Let's Learn English! Topic: Describing Places! 🏞️🌃🌆 (Lesson Only)

area where people need to get on the subway or the metro,

a city that is trendy. has you know cool restaurants and if

lot of people want to go. I didn't purposely put Toronto

If you visit places in the world like if you went to

when you go to a large city, especially if you're in the

place as being picturesque, this one's easy to remember

describe Places. And people and things, and these are kind of

bands that are popular in the world so Toronto. According to

somewhat remote. That's not exactly true. I have a neighbor

big and. Wide and vast would be the word we would use. Let me

restaurant in Hamilton, which is a city close to me, it will

the list, I read the fifth most Trendiest city in the world,

music, there's cool places to go and to hear the most recent

which I thought was pretty cool.

fashion and you have newer clothes. My watch is not

trendy, but you can also use trendy to talk about a city so

you wanted to see live bands. If you wanted to hear live

place is trendy, it means it's hip or cool or a place where a

one list so trendy is just it just means cool. If your

trendy, It means that your fall. Some of the latest

cities in the world, Toronto, I think was number five on the

years old. Well, it's older than that, but it's expanded

clothes are my clothes are not trendy when your clothes are

core a very modern. Place to live and then trendy. so when a

are developing large cities very quickly very modern

is a thriving city. There are new people moving to Toronto.

here. but when I did a search for the top ten trendiest

rapidly recently and it's very very modern. It has modern

modern. I think this might be Shanghai. I'm not sure I have.

nicely. It's definitely a thriving cities City and then

service and just really cool new buildings and it's downtown

It's very healthy. It's everything's getting built

I should have made better notes about where the pictures were

roads, modern public transit like subways and good train

from so correct me if I'm. But there are some very modern

cities. That means that the city is less than twenty or 30

you describe a place as thriving, you could say, Oh

cities in the world. Some countries are thriving and they

live in Toronto. It's a bustling growing thriving city.

there's. You go to the city. It's a thriving city. Toronto

the tree wasn't thriving when something thrives. It means

thriving. So I have to kind of chop it down. I will plant

all the time. There are people who immigrate to Canada and

tree on my farm on my other channel a few days ago, I said

another one. I will plant another one or two, but when

thriving, so I use this word in a lesson When I talked about a

easy to remember those feelings and that experience. And then

it's healthy and growing and doing well. so many of the

trees on our property are thriving, but one tree isn't

that you enjoyed it and you really liked it and it was just

probably very memorable if you visited. Canada. I'm sure it'll

there's really old cute buildings. I would say that it

this one earlier when you go somewhere and it's just a place

are a little narrower. There's lots of places to sit and

and it's just very quaint. So. Memorable So we talked about

it. It's very cute. It's very yeah like when II always think

is quaint often when I'm watching a TV show from

like to go to times Square in New York City. Those are all

of these famous Places quaint, so a place can be quaint as

could say, Oh, I'd like to go to a few famous places. I'd

like to go to Hollywood. I'd like to go to Las Vegas. I'd

see and there are places that are famous. I think Las Vegas

kind of takes your breath away because it's so so beautiful to

of like older cities like Quebec City, where the streets

breathtaking. I have only seen them from one side. I would

is maybe one of the most famous places in the world. So if you

see here if you visited some cool city like Singapore, it's

be very very memorable. so when a place is memorable, it means

many things that are awe-inspiring where you look at

Egypt, it's probably very memorable. If you visited let's

and you had a good time. you would describe it as memorable.

