Getting A Hair Cut
Elementary
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Marco: Hello everyone, welcome back to EnglishPod. My name is Marco.
Erika: And I'm Erika.
Marco: And today we're going to be going to one of those places that is really common, right?
Erika: That's right. We're going to the hair salon.
Marco: The hair salon or maybe also called a barber shop. I guess in this case it's a barber shop because it's a man who's getting his hair cut.
Erika: Okay, so before we see what happens in this barber shop, let's take a look at some of the vocabulary we might encounter in Vocabulary Preview.
Both: Vocabulary Preview.
Marco: Okay, we're going to look at two words that you'll hear in this dialogue. And the first one is trim. Trim. A trim.
Erika: All right, so when you trim something. You cut just a little bit of it.
Marco: All right, so if I go to the hair salon to get a trim.
Erika: You are going to cut only a little bit of your hair. You're not going to change the style and make it look different.
Marco: Okay, so a trim. And I think here we've seen that it can be a verb and a noun, right?
Erika: Okay, so I'm going to get a trim. Yes. Or I want you to trim my hair.
Marco: That's right. All right. And what about our next word? Fancy. Fancy. Fancy.
Erika: So fancy. Now, we know that this word maybe is related to something like luxury. Or formal or something like that.
Marco: Right. So in this case or in this context, we're going to be using it a little bit different.
Erika: That's right. Here in this dialogue, we'll hear nothing too fancy. Or nothing too complicated. Nothing too different.
Marco: Okay. So we don't want anything too fancy. All right. With these two words in mind, I think we're ready to listen to the dialogue.
Barber: Hello there. Come on in. Don't just stand there. Come and take a seat.
你好啊。快进来。别光站着。过来坐吧。Customer: Okay. Well, I just want a trim. Nothing too fancy.
好。我只想稍微修剪一下。别太花哨。Barber: Oh my gosh. Your hair is amazing. So silky. So shiny. I am going to work my magic on your hair. You hear me? You are going to look like a million bucks.
天哪。你的头发太棒了！又柔又亮。我要对你的头发施展魔法了。听到没？你会帅到爆的。Customer: Okay. Can you make sure my sideburns are even? And you just take a little at the top.
好。你能不能确保我的鬓角对称？头顶只剪一点点就行。Barber: Don't you worry. I'll take care of everything. Oh my God. I just love your curly hair. It's so fluffy and cute. You should totally let it grow out. An afro would look great on you.
别担心。一切交给我。天哪。我超爱你的卷发。又蓬松又可爱。你真应该留长。爆炸头会特别适合你。Customer: Um, no.
呃……不要。Barber: Okay. But you are going to be my masterpiece.
好吧。但你一定会成为我的杰作。
Marco: Okay, so I think maybe his haircut is not quite what he expected.
Erika: I think he trusted the stylist a little bit too much.
Marco: I think the stylist had too many Red Bulls or something. He was very hyper.
Erika: Maybe that was his problem. All right. So why don't we take a look now at some of the language that we saw in Language Takeaway.
Both: Language Takeaway.
Marco: So I guess the stylist really thought this guy had nice hair, right?
Erika: Yeah, we heard how he described his hair. He said it was so silky. Silky. Silky.
Marco: All right. So we know the word silk, a material, very soft and smooth material. And when something is silky, it's very soft and smooth.
Erika: All right. So silky hair. Or silky skin.
Marco: All right. So silky. So he said he had silky and shiny hair. Shiny. Shiny. Shiny.
Erika: All right. So we know what shiny is. Do we?
Marco: Yes, we do. Okay, what?
Erika: So something that is shiny is you can see yourself in it. Like gold is shiny. Or silver is shiny.
Marco: All right. Or if you look in the back of a CD, it's shiny.
Erika: Yeah. So the light bounces off things that are shiny.
Marco: All right. Now, getting into more hairstyle vocabulary, he wanted to make sure that his sideburns were even. Sideburns.
Erika: All right. So sideburns. All right. Well, sideburns are things that men have, right?
Marco: All right. Women don't have sideburns.
Erika: No. Okay. So sideburns are the hair that grows on your cheeks near your ears.
Marco: Okay. Those are your sideburns.
Erika: Yes. And now also, the hair stylist suggested that he should let his hair grow out. Grow out. Grow out. Let your hair grow out.
Marco: All right. So what does that mean exactly?
Erika: Let your hair get longer.
Marco: So you can say, let your hair grow.
Erika: Yeah. But I guess it's more common to hear, let your hair grow out.
Marco: Well, maybe it just means something a little bit different. If I let my hair grow, I might let it grow a little bit. It might get a little bit longer. But if I let my hair grow out, maybe it's short now and I'll let it get really long.
Erika: Okay. So to let your hair grow out is to really change the length.
Marco: All right. Very good. So let your hair grow out. And our last word on language takeaway today, afro. Afro. Afro.
Erika: So if this guy let his curly hair grow out, he would have an afro.
Marco: An afro, right? So now this hairstyle was very popular in the seventies.
Erika: That's right. It's like a big, round, curly, fluffy ball of hair.
Marco: Exactly. So that's an afro. We'll post some pictures on the website for you to get a clear idea of what this looks like.
Erika: All right. So I think now we are ready to listen to our dialogue for the second time, and then we'll come back and look at some phrases.
Barber: Hello there. Come on in. Don't just stand there. Come and take a seat.
你好啊。快进来。别光站着。过来坐吧。Customer: Um, okay. Well, I just want
to trim. Nothing too fancy.呃，好。我只想稍微修剪一下。别太花哨。Barber: Oh my gosh. Your hair is amazing. So silky. So shiny. I am going to work my magic on your hair. You hear me? You are going to look like a million bucks.
