Hello and welcome to The English Like a Native Podcast. My name is Anna, and you're listening to Week 32, Day 5 of Your English Five a Day. If you're listening to this in real time, then today is Friday. It's the end of the week. I do hope you've had a great week, and if you've been listening to Your English Five a Day all week, then I hope that you've gained lots of new words and phrases that you can be trying out in your daily conversation. Remember to use the database of all the vocabulary in this series. It's available to you for free. Just click on the link in the description. And let's start today's list. We begin with the adjective colossal. Colossal. We spell this C O L O S S A L, colossal. To be colossal is to be extremely large and impressive. It is very much an extreme adjective, colossal. For example,"The Statue of Liberty is colossal." There are some bodybuilders who are huge that I might look at and say,"Whoa, you are colossal. You're huge." It's quite an impressive thing to be colossal usually. Here's another example,"Amy suddenly felt nervous as she stood on the beach staring at the colossal waves." Next on the list is a noun and it is a hotspot, hotspot. We spell this H O T S P O T, hotspot, hotspot. A hotspot is a popular or exciting place. When we are listening to travel vlogs or reading travel magazines, they'll often review the hotspots or tell you about the tourist hotspots that you should visit when going to certain places. Here's an example,"The colossal statue of Zeus towered over the city, a testament to the grandeur of the ancient Greeks and a hotspot for tourists." Next on the list is another noun and it is wetsuit. Wetsuit. We spell it W E T S U I T. Wetsuit. Wetsuit. A wetsuit is a garment, something you wear, that's made of neoprene or other water-resistant material, and it's worn by surfers, divers, and other water sports enthusiasts. It helps to provide warmth and protection against the cold water and the sun when you're out in the seas. Do you have a wetsuit? I haven't got a wetsuit anymore. I'm sure I used to have one, but in the many moves that I've made throughout my life, I've lost things here and there, given things away, sold things, passed things on. So, a wetsuit. Here's an example sentence,"I suggest you wear your wetsuit if you're headed for the ocean today. The waves might look perfect, but the water's freezing!" Next on the list is another noun. Oh, we are noun-heavy today. And it is surf and turf, surf and turf. We spell it S U R F, surf. And turf. T U R F. Surf and turf. Surf and turf is a culinary term. It's a food term. And it refers to a dish, a meal, that combines seafood, which is what surf refers to, the seafood, with meat. And that's what the turf refers to. Turf is normally like the land, the ground, the earth. The turf. So, the surf is the seafood and the turf is the meat. So, it's a dish that has both seafood and meat. It's very protein-heavy. Here's an example sentence,"My favourite restaurant has released a new signature dish. It's a surf and turf platter featuring grilled lobster tail and fillet steak. It's to die for." Sorry to all those vegans and vegetarians listening. These example sentences are written purely from the language point of view, not from a personal point of view, I can promise you that. Okay, so, next on the list is a phrasal verb, and it is cheer on. Cheer on. To cheer on. We spell it C H E E R, cheer. On, ON. Cheer on. Now, when you put these together, the R, which is ordinarily silent is then pronounced because the following word'on' begins with a vowel sound. So, you hear cheer on, cheer on, to cheer on. So, to cheer on someone, or we can separate it and say cheer someone on is to encourage and support them, often with shouts and applause like,"Yeah, woo hoo! You can do it. Come on." Here's an example,"Are you coming to the game tomorrow? There's a group of us heading down to cheer Sonja on. It is her first game for the county after all." Okay, so that's our five, let's do a quick recap. We started with the adjective, colossal, meaning extremely large. Then we had the noun, hotspot, referring to a popular or exciting place. We had the noun wetsuit, which is what a diver or water sports enthusiast might wear to protect them from the cold water and the sun. Then we had the noun surf and turf, which is a dish that combines seafood and meat. We had the phrasal verb cheer on, which is to encourage or support someone with shouts and applause. So, let's now do this for pronunciation. Please repeat after