Free English Class! Topic: Hair! 🧔🏽💇✂️ (Lesson Only)

Well hello and welcome to this English lesson. Today we're

going to be talking about hair. This might sound like a very

simple topic. But I was surprised when I was putting

the slides together on the topic. How many words I could

think of. How many words and phrases there are when it comes

to learning how to talk about hair. Yes hair the stuff that

is on most of our heads. Unless some of you are older and maybe

you are bald. Sometimes men lose their hair when they get

older. Uh and they don't have any. But this is an English

lesson about hair. Um I was surprised because Jen gave me

the idea. She said why don't you do a lesson on hair? And I

thought there would only be about fifteen words but I have

over 40 words and phrases to teach you this morning about

hair. So I think you will really enjoy this English

lesson. So hair. Hair is what you have up here on your head.

But interestingly enough we do have hair on other parts of our

body as well. I'm not going to go into all the details except

to say that if you're talking about hair on another part of

your body you just mentioned the body part and then say

hair. So people have ear hair. That's kind of a weird one.

People sometimes have nose hair. Especially older men.

Sometimes you have nose hair. We have armpit hair as well. We

have arm hair and leg hair. And this is a bit of an awkward

one. There's an area of the body a private area where you

have something called pubic hair. I'm not going to talk too

much about that. But we do have hair all over our body. Most of

this lesson is going to be about the hair that you have on

your head. So you can see this person here has nice hair. I

think I have nice hair as well. Although I do tend to keep my

hair pretty short. Some people have long hair. So when you

describe hair there's a lot of ways to describe it. And I

didn't want to spend too much time talking about it. You can

say that someone has long hair A lot of women have long hair.

Some men have long hair. Long hair is any hair I would say

that grows past your shoulders. So this person I would say

definitely has long hair. And the opposite of course would be

short hair. I would describe short hair as any hair that is

above the shoulder or to the shoulder. Um there's a lot of

other ways to describe hair. You can have curly hair where

you have like little ringlets. Uh you can have frizzy hair.

You can Have a lot of different styles of hair. But for the

most part people talk about hair in the sense of long hair

or short hair. I have short hair. I have really short hair.

Now there is other hair on the body as well. That's not part

of the head or the arm or the leg. Um and we call this a

beard. I think you're familiar with this. I am going over some

of the simpler vocabulary. So when you have hair on the lower

cheeks and on the chin we call this a beard. And then when you

have no hair here when you shave here and you just have

hair here we call this a goatee. So I used to have a

goatee a long time ago. I think it's called a goatee because if

I go and look at my goats some of the goats have a little bit

of hair growing right down here at the end of their chin. So I

wonder if the word goatee comes from the fact that it looks a

little bit like you have the same hair as a goat. Uh you

know what a goat is right? Like ma with horns and not a sheep a

goat and then you have what's called a mustache so let's zoom

in on this guy this is my mustache so this guy here has a

beard and he has a mustache a mustache would be hair that you

grow right above the lip right below the nose I like having a

mustache it just I don't know I've had a mustache and a bit

of a beard I don't grow my beard very long for quite a

number of years in fact I think a year ago I shaved my beard

and mustache and a lot of viewers didn't like it. They

said they didn't recognize me. And they said I looked much

better with facial hair. So that's the term I've just used

facial hair. When you have a beard or a goatee or a mustache

we call that facial hair. Hair that grows on your face. I get

my haircut I cut it myself and then Jen trims it for me. I use

a trimmer or clippers. But a lot of men go to what's called

a barber. A barber is a person who is trained to cut men's

hair in particular. And a barber often will have a barber

shop. So let's look at these two slides a bit more closely.

So we have this gentleman who is a barber. So someone is

sitting in the chair and he is getting a haircut from his

barber. And that bar Works in what's called a barbershop. A

place with chairs that go up and down and mirrors on the

wall so you can see the haircut as you get it. A woman would

more likely go to a hairdresser or a hairstylist. So a

hairdresser or hairstylist is someone who specializes in

cutting women's hair. Note by the way that a hairstylist

doesn't themselves need to be a man or woman. They can be

either. But a hairdresser or hairstylist is someone who cuts

women's hair. So, if I needed a haircut, I would go and see a

barber at a barbershop. If Jen needed a haircut, she would go

and see a hairdresser or hairstylist at a hair salon.

