Intro
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How long does it take you to get ready in the morning? Five minutes? Ten? One hour?
Generally, men need less time than women. Not because men are not put together, but because most men have short hair. Women with long hair will agree that taking care of yourself (or your hair) can be a lot of work!
Whether you roll out of bed and head out the door or you spend hours making your hair less frizzy, hair care is a daily chore. What shampoo do you use? What kind of hair dryer? Do you diffuse your hair? Should you?
Lily and Jessica are discussing the basics of hair care. Read on to find out who’s a slob and who’s not in today’s English lesson about hair.
Dialog
1. Listen and Read - Listen to the audio and read the dialog at the same time.
2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.
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Jessica: It took me forever to get ready today. It took me so long!
Lily: Really? So what do you… Wait, you don’t just shower and roll out of bed and go?
Jessica: No. I have curly hair, and it looks very frizzy if I don’t shower and then diffuse it. I have to brush it and use a hair dryer. It’s a little ridiculous.
Lily: Jessica, that is so much work.
Jessica: I know, but at least I’m put together. And I don’t know, I take pride in my appearance.
Lily: OK. Well, I guess you think I’m a slob then because I don’t really do anything like that. The only thing I do is brush my teeth. I don’t even brush my hair.
Jessica: But you don’t smell.
Lily: That’s true. I don’t.
Jessica: You take care of yourself.
Lily: I try, but I don’t do as much as you do.
Jessica: Well, that’s OK. You look put together. You look great.
Lily: So do you.
Jessica: Thank you. I work very hard to look this way.
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Discussion
Jessica and Lily have very different hair care styles. Jessica tells Lily that it took her a long time to get ready this morning. Lily sounds confused. She wonders why Jessica needs so much time.
Jessica tells Lily that she has to dry her hair, then diffuse it. She has curly, frizzy hair, and it doesn’t look good when it’s wet.
Lily, on the other hand, thinks Jessica’s routine is a little ridiculous. Lily doesn’t spend much time on her hair. Her normal method is to just roll out of bed and head out the door. It’s obviously much more important to Jessica to look put together. For Lily, the easier the better.
Do you think that Lily is a slob, or does Jessica spend too much time getting ready? What does your hair care involve?
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