Name: ENGLISH VOCABULARY
Uploaded: 2020-03-09T04:03:16.000Z
Duration: 30 min 24 s
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You guys loved my video on clothing  vocabulary, but said you needed more.

So here is a vocabulary video about shoes.

We have so many different kinds of shoes, don’t we?

In this video, you’ll sit down with me and  my sister-in-law, Lisa,

while we go over many kinds of shoes and other vocabulary words relating to shoes.

You’ll get more comfortable pronouncing  words like leather and ankle.

You’ll learn new terms in American  English like shearling and ‘fancy pants’.

I brought my sister-in-law Lisa here to crowdsource, help me go through some shoes.

Right these are my daughter's basketball shoes, there's more support in ankle there.

Okay, I was saying I'm used to only ever seeing high-top basketball shoes.

I've never seen low top basketball shoes.

There we talked about two different styles of shoes:  high tops, which go above the ankle, and low tops,

The top of the shoe is either high or low.

I was saying I'm used to only ever seeing high-top basketball shoes.

I was afraid to let her wear the low tops.

Savannah's very athletic because she also has soccer shoes.

And for some reason, people like to have a very different designs.

They want their cleats to stand out and be different from anyone else's.

So we talked about basketball shoes, and now we’re talking about cleats.

Cleats are shoes that have cleats for extra grip on the bottom.

You can have soccer cleats, baseball cleats.

A lot of sports shoes are called by the name of the sport:

basketball shoes, tennis shoes, running  shoes, soccer cleats.

For sprinters on a track, their shoes are called spikes, and the spikes are much smaller than a cleat.

Cleat, cleats, KL consonant cluster, EE vowel, T.

some people think they should make this a B.

There’s one thing I want to say about ‘tennis shoe’.

One word ends in an S, tennis, the next  word begins with an SH, shoe.

We actually link these words together and  the SH takes over the S.

You may have noticed, we don’t say tennis-shoe.

The same is true of the word 'dress shoe'.

We drop the S at the end of 'dress' and  connect with an SH.

A 'dress shoe' can be a term for either men's shoes or women's shoes that are more formal.

So what other sports do you wear cleats in? Baseball, right?

So this is the kind of boot I tend to wear to work in the winter.

Or is the riding boot the one that's black and brown?

This kind of boot can be called a 'riding boot'.

It’s basically a high boot with that defined heel to fit into stirrups.

Of course, most people buy them for fashion and not for horseback riding,

which is what they were originally made for.

Did you know that ‘riding’ sounds just like this word ‘writing’ because of the Flap T?

Here the letters OO make the oo sound, so your lips come into a tighter circle and then relax.

The movement into and out of the lip  position is important.

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