Builder fluency Builder well this first phrase comes from the very beginning of today's dialogue um the second person in the dialogue says these bugs are driving us crazy so to drive someone crazy okay so if you're driving giving someone crazy it means that you're making them uh crazy all right so it could be you're making them angry

or you're making them frustrated but it has nothing to do with cars right mhm yeah yeah there's no driving involved so driving here means making you're making me crazy you're really making me frustrated that's right so in this case the the animals the the bugs were driving them crazy they were so annoying that they were just they were very irritated so I could do something Marco that will drive you crazy I could tap tap tap tap tap tap tap that's right that's driving me crazy know you yes yes so I'll stop so it doesn't drive

you crazy anymore that's right okay so um now obviously the bugs are driving them crazy and she went on to explain that it's because the house is infested with just about everything well this is a great phrase because we can say it in a lot of different contexts in this context it means there is not everything every single bug in the house but just about everything that means almost every bug you can think of is in this house that's right so it's kind of a way of exaggerating also because obviously well they have cockroaches they

have termites but uh they're saying we have a lot of different types of bugs we have just about everything that you can imagine you could even say this restaurant has just about every Chinese dish you could ever think of mhm that's not true it doesn't have every single one but it has a lot that's right okay so that's the way that you use just about everything and uh for our final phrase We Ed it a little bit earlier on let's explain it a little bit when we're talking about bugs we want to get rid of

bugs this is why we call the Exterminator to get rid of the Cockroaches you might hear this phrase a lot when you're watching movies about gangsters or Mobsters like The Sopranos the TV show get rid of him right so this is a phrase that means in this case to kill something or to kill someone to get rid of it to get rid of him to not have it anymore right so um rid means to to get away or to throw away um but in this case you're not just throwing it away You're killing these bugs

that's right so we want to get rid of the bugs now obviously as you said we can also throw away for example um these shoes are too old I'm going to get rid of them or hey Marco this milk smells funny can you get rid of it mhm very good so that's the way that you would use that phrase to get rid of something so why don't we listen to our dialogue for the very last time and we're back to talk a little bit [Music] more hi did you call for an exterminator yes thank goodness

you're here these bugs are driving us crazy what sort of pests are we dealing with we just bought this house and it is infected with just about everything we have termites in the wood cockroaches all over the place and last night I saw a huge rat out in the backyard well there's nothing that we can handle I'll spray the floorboards and walls to get rid of the Cockroaches but the termites will be harder to get rid of we will have to cover the entire house and fumigate it unfortunately that means you will have to find

a place to stay for the next 3 days no problem just get rid of the bugs [Music] so bugs everyone loves bugs right I don't know I am uh I'm actually okay with termite or for example cockroaches they're a little bit weird but uh I actually really dislike spiders really yeah so you're okay with cockroaches but spiders make you nervous yeah yeah spiders are well the thing is spiders can actually hurt you right and cockroaches generally cannot they're gross they're dirty but spiders there are very very many kinds of dangerous spiders out there that are

poisonous that's right so for example termites nothing's going to happen or cockroaches they're they're nasty not unless your house you know is weakened by hundreds of millions of termites that's right but for example I think uh other people have um like uh snakes sometimes as pests because they live in areas that have a lot of snakes or mice because snakes are attracted by mice that's right so um some people keep cats for that reason they want the cats especially on farms the cats to catch the mice or to scare the the snakes away but I

don't really have a problem with snakes or spiders but I do have a problem with scorpions oh scorps if you live close to a desert or very dry area scorpions uh they they really scare me I've seen on uh I think Discovery Channel that in Australia they're very common and so uh not only scorpions but also spiders so whenever you put your shoes on you have to check that there's nothing in it that's right also shower drains you know where the water goes down the hole in the shower often times you get things like scorpions

in the in the desert areas that come out of the drains really oh wow that's some that looks like something from a horror movie or something yeah all a sudden you're you're in the shower and there's pasts coming out of the drain nasty terrifying all right so um a lot of different types of uh kind of scary bugs and pests but we would like to know if you've ever had an infestation in your home or what pests are you afraid of so let us know our website is englishpod do.com we hope to see you there

all right we'll see you guys next time bye bye the English pod audio review listen to the meaning then say the vocabulary word a professional who kills pests exterminator an annoying and harmful insect or animal pest to spray with smoke or other chemicals fumigate not be able to deal with can't handle simply just let's try that faster simply just an annoying and harmful insect or animal pest a professional who kills pests exterminator to spray with smoke or other chemicals fumigate not be able to deal with can't handle now say the word and hear it in

a sentence exterminator can I get an exterminator to get rid of the wasps in our yard exterminator I need to call an exterminator to take care of our termite problem exterminator the Exterminator came and sprayed the entire house so it should be bug free now pest our house is infested with all sorts of pests it's horrible pest mosquitoes termites cockroaches rats and fleas are all considered pests pest he's a pest he annoys everyone he comes in contact with fumigate if you have cockroaches in your home you should fumigate it fumigate you shouldn't stay in your

apartment when you fumigate it it's back bad for your health fumigate she's staying with us for a few days because the Exterminator is fumigating her house can't handle there is a large workload I can't handle it can't handle he's really good at fixing computers no matter how complicated the problem is there's nothing he can't handle can't handle I can't handle any more criticism just I don't care what you have to do just take care of the problem just stop making excuses and just finish your work just when you're done you can just leave everything on

the table and I'll clean it up [Music]