English Learning Podcast Conversation | English Podcast For Advanced | Episode 01

[Music] hello English Learners welcome back to English pod my name is Marco and I'm Erica and today we're swimming that's right a nice summertime lesson for every sum time lesson uh so we're going to be talking about swimming and well it's a very popular sport right yeah so this is another lesson in our Sports Series in our Sports series okay so why don't we preview some of the language we'll find in the dialogue vocabulary preview all right we have two words to look at here uh the first word is Sailing sailing sailing sailing well this

is the verb to sail right mhm so sailing is traveling in a boat in a boat with no engine right so you must use the wind to push you forward exactly that's a sailboat yes okay so sailing mhm now let's take a look at our other word anchor another boat word here anchor anchor anchor now it's spelled a n c h o r right but you don't pronounce the CH as you normally would right another one of these really difficult uh to spell English words right so you don't say an chore you would say anchor

anchor anchor anchor so the anchor is a verb and noun that's right well when anchor is used as a noun it means the hook that you throw over the boat into the water and it keeps you staying in the same place okay but the verb to Anchor yes what does it mean to do that to do that right so you so to throw the anchor into the water you would just say to Anchor the boat exactly to keep it in the same place okay great words related to sailing but now let's listen to our dialogue

for the first time what's What's Happening Here Erica well we've got two friends here who are sailing in their boat and they decide to take a swim M let's see what [Music] happens this is such a beautiful day great day for sailing it sure is the water looks so nice anchor the boat for a little while I'm going to take a dip why are you doggy paddling I taught you how to swim do your breast stroke I get too tired I'll just backstroke it's easier try kicking your legs more that's good don't go out too

far it's fine uh jump in Kathy get back here I see a shark help me help bring the boat closer the shark is coming straight towards me it's right under you Cy all right so a shark attack I know this is my worst fear when swimming really in the in the ocean right yeah well also in the lake but no sharks in L I know but I'm still afraid of them all right so don't worry about it I'm sure the girl is okay uh it's probably not a shark maybe it was a dolphin yeah or

maybe she's going to punch the shark in the face and she she'll Escape okay let's take a look at some of the words that we saw in language takeaway language takeaway way we have three excellent swimming words for you the first one is doggy paddling doggy paddling doggy paddling so doggy paddling it's not really a proper way of swimming right no you don't see this in the Olympics so if you've ever seen a dog swim that's why they call it doggy paddling right you're sort of moving your hands quickly in front of you and your

legs are all over the place and you're basically not really swimming you're just trying to stay afloat you're trying not to drown trying not to sink yeah yep okay so doggy paddling again this can be a noun or a verb the doggy paddle mhm this swimming style or doggy paddling the ver okay interesting all right let's take a look at our second uh swimming style breast stroke breast stroke breast stroke the breast stroke how is this one well it's sort of like swimming like a frog so you have your legs that are similar to like

a frog right and what are your hands doing um your hands are moving in front of you together M then out towards the side okay so you're kind of doing like circles yeah half circles half circles mhm okay breast stroke yeah but you get kind of tired when you swim like this right yeah maybe yeah yeah now let's take a look at our third word backstroke backstroke backstroke backstroke so this one's pretty easy backstroke you are lying on your back you're lying on your back in the water mhm and you're King your feet as well

yep but what are your hands doing they're going back behind you see I'm I'm doing it now can you see all right if you guys could be here in the studio you would see Erica doing her back stroke yeah I'm pretty good at it yeah okay so let's listen to this dialogue again and then we'll come back and look at some great [Music] phrases this is is such a beautiful day great day for sailing it sure is the water looks so nice anchor the boat for a little while I'm going to take a dip why

are you doggy paddling I taught you how to swim do your breast stroke I get too tired I'll just backstroke it's easier try kicking your legs more that's good don't go out too far are it's fine jump in Kathy get back here I see a shark help me help bring the boat closer the shark is coming straight towards me it's right under you [Music] Kathy okay so we have some really good phrases related to swimming and water y okay let's take a look at these in fluency Builder fluency Builder all right the first one I

love this phrase um take a dip take a dip take a dip so if I say I'm going to take a dip you're going to have a quick swim a quick swim yep so you can take a dip in the pool yep in the lake in the ocean in the ocean even your in your bathtub right no no no it's just for swimming unless your bathtub is really really really big all right so not for the bathtub but for swimming yep okay now let's take a look at our second phrase for a little while for

