Free English Class! Topic: Storage 🗃️📦🧰 (Lesson Only)

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Learn English with Bob the Canadian


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Well hello and welcome to this English lesson about storage.
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You might think this is a strange topic but as I thought
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about a lesson idea one of the ideas on my list was to talk
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about storage. We all own a lot of things. As you go through
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life you accumulate things. You buy things. By the way
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accumulate means you get more and more. Um and you need to
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put all of those things somewhere. Whether it's knives
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and forks and kitchen. Whether it's a camera that you just
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bought. Uh whether it's something like the laptop that
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you take back and forth to work. It's nice to have a place
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to store things. So then in English storage is the word we
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use to talk about the places we put things when we want to be
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organized. In fact I like the phrase in your house.
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Everything should have a home. Your cups should have a home.
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Uh your computer should have a home. If everything has a home
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in your home if there's store Storage for everything your
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house is very very organized. So once again welcome to this
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english lesson about storage. So the idea for this lesson
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started when I was looking for my suit jacket in my closet. A
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closet is a small little it's not really a room. It's a space
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in a room or in a hallway with a door usually where you can
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store things usually clothing. Although we do have a closet
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where we just store boxes of old clothes and boxes of things
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we don't use anymore. But generally a bed closet is used
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to store clothing. So I have my suit jackets in there. My blue
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shirts hang in my closet as well. After we do laundry we
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put clothes on hangers and put them in the closet. So on coat
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hangers. Uh closets are really really nice because you can put
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all your stuff in there and close the doors and then
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everything is neat and tidy. Now you heard me say bedroom
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closet. That's how we describe closets. We put the word in
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front if we want to say where it is. So bedroom closet,
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upstairs hallway closet, downstairs closet, back room
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closet, living room closet, whenever you talk about a
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closet, you just put the room name in front and that's where
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that closet is. Shelf, probably the next most common way place
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to store things would be a shelf. Um there are things like
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bookshelves. There are just normal shelves where you put a
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variety of things. But you probably in your house have a
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few shelves. Notice the plural. We lose the F and add a V. Uh a
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shelf is a nice place to put things. If you want to be able
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to see them still. Uh I have a shelf in my old Studio where I
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have all my camera gear. When I need a camera I go to that
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shelf and grab one. So it's nice to have a shelf for that
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and we used to have shelves in our kitchen. But we we replace
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them with cupboards. Drawer. So the next most common place to
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store things would be in a drawer. Notice how I'm
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pronouncing this word drawer. It's kind of a weird sound
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isn't it? Drawer. It looks like drawer. But a drawer is someone
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who draws. Oh my friend's a good drawer. But this is a
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Drawer. This is a drawer. I've said it enough times now I
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think. A drawer pulls out. You can open a drawer and close a
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drawer. Um and again when you're referring to a drawer
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you can mention the room as well. It's in one of the
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kitchen drawers. Uh it's in one of the drawers in your dresser
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in the bedroom. So you can kind of mention where it is.
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But a drawer's handy. You can put small things in. This looks
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like a drawer in a teacher's desk. Desks also have drawers.
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Because it has a lot of pens and sharpies and elastics. It
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definitely looks like the drawer in my desk at school.
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And then we have of course the cupboard. Another strange
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pronunciation. Um it's cupboard. In our kitchen we
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have kitchen cupboards. So we keep our plates. We keep food
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in our cupboards. Um when the cupboards are bare it means
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there's no food in the cupboard. But definitely a
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cupboard is a nice place. You have a door. You open the
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cupboard. You put things in the cupboard. When you come home
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from getting groceries. You put the groceries away in the
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cupboard. So we go to the grocery store. We buy
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groceries. We come home. We unpack the bags. And we put
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groceries away. We put the groceries in the cupboard. Um
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nice handy. Usually drawers and cupboards go together. You can
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see there are cupboards on the bottom and there's a row of
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drawers here. So kitchen cupboards and kitchen drawers.
