Episode 0119
Summary
A group of individuals investigates a supposedly haunted mansion where the owner claims a ghost resides. One participant, Shabby, expresses extreme fear and a desire to leave, while another encourages the group to be brave and investigate, teasing Shabby for being a 'scaredy cat.' They hear a mysterious laugh, decide to investigate the room it came from, and upon entering, encounter a ghost, leading to panic and screaming.
Transcript (Click timestamp to jump)
Hey, why are we at this scary looking mansion?
It's like ultra spooky.
I told you already Shabby. The owner of the house says there's a ghost haunting his house. So we have to go in and investigate.
I don't like this.
Come on guys, stop being such cowards. It's a mystery and an adventure.
This place gives me the creeps.
Seriously, guys, let's get out of here.
I'm getting goosebumps just being here.
Mmm hmm.
Shabby is a scaredy cat!
(Laughter)
That laugh came from this room. Let's go and check it out.
Look, a ghost! Run!
Summary
The audio features Marco and Erica from EnglishPod introducing a lesson on scary language. They present a dialogue where characters Shabby, Wilma, and Scruffy explore a haunted mansion, encountering a ghost and expressing fear. Marco and Erica then analyze key vocabulary and phrases related to fear, such as "ultra spooky," "haunt," "cowards," "goosebumps," "scaredy-cat," "scary-looking," and "gives me the creeps." They also share personal anecdotes about strange occurrences and discuss cultural beliefs and superstitions regarding ghosts and bad luck.
Transcript (Click timestamp to jump)
Hello English learners, welcome back to EnglishPod. My name is Marco.
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And I'm Erica.
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And today we have a fun and scary dialogue.
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That's right. This lesson is full of language you can use to talk about being scared.
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All right, so we're going to be looking at a scary lesson today and we have nothing to preview, so let's listen to this dialogue and see why everyone is so scared.
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Eddy, why are we at this scary-looking mansion? It's like ultra spooky.
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I told you already, Shabby. The owner of the house says there's a ghost haunting his house. So we have to go in and investigate.
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I don't like this.
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Come on, guys, stop being such cowards. It's a mystery and an adventure.
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This place gives me the creeps. Seriously, guys, let's get out of here. I'm getting goosebumps just being here.
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Shabby is a scaredy-cat.
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That laugh came from this room. Let's go and check it out.
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Look, a ghost! Run!
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Well, that sounds really scary, but actually it kind of reminds me of another TV show.
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Very similar to another TV show, but uh it's different.
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Okay, but some interesting language that you can use to talk about things that are scary, so why don't we look at that now in language takeaway.
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So let's start with the very first line of our dialogue. Shabby described the mansion to be ultra spooky.
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It's ultra spooky.
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Spooky.
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So, okay, we've got two interesting words here, ultra and spooky. Now spooky is scary, right?
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It's a little bit scary. It maybe makes you feel a little bit uncomfortable or maybe it makes you feel a little bit scared.
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Okay, so not very scared.
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Not not super scared.
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But ultra spooky.
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So ultra is another way of saying super or very or really spooky.
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So if it's ultra spooky, then it's
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Very scary.
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Okay.
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All right, so our next word. They said that in the house there is a ghost haunting the house.
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Okay, there is a ghost haunting his house.
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Okay, so the verb to haunt.
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Okay, to haunt. So the ghost is coming to the house frequently and not letting them live in peace.
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When a ghost haunts something, it visits it often and scares it.
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Exactly.
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Now, they were all afraid and they didn't want to go in and so Wilma called everyone cowards.
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Stop being such cowards.
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Cowards.
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So a coward.
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A coward is a person that's not brave.
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A person who's scared of everything.
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Exactly. So they were being cowards. They were afraid, so that's why they didn't want to go in.
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Well, speaking of being afraid, Shabby said, I'm getting goosebumps.
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Goosebumps.
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To get goosebumps.
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All right, to get goosebumps.
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Now goosebumps, it may sound a little bit strange, but it's very easy. When you're scared or maybe you're cold, the skin on your arms or on your back gets a little bit bumpy.
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So your skin looks like chicken skin.