a little while for a little while for a little while this is really common I use this a lot yeah me too I probably use it 500 times a day okay so let's listen to some examples with for a little while and then we'll come back and explain it example one I'm tired I'm just going to sit down for for a little while example two it will only hurt for a little while example three do you want to play tennis for a little while so it means for a short time for a short time and

you can change it right you can say oh I'm going to play for a little while yeah or I'm going to sleep for a little while uhhuh for a short time yep all right so if Learners use this phrase um I find it sounds really really great cuz it's it's not something that students normally use yeah I guess a student wouldn't really use this phrase normally yeah so guys use it cuz you'll sound awesome yeah you'll sound really really fluent okay and let's take a look at our last phrase straight towards straight towards straight towards

me straight towards okay so straight means directly right in a line in a line not going anywhere else but directly not moving side to side and towards is in that direction mhm so the shark was coming straight towards me it's coming directly at me moving in a line and not moving side to side okay so can you give me another example of how you would use straight towards watch out there's a car coming straight towards you okay directly towards you yeah or maybe um when I get home from work I go straight towards the fridge

really yes I believe this all right so straight towards directly Okay so we've looked at a lot of great words really good phrases let's listen to this dialogue one last time and then we'll come back and Eric is going to tell us a really great story about oat this is such a beautiful day great day for sailing it sure is the water looks so nice anchor the boat for a little while I'm going to take a dip why are you doggy paddling I taught you had to swim do your breast stroke I get too tired

I'll just back stroke it's easier try kicking your legs more that's good don't go out too far it's fine jump in Kathy get back here I see a shark help me help bring the boat closer the shark is coming straight towards me it's right under you Cathy all right well Marco I was telling you um that I used to spend every summer on the lake mhm um and my family had a really small house on a small island and my cousins had another small house on another small island okay so our families are really close

and we used to go to one house for dinner one night and the other house to dinner MH the next night so everyone was over at my cousin's house except for my grandfather mhm um and so he was thinking okay it's late maybe I better go pick up my wife and see what's going on so he goes into the boat it's dark okay there's no light on the boat mhm he's driving straight towards the island when suddenly my my cousin in his boat drives directly into my grandfather so they crack they crashed two boats crashed

in the lake yeah and then my my grandfather's boat flipped over it turned upside down wow and he fell in the water but but he was okay right yeah he was okay but um you know what he was really angry about this and the boat the boat stayed in the water and you know the the engine fell down to the bottom oh so we had to go the next morning to get the boat and we actually had to um hire some scuba divers to go to the bottom of the Lake to get the engine wow

yeah yeah I imagine your grandpa was pretty angry yeah he tells the story um every year yeah exactly um but you know what I've got a million of these crazy Lake stories cuz my family it always happens yeah all right guys well do you have any crazy stories or any stories related to boats or to swimming or the shark attack or shark attacks uh so come to our website english.com leave your story share with us and also if you have any doubts or questions Erica and I are always there to answer well we're out of

time for this lesson but um until next time [Music] byebye the English pod audio review listen to the meaning then say the vocabulary word travel in a boat that is powered by wind sail for a short amount of time for a little while a swim a dip swim like a dog doggy paddle way of swimming where the person moves the arms and legs in a half circle in front of them like a frog breaststroke to swim on your back with arms moving up and down in a circle backstroke directly in the direction of something straight

towards clothes you wear when you go swimming American English swimsuit clothes you wear when you go swimming British English swimming costume piece of soft cloth you use to dry yourself after swimming or bathing towel lie in the Sun and try to make your skin more brown tan jump into the water with your head first dive let's try that faster directly in the direction of something straight towards travel in a boat that is powered by wind sail piece of soft cloth you use to dry yourself after swimming or bathing towel clothes you wear when you go

swimming British English swimming costume swim like a dog doggy paddle a swim a dip lie in the Sun and try to make your skin more brown tan to swim on your back with arms moving up and down in a circle backstroke for a short amount of time for a little while jump into the water with your head first dive clothes you wear when you go swimming American English swimsuit way of swimming where the person moves the arms and legs in a half circle in front of them like a frog breast stroke now say the word

and hear it in a sentence sail I've never been sailing before sail I always get sick when I go s sail did you watch the sailing race let's anchor the boat I dropped the anchor over the side of the boat so we won't float away we can't anchor here because there are power lines under the water I'm tired I'm just going to sit down for a while it will only hurt for a little while do you want to play tennis for a little while it was so hot that we took a dip before lunch Stephen

and Nelly are taking a dip in the leg do you want to take a dip in the pool straight towards swim straight towards the shore straight towards the boat is coming straight towards us straight towards we're driving straight towards the cliff