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And then there's another word cabinet. And we use this word
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kind of interchangeably with cupboard. So I can say I keep
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my food in my kitchen cabinets. Or I keep my food in my kitchen
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cupboards. Cabinets are it's I guess a little more formal way
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to say it. Sometimes people will put some cabinets in their
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garage to store things. Uh but cupboards are usually the I
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think that's the more common way to refer to them. You know
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we have law of cupboard space in our kitchen. That means we
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have lots of cupboards to put things in. We have lots of
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kitchen cabinets. Cubbyhole. So this might be one of the first
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ones that you might not know. A cubby hole is a small square
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storage area. Probably the most common place where you'll see a
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cubby hole is at a school especially for younger
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children. When kids are six or seven or eight in their
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classroom they might have a cubby hole where they can keep
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their stuff. So a cubby hole to it's usually square. It could
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be round but most furniture is square. And it's a little place
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where you put things like backpacks or bags. Um there was
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a gym I used to go to where when I went to the gym I had a
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little cubby hole I could put my stuff in. Uh the gym I go to
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now though I have a locker and I'll talk about lockers in a
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bit. But a cubby hole just a small little area where you can
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store your belongings. That's how we refer to the things you
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own. Uh when you go somewhere You might go to a variety of
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different places. Where you might find a cubby hole. So
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when you store paper or when you store folders or when you
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store important documents you will probably put them in a
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file cabinet. I actually have one right there. I can't show
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you because it's a mess. As I talk about storage and
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organization. The room behind me is always neat and tidy. So
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this is usually neat and tidy behind me. But the rest of the
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room behind the camera is a bit of a mess. I need to store
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things better but I do have a file cabinet. It's a place
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where when you get important things in the mail if you need
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to keep them you put them in the file cabinet. Yesterday I
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renewed the license plates for my vehicles. And so I printed
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out the renewal and stored one copy in the glove compartment
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of our vehicle and one in my file cabinet. By the way I
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didn't put glove compartment. On the list of storage. I
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should have done that. File cabinet. Great place to store
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paper. You'll probably see a lot of these in an office
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building. And then locker I mentioned this briefly earlier.
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Sometimes when you go to a gym you will get changed in a
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change room and you will put your stuff in a locker. A
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locker is usually a steel cabinet. It's usually made out
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of metal. It usually locks hence the name locker. It
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usually locks and your belongings are then secure when
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you go to work out. They're also very popular in schools in
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North America particularly at a high school. A high school will
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often have lockers in the hallway. And a student will be
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given a locker at the beginning of the year. Your locker number
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ninety-three they'll say. And then you will have a place to
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put your backpack and your textbooks and your computer
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laptop. Uh and then you can put a combination lock on it. So a
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locker another really nice place to store things. And then
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we have something in North America. I'm not sure if
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everyone has this in the world. But it's called a storage
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locker. Or self storage. Um North Americans some of them
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have so much stuff. It doesn't all fit In their house. This is
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kind of a weird thing about North America. So some people
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not everyone but some people will rent a storage locker or
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they'll rent a locker at a self-storage facility and
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they'll keep some of their things in a locker. Uh if
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you've ever watched the show Storage Wars that's when
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someone doesn't pay for their locker and so then the company
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auctions off their stuff. Look it up if you haven't seen it.
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It's a interesting peek into North American life. And of
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course a lot of people have a garage as part of their house.
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You can see in the bottom photo this is a garage door. And
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often people will put shelves in their garage. Or other
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things. So that they can store stuff. So here you see they
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have a lot of containers. They've put their things in
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containers and put them on shelves. So our garage as well
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has a large shelf in it. And we store many many things in our
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garage. It's just a great place to store things. Basement So a
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lot of North American houses have what's called a basement.
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This is the area of the house which is below ground. So we go
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down our basement stairs and we have a basement. North
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Americans don't often live in their basements. They might
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have a living room. They might have one or two bedrooms down
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there. But they might also have a large area like this. Let me
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make this a bit bigger for you. So we as well have an area in
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our basement where It's not for living. It's for storage. You
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can see these people have built a lot of shelves in their
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basement. Often you will keep camping gear in your basement
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like tents. You might keep your Christmas tree in your basement
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if you have a fake Christmas tree and all of your Christmas
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decorations. Uh you usually buy a lot of boxes and containers
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and I'll talk about those in a bit. Uh but many people will
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have a storage area in their basement. Uh and they will
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store a lot of things down there. We do that. Definitely.
