Episode 0223

Hello everyone and welcome to English Pod. My name is Marco.

My name is Catherine and today we have a very descriptive lesson for you.

That's right. We have an elementary lesson for everyone and we are going to talk about facial hair.

Okay, so Marco, you don't have any facial hair.

I don't. Well, I I like to shave uh every other day. Um but yeah, that's what facial hair is. It's hair that you have on your face.

Okay, so we're at the police station in this dialogue. Let's take a listen and find out why.

Okay, Sally. We have an artist here to help us. We'll ask you questions about the bank robber you saw and Paul will draw a picture. Are you ready?

Yes, um well, he had brown hair, long hair, and he had some facial hair. It was brown too.

Good. Okay. The facial hair, was it a beard or a mustache?

Both. His mustache was very short and thin, just on the top of his lip.

Uh-huh. Hmm, like this?

Yes, that's the mustache. But the beard isn't right. I mean, it didn't cover his whole face. I think it was just on his chin.

A goatee? Was it like Paul's?

Okay. Now, what about sideburns? Did he have sideburns?

Um, yes. They were long and thick, like yours.

Alright. There, was this the man you saw?

Yes, that's him.

Hmm, it looks a lot like you.

Hmm, why yes he does. Paul! Where were you on Friday afternoon?

Alright, we're back. So, as you can see, the woman is describing a a bank robber and uh one of the ways that she's describing him is by the facial hair that he had.

So, there are a lot of very interesting words and phrases here. Why don't we take a look at some of them in language takeaway.

Language Takeaway

Okay, so in language takeaway today, we have some really good description words and nouns, things that people have on their face. Facial hair, because there's not just one kind of facial hair, there are many different kinds. So, our first one is, are we gonna skip facial hair because we already explained Okay. Our first one is mustache.

Okay, a mustache. And this is, I think one of the more popular forms of facial hair. I I think it's a style, right? All these styles of facial hair.

That's right. And so a mustache is basically some hair on top of your lip. It's above your lip and it's usually, it can be thin or thick. It it comes in different sizes, but this is not your whole face. It's just above your lip.

Alright, so for example, a famous person uh or a famous mustache was uh Charlie Chaplin, right?

That's right. Charlie Chaplin had a mustache, just a little bit of hair above his lip. But also, Theodore Roosevelt, had a very big, bushy mustache.

Hmm, that's right.

Interesting fact, you might hear someone say "stache" instead of mustache. This is a short way to say it.

Um, so, oh, he's growing a stache. Right.

And also the spelling can be a little bit uh difficult to understand how you pronounce it because it's M U S T A C H E. So there's no really S H sound like 'sh'. But you pronounce it mustache.

Mustache, yeah. So, that's one kind of facial hair, but there are many others. The the next one we've got for you is a beard.

A beard. Okay, this is a really good one. A beard.

Yeah, definitely.

This is the most hair.

So basically, a beard, you have uh hair on your lip and also all over your face, basically. So a beard, you have all over your face.

Right. Your cheeks, your chin, and above your lip.

Okay. Very good. So, uh famous person with a beard?

Santa Claus has a very big beard.

Yeah, Santa Claus has a big beard, big white beard.

Okay, so that's a beard. I think that's that's the easiest to have because you don't need to cut anything or shave anything.

Oh, you need to, you need to trim. Oh, yeah, you need to. If you don't trim, it looks kind of bad.

Right. Well, now moving on to our next style of facial hair, we have a goatee.

Okay, this might be confusing for some people because it's not a beard, and it's not a mustache. It's basically hair around your mouth. On your chin and your lip.

So, I think uh Sean Connery has a very famous goatee.

And Brad Pitt right now has a really big goatee or a long goatee. Lots of lots of hair.

So it's as you say, it's around your mouth. So your lip and your chin.

That's right. A goatee.

Okay, so that's our third style of facial hair. And now moving on to our last style. We have sideburns.

Okay, so think about the word here. Sideburns, side. They're on the side. So near the ears there is usually some space where a man can grow some hair. Not with a beard or or um necessarily a mustache though. It can be just the hair on the jawline, near the jaw, near the ears.

