WEBVTT 00:00:00.010 --> 00:00:02.490 Hello, English learners. Welcome back to the 00:00:02.490 --> 00:00:04.910 Learn English podcast, the podcast that teaches 00:00:04.910 --> 00:00:07.110 English in context so you can learn naturally. 00:00:07.570 --> 00:00:10.570 On today's episode, I want to talk about the 00:00:10.570 --> 00:00:13.150 holiday that we are going to have here in the 00:00:13.150 --> 00:00:16.429 United States this Thursday. It is going to be 00:00:16.429 --> 00:00:20.230 Thanksgiving. On today's episode, I want to talk 00:00:20.230 --> 00:00:23.010 about the vocabulary that you will hear with 00:00:23.010 --> 00:00:25.809 Thanksgiving. That way, if you talk to someone 00:00:25.809 --> 00:00:28.579 from the United States. Or if you are in the 00:00:28.579 --> 00:00:31.199 United States and going to go to a Thanksgiving 00:00:31.199 --> 00:00:33.979 dinner, you will have the vocabulary you need 00:00:33.979 --> 00:00:37.420 to have a conversation about this holiday. So 00:00:37.420 --> 00:00:39.719 if you're interested in learning more about these 00:00:39.719 --> 00:00:42.880 Thanksgiving specific words, well, of course, 00:00:42.899 --> 00:00:45.619 practicing your listening comprehension, then 00:00:45.619 --> 00:00:54.189 follow along because we're about to begin. Before 00:00:54.189 --> 00:00:56.070 we get started, I want to remind you to look 00:00:56.070 --> 00:00:58.850 at the description of this podcast episode. There 00:00:58.850 --> 00:01:01.130 you will find a list of the words and phrases 00:01:01.130 --> 00:01:03.869 that I used in the episode so you can take them, 00:01:03.929 --> 00:01:06.269 study them, and build your English vocabulary. 00:01:07.069 --> 00:01:09.750 I also want to remind you to like and subscribe 00:01:09.750 --> 00:01:14.730 if you have not. And share the show. If you know 00:01:14.730 --> 00:01:17.489 someone who is learning English, if you think 00:01:17.489 --> 00:01:20.010 this podcast will help them, please share the 00:01:20.010 --> 00:01:22.349 show so we can continue to grow our audience. 00:01:22.629 --> 00:01:26.030 We are trying to hit 10 ,000 subscribers on YouTube. 00:01:26.129 --> 00:01:29.409 So if you are watching on YouTube, please like, 00:01:29.510 --> 00:01:33.000 subscribe, and share this video. Now let's talk 00:01:33.000 --> 00:01:37.000 about some Thanksgiving vocabulary. In the past 00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:39.260 few years, I've done a couple of episodes on 00:01:39.260 --> 00:01:42.359 Thanksgiving. I did a Thanksgiving food episode 00:01:42.359 --> 00:01:45.920 and a Thanksgiving traditions episode. I will 00:01:45.920 --> 00:01:48.239 leave links to those. I would recommend listening 00:01:48.239 --> 00:01:51.400 to those episodes if you have not, but we're 00:01:51.400 --> 00:01:53.659 going to continue with this series and continue 00:01:53.659 --> 00:01:57.689 to build on these vocabulary terms. In the Thanksgiving 00:01:57.689 --> 00:02:01.230 food episode, I talked about what foods are very 00:02:01.230 --> 00:02:04.549 common for people to eat at Thanksgiving. I mentioned 00:02:04.549 --> 00:02:07.670 that the Thanksgiving meal is really the key 00:02:07.670 --> 00:02:10.810 part of the holiday. Thanksgiving is known as 00:02:10.810 --> 00:02:15.550 a day to eat food. I know a lot of families do 00:02:15.550 --> 00:02:18.189 Thanksgiving dinner, but some also do a Thanksgiving 00:02:18.189 --> 00:02:21.490 lunch. My family, we tend to do a Thanksgiving 00:02:21.490 --> 00:02:24.689 lunch because we're hungry. We want to eat the 00:02:24.689 --> 00:02:27.870 food as early as possible. A lot of people do 00:02:27.870 --> 00:02:30.830 Thanksgiving dinner, but just having that meal 00:02:30.830 --> 00:02:34.669 with family is a really core part of the holiday. 