Let's Learn English! Topic: Action Verbs Part 2! 🏌️‍♂️🦟🧽 (Lesson Only)

Well hello and welcome to this English lesson about action

verbs. As you can see this is part two about a month ago a

little over a month ago I did a lesson on action verbs. I think

it was called basic action verbs. This English lesson will

be a little more advanced. Actually more intermediate

these are action verbs that we use quite commonly but they're

kind of a level above the basic action words. Um for example

instead of shut the door or close the door. Sometimes we

slam the door. So that will be one of the action verbs that

you will learn in this English lesson. I do have some video

clips prepared so you'll see all of these action verbs in

action. That makes the lesson just a little bit more

exciting. Uh but once again welcome to this English lesson

about action verbs part two. Slam. So this is something you

do with usually a door. Sometimes when you get out of

your car you close the door. Sometimes you shut the door.

But if you close it really fast and hard we use the verb slam.

It's not a good idea to slam a door. In a house you can shut a

door or close a door. But you can also slam a door. Sometimes

you slam a door shut by accident. Sometimes you don't

know your own strength and so you push the door too hard. But

sometimes people will slam a door when they're angry.

Sometimes when people are angry they will walk away. They'll go

through a door slam the door because they're angry. Maybe

they get out of the car and they're angry with the person

who they were in the car with and they might slam the door.

So let's watch that one more time. When a door is shut

really quickly and it usually makes a loud noise we say that

you have slammed the door. Pounce. So this is something

that mostly animals do. You can see that this cat has found

something in the lawn. Maybe it's a small bug. Maybe a

cricket or a grasshopper. And the cat has decided to pounce

on it. When an animal pounces it's a fun word to say isn't

it? When an animal pounces they go from being very very still

to jumping forward quickly. Usually with their front two

paws. So let's watch the cat one more time the cat will

pounce on insect in the lawn and I think maybe it caught it

because it doesn't run in any other direction. It must have

pounce and caught it. So I don't have a video for this one

but pry is when you use something like this tool which

is called a crowbar to kind of open something up or to make

something move. We often use the word pry when we're using a

stick or a tool to kind of take something apart. This person is

going to pry this piece of wood off of the wall. We even

sometimes call this a pry bar. I call it a crowbar but you can

also it a pry bar. A tool that you use to pry something. If

you play cards before you deal the cards you need to shuffle

the cards. You can see that this person is playing a game

called Uno. It's a really fun game by the way. Um but they

have decided they need to shuffle the cards before they

deal the cards. So when you shuffle the cards you mix the

cards up. You want to make sure that the cards are not in order

anymore. You want to make sure that everyone gets a random

card when you deal the cards. So you shuffle the cards. I

flatten. I couldn't find a good example of flatten. This was

the best one. When you flatten something you make it flat. My

hand is not flat. If I push down I can make my hand flat. I

can flatten my hand. This person is cooking something. Uh

I'm not sure exactly what it is. But they have this heavy

thing that they're putting on top of the food to flatten the

food. When you flatten something you make it so at

it's even and usually quite thin. Um sometimes when I put

an egg in the pan I will break the yolk and I will flip it and

then I will push down with the spatula to flatten the egg. So

when you make something flat we use the verb flatten. Now

there's a number of ways to describe what's happening here.

You could say that this person is using the hammer to hit the

nail. You can say the person is using the hammer to strike the

nail. But we usually sometimes I shouldn't say usually. We

sometimes use the word pound. You can pound a nail in. You

can pound a piece of wood into the ground. So whenever you

pound you have something that has to go into something else.

And you need to hit it usually with a hammer. Jen and I

sometimes pound stakes into the ground outside. Pieces of wood

with a point on the end and we pound them into the ground with

a large hammer. So when you pound something in it means you

make it go into something else. He is using the hammer to pound

the nail into the wood.

