0:00 Are you ready for some real life English?
0:05 Welcome to my home.
0:07 Today you are invited to learn real daily life English.
0:11 Not that textbook stuff that doesn't help you in the real world,
0:15 but real daily life English with me in my home.
0:19 If you are new here, hi.
0:21 I'm Vanessa and I teach English here on the Speak English with Vanessa YouTube
0:25 channel to help you actually be able to grow your confidence
0:29 and English fluency with real English
0:32 that real English speakers use all the time.
0:35 So, what am I doing here on the floor of my living room covered
0:39 in laundry?
0:41 Well, I am here to invite you into my home for this daily life
0:45 task.
0:46 I'm going to fold this laundry for all the five people who live in
0:50 my house and I'm going to talk to you about it along the way.
0:54 These real life English conversations are how you learn real English.
0:58 So, here we are.
1:00 And like always, I have created a free PDF worksheet
1:04 that is going to include all of the vocabulary,
1:07 definitions, sample sentences, important concepts that you're going to learn in today's lesson.
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1:38 This is almost like a free podcast episode.
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1:46 Maybe while you are folding your own laundry.
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2:01 It's my gift to you.
2:03 All right, let's get started and see what task lies before me.
2:07 I have laundry here from my youngest daughter, my middle son, my oldest son,
2:13 me, and my husband.
2:15 And I just try to fold them
2:16 and place them all in kind of chronological order,
2:21 youngest to oldest.
2:22 First, if a shirt is inside out, like this one was,
2:26 I have to turn it right side out.
2:29 Isn't that kind of a strange expression?
2:31 Right side out.
2:33 Why not?
2:34 Left side out, inside out, right side out.
2:37 Strange expressions here.
2:39 This is a collared shirt.
2:41 It is my husband's collared shirt.
2:43 And because those get hung up on hangers,
2:45 I just lay them here
2:47 and I take them to the bedroom later to hang up.
2:51 This shirt is also inside out.
2:53 So, I put my hand inside it, pull it right side out,
2:58 shake it out of it, and fold it up.
3:02 It's nothing magical, but it works.
3:05 This is my daughter's dress.
3:08 Isn't it so tiny and cute?
3:10 And because these also get hung up,
3:12 I just kind of gently fold them and lay them here.
3:16 These are my son's shorts.
3:19 These are kind of like sweat shorts.
3:21 They're really comfy.
3:23 And I just fold those once.
3:25 Lay them down.
3:26 Some more shorts for my daughter.
3:29 Another dress for her.
3:33 We have some PJs.
3:34 So these are pajamas, but for me and my family, we call them PJs.
3:39 You can say pajamas.
3:41 No problem.
3:42 Sometimes for children, we say jammies.
3:45 Um, for some reason, my family doesn't say that.
3:48 Uh, these are also PJs for my daughter.
3:53 Um, yeah.
3:53 I don't know why.
3:54 Why don't we call them jammies?
3:55 It's kind of cute.
3:57 This is a very specific item.
3:59 I don't know if you would know what this is
4:02 if you didn't have a baby.
4:03 This is called a sleepsack.
4:05 It is like a wearable blanket because babies can't um have a blanket.
4:11 When they sleep, they could suffocate.
4:14 They can wear a sleepsack in it.
4:16 You zip them up and it's like a little blanket.
4:19 All right.
4:19 I have another dress. these adorable corduroy pants
4:26 that my lovely neighbor Michelle gave to my daughter.
4:30 If you have not yet met Michelle, she is on my YouTube channel here.
4:36 We talk about gardening together
4:38 and sometimes she likes to buy clothes for my kids.
4:40 Um, these are sweatpants.
4:42 These are really comfortable pants
4:44 and my oldest son refuses to wear anything else except for sweatpants.
4:49 Whatever.
4:50 I don't really care.
4:51 It's comfy.
4:52 We got t-shirts.
4:55 Oh, another cute.
