Free English Class! Topic: Vehicles! 🚗🚛🚃 (Lesson Only)

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Well, hello and welcome to
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this English lesson about vehicles.
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Where would we be in life if we didn't have vehicles?
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Vehicles allow us to travel quickly
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from one place to another.
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Vehicles give us freedom.
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Vehicles allow us to visit people that if we didn't
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have vehicles, we wouldn't be able to visit very easily.
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I know for my, for me, when I
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visit my mom, it's a 30 minutes drive.
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If I didn't have a vehicle,
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how long would that take me?
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Half a day to walk there?
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Almost a whole day.
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Anyways, enough about what would
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life be like without vehicles?
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Welcome to this English lesson about vehicles.
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We're going to get started fairly quickly because I
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have a lot of slides to talk about.
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So once again, welcome to
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this English lesson about vehicles.
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All of those things with four wheels or sometimes
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two wheels or three wheels or, or one wheel.
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The things we drive around to get places.
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While I'm sure it's not much of a surprise that
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the first slide is car, I'm going to go through
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all of the very common vocabulary as quickly as possible.
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All I will say about this is the car
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is one of the coolest things ever invented.
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I know we're polluting a little bit when we drive them.
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I know that we need to be a
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little bit more careful about that, but the
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car has certainly helped create the modern world.
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I don't know what I would do if I didn't have
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a car, especially in a country as big as Canada.
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So a car is used for people
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to get from one place to another.
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A truck, on the other hand, is used
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to get things from one place to another.
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These are probably the two most common
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vehicles that I see on the road.
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A car and a truck.
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Or cars and trucks.
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If I want to use the plural again,
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cars have let us bring people everywhere or
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take people everywhere or drive everywhere.
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Trucks have let us bring things everywhere.
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And there's other things we use to transport things.
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But trucks are certainly one of them and certainly
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have helped us to have a modern world.
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And then there are different kinds of trucks.
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There's something called a pickup truck.
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This is very common in Canada.
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This truck has two purposes.
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You can use it as your daily driver.
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That's what we refer to, or that's how we refer
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to the car or truck you drive every day.
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So you could just drive it to work or maybe you
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own a construction company and you have a pickup truck so
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that you can put wood in the back or your tools
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and go to the job site to build things.
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But certainly one type of truck a very
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common type of truck is the pickup truck.
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So we have a phrase behind the wheel,
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and it means the same as to drive.
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So I could say this.
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There was an accident yesterday, and
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I'm not sure who was driving.
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I could also say, I don't
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know who was behind the wheel.
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If I said to a friend, I was in
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a car accident yesterday, they could say, were you
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behind the wheel, or was someone else driving?
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So that part of a car or
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vehicle is called the steering wheel.
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And a common way to refer to the person who is
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driving is to say they are the person behind the wheel.
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You'll see this sometimes in news articles, they'll
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say there was an accident and the person
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behind the wheel was charged with careless driving.
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There's also something called a food truck.
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I know when I was a construction worker, the
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food truck would come to the job site every
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day, and sometimes I would buy food, but usually
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I was trying to save my money.
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But a food truck is a truck that a person can
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drive somewhere, and when they park, they can open up the
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back and they can sell food from the food truck.
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A little homage to my french
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friends over in France, Boulangerie.
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But anyways, food truck.
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A truck you can buy food from in Canada.
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Now, these trucks have a variety of names.
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Sometimes they're called an 18 wheeler.
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In Canada, we generally refer to a
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truck like this as a transport truck.
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A truck that is used to transport goods or products
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across the country or from one town to another.
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So when you are driving down the road, if you
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see a truck, the front part is called a tractor,
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and the back part is called a trailer.
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We usually call it a transport truck.
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You can also call it a tractor trailer. Like, just.
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We just put the two words together.
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You know, my cousin drives a tractor trailer.
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Or you could just say, it's an 18 wheeler, probably.
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For me, I say transport truck the most.
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And sometimes I even shorten it.
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I'll say, whoa, I went.
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I was on the highway yesterday.
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There were a lot of transports on
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the highway, which simply means transport truck.
