06 The Story

Let's Describe: "The Runaway" - Themed English Let's Describe | "The Runaway" | Themed English
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Transcript

Let's take a look at the story, huh? Now this is where I use my imagination. To put everything together. We can look at the picture but I find it more interesting if we have a story behind the picture. And what's happening. Here we go.

Take a look. The Girl with the backpack is Sally. She's 13 years old and she's a runaway. Alright, I think it was Leo Huda who asked what is a runaway? Okay, so here it is a noun. It's a thing.

It's a person. She's a runaway. Alright, so let's go straight to the dictionary. Make sure you guys get a good understanding and definition of what is a runway. We go let's hear the pronunciation runaway runaway runaway runaway. Okay, here it is.

A person who has run away Especially from their family or an institution. Okay, so maybe there's an orphan some a child who doesn't have a family, and they live in an orphanage, which is like building or organization for kids that don't have a home and they run away. They don't want to stay. So the escape some synonyms, fugitive, well, fugitive is kind of strong because fugitive means that you've probably broken the law. And the police are trying to catch you, escapee refugee truant absconder. Yeah.

Oh, here we go a 16 year old runaway, right? So it's the kid who ran away from home and they don't want to be at home anymore. Okay. So here it's all together. It's runaway is one word, because that's the person we're describing it. If we put run away and we put like this, with a space in between, we are describing the action project.

And is running away or they will run away something like that. Right. Let's go back. She's 13 years old and she's a runaway. She has left her home escaped and doesn't plan to go back. Earlier that night, her family had salmon for dinner.

Huh? Let's take a look if we can find a salmon dinner. Look for pictures. First we look at the fish. Personally, I like salmon. I think it's delicious.

Ooh, let's look at the fish first. First. Okay, so this is a salmon. All right. I think it's a wonderful fish. Now let's put in salmon dinner.

Oh, I'm getting hungry. I'm going to have to eat after we've finished this lesson. Oh boy. So nice. Okay, I need to stay focused here. All right.

No. Earlier that night her family had a salmon. Salmon for dinner. Sally absolutely hates salmon. Um, this is the setting for some nice drama. Okay, so we could just say Sally hates salmon.

But when we put in there, absolutely. It's like she hates it, but then she's like she really hates it. Absolutely, absolutely hate salmon. You can also do it in the opposite direction. You could say Sally absolutely loves salmon, or she absolutely loves sardines or love something. But when we put absolutely in front of it, take it raises it to the maximum level.

Let's see Leah Gouda says is runaway. Does it mean a trip sometime? It's possible. Let's see. I think they had multiple definitions. runaway?

Let's see did it do? Well, an animal or vehicle that is running out of control? All right. In audience something happening or done quickly, easily or uncontrollably it's kind of a trip, right? But it's a trip probably not under good conditions because you're leaving, because you feel that you're forced to leave. You don't want to stay around anymore.

All right. Okay, so Sally absolutely hates salmon. When her father mentioned, salmon flavored ice cream for dessert, Sally went berserk. Okay, few things here. When her father mentioned, they were at the dinner table and he said, Oh, did you get that new salmon flavored ice cream. I'm so excited.

We're gonna have it for dessert tonight. Sally's like, ah, I hate salmon and she went bizarre. Hmm What does Berzerk mean? think is worth looking Oh, looking for in the dictionary, here we go. Berzerk. Interesting word reserved, reserved, reserved, okay means out of control with anger or excitement, wild or frenzied.

Hmm. So we're out of control. It's like you're going crazy. You lose your ability to control your emotions. Mm hmm. So that is berserk.

If someone goes berserk may want to step away or move back because they're getting kind of wild and they can't control themselves. All right, so when her father mentioned salmon flavored ice cream for dessert, Sally went berserk. She went crazy. Alright, time for pronunciation. Here we go. Repeat after me.