So, a hair salon looks a lot like a barbershop but it's

designed more for women to get their hair done. Sometimes at a

hair salon, you can also get your nails done and other

things. Maybe you can get a pedicure on your feet but a

hair salon is definitely where Jen would go if she needed get

a haircut. By the way Jen gets her haircut from a friend who

has a little hair salon in her basement. It's a little

business that she runs. So Jen goes to her friend's house to

get her haircut. Or to get a hair to get her hairstyled. So

generally the tools used by someone who cuts hair would be

a scissors and a comb. So often if I was to go get my haircut I

get it cut with clippers. But if I had a bit longer hair I

would have the person cut it with a scissors and a comb. Um

pretty stand tools for a barber or hairstylist to use. Um and

then also they might use a brush. So again some of the

basic English vocabulary here. When you have nice hair and you

want it to look really nice you might brush your hair with a

hair brush and a hair brush looks like that. So here's the

clippers that I was talking about. When I get my haircut I

have my own pair of clippers. You can call them hair trimmers

or hair clippers. I call them clippers. I think that's the

common name. I put a little spacer on the end. I put a

little attachment on the end so that it cuts my hair this long.

And then I buzz my hair off. I think we use the verb buzz in

English because that's the sound the clippers make. It's

like it makes a sound. So I buzz my hair off. But there's

parts I miss so then I sit down and Jen finishes it for me. She

trims around my ears and she trims my neck. But I use

clippers to cut my hair. There's other facial hair as

well. Actually this technically wouldn't be facial hair. I

think this would just be other examples of hair on the body.

We have eyebrows which are above our eyes. So you see that

this lady has dark eyebrows. And the arrow is pointing to

them and we also have eyelashes which are the little bits of

hair that grow right on the eyelid so this is your eyelid

when you close your eye and there's little hair little

eyelashes on the eyelid and then also on the bottom there's

little hair so those are your eyelashes so and if you wear

makeup you might put makeup on on your eyelashes as well I

don't know a lot about makeup. So when you get your hair done

a certain way. In English we often say I'm getting I'm

going to get my hair done tonight. Uh I'm going to go to

the barber and get my hair done or I'm going to go to the

hairstylist and get my hair done. We call it a hairstyle.

So the style of one's hair. How you have your hair. This guy's

hair. His hairstyle is he has his hair combed back. He's

probably using a little bit of hair gel to hold it there. So

that is his hairstyle. We don't use the word hairdo a lot

anymore. Like I don't say hey nice hairdo. Um but it's a word

you might hear if you watch an older TV show or an older

movie. Sometimes people are like oh I got my haircut. How

do you like my new hairdo? Um but now we would probably just

say hairstyle. Or we might even say I got my haircut. How do

you like it? How do you like my hair? It's a new style I'm

trying out. So the style of hair I have is called a buzz

cut. Um because you use clippers and because you say

you're buzzing your hair. This is called a buzz cut. It's a

very common hairstyle in the army. Or if you are police

officer. It's not a very common hairstyle for a teacher. But I

have a buzz cut and I've told this story before because when

I was younger I bought a motorcycle and when you wear a

helmet when you have lots of hair the helmet makes your hair

flat. So I finally just got my haircut really really short and

I liked it so much. I've kept it that way ever since. So a

buzz cut is when you have really short hair. So we're

going to talk a little bit about hair colouring. Um

sometimes people decide they don't like the colour of their

hair. And they decide that they want to dye their Hair. So we

use the verb to dye to talk about changing your hair

colour. But we also just generally use the the phrase

hair colouring you know. Um oh she's really into hair

colouring. Or she do you know anyone who does hair colouring?

You could also say do you know anyone who dyes hair? And

that's someone who would be able to put dye in your hair to

make it purple or green or or if you're old you might even

have your hair dyed to look more natural instead of grey. I

know one person and I won't mention any names who does

that. Someone who is the same age as me but he doesn't have

grey hair. He has nice brown hair as if he's 20 years old

but he's not twenty. He's fifty-two. It's a couple years

older than me. Anyways. Uh hair dye. There's something also

called highlights. So this woman probably has darker brown

hair and she has gotten some blonder highlights put in. So

when you have highlights put in your hair. This isn't something

Bob knows a lot about. I've never gotten highlights. But

it's when you change the colour of some of your hair to be a

lighter colour so that your hair has a nice look to it. So

you might go and get highlights. Um Generally, we

just call getting your haircut a haircut, It's very common to

go and get a haircut. It's common to say to someone hey

did you get a new haircut? Or did you get a haircut? It looks

great. Or your new haircut looks awesome. So we use it as

a noun. So you're going to get a haircut. But it's really an

action isn't it? Um so when you go to the barber or if you go

to the hairstylist you could say hey I'd like to get a

haircut today. Could you do it in the same style as Justin

Bieber. I really like his his hair. I'll So we talked about a

perm which is a short form for permanent. We never say

permanent though. And perms have been popular and then less

popular and popular and less popular and it seems to be they

might be getting popular again. A perm is when you have

straight hair and you go to a hair salon in order to have

your hair made more curly or wavy permanently. Now it's not

100% permanent. It only lasts for about four weeks or eight

weeks. Uh sometimes maybe three months depending on how fast

your hair grows. And I did say that when I was in university I

got a perm once. It was the style way back then in the late

eighties. Um men sometimes got perms to make their hair a

little curlier. I had longer hair and I had curly hair for a

bit. Um if you go back and look at bands in the eighties. If

you go and look at rock music bands in the eighties. A lot of

the guys in the bands had what would say as described as big

hair or curly hair and the way to get that was to get a perm.