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And then this is, of course,
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what, you know, bob drives.
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I have two vans.
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We used to call these minivans, but
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now we just call it a van.
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I think when they first made
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this type of vehicle, it was.
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There was a van, and then they made a
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smaller version of it and called it a minivan.
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So you still might hear that word.
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This is the best vehicle to drive.
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If you have a lot of children or if you
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regularly need to give rides to a lot of people.
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So a van is a super handy thing to have.
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And our vans, you can fold the
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seats down flat in the back.
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So it's kind of like a pickup truck.
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Then, like, I can fold all the seats flat,
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and then I can put stuff in the back,
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like wood or plywood or something like that.
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I used to have an suv.
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I used to have a Nissan Pathfinder.
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An suv is a sport utility vehicle.
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They usually have four wheel drive if you need it.
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My Nissan Pathfinder had four wheel drive.
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It was very nice in the winter, by the way.
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I had two. I had one.
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And then eventually I put over 300,000 km on it.
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So I sold it.
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And then I bought a second one.
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This was before we had lots of children.
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An suv is not a great vehicle
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for a guy with lots of kids.
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So eventually I got rid of it.
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But, um, suv is what we, we actually say. That suv.
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Oh, I'm driving an suv now.
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Are you still driving your van?
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No, I bought an suv.
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And it means sport utility vehicle.
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Usually a vehicle that is a little higher
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off the ground and has four wheel drive.
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In case you want to drive somewhere where the roads
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aren't as good, you don't get stuck as easily.
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And then we have something called a crossover.
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This is kind of an suv in kind of a car.
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So they've taken some of the best qualities of
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both and made a vehicle that has, you know,
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it's kind of like an suv in some ways,
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and kind of like a car in other ways.
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Many people in Canada drive cars like this.
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Now is a very common car to see on the road.
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Then, of course, there's the types of cars I don't own.
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You could have a sports car, so you
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could buy a Lamborghini or a Ferrari, or
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a McLaren, or a Corvette or a Mustang.
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These are all considered sports cars.
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They're cars that are designed
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to go really fast, safely.
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They're cars that are designed
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for people who love cars.
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For instance, my uncle has a.
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He loves cars.
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So when he had enough money, he bought a sports car.
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He bought a Ford Mustang, and he loves it.
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It's a really nice car, by the way.
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But in order to own a sports car, you do
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have to have enough money to own a sports car.
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And then, of course, if you like going to
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the racetrack, you could buy a race car.
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A race car is a car that's designed not to
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go on the road, but to go on a racetrack.
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So maybe you like to race cars.
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You get a thrill from driving
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fast and competing against other drivers.
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You would have a special car that you
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would take to a racetrack on a trailer.
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You can't drive it to the racetrack.
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And then at the racetrack, you would
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race against other people to see who
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could drive around the track the fastest.
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So, race car.
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I like watching car racing, but I don't
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think I would ever own a race car. Not.
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Not something I would want to do.
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Hey, if you get into a small accident, we
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sometimes refer to it as a fender bender.
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I did want to put some phrases
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in here about vehicles as well.
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So if you get into a big accident where you.
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You can't drive your car afterwards, we
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probably wouldn't call that a fender bender.
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But if you just kind of hit someone and both
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of your cars have a small amount of damage, we
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might say, oh, I got into a fender bender, and
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we might even say a minor fender bender.
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Um, so, by the way, a fender is.
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That's the side of the car around the wheel, and to
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bend means to, you know, if I bend something like this.
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So because it rhymes, it's a nice
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way of talking about a small accident.
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Oh, she got into a fender bender in the parking lot.
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It's not a lot of damage.
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We'll just get it.
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Get it fixed at the repair shop.
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A small fender bender.
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Hey, when I was a kid, I did have a go kart.
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I actually bought a lawnmower from my neighbor and converted it
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into a go kart and drove it around the farm.
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A go kart is a small vehicle, usually,
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that's driven by older children or young teenagers
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before they're able to drive a real car.
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They might have a little go
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kart that they drive around.
