Daily Life English Vocabulary: Make the Bed With Me

Get ready to learn real life English today You are invited to my house to join me for real life so that you can go out into the real world and speak Real English, that's what we learn here on this YouTube channel if you are new Hi, I'm Vanessa and here on my youtube channel You will learn real daily life English not that textbook stuff, but real English and today Guess what you are going to do You're going to join me as I do one of my least favorite chores, which is Changing the sheets on my bed. I just realized This shirt and this comforter are Quite busy, but that's okay You are going to learn real life English today, and I can't wait to teach you all about it And like usual I have created a free PDF worksheet with all of today's important vocabulary expressions sample sentences and When you download this free PDF worksheet, you're gonna get a bonus Audio version of today's lesson that means that you can download the audio version of today's lesson kind of like a mini Podcast episode and you can listen to it wherever you want. Maybe while you're changing the sheets amazing So, how can you get this free worksheet? All you need to do is click the link in the description enter your name and email address and voila Just like that the PDF worksheet and bonus audio version will land in your email inbox And the cool thing is you never have to sign up for my free worksheets ever again I will automatically send them to you every single week in your email inbox It is my gift to you. So click on the link in the description to get the free worksheet for today's lesson So to get started changing the sheets, I have to have a couple things I have to have some clean sheets prepared and I also need a Laundry basket. This is where we're gonna put the dirty sheets They're not really that dirty, but you know what? It's a good idea to change your sheets every now and then and it's something that I put off. I should do it probably Every other week, that's the goal, but I put it off except for today in today's lesson. I am NOT putting it off anymore This is for you so the first thing that we need to do is we need to Strip the bed you could say simply take off the old sheets But we often use this word strip. I'm going to strip or strip off This quilt I'm going to Strip off this Comforter it's actually a duvet comforter You can put a duvet cover over top of it, but just call it a comforter and I'm going to take off This sheet I will explain all about these sheets in just a minute. Now this I'm going to wash So I will put it in my laundry basket I'm going to also Take these pillows and You might ask why do you have so many pillows are there? Why are there four pillows? well Why would I live in a world where I just need one pillow when I can have two pillows, right? So these are not decorative pillows. Some people have decorative pillows On their bed. I'm not that kind of person but I Like to have one pillow under my head and sometimes I hug a pillow Sometimes I have that pillow for back support. We call that lumbar support sometimes when I'm sleeping and I'm going to throw the pillowcases in the laundry basket Let me know. Are you someone who sleeps? with more than one pillow I Definitely am and I feel grateful that I live in a world where I can sleep comfortably, right So let's take all these off as you can see. I am NOT a stickler for matching Sheets or matching pillowcases. So these are a matching set You can see I think you can see a little bit that these are matching. They have little polka dots on them But really whenever I do the sheets, I just grab whatever sheets are clean whatever pillowcases are clean and That's what I put on the bed. Some people are pickier than me, but I am NOT All right. So next we need to take off the Fitted sheet so this sheet has elastic and I'm going to take off this fitted Fitted sheet. I need to go all the way around the bed and not trip Trip over things so I will take off this fitted sheet. This is the one that is annoying to put on Some fitted sheets don't actually fit a bed very well But this one This one seems to fit. Okay So I'm going to take off this fitted sheet. And the next thing is I need to find The new clean fitted sheet somewhere in here note that the pronunciation of this Fitted those T's are gonna sound like D's in American English Because they're surrounded by vowels Fitted not fitted Fitted fitted that's one of the tricks that makes Spoken English sound so fast because we change one letter for another one word Kind of blends into the next word because of all those little tips and tricks. All right, this is my clean Fitted sheet. I have two pairs of fitted sheets for this bed Which means one of them can be dirty and the other can be clean and I don't need to do the laundry In order to have a clean set of sheets. So that's generally the term that we would use. This is a set of Sheets the matching set. This is not a matching set. I don't care But I'm going to put this on my Bed and you're going to see There's an inside and an outside And I have to figure out which side is the long side and which side is the short side I think that's a problem. Everybody has when they make the bed with this type of With these types of sheets. All right, I'm going to tuck it in around here and Oh, I did it wrong. I have the long side here. So what I'm going to do Pull that off and Find this corner. So this is the corner of the sheet. I'm gonna try to tuck it under the mattress and Back here as well. I'm going to tuck this corner around the mattress and Usually the truth is when I make the bed, I have at least one child very excited that there is a big flat jumping surface available and Somebody is jumping on the bed while I'm doing this, but I Sent everybody outside while I was making this video for you All right, so I'll get this one tucked in and you might see we have this lovely patch I Sewed on this patch because I love these sheets. They're so comfortable. I think they're like Linen sheets. They're really nice a little wrinkly, but it's okay And but they got a rip in them sometimes natural fibers just aren't as durable as like polyester or More like man-made materials. So these linen sheets, they're just not very durable But I didn't want to throw them away. I wanted to Try to fix them myself, so I Cut I had a piece of extra fabric you can see from these sheets there