English Learning Podcast Conversation | English Podcast For Advanced | Episode 17
Summary
TLDRIn this episode of EnglishPod, hosts Marco and Erica present a lesson on vocabulary related to apartment hunting. They introduce terms like 'landlord', 'tenant', 'renovated', 'airy', 'square footage', 'appliances', and 'spacious', using a dialogue between a couple viewing an apartment and a real estate agent. The lesson also covers payment terms such as deposit and monthly rent, and ends with a discussion on the differences in real estate practices across countries.
Takeaways
- π The podcast episode focuses on vocabulary related to apartment hunting and describing one's living space.
- π 'Landlord' refers to the owner of a house or apartment who rents it out to tenants.
- π« 'Tenants' are individuals or families who rent a property from a landlord.
- π‘ 'Renovated' means to make something new again, often used for buildings or apartments that have been updated or restored.
- π‘ 'Airy' describes a space that is open, spacious, and allows for free movement of air.
- π 'Square footage' is a measure of the size of a room or building, calculated by multiplying the width by the length.
- π 'Appliances' are electric machines used in the home, such as a dishwasher or a gas range.
- π₯ 'Professional grade' indicates a high level of quality, suitable for professionals, and 'gas range' is a stove that uses gas for cooking.
- ποΈ 'Spacious' means having a lot of space, often used to describe rooms or houses that are large and not cramped.
- π 'Walk-in closet' is a large closet that one can walk into, providing ample storage for clothes.
- πΏ 'On Suite bathroom' is a bathroom located within the main bedroom, offering convenience and privacy.
Q & A
What is the role of a landlord in the context of the script?
-A landlord is the owner of a house or apartment who rents it out to tenants.
What does the term 'tenants' refer to in the script?
-Tenants are the people who are renting an apartment or house from a landlord.
What does the word 'renovated' imply about the apartment in the script?
-The term 'renovated' suggests that the apartment has been recently updated or restored to a new condition.
What does the word 'Airy' describe about the apartment's ambiance?
-The word 'Airy' describes an apartment that has a lot of space and allows air to move freely, giving a sense of openness.
What is meant by 'square footage' in the context of the apartment?
-Square footage refers to the total area of the apartment, measured in square feet or square meters.
What type of appliances does the landlord install in the apartment according to the script?
-The landlord installs new kitchen appliances, including a dishwasher and a professional-grade gas range.
What does 'professional grade' indicate about the quality of the appliances?
-'Professional grade' indicates that the appliances are of high quality, suitable for use by professionals.
What does the term 'spacious' describe about the apartment's rooms?
-The term 'spacious' describes rooms that have a lot of space and do not feel cramped.
What is a 'walk-in closet' as mentioned in the script?
-A 'walk-in closet' is a large closet that is roomy enough for a person to walk into and typically used for storing clothes.
What does 'on Suite bathroom' mean in the context of the master bedroom?
-An 'on Suite bathroom' is a bathroom that is located within the main bedroom, providing private access for the bedroom's occupants.
What payment terms were discussed for the apartment in the script?
-The payment terms discussed were first and last month's rent as a deposit, with rent due on the first of every month.
Outlines
π‘ Introduction to Apartment Hunting Vocabulary
In this segment, hosts Marco and Erica introduce a special English lesson aimed at helping learners describe an apartment or house, whether they are currently searching for one or not. They discuss the importance of knowing vocabulary related to apartment hunting. Key terms introduced include 'landlord', defined as the owner of the property who rents it out, and 'tenants', who are the individuals renting the apartment or house. The hosts encourage listeners to pay attention to the dialogue that follows, where these terms will be used in context.
π Understanding Apartment Features and Measurements
This part of the script focuses on the characteristics and measurements of an apartment. The hosts discuss 'square footage', explaining it as a measure of the area of a room or building. They provide examples of how to use 'square footage' in sentences, emphasizing that it is a term used within the imperial system of measurement. Additionally, they touch upon 'appliances', defining them as machines used in the house, with a specific focus on 'professional grade' appliances, which are of high quality and suitable for professional use. The dialogue illustrates these concepts with a scenario where a couple is viewing a newly renovated apartment with updated kitchen appliances.
π Apartment Viewing and Unexpected Discoveries
The script presents a dialogue where a couple, the Christensens, view an apartment that has been recently renovated by the landlord. The apartment features bright and airy spaces, hardwood floors, and new kitchen appliances, including a professional grade gas range. The hosts discuss the payment terms for the apartment, which include a deposit of the first and last month's rent. However, the dialogue takes an unexpected turn when the couple is informed that the cleanup crew has not yet finished in the master bedroom's en-suite bathroom, hinting at a potential issue with the apartment.
