2025-10-02
15 分钟Hello and welcome to the English Like A Native podcast.
My name is Anna and you're listening to week 37,
day four of your English Fiver Day, the second season.
I'm here once again with a delivery of hopefully new and definitely interesting vocabulary so that you can add it to your growing mountain.
that you are scaling in order to improve your speaking, listening,
reading and writing so that overall you start to feel more like yourself when communicating in English.
So let's begin today's episode as we always do with a snapshot of what's to come.
When the exterminator arrived at the cafe he watched several rodents gore across the kitchen floor and disappear behind the cooker.
The owner scratched nervously at his arms,
whilst explaining how the rats had been chewing through food packages and leaving droppings everywhere.
The pest control expert turned out to be quite a character, cracking jokes and whistling cheerfully,
even while setting traps in the most disgusting corners of the kitchen.
Okay, let's dive into the vocabulary starting with the verb scratch.
Nice and easy.
We spell this S-C-R-A-T-C-H.
Scratch.
Scratch.
This is to cut or damage the surface of something with something sharp or to rub your skin with your nails.
My four-year-old son scratched his cheek the other day by running into a bush and catching his cheek on a branch.
He scratched his cheek and I, unfortunately, scratched our family car.