00:02:34.710 --> 00:02:36.990 It is the most important thing when it comes 00:02:36.990 --> 00:02:45.539 to Thanksgiving. You are the host. So the host 00:02:45.539 --> 00:02:48.240 is the person who is having the Thanksgiving 00:02:48.240 --> 00:02:51.800 meal at their house. They are the ones usually 00:02:51.800 --> 00:02:54.740 who are doing the most cooking and preparing 00:02:54.740 --> 00:02:59.080 most of the meal. I know that my mom is the one 00:02:59.080 --> 00:03:01.960 who always hosts Thanksgiving dinner for my family. 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:06.860 I am not the host. I am a guest. So if you are 00:03:06.860 --> 00:03:09.439 not the person who's hosting, if you're not one 00:03:09.439 --> 00:03:11.520 of the family members that lives in that house 00:03:11.520 --> 00:03:13.479 that is hosting Thanksgiving dinner, if you're 00:03:13.479 --> 00:03:17.460 going to someone else's house, you are a guest. 00:03:17.500 --> 00:03:20.639 You are a guest for the Thanksgiving meal. Now 00:03:20.639 --> 00:03:23.479 you might hear someone say that they're hosting 00:03:23.479 --> 00:03:26.639 Thanksgiving dinner, but that's sometimes sounds 00:03:26.639 --> 00:03:28.860 a little bit formal i wouldn't say that it's 00:03:28.860 --> 00:03:32.379 extremely common to hear instead you might hear 00:03:32.379 --> 00:03:35.120 people say that they are having thanksgiving 00:03:35.120 --> 00:03:38.259 dinner and i know that sounds like the act of 00:03:38.259 --> 00:03:41.699 eating but if you listen to the context where 00:03:41.699 --> 00:03:44.840 someone says it i think you'll be able to understand 00:03:44.840 --> 00:03:47.819 the meaning so for example let's say you're talking 00:03:47.819 --> 00:03:50.560 to a co -worker and you're asking what their 00:03:50.560 --> 00:03:52.740 plans are for thanksgiving they might say that 00:03:52.740 --> 00:03:55.800 they are having thanksgiving dinner at their 00:03:55.800 --> 00:03:59.860 mother's house like i am that means that the 00:03:59.860 --> 00:04:03.340 person's mother is the one who's hosting so they're 00:04:03.340 --> 00:04:07.120 using that have word to kind of differentiate 00:04:07.120 --> 00:04:10.620 and tell you who the person is that is the host 00:04:10.620 --> 00:04:14.699 so we're having thanksgiving dinner at my mother's 00:04:15.069 --> 00:04:18.170 that means that my mother is the person who is 00:04:18.170 --> 00:04:21.329 hosting and I am going to be the guest. Now, 00:04:21.350 --> 00:04:23.870 if I say we're having Thanksgiving dinner at 00:04:23.870 --> 00:04:27.550 my house this year, that means that I am hosting 00:04:27.550 --> 00:04:31.850 and whoever I am inviting are going to be my 00:04:31.850 --> 00:04:35.470 guests. So if I tell you that I'm having Thanksgiving 00:04:35.470 --> 00:04:39.470 dinner at my house, that means that I am hosting 00:04:39.470 --> 00:04:42.839 Thanksgiving. Now, you might hear this if someone 00:04:42.839 --> 00:04:45.519 invites you to Thanksgiving dinner or asks you 00:04:45.519 --> 00:04:48.240 if you don't have a place to go to come and join 00:04:48.240 --> 00:04:51.040 them. So if you are my coworker and I tell you, 00:04:51.079 --> 00:04:53.500 hey, we're having Thanksgiving dinner at my house 00:04:53.500 --> 00:04:56.519 at six. Do you want to come by? You might not 00:04:56.519 --> 00:04:59.879 understand that because it's not textbook perfect 00:04:59.879 --> 00:05:02.839 English. It's not the very formal English. But 00:05:02.839 --> 00:05:05.920 what that means is that I am inviting you. So 00:05:05.920 --> 00:05:09.259 if you ask someone to come by. That means you 00:05:09.259 --> 00:05:13.240 are inviting them to whatever location you are 00:05:13.240 --> 00:05:16.939 talking about. So if I ask you to come by my 00:05:16.939 --> 00:05:20.779 place, what that means is come over to my house. 