π Cultural Differences in Real Estate Practices
In this segment, the hosts discuss the cultural differences in real estate practices, particularly in the context of renting apartments. They note that using a real estate agent is uncommon in America for renting purposes, with most individuals dealing directly with landlords after finding listings in newspapers or online. The hosts invite listeners to share their experiences and knowledge about real estate and renting practices in their countries, encouraging the use of the vocabulary introduced in the dialogue to describe their own apartments.
π Vocabulary Review and Application
The final part of the script is a review of the vocabulary introduced throughout the lesson. It includes terms related to apartment features, real estate, and theη§ζΏ process. The hosts provide a list of words and phrases such as 'tenant', 'landlord', 'real estate', 'attic', 'basement', 'lawn', 'gas range', 'Appliance', 'professional grade', 'spacious', 'walk-in closet', and 'on Suite bathroom'. They encourage listeners to use these words in sentences to practice and reinforce their understanding of the vocabulary.
Mindmap
Keywords
π‘landlord
π‘tenants
π‘renovated
π‘airy
π‘square footage
π‘appliances
π‘professional grade
π‘spacious
π‘walk-in closet
π‘on Suite bathroom
π‘payment terms
Highlights
Introduction to a special lesson for English learners on describing apartments.
Definition of 'landlord' as the owner of the house or apartment.
Explanation of 'tenants' as people renting the apartment or house.
Dialogue showcasing a couple checking out a new apartment.
Description of a renovated apartment with great light and hardwood floors.
Mention of the square footage of the apartment being approximately 120 square meters or 1300 square feet.
Discussion on new kitchen appliances including a professional grade gas range.
Highlight of the apartment being an amazing deal at the given price.
Introduction of payment terms including first and last month's rent as deposit.
Description of the living room and dining room as spacious.
Mention of a master bedroom with a huge walk-in closet and en-suite bathroom.
A twist in the dialogue where the apartment's condition is 'too good to be true'.
Vocabulary review focusing on words related to apartments and house hunting.
Definition and examples of the word 'renovated' in the context of apartments.
Explanation of 'airy' as a descriptor for a room with lots of space and air movement.
Discussion on the importance of 'square footage' in describing the size of an apartment.
Clarification on the difference between 'appliances' and 'professional grade' appliances.
Description of 'spacious' as a term for a room with lots of space.
Definition of 'walk-in closet' and 'en-suite bathroom' as features of a master bedroom.
Cultural insights on the differences in apartment hunting and renting practices in various countries.
Encouragement for listeners to share their experiences and use the vocabulary discussed.
Conclusion and invitation to visit the Englishpod website for more content.
Transcripts
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hello English Learners welcome back to
English pod my name is Marco and I'm
Erica and today we have a special lesson
for all of you who are looking for a new
apartment or house or even if you're not
looking for an apartment this lesson
will be useful because it can help you
describe what your current apartment or
house looks like that's right so we're
going to be describing an apartment
another vocabulary related to apartment
hunting why don't we take a look at some
of the first words that we have in
vocabulary
preview vocabulary
preview we're going to hear these two
words in the dialogue the first one is
landlord landlord landlord all right so
who is a landlord or what is a landlord
well it's pretty simple a landlord is
the person who owns the house okay or
apartment so the owner of the house
right um and a landlord rents out the
apartment to the tenants okay very good
tenants tenants so the tenants are the
people that are renting the apartment or
house exactly two important words that
we'll find in the dialogue tenants and
landlord so why don't we take a listen
to the dialogue now and we'll hear as a
couple is checking out a new
apartment hi we are the christensens
we're here to see the apartment oh hi
short come on in well as you can see the
place has just been renovated the
previous tenants left a huge mess here
so the landlord has done everything it
looks great it's so bright and Airy what
great light I really love these hardwood
floors what's the square footage of this
place well it's about uh 120 square m
or, 1300 sare ft more or less uh oh the
landlord has also installed new kitchen
appliances there's a new dishwasher and
a professional grade gas range really at
this price this place is an amazing deal
I love it but wait what are the payment
terms
first and last month rent as deposit and
rent is due on the first of every month
considering the amount of money invested
into the apartment it's a very good deal
yes it is too good to be true the living
room and dining room are quite spacious
as you can see and down this Hall here's
a master bedroom it is a huge walk-in
closet and end Suite bathroom we can't
go in there yet as the police uh I mean
the cleanup crew hasn't finished yet uh
what do you you mean what's in
[Music]
here all right so apparently the
apartment was too good to be true yeah I
don't think that's exactly what they