So, I think this was a very famous style in the 60s and 70s. You would let you would have long sideburns all along your face.

That's right. Past your ear, right?

That's right.

And uh the longer maybe the uh the sexier you were. The sexier, now but these days it's not as popular, but you do see people who have sideburns.

I think nowadays people have sideburns but they're not as thick. They're just like thin, little sideburns.

Alright, so all of these are the different sorts and styles of facial hair. There of course, there are a lot more. I think while we were looking for this on the internet, we found uh a lot of other styles that came up like uh mutton chops and uh things like this. But um these are probably the most popular ones.

That's right. These are the ones you're going to hear about the most.

Okay. So why don't we go back, listen to our dialogue again, and we'll be back with fluency builder.

Okay, Sally. We have an artist here to help us. We'll ask you questions about the bank robber you saw and Paul will draw a picture. Are you ready?

Yes, um well, he had brown hair, long hair, and he had some facial hair. It was brown too.

Good. Okay, the facial hair, was it a beard or a mustache?

Both. His mustache was very short and thin, just on the top of his lip.

Uh-huh. Hmm, like this?

Yes, that's the mustache. But the beard isn't right. I mean, it didn't cover his whole face. I think it was just on his chin.

A goatee? Was it like Paul's?

Okay. Now, what about sideburns? Did he have sideburns?

Um, yes. They were long and thick, like yours.

Alright. There, was this the man you saw?

Yes, that's him.

Hmm, it looks a lot like you.

Hmm, why yes he does. Paul! Where were you on Friday afternoon?

Alright, so today in Fluency Builder, we are not really talking about phrases as much as we're talking about adjectives. So words you can use to describe facial hair.

Okay. So when the girl was describing facial hair, for example, she said the mustache was very short and thin.

Okay, a short and thin mustache. So you think about it, you can have a very thick mustache, that's the opposite, that means very hairy, very wide. A thin mustache is like a line.

Okay. Okay, so for example, Charlie Chaplin, he had a short mustache, but it wasn't thin. It was a little bit thick.

That's right, it was kind of wide. But you think of, you know, when you see someone who's drawing a mustache on a sign at a restaurant or in a newspaper, that's usually very thin, because they use a pen and it's you know, it's very silly looking.

Right, so those are different adjectives to describe not only a mustache. So basically, we can use these to describe any sort of hair. For example, the hair on your head.

He says he's got short hair.

That's right, or I could say I have long hair. Long hair. Or Marco, I could say you have thick hair.

Thick. Yeah.

So, if you have an abundance of hair that you would say it's thick.

That's right. There's a, you know, it's like if you put your hand in it, it's very, it feels like there's a lot, that's very thick hair. Some people have thin hair, so they don't have a lot of hair.

Okay. Good. And uh well, moving on to the parts of the face. We described it before as to where a mustache is, where a goatee is. But let's take a a closer look at that. For example, a mustache is on your upper lip.

Right, so just above your lip, under your nose, that's where a mustache goes. So that's the upper lip. Um, but if we're talking about a goatee, it's not just on your upper lip, it's also where?

On your chin.

Your chin. So that's the very bottom point of your face.

Mhm. So you have your chin, your upper lip and also when we talked about for example, the sideburns, uh we talked about the jaw, but also it could be part of the cheek.

Right, so every person has two cheeks, one on the left and one on the right, and those are a very big part of your face. On the sides of your nose.

Okay. So you have uh you have your chin, you have your cheeks, you have your upper lip. I think that's pretty much the only places where you can grow uh also on your neck.

Yeah, some people have it on their neck or on the back of on or well, no, it's not the back. Some people also have it on their neck. Yeah, that's right.

Right. Okay. Very good. So, uh a lot of different words to describe facial hair. Uh why don't we go back, listen to the dialogue one last time, and we'll be back to talk some more.

Okay, Sally. We have an artist here to help us. We'll ask you questions about the bank robber you saw and Paul will draw a picture. Are you ready?

Yes, um well, he had brown hair, long hair, and he had some facial hair. It was brown too.

Good. Okay. The facial hair, was it a beard or a mustache?

Both. His mustache was very short and thin, just on the top of his lip.