00:05:20.860 --> 00:05:23.699 Or I'm asking you if you would like to come over 00:05:23.699 --> 00:05:26.740 to my house. So if I ask you, hey, if you don't 00:05:26.740 --> 00:05:28.860 have any plans for Thanksgiving, do you want 00:05:28.860 --> 00:05:32.370 to come by my place? That means if you don't 00:05:32.370 --> 00:05:34.569 already have a dinner or a place that you're 00:05:34.569 --> 00:05:37.310 going to for Thanksgiving, would you like to 00:05:37.310 --> 00:05:39.949 come over to my house to have Thanksgiving dinner? 00:05:40.269 --> 00:05:42.910 Now you can hear the difference there, right? 00:05:42.949 --> 00:05:47.370 What I said is a lot more informal compared to 00:05:47.370 --> 00:05:50.910 the textbook perfect English that you would hear, 00:05:51.050 --> 00:05:52.850 especially if you learned English in school. 00:05:53.050 --> 00:05:55.910 I know that I have a family friend who is from 00:05:55.910 --> 00:05:58.660 the Philippines and she actually taught English. 00:05:58.680 --> 00:06:01.319 She majored in English in the Philippines. She 00:06:01.319 --> 00:06:03.839 taught English in the Philippines. So she has 00:06:03.839 --> 00:06:06.720 very, very good English, very high level, perfectly 00:06:06.720 --> 00:06:10.449 fluent in English. but she said that when she 00:06:10.449 --> 00:06:12.529 came to the United States she was very confused 00:06:12.529 --> 00:06:16.389 because Americans do not talk like how people 00:06:16.389 --> 00:06:19.810 talk in textbooks. We do not use that very formal 00:06:19.810 --> 00:06:22.589 English. I am never going to ask someone, would 00:06:22.589 --> 00:06:25.529 you like to come over to my house to have Thanksgiving 00:06:25.529 --> 00:06:29.180 dinner? That sounds very robotic. And if I know 00:06:29.180 --> 00:06:31.560 someone well enough where I am inviting them 00:06:31.560 --> 00:06:34.879 over to my house, I'm going to be more informal 00:06:34.879 --> 00:06:37.279 because I have a good relationship with that 00:06:37.279 --> 00:06:40.680 person. I'm obviously inviting them to my house, 00:06:40.699 --> 00:06:43.459 so I'm friends with them. And if I'm friends 00:06:43.459 --> 00:06:46.240 with someone, I'm not going to use very formal 00:06:46.240 --> 00:06:49.079 terms. I'm going to use things like, do you want 00:06:49.079 --> 00:06:52.100 to come by? Instead of, would you like to come 00:06:52.100 --> 00:06:55.199 over? And I'm going to say my place instead of 00:06:55.199 --> 00:06:59.480 my house. So just practicing and listening to 00:06:59.480 --> 00:07:02.199 native English speakers will really help you 00:07:02.199 --> 00:07:05.500 develop that ear for understanding what someone 00:07:05.500 --> 00:07:07.959 is saying, which means developing your listening 00:07:07.959 --> 00:07:12.019 comprehension to understand what a native speaker 00:07:12.019 --> 00:07:15.379 is saying. If you get invited over to someone's 00:07:15.379 --> 00:07:17.860 house, if you are going somewhere for dinner, 00:07:18.040 --> 00:07:21.060 you usually have to travel to whatever that location 00:07:21.060 --> 00:07:25.600 is. United States, we tend not to use a lot of 00:07:25.600 --> 00:07:28.779 public transportation. A lot of people have cars 00:07:28.779 --> 00:07:32.120 here. So when you are driving to someone's house, 00:07:32.259 --> 00:07:35.399 you're usually going to talk about traffic. When 00:07:35.399 --> 00:07:37.819 you get to someone's house, they might ask you, 00:07:37.879 --> 00:07:42.339 how was traffic? Which means, was it busy? Were 00:07:42.339 --> 00:07:44.420 there a lot of other people on the road? Did 00:07:44.420 --> 00:07:47.699 you get stuck in traffic? That might have happened. 