were expecting to find in the bathroom
exactly well we did find a lot of great
words and phrases so why don't we take a
look at that now in language
takeaway language
takeaway we're just going to look at a
bunch of vocabulary items related to
apartments and um house huntings so
we've got a lot to cover here so let's
get started with the first one
renovated renovated
renovated all right so in the apartment
was newly renovated okay so the verb to
renovate uh great word and I think some
examples will help us understand the
meaning example one
I had to renovate my kitchen because I
accidentally burned everything while
cooking example
two the city recently renovated the
ceiling of the local
church example
three John is planning on renovating his
nightclub so as to make it more modern
okay so basically to renovate means to
make new again right when you renovate a
house or an apartment um you you know
take everything down and build it back
up again okay so it's usually only used
for buildings for apartments for houses
or offices you don't say you renovate
your computer yep and also um when you
just do something really simple like
change the paint color that's not a
renovation okay that's redecoration when
you renovate you have to like you know
use a hammer and saw and lots of tools a
lot okay so the apartment was newly
renovated and it was bright and Airy
Airy Airy Airy all right so Airy well I
guess we understand the word air right
so if an apartment or something is Airy
it has lots of space lots of place to
move around okay so it's wide it's it's
open it's open okay an open apartment
very good now for next word an important
question she asked for the square
footage square footage the square
footage of the apartment okay so we know
square foot right so feet like um a
measure of of space right uh the square
footage is just basically the area how
big okay so why don't we listen to some
examples of how we can use these two
words square footage in a
sentence example one
as a civil engineer I have to calculate
the square footage of the construction
site example
two Robert is worried that the square
footage of this land is not big
enough example
three if you multiply the width of the
room by the length you will have the
square footage of the room
those are some great examples and I find
this uh the ending of this word AG
footage it's interesting isn't it yeah I
guess you can only use it with the
imperial system so you can also say
tonnage right so how how big how heavy
mhm or mileage mileage right but you
can't say for example in meters you you
wouldn't say meterage no you can't say
that right so it's not for the metric
system it's only for some units of
measure meas m in the imperial system
exactly all right so after we've
measured the square footage of the
apartment we saw that they had new
appliances appliances appliances
Appliance so kitchen appliances what are
those machines that do stuff in the
kitchen all right so a blender a stove a
microwave y or I can say electric
appliances so like your TV um an iron a
vacuum cleaner Okay so Appliance can be
any type of machine that's used in a
house in a house and well one of these
appliances was a professional grade gas
range okay this is a great phrase and I
want to break it down so a gas range now
this is basically a stove right okay um
that's that uses gas instead of
electricity so I can have an electric
range exactly now professional grade
this is something that's really high
quality
so if it's high quality why do we say
it's professional grade cuz it's so good
that professionals use it okay so can I
only have professional grade kitchen
appliances no of course not you can have
a professional grade anything like a
professional grade carpet for example
okay or a professional grade pickup
truck mhm or you can even change this a
little bit and say industrial grade so
after we've seen all the appliances they
describe the house as spacious spacious
the house is very spacious pretty easy
we know the word space here right right
so obviously this means lots of space it
has lots of space so I guess maybe
spacious and AA are little bit similar
right mhm okay and of course once we
were in the master bedroom we saw that
they had a walk-in closet a walk-in
closet Walkin closet a walk-in closet
right so this is very easy I guess walk
in you can walk into it right and so
it's a huge closet right now just a note
on the spelling here walk in or
hyphenated okay walk in closet mhm very
good and apart from this beautiful
closet we had an onet bathroom onet
bathroom onet bathroom s another note on
the spelling here it's e n right hyphen
s UI T so even though it's n we
pronounce it like an o n yep on Suite so
an on Suite bathroom is a bathroom
inside the room okay in inside the
master bedroom MH very good on suet
bathroom so a lot of great words
describing the the apartment and also
other aspects of real estate so why
don't we listen to these one more time
in context and we'll see how they fit
together to describe an
apartment hi we are the christensens
we're here to see the apartment oh hi
sure come on in well as you can see the
place has just been renovated the
previous tenants left a huge mess here
so the landlord has done everything it
looks great it's so bright and Airy what
great light I really love these hardwood
floors what's the square footage of this
place well it's about 120 square met or
1,300 square ft more or less uh oh the
landlord has also installed new kitchen
appliances there's a new dishwasher and
