Go Shopping With Me: English Vocabulary Lesson — Transcript

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1. 0:00Today, I want to invite you into a cute small  shop in a town near me in Western North Carolina.
2. 0:07We're just going to be walking around the  shop and I hope that if you visit the US,
3. 0:11you'll be able to get a little slice of  real life as well. Hi, I'm Vanessa from
4. 0:16SpeakEnglishWithVanessa.com and like always, I  have created a free PDF worksheet with all of
5. 0:23today's important vocabulary, expressions, and  cultural ideas so that when you visit the US,
6. 0:29you'll feel more comfortable and you'll have  a great time exploring real American culture.
7. 0:35You can click on the link in the description  to download that free PDF worksheet today.
8. 0:39All right, let's get started by walking around  this cute shop. I'm going to be talking about
9. 0:44some items that I see, anything that comes  up along the way. So I hope that you'll
10. 0:48learn some real daily life vocabulary.  All right, here we are outside the shop
11. 0:53where you can buy things to put in your  yard. Let's take a look at some of them.
12. 0:59So these are little statues that are... Very  loud motorcycle passing by. They're just like
13. 1:07little stone statues that you can put in your  yard or in your garden because most people
14. 1:11in the US have a yard, which is the big green  grassy area. We like to decorate it. You might
15. 1:17decorate it with these exciting plates or with  little statues. I know when I was growing up,
16. 1:24my parents had a little stone turtle just  like this, and ours actually had a secret.
17. 1:30You could open the shell and inside was  a hidden key to our house. So this house,
18. 1:36we don't live there anymore, so I'm not giving  away any family secrets, but these types of items
19. 1:40are pretty popular in yards. All right, let's go  inside the shop and I'll walk around with you.
20. 1:50So here I am in the doorway with some cute...  Oh, these earrings are so cute. And you know
21. 1:55what? I'm a sucker for earrings. This  is what I usually buy when I go to
22. 2:00a new country or when I visit somewhere.  I like to buy earrings because I wear them
23. 2:04every day and it reminds me of the place  that I visited. All right, let's go in.
24. 2:09So in this shop, there's a lot of cute  household items like this tea towel,
25. 2:16and there's some candles. I also saw when I  was in here before, some local items that were
26. 2:24with the name of the town or locally made. So  that's also fun. Let's take a look over here.
27. 2:30Oh, look at this. Is this made for me? Best mom  ever. You can even buy a mug with the town name
28. 2:40on it. And usually these types of items are  locally made, including a little bear because
29. 2:46this area has lots of black bears. Bears  regularly wander down our street through
30. 2:53our neighborhood. It's very common. You can even  buy little trinkets with the town name on it.
31. 3:03Cute little honey packets as a little gift. If  you visit the US and you want to bring home gifts
32. 3:09for your friends and family, a shop like this is a  perfect place because there's I think so many cute
33. 3:15little things that aren't from a big box store.  So a big box store is like Walmart or Target,
34. 3:22and there's nothing personal there. It might be  American kind of, but this type of thing is really
35. 3:29the perfect type of gift shop. So we have lots of  dog and cat items. Let's go over here and see. Oh,
36. 3:38adorable. Oh, this is so cute. This says  Mother's Day cards. Take a look at this.
37. 3:45These adorable made with little pearls and  lace. Oh, and little bunny rabbits. See,
38. 3:54moms are suckers for things like  this. Me included. So cute. All right,
39. 4:00let's go back to this section. You can see  some more tassel type earrings if you're into
40. 4:08that kind of thing. If you're a nurse or know  somebody who is, a little cute gift for them.