00:07:47.800 --> 00:07:50.579 You might have gotten stuck in traffic. And you 00:07:50.579 --> 00:07:53.589 can say that. We got stuck in traffic. on the 00:07:53.589 --> 00:07:56.730 drive over here. also if you hear that if someone 00:07:56.730 --> 00:07:59.290 says oh there was so much traffic you know that 00:07:59.290 --> 00:08:00.889 they're saying that it took them a long time 00:08:00.889 --> 00:08:04.170 to get there. i mentioned before that the host 00:08:04.170 --> 00:08:07.449 for this thanksgiving meal usually is the person 00:08:07.449 --> 00:08:10.310 who is doing most of the cooking. sometimes there 00:08:10.310 --> 00:08:12.610 are people who host who really don't like to 00:08:12.610 --> 00:08:16.829 cook or don't cook and they might buy food which 00:08:16.829 --> 00:08:20.040 means that they are getting it catered. so catered 00:08:20.040 --> 00:08:23.199 means that you are having food at your house 00:08:23.199 --> 00:08:26.319 but you didn't make it usually a restaurant made 00:08:26.319 --> 00:08:28.279 it instead and you pick it up you bring it to 00:08:28.279 --> 00:08:30.699 your house and then you serve it for the meal 00:08:30.699 --> 00:08:33.519 so if someone says that they're having a catered 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:36.200 thanksgiving dinner that means that they aren't 00:08:36.200 --> 00:08:38.600 cooking it themselves but they're getting the 00:08:38.600 --> 00:08:41.440 food from some other place I know I do have a 00:08:41.440 --> 00:08:44.519 family member who does not really cook and she 00:08:44.519 --> 00:08:47.179 tends to get things catered. Her husband usually 00:08:47.179 --> 00:08:50.580 pays for catering instead. So that is one option. 00:08:50.700 --> 00:08:53.259 People do cook Thanksgiving dinner. Sometimes 00:08:53.259 --> 00:08:55.960 they also get it catered and sometimes they'll 00:08:55.960 --> 00:08:59.659 also have a potluck. A potluck means that people 00:08:59.659 --> 00:09:03.860 are bringing food with them when they go to the 00:09:03.860 --> 00:09:07.039 meal, when they go to the gathering at someone's 00:09:07.039 --> 00:09:10.210 house. In that case, usually you discuss ahead 00:09:10.210 --> 00:09:13.289 of time what everyone is bringing and then people 00:09:13.289 --> 00:09:16.830 bring that item with them. That way you don't 00:09:16.830 --> 00:09:20.669 have just a ton of one food. You don't want 50 00:09:20.669 --> 00:09:23.590 bottles of soda and no actual food. So usually 00:09:23.590 --> 00:09:26.230 you talk about that ahead of time. When it is 00:09:26.230 --> 00:09:30.450 time for the Thanksgiving meal, usually the host 00:09:30.450 --> 00:09:34.110 will set the table. Set the table means that 00:09:34.110 --> 00:09:37.070 they are putting out the food items and also 00:09:37.070 --> 00:09:40.990 the plates and cutlery. Cutlery is the word for 00:09:40.990 --> 00:09:44.870 things like knives, forks, spoons, the utensils 00:09:44.870 --> 00:09:47.649 that you use to eat. So if someone says that 00:09:47.649 --> 00:09:51.029 they need to set the table or if they ask you 00:09:51.029 --> 00:09:53.889 to help them set the table, they're asking you 00:09:53.889 --> 00:09:56.789 to put out the plates, put out the cutlery, put 00:09:56.789 --> 00:09:58.850 out the things that people need so that they 00:09:58.850 --> 00:10:02.789 can eat the meal. They might also have a centerpiece, 00:10:02.830 --> 00:10:06.590 which sometimes is a floral arrangement. If you 00:10:06.590 --> 00:10:08.730 go to a wedding, for