Uh-huh. Hmm, like this?

Yes, that's the mustache. But the beard isn't right. I mean, it didn't cover his whole face. I think it was just on his chin.

A goatee? Was it like Paul's?

Okay. Now, what about sideburns? Did he have sideburns?

Um, yes. They were long and thick, like yours.

Alright. There, was this the man you saw?

Yes, that's him.

Hmm, it looks a lot like you.

Hmm, why yes he does. Paul! Where were you on Friday afternoon?

Alright, so talking about facial hair, Catherine, do you like men in that have facial hair?

Yeah, you you like mustaches, beards, goatees?

Um, well, it really depends. I really like sideburns, but um sometimes people don't do them correctly, so I don't like them. But um I like beards. Um and yeah, goatee, I like facial hair.

You like facial hair? What what is it about facial hair on men that you like?

I don't know, there's something, you know, kind of rough about it.

Rough, yeah.

Yeah, I don't like the uh the very manicured, very carefully cut facial hair. I I kind of like it a little bit more on the rough side.

Oh, okay. Um, it's interesting because uh it's interesting to see also facial hair on um or long facial hair. Like for example, uh the guys from Zzy Top. Yeah. You know, they have like really long beards. I wonder how long it takes to grow something like this.

I'm sure we could find out on the internet, but uh yeah, no, they have competitions. There's a world mustache competition, for example, and they have the world's longest mustache. And so the man, you know, they measure his mustache. It's three or three or four meters or something ridiculous.

Yeah, it can get really long.

Yeah, so I I think your your hair keeps growing. It's just depends on when you decide to cut it.

I think it's also a very cultural thing, right? Some cultures are uh able to grow a lot of facial hair and like to do it. Uh others really don't. For example, you don't really see many Asians uh with uh facial hair, with goatees or mustaches.

I think you see more goatees than you see full beards, actually, but uh yeah, definitely East Asia, it's not as common. Although India, you see a lot a little bit more facial hair.

A lot of mustaches there.

Yeah, so this is an interesting question. Tell us how popular it is in your country or if you like men with facial hair, or if you're a guy, do you like to have a beard, mustache, or a goatee?

So, come to our website Englishpod.com and we'll see everyone there. Bye guys.

The English Pod Audio Review.

Listen to the meaning, then say the vocabulary word.

Hair on the face.

Facial hair.

The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.

Beard.

An unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip.

Mustache.

A small chin beard trimmed into a point.

Goatee.

Hair that grows on the sides of man.

Sideburns.

Not thin, great in extent from the surface.

Thick.

Very unreasonable or silly.

Ridiculous.

As a matter of fact.

Why yes.

Let's try that faster.

An unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip.

Mustache.

Not thin, great in extent from the surface.

Thick.

Very unreasonable or silly.

Ridiculous.

Hair on the face.

Facial hair.

The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.

Beard.

A small chin beard trimmed into a point.

Goatee.

As a matter of fact.

Why yes.

Hair that grows on the sides of man.

Sideburns.

Now say the word and hear it in a sentence.

Mustache.

The owner of the bar is the one with the bushy mustache.

Mustache.

My waiter had a pencil-thin mustache.

Mustache.

I once saw a man with a mustache that curled up at the ends.

Goatee.

My uncle thinks he's hip with his goatee and cropped hair.

Goatee.

I surprised my friends this morning when I showed up with a goatee instead of a full beard.

Goatee.

I have to trim my goatee every morning in order to keep its shape.

Sideburns.

My brother's sideburns are really short and thin.

Sideburns.

I like guys with sideburns.

Sideburns.

I tried to grow sideburns, but I don't have enough facial hair.

Thick.

My hair is thin and straight, but my best friend has thick wavy hair.

Thick.

The little girl's thick curls bounced as she jumped up and down in excitement.

Thick.

My dad has one of the thickest beards I have ever seen.

Why yes.

Why yes, you look so much like your father, I would recognize you as Peter's son anywhere.

Why yes.

Would you like something to eat? Why yes, some fruit would be nice.

Why yes.

Why yes, I would love to help out with the concert.

The English Pod Audio Review.