4:56 This is a long sleeve shirt.
4:58 Michelle got this for my daughter.
5:00 So, it is new.
5:01 It has not been worn yet.
5:04 Some more sweatshirts.
5:06 Now, this is a new item.
5:08 This is a tea towel.
5:13 This tea towel goes in the kitchen
5:14 and usually you use it to dry your hands.
5:18 Uh, I use it sometimes to dry dishes or clean up messes.
5:23 I have a lot of messes around my house.
5:26 Someone is always spilling something.
5:29 I remember one morning I counted five things
5:34 that I needed to clean up off the floor
5:37 that had been spilled before 8:00 a.m.
5:41 That's a crazy morning.
5:43 There was always something that needed to be cleaned up.
5:47 Oh, you have to see this shirt.
5:49 This is one of Dan's t-shirts that I got him.
5:52 It says, "It's not a dad bod, it's a father figure."
5:57 So, this phrase dadbod is often used to describe
6:01 when men who are 30s
6:04 and 40s have a little belly.
6:07 So, they're not really super fit anymore.
6:10 Um, they call it a dad bod, but instead of being a dad body,
6:16 father figure, his figure,
6:18 but this phrase father figure also means someone who is the man in your
6:27 life who you look up to,
6:29 who is like a father.
6:31 Maybe he is a father.
6:33 He might not be your actual father,
6:35 but we could say he's like a father figure.
6:37 It's very important, someone impressionable in your life.
6:40 So, I'm not sure if you can get the joke of that t-shirt.
6:43 It's not a dadbot.
6:44 It's a father figure.
6:47 It's very silly.
6:48 Uh, usually on Father's Day,
6:50 I like to get Dan silly father's father related t-shirts.
6:58 Um, he has several of them at this point.
7:01 This is a cloth napkin.
7:03 I don't know why I fold these
7:05 because they just get messed up very quickly,
7:08 but There you have it.
7:11 Sometimes I do.
7:12 Uh we have some more PJs for my daughter.
7:18 Shorts.
7:19 These are shorts.
7:20 Regular shorts for my son.
7:23 This is kind of a weird time of year
7:25 when we have both shorts
7:28 and long pants.
7:30 So, it kind of means more organization for me
7:32 because I have to to put different piles of clothes out for each kid.
7:37 There's short sleeve stuff and shorts, long pants, long sleeve stuff.
7:43 So, it's all um it's a little bit more to manage,
7:47 but when you have five people in your house, three children, two adults,
7:53 there is always something to manage, right?
7:56 Always have to fold some kind of laundry, do some kind of dishes.
8:00 Now, Dan, my husband, he is in charge of dishes.
8:04 So, he does dishes every night and I do laundry, I don't know,
8:11 every couple days.
8:13 Have you ever seen this before?
8:15 This is not extremely common in the US, but I love it.
8:20 It's these little reusable zippable bags.
8:24 It's like got a plastic lining on the inside.
8:27 We have probably 20 of these
8:31 and we use them for school lunches
8:33 because in the US you have to you can buy a lunch at school
8:38 but at my kids school they don't offer lunch.
8:41 You have to bring your own lunch from home.
8:44 So we have these little bags that we put carrots, apples, sandwiches,
8:49 whatever in these little bags and we can reuse them.
8:52 How great is that?
8:54 I love it.
8:54 It makes my heart happy.
8:56 Uh, this is a washcloth.
9:01 I use this to remove some makeup.
9:03 So, you can see there are still I don't know
9:06 if you can see this,
9:07 but there's still some stains on it.
9:09 It doesn't bother me
9:10 because I'm just going to use this to take off some makeup.
9:14 So, this is just for me.
9:16 Uh, socks.
9:17 I usually leave socks in a big old pile
9:20 and then at the end
9:21 when I'm done doing all the laundry,
9:23 I sort the socks.
9:26 This is my shirt and it will get hung up.
9:28 I will lay that there.