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Exactly, chicken skin. And that's actually how we call it in Spanish, chicken skin.
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But this is goosebumps. So I guess it's kind of similar, a goose.
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Yeah, yeah, same idea.
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Goosebumps.
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All right, and finally, Scruffy said Shabby is a scaredy-cat.
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A scaredy-cat.
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A scaredy-cat.
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You're a scaredy-cat.
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Well, a scaredy-cat is not really a cat, right? No, no, no. It's a person who's afraid of everything.
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Okay. Similar to a coward.
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But more informal.
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More much more informal. So somebody is a scaredy-cat. And I think even a little bit more juvenile as adults.
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So children use it.
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Yeah, as adults you wouldn't say you're he's a scaredy-cat.
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All right, great. So some interesting scary language. I think we need to hear it one more time slowed down in the dialogue.
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Eddy, why are we at this scary-looking mansion? It's like ultra spooky.
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I told you already, Shabby. The owner of the house says there's a ghost haunting his house. So we have to go in and investigate.
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I don't like this.
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Come on, guys, stop being such cowards. It's a mystery and an adventure.
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This place gives me the creeps. Seriously, guys, let's get out of here. I'm getting goosebumps just being here.
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Shabby is a scaredy-cat.
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That laugh came from this room. Let's go and check it out.
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Look, a ghost! Run!
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Okay, so now that we understand all the vocabulary we saw in language takeaway, why don't we take a look at two phrases now in fluency builder.
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Well, Shabby said, uh we're at this scary-looking mansion.
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Scary-looking mansion.
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So a scary-looking mansion.
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Okay, so the mansion looks scared.
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All right, so a mansion is a big house, right? That looks very scary. Now, this is a really useful and helpful, um pattern you can use with English. Uh something looking, so adjective looking.
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Right, so you can say good-looking.
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Mm-hmm. And there's lots of examples. So why don't we hear a few more now.
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That guy is making me nervous. He's really creepy-looking.
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I saw the craziest looking house today. It was built upside down.
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What a nice-looking dog. Can I pet him?
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All right, great examples and now we know how we can combined looking with different adjectives.
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Our next phrase, Shabby said, this place gives me the creeps.
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All right, gives me the creeps.
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To give someone the creeps.
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So if something gives you the creeps,
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It makes you feel uncomfortable and scared.
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Maybe scared, maybe nervous.
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Okay, so why don't we give some examples. I could say, hey Marco, see that guy over there? He keeps looking at me. He's giving me the creeps. Oh, that's right, you're afraid of clowns.
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Okay. Or I can say clowns give me the creeps. I am afraid of clowns. They give me the creeps.
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All right, well, a really helpful, useful phrase to use when you're talking about being afraid. Now, why don't we listen to the dialogue one final time?
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Eddy, why are we at this scary-looking mansion? It's like ultra spooky.
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I told you already, Shabby. The owner of the house says there's a ghost haunting his house. So we have to go in and investigate.
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I don't like this.
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Come on, guys, stop being such cowards. It's a mystery and an adventure.
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This place gives me the creeps. Seriously, guys, let's get out of here. I'm getting goosebumps just being here.
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Shabby is a scaredy-cat.
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That laugh came from this room. Let's go and check it out.
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Look, a ghost! Run!
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Okay, so an interesting dialogue about ghosts and haunted houses. So, what do you think, Erica? Do you believe in ghosts? Have you ever seen a ghost?
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Um, no, I I totally do not believe in ghosts, but I understand that you disagree with me.
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Uh, well, I've experienced strange things, but I don't know if it was a ghost or an alien, I don't know, could have been anything.
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An alien.
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An invisible alien.
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Okay. So what happened?
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Well, once, I was having dinner with my parents and we had a table and on top of the table there was a a glass full of water and all of a sudden it started to move across the table and then it started to spin while it moved.
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So was there an earthquake or something happening?
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No, no, no, nothing. We were just the only thing in on the whole table that was moving was that and we all just kind of stared at the glass moving and we didn't know what to do.
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And then my mom started kind of giggling a nervous laugh and we really didn't know what happened.