41. 4:19Some paper crafts. Ooh, this is very cool. Take a  look at this. This looks like it was made... I'll
42. 4:27try to take it off carefully. This looks like  it was made with maybe like a magazine and it
43. 4:34was curled into a rose or a flower that could be  a decoration or a necklace. Very creative. And
44. 4:48it is springtime now, so it looks like lots of  great spring decorations. Cute, cute, cute. So
45. 4:57many cute things. Do you know what this is called?  If you have a hot pan or a hot pot on the stove,
46. 5:07you're going to need something like this to  protect your hands. I would call this a pot
47. 5:11holder, but you can put your hand in it, you can  set your pot on it, and little cute spring ones.
48. 5:19Something else that's popular in the US is  to have tea towels for different seasons.
49. 5:25So this is something that, for example, my  mother-in-law loves to do is whenever it's summer,
50. 5:32she'll have a tea towel like this that has  a watermelon on it. Or if it's Christmas,
51. 5:36she'll have a Christmas tea towel. And  we don't use them actually for tea. It's
52. 5:42something that is maybe over the edge  of your oven and you can dry your hands
53. 5:47with it after you wash your hands and it  stays in the kitchen. But you could have
54. 5:53different seasonal tea towels. Let's take  a look. Ooh, let's take a look back here.
55. 6:02So back here we have some edible goods.  This is a very exciting section because
56. 6:07we have one of my favorite local tea companies,  Asheville Tea Company. I love drinking their tea,
57. 6:14Mountain Chai. If you come to Western North  Carolina, definitely try their tea. These
58. 6:20teas are locally made, and I think at least in my  opinion, these are the best type of gifts. It's
59. 6:26the kind of thing that you can't get anywhere  else. So there's some local tea. It looks like
60. 6:32some locally made seasonings. Now, seasoning  is kind of the same thing as herbs or spices,
61. 6:41but sometimes we say seasoning if it's a mixture.  So this says honey, garlic, sriracha, dip, spread,
62. 6:49dressing, and cheeseball mix. And there's  different types of spices or herbs in this type
63. 6:56of seasoning mix. And over here there's some local  coffee if you want to come back and take a look.
64. 7:04Now, I'm not a coffee drinker, my husband  is. Have you ever had this coffee?
65. 7:10Oh, yeah.
66. 7:10Is it any good?
67. 7:11Yeah, it's good.
68. 7:12Okay, well, you can get locally.
69. 7:15It's coffee.
70. 7:15It's coffee, so it's good. You can get locally  made coffee as well, and some jams. And always,
71. 7:23of course, little trinkets, salt and pepper,  little napkin ring holders. This type of store
72. 7:32is chock-full of those little goodies. You could  really spend hours and hours in a place like this.
73. 7:39If you're a woman.
74. 7:41Maybe if you are. A little pillow that says mason  jars. I don't know why, but it's cute. Mason jars
75. 7:49are these type of jars, these type of glass jars  that all have the same type of lid. So sometimes
76. 7:56we use these for storage of food where you might  say, oh, I have a mason jar in the cupboard,
77. 8:01and you can fill it with some leftovers. Or  you might save a mason jar like this after
78. 8:06you finish this Roan Mountain peach jalapeno  jam, you might save the jar, the mason jar.
79. 8:16Sometimes we also call those ball jars, but  ball is the brand name. And this, I don't know
80. 8:23if it's actually a ball jar, but we sometimes  call it that by the brand name. I'm so hungry.
81. 8:29Do you know what this is? It is a bath bomb. I  don't know if this is popular around the world,
82. 8:34but in the US these are pretty popular. Not  in the donut form, I've never seen that. But
83. 8:39you put it in the bath and it fizzes and kind of  explodes. So if you want a cool donut bath bomb,
84. 8:45you know where to find it. Let's  go over here to the kids section.