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Our Christmas tree is in our basement right now on a shelf.
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Um and people sometimes will have a small shed in their
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yard. So they'll either buy a shed. A shed is a small
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building. Specifically for storage. Or people might build
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a shed. The interesting thing in Canada is you can build a
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shed that's 10 feet by 10 feet and you don't need a building
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permit. You don't need permission from the government.
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But a shed again is a small building and people will keep
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their lawn mower, their garden tools and those types of things
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in it. It's a great place to store things that you need to
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use when you do yard work. When you are gardening it's nice to
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have a shed with all your gardening tools in it. In fact
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some people call it a garden shed. Let's talk about the
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things you can store stuff in. This might go a little quicker.
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Sorry if I talk too fast. I'll try to talk my normal speed.
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The simplest place to store something is in a box. We order
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things from Amazon. Those things come in boxes. And we
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keep the boxes because the cardboard box this is a
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cardboard it's really handy for storing things. I like to have
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boxes to put things in. In fact beside my file cabinet is a
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stack of boxes with stuff in them. So the most basic thing
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to store things in would be a box. And here we have a storage
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box. I just wanted to highlight that sometimes we add the word
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storage to things to indicate what it's for. This box is
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handy because it has a lid. In English when we say something's
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handy it means it's very very useful. So definitely Box and
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Storage Box are two common things that people use to store
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things. And then if you have valuable things like if you
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have jewelry by the way this is the North American spelling of
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jewelry. So there might be an extra L and E if you are
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learning British English. But often people will have a
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jewelry box. And they'll keep their rings, their bracelets,
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they'll keep their necklaces. By the way if you're wondering
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what happened you can see I'm a little bit scratched up here. I
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was working in the field and there were a lot of thistles.
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Thistles are a of plant with prickly things on it and my
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arms got scratched up a little bit. So now I have a burn
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that's healing and my arms are scratching up. Sorry this has
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nothing to do with the lesson. Let me continue. A jewelry box
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is handy for storing earrings, rings, bracelets, necklaces I
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think I've mentioned most of the things that you would store
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in a jewelry box. And usually people will keep this in their
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bedroom. Because one of the first things you might do in
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the morning is put on your jewelry and you might take it
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off at the end of the day. In our kitchen we have a lot of
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containers. Now there's a few different words for these
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containers. You can just say food container. Uh at the end
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of a meal we put our leftovers in a food container. You can
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call it a plastic container. Some people refer to all of
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this as Tupperware. Tupperware is a brand name of containers
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you can buy to use in the kitchen. Um and some people
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have started to call them Ziploc containers. Remember a
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Ziploc bag if you squeeze it it closes. But Ziploc also makes
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containers and people have started to call them that. So
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container, food container, storage container, Tupperware,
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Ziploc, whatever you want to call it. The things you use to
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store food. And we also have what's called a crate. Excuse
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me. A crate. Oh let me make that a bit smaller. A crate is
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usually usually open on the top although the one pictured it
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does have a lid. Um this is a variety of crates. They can be
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made out of wood. They can be made out of plastic. Uh and
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they're used to not just store things but to ship things. So
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when a company builds something they'll put it in a crate. And
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they'll send it on a truck or a boat in the crate. Now when a
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crate gets to its destination people often use the crate to
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store things. It's a handy little I guess it's kind of a
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box. We have you see this black one here. In Canada this is
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called a milk crate because milk comes in bags in Canada so
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they put the bags in the crate but there are really handy
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thing to have. We use a lot of them on the flower farm.