The Girl with the backpack is Sally She's 13 years old and she's a runaway. Earlier that night, her family had salmon for dinner. Sara Lee absolutely hates salmon. When her father mentioned salmon flavored ice cream for dessert, Sally went berserk. Okay, so that's pronunciation. Let's dive deeper into the story.

Sally jumped up from the table. ran to her room and grabbed her lucky backpack. Hmm, I assume that it's this backpack that she's wearing. And lucky. Something that gives you good fortune, maybe something that makes you feel good. And to take a drink of water Excuse me.

Delicious. Mm hmm. Okay, so it could be a lucky pencil it could be a lucky glove lucky car. I don't know, something that you like and and you enjoy, and we think it brings you luck or brings you good fortune. She made up her mind to run away and never come back. Mm hmm.

When we say made up her mind or he made up his mind or they made up their mind. It's just a long way to say decide. We could just say she decided to run away. But we can also say she made up her mind. Right? And this would be a nice idiom right?

Just means to decide to choose to do something. So she made up her mind to run away. So the action is run away and the person is a runaway, the words together and never come back. Sally packed only the most essential supplies, a bag of Cheetos, two rolls of toilet paper and a pair of cool sunglasses. Hmm, well, let's see. Essential means important, what you need what is the most important so the most essential supplies and supplies are things that will help you survive write things that will make you be able to live and thrive out wherever you're going.

So she took with her a bag of Cheetos. Let's see. What is a bag of Cheetos? All right, here we go. Good. Buy salmon dinner.

Alo a bag of Cheetos. Oh yeah, I imagine they have Cheetos pretty much everywhere in the world. I'm in Indonesia. They have Cheetos here. And they're originally from the US. And it's junk food.

They taste nice. They have big cheese and a lot of things in there, but those are Cheetos. All right. Two rolls of toilet paper. Hmm. Though.

Cheese stuffed a bag of Cheetos in her backpack and then two rolls of toilet paper. The when we say rolls of toilet paper, what are we talking about? We're talking about there you go rolls of toilet fav toilet paper. Leah who says yummy my favorite. I assume you're talking about the Cheetos and not the toilet paper. So these are rolls of toilet paper.

Okay, all right. And oh, they're in this way, because they fit well on the toilet paper holder. All right, the toilet paper holder is this little thing here. Right? It's where you can put the toilet paper roll. This is called the toilet paper holder.

All right. Okay, so she has her Cheetos, two bags, or two rolls of toilet paper and a pair of cool sunglasses. Um, let's take a look what pops up when we put in whose sunglasses? Could be alarm. All right. Okay, okay.

Okay. All right. So we got cool sunglasses, as in like, awesome. Not like temperature. But like, I think it's great. It's wonderful.

It's neat. They're cool. All right, let's see in the comments to bug who says yes in Indonesia. Every market sells that Cheetos as snack, sir. Yes, I am in Indonesia right now and I see them ever all around. Lilo Mita says never come back.

Never come back. Never come back just means to not return or plan is to not return to this place. Okay? Ah, it's time for pronunciation. Right repeat after me and show me some apples. Sally jumped up from the table, ran to her room and grabbed her lucky backpack.

Oh, let's quick stop for a moment. I see a question says, though gu Khan. Aaron says what does it mean grabbed? Well, let's see. You guys can see I have my bottle in front of me. And if I grab it, I go like this.

Right, you take your hand and you grip it, you grab it, you take it with your hand and you squeeze it. Ah, grab means catch. It's a little bit different. If someone throws a ball to you, you catch it, which means that it goes into your hand and you hold it there. But the same time you squeeze, right? So you're grabbing, right?

So maybe if you're on if you're, let's take a look here. If I can explain, grab, let's say, grabbing the pole, about that. Okay, so you're grabbing it. You're squeezing, right? you're squeezing so you can pull or push or do whatever you need to do, right? Catch.

This means that something came to you and you caught it. You're holding it. Catch the ball. Go you catch it, you're holding it in, you're pressing it between your hands or squeezing it in one hand, grab something is kind of more of it could be a violent action, but you use your hand with force to squeeze something and you want to use it. Right? It can also mean to just take something.