a professional grade gas range really at
this price this place is an amazing deal
I love it but wait what are the payment
terms first and last month rent as
deposit and rent is due on the first of
every month considering the amount of
money invested into the apartment it's a
very good deal yes it is too good to be
true the living room and dining room are
quite spacious as you can see and down
this Hall here's the master bedroom it
is a huge walk-in closet and and suet
bathroom we can't go in there yet as the
police uh I mean the cleanup crew hasn't
finished yet uh what do you mean what's
in
[Music]
here all right so this is always kind of
difficult to look for a new apartment
and to go and see them but it's
interesting here they were renting and
they had a real estate agent yeah um and
actually this is very uncommon in
America isn't it yeah I guess you don't
really use a real estate agent unless
you're going to buy a house or apartment
M so when you're renting you just go and
look by yourself right you can find ads
in the newspaper on the internet and
deal directly with the landlord right so
after you've done your house hunting and
found your apartment um you got to set
up the payment conditions right like we
saw in the dialogue the payment terms
were first and last month's rent as
deposit M so that's basically they'll
keep that just in case you damage some
in the apartment or have a monster
living in your bathroom exactly and
another thing is that I've noticed in
some countries you pay rent in advance
right so in America you only pay um one
month's rent at a time right right so I
guess this is an interesting topic real
estate and apartment hunting and renting
is different in different countries so
that's where you guys need to come and
tell us how is how does this work in
your country you can also use some of
the vocabulary in this dialogue to tell
us about your apartment right how many
rooms do you have bedrooms dining rooms
what's the square footage exactly or how
many square meters right yep so check
out our website englishpod tocom all
right and we'll see you guys there
thanks for listening and until next time
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goodbye the English pod audio
review listen to the meaning then say
the vocabulary
word please come
in come on
in the person that rents a
house
tenant disorder
unorganized
Mass the owner of the
apartment landlord
spacious so that air moves
freely
Airy showing how big one space is
measured in
feet square
footage electric equipment found in a
house
Appliance good enough to satisfy
professional use
professional
grade a stove that uses gas to
cook gas
range large having lots of
space
spacious a room contained in a bedroom
for storing
clothes walk-in
closet a bathroom within the main
bedroom
on Suite
bathroom a room or space that is just
below the roof of a building and that is
often used to store
things
attic the part of a building that is
entirely or partly below the
ground
basement an area of ground such as the
ground around a house or in a garden or
Park that is covered with short
grass
lawn the business of selling land and
buildings real
estate to allow someone to use something
for a period of time in return for
payment
lease let's try that
faster disorder unorganized
Mass the person that rents a
house
tenant to allow someone to use something
for a period of time in return for
payment
lease a room or space that is just below
the roof of a building and that is often
used to store
things
attic spacious so that air moves moves
freely
air an area of ground such as the ground
around a house or in a garden or park
that is covered with short
grass
lawn the owner of the
apartment
landlord the business of selling land
and
buildings real
estate the part of a building that is
entirely or partly below the
ground
basement please come
in come on
in a stove that uses gas to
cook gas
range electric equipment found in a
house
Appliance good enough to satisfy
professional use
professional
grade a room contained in a bedroom for
storing
clothes walk-in
closet large having lots of
space
spacious showing how big one space is
measured in
feet square
footage a bathroom within the main
bedroom on Suite bathroom
now say the word and hear it in a
sentence I had to renovate my kitchen
because I accidentally burned everything
while
cooking the city recently renovated the
local church
John is planning on renovating his
nightclub so as to make it more
modern
arir I'm glad we took out all the extra
Furniture now this room is a lot more
Airy
Airy the living room looks great that
big window really makes it feel more
Airy
Airy our office has a high ceiling and
big windows so it feels really open and
Airy square
footage as a civil engineer I have to
calculate the square footage of the
construction
site square
footage Robert is worried that the
square footage of the house wasn't big
enough for his
family square
footage what's the square footage of the
living room
Appliance in this store you can buy any
type of kitchen appliance such as a
toaster a blender ET
Etc
Appliance all of our electrical
appliances were damaged by the
thunderstorm
Appliance my cousin is selling all her
household appliances because she is
moving to
China this job offer is amazing it's
almost too good to be true
I can't believe you got this car for
free I think it sounds too good to be
true I found the perfect boyfriend he
cooks cleans and treats me well it's
almost too good to be true
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