ENGLISH PRACTICE The Coronavirus Pronunciation Vocabulary Phrasal Verbs that you NEED

hey guys well I did have a regular video

cued up scheduled for you ready to go

but it just felt weird putting it out

today what with everything that’s going

on in the US and elsewhere with

coronavirus so instead today we’re going

to talk a little bit about what’s

happening that current event and as I

talked about it will make sure that

we’re addressing interesting or strange

pronunciations or vocabularies phrasal

verbs that kind of thing that might come

up

first let’s talk about the phrasal verb

I used queued up I said I have a video

cued up

if something’s cued up that means it’s

ready to be used next I had a video that

was all ready to go for today but it

seemed strange to post it and not

acknowledge that we’re in the middle of

this pandemic as some of you know I live

in Philadelphia and what’s happening

here is something that has been going on

for weeks or even months in other places

in the world I’ve been watching that I

have some students in China and they

were telling me what life was like for

them I can’t find toilet paper I’m

working from home I don’t see anyone all

day and now that’s happening I ordered

toilet paper from Target and my order

got cancelled because they couldn’t fill

it up so I did go to the grocery store

today and get some toilet paper but

we’re starting to feel some of those

same things so I I guess I knew it was

coming and now it’s here and now we’re

figuring out what to do about it and of

course the virus I’m talking about is

called the corona virus it’s also called

kovat 19 those are I think the two

official terms or maybe just kovin 19 is

official but there it is one thing that

I was thinking about was a word that you

may have been hearing a lot if you’re

following this in English wait before we

get to that corona virus it’s pronounced

just like the beer Corona kovat we’re

pronouncing that with first syllable

stress and the Oh diphthong kho-kho vyd

19 how is 19 different from 90 first the

stress 19 has second syllable stress

also we have a true T there in 90 it’s a

flap T 19 kovat 19 one thing that I was

thinking about was a word that you may

have been hearing a lot if you’re

following this in English is the word

stalk and it’s being used in a couple of

different ways so first of all there’s

the stock market and we call that stocks

stocks have plummeted

they’ve plunged they’ve really lost

value they started to go up a little bit

at the end of the week

but that’s the stock market or stocks

but maybe you’ve also heard the term

stock pile and this is what you do when

you gather a lot of something and keep

it safe for example some people have

been stockpiling toilet paper which is

why it’s hard for other people to get it

because people are going in and buying a

lot or hand sanitizer I want to point

out that the d in hand will be silent

when the next word begins with a

consonant it doesn’t have to be but this

is how you’ll hear it most of the time I

said hand sanitizer hand sanitizer no D

listen again or hand sanitizer or

whatever or they’re stocking up that’s

another way you can use it this is a

phrasal verb to stock up on something

that’s a little bit different than

stockpile stockpile really means a very

large amount of something stocking up

just means getting plenty of it it’s not

quite as extreme for example at my house

we’re stocking up on beans rice foods

that we can cook if for some reason we

are unable to go to the grocery store

stuff that will last we would call that

kind of food non perishable food so

we’ve stocked up a little bit we haven’t

really stockpiled anything we’re trying

not to grab too many resources and keep

them for ourselves but we’re definitely

stocking up and we are watching the

stock market we do have some socks there

we’re not too worried about it we’re

still young but those are all

interesting ways you can use the word

stock I’ve also used the phrase take

stock and that means assess that means

gather information in order to make a

decision for example we need to take

stock of what we have before we go

shopping so that we know what we need so

we don’t buy stuff we don’t need and we

don’t forget important stuff we need to

take stock of what we have before we

make our shopping list there are other

ways to use the word stock perhaps in

cooking you’ve noticed the term chicken

stock beef stock or vegetable stock so

we’re all ready we’re stocked up on

everything we need plenty of diapers and

all that and now we’re just waiting to

see what happens

Philadelphia where I live the schools

have closed down for two weeks my kids

are not school-aged yet they’re younger

so daycare centers are still open as of

now however the counties that surround

my County all four of them have shut

down before I go on let me point out the

word County we dropped the D in hand

because it was after an N and before

consonant we often drop the T when it

comes after an N this happens in the

common words internet interview and

