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  • Hey guys.

  • Well, I did have a regular video queued up, scheduled for you, ready to go.

  • But it just felt weird putting it out today, what with everything that’s going on in

  • the US and elsewhere with coronavirus.

  • So instead, today were going to talk a little bit about what’s happening, that

  • current event.

  • And as I talk about it, well make sure that were addressing interesting or strange

  • pronunciations or vocabularies, phrasal verbs, that kind of thing, that might come up.

  • First let’s talk about the phrasal verb I used, queued up.

  • I said I have a video queued up.

  • If something’s ‘queued up’, that means means it’s ready to be used next.

  • I had a video that was all ready to go for today, but it seemed strange to post it and

  • not acknowledge that were in the middle of this pandemic.

  • As some of you know, I live in Philadelphia.

  • And what’s happening here is something that has been going for weeks, or even months,

  • in other places in the world.

  • I’ve been watching that.

  • I have some students in China, and they were telling me what life was like for them.

  • “I can’t find toilet paper.”

  • “I’m working from home, I don’t see anyone all day.”

  • And now that’s happening.

  • I ordered toilet paper from Target and my order got canceled because they couldn’t

  • fill it up.

  • So, I did go to the grocery store today and get some toilet paper.

  • But. Were starting to feel some of those same things.

  • Um, so.

  • I, I guess I knew it was coming, and now it’s here.

  • And now were figuring out what to do about it.

  • And of course the virus I’m talking about is called the Coronavirus.

  • It’s also called COVID-19.

  • Those are, I think, the two official terms.

  • Or maybe just COVID-19 is official.

  • Um, but, there it is.

  • One thing that I was thinking about was a word that you may have been hearing a lot

  • if youre following this in English.

  • Wait.

  • Before we get to that.

  • Corona virus, it’s pronounced just like the beer, Corona.

  • COVID.

  • Were pronouncing that with first syllable stress and the OH diphthong.

  • Co-. COVID. Nineteen.

  • How isnineteendifferent fromninety’?

  • First, the stress.

  • Nineteenhas second-syllable stress.

  • Also, we have a True T there.

  • Inninety’, it’s a Flap T. Nineteen, COVID-19.

  • One thing that I was thinking about was a word that you may have been hearing a lot

  • if youre following this in English, is the wordstock’.

  • And, it’s being used in a couple of different ways.

  • So, first of all, there’s the stock market.

  • And we call thatstocks’.

  • Stocks have plummeted, theyve plunged, theyve really lost value.

  • They started to go up a little bit at the end of the week.

  • But, that’s the stock market or stocks.

  • But maybe youve also heard the timestockpile’.

  • And this is what you do when you gather a lot of something, and keep it safe.

  • For example, some people have been stockpiling toilet paper, which is why it’s hard for

  • other people to get it.

  • Because people are going in and buying a lot.

  • Or, hand sanitizer.

  • I want to point out that the D inhandwill be silent when the next word begins with

  • a consonant.

  • It doesn’t have to be, but this is how youll hear it almost all the time.

  • I saidhand sanitizer’.

  • No D. Listen again.

  • Or, hand sanitizer.

  • Or whatever.

  • Or, theyre stocking up.

  • That’s another way you can use it.

  • This is a phrasal verb.

  • To stock up on something.

  • That’s a little bit different thanstockpile’.

  • Stockpile really means a very large amount of something.

  • Stocking up just means getting plenty of it.

  • It’s not quite as extreme.

  • Um, for example, at my house, were stocking up on beans, rice, food that we can cook if,

  • for some reason, we are unable to go to the grocery store.

  • Stuff that will last.

  • We would call that kind of foodnon-perishablefood.

  • So, weve stocked up a little bit.

  • We haven’t really stockpiled anything.

  • Were trying not to grab too many resources and keep them for ourselves.

  • But were definitely stocking up.

  • And we are watching the stock market.

  • We do have some stocks there.

  • Were not too worried about it.

  • Were still young.

  • Um, but those are all interesting ways you can use the wordstock’.

  • I’ve also used the phrasetake stock’.

  • And that means assess.

  • That means gather information in order to make a decision.

  • For example, we need to take stock of what we have before we go shopping so that we know

  • what we need.

  • So that we don’t buy stuff we don’t need, and we don’t forget important stuff.

  • We need to take stock of what we have before we make our shopping list.

  • There are other ways the wordstockis used.

  • Perhaps in cooking youve noticed the term chicken stock, beef stock, or vegetable stock.

  • So, were all ready.

  • Were stocked up on everything we need.

  • Plenty of diapers and all that.

  • And now were just waiting to see what happens.

  • In Philadelphia, where I live, the schools have closed down for two weeks.

  • My kids are not school-aged yet.

  • Theyre younger.

  • So, daycare centers are still open as of now.

  • However, the counties that surround my county, all four of them have shut down

  • Before I go on, let me point out the wordcounty’.

  • We dropped the D inhandbecause it was after an N and before a consonant.

  • We often drop the T when it comes after an N.

  • This happens in the common words internet, interview, and international, and others as

  • well.