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So the best way to describe this would
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be a really small car that older kids
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or young teenagers drive because they like driving.
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In fact, many people who become race car drivers
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get their career started driving a go kart.
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That's a small car.
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Usually you can race them.
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Sometimes you can go with people and go to a
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place where you can pay to drive go karts.
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Even as an adult, that's a lot of fun to do.
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A burnout.
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So, if you spin your tires without moving forward, if you
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get in a car and you put it in drive, if
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it's an automatic or you put it in first gear and
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pop the clutch, the tires, if you hit the gas pedal
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hard, will spin, and smoke will come off the tires.
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And we call this to do a burnout.
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Students from my school sometimes like to go and
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do burnouts on roads where police officers don't drive.
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They, for some reason, they enjoy doing that.
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It's not good for your tires, by the way,
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but if you watch a race, sometimes if you
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watch a car race, they'll do little burnouts before
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the race to warm up the tires.
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And then in Canada and in other countries
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where there's snow, you might go and do
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donuts in a parking lot when it snows.
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I do this sometimes.
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Still not a lot.
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By the way, when you have a front wheel
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drive vehicle, you have to do the donuts backwards.
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I don't understand the physics totally, but
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if you have a rear wheel drive
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vehicle, you can do donuts going forward.
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But if you have a front wheel
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drive vehicle, you have to go backwards.
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And basically, it's when you drive in a circle really
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quickly, and it's kind of hard to explain, but it's.
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It's like a.
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It's like a fun ride, I guess. You.
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Your car will drift a little bit,
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and it's kind of a unique experience.
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If you've never done donuts, you
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should, at some point safely.
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Actually, I can't recommend this
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because it's probably not safe.
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Someday you'll see a movie and someone in the movie
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will do donuts and you'll know what it's like.
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I don't recommend doing it, but did
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I admit that I do it? I did.
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I think a bus.
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So there are a lot of different types of buses.
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A bus is a large vehicle that many people can ride on.
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Usually you pay to go on a bus.
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Sometimes it's just a bus that takes you
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from one part of an airport to another.
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But a bus is a gigantic vehicle with a
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driver that can take you around a city or
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around an airport, or from one city to another.
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If you are going to school, we
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would call it a school bus.
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So, in Canada, school buses look like this.
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They are gigantic yellow vehicles.
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We call the person who drives this
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a bus driver or school bus driver.
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And usually they stop.
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The lights flash, a little stop sign pops out,
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and the kids get on the bus, and then
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the bus driver takes them to school.
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I did mention this a little bit.
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A city bus is a bus in
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a city usually owned by the city.
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And you can buy a ticket to go on the bus.
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Or you might just use the app for that city.
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Or you might have a pass.
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You might have a bus pass, which simply lets you
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ride the bus as much as you want to.
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But a city bus is usually a big bus that makes
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multiple stops as it drives around the city in order to
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help people get to work or even get to school.
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You can take a city bus to get to school.
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If you go on a trip, you might take a coach bus.
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A coach bus.
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What's a good word is a luxurious bus.
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It's a really big bus with really comfortable seats.
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And usually you go on a bus like this
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if you are a tourist or if you are
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going on a trip somewhere to sightsee.
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So we see a lot of coach buses.
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We see a lot of tourist buses in Niagara Falls.
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It's a very common sight.
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They're usually filled with people
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from all of your countries.
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So when I go to Niagara Falls, I see people
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from all different countries from around the world, and often
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they're on a coach bus as they visit different sites.
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Niagara Falls.
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And we talked a little bit about this.
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An rv is a recreational vehicle.
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It's basically a house on wheels.
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So you can buy an rv or rent an rv and use it
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to go camping, or you can just use it to go on vacation.
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I know some people will rent an rv even for
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something like going to a wedding in a faraway city.
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And then they might drive the rv there and camp
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along the way, and they might just park the rv
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in their, in someone's driveway while they're visiting.
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But normally an rv is something that you own or you
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rent in order to go do a little bit of camping.
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Very common to see rvs in Canada on the
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road in about a month, from about May, early
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May until middle to the middle of fall.
