Let's Learn English! Topic: Tiny Things! 🐜🦠⚛️ (Lesson Only)

It's very very cool. It's probably the most amazing thing

cool. Miniatures. So there is a whole world of hobbyists. So

these are called miniatures. So anytime we take something and

tiny little characters and a You can paint them yourself and

all there was an Eiffel Tower there by the way. They had all

tiny tiny words would be whenever I have to read a pill

bottle. Um I have trouble reading the actual instructions

at your phone screen or at a computer screen it's made up of

that I say miniature. Okay so there's miniature village.

eighty P. So there's 10 80 pixels from top to bottom of

usually hear about nanobots when you're watching some sort

you zoom in really really close with the zoom tool you will

That do not propel themselves but just ride along. Um they

miniature village close to me. It was a place where they had

is sad. I would take my kids there if it was still there.

bunch of really really cool things. Fleas, ants, aphids,

you're reading a book about science fiction. We have not

That's what it was called. It was cool. It's gone now. Which

a miniature. So I'm not saying miniature. Some people do say

Not going to list every single tiny insect but fleas are

these little little tiny robots are smaller than a red blood

cell. I don't think we're capable of doing that yet. But

Walter actually take a special pill once a month which stops

Aphids are really really tiny insects that live on a plant

something that you will find on dogs and cats. Um Oscar and

Nanobots. Nanobots would be very tiny tiny robots. You

usually round. This ladybug has dots on its back. Um I'm trying

dots and that's how you know what number you roll. Filings.

So on the farm sometimes I use a grinder or sometimes I use a

roll this it will come up with a number you will count the

So usually we use the word filings to talk about small

iron filings or there will be filings all around. Filings are

file to work on something that is metal. And then I will have

very very tiny pieces of metal usually steel. Um if you look

really really small drop we call it a droplet. When you

metal. So they are attracted to the magnet. But definitely yeah

for a little bit. I think it will eventually fall. But it's

here this magnet is picking up the filings because they are

can spread through droplets. That's why we had to wear masks

they just round it up and down. So they round it to the next 5

sneeze or even when you cough small droplets come out. So

where people collect miniatures and they paint miniatures. I've

again these are liquid. So it's either your saliva or something

you are having a fire you will see sparks. There's flames but

This kind of shirt doesn't usually make a lot of lint.

ingredients or the instructions on a pill bottle. There are

there's a going around. When there's a an a sickness that

when you sign a legal document. Sometimes at the bottom there's

really really really small drops we call them droplets.

a few things written in really small letters and it's called

so tiny. Um it's just a little tiny water droplet. It will

they're very very hot and very very tiny. Seeds. This is one

in the pocket of a pair of blue jeans you will most likely find

some warmth and when they get some water they will grow. So

just float around which is what makes droplets dangerous when

when you have things like sunflowers they will bloom and

crumbs. So sugar crystals and salt crystals. There are two

eventually you can get the sunflower seeds and you can

that came out of Bob's pocket. Yeah see there's a tiny piece

make it smaller we call it a miniature. There used to be a

to stop droplets from coming out and spreading. Lint. If you

either eat them. They're yummy. Or the next year you can plant

this really funny stuff. That forms when you wear different

days eventually the seed will grow into another sunflower.

look in your pocket you probably have lint. Lint is

that I know about. The ability of plants to reproduce. Very

see. Is there any lint in my short pocket right now? Yep

the other day I was working on something where I was using my

clothes and fabrics. So if you look in the pocket especially

Now you know. I didn't know plankton can be in the air

a piece pieces of lint. So it's this really soft. It's usually

organisms such as fish and whales. There you go. Plankton.

though. In my mind plankton is always in the ocean. But maybe

blue when you're wearing blue jeans. It's kind of a hint.