So it was a little bit silly but hey that's what teenagers

do don't they? That's what young people do. They do silly

things sometimes. Sometimes people will put their hair up

in a bun. This is when you wrap the hair at the back of your

head. And then sometimes you'll put a pencil or you'll have

something to hold the hair in place. But you could also wrap

it without using anything. We would call that a bun and not

sure if popular anymore but for a while men were having their

hair up in a bun and we call that a man bun. So if you wear

your hair like this we would say you're wearing your hair in

a bun or you're putting your hair in a bun. If you're a man

we would call it a man bun. So you're a man with longer hair.

And you decide that you want to have the hair up behind you in

kind of a small knot. We would call that a bun. Um and yeah I

think it is from the word bun. Like when you eat a bun a bun

in English is a small piece of round bread. Like you eat a

hamburger on a Um and I think that's where the word comes

from. The word bun for sure.

Sometimes people will braid their hair. So braiding is

something that when I was a kid we would we would braid ropes.

We would get ropes. Because I lived on a farm we had a lot of

ropes from the hay. We would braid it. So it's when you take

three strands and you weave them together. Um people with

long hair will sometimes braid their hair. So it's both a verb

and a noun. So you could say my sister is going to braid my

hair. Or I like having a braid in my hair. Okay so you can use

it both ways. But it's when you take longer hair and you weave

it together in a certain pattern and it usually looks

something like that. Uh sometimes people with long hair

will wear a ponytail. So a ponytail I think it's obvious

where this word comes from. It's when you make your hair

almost look like the tail of a horse or a pony. By the way a

pony is it's not really a horse but I'm just going to say it's

a smaller horse. So sometimes men and women they'll put their

hair in a ponytail. So they'll grab their hair at the back.

They might put an elastic in their hair. Um I think in

English we have things called scrunchies. Don't quote me on

that because I don't have long hair. I don't have a ponytail.

But a ponytail Would be when you gather all your hair at the

back of your head and you kind of put usually an elastic or a

rubber band or something maybe a little fancier to hold it

there. Uh very common way for people with long hair to wear

their hair on a day when they don't want their hair you know

to bother them. So a part. I'm not sure if you can see the

arrow here. I put a little arrow on this picture. Some

people will part their hair. Some people part their hair

down the middle. Some people will part their hair on one

side or the other. When I was a lot younger and I had longer

hair a bit longer hair. I had a side part. I would part my hair

right here. That was where my hair naturally parted. You can

see it even does it a little bit now. Um some people part

their hair right in the middle. So they comb in both direct

away from the centre. This guy has his hair parted on the

side. So when you have your hair when you have a part in

your hair it means that you divide the hair kind of in a

straight line. Um because it looks kind of cool. I don't

part my hair now. There's not enough hair for me to part my

hair. Uh sometimes people want curlier hair just temporarily.

So they don't want to get a perm but maybe they're going

out for the evening and they're dressing up in fancy clothes

and they want their hair to look extra cool. So they might

put rollers in their hair. Rollers are hot and the heat

causes the hair to kind of form around the roller and stay a

little bit curly for a day. Um so maybe you're going to a

wedding. Maybe you're going to a prom. By the way I think

Brent from Speak English with this guy. Did an English lesson

about prom. Uh did you do that Brent? I think last week you

should check that out. Um but rollers you can put rollers in

your hair to temporarily give your hair a little bit more

curl. And if you want you can use a curling iron as well.

This is a similar thing but you just do one curl at a time. So

a curling iron is an appliance that you use in the bathroom

that you can wrap your hair in and the heat of the curling

iron will force your hair to be come a bit curly for about a

day. So it's kind of another interesting way to do your hair

if you're going to a special event. That's usually what we

say. I'm going to get my hair done. Um I'm going to a

wedding. I'm going to get my hair done. Jen will often get

her hair done if we go to one of our kid graduations or if we

go to a wedding or if we go to something special Jen will go

to her friends to get her hair done. So a little curlier. I

don't get my hair done. I I usually just get a haircut.

That's it. Hair dryer. Sometimes you wash your hair.

