Bubba’s Food Vocabulary [Effortless English DVD1 > LV1 > 03]

Bubba’s Food Vocabulary

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Hello! Welcome to the vocabulary lesson for Bubba’s food. Let’s begin.  Let’s start.

First, we see, “ Sarah Smith, who lives in San Francisco , went shopping for cat food. ”

Okay! “ Who lives in San Francisco ” . “Who” means “Sarah”. Right! Sarah Smith. Sarah lives in San Francisco. Who lives in San Francisco . Ok, so “who” is same as “Sarah”. Ok! It’s Sarah.

So, Sarah lives in San Francisco, she went shopping for cat food (in the past she went shopping),  “ Sarah is 30 ; Thirty years old, her age is thirty.  She lives at 3037 Market Street .”

Okay. That is her address. Alright, her apartment is 3037 Market St. Her house: 3037 Market St. Okay!

“ She has lived there since 1990 ” . 

So starting in 1990, she lived in that house until now. From 1990 until now (That’s why we say “has lived, has lived” ). Since 1990; starting in 1990 until now.

“ Sarah is married. She married to a man named John.  She has been married for seven years ” (again “has been”, “has been”). Starting 7 years ago until now. All right, she married 7 years ago. Seven years in the past until now. So, has been married.

Okay, “ Her husband John, and Sarah have 2 children and one very big cat ” . (Okey? Two children, one big cat). “ Their son Bob is 5 years old, their daughter Nancy is 3, (3 years old). Their cat, Bubba, is 2 years old (so, Bubba is 2). Bubba is huge ”.

“Huge”. “Huge” means very, very, very big.  So Bubba is a very very big cat. Bubba is huge. Giant! very, very very big. Very, very, very big.  He is huge! Bubba is huge. Huge, huge, super big, huge. 

“ Bubba weighs 258 pounds ” . Oh, it’s super huge.  258 pounds, he weighs, weighs 258 pounds. That is 117 kilos (Kg: kilograms). 117 kilograms ;258 pounds.  A super big, huge cat (Bubba is a huge cat). 

Ok, “At 9AM (9 in the morning; at 9AM;  9 in the morning) Sara got into her car and drove to the pet store  (get out we're talking in past, past: this happened or ready finished) .“

 

“ Sara got into her car and drove ”. Alright. past of “drive”. So, now I drive. Yesterday I drove, I drove, yesterday I drove. Now I get into my car. Yesterday I got into my car. 

Okay. So, “ Sarah drove to the pet store.  She bought 68 bags of cat food ” .

“Bought”, alright. Now I buy, yesterday I bought. Bought. So, she bought 68 bags of cat food. Wow! Sixty-eight bags of cat food for ten dollars each plus tax. They were ten dollars each. Each bag of cat food was $10. Cost $10.

“ The regular price …”

“Regular” means normal. So, the normal price, the regular price. 

“ The regular/normal price was $15 .  So, she got a good deal . ” 

“Got a good deal”. To “get a good deal” means to find, to get a good price, it means you pay less than normal. Alright, normal price was $15, she paid only $10. So she got a good deal.  Okay, We use this… many times, it’s a normal phrase. To get a good deal. Say “Ah, I got a good deal” means a good price. You pay less than normal. 

Okey, she got a good deal. “ The total was $680. ” Right? 68 bags, $10 each, the total was $680. 

“She paid by Credit card”. 

She used her credit card. Here we say “pay by credit card” or “pay with a credit card”. So she paid by credit card or she pay with a credit card, alright, “with a”. “By credit card” Or “with a credit card”. 

“ She paid by credit card ” . “ On her way home , Sarah stop at the convenience store to buy milk. “

“On her way home” means while coming home or during her trip home. Alright, so it’s at the same time. While she is coming home, she first stops at a convenience store. So “on her way home”, meaning at she traveled home, at she came home, while she came home. Ok same meaning, all of those, same.

So, “ on her way home, she stopped at the convenience store to buy milk.  Bubba loves milk. The milk was $3 for 1 gallon , and Sarah bought 30 gallons .

One gallon is about 4 liters. Okay. So, one gallon about 4 liters . She bought 30 gallons of milk for Bubba.

“She paid $100 total and got $10 back in change”. Ok, here “to get back” means.. ehh... return  to you. So, she gave, she paid $100 and then received, received  $10. Return. Alright, so she gave $100 and then, she paid too much, so, they gave her $10 back. She got $10 back. She received $10 back to her.  to her again. 

Okay. So, “she got $10 back in change ” .  “In change”, “in change” means the extra money. extra money she paid. The cost is $90. She paid $100, so, $10 change, right? So she got $10 back in change.

Okay, “Sarah got home at 11 am ”

Okay. Here "got" means a return . right. Came, she got home, she returned home, she arrived home. Same basic meaning.

“ She got home at 11am. Bubba was waiting at the door ”

At the same time, right it? She got home , Bubba was waiting. This two are at the same time. So “was waiting” “waiting” . 

“ Bubba was waiting at the door.  He was very very hungry ” . 

So, “she got home at 11am, and Bubba was waiting at the door. He was very hungry”.

Okay, that is all of the vocabulary for this lesson. Listen to this lesson every day until you know all of the vocabulary. Also, you use your dictionary if yo don’t understand a word. You use you dictionary. Okay, next lesson is the mini-story.      

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