I just don't know enough. But they're tiny. So they fit in

have to get my head out of the way. There we go. Nah won't

were also a lot of filings so I swept them up when I was done.

way. I know you're not that interested in seeing the lint

tiny pieces of metal. Sparks are very small. Sometimes when

This is a very tightly woven fabric. But definitely let's

you'll see sparks as well. Uh and sometimes when you work on

like to go to a beach where there's sand but all of the

metal like this person you can see that there sparks flying

there's a little piece of lint. I don't think I can make the

off of whatever they are working on. So sparks glow so

crystals. And if you want something sweet you use sugar.

tiny and when you put them in the ground and when they get

If you want it to be a little more salty you use salt. And

of my favourite ones because I'm a flower farmer. Seeds are

closely you will see little like geome metric three

a nanobot would be a very very very tiny tiny robot. Uh

dimensional shapes which we call crystals. So sugar makes

there's not a whole world of hobbyist. There is a hobby

the same thing here. If you look at salt really really

different buildings from around the world but they were very

a word for that. So I lay cookies. I like cake. Um I like

never done this. But you can go to stores and you can buy tiny

sweets and Jen likes things that are salty. Which is good.

small. Like I was taller than the Eiffel Tower because it was

things sweet. I like sugar. Salt makes things salty.

of science fiction show or a science fiction movie or if

ice cream. Jen likes chips. She likes pretzels. Uh she likes

gotten very far in the creation of nanobots. You can see these

things that are sweet. And we say they have a sweet tooth.

them from getting fleas and ticks. Um so that's very very

comes to snacks. There are people who really like eating

nice. But a flea is a little little tiny insect that will

fall. A droplet is so small. It will kind of float in the air

like that. And then we currently have a lot of aphids.

And there are people who really like eating salty things. And

ladybugs kill the aphids. And in our oceans there is a lot of

tortilla chips. Um so I'm definitely someone who likes

tiny tiny sea life that whales and other animals will eat.

we say they like eating salty things. I don't think there is

the plant's juice and it's very very bad for plants. But

one that might be familiar to you because of the recent

them in the ground. Water them. And if you have some warm sunny

So we don't eat each other's snacks as often. I will eat

your kitchen tap on a little bit it will drip a little drop

someday I think we will probably use nanobots to do a

counter we get ants in our kitchen. Not very nice. I don't

salty stuff too though. But droplets. So this is another

pandemic. Droplets are very Very tiny drops. So if you turn

that one of the if not the biggest animal eats some of the

you crazy. So that's called a drop. But when we have a really

insects in the world. Sometimes when we leave crumbs on the

And the difference between a drop and a droplet. A drop will

plankton. Plankton is what whales eat. It's kind of funny

will fall every couple of seconds it'll go it might drive

What is plankton? Let's get a good scientific definition.

it can be water droplets as well. But whenever we have

Plankton are drifters. Organisms that are simply

Generally there are two types of people in the world. When it

are everywhere. I think they might be one of the most common

of our dimes we have Queen Elizabeth. I think we're going

lot of different things. And do whales eat them? Should we

to start to have King Charles on our coins soon. Um but yes

live on an animal's skin and kind of live off of them. Ants

three different colours. Um but that is what is used to make

the image you're seeing. You think you're seeing Bob the

kidding. If you have any kind of photo editing software. If

our dime Canadian dime ship. Our dime is tiny. And on the

include bacteria, algae, protozoa, small animals. So a

there. But our small tiniest coin is actually our dime and

actually see the pixels in something. Dots. So dots is a

Hopefully I got that right. And then we still have on the back

check that? Let's see here. Whale. Let's see here. They are

cent. The fine print. Or like I like to say the fine print or

dots on it. So you see the little round things on it. If I

reading glasses. Pixels. Hey if you look really really closely

grinder and then there were a lot of sparks and then there

old people also can't see very well. So that's why I use

carried along by the waters of the ocean. Let's see here.

the fine print and it's always important to read the fine

the plant. That's what we'll say about aphids. They drink

close to me actually have stones or rocky beaches and

found in water or in the air most commonly in water though.