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There are a lot of rvs on the road in Canada.
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So the phrase to stop on a
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dime means to stop very, very quickly.
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Don't think I have a dime here, let me.
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Oh, I do have a dime here. Okay, here we go. Is it.
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Oh, look at it. It's american.
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Why do I have an american dime?
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Maybe Brent lost it when he was at my house.
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Here's a canadian.
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Okay, I'll show you both.
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Let's see if we can get focus on these.
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So we have the american.
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Will it focus on them? Yes.
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Oh, the american ones upside down.
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Sorry, sorry. Americans.
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Let me try and get that right.
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Why does it matter?
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It doesn't matter.
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Sort of focusing.
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It sees my face.
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There we go.
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Anyways, a dime is a very small coin.
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And we have this little phrase.
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If a car can stop quickly, we say,
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oh, I can stop on a dime.
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This guy is wrecking his tires a little bit here.
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But if a car or you can even describe
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an action you took, you could say, oh, I
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had to stop on a dime the other day.
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But usually we use it to describe
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a car that can stop quickly.
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So there are vehicles that we use
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that we don't use on the road.
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A tractor is a vehicle that is used on a farm.
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Usually you would hook up farm implements or
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farm equipment to the back of it.
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This guy is out tedding.
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He's actually spreading out the hay so it dries better.
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But tractors are very, very cool.
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They're very powerful vehicles.
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They're designed not to go fast, but to pull
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heavy things or to pull equipment that goes in
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the ground to work up the soil. So, um.
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And a person operating this would
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be called a tractor driver. Um. Um.
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So, tractor, very cool vehicle.
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I have a couple, um, the big tractor
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I have, though, I don't use as much.
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I feel like I should sell it.
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That would be a good idea, a forklift.
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So this is something you would find in a factory or in
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a warehouse, or you might find it at a lumber yard.
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A forklift is a very slow vehicle
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that is really good at lifting things.
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Generally the forks.
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That's why we call it a forklift.
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The two things on the front are the forks.
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Generally, the forks will go under a pile of
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wood, or they might go into a pallet that
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has a lot of stuff on it.
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A pallet is a wooden or plastic structure
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that we stack things on a boat.
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So a boat is a little different than a ship.
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So in my mind, a boat is a small
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vehicle that you would use on the water.
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A ship is a very large vehicle on the water.
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It actually sounds funny to me to call them vehicles.
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Technically, they're vehicles, but a boat
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would be something like this.
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Maybe you have a boat to go fishing with your friends.
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Maybe you like water skiing, and you have a boat
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that you can use when you go water skiing.
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A ship is generally very large.
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It might be used to transport many people,
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or it might be used to transport a
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lot of products across the ocean.
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A ferry is a special kind of ship
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that moves cars from one place to another.
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So you drive your car onto the ferry, and it takes
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you across from one part of a country to the other.
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I know these are very common in Europe.
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They're common in western Canada.
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There are ferries in the province of British Columbia, and there
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are a few ferries on the east coast as well.
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But a large boat that transports both cars and people.
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But usually it transports cars.
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In our modern world, a sailboat is
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a boat that's powered by the wind.
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So you put up your sails, you unfurl your sails.
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Then the wind helps you to
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get from one place to another.
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I've never been on a sailboat. No, that's not true.
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I think I've been on a
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sailboat once trying to remember.
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It was a really tiny one, though, so.
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Yeah, that was a long time ago.
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Anyways, probably very cool to be on a sailboat.
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I do know someone who sold their house and bought
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a sailboat, and they just live on their sailboat now.
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That sounds. Sounds pretty cool.
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I'm sure it has its, um, pros and cons, though.
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A rowboat is a boat where you use oars
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in order to get from one place to another.
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A canoe is similar, but a canoe is a
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little different in the sense that this looks more
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like an old boat, a traditional boat.
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And you probably row like this.
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You probably connect the oars to the boat,
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and you row in a traditional way.
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But a canoe, you row like this. Okay.
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I don't know if I have kayak on here.
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I should have put kayak on here.
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A kayak is similar to a canoe, but it's for one person.