Swat. So actually this morning there was a fly flying around

me and I was doing this. Uh in fact I think the last time I

taught the word swat the same thing happened. Uh you can see

that this person is swatting. When you swat sorry to flip

from the I N G form to the normal form. When you swat you

do this with your hand. You can also do this with a fly

swatter. A fly swatter is something you use to swat

flies. But anytime you do this action. Especially when there

are bugs We say that you are swatting. You have decided to

swat the bug usually to get rid of it. So when you yank on

something it means to pull it but to pull it really really

hard to use a lot of strength when you pull it. So this

person has decided to yank on this door. It's kind of the

opposite of slam in some ways. When you slam a door you close

it with lots of strength. When you yank on something or when

you yank on a door you try to pull it open with all kinds of

strength. It's not same as open though. Okay? Uh yank is what

you would do just before something does open. So he is

trying to open the door by yanking on it. And it probably

isn't moving. He's using as much strength as possible to

pull on it. Of. So I really tried hard to find a video clip

of someone shoving someone else. But I couldn't so this is

the only thing I could find. When you shove someone it means

you push them. And maybe they go off balance. It's obviously

not a nice thing to do to someone. You don't want to

shove someone. Sometimes when you're waiting in line you

accidentally shove someone. When you turn you might shove

them by accident. But generally a shove would be an intentional

push. That means you decided to do it. With one or both hands

and you make the person move in the other direction. I would

say this. Kids sometimes shove each other. If you hand out

candy and the kids are excited they might shove another kid

out of the way while they run to get candy from you. So if

you're visiting someone who has kids and you're giving them

candy they might shove each other as they try to get candy.

You can see that this bread bag they have decided to twist the

plastic bag at the end and then put a twist tie on it. So when

you twist something you do this. You can twist a cork out

of a bottle. So it involves turning sometimes multiple

times. Someone took this breadbag and they twisted the

end. And then they put the little green twist tie on it so

that it will stay closed. So when you twist something it

involves turning at I'm trying to think of another example of

you can twist your hair. I obviously can't but you can

twist your hair if you want as well. Unscrew. So when you have

a screwdriver and if there are screws in something you can

unscrew them. So this means you put the tip of the screwdriver

into the screw and you turn counterclockwise. I think

that's universal around the world. I'm pretty sure everyone

turns counter to unscrew something. In English we say

righty tidy lefty loosey. I don't know if you've ever heard

that phrase it's to remind people that when you're

unscrewing something or if you're taking a nut off a bolt

if you turn to the left lefty loosey righty tidy lefty loosey

you can remember. But anyways this person has decided to

unscrew the screws from this door so you can see they're

using a screwdriver to do that. We have the verbs swing. We use

this a lot when talking about sports. When you play golf you

swing the golf club just like this gentleman is. When you

play baseball you swing the bat. I'm sure in cricket you

swing the bat as well. It's anytime you have something in

your hand and you do this kind of motion. Uh you can swing a

stick. You can go outside and swing a stick. But it always

involves having something in your hand. Although you can

Swing your arm at someone too. So I take that back. You don't

have to have something in your hand to swing. Um by the way

someone did ask about the verbs shuffle whether it had other

meanings. It does. You can shuffle your feet. You can

shuffle the songs on your playlist on your phone. So that

they play in random order. And swing as well. Um you can swing

on a swing. Um sometimes these verbs have more meanings than

just the one I'm teaching. And some I don't cover them all. So

sorry about that. Cover. So this is a barbecue and someone

has decided to cover it. In Canada we often cover our

barbecues in the winter to protect them from the snow and

rain and cold weather. People who have really fancy cars

sometimes will cover their car. They'll park their car in the

garage and they'll put a cover on it. They'll cover their car

with a cover. By the way in English this barbecue is

covered they decided to cover it. They decided to cover it by

putting a cover on it. So it's both a noun and a verb.

Uncover. So obviously this is the opposite. You see this

trophy here had something over top of it. And in order to let

people see it they decided to uncover it. So the action of

taking something a blanket or fabric or a cover. The action

of taking it off. We would use the verb uncover. This trophy

not sure what this is for. I should have done a bit more

research. Looks pretty fancy though. They've decided to

uncover it. This is something we do in Canada a lot in the

winter. We scrape. This isn't just a verb though for scraping

snow or ice off your car. You can scrape the bottom of a

frying pan. If you cook something and the food gets

stuck. You scrape the bottom of the frying pan. Um definitely

in the winter I scrape ice off my windows before I drive my

car. It's the action of removing from something else

that's kind of stuck on there. The ice is stuck to the window

so I need to scrape it off. I need to use my strength and a

small scraper to scrape it. In a frying pan the food might be

stuck to the bottom of the pan and you need to scrape it off.

