Newbie - Take a Nap

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Newbie - Take a Nap

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Hello, Hello, Hello, How are you?

Hello, Hello, Hello, How are you?

I'm good, I'm great, I'm wonderful

I'm good, I'm great, I'm wonderful.

大家好,我是Samantha

Hello everyone, I am Samantha.

Hi everyone, my name is Karl, welcome to level 1

Hi everyone, my name is Karl, welcome to level 1.

Karl,让你的宝宝睡午觉容易吗?

Karl, is it easy for your baby to take a nap?

I don't have a kid just yet, I'm still young

我还没有孩子,我还年轻。

OK,那我们今天的对话的内容就是Take a nap

OK, then the content of our conversation today is Take a nap.

我们先听一下对话

Let's listen to the conversation first.

然后再给大家分享

Then I'll share it with everyone.

Alright, let's listen to the dialogue once

Alright, let's listen to the dialogue once.

and then we'll come back and explain what's happened in detail

然后我们会回来详细解释发生了什么。

Dialogue, first time

Dialogue, first time

Casey, it's time for lunch

Casey, 是时候吃午饭了。

I'm not hungry

我不饿。

It's time for lunch, go wash your hands

It's time for lunch, go wash your hands.

No, I don't want to

不,我不想要。

OK, time to take a nap

OK, time to take a nap.

Wow,当父母可真不容易

Wow, it's really not easy to be a parent.

Yeah, and getting some kids to eat can be tough

是的,让一些孩子吃东西可能很难。

这个对话当中呢,就是爸爸想让女儿吃午饭洗手

In this conversation, the father wants his daughter to have lunch and wash her hands.

可是这个小女孩不想去做

But this little girl doesn't want to go.

然后爸爸就说,那就睡觉吧

Then Dad said, let's go to sleep.

Karl,你能再说一下对话当中的第一句话吗?

Karl, can you repeat the first sentence in the conversation?

Sure,Casey, it's time for lunch

Sure, Casey, it's time for lunch.

It's time for lunch

It's time for lunch.

Lunch,就是午饭,对吧?

Lunch, it's just lunch, right?

That's correct, lunch, the second meal of the day

That's correct, lunch, the second meal of the day.

这个it's time for是不是该做什么的意思?

Does "it's time for" mean that it's time to do something?

Exactly, you're indicating that it's now time to do something like eat lunch in this case

Exactly, you're indicating that it's now time to do something like eat lunch in this case.

那我们也可以用it's time for 再说些别的

Then we can also use "it's time for" to say something else.

Some other examples are it's time for breakfast

Some other examples are "it's time for breakfast."

该吃早饭了

It's time for breakfast.

It's time for dinner

It's time for dinner.

该吃晚饭了

It's time for dinner.

It's time for your shower

It's time for your shower.

该洗澡了

It's time to take a shower.

Now, if you want to say

Now, if you want to say

该泡澡

Time for a bath.

You can say it's time for your bath

You can say it's time for your bath.

大部分的美国小朋友是淋浴多还是泡澡多呢?

Do most American kids take showers or baths more often?

不一定

Not necessarily.

It really depends on how old the child is

It really depends on how old the child is.

So I stopped taking baths

所以我不再洗澡了。

After I was six or seven years old

After I was six or seven years old

You took a really long bath

You took a really long bath.

Well, yeah, it wasn't all one bath, but

Well, yeah, it wasn't all one bath, but

那爸爸说It's time for lunch

Then Dad said, "It's time for lunch."

以后孩子说了什么呢?

What did the child say later?

I'm not hungry

我不饿。

我不饿

I'm not hungry.

下一句话比较好

The next sentence is better.

爸爸想让孩子懂得讲卫生

Dad wants the child to understand the importance of hygiene.

所以他说了

So he said.

Go wash your hands

Go wash your hands.

到这个时候爸爸是不是有点生气了

Is Dad a little angry at this point?

Dad definitely sounds like he's hungry also

爸爸听起来也一定饿了。

那我们洗手的时候都有什么表达?

What expressions do we use when we wash our hands?

我们需要用什么东西呢?

What do we need to use?

Wash your hands with soap

Wash your hands with soap.

Afterwards, you dry your hands with a towel

Afterwards, you dry your hands with a towel.

Wash your hands

Wash your hands.

