Make the Bed With Me in English (YouTube Video Transcript)

(00:00:00) Your YouTube transcript will appear here (00:00:00) Get ready to learn real life English (00:00:04) today. You are invited to my house to (00:00:06) join me for real life so that you can go (00:00:10) out into the real world and speak real (00:00:12) English. That's what we learn here on (00:00:15) this YouTube channel. If you are new, (00:00:17) hi. I'm Vanessa and here on my YouTube (00:00:20) channel, you will learn real daily life (00:00:22) English. Not that textbook stuff, but (00:00:25) real English. And today, guess what you (00:00:28) are going to do? You're going to join me (00:00:30) as I do one of my least favorite chores, (00:00:34) which is changing the sheets on my bed. (00:00:38) I just realized (00:00:40) this shirt and this comforter are uh (00:00:43) quite busy, but that's okay. You are (00:00:46) going to learn real life English today, (00:00:48) and I can't wait to teach you all about (00:00:51) it. And like usual, I have created a (00:00:53) free PDF worksheet with all of today's (00:00:56) important vocabulary expressions, sample (00:01:00) sentences, and when you download this (00:01:03) free PDF worksheet, you're going to get (00:01:05) a bonus audio version of today's lesson. (00:01:09) That means that you can download the (00:01:11) audio version of today's lesson, kind of (00:01:13) like a mini podcast episode, and you can (00:01:16) listen to it wherever you want. Maybe (00:01:18) while you're changing the sheets. (00:01:20) Amazing. (00:01:22) So, how can you get this free worksheet? (00:01:24) All you need to do is click the link in (00:01:26) the description, enter your name and (00:01:29) email address, and voila, just like (00:01:31) that, the PDF worksheet and bonus audio (00:01:35) version will land in your email inbox. (00:01:38) And the cool thing is you never have to (00:01:40) sign up for my free worksheets ever (00:01:42) again. I will automatically send them to (00:01:45) you every single week in your email (00:01:47) inbox. It is my gift to you. So, click (00:01:50) on the link in the description to get (00:01:51) the free worksheet for today's lesson. (00:01:54) So, to get started changing the sheets, (00:01:56) I have to have a couple things. I have (00:01:58) to have some clean sheets prepared. And (00:02:02) I also need a laundry basket. This is (00:02:05) where we're going to put the dirty (00:02:07) sheets. They're not really that dirty, (00:02:10) but you know what? It's a good idea to (00:02:12) change your sheets every now and then, (00:02:15) and it's something that I put off. I (00:02:18) should do it probably every other week. (00:02:21) That's the goal. But I put it off except (00:02:24) for today. In today's lesson, I am not (00:02:26) putting it off anymore. This is for you. (00:02:29) So, the first thing that we need to do (00:02:31) is we need to (00:02:34) strip the bed. You could say simply take (00:02:38) off the old sheets, but we often use (00:02:41) this word strip. I'm going to strip or (00:02:45) strip off this quilt. I'm going to (00:02:51) strip off this (00:02:53) comforter. It's actually a duvet (00:02:55) comforter. You can put a duvet cover (00:02:57) over top of it, but I just call it a (00:02:59) comforter. And I'm going to take off (00:03:03) this sheet. I will explain all about (00:03:05) these sheets in just a minute. Now, this (00:03:07) I'm going to wash. So, I will put it in (00:03:11) my laundry basket. (00:03:13) I'm going to also (00:03:16) take these pillows. (00:03:19) And you might ask, why do you have so (00:03:21) many pillows? Are there (00:03:24) Why are there four pillows? Well, why (00:03:28) would I live in a world where I just (00:03:30) need one pillow when I can have two (00:03:32) pillows? Right? So, these are not (00:03:35) decorative pillows. Some people have (00:03:37) decorative pillows um on their bed. I'm (00:03:40) not that kind of person. Um, but I like (00:03:44) to have one pillow under my head and (00:03:46) sometimes I hug a pillow. Sometimes I (00:03:49) have that pillow for back support. We (00:03:53) call that lumbar support sometimes when (00:03:55) I'm sleeping. And I'm going to throw the (00:03:58) pillowcases in the laundry basket. Um, (00:04:02) let me know. Are you someone who sleeps (00:04:05) with more than one pillow? (00:04:08) I definitely am. And I feel grateful (00:04:11) that I live in a world where I can sleep (00:04:14) comfortably, right? (00:04:16) Uh so let's take all these off. As you (00:04:19) can see, I am not a stickler for (00:04:23) matching (00:04:24) sheets or matching pillowcases. So these (00:04:28) are a matching set. You can see um I (00:04:31) think you can see a little bit that (00:04:33) these are matching. They have little (00:04:35) polka dots on them. But really, whenever (00:04:38) I do the sheets, I just grab whatever (00:04:40) sheets are clean, whatever pillowcases (00:04:43) are clean, and that's what I put on the (00:04:46) bed. Some people are pickier than me, (00:04:49) but I am not. All right, so next we need (00:04:52) to take off the (00:04:56) uh fitted sheet. So, this sheet has (00:04:59) elastic, and I'm going to take off this (00:05:02) fitted fitted sheet. I need to go all (00:05:06) the way around the bed and not trip (00:05:09) trip over things. So, I will take off (00:05:11) this fitted sheet. This is the one that (00:05:13) is annoying to put on. Some fitted (00:05:17) sheets don't actually fit a bed very (00:05:20) well. But this one, this one seems to (00:05:24) fit. Okay. So, I'm going to take off (00:05:27) this fitted sheet. And the next thing is (00:05:32) I need to find the new clean fitted (00:05:35) sheet somewhere in here. Note that the (00:05:38) pronunciation of this fitted, those T's (00:05:41) are going to sound like D's in American (00:05:44) English because they're surrounded by (00:05:46) vowels. Fitted, not fitted. (00:05:51) Fitted. Fitted. That's one of the tricks (00:05:53) that makes spoken English sound so fast (00:05:57) because we change one letter for (00:05:58) another. One word kind of blends into (00:06:01) the next word because of all those (00:06:03) little tips and tricks. All right, this (00:06:04) is my clean fitted sheet. I have two (00:06:09) pairs of fitted sheets for this bed, (00:06:12) which means one of them can be dirty and (00:06:14) the other can be clean and I don't need (00:06:16) to do the laundry in order to have a (00:06:19) clean set of sheets. So, that's (00:06:21) generally the term that we would use. (00:06:22) This is a set of sheets, the matching (00:06:25) set. This is not a matching set. I don't (00:06:28) care. Um, but I'm going to put this on (00:06:31) my bed. And you're going to see (00:06:36) there's an inside (00:06:38) and an outside. (00:06:40) And I have to figure out which side is (00:06:43) the long side and which side is the (00:06:46) short side. I think that's a problem (00:06:48) everybody has when they make the bed (00:06:51) with this type of uh with these types of (00:06:54) sheets. All right, I'm going to tuck it (00:06:56) in around here (00:07:01) and oh, I did it wrong. I have the long (00:07:04) side here. So, what I'm going to do (00:07:09) pull that off (00:07:11) and find this corner. So, this is the (00:07:14) corner of the sheet. I'm going to try to (00:07:16) tuck it under the mattress (00:07:21) and back here as well. I'm going to tuck (00:07:25) this corner around the mattress. (00:07:30) And usually the truth is when I make the (00:07:33) bed, I have at least one child very (00:07:36) excited that there is a big flat jumping (00:07:38) surface available and somebody is (00:07:42) jumping on the bed while I'm doing this. (00:07:45) But (00:07:46) I sent everybody outside while I was (00:07:48) making this video for you. All right, so (00:07:52) I'll get this one tucked in. (00:07:55) And you might see we have this lovely (00:07:58) patch. (00:08:00) I sewed on this patch because I love (00:08:02) these sheets. They're so comfortable. I (00:08:04) think they're like linen sheets. They're (00:08:07) really nice. They're a little wrinkly, (00:08:09) but it's okay. (00:08:11) And but they got a rip in them. (00:08:14) Sometimes natural fibers just aren't as (00:08:16) durable as like polyester or more like (00:08:21) man-made materials. So these linen (00:08:23) sheets, they're just not very durable. (00:08:26) But I didn't want to throw them away. I (00:08:29) wanted to (00:08:31) try to fix them myself. So I cut I had a (00:08:36) piece of extra fabric. You can see from (00:08:40) these sheets. There was like an extra (00:08:41) little square, a little like bag that (00:08:45) these sheets came in. And I had saved (00:08:47) that. And I cut that little bag. It was (00:08:50) not a bag to use to carry stuff. It was (00:08:53) just to stuff the sheets in when you buy (00:08:55) it. And I sewed it onto (00:09:00) the hole. And now there's a nice little (00:09:02) patch there. And we can use these sheets (00:09:04) again. Hooray. (00:09:06) All right. Now that we have the fitted (00:09:08) sheet on, let's get the flat sheet. (00:09:12) That's what this guy is called. And (00:09:14) there is a top and a bottom. You can see (00:09:18) there is a thicker seam here to here. (00:09:24) This is the seam. (00:09:26) This (00:09:28) is a thin seam right here. But this (00:09:32) thick seam is gonna go at the top (00:09:35) ideally. (00:09:37) So I'm going to (00:09:40) just toss this across the bed (00:09:46) and (00:09:48) make sure that it's relatively even. (00:09:53) We don't want to let Dan have all the (00:09:55) sheets, right? I got to have some (00:09:56) sheets, too, on my side. (00:09:59) All right, that is good enough for me. (00:10:01) Usually, I'll tuck the corners in (00:10:06) so that they don't (00:10:08) get messed up too much. My kids love to (00:10:11) hide under my sheets and they play in (00:10:16) the blankets, which means that often (00:10:19) times all of my sheets and blankets end (00:10:22) up on the floor. Maybe it's just fool (00:10:24) hearty to think that if I tuck the (00:10:26) corner of my sheet in, they'll stay in (00:10:29) place. Yeah, I'm probably fooling (00:10:31) myself, (00:10:33) but that's the way it goes. All right. (00:10:36) Next, I'm going to add this duvet cover. (00:10:38) Because there's a tag, I try to keep (00:10:41) that at the bottom of the bed (00:10:45) so that it's not in our faces. (00:10:50) And (00:10:52) this one pull up like this. And this (00:10:57) quilt (00:11:00) I'm going to just throw on. Now, this (00:11:03) quilt is not a special homemade quilt. (00:11:08) We do have a quilt that Dan's greatg (00:11:11) grandmother sewed and we often use that (00:11:14) on our bed. I did not bring it out for (00:11:16) this video. (00:11:18) Um, but it that's a very special quilt. (00:11:21) Um, you can tell you can tell it's a (00:11:23) quilt, not just a blanket, because it (00:11:26) has these little squares. And this is (00:11:29) just from a company. Nothing very (00:11:33) personal, but it still has the squares (00:11:36) of fabric that have been sewn together. (00:11:39) And (00:11:40) in older times, people would save (00:11:44) patches of their fabric of their (00:11:46) clothing after their clothing um got old (00:11:49) and they would make blankets out of it (00:11:51) because you had to reuse things more. Um (00:11:53) I tried to be thrifty as well, but (00:11:58) I don't think I could ever make a quilt (00:12:00) unless I really needed to, unless it was (00:12:03) a necessity. Um all right, here we go. (00:12:06) And next we have our assorted pillow (00:12:10) cases. And I'm going to (00:12:14) put a couple on. It's interesting. Some (00:12:17) pillowcases, I don't know if it's the (00:12:18) same in your country, some pillowcases (00:12:21) have this little flap here to keep the (00:12:24) pillow in. And some pillow cases are (00:12:28) just (00:12:31) a little opening and you have to shove (00:12:33) the pillowcase or the pillow in. This (00:12:36) one has a little flap, but (00:12:39) it maybe keeps the pillow in better. I'm (00:12:42) not sure. All right, let's see if I can (00:12:45) shove it in a little bit better. (00:12:49) And I know this is Dan's pillow. (00:12:55) So, that's going to go up there. (00:12:59) This pillow (00:13:01) is mine. And I'm going to put the (00:13:05) pillowcase on this as well. There is a (00:13:08) tag on the pillow, so technically maybe (00:13:11) some people would put that at the very (00:13:13) end, but I don't care. Like I said, this (00:13:17) is my least favorite chore. You see how (00:13:19) cool this is? There's like a little flap (00:13:22) and then you can pull up that piece so (00:13:25) that it stays nice and tucked in there. (00:13:29) Great. All right. Now, here's the (00:13:32) choice. (00:13:34) I can give my second pillow the same (00:13:37) color as my first pillow. Let's do