Fluff. So sometimes you fluff your pillow. Um we actually use

fluff up. We add the word up quite often but fluff will

work. If your pillow is really flat if you slept on your

pillow all night and you have flattened your pillow by

rolling your head around on it. There's the word flatten again.

You can fluff your pillow. You can fluff up your pillow. You

can kind of do this to it to make it a little more rounded

and thicker again. So you kind of fluff the pillow. I

fluff up pillow before I go to sleep every night. Spread. So

this morning I had an egg and I put it on a piece of toast but

before I put the egg on toast I spread some butter on the

toast. Not this much butter. This person has decided to

spread an unhealthy amount of butter on their toast. It might

also be margarine by the way. Um but when you spread you

usually use a knife or another tool to put a thin layer of

something on something else. You spread butter on a piece of

toast. You can also use spread to talk about putting something

on the ground. You can spread salt on the sidewalk in the

winter to melt the ice. So anytime you distribute

something I guess would be a more formal verb or whenever

you do this kind of action we use the verb spread. You spread

it on the toast. That looks yummy by the way. Wonder why

it's not melting. The toast doesn't seem very hot. Usually

the butter that I put on my toast melts right away.

Sprinkle. So sometimes I sprinkle some chocolate chips

on top of my ice cream. Sometimes I sprinkle. I'm

trying to think of another word for sprinkle. When you make a

birthday cake you might sprinkle some toppings on top.

But when you sprinkle you do exactly this. You take a little

bit of something and you kind of do this action. Does my hand

match the does my hand match the video clip? Take a little

bit of salt and you kind of sprinkle the salt. Or you take

a little of spices and you sprinkle them on your food. So

you take a small amount of something and you kind of drop

it on top of something else. Um this isn't how I put salt on my

food though. I usually just use the salt shaker. I shake it. A

slide. So you can slide a lot of things. But in general it

means to move along something without moving your arms or

legs. This kid has decided to slide down the slide. Um you

can slide something across something. Like if this was

sitting on my hand I can slide it across my hand. So anytime a

person and a thing or two things are moving against each

we use the verb slide. So you can slide from one end to the

other. Um you can slide on ice. You can run and then stop

moving your feet and you will slide across the ice. That's

always fun to do by the way. I like doing that every once in a

while. I like to slide on ice. Even at my age. It's a lot of

fun. So whenever a birthday is approaching or when Christmas

is approaching here we buy each other presents and before we

the present we wrap the present. So we take the present

and we put paper on the outside. So the person can't

see what it is. You can see in this picture the person has

some wrapping paper and they have a gift and they've decided

to wrap the gift. So they're going to put wrapping paper on

the outside to kind of disguise what it is you are looking at.

So they've decided to wrap the gift and they've decided to

Keep it a secret until the day they give it to someone.

Measure. When you build something or when you need to

cut something or when you need to put something in a specific

spot you will measure. You will spend some time with a

measuring tape that's what this is or a ruler and you will

measure. You will figure out how many centimeters it is. Or

how many inches it is. If you have a piece of wood and you

need to cut it at 32 centimeters you will measure

the piece of wood and you put a pencil mark and then you will

cut it at 32 centimeters. So when you measure something it

means you use something like a tape measure in order to make

sure the length is the length it's supposed to be. You will

measure it. It's spring here and a lot of people have

decided to mow their lawn. They have decided to get out their

lawn mower. They've decided the grass is too long and they need

to mow it. We actually have this exact lawn mower. This

isn't me but this person has decided to mow their lawn. What

I will say though is I don't often pull the lawn mower

backwards. That's a new one for me. I generally push the lawn

mower forwards and then turn around at the end but when your

lawn is long, sometimes you need to mow your lawn. If you

live in an apartment, you don't have this problem But if you

live in a house and you have a lawn you need to mow your lawn.

Okay be careful. There's going to be a bit of violence

here. This oh. She decided to slap him. So again you

shouldn't ever hit people. But this particular kind of hit is

called a slap. It's when you do this to someone. Um when you

have your hand open and you do this. There I just slapped

myself. Um I'm going to stop the clip because I don't want

you to have to watch someone getting slapped over and over

again. Uh but sometimes if you're watching a TV show

someone might be angry at someone else and they might

slap that person. They might decide they're so angry they're

going to hit the person and they hit them with their open

hand across the face. They slap them. When you go on a trip you

need to pack. When you pack you put all of your stuff in a

suitcase or in a bag. We also use this verb to talk about

moving. When you move from one place to another you will pack.