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We have a few kayaks. They're fun.
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Anyways, this is a pretty
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common sight in northern Canada.
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If you come to Canada and you go camping
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in the north, you will see canoes everywhere.
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You will see people carrying canoes to the lakes.
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You will see canoes on the lakes.
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Usually there's one, two, or three people in
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the canoe enjoying their time on the lake.
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This is something I have never been on, and I don't
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know if I would go on a cruise ship is a
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large ship that people use to go on vacation.
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So, in Canada, it's pretty common to go south
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in the winter because it's very, very cold.
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And it's a common to go to somewhere warm. It's a.
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It's common to go somewhere warm, like Florida.
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And often people will take a cruise.
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They will go on a cruise ship to visit
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a whole bunch of different areas down there.
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Um, so, yes, uh, I think I would feel crowded. There's.
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There's like 30, 00, 40, 00, 60
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00 people on a cruise ship.
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I'm not sure.
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I guess I should do it once and see if I like it.
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Maybe someday we'll see.
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A motorboat is simply a boat with a motor on the back.
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It might be an outboard motor like this one,
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or it could be an inboard motor where it's
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kind of built into the boat, but definitely a
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little faster than a rowboat or a canoe.
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And generally used for.
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In Canada, motor boats are generally used for
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fishing or for water skiing or other things
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out on the lake or out on.
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On the river.
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But definitely motorboat.
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A boat with a motor.
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A speedboat is something a little different.
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A speedboat is a motorboat, but
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designed to go really fast.
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Just like we have cars and sports cars and cars
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and race cars, we also have boats and speedboats.
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Speedboats are designed to go really,
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really fast, not just for racing.
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Some people own speedboats because they like going
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really, really fast when they're on the ocean
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or on the lake or somewhere else.
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If you're wealthy, you can buy a yacht.
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This is a very hard word to say.
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If you don't know how to say
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it, you can't sound this word out.
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But it's just yacht.
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You can ignore the c and the h.
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A yacht is a large, luxurious
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boat designed for very wealthy people.
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You can probably have parties on yachts.
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Notice I don't know what you do on yachts.
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You could probably sleep on your yacht.
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I'm sure it has bedrooms.
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I'm sure you could, um, go from one
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country to another on your yacht and vacation
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in beautiful places that I've never been to.
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But anyways, a yacht is a
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very large boat, designed to be.
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It's kind of like an rv, but on water. That's.
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That's a good way to describe it.
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And then there's, of course, what we call a submarine.
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This is a boat that goes underwater.
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So a submarine is generally used by navies,
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it's used by the military, and it's.
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It's a boat that can go underwater in order
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to go undetected by other countries or your enemies.
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An airplane or just a plane.
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So this is the generic term
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for anything with wings that flies.
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Okay, so a plane usually has two wings.
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Sometimes you go on a plane
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because you're going on a trip.
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Sometimes planes are just used to send
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things around the world, but definitely something
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that flies in the air.
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It still amazes me that planes can fly.
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I know we've had planes for a long
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time, but it still amazes me that something
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that big and that heavy can fly.
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It's just cool.
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You might also just call it a jet.
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Um, I think most planes, most
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passenger planes now are jets.
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The difference is, if a plane has
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a propeller, then it's not a jet.
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A jet is a type of engine that sucks
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air in and then shoots high velocity air and
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exhaust out the back in order to develop propulsion.
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I don't really know what I'm talking about,
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but a propeller spins like a fan.
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A jet engine just shoots.
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I'm gonna say air, but it's exhaust and
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spent fuel and everything else out the back.
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If you want a science lesson on jets, I'm
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sure there's someone on YouTube teaching about it.
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If it is something used by an air
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force, we usually call it a fighter jet.
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If you watch the movie top gun, there were
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a lot of fighter jets in that movie.
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Um, Tom Cruise stars in a movie where,
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um, there's definitely a lot of fighter jets.
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People learn to fly fighter jets.
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And, uh, Tom Cruise saves the day.
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Spoiler alert.
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I guess he saves the day.
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There's some good music, too.
