Hello and welcome to the English Lichenative Podcast.
My name is Anna and you're listening to week 59, day three of your English Pfizer Day.
This is the series that gives you a healthy daily dose of English vocabulary so
that you can feel more confident and more like yourself when speaking English.
So let's begin with a phrasal verb and it is lace something up to lace something up L-A-C-E lace and then something whatever it is up UP.
You might lace up your shoes or lace up your boots.
You might have to lace up your top if it has some sort of tie feature to it.
So we're thinking about a blouse that perhaps has a piece of lace or two little ties at the top
that you need to fasten the laces.
So you lace it up just like the laces in your shoes.
It's to fasten your shoes or your boots or item of clothing.
Now to be honest, I'm not a big fan of unlacing and lacing up my shoes.
I tend to just like to slip them on and slip them off.
So I lace them up and then I leave them fastened.
Apart from boots, of course, boots are a little different.
They're a bit harder to slip on and off but my trainers definitely I just slip them on and off and sometimes it's hard to get my foot in when they're laced up but I just ram my foot in.
Sometimes I use a device called a shoe horn that allows me to slip my heel down the back of the shoe without damaging the back of the shoe.
But recently I learned my lesson because I actually broke my trainers.
I folded the heel the back of the shoe so much by slipping my foot in and out
that it snapped and then there was a sharp piece of plastic that was constantly digging into my heel.