and they will suck the well they'll suck the life out of

Sometimes it's three little rectangles in a square with

eventually ladybugs come and they somehow I think the

we stopped using pennies a few years ago. Um you can still

the important crucial source of food for many small and large

Canadian right now. But you're actually seeing a whole bunch

smallest animals. But plankton refers to all kinds of tiny

of really tiny pixels and your brain interprets it as a video

Plankton is plankton are a diverse collection of organisms

bring them to the bank if you need to but other than that

to think of another thing that has dots on it. Oh if you have

they are just out of service. Everything in our stores is

general term to refer to anything that's tiny and

or a live lesson of Bob the Canadian. So pixels are the

tiniest tiniest. on every screen. And when you talk about

screen resolution like this I think I'm live streaming at ten

dice. Actually got some out just for this. So this dice has

the screen. So let's count them. One two three I'm just

tiny little pixels. They're little squares or rectangles.

then they they're on fire. Um when I grind metal a lot of

there's a lot of pebbles. So a pebble then is just a very very

particles fly off. But generally for me the word

Pebbles. So pebbles are just tiny stones or rocks. Um they

talk about small things. Usually I use it to talk about

did research all of these last night but I think I too tired

camera focus on this. We'll try though. Will it focus? Oh I

particle is not something I use a lot. It's a general term to

very tiny things usually in the air around us. Cells. So we are

become dust if it gets small enough. But lint is something

lot of smoke particles in the air. Um the last few days have

quite focus. Come on Mister camera. Maybe if I do it this

that's where you'll hear that word a lot to talk about very

made out of cells. Um pretty much every living thing is made

beaches that are the closest. The beaches that are really

like deliver oxygen I think. You have to have healthy red

dust. Like there's wildfires in Northern Ontario. So there's a

that it must happen while you wash clothes as well. Gathers.

around us is made from atoms. They're like the smallest thing

cells do? Red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs and

the tiniest coin but they're not. The dime is actually

to remember. So cells are very tiny. You can see cells through

out of some kind of cells. These are red blood cells.

This is the blue nose which was a famous ship. There we go.

These are the blood cells that flow in our blood and do things

blood cells in order to be healthy. Um what do red blood

Which is in a famous racing ship I think. I don't know

teacher had special slides made up of something with large

enough cells that you could see it with a microscope. Some kind

So usually for me pebbles are things you find at the beach

you oxygenated I guess would be the word to deliver oxygen

hair. Or this is a little bit thicker than a strand of human

tinier. Let's see if there we go. There's a Canadian dime.

about things that are tiny and reference the human hair. So we

might say things like you know this is thinner than a human

don't have a penny here. In Canada we don't use pennies

are strands and you might have one strand of human hair and

deliver it through the body. Okay good I was I was right. I

tiny rock. Usually when I think of a pebble it's usually round

protons and neutrons and electrons. But an atom is kind

of lint there on the end of my figure. There we go. I'll just

what are called the building blocks of the world. Everything

of the building block. Everything is made out of atoms

anymore. But pennies would be I was just going to say they're

that you can have. Well they have parts. Like they have

in the world around us. This was one of my favourite science

put that over here. I think that lint will eventually

atoms and molecules yet. I don't think we can. I think we

don't have to be super small but when we go to the beach we

know they're there. But I'm not sure we can actually see them.

classes in school when we learned about molecule and atom

and they're usually somewhat small and round. Pennies. So I

and the periodic table of elements and then we learn

microscope but I am teaching English not science. So I don't

Particles. So particles is an interesting word. It can be

dime it has. Let me see here. It features the blue nose.

been good. But there have been smoke particles in the air. So

this is a water molecule and it is made up of tiny tiny atoms.

