Useful conversation phrases

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Let's recap the vocabulary we heard in this conversation.

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Starting with the question 'what are you up to?'

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Which means what are you doing?

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What are you up to tomorrow, Georgie?

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I am going to the airport tomorrow.

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We've also had 'DIY', which is short for 'do it yourself'.

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And it means tasks around the house,

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like painting or building furniture. For example,

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I'm going to do some DIY on my roof terrace this summer.

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We've heard 'barbecue'.

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Now a barbecue is an outdoor grill for cooking on,

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but it's also the name of the meal that you cook on the barbecue,

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or the event or party that you have with barbecued food.

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A 'picnic' is when you take food to an outdoor space, like a park or the beach.

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You usually sit on a blanket and eat on the ground.

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And we heard 'mow the lawn'.

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And that means cutting the grass with a lawn mower.

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And that's it for this episode of Real Easy English.

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