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Anyways these are crates. Uh just handy little things. I
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guess you could say boxes that are used to move things. And
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then we have basket. So a basket is a little different
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than a box or crate. A basket often if you pour water in a
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basket it would run out. So a basket has some airflow. We use
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baskets at the grocery store. So these are baskets you would
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grab if you're buying groceries. Uh we also use them
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to store laundry. That's a laundry basket way on the other
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side. Uh baskets can be made out of plastic or they might be
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woven out of different kinds of material. And then we have of
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course the bag. Now their a bag can be a nap sack. A bag can be
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like this one that you would carry It's kind of something
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with handles that you can put things in. It's not exactly for
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storage although it can be. I mean I have bags that I put
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cameras in. I have a camera bag. So you can have a bag
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that's used for storage. I usually keep my camera in a
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camera bag. In our garage we have a few hooks. In the barn
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we have hooks by our front door we have hooks. Hooks are
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anything that you can hang something on. When I come home
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I have hooks over there and I can hang my coat on a hook. In
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the garage we have hooks and we can hang garden tools on the
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hooks. Hooks are nice. Um and you always hang something on a
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hook. That's the verb you use in English. So the other day
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when I came home I was wearing my jacket. I took off my jacket
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and I hung my jacket up on a hook. Um in the winter when I
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get home next winter when I come home I will hang my coat
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up everyday on a hook. And this is the picture I wanted to show
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you. This isn't my actual bottle. Sometimes people use a
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bottle to store things. When I was a kid I didn't have a piggy
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bank. I had a bottle just like this one. I got it to from some
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Italian friends who used them to make they would make wine
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and this would be their wine bottle and they gave me an
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empty bottle once and then I used that bottle to keep all of
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my money in. So if I got a quarter from my grandma or if I
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found a dime in the street whenever I found coins I would
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put them in my bottle. So this was kind of my piggy bank when
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I was a kid. This is how I stored money. But yes people
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use bottles to store all kinds of things. And then there's
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barrels. So barrels typically used probably the most popular
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thing is for wine. Wine is often aged in barrels. Uh
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barrels are used to make whiskey and all different kinds
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of alcoholic beverages. Um even up to a while ago I think you
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could buy pickles in a barrel. Pickles are cucumbers that are
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in a like a salt brine solution but a barrel is definitely
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looks like this. There are plastic barrels as well. We buy
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certain things for the farm in barrels. Uh usually a barrel is
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if you put it on its side you can roll it. Sorry I'm knocking
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my mic here. But a barrel is another cool place to store.
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Usually liquids I think. Although pickles I guess
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pickles are in saltwater so or brine. A toolbox if you are
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someone who likes to fix things you will probably have tools.
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The best place to keep your tools is in a toolbox. The
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worst place to keep your tools is the last place you use them.
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I'm guilty of leaving my tools in the last place where I use
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them. Sometimes I forget to bring them back to the toolbox
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where I forget to put them in the toolbox or hang them on the
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hooks that we have. We have hooks as well for different
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tools. But a toolbox is a small box made out of metal or
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plastic and it's a great place to store your hammer, your
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screwdrivers, your wrenches, and all the other tools that
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you use. So a mailbox isn't really a storage area. But at
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my place of work I have a mailbox. And I actually use it
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to store things a little bit. Sometimes I put things in my
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mailbox just so that I know where they are. Um we don't use
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our mailboxes as much anymore because we use email a lot
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more. So we have these little storage. You can almost call
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them cubby holes but we have these little mailbox slots at
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our school and I sometimes I keep some paperwork in there so
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that I know where it is. So we're going to talk a little
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bit about a trunk and I think the next phrase is trunk, the
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trunk, let me make these bigger. trunk, trunk. So this
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is a trunk. We might also call this a chest. I'll talk about a
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chest in a minute. Some people will have a trunk and they'll
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store old clothing in there. Some people will keep their
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winter clothes in a trunk during the summer. So they'll
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put their winter coat and their hat and mittens in a trunk
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because they don't need it for a few months. Um so they might
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have a large trunk somewhere and they put things in there.
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Um often people will have a trunk in their attic or in
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their basement. I'll talk about attics in a bit. Um but a trunk
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is a place where can keep things. I think it's very
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common in Canada to put all your winter clothes in a trunk.
