2024-02-09
26 分钟Hi everybody.
My name is Shawna and this is the american English podcast.
My goal here is to teach you the English spoken in the United States through common expressions, pronunciation tips, and interesting cultural snippets or stories.
I hope to keep this fun, useful, and interesting.
Let's do it.
Last month, my family and I moved into a new home, and in English, it's what we'd call a fixer upper.
It's a home that needs updates.
It needs renovation.
It needs to be remodeled in various ways.
Now we are in the process of fixing our house up and today you'll hear a true story about the process.
In this five minute english episode, you'll learn how to talk about home renovations and repairs in English.
This is a topic specific lesson, so it's jam packed with vocabulary you will need if this topic arises in conversation.
I like to call this method fluency one topic at a time because as humans I believe that its possible to be 100% confident and fluent in some topics and very weak in others.
Despite Lucas very high level in English, he was often at a loss for words when talking about fixing our house.
Actually, he was at a loss for words up until recently when we had to go over everything.
For example, he said, we need a plan of the house showing each room, to which I responded, oh yeah, we do.
We can probably find a blueprint online.
A blueprint?
A blueprint is a physical guide or map showing the location of each room in a house.
It's the layout of a house in a visual form.