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one's gonna be fun eep-eep I don't know
I haven't driven a vehicle and like mine
yours
okay begin hi everybody and welcome back
to top words my name is Alisha and today
we're going to talk about ten phrases to
use when driving so let's go your
steering wheel the first expression is
steering wheel steering wheel is that
thing that circular object in the car
you use to move the vehicle it's called
the steering wheel steering wheel so in
a sentence keep both hands on the
steering wheel
next blinker turn signal the next
expression is blinker or turn signal we
have two words for this blinker or turn
signal this is the part of the car the
light that blinks mm so this sort of
on-off on-off we say it blinks that's
the verb that we use to describe that
on-off action or turn signal is another
way to explain this one but we use this
to signal when we are turning to the
right or turning to the left
so in a sentence make sure to use your
turn signals windshield wiper the next
expression is windshield wiper
windshield wiper your windshield is that
thing the piece of glass at the front of
the car that keeps the car separate from
the world outside it like that is your
windshield literally windshield it
shields you the driver and your
passengers from the wind the windshield
so a windshield wiper is those those
rubbery things they wipe the windshield
like rain or other objects that might
fall okay in a sentence I accidentally
turned on the windshield wipers Fastlane
the next expression is Fastlane and
there's also a slow lane but fast lane
is the a specific lane a specific part
of the road for cars that want to drive
quickly so if you'd like to go fast you
should go in the fast lane if you do not
want to go fast you should go in the
slow lane or maybe just the regular lane
so there's a fast lane and a slow lane
on some roads and some highways in a
sentence keep a quick pace in the fast
lane to hit the gas to hit the gas the
gas means the accelerator so to hit the
accelerator to hit has the nuance of
suddenly or quickly doing something so
to hit the gas means to quickly increase
speed so in a sentence hit the gas
you're going to slow to hit the brakes
then the other side of this expression
is to hit the brakes so the brakes are
those are the parts of the car that slow
the car down to hit the brakes means to
suddenly step on the brakes just
suddenly try to slow the car down or
maybe stop the car quickly is to hit the
brakes you can also say to slam on the
brakes which is even stronger than hit
the brakes so in a sentence don't hit
the brakes so hard to break the speed
limit the next expression is to break
the speed limit so to break the speed
limit means you break the law actually
break here brake does not refer to
destroying something or damaging
something brake instead is the verb that
we use to mean we have violated a law we
have done something bad according to the
rules in our country or our city or
something so to break the speed limit or
to break the law means we are going
faster than the allowed speed limit if
the speed limit is 20 miles an hour or
20 kilometers an hour and our car is
traveling at 50 kilometres an hour or 50
miles an hour whatever your country uses
this is breaking the speed limit to
break the speed limit it is too fast so
in a sentence
I broke the speed limit and I got a
ticket to pass the next expression is to
pass to pass so this is used in a
situation where there is one car moving
slower than another
so car a is moving along at a slow pace
car B decides that it wants to go faster
than car a so to pass means to move to
the side of the slower car pass the car
and then move back in front and continue
on so sometimes there is a specific
passing lane to do this other times
there are specific marks on the road
that indicate our that show that it's
okay to pass so in the u.s. it's a
dotted line which means you can pass in
this part of the road it's safe to pass
so to pass means to move beyond another
car going more slowly than you be
careful to pass other cars safely to be
in an accident to be in an accident to
be in an accident means in this case a
car accident a car crash
so something unfortunate has happened
then
maybe the car was damaged a person was
hurt or killed perhaps in all of those
situations we can say he or she was in
an accident or I was in an accident in a
sentence have you ever been in an
accident
fender bender the next expression is an
interesting word it's called fender
bender a fender bender is a minor
accident a small accident this
expression comes from Fender fender is a
part of a car fender is at the front of
a car
it's it's usually kind of a plastic a
plastic sort of barrier or a plastic
part right at the front of the car above
the wheels but below the hood of the car
so a fender bender is a small accident
where maybe two cars collide a little
bit and the fender on the front of the
car becomes bent so there's a small bit
of damage to the fender only on the car
so fender bender is used to talk about
small-scale accidents so sometimes this
might literally mean the fender of the
car was damaged but it can also mean
just a small bit of damage to a car
somewhere else so a small accident is
called a fender bender in a sentence
my friend got in a fender bender last
weekend all right so that's the end so
those are 10 phrases to use when driving
I hope that you find them useful thanks
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