example, there's always 00:10:08.730 --> 00:10:12.090 flowers at the center of a table, and that was 00:10:12.090 --> 00:10:15.470 a centerpiece. In the United States, if you are 00:10:15.470 --> 00:10:19.409 not a vegetarian, then usually the turkey is 00:10:19.409 --> 00:10:22.940 the centerpiece. The turkey is the main food 00:10:22.940 --> 00:10:25.639 that is associated with Thanksgiving. It's a 00:10:25.639 --> 00:10:29.960 big bird. It's a big item around 15 pounds, which 00:10:29.960 --> 00:10:32.720 is about seven and a half kilos. And that's usually 00:10:32.720 --> 00:10:36.200 why it is the centerpiece when you go to a Thanksgiving 00:10:36.200 --> 00:10:40.980 dinner. Like I said, food is the thing that is 00:10:40.980 --> 00:10:44.059 associated with Thanksgiving. Food is definitely 00:10:44.059 --> 00:10:47.299 number one. I would say football is a close number 00:10:47.299 --> 00:10:49.620 two. And I'm talking about American football. 00:10:50.350 --> 00:10:53.269 NFL here in the United States. That is a close 00:10:53.269 --> 00:10:55.870 second, but food is definitely the number one 00:10:55.870 --> 00:10:58.669 thing. So when you're eating, usually people 00:10:58.669 --> 00:11:01.870 have their meal, they have whatever food items, 00:11:02.070 --> 00:11:05.090 and then they also have a dessert. I talked about 00:11:05.090 --> 00:11:07.470 the food items and the dessert again in that 00:11:07.470 --> 00:11:09.909 episode I did on Thanksgiving food. If you want 00:11:09.909 --> 00:11:11.830 to hear specifics about the different types of 00:11:11.830 --> 00:11:14.110 food, I would recommend watching or listening 00:11:14.110 --> 00:11:18.080 to that episode. Usually, People do have a Thanksgiving 00:11:18.080 --> 00:11:21.480 meal and have dessert and then kind of sit around 00:11:21.480 --> 00:11:24.799 and talk. But a big part of Thanksgiving is going 00:11:24.799 --> 00:11:28.799 back for seconds. Seconds means you take your 00:11:28.799 --> 00:11:32.080 plate and you get another portion of food. You 00:11:32.080 --> 00:11:35.100 get another serving, especially of whatever food 00:11:35.100 --> 00:11:37.909 item you really like. Thanksgiving dinner tends 00:11:37.909 --> 00:11:41.450 to be out for a number of hours when you have 00:11:41.450 --> 00:11:43.970 Thanksgiving dinner. Usually the host will leave 00:11:43.970 --> 00:11:46.950 the food on the table and people are free to 00:11:46.950 --> 00:11:50.330 just go back and get more food. It's very common 00:11:50.330 --> 00:11:53.629 to have seconds when you're having a Thanksgiving 00:11:53.629 --> 00:11:57.429 meal. If you are someone who really likes Thanksgiving 00:11:57.429 --> 00:12:00.309 and you really, really want to eat, and if you're 00:12:00.309 --> 00:12:03.409 at your host house for a number of hours, you 00:12:03.409 --> 00:12:07.629 might also get thirds, which is another serving, 00:12:07.690 --> 00:12:11.409 a third serving of food. When people eat that 00:12:11.409 --> 00:12:15.429 much, they might say that they are stuffed. Turkeys 00:12:15.429 --> 00:12:18.990 for Thanksgiving usually are stuffed, which means 00:12:18.990 --> 00:12:22.370 that you put some type of fruit or breadcrumb 00:12:22.370 --> 00:12:25.990 mix inside the opening, inside the cavity of 00:12:25.990 --> 00:12:29.110 the turkey when you bake it. So there is something 00:12:29.110 --> 00:12:31.690 called stuffing. Again, I talked about it in 00:12:31.690 --> 00:12:34.309 the food episode. But you will also hear people 00:12:34.309 --> 00:12:37.409 say that they are stuffed. What that means is 00:12:37.409 --> 00:12:41.350 that they are very full, that they've eaten a 00:12:41.350 --> 00:12:43.929 lot of food. So if you've ever eaten so much 00:12:43.929 --> 00:12:46.440 that it's a little bit uncomfortable. You're 00:12:46.440 --> 00:12:50.399 not able to maybe move as freely as you want. 00:12:50.440 --> 00:12:52.899 Maybe your stomach hurts a little bit because 00:12:52.899 --> 00:12:56.720 you've eaten so much food. That is being stuffed. 