天哪。你的头发太棒了！又柔又亮。我要对你的头发施展魔法了。听到没？你会帅到爆的。Customer: Okay. Um, can you make sure my sideburns are even and you just take a little off the top?
好。能不能确保我的鬓角对称，头顶只剪一点点？Barber: Don't you worry. I'll take care of everything. Oh my God. I just love your curly hair. It's so fluffy and cute. You should totally let it grow out. An afro would look great on you.
别担心。一切交给我。天哪。我超爱你的卷发。又蓬松又可爱。你真应该留长。爆炸头会特别适合你。Customer: Um, no.
呃……不要。Barber: Okay. You're going to be my masterpiece.
好吧。你会成为我的杰作。
Marco: Okay. So we have some phrases here that you might hear in a hair salon or in a barber shop. So why don't we look at those now in Fluency Builder.
Both: Fluency Builder.
Marco: The hairstylist said, don't just stand there. Don't just stand there.
Erika: All right. Don't just stand there. So this is an interesting phrase, Marco. I mean, it's made up of really simple words, right?
Marco: Right. But actually those words make it in order that's a little bit different. So why don't we hear a few examples to help us understand how to use this phrase.
Example 1: Don't just stand there. Help me take these boxes into the house.
Example 2: The house is on fire. Don't just stand there. Call the fire department.
Example 3: Don't just stand there in the rain. Come inside.
Marco: Okay. So basically we can understand that if somebody tells you don't just stand there, they are expecting you to do something.
Erika: We might use this phrase when somebody is not doing what we think they should do. When action is required.
Marco: Exactly. Okay. So why don't we move on to our next phrase now? Look like a million bucks. You look like a million bucks.
Erika: So when someone looks like a million bucks, they look really, really good.
Marco: Yeah. So that is a very common way of just saying you look very good. Or something looks like a million bucks.
Erika: So it can be for a person or a thing, right?
Marco: Exactly. Okay. And our final phrase. And this one is really common in barber shops. Take a little off the top. Take a little off the top. Take a little off the top.
Erika: So that basically means cut a little bit on top.
Marco: Exactly. And now can I say take a little off the sides?
Erika: Yeah. You can say that as well.
Marco: Alright. So take a little off the top. Take a little off the sides. Okay. So with all this great hair cutting language, why don't we listen to our dialogue one last time?
Barber: Hello there. Come on in. Don't just stand there. Come and take a seat.
你好啊。快进来。别光站着。过来坐吧。Customer: Okay. Well, I just want a trim. Nothing too fancy.
好。我只想稍微修剪一下。别太花哨。Barber: Oh my gosh. Your hair is amazing. So silky, so shiny. I am going to work my magic on your hair. You hear me? You are going to look like a million bucks.
天哪。你的头发太棒了！又柔又亮。我要对你的头发施展魔法了。听到没？你会帅到爆的。Customer: Okay. Can you make sure my sideburns are even and you just take a little off the top?
好。能不能确保我的鬓角对称，头顶只剪一点点？Barber: Don't you worry. I'll take care of everything. Oh my God. I just love your curly hair. It's so fluffy and cute. You should totally let it grow out. An afro would look great on you.
别担心。一切交给我。天哪。我超爱你的卷发。又蓬松又可爱。你真应该留长。爆炸头会特别适合你。Customer: Um, no.
呃……不要。Barber: Okay. But you are going to be my masterpiece.
好吧。但你一定会成为我的杰作。
Marco: All right, so now talking about hairstyles and different types of hair, there are some interesting ones that maybe aren't so fashionable anymore, right?
Erika: Yeah. Actually, English has a lot of really cool words to describe haircuts. So let's start with a couple of them. For example, a mullet.
Marco: A mullet. So this is when your hair is really short on top and really long in the back.
Erika: Right. So the sides and the top are really short, but the back, you have long hair.
Marco: Yeah. In Canada, we call that a shorty shorty long back. Shorty shorty long back.
Erika: Yeah. We also call it hockey hair. Hockey hair. Or even all business up front, all party behind.
Marco: Well, Canadians are obviously very into this hairstyle.
Erika: It's unfortunately true. All right. We also have, for example, a mohawk.
Marco: Hmm. Popular amongst the punk rock kids.
Erika: Exactly. So you shave your head on the sides, but you leave a little like stripe of long hair on top. Of sticking up long hair.
Marco: Okay. And that's a mohawk. What about a flat top?
Erika: Oh, popular with law enforcement agents and serial killers.
Marco: So basically it's short hair on the sides. And short and flat hair on the top.
Erika: Right. So your hair... Kind of looks like a box.
Marco: Right. Like a box haircut. I do not have a flat top for all of you out there. But I did used to have a crew cut.
Erika: Oh, crew cut. A crew cut. Yeah. Like an army haircut.
Marco: Right. So very short on the sides and a little bit long on top.
Erika: Yeah. Okay. And our last one, my actual personal least favorite haircut. Dreadlocks.
Marco: Dreadlocks. All right. So dreadlocks are like knots of hair, right?
Erika: Yeah. Like you haven't washed your hair in about seven years.
Marco: Right. Those are dreadlocks. Very popular among Rastafarian.
Erika: Sure. Or like young hippie kids.
Marco: Yeah. Hippies, right?
Erika: Yeah. Very good. So what about in your countries? What different hairstyles are popular there? I know that Japanese hairstyles are really cool.
Marco: Yeah. That's right. Japanese haircuts can be pretty awesome.
Erika: Right. So tell us all about it. Come to our website. Post some pictures. And also if you have any questions or doubts, let us know.
Marco: Well, thanks for downloading this lesson, you guys. And until next time, goodbye.