You will pack your suitcase or you will pack your boxes. You

will pack your bags. So anytime you are going on a trip or

moving you will pack before you go. You will put all of your

clothes and the things you need into a suitcase or into a bag.

Sorry let me just get to where I'm supposed to be here. There

we go. Scrub. So we talked about scrape. And scrub is

similar but it's usually used with soap and water and a

sponge or a cloth. This person is going to or they already did

scrub this glass. Now they're rinsing it by the way. So right

here. So this is they're scrubbing it. So using a sponge

and some soap and water they've decided to rub the glass really

hard and verb we use is scrub. I know it rhymes with rub but

that is the verb we would use to describe this action. To

scrub. Right there. That's a scrub. So when you have I think

I've done this did I do this in the last lesson? This might

have been one of the basic action verbs. I'm not sure how

this slipped in here. But this person has decided to fold this

piece of paper. They have a piece of paper. They don't want

to leave it flat. For some reason they want to fold it. So

they do this and they press it down. They do this. You can see

in this little video clip. The person has decided to fold the

piece of paper that they have. When you go and watch a

performance you will often clap at the end. We call this

applause. Um when you hear someone play a really good

piece of music when they're done you might clap to show

your appreciation. You might clap to celebrate the fact that

your team won the game. You might all clap. Um if someone

sings a beautiful song you're at a concert when they are done

you will put your hands together like this and you will

clap. In fact when someone asks an audience to clap they often

say that. They'll say put your hands together for Bob the

Canadian. He's going to sing us a little song. I'm not going to

sing but yes. Uh whistle. Oh this lady is really whistling.

Maybe I'll let you watch the clip for a couple seconds and

then we'll pause her. She's a little too excited for me. But

whistle. I'm not a very good whistler is when you put your

lips like that and then you make sounds. Some people can

whistle on tune and can whistle songs. It's something

enjoyable. Some people like to sing. Some people like to hum.

Some people like to whistle. One of the first things babies

do when they start to move is they start to crawl. When you

crawl you move on all fours. Right here this baby has

decided to crawl along the floor. So they are mobile. They

are able to move. Babies when they are first born are not

mobile. They can't move. But eventually they learn to crawl

before they learn to walk. So we talked about the verb to

shake a little earlier but this is someone who has made

themselves a drink and they need to shake it probably to

mix it up. This person probably put some stuff in their cup.

Maybe some water and some sort of looks like some sort of

protein powder or something and now they need to shake the cup

in order to mix everything. So when you shake something you've

you very quickly move it. Sometimes people will shake a

present after you wrap a present. Sometimes kids will

shake the present to listen to what's inside to see if they

can guess what it is. Um often when you make a drink like this

you'll put a lid on and you'll shake it just to make sure that

it is well mixed and blended before you actually drink it. I

There we go. Pour. So if you want a drink you need to pour

yourself a glass of water or pour yourself a glass of milk.

Sometimes when people come over I will pour them a drink. I

will say hey would you like some juice or water? I'll pour

you a drink. So the action of moving a liquid from one

container to another. In this case from a pitcher to a glass.

If you turn the pitcher like this so the water comes out. We

use the verb to pour. So you pour the water into the glass.

I And okay I don't like this video. This is I cannot handle

watching this. Uh spill. When you spill something it's

usually a liquid. And it means that it it falls out where it's

not supposed to. If I accidentally knocked this glass

I would say that I spilled the water. When you spill water or

when you spill something like soda or pop on something it's

never a good idea. Especially if it's some kind of

electronics like this computer. You don't want to spill water.

On a computer. Um when you spill water on the ground you

just wipe it up. But when you spill water on a computer or

something else you you are stressed because you may have

broken it. So here we go spill. It's not nice when you spill

something. Um water's the easiest thing to clean up by

the way. Uh pop or soda is not easy. If you don't clean it up

really well it gets sticky. And then of course if you do spill

something you need to wipe. We sometimes use the phrasal verb

wipe up. But you can just say I'm going to wipe the counter.

I'm going to wipe the table. Um if I spilled something I would

use up. I would say I'm going to wipe up the pop that I just

spilled. I'm going to wipe its up.