00:12:57.000 --> 00:13:00.080 So if you say that you feel like you have a lot 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:02.080 of food in your stomach, your stomach feels very 00:13:02.080 --> 00:13:06.379 heavy, you can say that I'm stuffed, which means 00:13:06.379 --> 00:13:10.879 I'm very, very full. I probably ate too much. 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:14.480 You might also hear people say that they overate, 00:13:14.580 --> 00:13:17.720 which again is the same idea that they just ate 00:13:17.720 --> 00:13:20.799 too much food. If someone says that they overate 00:13:20.799 --> 00:13:23.620 Thanksgiving dinner, it means that they ate too 00:13:23.620 --> 00:13:26.629 much food at Thanksgiving dinner. Some other 00:13:26.629 --> 00:13:29.970 words that they might also use is that they indulged. 00:13:30.009 --> 00:13:33.730 So to indulge is to do something that you don't 00:13:33.730 --> 00:13:36.629 normally do and something that maybe is a little 00:13:36.629 --> 00:13:40.350 bit bad. Maybe it's something that is very tempting 00:13:40.350 --> 00:13:43.070 to do, but you don't normally do it. So for example, 00:13:43.090 --> 00:13:46.009 eating a lot of food to the point where you are 00:13:46.009 --> 00:13:49.789 uncomfortable, that is an indulgence. That is 00:13:49.789 --> 00:13:52.029 doing something that you don't normally do, but 00:13:52.029 --> 00:13:54.669 you do it for a special occasion and it's something 00:13:54.669 --> 00:13:57.090 that you... Enjoy doing something that you might 00:13:57.090 --> 00:14:00.549 like, but you might regret after. Someone also 00:14:00.549 --> 00:14:03.850 might say that they were gluttonous. Gluttony 00:14:03.850 --> 00:14:06.850 usually is associated with eating a lot of food, 00:14:06.870 --> 00:14:11.210 with overindulging, overeating. So if someone 00:14:11.210 --> 00:14:14.710 says that they felt gluttonous or they were gluttonous, 00:14:14.730 --> 00:14:17.070 that again is just another way of saying that 00:14:17.070 --> 00:14:20.210 they ate a lot of food. Now with turkey, there 00:14:20.210 --> 00:14:24.100 is an urban legend. An urban legend is something 00:14:24.100 --> 00:14:27.500 that people tell each other that maybe isn't 00:14:27.500 --> 00:14:31.799 entirely true, but people say it like it is true 00:14:31.799 --> 00:14:34.360 or it's something that's a commonly held belief, 00:14:34.500 --> 00:14:37.379 even though it might not be true. With Turkey, 00:14:37.580 --> 00:14:41.139 there is an urban legend that Turkey makes you 00:14:41.139 --> 00:14:44.779 very sleepy. There's an amino acid inside turkey 00:14:44.779 --> 00:14:47.879 that is called tryptophan. And tryptophan is 00:14:47.879 --> 00:14:51.620 a chemical that is known to cause sleepiness. 00:14:51.899 --> 00:14:54.860 Now, there have been actual studies that have 00:14:54.860 --> 00:14:58.659 shown that there isn't very much tryptophan in 00:14:58.659 --> 00:15:01.919 turkeys, not enough to make you fall asleep if 00:15:01.919 --> 00:15:06.539 you ate just some turkey meat. But this is an 00:15:06.539 --> 00:15:08.759 urban legend. This is something that people will 00:15:08.759 --> 00:15:11.980 say. People will say that they had a lot of turkey 00:15:11.980 --> 00:15:14.919 and that it made them very sleepy. It's probably 00:15:14.919 --> 00:15:17.399 not the tryptophan. It's probably just eating 00:15:17.399 --> 