85. 8:49Oh, you can get your local shirt with the  town name on it. So if you have children,
86. 8:59this type of place is very dangerous because  everything is so cute. Look at this. Adorable,
87. 9:08adorable, adorable. So dangerous. That's why you  bring grandparents to places like this because
88. 9:13grandparents will always buy something and all you  need to say is, "Oh, look at that cute dress." And
89. 9:21the grandparent will automatically say, "Oh, I'll  get it." So around here, there are some... I'll
90. 9:28just tell you some of the vocabulary. This is a  stuffed animal, but kids also call these stuffies
91. 9:35to cuddle and sleep with. There are dresses  and tote bags, some games, this looks like
92. 9:44a jigsaw puzzle. And these cute little things.  My daughter's hair is not long enough for them,
93. 9:51but soon enough, a little clip in her hair.  There are books. Now, these type of books that
94. 9:59have thick kind of cardboard-like pages, these are  called board books. And when your baby's really
95. 10:05small and all they want to do is rip and chew on  things, these books are perfect for little babies.
96. 10:11And this one you can press on it and  it makes bird sounds. Cool. All right,
97. 10:19let's continue over to this section where there  are more earrings. So dangerous for me. Some
98. 10:29cute hair clips for adults, necklaces, jewelry,  some decorations. Looks like spoons and forks.
99. 10:42And here we have some locally made soap. So this  is another common gift that you might get when you
100. 10:51visit the US. Make sure you're allowed to bring  it back into your country. But a lot of people in
101. 10:56this area make soap and they all have different  fun names like goat milk, goat milk soap,
102. 11:03love me tender soap, warm vanilla sugar, dark  amber and rosewood soap. Smells pretty good.
103. 11:14You can even buy little bits  of art. So this type of art,
104. 11:18it's on a canvas. So this is like a mini  canvas. That's the type of material that
105. 11:26it's been painted on. A little canvas here.  If you want to take home that to decorate
106. 11:30your home. Some headbands if you'd like  to wear. Headbands, for me, headbands are
107. 11:36always uncomfortable. I think they're so cute,  but they never feel good on my head. Here we
108. 11:42have some more locally made soap. Can't beat  lavender, right? Lavender is always the best.
109. 11:51Some sundresses, sundresses for the adults. Can't  resist those. And it looks like some other kid
110. 12:02things. Bring your grandparents. We have some kid  books, some children's books as we say. And this
111. 12:10is not a board book. This has real paper. So it  is just a regular book. Looks like there's little
112. 12:16kids sensory dough magical jar with little goopy  goodies in there. Your kids can squeeze little
113. 12:25diamonds and sharks. They can squeeze and play  with. Sounds like a good grandparent gift gift.
114. 12:31There are some journals, that's what these are.  Inside, you can write all of your English notes,
115. 12:38all of your English words and dreams inside here.  I love buying journals. I think they're so cute.
116. 12:46There are lots of greeting cards. In fact, look  at this. You can buy a greeting card of this shop.
117. 12:54So when you write home to all your friends,  you can say, I am here. I bought this here,
118. 13:00this exact card. How cute. And here we are  back at the beginning of the shop. We missed
119. 13:07all of the vintage jewelry. More dangerous  jewelry. Look at that. We've got pins,
120. 13:16we've got cute little pins you can put  on your jacket, boingy pearl bracelets,
121. 13:26necklaces, all sorts of vintage  things, which generally just
122. 13:29means cool old stuff. So let's go back on  outside and I'll finish up this lesson.
123. 13:37Well, thanks so much for joining me on this tour  of a cute little shop. I hope you learned some
124. 13:42useful English vocabulary words for daily life.  Don't forget to download the free PDF worksheet
125. 13:48with all of today's important vocabulary and  expressions so that when you visit the US you
126. 13:53will be prepared and you will be able to use these  real daily life expressions. You can click on the
127. 13:59link in the description to download that free PDF  worksheet today. Well, thanks so much for learning
128. 14:03English with me and I'll see you again next Friday  for a new lesson here on my YouTube channel. Bye.
129. 14:09But wait, do you want more? I recommend  watching this video next where you will
130. 14:13join me around town as I go to various  places, including the bank. There is a
131. 14:19surprise waiting for you at the bank. So I'll  see you in that video to find out what it is.