So in this context, she grabbed her lucky backpack. So she probably took her hand and touched it and squeezed it so she was able to pick it up. But you can also say, you know, I went home and I grabbed my backpack. I got it. I picked it up. I went home to bring it with me.

Something like that. Leo Mita says the title for the story is salmon. Bad idea for Sally to Sally. Okay, very cool. color, color. Color genus says grab to take very quickly.

It's possible Yes, depending on the situation. But the idea is that you are squeezing something and you keep holding it. You want to take it with you. Right? She made up her mind to run away and never come back. Mm hmm.

So she decided to never return. made up her mind means to decide to choose and never come back means never return. Sadly, Oh shoot, we're doing pronunciation early. Ah. I get talking so much. Okay.

Repeat after me. She made up her mind to run away and never come back. Sally packed only the most essential supplies, a bag of Cheetos, two rolls of toilet paper and a pair of cool sunglasses. Okay, so that was pronunciation for that section. Here we go. We're gonna learn a little bit more.

Now. Three hours later, Sally is having second thoughts. All right, so second thoughts means you are starting to doubt something, right? Something doesn't seem like a good decision anymore. You're having second thoughts. Your first thoughts were, let's do it.

Let's go forward. But now you're having second thoughts and you're like, you're hesitating. You're vacillating, which is a uncommon word. But you're hesitating. You're like, Huh, you're doubting Should I do it? a homeless guy stole her Cheetos and toilet paper.

Her sunglasses are too dark to wear at night. And she just saw her school principal walking on the other side of the intersection. Hmm. All right. Oh, there's this sentence is packed with stuff. Okay, first off a homeless guy, huh?

Imagine if you've been to a big city you have probably seen a homeless guy. All right, let's see. We'll put in homeless guy. Okay, so this would be like a homeless guy. This might be a crazy homeless guy. But a homeless just means you are without a home.

Oh, are you that one? My father was killed by ninjas need money for karate lessons? Huh? I don't have a response for that. Okay. So if it's a homeless guy, it's someone who lives on the streets as if they don't have a home.

And it's actually quite serious and kind of sad. Alright, so, a homeless guy stole took her Cheetos and toilet paper. We don't know what happened. If he grabbed your backpack and grabbed the Cheetos and toilet paper run away. We don't know. Her sunglasses are too dark to wear at night.

I always kind of think it's weird when people wear sunglasses at night. I think well, when I was a police officer, if people were wearing sunglasses at night time, I would ask them to take them off. Because when people wear sunglasses, especially at night, it's like the you get the the feeling the vibe that they're trying to hide something because they don't want you to see their eyes. And when we can see people's eyes, we can get a lot of information, their feelings, their expressions, what they're looking at you Are they looking around like this suspicious stuff like that? Okay, so her sunglasses are too dark to wear at night. And she just saw her school principal walking on the other side of the intersection.

So Sally is still in school, and she saw her principal. Let's take a look. Make sure we all have a similar idea what it means to be a school principal. Right? Goodbye homeless guy. Hello, school principal.

Okay, so it can be a man it can be a woman, but it needs to be a person with qualifications for running a school, right? They're kind of in charge of everything. They're like the top dog the boss. Right. So in our situation, Sally was looking over at the intersection. And on the other side, she saw her principal, huh?

Sally is cold, hungry and depressed. Huh? Alright, let's see versicolor Geena says intersection. Well, the best way to to tell you what it is is to show you I think we looked it up before but here is an intersection we're talking about traffic, right we're two roads come together and the intersect. So one road goes this way another road goes this way in the intersect and intersections are a very common place for you know, accidents and problems because you have so many different flows of cars and people and stuff coming together. Alright so that is intersection.