00:15:19.860 too much food that makes someone tired, that 00:15:19.860 --> 00:15:23.000 makes someone sleepy. You tend to feel very tired, 00:15:23.100 --> 00:15:26.440 very sedated after you eat a very large meal 00:15:26.440 --> 00:15:29.120 because your body is trying to digest all that 00:15:29.120 --> 00:15:31.860 food. That's probably what it is. But you might 00:15:31.860 --> 00:15:35.240 hear people talk about... This idea of having 00:15:35.240 --> 00:15:38.000 tryptophan with their turkey or the turkey being 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:40.899 the cause of them feeling very tired and not 00:15:40.899 --> 00:15:44.500 relating it to actually overeating. When people 00:15:44.500 --> 00:15:47.960 eat so much that they do feel sedated, when they 00:15:47.960 --> 00:15:51.080 do feel very tired afterwards, they might use 00:15:51.080 --> 00:15:55.389 the term food coma. A coma is when you are not 00:15:55.389 --> 00:15:58.269 conscious. And sometimes this is because you 00:15:58.269 --> 00:16:00.190 had an accident. Maybe you're in the hospital 00:16:00.190 --> 00:16:03.610 and you might be in a coma, which means that 00:16:03.610 --> 00:16:07.250 the doctors, the nurses cannot wake you up. They 00:16:07.250 --> 00:16:10.509 can't get you to be conscious. But we use this 00:16:10.509 --> 00:16:14.090 term in slang when we say food coma. So in this 00:16:14.090 --> 00:16:16.129 case, it's not an accident. It's not some type 00:16:16.129 --> 00:16:18.370 of medication that's making you sleep. It is 00:16:18.370 --> 00:16:21.269 the food that's making you sleep because you 00:16:21.269 --> 00:16:24.980 ate so much food. You are very tired. You can't 00:16:24.980 --> 00:16:27.659 keep your eyes open. You're very sleepy. For 00:16:27.659 --> 00:16:31.440 that reason, people call this a food coma. The 00:16:31.440 --> 00:16:34.980 state of feeling very tired after you eat too 00:16:34.980 --> 00:16:38.659 much food. You might also hear people look at 00:16:38.659 --> 00:16:42.710 their stomach and call it a food baby. So a pregnant 00:16:42.710 --> 00:16:46.169 woman has a baby growing in their abdomen and 00:16:46.169 --> 00:16:49.629 they get a very big belly. Their stomach increases 00:16:49.629 --> 00:16:53.289 in size. People will use this comedically. Again. 00:16:53.789 --> 00:16:55.889 if they eat too much food if they feel like they 00:16:55.889 --> 00:16:58.110 have a lot of food in their stomach they might 00:16:58.110 --> 00:17:01.830 make a joke about how they have a food baby which 00:17:01.830 --> 00:17:03.830 means that it's not actually a real life baby 00:17:03.830 --> 00:17:07.130 it is the high amount of food that they ate that 00:17:07.130 --> 00:17:10.170 is in their stomach so their stomach is expanded 00:17:10.170 --> 00:17:13.450 and they feel like they have a baby they feel 00:17:13.450 --> 00:17:15.690 like they're pregnant so if you hear someone 00:17:15.690 --> 00:17:18.630 say this term food baby that's what they're saying 00:17:18.630 --> 00:17:21.430 again that they have just so much food in their 00:17:21.430 --> 00:17:24.589 belly When you are at Thanksgiving dinner, you 00:17:24.589 --> 00:17:27.690 might also hear some words having to do with 00:17:27.690 --> 00:17:30.450 this whole idea of Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving 00:17:30.450 --> 00:17:34.750 means literally to give thanks for what you have, 00:17:34.809 --> 00:17:37.950 to be grateful for what you have in your life. 00:17:38.089 --> 00:17:41.430 So people might actually go around the dinner 00:17:41.430 --> 00:17:45.230 table and say what they are thankful for or what 00:17:45.230 --> 00:17:48.920 they are grateful for. You might hear this. Maybe 00:17:48.920 --> 00:17:51.960 if you go to someone's house, the host will have 00:17:51.960 --> 00:17:54.779 everyone say what they are thankful for that 00:17:54.779 --> 00:17:58.819 year. What is something good or something that 00:17:58.819 --> 00:18:02.299 they are grateful for in their life? Sometimes 00:18:02.299 --> 00:18:04.920 people do this. Not everyone who does this, but 00:18:04.920 --> 00:18:08.900 it is tied to that idea of Thanksgiving, of being 00:18:08.900 --> 00:18:11.880 grateful, of being thankful for what you have. 00:18:12.180 --> 00:18:14.799 Another word that you might hear is blessings. 00:18:16.039 --> 00:18:18.720 Blessings are things that you have in your life. 00:18:19.000 --> 00:18:21.940 Usually people associate this with a religious 00:18:21.940 --> 00:18:25.500 context. Blessings from God, which are things 00:18:25.500 --> 00:18:28.519 that God has given you in your life. Good things 00:18:28.519 --> 00:18:31.440 that God has given you. So I could say that my 00:18:31.440 --> 00:18:34.480 dog, for example, is something that I am grateful 00:18:34.480 --> 00:18:37.819 for. I really love my dog. She makes my life 00:18:37.819 --> 00:18:40.940 so much more joyful. She brings so much joy into 00:18:40.940 --> 00:18:43.980 my life. So I can say I am thankful for my dog. 00:18:44.359 --> 00:18:47.640 I can also say that I'm blessed to have my dog. 00:18:47.940 --> 00:18:51.339 And I could also say that my dog is a blessing 00:18:51.339 --> 00:18:53.960 in my life. Those are all things that I could 00:18:53.960 --> 00:18:57.160 say that have this whole idea of being thankful 00:18:57.160 --> 00:19:00.599 for something, for something good in your life. 00:19:00.640 --> 00:19:03.920 In this case, I'm talking about my dog. When 00:19:03.920 --> 00:19:06.420 people are talking about their blessings, they 00:19:06.420 --> 00:19:09.380 might talk about them in a heartfelt manner. 00:19:10.269 --> 00:19:14.029 Heartfelt means to talk with sincere emotion. 00:19:14.349 --> 00:19:17.670 So you are not just saying that you're thankful 00:19:17.670 --> 00:19:20.069 for things or just saying, oh, I'm thankful to 00:19:20.069 --> 00:19:23.079 be here. I'm thankful for the year. But really 00:19:23.079 --> 00:19:27.079 being honest, really being sincere and sharing 00:19:27.079 --> 00:19:29.980 something that is important to you. So if you 00:19:29.980 --> 00:19:33.039 talk in a heartfelt manner, in a heartfelt way, 00:19:33.200 --> 00:19:36.019 that means you're talking with very sincere emotions 00:19:36.019 --> 00:19:38.700 and you're talking about things that are very 00:19:38.700 --> 00:19:41.799 true. You're being very honest with whatever 00:19:41.799 --> 00:19:44.369 it is you're talking about. So you might hear 00:19:44.369 --> 00:19:46.230 this with Thanksgiving, but you can also hear 00:19:46.230 --> 00:19:49.589 it in any other context. When you are talking 00:19:49.589 --> 00:19:52.670 to anyone, you can say that they were being heartfelt 00:19:52.670 --> 00:19:55.269 with you, which means they're being very honest, 00:19:55.329 --> 00:19:58.369 having a very strong emotion, but a sincere emotion 00:19:58.369 --> 00:20:01.670 and being very honest. And in the spirit of Thanksgiving, 00:20:01.849 --> 00:20:05.130 I want to say a heartfelt thank you to those 00:20:05.130 --> 00:20:07.970 of you who are listening. When I started this 00:20:07.970 --> 00:20:11.089 podcast, I made it as a resource for my English 00:20:11.089 --> 00:20:13.710 students, and I didn't know if anyone else was 00:20:13.710 --> 00:20:16.549 ever going to hear it. So if you are a listener 00:20:16.549 --> 00:20:19.349 of this podcast, thank you so much. 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