  • You don’t have to drop the T, but youll often hear that.

  • The dropped T is also common in the pronunciation of the wordcounty’.

  • So it becomescouny’.

  • That’s what I did.

  • Listen again to my pronunciation ofcountyandcounties’.

  • The counties that surround my county, all four of them have shut down, what is it,

  • non-essential businesses.

  • And that would include daycare.

  • So, it just seems inevitable.

  • There were two less common words there.

  • Non-essential and inevitable.

  • Essentialmeans absolutely necessary, something you must have.

  • Air is essential for life.

  • Essential businesses in a time like this are pharmacies and grocery stores.

  • All other businesses, even daycares, are considered non-essential.

  • We can live without them for a period.

  • The counties that surround my county, all four of them have shut down, what is it, non-essential

  • businesses.

  • And that would include daycare.

  • So, it just seems inevitable.

  • Inevitable.

  • I said it seems inevitable that our day care will close.

  • That means certain to happen, unavoidable.

  • Based on what’s happening in surrounding counties, where all the non-essential businesses

  • have been closed, it seems certain that our day care will close.

  • What will we do when our kids have to be home with us.

  • Were very, very luck in that my husband, David, is mostly a stay-at-home dad.

  • So, he has a very small job in the evening, and I can take care of the kids at that point.

  • But generally, during the day, he takes care of the kids.

  • And when Sawyer’s in daycare a couple of days a week, or Stoney’s at school, then

  • he does things like grocery shopping, cleans the house, he does all of that.

  • He runs the household for our family.

  • So, luckily for us, he can keep doing that with the kids, and I can keep work[ing].

  • It won’t disrupt our life that much.

  • But certainly, we have many friends and know that there are many people out there who will

  • be very disrupted when their kids are no longer taken care of.

  • And kids who have school-aged, people who have school-aged kids who now can’t be at

  • school.

  • And I know that this is what’s been happening all over the world.

  • I’m just curious, how are YOU guys doing?

  • How have you dealt with your lifestyle changes?

  • One of the things that’s interesting, confusing, hard, difficult about this situation is not

  • knowing the length.

  • Not knowing how long.

  • Um, Stoney will go to school on Monday.

  • He goes to a Montessori preschool.

  • Um, but we assume that, within a day or two, that will be shut down.

  • Sawyer, we haven’t heard anything.

  • We assume that will be shut down.

  • I have to stop here because one of the vocabulary words I went over recently on my channel was

  • assume’.

  • And here I’ve used it twice.

  • It means to think something is true, or probably true, without actually knowing.

  • At the time I made this video, I thought their schools would be canceled.

  • I was pretty sure.

  • I didn’t know definitely, they had not been canceled yet.

  • But I assumed they would be.

  • Um, but we assume that, within a day or two, that will be shut down.

  • Sawyer, we haven’t heard anything.

  • We assume that will be shut down.

  • Um, and so well figure it out.

  • A lot of playing inside, I guess.

  • I wanted to go over the difference betweenshutdownandlockdown’.

  • So, I’ve been hearing both of those phrases in the news.

  • A shutdown of non-essential businesses would mean those businesses close.

  • So, workers won’t be there.

  • You can’t go visit them.

  • Just as a way to diminish the amount of contact that people are having with one another.

  • Now, a lockdown is when youre not free to move about.

  • So, for example, if the city of Philadelphia has a lockdown, then people won’t be able

  • to leave and come, come into the city.

  • Uh, and that’s been happening, um, in other places in the world.

  • And, might it ever be so extreme that there’s a lockdown house by house?

  • That they say, “look, you can’t leave your house.

  • This thing is out of control.

  • Were going to take dramatic measures.”

  • I don’t know.

  • I don’t think that’s happened yet anywhere.

  • Where theyre saying people can’t leave their house.

  • But theyre trying to contain areas by locking down those areas.

  • I hope whoever is watching this, wherever you are, that you and your family are safe

  • and healthy.

  • And that youre weathering the storm.

  • Um, I know everyone’s life is disrupted, and, the financial impact is huge.

  • To weather the storm.

  • This is an idiom that means to make it through a difficult situation.

  • This is a tremendously difficult time, and I hope you are weathering the storm.

  • Making it through, not suffering too much.

  • So, there will be a regular Rachel’s English video here next week.

  • Please come back and check it out.

  • And, be well.

  • Be kind to each other.

  • And, let’s just all remember to wash our hands.

  • Stoney, my four-year-old, is so annoyed with how often were making him wash his hands.

  • But, from what I understand, it’s our responsibility to do that for one another, in this world,

  • to try to shut this thing down.

  • Shut it down.”

  • Shut it down.”

  • So, be well out there, my friends, thank you for watching, and I’ll see you here next week.

  • The vocabulary video where I went over the wordassumeis hereit’s a whole

  • playlist so if youve already seen that one you can skip around.

  • I make new videos on the English language every Tuesday and I’d love to have you back,

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  • That’s it, and thanks so much for using Rachel’s English.

Hey guys.

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