How To Use Roughing It in English Expand Your Vocabulary

hi i’m vanessa from speak english with

vanessa calm

do you like roughing it let’s talk about

it recently my husband and i got a light

tent a light sleeping bag and some light

camping gear to go camping in the middle

of the woods

i know that this isn’t something that

everyone likes so i would like to ask

you do you like to rough it rough it

this is today’s expression rough it or I

am roughing it and that simply means

that you are not using modern

conveniences

maybe you’re sleeping in a tent instead

of in your house you’re sleeping in a

sleeping bag instead of on your bed

you’re cooking on a campfire instead of

in your kitchen you’re doing some things

that aren’t really convenient you are

maybe doing things outside things that

take a little longer you are roughing it

typically we use this expression to talk

about camping or some physically

difficult situation usually something

that involves being away from modern

conveniences I want to show you a couple

examples of when this expression was

used so for the course the fearless

fluency Club we have a private group

where I post videos and extra material

and other members also interact and

share things together and recently I

shared a video from my recent camping

trip I showed our campsite I showed the

beautiful view and I used this

expression so I’m gonna show you part of

that video and I’m going to show you

part of a video of my husband Dan eating

outside without silverware we forgot to

bring a fork so we had to rough it we

had to use a stick

and just try to see what happened so

you’re gonna see these two video clips

and you’re gonna hear the expression

rough it or roughing it a couple times

let’s watch it fire here we cook some

sausage and potatoes and cabbage and

marshmallows and hot chocolate we’re not

we’re not roughing it too much and

pretty good it tastes good with a stick

tastes fine it’s uh we had to rough it

because we have no some little

silverware so we forgot our forks and

knives just wrapping it decided why not

we’re in nature and we need our good old

protein and fat for the morning yep so

we’re eating sardines still tasty maybe

it doesn’t work as well as a fork now

that you know what the expression

roughing it means I want to ask you do

you like roughing it do you like to

rough it when was the last time that you

had to rough it outside doing something

that’s a little bit inconvenient but

pretty fun in my opinion let me know in

the comments below and I’ll see you

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