ENGLISH VOCABULARY

you love building your vocabulary great today we're going to go over a bunch of words relating to the car this is a vocabulary builder video you're going to learn the English words for lots of things in the car and you're also going to learn the pronunciation you'll see the phonetic symbol on screen for each word practice the words out loud with me if there's anything unusual or especially difficult about the pronunciation we'll talk about it let's get started the steering wheel steering wheel steering is 2 syllables the ing ending is always unstressed it has an R in it which can be a tricky sound make sure you hold it out steering if you can't stating that then you're making it with the wrong part of the tongue steering wheel steering wheel the tongue tip should be pulled back and up a little bit so it's not touching anything wheel WH words like wheel can be pronounced or what without the before I think it's easier just to use the W sound wheel wheel steering wheel say that with me steering wheel steering wheel the steering wheel this is the gearshift we have a p4 Park R for reverse and for neutral and D for Drive gear shift gear shift gear ear that's the same combination as steer ear gear shift say that with me gear shift gear shift this is the gear shift we have a p4 Park Park Park all vowel + r lots of my students say something like park without dropping the jaw do drop your jaw get a clear before they are par Park say that with me Park Park we have a p4 Park are for reverse reverse to Sable's and the first syllable is really short but reverse say that with me reverse reverse are for reverse and for neutral neutral many Americans make the TR cluster sound like CHR neutral to try that with me neutral neutral end for neutral and D for Drive Drive some people especially Japanese speakers have a problem with our NL remember it's not live with the tongue tip forward but drive with the tongue tip pulled back and up a little bit so it's not touching anything try that with me drives drives and D for Drive we have the emergency brake or parking brake emergency brake or parking brake emergency stress is on that second syllable mergency emergency try that with me emergency emergency brake parking brake remember the ing ending is unstressed parking brake say that with me parking parking brake we have the emergency brake or parking brake this is the dashboard dashboard stress on the first syllable - or try that with me - board dashboard dashboard this is the dashboard here's the rearview mirror rearview mirror two words with two are sounds this is so hard rear and near have the same sound combination except for the first consonant year year this is just like steer in steering wheel the tongue tip is forward touching the back of the bottom front teeth and then just lifts and pulls back a little bit here so it's not touching anything we're near rearview mirror re-emphasize the R for the second syllable of mirror near her mirror let's try the whole thing together slowed down stay it out loud with me rearview rearview mirror and now at regular pace rearview mirror rearview mirror here's the rearview mirror ooh that sounds bright let's pull down the visor visor even though the letter O is in the second syllable don't try to make a vowel vies or just the r' sound visor visor try that with me visor oh that sounds bright let's pull down the visor I've been driving a long time time for snooze good thing I have this headrest headrest compound words like this have stress on the first word head rest try that with me head rest head rest head rest good thing I have this headrest this area is the console console this word ends with a dark L soul all ol tongue tip stays down and the back of the tongue pushes down and back a little bit all o console try that with me console console this area is the console always buckle up this is the seat belt seat belt another compound word stress on the first word seat belt notice I'm making both tees stop T's seat belt I'm not releasing them like a true tee seat belt seat belt say that with me seat belt seat belt this is the seat belt if you're having an emergency and need to pull over turn on your hazards also called four ways hazards even though you see the letter A in the second syllable has Ernst you can leave out the vowel just RDS Ernst Ernst Ernst hazards try that with me hazards hazards if you're having an emergency and need to pull over turn on your hazards also called four ways we've got our driver seat passenger seat and back seat the driver's seat the passenger's seat the back seat notice that we have the apostrophe s but you can't really hear it because the next word begins with an S the two S's blend together into one sound to link the words driver's seat passenger's seat try that with me driver's seat passenger's seat we've got our driver seat passenger seat and back seat back seat we have a couple of interesting ways that we use this term in English a backseat driver is one who gives too much input on driving when they're not driving it can also mean of less importance and we often use it in the negative I won't take a back seat to him that means I won't let him or his ideas be more important or prominent than mine I won't take a back seat to him and back seat now if you're gonna be riding in the car and you want to make sure you get this seat you'll want to yell shotgun yelling shotgun yelling or calling shotgun I don't know how this phrase got started but you say it when you want to sit in the front seat of the car shotgun stop T there shot gun say that with me shotgun shotgun now if you're gonna be riding in the car and you want to make sure you get this seat you'll want to yell shotgun here's the floor mat floor mat floor phonetically this would be written with the awl as in law vowel but before our this vowel is much more closed the lips round more and the back of the tongue pulls back more so all all for for floormat say that with me floor mat floor mat here's the floor mat and we have the gas pedal and the brake gas pedal yeah ah we have the a vowel gas gas pedal try that with me gas pedal gas pedal and we have the gas pedal and the brake brake this is a homophone and it's pronounced just like this other word brake say that with me brake brake and we have the gas pedal and the brake side mirror side mirror okay we already went over the tricky word mirror here it is again the word before it side ends in a D just make a little sound with the vocal cords side before the next word you don't need to release the D side