9:30 All right, we are almost done with one whole basket.
9:34 What a dream.
9:36 Empty success.
9:39 But I have some bad news.
9:41 I have more.
9:44 Sometimes it feels like I'm doing all of the clothes
9:48 that exist in our entire house.
9:51 Now, for some shirts, like this one, it's inside out,
9:53 but I don't really care.
9:55 I'm going to just fold it uh wrong way out, inside out.
10:02 This is my dress.
10:04 I am going to turn this one right side out.
10:07 This we would call a sundress.
10:11 It's light.
10:12 It's only for the hottest days of summer.
10:16 And even though it's probably more fall like now,
10:20 I still wear this because some afternoons are just so hot.
10:26 And I am someone who gets hot very easily.
10:29 Uh sweats very easily.
10:31 So, I like to wear light clothes, things that keep my body cool longer.
10:38 All right, we got some more sweatpants. these a new item.
10:42 This is a placemat.
10:44 It goes on the table underneath your plate.
10:48 And for these, I just fold them in half.
10:51 There'll probably be a bunch of them
10:53 because I usually grab all of our placemats at once
10:58 and wash them all.
11:00 Um, just a quick note, when we're talking about laundry,
11:04 when we're talking about the whole process, washing it, drying it, folding it,
11:10 putting it away, we say do the laundry.
11:14 I need to do the laundry.
11:16 This verb do is essential.
11:19 You can't say, "I'm making the laundry.
11:23 I'm having the laundry."
11:25 You have to say, "I'm doing the laundry."
11:28 Now, for some of those other tasks,
11:31 these are my workout shorts for working out, getting strong.
11:37 Um, for the individual tasks, we can say, I'm washing the clothes.
11:43 I'm putting the clothes in the washing machine, which is what I have.
11:49 And then after I take them out of the washing machine,
11:52 I put them in the dryer because in the US, uh,
11:56 some people do hang their clothes, but it's I would say it's pretty rare.
12:04 It's pretty rare.
12:05 Yeah, it's pretty rare, especially for someone to hang all their clothes.
12:10 And I know in some countries it's unheard of to actually use a dryer,
12:16 but in the US it's really common.
12:18 I know it's not good for energy and for the environment,
12:23 but we use them all the time.
12:25 And I think when you get in the habit of using a dryer,
12:28 it's hard to break that habit, right?
12:31 Um, and when you have this much laundry,
12:35 I just don't have time to hang it up, fold it,
12:39 then it's all crinkly.
12:41 When you put things in the dryer, they get soft,
12:46 so it feels like Yeah, I don't need to iron them.
12:50 It's just nicer.
12:52 Sorry if that's really bad for the environment, but that's the way it is.
12:57 These are some uh green placemats.
13:03 And these this is my son's short sleeve shirt.
13:06 We call this a t-shirt.
13:07 A t-shirt or just a short sleeve shirt.
13:11 Um these are they have ripped off the lining on the outside.
13:16 But these are some tie-dye washcloths that my children use.
13:20 Um they were not originally tiedye.
13:23 We had some kind of tie-dye project and they tie-dyed them.
13:28 So, whenever I do laundry, there's three of them.
13:32 I tie dye them.
13:35 You might be wondering, Vanessa, why do you not cut off this long string?
13:39 It's because my kids love it.
13:41 I don't know why they play games with the their bath toys with these
13:48 strings.
13:48 I don't even know.
13:49 Sometimes kids find the strangest things to have fun with, so I leave it.
13:54 And I'm sure someday when my kids are grown,
13:56 I'll look back fondly on those silly things.
14:01 All right, what have we got left?
14:06 Still a nice little pile here.
14:08 Uh, this is my husband's colored shirt.
14:10 So, I would call
14:11 that a short sleeve colored shirt.
14:15 and it gets hung up in the closet ideally.
14:21 So, I will put it on the couch.
14:24 These are some sweatpants.