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Now, I understand that in um Latin America, people are more superstitious. They're more they believe more in ghosts, right?
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Exactly. In Latin America, people are very superstitious. They believe in ghosts or in spirits or we have a lot of urban legends about, you know, like a leprechaun that lives under a bridge or, you know, somebody's grandma that comes and haunts them or visits them at night and stuff like that. So, yeah, Latin American people are very uh superstitious in this sense.
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Yeah, I think in Anglo countries, it's a little bit less common to to say that you believe in ghosts. Like maybe inside you, you you think ghosts are true, but you wouldn't really tell people that.
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Right. I think the difference would be that you have a different type of superstition like people are afraid of uh black cats or the floor or the number 13.
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Yeah, or opening your umbrella in a house.
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Exactly. So because they consider it to be bad luck, but not because something like a ghost or an alien's going to come out and eat them.
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So, listeners, why don't you tell us what you think about ghosts? are people superstitious in your country? Do they believe in ghosts?
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Come to our website Englishpod.com and let us know and we'll see you guys there.
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Well, thanks for downloading and goodbye.
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Bye.
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Summary
This audio is an English vocabulary lesson focusing on words related to fear and the supernatural. The format involves a male speaker (Speaker 1) providing a definition, a female speaker (Speaker 2) stating the vocabulary word, and then another male speaker (Speaker 3) using the word in an example sentence. Words covered include "creep out", "chilling", "supernatural", "spooky", "terrifying", "scary looking", "creepy", "mansion", "haunt", "investigate", "coward", "goosebumps", and "scaredy cat". The lesson progresses to repeat words faster and then uses them in contextual sentences.
Transcript (Click timestamp to jump)
The English Pod audio review.
Listen to the meaning, then say the vocabulary word.
Make someone scared and uncomfortable.
Creep out.
Very disturbing or frightening.
Chilling.
Unable to be explained by science.
Supernatural.
Strange and a little frightening.
Spooky.
Extremely scary.
Terrifying.
Frightening in appearance.
Scary looking.
Strange or scary.
Creepy.
A very large house.
Mansion.
A ghost lives or visit a place.
Haunt.
To try and get information about something.
Investigate.
Someone who is too afraid to do what is right.
Coward.
Small bumps on your skin caused by fear, cold, etc.
Goosebumps.
Someone who is always scared of things.
Scaredy cat.
Let's try that faster.
Strange or scary.
Creepy.
Strange and a little frightening.
Spooky.
Make someone scared and uncomfortable.
Creep out.
A ghost lives or visit a place.
Haunt.
Frightening in appearance.
Scary looking.
Unable to be explained by science.
Supernatural.
A very large house.
Mansion.
To try and get information about something.
Investigate.
Someone who is always scared of things.
Scaredy cat.
Someone who is too afraid to do what is right.
Coward.
Very disturbing or frightening.
Chilling.
Small bumps on your skin caused by fear, cold, etc.
Goosebumps.
Extremely scary.
Terrifying.
Now say the word and hear it in a sentence.
Scary looking.
That guy's making me nervous. He's really creepy looking.
Scary looking.
I saw the craziest looking house today. It was built upside down.
Scary looking.
What a nice looking dog. Can I pet him?
Spooky.
Whenever I walk by the Main Street graveyard, I get a really spooky feeling that someone is following me.
Spooky.
Why don't you sleep over at my house this weekend? Your house is kind of spooky at night.
Spooky.
That was so spooky! The TV turned on while I was out of the room.
Walking alone at night gives me the creeps. I always feel like someone is going to attack me.
Mr. Crane gives me the creeps whenever he tries to touch me.
Small, dark spaces always gives my sister the creeps.
Goosebumps.
Can you turn down the air conditioning? I have the goosebumps.
Goosebumps.
When I think about how the murderer lived near my house, I get goosebumps.
Goosebumps.
Do you get goosebumps when you watch scary movies?
I swear the ghost of old man Fink haunts my dreams every night.
David told me that there's a ghost that haunts the seventh floor of this hotel.
Weird things happen in that house. I think it must be haunted.