it. (00:13:40) Let's just be sensible, won't we? Um, I (00:13:44) think this pillow case is actually from (00:13:46) another set. It doesn't belong with the (00:13:48) linen blue sheets, but it's still blue, (00:13:53) so that's all right. That's what matters (00:13:55) to me. Now, what's worse than doing the (00:13:57) sheets on my bed is doing the sheets on (00:13:59) my kids' bed. (00:14:02) That's the warmest. They have a bunk bed (00:14:05) and they like to sleep with a lot of (00:14:08) stuffed animals. (00:14:10) So, (00:14:12) I have them take off all of the stuffed (00:14:15) animals from their bed and I ask them to (00:14:19) take the sheets off their bed to strip (00:14:21) their beds. But it's kind of hard for (00:14:23) them at this age, young age, to put (00:14:28) their own sheets back on the bed, (00:14:30) especially that fitted sheet. So, I'd (00:14:32) have to do that. I don't know. It's just (00:14:35) a chore I don't like. It's not a big (00:14:36) deal, but you know, there's always (00:14:39) there's always chores that we don't (00:14:40) like, even though they're not a big (00:14:42) deal. And then, (00:14:45) tada, whenever you do them and they're (00:14:48) finished, it feels good. I feel good (00:14:50) right now. Have you ever had that happen (00:14:52) where you have a chore or a phone call (00:14:55) you have to make and you're just (00:14:57) dreading it and then you do it and it (00:15:00) wasn't actually that bad in the first (00:15:02) place? This ish the same for me all the (00:15:06) time. Well, thank you for joining me for (00:15:09) this uh very intimate daily life chore. (00:15:14) Something that I don't enjoy, but I (00:15:16) enjoy telling you about. So, I hope that (00:15:18) you can go out into the real world, (00:15:21) express yourself better, and just feel (00:15:24) confident when you speak. That is the (00:15:27) whole goal. No matter what you're (00:15:28) talking about, maybe you're talking (00:15:30) about u making the bed, maybe you're (00:15:33) talking about something else, I want you (00:15:34) to feel confident when you speak. So, (00:15:37) don't forget to download the free PDF (00:15:39) worksheet with all of today's (00:15:41) vocabulary, key expressions, sample (00:15:44) sentences, definitions, and that bonus (00:15:47) downloadable audio so that you can (00:15:49) listen to this lesson wherever you are. (00:15:52) It doesn't matter. You can listen to it (00:15:53) while you are also changing your sheets. (00:15:56) Don't put it off any longer. Listen to (00:15:59) this lesson while you're changing your (00:16:00) sheets. And I hope you'll be able to (00:16:02) immerse yourself in English, in real (00:16:04) life English. So, to get this free (00:16:06) worksheet, all you have to do is click (00:16:08) on the link in the description. Enter (00:16:10) your name and email address and voila, (00:16:13) just like that, the free worksheet and (00:16:16) audio will land in your email inbox. (00:16:19) This is my gift to you. Okay, before you (00:16:22) go, I have to show you this beautiful (00:16:24) quilt. This is the one I was mentioning. (00:16:26) This is the one that my husband's great (00:16:29) grandmother made. She sewed all of this (00:16:33) by hand. So there's little beautiful (00:16:35) stitches for every single one of these (00:16:38) colors. (00:16:39) And there's stitching even on the white. (00:16:43) So here she's made beautiful patterns. (00:16:46) H this is what we call a labor of love. (00:16:50) This is absolutely a labor of love. And (00:16:53) this quilt is not the fuzziest or the (00:16:58) warmest thing that we have, but it is so (00:17:00) special. And it's really an heirloom. (00:17:03) It's something that's passed down in our (00:17:05) family and I hope someday my kids get to (00:17:08) enjoy this as well. All right. Well, (00:17:10) thank you so much for learning English (00:17:11) with me. Thank you for joining me in my (00:17:13) home and I will see you again next (00:17:16) Friday for a new lesson here on my (00:17:18) YouTube channel. Bye. But wait, do you (00:17:21) want more? I recommend watching this (00:17:23) video next where I fold all of the (00:17:27) laundry for my family, including some (00:17:30) interesting items that maybe you've (00:17:31) never heard of. I'll see you in that