me. Colossal. Colossal. Hotspot. Hotspot. Wetsuit. Wetsuit. Surf and turf. Surf and turf. Cheer on. Cheer on. Very good. Did you notice that in the words hotspot and wetsuit both of them have a T in the middle, but both T's are dropped. Did you notice that? Hotspot, wet suit. Also, with the words surf and turf, the end is turned very much into an'un'. Surf and, surf and turf. Did you spot that? Hopefully, you did. If not, you know now. And now it's time to test your memory. So, if I'm talking about a place that is very popular and quite exciting, what noun can I use to refer to this exciting place? Hotspot. Yes, I'm telling you all about the hotspots of London. Now, there is a diving centre here in London that you can go to. You can even go paddle boarding or doing water sports-type things on the Thames if you, don't value your life very much and you're happy to, I'm joking. I'm sure the Thames water is beautifully clean and not full of all sorts of nasty bacteria. But if you do go in the Thames, it's going to be very cold. So, you're going to need a special garment. What is it? What are you going to need to wear? A wetsuit. Yes. Afterwards, I could take you to a restaurant along the Thames that serves a fantastic dish that has both seafood and meat. How would I refer to this dish? Surf and turf. Absolutely. If you were training for an event, maybe you are a rower, maybe you're like rowing or you're a paddleboarder and you're going into an event. I'm going to be there encouraging you and supporting you by shouting and clapping from the side. What phrasal verb can I use to describe what I'm doing? Cheer on. Yes, I'm going to cheer you on. I'm going to give you encouragement."Woo hoo! Come on! You can do it." Now, if a huge amount of people, an extremely large amount of people turn up to cheer everybody on in this particular event, what adjective could I use to describe the extremely large crowd? Like crazy large, a very impressive crowd. Colossal. A colossal crowd has appeared, lining the Thames on both sides to support all the people taking part in this event. And there'll be lots of surf and turfs being served up after the event. Okay, let's now listen out for these items once again during today's story time. Beth zipped up her wetsuit and looked out at the waves. She was in Peniche, Portugal, a famous surfing hotspot. Her boyfriend, Dan, had bought her surfing lessons for her birthday. In autumn and winter, colossal waves hit the shores of Peniche, and the best surfers in the world compete to ride them. Beth was there in May, when the sea was calmer. With her surfboard under her arm, she marched towards the ocean, trying to feel confident despite her nerves. She had spent the morning practising on the beach, getting used to lying flat on the board and then jumping to stand on it. It was quite a workout. And doing it in the sea, not on land, was going to be a challenge. Beth lay on her board. The waves were calm for now, and her instructor wasn't far away. Suddenly, he told her to paddle, as there was a good wave coming in. She followed his instructions, remembering the lesson from this morning. Paddle, jump, get on the board, and then glide across the water, right? Not exactly. Somehow, the front of Beth's board dipped down under the wave, making her lose her balance and fall off. When she surfaced, she saw the board spring out of the water and into the air like a cork being popped out of a bottle. Time slowed right down as she looked up to see it coming back down towards her. With no time to get out of the way, it hit her in the face. Shaken and with a black eye, Beth got out of the water and sat on the shore, taking a few deep breaths to steady her nerves. Some birthday present, she thought to herself. She saw her boyfriend Dan who had been cheering her on from the beach."Surfing's not for me," she told him."I need a less dangerous birthday present. Can we go to that surf and turf restaurant we saw yesterday instead?" And with that, Beth swapped her board and wetsuit for a dress and sandals and went for a nice birthday meal. And we've wrapped up Week 32. Thank you so much for being here. If you're new to the podcast, then there are hundreds of transcripts of previous episodes that you can catch up on just by visiting the YouTube channel or visiting the podcast on whichever streaming platform you prefer. There's lots for you to choose from and there's much more on the way. So, please subscribe and turn on notifications and hopefully I'll be tickling your eardrums again, very soon. Until then take very good care and goodbye.