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A helicopter is a different kind of aircraft.
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A helicopter develops lift by having a giant, for lack
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of a better word, a giant propeller on top.
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As it spins, it allows the helicopter to rise.
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So a helicopter is different than an airplane in the
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sense that it can take off and land vertically.
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An airplane needs a Runway in order to
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take off, and an airplane needs a Runway
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to land on a fairly long Runway.
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A helicopter can simply land wherever it wants
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and take off from wherever it wants.
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That's why many hospitals have helicopter landing pads
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on the roof so that helicopters, or what
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we call air ambulances, can land.
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You have a train.
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Sometimes you take a train to go to the city.
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If you're someone like me, I drive as close to the
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city as possible, and then I jump on a train.
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I like to go by train because it's cheap,
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and then I don't have to worry about parking.
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And there are different kinds of trains.
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I'll talk about that in a sec, I think.
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Um, excuse me.
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So one of the things that's common about trains
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is that they go on rails or railroad tracks.
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This isn't technically a train, but a streetcar or a
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trolley is similar because it goes on tracks as well.
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Sometimes when you go to the city, there are
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city buses, sometimes there are streetcars or trolley cars,
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and it works the same as a bus.
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You can pay to go on the streetcar, and it
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will take you to a different part of the city.
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If a train, which has lots of
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train cars or cars behind it.
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This is another place where we use the word car.
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If it is primarily used to send things from one
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place to another, we call it a freight train.
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So in Canada, when I stop at a railroad
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crossing, it's often a freight train going by, usually
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in our area, loaded with cars or car parts.
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Because my part of Canada is about
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four or 5 hours away from Detroit.
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So southern Ontario and Detroit, Michigan, it's, there are
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a lot of cars built here and a lot
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of car parts built in this area.
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Basically from, like, there's a place near me city where
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there are just tons of small factories that make car
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parts, and they all get shipped to Detroit.
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So anyways, a freight train, it's
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full of freight or cargo.
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You could say passenger train, of
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course, has people on it.
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When I go to Toronto, I take a passenger train.
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It's actually called the go train.
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So I buy a Go train ticket
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and I take the train to Toronto.
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I don't like to go by car
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because it's hard to find parking.
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If you go to Toronto to go shopping or
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to see a game, it's hard to find parking.
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Passenger trains are common in our large cities.
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But I think I mentioned this earlier.
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I would love it if we had a high speed train in Canada.
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We don't have any high speed trains,
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29:12
but that would make life more enjoyable.
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As I get older, I could just
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jump on the high speed train.
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That would be fun.
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A rocket is, of course, a vehicle that goes into space.
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We know that NASA in North America
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or the European Space Agency or SpaceX.
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I think it's the European Space Agency.
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Don't you guys shoot rockets
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out of South America somewhere? I don't know.
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One of you Europeans will have to answer that.
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29:38
A rocket is a vehicle that has rocket
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29:40
engines on the bottom, and it is used
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to send people or things into space.
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29:46
I will probably never go on a rocket, but
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maybe my great great great grandchildren will go on
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29:52
a rocket someday to go to the moon. We'll see.
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29:56
A motorcycle is a two wheeled vehicle.
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29:59
I had a motorcycle when I was younger.
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I had a Yamaha 400 Maxim.
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It was red.
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I still miss it, but it was kind of dangerous.
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30:07
Motorcycles are not the safest vehicles to drive.
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There's no airbag on a motorcycle.
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30:13
But again, a motorcycle is a two wheeled vehicle.
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30:17
When you ride on a motorcycle, you're out in
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the open, and you do need to wear a
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30:22
helmet in Canada, if you ride a motorcycle.
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30:30
So this.
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So there's two ways to say this.
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You can pop a wheelie or you can do a wheelie.
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30:36
So a wheelie is when you are on a
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two wheeled vehicle, like a bicycle or motorcycle, and
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30:42
you bring the front tire up into the air.
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30:45
So you pop a wheelie or you do a wheelie, and some
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people can drive with their front tire up in the air.
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30:51
When I was a kid, I could do this for
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a little bit for a little while with my bike.