14:25 These are my husband's sweatpants.
14:27 And I will loosely fold those.
14:30 We've got some more PJs for my kids.
14:33 Usually for my kids, because they're small, they're young.
14:37 They can turn their clothes right side out.
14:42 But I think if I do it while I'm doing the laundry,
14:46 it kind of saves some hassle.
14:48 I can imagine later
14:51 when they're about to go to bed
14:52 and they get their PJs
14:54 and they're so tired.
14:55 It's the end of the day and then their PJs are inside out like,
14:58 "Oh, they're inside out.
14:59 I can't put them on."
15:02 If you are a parent, you know that situation.
15:06 So, I try my best for my kids clothes,
15:09 especially to turn them right side out.
15:12 Um, that's a fixed phrase you have to use altogether.
15:16 I turn it or turn them right side out.
15:20 Right side out.
15:21 I think I've said that a lot during this video.
15:24 Like these, I will turn them right side out.
15:27 Wow, we have quite an impressive stack of folded clothes already.
15:32 And we're almost done.
15:33 All right, this is my workout shirt.
15:36 So, we could say tank top.
15:40 It's just a tank top.
15:41 A tank top has no sleeves.
15:44 Kind of like this shirt.
15:45 It's a tank top.
15:46 It has no sleeves.
15:48 And it's because when I work out, I sweat a lot.
15:53 These are also PJs.
15:56 Adult PJs for me.
15:59 And now we are left with almost just socks.
16:03 All right.
16:03 Oh, I have a skirt.
16:05 This is my skirt.
16:08 And it said on the tag,
16:11 so you can read the tag and it says how to wash it.
16:15 It said wash with cold water, but I don't have time for that.
16:22 I wash everything all together.
16:24 I don't separate things by color.
16:26 I don't separate delicate things from not delicate things.
16:30 The only things I separate are generally towels like big bath towels
16:36 or if I'm washing a little rug
16:38 or something,
16:39 I'll put that in separately.
16:41 But if it's clothes, it's all going in together at the same time.
16:47 I don't know.
16:47 Do you separate clothes?
16:49 If you have to do laundry for your whole family, are you dedicated?
16:55 And do you actually separate clothes?
16:58 I know when I was growing up,
17:00 I was taught I don't know who taught me this cuz I don't even
17:05 know if my parents did this,
17:07 but I was taught you should have lights and darks.
17:12 Maybe it's that nowadays we don't care for our clothes in the same way.
17:17 Excuse me.
17:18 It's another little bag.
17:20 And you can just throw them in the wash and they're clean.
17:23 It's amazing.
17:24 You can even throw them in the dishwasher and wash them.
17:28 Yeah, I don't separate things lights
17:30 and darks and maybe my clothes won't last
17:33 as long.
17:33 Maybe it damages my clothes, but some socks.
17:38 But in the end, I would rather save the time.
17:42 I don't have fancy clothes.
17:43 Maybe that's it.
17:44 If I had fancy clothes, then I would take more care to separate them,
17:51 but I don't.
17:54 All right.
17:54 Now, we are left with this lovely pile of socks.
17:57 Let's talk about how we the the expressions we use to talk about socks.
18:03 And if you have made it this far into watching someone else fold laundry,
18:10 congratulations.
18:10 All right.
18:11 So, I have two socks that are a matching pair.
18:14 Pair is the word that I would use for these socks.
18:17 A pair of socks, and they are a matching pair.
18:22 Hooray.
18:23 Now, sometimes if my kids are around, um, right now,
18:27 two of my kids are at school and one is taking a nap.
18:29 But if my kids are around,
18:31 I do have them help me do the laundry.
18:34 And sometimes it works out, sometimes it does not.
18:39 Sometimes someone walks through all of the beautifully folded clothes
18:43 and ah it's a disaster.
18:45 But I'm generally trying to also teach them how to fold things,
18:49 how to uh separate.
