Learn the English Phrases "to make eye contact" and "to make contact"

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you

learn the English phrase to make eye contact.

When you talk to someone, you

can look directly into their eyes.

You can make eye contact when you talk to them.

But often when you're having conversations, you

do look away occasionally as well.

There's a little bit of lightning there.

I hope I can get this video done safely.

Anyways, when you make eye contact,

it means you look at someone.

If you look straight at my eyes right now

we're making eye contact kind of through the Internet,

I guess. In North America, it's okay to make

eye contact when having a conversation with someone.

In some cultures, it might not be,

but where I live, it's common.

The way I talk to you on the camera

is the way I talk to people normally.

Sometimes I look away.

Sometimes I make eye contact for a little bit.

Sometimes I look away again.

So what you see when you're watching these

videos is how I actually talk to people.

The second phrase I wanted to teach

you today is to make contact.

When you make contact with someone, it means that you call

them or you text them or you send them a letter.

Maybe you have an uncle who moved away and you want to

make contact with him to invite him to a family event.

You might send him an email.

You might send him a quick text on the phone.

You will make contact however you can

so he knows that something's going on.

Anyways, to review, to make eye contact means

to look at someone directly in the eye.

Eye to eye.

And to make contact means to contact someone.

But, hey, let's look at a

comment from a previous video.

This comment is from Konstantin, and it is... Duplex.

Looks like a townhouse, but only for two families.

Thanks for showing around and keep

having a nice, warm weekend. My response? Yes.

When there are more than two

units, we usually call them townhouses.

I'll try and make a video in front of some of them....

...in front of some next time.

I'm having trouble reading English today,

so that's where I am.

And the rain has stopped a little bit,

so we can go on a little tour.

These are townhouses, so every house is very

similar to the house beside it, and it's

probably a little hard to see, but there

are four separate residences in each building.

There's a little gap down here that you'll see

in a minute, but there's a door here.

Number 67, number 65, number 63, and number 61.

This whole building, actually, I

think there's six in here.

Did you see the lightning in the sky?

I should get back in my van, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6....

There's actually eight in this one.

So there are eight separate families or eight separate

people, sets of people living in this house.

They don't have to be families, of course,

and each one has their own residence.

So we would call this a townhouse.

I think it might be called row housing in

some places, but we would call them townhouses.

This one's for sale.

If you're moving to Canada, you could

move into this townhouse right here.

I have no idea how much it costs.

I'm going to guess it probably costs

around $600,000 or maybe a bit less.

I might be on the high side with that

guess. So, yeah...

Townhouses.

There's a whole street of them here.

They're considered one of the cheaper

ways to buy a house.

I know I just said $600,000, but when you're looking to

buy a house, often you will buy a townhouse if that

is the first house you're buying, because they're on the cheaper

side of what houses cost here in Canada.

So, anyways, townhouses.

I'll let you see them in the background as

I walk back towards the safety of my van.

By the way, this is how.

Let me show you. This is how.

Oh, I got a drop on the lens.

This is how I made my very first video.

I can remove this lens, and then it'll be gone.

My very first video on my big channel I

made standing under the back door of my suv.

And to keep me out of the rain.

You should go watch that.

I'll put a link somewhere, and

you can go watch that one.

Anyways, thanks for watching. Have a good day.

I'll have another short English lesson

for you in a few days. Bye.