Hello and welcome to the English like a native podcast.
My name is Anna and you're listening to week two, day five of your English five a day.
Season two.
This series is all about delivering a healthy daily dose of English vocabulary so
that you can grow in confidence and start to feel more like yourself when communicating in English.
Now, before we begin today's episode, I'm going to give you a snapshot of what's to come.
So listen carefully.
Ah, the car stalled again.
The friends stared out at the long frosty road that lay ahead.
Frustrated,
David began to root around in the glove box for the torch
while mentally beating himself up over forgetting to service the car.
But his friends stayed calm and started to hum a cheerful tune, easing the frosty tension between them.
If you didn't understand every word of that, don't worry, that's exactly why we're here.
So sit back, relax, and let me tickle your eardrums.
We start with the phrase of herb root about or it could be root around.
So to root about or root around, we have two words root R-O-O-T about A-B-O-U-T.
Root about or root around A-R-O-U-N-D.
To root about something or to root around something is to search for a thing for an item,
usually by looking through other things.