18:53 These are your clothes, these are his clothes.
18:56 And I think in general just helping kids learn chores is good.
19:01 But if you are a parent
19:03 and you have ever tried to teach children how to do chores,
19:08 you will know that it is 10 times the amount of effort.
19:13 Oh, I have so many unmatched socks.
19:17 It is 10 times the amount of effort to teach your kids to do
19:23 chores than to just do them.
19:25 But in the long run, it's helpful to do it.
19:28 So, I try to teach my kids how to do chores whenever they're around.
19:34 All right, we have purple, yellow, gray, blue, green, brown, blue.
19:45 Oh, it's a different blue.
19:48 Uh, three of Dan's socks and three of my daughter's socks.
19:55 Bad news.
19:56 Where did the rest of the socks go?
19:59 Oh, I see.
20:00 Oh, no.
20:01 That's a dirty sock.
20:02 Oh, I mismatched these.
20:04 Okay, we have a brown sock.
20:06 So, I'm going to match these.
20:08 And when I put them incorrectly together, I said mismatched.
20:12 I mismatched the socks, but now they are correctly matched.
20:17 All right, these ones,
20:18 because they're my kids
20:19 and my kids don't care
20:21 if their socks are the same color,
20:23 I am just going to fold them together, and they will not care.
20:28 I don't know if your kids care about this kind of stuff,
20:31 but for me, um, my kids reach into the sock drawer,
20:35 grab whatever they want, and put them on.
20:38 All right, I have a bonus sock,
20:39 so it's just going to go in the drawer.
20:42 Um, these three socks are surprise.
20:46 Oh, I found one.
20:49 Well, those two socks need a matching pair.
20:53 Their matching pair has been uh stolen by little elves somewhere.
20:58 These three socks, my daughter doesn't care either,
21:01 so I'll just put a yellow sock and a blue sock together.
21:04 Who cares?
21:05 And this sock is going to just have a little solo party.
21:09 All right.
21:10 Well, there we have it.
21:11 All of the clothes are folded.
21:13 The laundry baskets are empty.
21:15 My job is still not done
21:17 because I need to put all of these clothes back in my kids' room
21:23 and my room.
21:25 It's a big job to do the laundry.
21:27 But thank you for joining me for this daily life task.
21:31 I hope that it was somewhat enjoyable for you.
21:35 I hope you could spend the last few minutes with me just immersed in
21:39 English.
21:40 Thank you so much.
21:41 I want to know in the comments, how often do you do laundry?
21:45 And do you separate your laundry?
21:48 Do you separate it lights and darks, delicates and not delicates?
21:54 What uh what do you do when you do the laundry?
21:59 And like I mentioned before,
22:01 I would like to give you the free PDF worksheet
22:04 that goes with today's daily life English lesson.
22:08 While I was talking about the laundry and just chitchatting,
22:12 I used a lot of daily life vocabulary.
22:15 All of those yellow words
22:17 that you saw appear here will be in the PDF worksheet with their definitions,
22:22 extra sample sentences, and in the PDF worksheet is the bonus audio.
22:27 So, you will be able to just click on the link in the PDF
22:30 and boom,
22:31 you will have the free downloadable audio of today's lesson
22:35 so that you can listen to real life English wherever you are.
22:39 To get the free PDF worksheet, just click on the link in the description.
22:43 Enter your name and email address and voila, just like that,
22:48 the free PDF worksheet plus downloadable audio will be in your email inbox.
22:54 It is my gift to you.
22:55 So, thank you so much for learning English with me,
22:58 and I'll see you again next Friday for a new lesson here on my
23:01 YouTube channel.
23:02 Bye.
23:03 But wait, do you want more?
23:05 I recommend watching this video next,
23:08 where you will join me in my kitchen where I bake a loaf of
23:12 fresh bread and a little mystery drink,
23:15 and you can also be immersed in daily life English
23:18 and have a little fun.
23:19 I'll see you there.