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I could do a wheelie, pop a wheelie, and pedal
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a little bit with my front wheel in the air.
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31:02
A scooter is a very, very small motorcycle.
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I don't really want to call good
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it a motorcycle because it's not.
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But a scooter is something that doesn't go very fast,
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31:14
and it's very handy for getting around in a city.
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31:18
You do not see a lot of scooters in Canada.
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They're not very common.
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I know they're very common in some european countries.
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31:26
And I know when I lived in Michigan, you could get.
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31:30
You could drive a scooter when you were 14, like
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before you got your license, you could drive a scooter.
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31:36
So they were somewhat popular for, I
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31:39
think, 14 year olds in Michigan.
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31:44
So a quad or an ATV or a
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four wheeler is similar to a dirt bike.
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They're both designed for going off road.
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It's designed for driving through the woods
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or forest or in a field.
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31:58
ATV stands for all terrain vehicle, but quad, because
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32:02
it has four tires, is a common name. Do you have a quad?
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32:05
Yeah, I bought a quad the other day.
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32:07
Um, you can see these guys
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32:08
are out driving their four wheelers.
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They're out driving their cars or quads.
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They're driving their ATV's.
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32:13
I don't know why I said car there. That was a mistake.
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Delete that part.
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Quad, ATV, four wheeler.
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I do not have a quad, but it would
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32:21
be handy on the farm to have a quad.
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32:23
Um, maybe someday we'll get it.
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We'll get one.
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32:27
And then a dirt bike is a
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motorcycle that's designed to go off road.
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32:32
A dirt bike is used to drive in the dirt on trails.
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32:37
You get really muddy when you drive a dirt bike.
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When I was a kid, some of my friends had dirt bikes.
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I did not.
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I wanted one, but my parents wouldn't let me buy one.
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It's sad.
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It's too bad.
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A bicycle is, of course, a vehicle with
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pedals where you use your own energy and
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32:55
power to get from one place to another.
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32:58
So on the farm, we have lots
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33:00
of bikes, by the way, and we.
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We usually say bike.
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We don't often say bicycle. How did you get to work?
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Oh, I rode my bicycle.
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That's correct.
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But people would say, oh, I rode my bike. Okay.
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How did you get to work?
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I rode my bike to work.
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I'm going to ride my bike home later tonight.
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Bikes are really popular in Canada for exercise.
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They're not really popular as a mode of transportation.
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So people, at least in my area, not very
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33:30
many people bike to work, but a lot of
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people will bike on the weekends for exercise.
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33:35
We see a lot of bikes go by on the weekends.
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33:38
Training wheels.
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So if you are a kid, what am I doing here?
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If you are a kid, let me start again. Training wheels.
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33:45
If you are a kid and you are learning to ride
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a bike, you might have training wheels on your bike.
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33:51
This is so that your bike doesn't fall over.
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So you can lean a little bit
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and the bike doesn't fall over.
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And then as you practice with our kids, at least
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you raise the training wheels up a little bit every
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34:06
couple weeks so that you can lean a bit more.
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34:08
And then eventually you know how to ride a bike.
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34:12
A unicycle is, I guess I was going to say it's
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a bike with one wheel, but it's not a bike because
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34:19
the word the b is actually means two tires.
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Like bicycle means two tires.
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Tricycle has three tires, by the way. So unicycle.
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So it's a type of cycle that you can ride.
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I think I.
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I think I can ride a unicycle still.
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I think I learned.
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I had a friend that had one, but I think
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if I tried now, I would probably fall off.
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Okay, I'm going to do the last ones really
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34:44
quickly so we can finish this off and then
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34:47
I can get to work on time.
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A hot air balloon is something you can ride in.
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You can go on a hot air balloon ride
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and you can go up in the air peacefully.
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There's no motor or engine.
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It's just a balloon filled with hot air.
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Hot air rises.
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There is like a thing that you pull and
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it makes a flame to heat up the air.
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35:09
I have not been on a hot air balloon ride,
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35:12
but a friend of Jen who has a flower farm
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35:15
like us, far a little ways from us.
