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Hi guys, welcome back to English with Max. Today I have a
listening and vocabulary video for you. This one is going to be a little
different. What I'm going to do is show you what I keep in my handbag.
Now this one's not just for the ladies, so gentlemen, stay where you are, because
most of the stuff I'm going to show you are things that can be used by both
genders. Normally this is the type of video that beauty gurus do, and I'm
certainly not a beauty guru. Although I did do a makeup video - sort of - I'll
put the link in the description. Anyway, I thought by showing you what's in my
handbag, I could teach you some useful, everyday vocabulary. Before I go on I
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So without further ado, what is in my bag?
Well, first we have Frank. Sometimes it's Frank, sometimes it's George.
There's not enough room for both of them. Um, nah, I'm kidding. I don't carry
George and Frank around with me. At least not all of the time. I'm 31, after all.
Next we have my sunglasses. These are pretty standard sunglasses. I don't buy
expensive sunglasses because I'm a klutz, which means that I am a clumsy person
and I drop things quite a lot. And as soon as you drop your sunglasses, you
normally get a scratch, and they're ruined. So I think I bought these for about 10 bucks.
What else? This is a dirty tissue. Um, yeah... some more. Time to clean.
This is a packet of tissues. A packet of clean tissues.
Before. After.
Next we have... a receipt.
A receipt is - I don't know why it's so long, I mean, it's a waste of paper - but anyway,
a receipt is what you get at a shop when you buy something. The piece of paper that
they give you with all the prices. Another receipt.
This is a fan. Because sometimes it gets very hot here and you
often don't, I don't know, you just don't expect it to be that hot.
I got this in Spain, by the way. It's very pretty.
Umm... what else? These are my keys. Keys. You probably know that word. Ahh this...
This this is gum - chewing gum, but after it has been chewed. This is um - okay so that's obviously
fallen out of this. This is chewing gum before it has been chewed. So we have
before and after. This is a little bag. It's a shopping bag, you know, so you
don't have to use too much plastic when you go to the supermarket. Unfortunately
in my state in Australia they still give out bags without charging people,
which I don't agree with. But anyway, that's another topic.
It's not good for the environment.
This is - what would we call this? Hair. I would call this a pouch. You
could just call it a little bag. You see, sometimes even native speakers don't
know what to call things. The word "pouch" just means a small bag. A small bag or a
small sack. Anyway, in this I keep just little bits and bobs...
You know, for emergencies. Okay, this is - this is just for women. This is probably the
only thing that is not for - is not for men, or also for men, in my bag. This is a
sanitary pad for emergencies. Normally we just call them pads: a pad. But the long
word is "sanitary pad". Um, I don't think I need to explain what that's for. Okay.
This is a little brush and this is a little mirror. This used to fit together,
but it broke. But they're still good. Okay, what else?
This is paracetamol. In case, you know, you get a headache or something. I think it's
the same in most languages, but in English we pronounce it "pa-ra-see-tah-mole".
These are ear plugs. This is something that I don't think many people carry in
their bag, but I keep them there in case I'm, I don't know, somewhere where I want
to read and there's a lot of noise, or I don't know, when you travel - sometimes
you're in a motel and there's more noise than what you are used to at home.
Earplugs are things that you put in your ears to block out noise. Here we have a
hair clip. It's a pretty normal hair clip. This is lip gloss. I don't actually carry
much makeup around with me because normally I just put it on in the morning,
or I put it on at night if I'm going out, and then I just leave it. If it, you know,
fades during the day, I don't really care. But normally I have some lip gloss.
This is a pen. Just a standard ballpoint pen. And here we have some Band-Aids.
"Band-Aid" is actually the brand. I think in the U- what do they say in the UK?
I can't think of it, but I'll put in a note just here.
Yeah, I'm a klutz, like I said. I'm clumsy so having Band-Aids in my bag is really handy.
This is my wallet. A wallet is simply something that holds money and cards.
I'll show you some Australian money actually, because it's quite interesting.
It's very colourful and it's made of plastic, which means that if you
put it in water, it's not damaged. But I'll do a video on money, because I think
that's - that could be an interesting topic, and I'll also show you some more
Australian money. It also holds cards, like your bank card, your driver's licence,
and things like loyalty cards. Loyalty cards are the ones they give you
in shops when they say that you can save a bunch of money, but really it's just an
excuse for them to get your email address, so they can send you a bunch of
advertising crap. Yeah. I'm very positive today. Now what is the difference between
a wallet and a purse? Well, it's a bit difficult to say, but normally a purse is
a bit bigger. And normally when we say "purse" we think of something that a woman
carries. Obviously women can also carry wallets, like me, because I like having
something small that I can put in my pocket if I need to. But normally men
don't carry purses. Except in the times of Shakespeare. If you read Shakespeare
you'll see that men also carried purses, but nowadays men normally carry a wallet.
However, now this is a bit weird, this is a coin purse. This is where I keep my coins.
I don't know why it's called that because, like I said, normally a purse is
bigger. But this is an exception. This is an umbrella. It's a very small, compact
umbrella that I keep in here, in case it rains when I'm not expecting it to.
These are my glasses. Yes, "glasses", even though it's one thing, are plural.
Like "sunglasses". I'm long-sighted, which means that I see well in the
distance, but I don't see well close up. So I wear them for reading and sometimes
watching TV, and things like that. We say "long-sighted" in Australia, but I think
the more common expression is "far-sighted". Far-sighted, long-sighted, they mean the same thing.
This is a glasses case. Glasses case.
This is my bottle of water.
I always carry water with me... to be healthy.
This is my phone.
This is a good old iPhone 5, which obviously isn't the latest one, but I don't really care.
I've never been into gadgets, so I just bought this second-hand last year and it works fine.
I'm now going to leave you with a short exercise: if you want to practise your
English, you can go to the comments section and tell me what you keep in
your bag. If you don't carry a bag with you, tell me what you keep in your
pockets. Otherwise you can leave a different message. Don't be shy about
your English, you know, everybody makes mistakes. We're here to learn and I
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