Sally is cold, hungry and depressed, depressed beans you're feeling down right let's see if we can find a picture which would help us to understand the emotion of depressed put in depressed person all right depressed. Let's see Color Ghana says intersection across road similar very similar right because the crossroad has two roads going like this, but if you have an intersection when I hear intersection, it could be like a crossroad but intersection could also be with all the lights and all the pedestrian signals and the traffic signals and all of that stuff. Okay, this is depressed no fun. You feel down you feel dark you feel low energy and you're falling off the screen. Ah, right. So the opposite of depressed would probably be like overjoyed, joyful, happy in a good mood with high energy, huh.

All right. I see depressed melon melancholic. Okay, sure. feeling down feeling low and just going down. Okay. Right is time for pronunciation.

Repeat after me. Here we go. Now, three Three hours later, Sally is having second thoughts. a homeless guy stole her Cheetos and toilet paper. Her sunglasses are too dark to wear at night, and she just saw her school principal walking on the other side of the intersection. Sally is cold, hungry and depressed.

Okay, I know this one was a long sentence, an advanced sentence because there are so many different parts stuck in one so many different concepts and ideas, but it's good practice. All right. I see apples in the comments. Wonderful. We're getting to the last section of the story, and then we'll be on the quiz. All right, here we go.

In two minutes, Sally will turn around and walk home. All right, and turn around means that she's facing that way. In a moment she will be facing towards us. She's going to turn around. She's going to change directions. She's going to do a 180.

Hmm, let's take a look. What does do a 180 mean? So if we say do a 180 it's we're talking about degrees, right? Like in math. 360 degrees is the complete circle. A 180 means to switch directions, like do a U turn go in the opposite direction.

All right, so it's common to say we need to do a 180 we need to turn around we need to go back Right. All right, so Sally will turn around and walk home. Lila omega says long sentence. Yes, it was. It is good. It pushes us pushes our brain.

All right. She'll tell her parents she was visiting a friend Sally will replenish her Cheetos and toilet paper supply. Okay, so back to the Cheetos and toilet paper supply that she lost because remember we talked about the homeless guy stole them. All right, replenish. Whoo, good word. When we're talking about things, supplies, maybe even in a store when the shelf is empty.

People will replenish they will put more items on. So if you replenish something, you've refill the supply you fill it up again. Let's take a look in the dictionary because the dictionary is on replenish, let's take a look. replenish. replenish, replenish. Mm hmm.

Well to fill something up again, right? He replenished Justin's glass with mineral water. Maybe Justin was really thirsty, he drank it all. And then they replenished it, they feel they put more water in. Alright, that is replenish, very useful word refill, put more, fill up again. She wants to be prepared for the next time dinner sucks, and she decides to run away.

Okay, now this is nice and informal. And most of the time we talk we're talking in formal ways. So I wouldn't maybe use this in a formal business context. Right? She wants to be prepared for the next time dinner sucks. So if something sucks is local Quality.

We don't like it. It makes us upset and we're just like, I don't like it, too when she thinks that dinner sucks. Like remember, she doesn't like to eat salmon. So she's like, Ah, this sucks. I don't like it. So it's very common, especially for I would say the younger generation, but I've also heard older people my age older, younger.

It's very common to say it sucks, right? It's just bad. Thumbs down. How was the movie? Oh, it sucked. It was horrible.

It's socks. It was just bad. Okay, so very useful, informal phrase. That something sucks. Okay. All right.

Now it's time for bed. So she is she had a little adventure. Okay. I'm for pronunciation shorter sentences this time. But good vocabulary. Here we go.

Repeat after me. Two minutes Sally will turn around and walk home. She'll tell her parents she was visiting a friend Sallie will replenish her Cheetos and toilet paper supply. She wants to be prepared for the next time dinner sucks, and she decides to run away. Now, it's time for bed. All right, I'll make a quick quick note, but I imagine you guys understand.

It's time for bed. It's time to go to sleep. It's time to go Betty by it's time to sleep. Okay, so we did a lot so far. We did the summary. We did the setting in a whole bunch of parts.

We did the action. Oh, yes, we did. And we did the story. Okay, so since we made it through everything, guess what time it is. Let's do it.

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