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35:18
A hot air balloon kind of landed
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35:20
in their flower field once by accident.
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35:22
An ambulance is a vehicle that you ride in
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35:25
if you need to get to the hospital quickly.
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35:27
If you are in a car accident, an ambulance
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35:30
and you're hurt, an ambulance will come and pick
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35:32
you up and take you to the hospital quickly.
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35:36
And the people who drive the ambulance and the people
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35:39
in the back are trained to give you medical care.
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35:42
So it's like a mini hospital on
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35:45
wheels to get you to the hospital.
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35:49
A backhoe is a type of vehicle used to dig a hole.
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It usually has a loader on the front and
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35:56
a bucket on the back so it can dig.
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35:58
It has a nice arm with
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36:00
hydraulics that let you dig holes.
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36:02
A dump truck is a type of truck that you
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36:05
can use to transport dirt or gravel or stone.
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36:09
It's a very large, strong vehicle that's
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36:13
designed to carry lots of material.
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36:16
So here you'll often see dump trucks filled
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36:19
with dirt or stone or gravel going by.
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36:23
A tow truck is a vehicle used to tow other vehicles.
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36:26
When your vehicle breaks down, you
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36:28
can call a tow truck.
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36:30
If you have roadside assistance, like me, it doesn't cost anything,
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36:34
but if you don't, you would have to pay the tow
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36:36
truck operator to come and pick up your vehicle.
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36:41
A taxi is a vehicle that you can get
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36:44
a ride in, and you pay the driver.
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36:47
So if you're in a city, you can call a
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36:49
taxi, and the taxi will come and pick you up.
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36:52
I don't think I have Uber on this lesson.
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36:54
That word has just entered our
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36:57
vocabulary in the last few years.
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36:59
You could call an Uber, which is similar
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37:02
to a taxi, but it's someone driving their
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37:04
own car, giving rides for money.
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37:06
But you could call a taxi.
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37:08
If you were in New York City, you.
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37:09
You could call a taxi and take a taxi somewhere and
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37:12
then pay the driver if you don't have your own car.
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37:16
Um, if you live in Canada, you might have a chance
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37:20
to ride a snowmobile or drive a snowmobile or skidoo.
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37:23
I have driven a snowmobile many times.
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2031
37:25
I do not own one, but there are
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37:28
so many people with snowmobiles around here.
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37:30
It's pretty easy, uh, to go for a snowmobile ride.
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37:34
That would mean you're on the
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37:35
back or to drive a snowmobile.
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37:37
Lots of fun.
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37:39
And then if it's summer, you just go
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37:41
on a sea do or jet ski.
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37:43
Very similar experience.
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37:45
A snowmobile and a sea do, it's very similar. It's.
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37:50
What would we call these?
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These are like recreational vehicles as
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37:55
well, but not like a camper.
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37:57
It's a vehicle for doing recreational things.
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38:00
So it's winter, go up north, rent a
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38:03
snowmobile, drive around on the snowmobile trails.
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38:05
Lots of fun.
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38:07
It's summer, go to the lake.
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38:09
Maybe you have a sea do or jet ski, or
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38:11
you can rent one, do that, drive around, have some
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38:15
fun, and then fire engine or fire truck.
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38:18
So we have these if there's a fire
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38:21
or even if there's a car accident.
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So in many countries, the fire department has
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more jobs than just putting out fires.
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38:29
In Canada, if you're in a car accident, the
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38:32
fire engine will come and the firefighters will help
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38:35
get injured people out of their vehicles.
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So usually in Canada, if there's a fire,
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the police and the firefighters show up.
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If you call 911, that's our number.
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If you have a car accident, the police
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and the firefighters show up to help you.
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38:50
And then, of course, garbage trucks.
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38:53
Garbage trucks are trucks that are
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used to pick up garbage.
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Our garbage day is Thursdays.
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So yesterday morning, the garbage truck came.
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Even where I live, way out in the
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country, the garbage truck comes and picks up
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our garbage, our recycling and our compost.
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We say garbage.
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In my part of Canada, maybe
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you say trash where you are.
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