Learn the English Phrases SUCH AS and SUCH A

In this English lesson I wanted to help you

learn the English phrase, 'such as',

but before I do that,

I actually want to read a comment

from a previous video from my other channel from Mélodie.

Mélodie says, hello teacher, can you make a video

about how we have to use 'such as'?

Please have a nice day.

And my response was,

I'll do this for next week's short English lesson.

So thanks Melody for that request.

And I will now talk

about the phrase 'such as'.

This simply means for example.

When we mention something,

and then we give examples of it,

we might say such as.

Here's a great example.

Jen and I grow flowers, such as sunflowers,

dahlias, lisianthus.

So when I mentioned that we grow flowers,

I then use the word 'such as'

to describe some of the specific flowers that we grow.

I could say this, my kids really, really like fast food,

such as McDonald's, Harvey's, and A&W.

So it's just a way to give examples

about something you just started talking about.

The other phrase I wanted to teach you today

is the phrase 'such a', and this might seem

like a bit of a strange one.

It's used to emphasize something.

It's such a nice day out here today.

I had such a nice time at the party.

I went to a concert the other night

and it was such a good time.

It was such a great concert.

So 'such a' is just a really weird little phrase

we use to emphasize things.

It is such a nice day out here today.

It's not sunny, it's not raining.

It's relatively cool.

It's such a nice day.

Anyways, to review, when you use such as,

it's when you're going to give examples.

I like to exercise.

I do exercises such as lifting weights and walking.

Those are the exercises I do.

And when you use 'such a', it's to emphasize something.

I have such a good day if I exercise in the morning.

But hey, let's look at a comment

from a different previous video.

This comment is from Ruslan.

Thank you for the cool lesson teacher, Bob.

The river is quite wide.

It must be great to have a paddle board or a jet ski,

and have fun out there.

And my response, it certainly is quite busy on the weekends

with all kinds of watercraft, such as boats and canoes,

and jet skis, and paddle boards, and all that kind of stuff.

By the way, that was a comment from the video

where I was out by the really big river

in a town that's close to me.

By the way, I did a lesson in that town a long time ago.

The 'Let's Learn English Downtown' video.

It was filmed in that town as well, but yes,

that river is very, very busy, especially on the weekends.

There was a boat ramp or a boat launch

in the park where I was at, I should have showed that too.

Maybe I'll go back and do a video there in the future,

but it's definitely a busy place on the weekend.

Lots of motorboats.

If you go early in the morning, people will be there

with their fishing boats.

So people like to fish really, really early in the morning.

And if you go there, yeah, usually around noon or later,

people will be starting to put out

other kinds of water crafts, like jet skis, canoes,

and all those kinds of things.

By the way, jet skis and canoes

don't go very well together, nor do kayaks.

There are jet skis sometimes in our river,

usually on a long weekend, there's actually a park near me.

People will camp at the park,

and they will bring their jet skis,

and they will go jet skiing up and down the river.

And it's the kind of thing that bothers me a lot.

I like canoes, I like kayaks, I like small motorboats,

but jet skis are really loud and they churn up the water.

So they kind of make the river look weird after they go by,

it gets really muddy.

And I feel like it might be bad for the fish,

and bad for the other wildlife, but yes,

definitely on a long weekend, this gets super, super busy.

Anyways, thanks for watching this English lesson.

I'll see you in a couple days with another one, bye.