RealLife Radio #78 – How to Talk about Hair

Getting your hair cut in a second language can be a very difficult and even scary thing to do. You don’t want to mess up your style with a bad haircut.

In this episode you are going to:

• learn lots of vocabulary related to getting your hair cut
• learn the difference between appointment, commitment, meeting, and plans
• learn why you should not ask someone to marry you in a boat.

Make sure you check the vocabulary below before listening.

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Words You’ll Learn

• Pony
• Vicariously
• Doozy
• To propose
• Paddle Boat
• Not go swimmingly
• Pop the question
• Shore
• Balling your eyes out
• Trim you hair
• Salvage
• Turn somebody down
• A man date

Words to know:

• Munching down- to eat quickly
• Entail that- suggests that
• Hot off the press- the newest news stories
• Dying to know- really want to know
• Mess things up- make a big mistake
• Roll with the punches- go with the flow, don’t be so reactive
• Bromance- when two guys are very close

Shoutouts:

• Jose Inacio from Spain (Fluency Circle member)
• Anca Felix from Mexico (5-Star iTunes Review)

Random News Story:

• Maybe Proposing in a Paddle Boat Wasn’t the Best Idea –See article with video

Conversation Topic: Hair Vocabulary

• A crew cut
• Bald
• A Mohawk
• Afro hair
• Frizzy
• Mullet
• Rat’s tail
• Braided hair
• Side spike
• A comb over
• Dreadlocks
• Perm you hair
• Hair curler
• Streak
• Highlight
• Ponytail
• Piggy tails
• Bangs/fringe
• Hair extensions

Question:

• What’s the difference between appointment, commitment, arrangements, and plans?

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Song: Pavement “Cut your hair”

Lyrics

Darlin’ don’t you go and cut your hair
Do you think it’s gonna make him change?
“I’m just a boy with a new haircut”
And that’s a pretty nice haircut
Charge it like a puzzle,
Hit me wearin’ muzzles
Hesitate you’ll die, look around, around,
The second drummer’s drowned
His telephone is found

Music scene is crazy,
Bands start up each and every day
I saw another one just the other day
A special new band
I don’t remember lying
I don’t remember a line
I don’t remember a word

But I don’t care,
I care,
I really don’t care
Did you see the drummer’s hair?

Advertising looks and chops a must
No big hair!
Songs mean a lot
When songs are bought
And so are you
Face right down to the practice room
Attention and fame’s a career
Career, career, career, career, career

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