English for Everyday: Automotive English
| This is the beginning of the ‘Automotive English‘ series. We’ll be talking about the work of owning a car all week.
You might also want to look at the first week of car English. |
You probably know that another word for ‘car’ is ‘automobile.’ From that word, we get ‘automotive.’ It’s an adjective describing everything that’s connected to cars: there’s the automotive industry, there are automotive mechanics, and you can bet that there’s automotive English!
If you have a car—and if you’re like me—you probably talk about your car a lot in your native language. Well, shouldn’t you be able to talk about it in English, too? To get ready for this week, you will probably want to look at the first time we started talking about cars here at Bite Sized English.
This week, we’re going to talk about a specific car topic: we’re going to talk about the English you can use to describe the work you do to keep your car running. After all, your car is an important part of your life. . . when it doesn’t work, you have a problem!
We’ll start today with some basic vocabulary for this topic: ‘at the garage’ and ‘breakdowns.’ Tomorrow we’ll learn another word ‘maintenance,’ and some of the words you can use when you talk about it. Then, on Wednesday, we’ll have one more lesson on the verb get. I promise it will be the last. . . for a while!
Then, on Thursday and Friday, we’ll talk about two idioms you can use when talking about your car. . . but also for a lot of different topics.
It should be a good week. I’m looking forward to it, and hope you are, too!
Photo Credit
The photo above is from Flickr. It was taken by grewlike and made available under a Creative Commons license. Thanks, grewlike!
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