Learn vocabulary about CARS in English

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What's this? Car vocabulary. Little pink car there, picture of a car, and camera. I guess
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I'm teaching you guys car vocabulary today. I actually know this car, this is my daughter's
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car. I don't know what it's doing here, but it could be used to teach you guys some English
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today. So, that's what we're going to do. All right, let's do this. There's even a marker.
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So, hi. I'm Alex. Thanks for clicking, and welcome to this lesson on car vocabulary.
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Now, today, we're just going to look at the different parts of a car and their names in
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English. And when you're done, you can actually go, do the quiz, test your understanding of
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this material.
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So, I'm going to look at this car. We'll start from the front. Okay? Here we have these two
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lights. Now, these aren't just called "lights" in English. You could say, you know: "My lights
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are broken." Or: "The lights are too bright." Specifically, because they're at the front
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or at the head of the car, these are called "headlights". Okay? So I'm just going to write
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that here, "headlights". Okay. I'm sorry for the writing there.
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Now, specifically, you know, when your lights are normal, we call them, you know, your headlights.
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When you are driving on a dark country road and you need your headlights to be very bright,
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and you need to, you know, click them one further so it's very bright and you can see
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further, those are actually called your "high beams". So you can turn your high beams on
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or off. So, we have headlights and we also have high beams. So, you know, if you're driving
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with a friend and they say: "It's too dark. Turn on the high beams." And if you see another
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car coming, you might say: "Whoa, whoa. Turn off the high beams", because you don't want
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to blind the other person coming towards you.
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Okay, let's turn around. Okay, we have, yeah, we're still going to look at the front. The
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front part of your car, and also the back part of your car that protects it from accidents
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as much as it can, this is called your "bumper". So it could be your front or your rear bumper.
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And we call this one the rear. You can also call it the back, the back bumper or your
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front bumper.
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All right, here, this big window that we see through, this is called your "windshield"
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because it is like a shield from the wind. Right? Okay. So this is the windshield. And
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when it rains, you use your "whish, whish, whish, whish". These are called "windshield
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wipers", because they wipe. So I'm just going to put in parenthesis here "wipers". So your
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windshield and you also have windshield "whish, whish, whish", wipers. All right?
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Let's look, hmm, okay. We'll look at the back of the car a little bit. This, here... Now,
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again, this is a Volkswagen Beetle so it pops up a little bit. This is called a "hatch".
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But, you know, in a normal car, a car like this, where you can place things in the back,
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it's called your... I got this. Really, I do. Really. Yeah, that's better. Okay. This
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is called your "trunk". The trunk of the car.
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Okay?
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Now, let's go inside a little bit. If we go inside the car, you have the mirror to see
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behind you. And that's here in this car. Probably can't see it on the camera. But this is called
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your "rearview mirror". If there are any Pearl Jam fans, of the rock band Pearl Jam, they
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have a song called "Rearview Mirror". So you can YouTube "Rearview Mirror" to see a song
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by this name.
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And then you have the other mirrors that are on the sides. So, because they're on the sides,
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you can call them your "side mirrors" or your "sideview mirrors" because they show you the
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sides. So, I'm just going to do an arrow here like this. And this is the sideview mirror.
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Now, again, if you're in the driver's seat, if you are the driver, you can call it your
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"driver side mirror", or if you're a passenger, you can also call it the "passenger side mirror".
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All right?
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Now, let's look. What are we missing? Hmm. Okay, we got these things here. Generally,
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they're black. Right? These are called your "tires". So you can get a flat tire. So, if
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your tire blows out on the highway, this would be called a flat tire. A flat tire. You can
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also just say: "I got a flat." Or: "I got a flat tire." All right? And the whole thing,
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you know, not just the tire but everything inside is called the "wheel". The wheel. So
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these are your wheels. "I need to change my wheels or rotate my wheels at the mechanics."
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And speaking of wheels, there's one more very important wheel, and that one is inside the
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car, the one you use to control it. All right? And in English, we use the verb, "steer".
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S-t-e-e-r to control. Okay? And this is why this is actually called not just the wheel
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or the controlling wheel, but the "steering wheel". All right? So I'm going to draw a
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steering wheel in purple and draw a big arrow over here for the steering wheel.
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And one more thing we'll mention is the top of the car, like the roof, is not called a
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roof like a roof on your house, but it's actually called the "hood". All right? The hood of
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the car. So, lots of arrows. All right.
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And you can actually call the front the "hood" as well. So this part here where you open
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to see the engine, you can open the hood or you say: "Pop the hood." You can say: "Pop
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the hood", for the slang expression to open it.
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Okay. Am I missing anything? We got windshield wipers, we have the windshield, and... Oh,
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I guess if we're talking about windshield wipers, you have like the liquid that comes
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to clean the car. And this isn't just called like, you know, windshield cleaner or something
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like this. The actual name if you go to a store, it will say: "windshield washer fluid".
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So you have windshield, and I'm going to put another parenthesis here, windshield washer fluid.
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You have many types of fluid for a car, too. You have transmission fluid or brake fluid
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as well. Okay. I think that's it. Yup. Yeah, I think we're pretty much done.
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So, if you want to test your understanding of this car vocabulary, you can check out
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the quiz on www.engvid.com. And don't forget to subscribe to my YouTube channel. And I'm
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going to go return this to my daughter because I have no idea how this got here. So, here
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we go. Just going to turn the key and see you next time. Ahh.
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