side side mirror say that with me side mirror side mirror side mirror and here is the car seat car seat just like Park you need to drop your jaw to get a good off foul before the our car car car seat say that with me car seat car seat and here is the car seat trunk trunk remember the TR cluster can be pronounced CHR trunk or trunk try that with me trunk trunk this is the same word that's used for the trunk of a tree trunk license plate license plate both the letter C and the letter S make the S sound here license license plate say that with me license plate license plate license plate and tires tires remember for the are the tip of the tongue is pulled back and up tie tire tires try that with me tires tires tires here's the antenna antenna stress on the middle syllable antenna try that with me antenna antenna here's the antenna and this is where you can get to the gas tank gas tank both of these words are written phonetically with the a vowel but this vowel is followed by the ng sound here and it's not really a vowel anymore ah gasps but tank hang hmm it's more like the a diphthong gasps ah tank tank try that with me gas tank gas tank and this is where you can get to the gas tank windshield wiper windshield wiper it's common to drop the D between two other consonants and we definitely do that here windshield shield nodi windshield wiper windshield wiper windshield wiper try that with me windshield wiper windshield wiper windshield wiper and the hood I actually have no idea how to open this thing hood double-o making the sound like in look cook and foot hood say that with me hood hood and the hood I actually have no idea how to open this thing headlights headlights compound word stress on the first word head lights say that with me headlights headlights headlights and in here you would find the engine and all that other good stuff that I don't know anything about engine stress on the first syllable the second syllable should be said very quickly Jim Jim Jim engine say that with me engine engine headlights and in here you would find the engine and all that other good stuff that I don't know anything about I had to come over to our trusty VW for this one where we have a manual transmission that's different from the automatic transmission in the other car manual versus automatic look both of these words have the stressed a vowel in the stressed syllable but the vowel isn't pure before a nasal consonant here is before the N so it relaxes into uh man Manuel Manuel Manuel try that with me Manuel Manuel automatic has a pure app odd man take notice both of those teas are flap teas that not true teas that are automatic automatic say that with me automatic automatic had to come over to our trusty VW for this one where we have a manual transmission that's different from the automatic transmission in the other car another common word for manual in the u.s. is stick shift try that with me stick shift stick shift now we have a third pedal the clutch clutch this word is also used idiomatically I go over that use of it in a podcast I recently did on sling click here to check it out I'll also put a link in the description clutch try that with me clutch clutch now we have a third pedal the clutch don't forget the horn horn just like floor in floor mat we have the all vowel followed by our the all vowel is a little bit more closed whole all horn horn try that with me horn horn don't forget the horn e air bag we have an air bag in the steering wheel here air bag another compound word so stress is on the first word air bag air bag drop your job before that our air air bag try that with me air bag air bag air bag we have an air bag in the steering wheel here on the manual we have reverse and then five different gears first second third fourth and fifth first second third fourth fifth gears these are all ordinal numbers different from one two three four I know they can be tricky to pronounce and I made a whole video on these words click here or in the description practice them with me 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th on the manual we have reverse and then 5 different years 1st 2nd 3rd 4th and 5th here we have vents air vents compound word even though there's a space stress on the first word air vents try that with me air vents air vents here we have vents climate control climate control even though this second syllable looks like it might be what some people call a long a mate climb 8 it's not it's really short MIT MIT climate climate control try that with me climate control climate control climate control the radio radio three syllables stress on the first one radio radio try that with me radio radio the radio odometer speedometer odometer speedometer for both of these this stress is on the syllable just before the suffix Mitter odometer speedometer notice the t's here are flats try these words with me o domitor speedometer odometer speedometer this is called the grill of the car grille dark L grille keep the tongue tip down and pull the back part of the tongue back a little bit Oh full grill grill I don't mention it but the part under the grill is the bumper my bumper really helps me when I'm parallel parking bumper say that with me bumper bumper gas gauge gas gauge the word gauge is funny because the first G is pronounced and the second G is pronounced gas gauge try that with me gas gauge gas gauge gas gauge here we have the cruise control cruise control you know when we went over a climate control I didn't really talk about control did I keep the first little really short don't even try to put a vowel in there can control control cruise control try that with me cruise control cruise control here we have the cruise control here we have the glove compartment what kinds of interesting things do you have in yours glove compartment to stop T's in compartment glove compartment try that with me glove compartment glove compartment ooh that's a lot of terms if some of these words are tricky for you slow them down and practice them lots of times in a row they will get more comfortable if you liked this vocabulary video seeing my other vocabulary builder videos here I'll also link to the playlist in the description that's it and thanks so much for using Rachel's English if you want to see my absolute latest video click here if you're new to the channel check out this where to start playlist click here to subscribe I make new videos on 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Length: 22min 49sec (1369 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 24 2017