I don't think we can see atoms and molecule. I don't know if

microscopes are that powerful. Maybe a super powerful

accelerator in Europe. Where they accelerate different

things like if you take oxygen and hydrogen and if they are in

enough about my coin to talk about it. But I put pennies up

a molecule like this it's called H2O which is water. So

know. Maybe Dave the Canadian or Brett knows if we can see

dust in the air I could say there were particles in the

print. And again the other place you might find really

particles. Very very very tiny things. Okay. We also use it to

talk about things like dust. When I said there were specs of

which worries me because old people take a lot of pills and

air. We also use it to talk about things like a firework.

When a firework goes off it a lot of particles come out and

used to talk about specific things. Like there's a particle

some really tiny tiny words in the world. Fine print refers to

fall off. So all around us there is dust. And we often

think I dust it here the other day because I can't actually

comes from the human body. You know our skin slowly pieces

dust you have to dust. So the act of getting rid of dust is

and not jagged. So jagged would mean it's not nice to walk on.

find any dust. Um it will and then in order to get rid of

Crumbs. So this is something I'm very familiar with. When

called dusting. It's something you do to get rid of dust.

crumbs sometimes you get ants. Because they want to eat the

you eat food sometimes little pieces of the food fall on your

usually from drier food like bread or crackers or chips. The

really crunchy cookie some crumbs might fall out when you

through your body. Strands of human hair. So we often talk

That's another word we used. So crumbs just means not very

nice. Like I had a crummy day. It doesn't mean there were lots

plate or on the table or on the counter. When you have a lot of

crumbs. But crumbs refer to tiny tiny tiny pieces of food

yes crumbs Usually from dry food like again like crackers

called crumbs. Um maybe when you take a bite of a cookie a

do that. And that's pretty crummy when that happens.

of crumbs in your day. It just means you had a bad day. But

or dry cookies those kinds of things you will have some

use a lot of sugar which if you look at very very very closely

things that we as humans use a lot of as we prepare food. We

you will see tiny tiny little almost like cubes. So little

small small pieces at the bottom of a chip bag would be

a microscope. Um I do remember in science class in high school

hair. So we often refer to hair as a strand of hair. So these

when we first used a microscope. Uh we the the

of single celled organism probably. Uh and it was very

that very hard in your body to keep you healthy and to keep

very fun. But these are red blood cells. They are something

you might say they've invented a new material and the fibres

Tuesday. I talk about one thing. I talk about learning

comparison. Pollen. So right now in our fields there are

lots of flowers. In fact this week's coming lesson on

English but I made the lesson in the flower field. So you'll

be dust. Dust comes from people walking on dirt and gravel.

or the strands are smaller than a human hair. So we often use

the thickness of a human hair to talk about other things as

really really tiny tiny part of the plant that bees come around

and collect and other insects. Um pollen is something that you

can get pollen on your hand and sometimes it stains your hand

part of the plant. Um that has a function in reproduction but

also something that bees collect. Dust. So I mentioned

little bit of yellow pollen on the top. But pollen is a tiny

that can happen with things like dandelions. There's a

that there are specks of dust. But there's just dust in

general. Uh in the world around us anywhere you go there will

Dust comes from just making stuff in your kitchen. Dust

see lots of flowers. Flowers have pollen and pollen is just

dust and eventually they land on things and you do need to

organisms. They're alive. And they are everywhere. There's

things that float in the air. We would call them specks of

lot about bacteria except that they are very very tiny

some specks of dust in the air. So anyways tiny tiny tiny

and I spin it really fast. Actually if I do it I can see

dust on top of things. There's a little bit of dust on top of

this to dust things. Um let me show you. And then I go outside

This is my my duster. I use this dust you eyes off. I use

my computer monitor. When I have lots of dust I use this.

of dust are things you can see in the air when the sun shines

pleasant feeling at all. And then specks of dust. So specks

You might get a grain of sand in your eye. That's not a

things like wheat and barley and oats. We call those grains.

sew a button back on. She gave me a little needle and thread

through. Like in my house there are times where the sun shines

in the window. And then I can see little specks of dust in

sand. Um maybe you're walking along the beach and it's windy.

grains of sand there. So grain is also used to talk about

the air. They kind of float. And eventually you will have

hold a bunch of sand in your hand there would be millions of

But if you look very very closely at sand it's made up of

country where there is desert you would see a lot of sand.

