When men get older, they often start losing their hair. When you shave your hair off, you take a razor, a sharp knife, and cut all your hair off. Barbers can also cut your beard, but hairdressers don’t cut beards. Because men’s hair is usually shorter, the styles are different, so many men go to barber’s. Generally, hairdressers cut people’s hair, but barbers specifically cut men’s hair. Traditional barbers often have this sign outside (Ellin Beltz CC BY-SA 4.0)Ī barber is someone who cuts your hair. If you sit down and start barking like a dog, woof woof, then your boss will probably treat you like you are very strange. Your boss might treat you like a pet: ‘Go and get me coffee! Sit down!’ More generally, you can treat someone well or treat someone badly. For example, if you treat someone like they are your pet, you will not listen to what they say, and just make them do things for you. When you treat someone like something, you act like they are that thing. ‘Bum’ is a word that children often use, or a word that we use with friends. To be honest, people don’t like talking about bums very much because it’s rude. Your bum is at the back of your body, below your back and above your legs. Of course, if something is hidden for a long time, you might forget it’s there. So you hide the chocolate in the cupboard so that they won’t see it. For example, maybe you are eating chocolate, but you don’t want other people to see it, because then they will want to eat the chocolate. Hide, and the past tense is hid, and the past participle is hidden, is when you make it so people can’t see something. If you have anxiety, you might have to take pills, medicine, to make you feel less anxious. If you get anxious often, then you have anxiety. Anxious is when you are very, very worried. Everyone gets worried, but not everyone gets anxious. Geometry is the study of shapes.Īnxious means worried. Shapes are very important in mathematics. Squares, triangles and circles are all shapes. Sometimes people lie because it is very hard to say the truth.Ī rhombus, circle and triangle, three shapes (Wrtlprnft CC BY-SA 3.0) Children often lie when they don’t want their parents to get angry at them. For example, if I tell you, ‘Hi, I’m Queen Elizabeth,’ that’s a lie, because it’s not true. When you lie, you say something that isn’t true. Or if you want to go and see a popular show like Hamilton, you will have to buy tickets months in advance. For example, if you want to go to a really expensive restaurant, you will probably have to book it months in advance. When you do something months in advance, you do it many months before you have to. Common pictures for tattoos are roses, hearts, names of loved ones, skulls and so on. As you get older, tattoos look less pretty, but some people get tattoos all over their body.
It hurts a lot to get a tattoo, because the artists use sharp things called needles to push the ink in. People usually get black tattoos, but you can also get coloured tattoos.
Tattoo artists take ink and push the ink into your skin to make a picture. People who work at tattoo parlours are called tattoo artists. You go to a tattoo parlour to get a tattoo. Many traditional tattoos have anchors, like this one (Ricardo Almeida CC BY 2.0)Ī tattoo is a piece of art that you have on your skin, on your body.
OK, I’ll just explain some words that are in today’s story. By the way, this story might not be suitable for children, because it has a mention of sex in it. I thought I should say that, because I don’t want people to get confused. That means it happens in a world that is like ours, but it is a bit different. Today’s story is a science fiction story.
This contains the full story, as well as my conversation after it. You can find a transcript of the episode at /Tattoo. I am Ariel Goodbody, your host for this show. Welcome to Easy Stories in English, the podcast that will take your English from OK to Good, and from Good to Great. To find out more information and book a class, go to /Classes. Are you looking for an English teacher to take you to the next level? Well, that could be me! I do classes over Zoom, where we will write stories, watch fun videos and talk about whatever you’re interested in.