was like an extra little square a little like bag that these sheets came in and I had saved that and I cut that little bag. It was not a bag to use to carry stuff It was just to stuff the sheets in when you buy it and I sewed it Onto the hole and now there's a nice little patch there and we can use these sheets again All right, now that we have the fitted sheet on Let's get the flat sheet. That's what this guy is called. And there is a top and a bottom you can see there is a thicker seam Here to here. This is the seam This is a thin seam right here But this thick seam is gonna go at the top Ideally so I'm going to just toss this across the bed and Make sure that it's relatively even We don't want to let Dan have all the sheets, right? I gotta have some sheets too on my side All right, that is good enough for me. Usually I'll tuck the corners in So that they don't get messed up too much my kids love to hide Under my sheets and they play in the blanket Which means that oftentimes all of my sheets and blankets end up on the floor Maybe it's just foolhardy to think that if I tuck the corner of my sheet in they'll stay in place Yeah, I'm probably fooling myself But That's the way it goes. All right next I'm going to add this duvet cover because there's a tag I try to keep That at the bottom of the bed so that it's not in our faces and This one Pull up like this and this quilt I'm going to Just throw on now. This quilt is not a Special homemade quilt We do have a quilt that Dan's great-grandmother sewed and we often use that on our bed I did not bring it out for this video But it that's a very special quilt you can tell you can tell it's a quilt not just a blanket because it has these little squares and This is just from a company Nothing very personal but it still has the squares of fabric that have been sewn together and in older times People would save patches of their fabric of their clothing after their clothing Got old and they would make blankets out of it because you had to reuse things more I tried to be thrifty as well But I don't think I could ever make a quilt unless I really needed to unless it was a necessity All right. Here we go. And next we have our assorted pillowcases and I'm going to Put a couple on it's interesting some pillowcases. I don't know if it's the same in your country some pillowcases have this little flap here to keep the pillow in and Some pillowcases are just a little opening and you have to shove the pillowcase or the pillow in This one has a little flap. It maybe keeps the pillow in better. I'm not sure. All right. Let's see if I can Shove it in a little bit better and I know this is Dan's pillow So that's gonna go up there this pillow is Mine and I'm gonna put the Pillowcase on this as well There is a tag on the pillow. So technically maybe some people would put that at the very end, but I don't care Like I said, this is my least favorite chore You see how cool this is There's like a little flap and then you can pull up that piece so that it stays nice and tucked in there Great all right. Now, here's the choice. I Can give my second pillow the same color as my first pillow Let's do it. Let's just be sensible won't we? I think this pillowcase is actually from another set. It doesn't belong with the linen blue sheets But it's still blue So that's all right. That's what matters to me Now what's worse than doing the sheets on my bed is doing the sheets on my kids bed, oh that's the worst they have a bunk bed and They like to sleep with a lot of stuffed animals so I have them take off all of the stuffed animals from their bed and I ask them to Take the sheets off their bed to strip their beds But it's kind of hard for them at this age young age to put Their own sheets back on the bed, especially that fitted sheet. So I'd have to do that. I don't know It's just a chore. I don't like it's not a big deal. But you know, there's always there's always chores that we don't like even though they're not a big deal and then Ta-da whenever you do them and they're finished. It feels good. I feel good right now Have you ever had that happen where you have a chore or a phone call you have to make and you're just dreading it And then you do it and it wasn't actually that bad in the first place this is The same for me all the time Well, thank you for joining me for this very Intimate daily life chore something that I don't enjoy but I enjoy telling you about so I hope that you can go out into the real world Express yourself better and just feel confident when you speak That is the whole goal no matter what you're talking about. Maybe you're talking about Making the bed. Maybe you're talking about something else. I want you to feel confident when you speak So don't forget to download the free PDF worksheet with all of today's vocabulary key expressions sample sentences Definitions and that bonus downloadable audio so that you can listen to this lesson wherever you are It doesn't matter you can listen to it while you are also changing your sheets Don't put it off any longer Listen to this lesson while you're changing your sheets, and I hope you'll be able to immerse yourself in English in real life English So to get this free worksheet all you have to do is click on the link in the description enter your name and email address and Voila just like that the free worksheet and audio will land in your email inbox This is my gift to you. Okay before you go I have to show you this beautiful quilt This is the one I was mentioning. This is the one that my Husband's great-grandmother made she sewed all of this by hand so there's little beautiful stitches for every single one of these colors and There's stitching even on the white so here she's made beautiful patterns This is what we call a labor of love This is absolutely a labor of love and this quilt is not the Fuzziest or the warmest thing that we have but it is so special and it's really an heirloom It's something that's passed down in our family, and I hope someday my kids get to enjoy this as well All right. Well, thank you so much for learning English with me Thank you for joining me in my home, and I will see you again next Friday for a new lesson here on my youtube channel Bye, but wait, do you want more? I recommend watching this video next where I fold all of the laundry for my family Including some interesting items that maybe you've never heard of I'll see you in that video