international and others as well you

don’t have to drop the T but you’ll

often hear that the dropped T is also

common in the pronunciation of the word

County so it becomes County that’s what

I did listen again to my pronunciation

of County and counties the counties that

surround my County all four of them have

shut down

what is it non-essential businesses and

that would include daycare so it just

seems inevitable there were two less

common words they’re non-essential and

inevitable essential means absolutely

necessary something you must have err is

essential for life essential businesses

in a time like this

our pharmacies and grocery stores all

other businesses even daycares are

considered non-essential we can live

without them for a period the counties

that surround my County all four of them

have shut down

what is it non-essential businesses and

that would include daycare so it just

seems inevitable inevitable I said it

seems inevitable that our daycare will

close that means certain to happen

unavoidable based on what’s happening in

surrounding counties where all the

non-essential businesses have been

closed it seems certain that our daycare

will close what will we do when our kids

have to be home with us we’re very very

lucky in that my husband David is mostly

a stay-at-home dad so he has a very

small job in the evening and I can take

care of the kid

at that point but generally during the

day he takes care of the kids and whence

lawyers in day care a couple days a week

or so knees at school then he does

things like grocery shopping cleans the

house he does all of that

he runs the household for our family so

luckily for us he can keep doing that

with the kids and I can keep work it

won’t disrupt our life that much but

certainly we have many friends and know

there are many people out there who will

be very disrupted when their kids are no

longer taken care of and kids who have

school aid people who have school-aged

kids who now can’t be at school and I

know that this is what’s been happening

all over the world I’m just curious how

are you guys doing how have you dealt

with your lifestyle changes one of the

things that’s interesting confusing hard

difficult about this situation is not

knowing the length and not knowing how

long Stony will go to school on Monday

he goes to a Montessori preschool

but we assume that within a day or two

that will be shut down Sawyer we haven’t

heard anything we assume that will be

shut down I have to stop here because

one of the vocabulary words I went over

recently on my channel was assume and

here I’ve used it twice it means to

think something is true or probably true

without actually knowing at the time I

made this video I thought their schools

would be canceled I was pretty sure I

didn’t know definitely they’d not been

canceled yet but I assumed they would be

but we assume that within a day or two

that will be shut down Sawyer we haven’t

heard anything we assumed that will be

shut down and so we’ll figure it out a

lot of playing inside I guess I wanted

to go over the difference between

shutdown and lockdown so I’ve been

hearing both of those phrases in the

news a shutdown of non-essential

businesses would mean those businesses

closed so workers won’t be there you

can’t go visit them just as a way to

diminish the amount of contact that

people are having with one another now a

lockdown

is when you’re not free to move about so

for example if the city of Philadelphia

has a lock down then people won’t be

able to leave and come come into the

city and that’s been happening in other

places in the world and might it ever be

so extreme that there’s a lockdown

house-by-house that they say look you

can’t leave your house this thing is out

of control we’re going to take dramatic

measures I don’t know I don’t think

that’s happened yet anywhere where

they’re saying people can’t leave their

house but they’re trying to contain

areas by locking down those areas my

hope whoever is watching this wherever

you are that you and your family are

safe and healthy and that you’re

weathering the storm I know everyone’s

life is disrupted and the financial

impact is huge to weather the storm this

is an idiom that means to make it

through a difficult situation this is a

tremendously difficult time and I hope

you are weathering the storm making it

through not suffering too much so there

will be a regular Rachel’s English video

here next week please come back and

check it out and be well be kind to each

other and let’s just all remember to

wash our hands

Stoney my four-year-old is so annoyed

with how often we’re making him wash his

hands but from what I understand it’s

our responsibility to do that for one

another in this world to try to shut

this thing down shut it down this is so

be well out there my friends thank you

for watching and I’ll see you here next

week the vocabulary video where I went

over the word assume is here it’s a

whole playlist so if you’ve already seen

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