Name: Daily Life English: Around Town [Advanced Vocabulary Lesson]
Uploaded: 2024-08-16T11:22:57.000Z
Duration: 10 min 37 s
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You're invited to come with me around my American town to run some errands.

Modal verbs - A2

Errands are those necessary activities that you have to do in daily life, such as go to the post office.

Sentences with adverbs of degree

So that's what you're invited to do with me today and learn some real life English along the way.

Hi, I'm Vanessa from SpeakEnglishWithVanessa.com and like always, I have created a free PDF worksheet with all of today's important vocabulary, expressions, sample sentences, and you can answer Vanessa's challenge question at the bottom of the free worksheet so that you never forget what you've learned.

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All right, are you ready to get started with our first errand?

The first errand that we're going to run is dropping off some books that my kids no longer read in our neighborhood's free book box.

This is a pretty popular concept in the U.S. where if you have books that you don't want anymore or your kids don't want anymore, you can share them with your neighbors.

I think today I'm not going to take anything for me, but would you like to see what's going on inside the book box?

These are the kids books that I just put in there.

One time I even found some homemade vegetables in there, homegrown vegetables.

We are going to be making some donations to the local charity shop, and these are items that my family doesn't use anymore and other people might find them useful.

Our trash might be other people's treasure.

There is one item in our car that I don't know if they're going to accept.

So I'm going to ask the lady if that's something that they'll accept and we'll see what happens.

So if you want to know why we're giving away a door, it's because we bought a super cheap used door.

I think it was $8 from another thrift store, and my husband made it into a table, like a craft play table for my kids, and they could draw on it.

They could do crafts on it, and now we don't need it anymore.

So we took the table legs off of it, and it's time to see if it can go back into the world of donations.

I have a couple of things, but I do have, I have a question.

Is something like this, this door, is that something that we can donate?

I know if we don't, then Habitat will, but I can ask Eric.

Second thing, a dart board, another game.

I know you guys don't take baby stuff, but no, we do.

Let's go across the street and donate this door to the other charity that takes doors, apparently.

So I was wondering, a couple of years ago, a couple of years ago, I got this door here.

Our next errand is to go to the bank and I need to deposit some checks that we were given.

One of them is a check given to Dan, my husband, from his grandparents for his birthday.

I don't know if it's a tradition, but in my family and in Dan's family, grandparents like to give their grandchildren some money for their birthday and the older generation will often use a check to do that.

So we have to deposit it in the bank and let's go.

I'm going to use the drive-thru to show you the true American experience and I'm not exactly sure what's going to happen, but let's just give it a shot.

If you need to sign anything, I already signed everything.

So I'm just going to put my driver's license and the checks in here.

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