洗手

Wash hands

soap

soap

香皂

Soap

towel

towel

毛巾

Towel

你能再说一下那些比较有用的洗手吗?

Can you talk about those handwashing techniques that are more useful?

Sure thing

没问题

Wash your hands with soap

Wash your hands with soap.

Dry your hands with a towel

Dry your hands with a towel.

Wash your hands with soap

Wash your hands with soap.

Dry your hands with a towel

Dry your hands with a towel.

到这个时候孩子也不乐意了

At this point, the child is also unwilling.

It sounds like she's not going to do anything dad says

听起来她不会听爸爸的话。

对,所以爸爸这时候就说了

Yes, so Dad said at that moment.

Ok, time to take a nap

好的,时候可以小睡一下了。

我发现这句话跟前面的不太一样

I found this sentence to be quite different from the previous one.

Yeah, instead of saying time for a nap

是的,不如说是午睡时间。

He said it's time to take a nap

He said it's time to take a nap.

He could have said it's time to nap

他本可以说是时候小睡了。

But the phrase he chose is quite common

But the phrase he chose is quite common.

Time to take a nap

Time to take a nap.

也就是说

That is to say.

语法上来讲你可以说

Grammatically speaking, you can say.

It's time to nap

It's time to nap.

但是最常用的用法是

But the most common usage is

It's time to take a nap

It's time to take a nap.

You're absolutely right

你说得完全正确。

Karl,为什么不能说

Karl, why can't you say it?

It's time for a nap?

It's time for a nap?

for is used with nouns

"For" is used with nouns.

like the sentence

像句子一样

It's time for lunch

It's time for lunch.

and to is used before verbs

"and to is used before verbs"

like the sentence

像这句话

It's time to wash your hands

It's time to wash your hands.

It gets a little more tricky than that

It gets a little more tricky than that.

with the word nap

带着打盹的感觉

because it can be used in many different ways

因为它可以以多种不同的方式使用。

So it's a little bit better

So it's a little bit better.

if you just stick with the common phrase

If you just stick with the common phrase.

It's time to take a nap

It's time to take a nap.

反正就别管那么多

Anyway, just don't worry so much.

用最常用的

Using the most commonly used.

Right

Right

明白了

Understood.

所以名词的前面用for

So "for" is used in front of nouns.

动词的前面用to

Put "to" in front of the verb.

You've got it

你明白了

Now that we know the vocab

Now that we know the vocabulary.

and understand how to use it

并理解如何使用它

let's listen to the dialogue

Let's listen to the dialogue.

a second time

a second time

Casey, it's time for lunch

Casey, it's time for lunch.

I'm not hungry

我不饿。

It's time for lunch

It's time for lunch.

Go wash your hands

Go wash your hands.

No, I don't want to

No, I don't want to.

OK

OK

Time to take a nap

Time to take a nap.

Karl,你四到六岁的时候

Karl, when you were four to six years old

都吃些什么东西呀?

What do they eat?

My mother tells me

My mother tells me.

I loved to eat peas and green beans

I loved to eat peas and green beans.

when I was a little kid

当我还是个小孩的时候

Really?

真的吗?

Yeah, I guess I would eat

是的,我想我会吃。

three or four jars of it

三四罐这种东西

Wow

Wow

It's usually very difficult

它通常是非常困难的。

to get kids eat peas

让孩子们吃豌豆。

We have a book in our library

We have a book in our library.

called Eat Your Peas

called Eat Your Peas

What's it about?

What's it about?

It's about a little girl

It's about a little girl.

who doesn't like eating peas

Who doesn't like eating peas?

and her mom said

她妈妈说。

Eat your peas

吃你的豌豆

That sounds like a nice mom

那听起来像是一个好妈妈。

I would have loved her

I would have loved her.

Well, thanks for listening to our

Well, thanks for listening to our

first podcast

第一期播客

We'll see you next time

我们下次见。

谢谢陪我们听

Thank you for listening with us.

Level 1 第一个 podcast

Level 1 The first podcast

Bye

Goodbye

Bye Bye

Goodbye

Good Bye

Goodbye

Bye Bye Bye Bye

Bye Bye Bye Bye

Good Bye

Goodbye

I can clap my hands

I can clap my hands.

I can stamp my feet

I can stamp my feet.

I can clap my hands

I can clap my hands.

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