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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