Grains of sand. So if you go to the beach here if I wanted to

how to sew buttons back on. It's a good skill by the way.

walk on the sand I would go to the beach maybe you live in a

But when we talk about sand we also refer to it as grains of

and it came in handy. I became the person in my dorm who knew

time. It's one of the things my mom taught me to do before I

went to university. She taught me how to do laundry, how to

tiny tiny grains. So we call them grains of sand. If you

one kid is sick because they have a virus and they spread it

very common virus that recently went around the world. It's

is sick. Atom. So we're getting away from the living world into

scholars object and say that it is viruses. Interesting.

to some other kids and then pretty soon everyone in class

let's see here. Hackers like to use virus as a plural. But

I'm the English teacher. Plural of virus. And I have to look up

around it makes people sick. I think we're all familiar with a

very annoying when a virus spreads. Sometimes at school

Anyways. These things are annoying. When a virus is going

we have skin cells and we have all kinds of cells in our body.

are multi-celled organisms. We have many many cells. In fact

would probably be single celled organisms so single celled

That's what I'll say. And some of them only have one cell. We

dust to clean them up. Bacteria. Now I don't know a

animal. It's anything that's alive that's that's alive.

But there are some tiny tiny tiny organisms which are single

I was going to say similar to animal but it's not really an

organisms are very very tiny. So organism is like a word for

world around us and I mentioned unicelular a more common term

anyways bacteria very tiny tiny organisms that live in the

or disease some of them are bad for you some are beneficial so

can sometimes cause infections bacteria can cause infections

interesting so that's your scientific explanation bacteria

think there's bacteria in your dog's mouth. Bacteria are

bacteria on your skin. There's bacteria outside if you try to

microorganisms. Which have cell walls but lack organism oh

everywhere. And this is one of the ones where I needed to

group of unicelular microorganisms. So they're

meaning of bacteria. And I forget a member of a large

celled. And then of course viruses virus viruses. Uh oh

of paper. I don't have a piece of paper here. Oh I do. If I

of clothing they will pin it together. When you put a piece

piece of metal. And sometimes when someone is fixing a piece

about Tiny Things. The head of a pin. So a pin is a small

conversations. So once again welcome to this English lesson

this English lesson I will explain a number of them. I'll

hear as you read the news and as you have English

Well hello and welcome to this English lesson about Tiny

do my best. A few of them are rather scientific. So I did

very common English vocabulary words that you will see and

gigantic things. And there are also tiny tiny things. And in

the world around us there are normal size things. There are

lot of things. But there are really tiny things that if you

Things. As you know when you look around you you can see a

want to see them you have to look really close or you need a

microscope like this scientist is using in this picture. So in

look up the meaning for one or two of them. But they are all

of I think you do this. You make the thread wet and then

buttons fell off I would need to get a and thread. And then

similar to a pin but you can put thread through the eye. And

really close up. And then the eye of a needle. So a needle is

needle is a very tiny thing. I would then use the needle to

sew my button back on. I haven't done that for a long

the tiny part of the needle is the eye. I would have to kind

you put it through the eye of the needle. So the eye of a

pin in to hold it. But the top of the pin. The very top of the

off if one of they're behind the microphone. If one of my

anyways a pin is a small thing. The head of a pin is a very

then you can use the needle to sew things. If my button fell

remember the phrase. Something about on the head of a pin. But

sometimes talked about as a tiny thing that's in the world

put a piece of paper on a bulletin board I might put a

around us. Sometimes people say things like oh I can't can't

pin is called the head of a pin. And the head of a pin is

tiny thing. It's hard to see unless you look at it. Really

this lesson.