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Uh and then take them out in the late fall when it gets cold
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again. And then trunk of a car. We don't call this a boot in
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Canada. We call this the trunk. Um you don't really store
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things in the trunk. But I thought because I'm talking
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about trunks. I should talk about trunks. A trunk is a
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little storage area in a car. And I should have mentioned
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glove box or glove compartment as well. That's a small storage
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area inside the car. Where you can keep things Like gloves if
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you wanted to but I don't actually know that many people
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that keep gloves in their glove box. It's kind of a funny
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thing. But yes that is a trunk. So chest. There's not a whole
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lot of difference between a trunk and a chest. Although I
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would not call this a trunk because it has legs on it. I
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know that's kind of weird. Maybe that's just me. I would
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call this a trunk. And because this has legs I would call it a
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chest. So maybe that's the Difference but a chest again is
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a large wooden or plastic or metal box where you can store
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things. Now there's a unique kind of chest or trunk called a
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foot locker. This is a common thing for people to have at the
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end of their bed. Not everyone but a foot locker is kind of a
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nice lockable case I guess or chest. I'm just going to call
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it a foot locker. This is a foot locker. I'll just call it
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that. Um when I went to university a lot of students
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had foot lockers in the room. Because you shared the room
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with another person. You had a roommate. And you might have a
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few things that you wanted to keep secure or safe. And so you
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might have a foot locker that you could lock and then your
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roommate couldn't pry and look at all of your stuff when you
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were gone. I never had a foot locker at university but then I
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didn't really have much of anything at university. I just
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had my books in my brain. A pallet. This is also called a
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skid. A pallet is something that they use in factories.
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When they build things they put them on pallets and then they
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put the pallets on trucks using forklifts. A pallet is designed
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so the forklift can lift it. Um but often pallets can be used
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as well to store things. We store things on pallets in our
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shed. On our farm we have pallets. We store hay on
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pallets. So there's airflow. At some places they store things
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on pallets because they need to be able to move them easily. So
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a pallet or what can also be called a skid. Uh looks like
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this. Uh I think pallet is the more common word and it's a
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great place to store things.
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And then we have of course the shipping container. I think
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everyone has seen one of these. A shipping container is a large
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metal box but it's definitely bigger than a box. A shipping
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container is used to ship things. But people have started
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to use shipping containers to store things. In our area
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sometimes instead of building a shed people will buy an old
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shipping container and a truck will bring it to their place
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and then they will put it backyard and they will store
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things in it. In fact it became a bit of a problem so in my
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area I'm pretty sure there's a law now that you can't buy
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shipping containers and use them to store things. I'll have
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to double check that but people were getting very upset because
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there were so many shipping containers. But definitely used
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to ship things and also where you can store things. So I
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mentioned earlier that I store my camera in a camera case. You
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can also call it a camera bag. In fact that's what I think I
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called it earlier. When I go somewhere I take my camera bag
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and it has my camera in it. But I also store my camera in my
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camera bag. So the camera I'm using now when I'm done this
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live stream I will put it back in my camera case. I keep it in
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my camera bag or camera case during the week. So that in I
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don't want it to you know I don't want someone to knock it
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over or accidentally touch the lens. So I want to keep it safe
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so I store it in my camera case. Notice camera bag and
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camera case are interchangeable all. Then we have what's called
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a bin, a standard bin looks like this. You can't quite see
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it but above the recycle symbol. There's actually it
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says rubber made on it. Rubber made makes a lot of bins. Um
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this wasn't the type of rubber made bin I meant though but a
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bin is a place where usually it's open on the top and you
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can throw things in. You might have a trash bin. You might
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have a recycle bin. You might just have a bin. You know grab
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that bin and fill it up with some newspapers It's just a
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handy container that you can use to store things. Uh let's
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see here. Dresser. So in the bedroom of most houses you'll
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have a dresser. The dresser will have drawers in it. So in
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our bedroom we have two dressers. Um Jen uses one and I
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use the other. And this is where we keep our clothes.
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After we wash our clothes. And after we hang our clothes up to
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dry. We don't use a dryer. We hang our clothes up to dry.
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Then we fold our clothes and we put them in our dresser
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drawers. Um dresser drawer That's hard to say isn't it?
