Top 10 Phrases to Use When Driving in English

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okay begin hi everybody and welcome back

to top words my name is Alisha and today

we’re going to talk about ten phrases to

use when driving so let’s go your

steering wheel the first expression is

steering wheel steering wheel is that

thing that circular object in the car

you use to move the vehicle it’s called

the steering wheel steering wheel so in

a sentence keep both hands on the

steering wheel

next blinker turn signal the next

expression is blinker or turn signal we

have two words for this blinker or turn

signal this is the part of the car the

light that blinks mm so this sort of

on-off on-off we say it blinks that’s

the verb that we use to describe that

on-off action or turn signal is another

way to explain this one but we use this

to signal when we are turning to the

right or turning to the left

so in a sentence make sure to use your

turn signals windshield wiper the next

expression is windshield wiper

windshield wiper your windshield is that

thing the piece of glass at the front of

the car that keeps the car separate from

the world outside it like that is your

windshield literally windshield it

shields you the driver and your

passengers from the wind the windshield

so a windshield wiper is those those

rubbery things they wipe the windshield

like rain or other objects that might

fall okay in a sentence I accidentally

turned on the windshield wipers Fastlane

the next expression is Fastlane and

there’s also a slow lane but fast lane

is the a specific lane a specific part

of the road for cars that want to drive

quickly so if you’d like to go fast you

should go in the fast lane if you do not

want to go fast you should go in the

slow lane or maybe just the regular lane

so there’s a fast lane and a slow lane

on some roads and some highways in a

sentence keep a quick pace in the fast

lane to hit the gas to hit the gas the

gas means the accelerator so to hit the

accelerator to hit has the nuance of

suddenly or quickly doing something so

to hit the gas means to quickly increase

speed so in a sentence hit the gas

you’re going to slow to hit the brakes

then the other side of this expression

is to hit the brakes so the brakes are

those are the parts of the car that slow

the car down to hit the brakes means to

suddenly step on the brakes just

suddenly try to slow the car down or

maybe stop the car quickly is to hit the

brakes you can also say to slam on the

brakes which is even stronger than hit

the brakes so in a sentence don’t hit

the brakes so hard to break the speed

limit the next expression is to break

the speed limit so to break the speed

limit means you break the law actually

break here brake does not refer to

destroying something or damaging

something brake instead is the verb that

we use to mean we have violated a law we

have done something bad according to the

rules in our country or our city or

something so to break the speed limit or

to break the law means we are going

faster than the allowed speed limit if

the speed limit is 20 miles an hour or

20 kilometers an hour and our car is

traveling at 50 kilometres an hour or 50

miles an hour whatever your country uses

this is breaking the speed limit to

break the speed limit it is too fast so

in a sentence

I broke the speed limit and I got a

ticket to pass the next expression is to

pass to pass so this is used in a

situation where there is one car moving

slower than another

so car a is moving along at a slow pace

car B decides that it wants to go faster

than car a so to pass means to move to

the side of the slower car pass the car

and then move back in front and continue

on so sometimes there is a specific

passing lane to do this other times

there are specific marks on the road

that indicate our that show that it’s

okay to pass so in the u.s. it’s a

dotted line which means you can pass in

this part of the road it’s safe to pass

so to pass means to move beyond another

car going more slowly than you be

careful to pass other cars safely to be

in an accident to be in an accident to

be in an accident means in this case a

car accident a car crash

so something unfortunate has happened

then

maybe the car was damaged a person was

hurt or killed perhaps in all of those

situations we can say he or she was in

an accident or I was in an accident in a

sentence have you ever been in an

accident

fender bender the next expression is an

interesting word it’s called fender

bender a fender bender is a minor

accident a small accident this

expression comes from Fender fender is a

part of a car fender is at the front of

a car

it’s it’s usually kind of a plastic a

plastic sort of barrier or a plastic

part right at the front of the car above

the wheels but below the hood of the car

so a fender bender is a small accident

where maybe two cars collide a little

bit and the fender on the front of the

car becomes bent so there’s a small bit

of damage to the fender only on the car

so fender bender is used to talk about

small-scale accidents so sometimes this

might literally mean the fender of the

car was damaged but it can also mean

just a small bit of damage to a car

somewhere else so a small accident is

called a fender bender in a sentence

my friend got in a fender bender last

weekend all right so that’s the end so

those are 10 phrases to use when driving

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