You have a shower or a bath and you wash your hair. And then

you'll use a hair dryer to dry your hair before you go out. I

don't use a hair dryer because my hair dries very quickly. But

if you were going somewhere important and you didn't want

your hair to be wet you might use a hair dryer to dry your

hair before you leave. Sometimes you will shave. Now

here is a picture of a man shaving his face. People

sometimes also shave their legs or they might shave their

armpits. It depends on what you like to do in order to feel

good about yourself. So in North America some women shave

their legs. Some women shave their armpits. Um men don't

generally shave their legs or armpits. Although I heard that

professional swimmers shave off most of their body I'm not I'm

saying things again I'm not an expert but sometimes you have

hair and you want to remove it. You do that by shaving. So I

shave right here and I shave down here but I don't shave

right here. When I shave I use a razor. So a razor is a small

thing that you use in order to shave. So when a razor when you

look at a razor it has sharp blades and you put some shaving

cream on and then you use a razor to shave. Some men will

use a shaver. An electric shaver. You might call it an

electric razor as well. But an electric shaver you would turn

on and it would go and you would just use that to shave

the hair off of your face. Um I tend to just use a razor

because I don't have a lot to shave. So, I just do that and I

use a clipper on my beard. Again, when you wash your hair,

you use shampoo. Some people just use soap but the vast

majority of the world when they wash their hair will use

shampoo. It's a special kind of liquid soap that you use for

your hair and you put it in your hair and then you rinse

your hair when you are done. So, you get your hair wet. You

shampoo in your hair and you kind of scrub your hair or you

what would you say? You wash your hair. That's what I would

say. And then you rinse your hair when you're done. Some

people like their hair to feel very soft and luxurious after

they wash it. So they might use what's called conditioner. So

they wash their hair with shampoo. And then immediately

they'll put conditioner in their hair. Conditioner makes

your hair have more moisture and feel more silky. I don't

use conditioner because I have really short hair. There's no

point. But when you put conditioner in your hair it can

make your hair just look nicer. You might use mousse if you

want your hair to stay a certain way. Sometimes the hair

that I have right here sticks up when it gets long and I

might just put a little bit of mousse in to make it flat like

the other side. So mousse is like a foam but it eventually

will hold the hair in a certain place. I don't use a lot of

mousse. Um you might use hair gel as well. Sometimes men want

to style their hair in a certain way and they'll use

something called hair gel in order to make the hair stay

that way. Um I think two of my sons use a little bit of hair

gel in their hair to make it look a certain way. They like

to have a certain look. So they use a little bit of hair gel to

accomplish it. Now I'm not sure how many people use hairspray.

It used to be very common in the eighties. I know my sisters

used a lot of hairspray in the eighties. Hair spray is

something you spray in your hair. Once your hair looks the

way you want it to look. If you spray hairspray it will hold it

that way. So hairspray is something that I'm not super

familiar with but it is something you use after you

style your hair. If you're going out and you don't want

your hair to move. You want it to stay the way it is. You

might put hairspray in. Sometimes people with long hair

will instead of a bun or a ponytail, they might just use a

hair clip. So they might have a big clip and there's many many

different styles and they'll use that to hold their hair in

place. And sometimes people will use bobby pins. I always

laugh because my name's Bob and I don't know why they're called

bobby pins. But these are little pins you can use. If you

put your hair up like this lady's hair she probably has

bobby pins holding her hair in place. And then she's probably

using hairspray to make sure it stays that way. But bobby pins

are little metal pins that you put in your hair just to hold

it certain ways. And sometimes I don't know why I picked a

picture of a dog. Sometimes people don't have hair for

medical reasons. Sometimes people don't like their hair.

Sometimes people just want to look different for an evening

and they might then wear a wig. So a wig is of course either

made from actual hair or it might be made from fake hair.

But it's something that you wear in order to look like you

have a different hairstyle. Sometimes people wear wigs like

on Halloween. If you're dressing up you might wear a

wig as well to look like someone else. But as mentioned

in the chat earlier sometimes even for medical reasons people

will wear a wig. If you're going through chemo if you're

going through a treatment where your hair is going to fall out

you decide to just wear a wig for a few months while you're

going through that treatment. So again a wig is I guess fake

hair that you put on. And then men sometimes go bald. So this

gentleman here in the bottom corner he is going bald. So he

has decided to wear a toupee. I have to be honest. I don't know

if we use this word anymore and I don't know if very many men

wear topes in North America anymore. I have a feeling it's

not as popular as it was in the seventies and maybe in the

eighties. But a toupe is like a partial wig for a man who's

going bald. Um so this man decided he did not like being

bald. He is going to wear a toupee and make it look like he

has lots and lots of hair.