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This dresser has drawers. I put my clothes in my dresser
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drawers. There you go. Try saying that five times. Some
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people have a walk-in closet. If you have lots of money or if
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you were lucky enough to buy a house with walk-in closet, I
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think they're really really nice. A walk-in closet is
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similar to a closet but it's so big that you can walk into it,
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okay? So, when you have a walk-in closet, it means that
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you can walk in and you can look at all your clothing. I
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wish I had a walk-in closet sometimes but I don't. I'm sure
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some of you have walk-in closets but I do not. And
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walk-in closet. Uh I have a nightstand. I keep my Fitbit
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and my wedding ring in the drawer of my nightstand. So
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when I go to sleep at night I take off my wedding ring and my
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Fitbit. By the way this is a fitness tracker called a Fitbit
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and I put them in a drawer in my nightstand. It's a nice
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place to store them during the night. Um because then I know
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exactly where they are the next morning. A window sill. So some
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people store things on a window sill. So here you can see they
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have some plants there and a few tiny tiny gourds or mini
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pumpkins. Um We sometimes store our mail on our window sill.
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When we get the mail we bring it home and we put it on our
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window sill and we might open it later. When we get magazines
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we store magazines on our window sill in our kitchen. So
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that if I'm eating a snack I can grab a magazine to read.
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But a window sill is a little ledge in front of a window. And
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sometimes the ledge is big enough that you can store
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things on it. So that is a window sill. And of course a
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desk usually you have desk drawers. You might store things
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on your desk. Uh but you might also store things in the
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drawers. My desk drawers have paper for my printer. So when I
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need paper I open one of the drawers. Um when I order new
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paper I put it in one of my desk drawers and that is where
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I store my paper. So if the printer ran out of paper and
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Jen needed paper she would say where do you store your paper?
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And I would say it's in the desk drawer. And then she would
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grab some paper. Put it in the printer. A wallet is a great
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place to store things. I don't think my wallet is right you
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know it's way over there. Um but a wallet is a place where
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you store money. Where you store credit cards where you
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store debit cards. Which is a card connected to your bank
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account. Um and a wallet is not just for men. Women can have
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wallets as well. This is definitely a man's wallet. It's
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a you know a might call it a bill fold as well. But I call
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it a wallet. Um like Jen has a wallet and I have a wallet.
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It's a gender neutral term for something you use to store
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money. ID cards credit cards and those types of things. You
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might have a purse. Now, I had to ask Jen and my daughter what
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the difference was between a purse and a handbag. They said
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that a purse is usually smaller and has a strap so you can hang
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it from your shoulder. Whereas a handbag can be a little
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bigger and usually just has handles on top. So once again,
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I'm not an expert. I don't own a purse or a handbag but a
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purse think is usually a bit smaller and has a strap and a
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handbag is usually a bit bigger and has handles. Earlier I
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mentioned the word attic. So an attic is usually sorry not
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usually. An attic is something some people in North America
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have. Usually in an older house. And it's a room way at
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the top. And usually the ceiling is the actual inside of
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the roof. So you can see in this one too. Uh the attic
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space is not a space where people live. Um often times
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it's not heated in the winter. But an attic is a large storage
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area for some people. So they might store things in the
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attic. And fact the same way we store things in our basement.
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Some people store the same things in their attic. We don't
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have an attic. This house was built in 1981 and that is
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considered a more modern home design even though that's like
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over 40 years ago. Um and they didn't build attics anymore.
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They started to put more insulation in houses. So the
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attic space or an attic as a room kind of disappeared in
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North America, especially in the northern parts of North
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America. Some people still have attics though. They are a nice
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place to store things. And then I put this as the last slide
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because I thought this was funny. These aren't my children
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but my kids as they grew up when they were little. They
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would store a lot of things on the floor. If you walked in
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their room you wouldn't be able to walk because all their toys
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would be on the floor. It's not a good place to store things.
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Especially if You're a dad and if you have to go and talk to a
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child at night because they're crying and you're trying to
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walk across the room in the dark you often step on things.
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So don't store things on the floor. Uh but I'm sure if you
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have children or if you have friends with children you'll
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recognize that kids often will store things on the floor. Not
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the best place to store things.
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