breathtaking the mountains, the rocky mountains are

ask someone where would you like to go on a trip? someone

cliffs or rock formations or canyons or fjord, there are

place is quaint. It has a little bit of an older feel to

television and film industry. We get to see little glimpses

and there's a lot of cobblestone roads and brick,

describe a place as being very, very clean. Awe inspiring So

places are in the US, but I think that's because of their

famous places in the United States. A lot of the famous

are many places in the world. you would like to visit because

saying it so in the United States, there are many places

Britain, sometimes they'll go. To quaint little villages in

Britain, where the houses are older and the streets are older

them it, it doesn't actually take your breath away, but it

that are just awe inspiring. I actually don't think this is in

love to see them in the United States and in Canada, but some

there are many. Places in the world where the mountains or

where you have really good memories where you saw things

trash and garbage and those kinds of things, but you can

the best. Yeah we went on a trip, but it was just really

the cleanest places in the world. I think it's one of the

of the mountain peaks are breathtaking. when you look at

well. so I would say. Quaint is very similar to charming when a

it and you just are amazed that it exists in the world and that

something and feel amazed or to be in awe is the other way of

believe this is in Singapore. I believe this might be one of

you've seen photos and it just looks amazing it it. Just looks

it wasn't made by people that can be very awe-inspiring as

have a lot of honking a lot of yelling a lot of people

things like Niagara Falls would be awe inspiring. It's also

then describe them as dirty or dingy. I guess dirty would be

well. And then I use the word breathtaking. I'm sure there

streets clean, but some places just aren't clean. You would

the US, though I think this is in the country of Jordan, but

generally when I think about awe inspiring, I think of

any place that has not been touched by human beings. So

places that has many laws to keep city clean to keep city

talking. And then clean so some cities are very clean. I

breathtaking so anything that makes you just stop and look at

unspoiled. If you go out into the wilderness, you can find

the city was really dirty. There's a lot of pollution and

pretty simple one. I'm sure most of you know this. If you

there are many places in Canada that are unspoiled. I'm sure

scenic view or. If you live in an apartment building and you

decide to go somewhere, it can be very noisy. It's not nice

describe you know when you look at a city. If you go up a

can see nature, maybe you live close to the edge of the city.

roads. It is completely unspoiled. Noisy So this is a

amazing. It's very scenic. We sometimes use this word to

similar to picturesque very similar, like just a place

so whenever I think of the word scenic the places I think of

very noisy, but you can also have noisy streets. You can

when Jen and I stayed at a hotel once and the hotel was

road, the leaves are turning color on the trees and around

places. Where humans have not built any houses, there are no

I went to Niagara Falls right now because of the lockdown,

use this word really lightly as well like you could say, were

You could say that you have a scenic view so scenic is

beautiful in the fall. Okay, so there is a road close to me and

it's probably quite deserted right now, I would say scenic.

there are many places in countries like Russia that are

it's just very scenic in the fall. When you drive down that

that basically means you are the only customer and again if

now. There's no people there. You can also use it to describe

there a lot of people at the store? No it's deserted and

mountain at night and look at a city, you might have a very

deserted building and you can see it has the word desert in

canoeing on that lake. It's very very secluded. If you go

very remote. Deserted When a place is deserted, it means

a building that is just not used anymore. So it's a

across the road. I can see my neighbors quite easily. They're

any other houses. Okay. I described earlier my farm is

every corner. It's just beautiful like it's just looks

person's house, I would say that that area is remote very,

Canada There are many secluded places that you can go to you

that's beautiful to look at very scenic unspoiled would be

it right desert is like a place that's just sand and very, very

are places in. Canada and in the United States that look

about a kilometer each way, but if I lived. Somewhere where I

And then we also have remote, okay so secluded and remote

many places are deserted. Niagara Falls is deserted right

needed to drive ten kilometers before I would see another

hot and very. Very, very few people so you can say like we

the opposite of bustling. So if you go to a place right now,

there's no people so it's kind of the opposite of crowded or

really really far north. It's also really cold by the way.

is you will be secluded. It's very secluded. Okay. Northern

could find a lake and you would be the only person in that like

kind of related. If you live in a remote area, it means that

it needs to be fixed magical When people go to Disneyland or

it's a long walk to see one of your neighbors. Okay. If you

Ontario is very secluded. you could go so far north that you

can go to the northern part of any province in Canada and it

would say it's very traditional secluded. So this word came up

where if you replace the door, you have to put a traditional

live somewhere, that's very remote. you probably can't see

shutters, they have to be traditional. So there are some

very traditional. so in some places in some cities in

places where the government has decided to preserve how things

fix their houses because the city wants them to keep things

Canada, there are laws about what people can do when they

there's not very many people around in Canada there are.

enchanting it almost has. A magic type feeling to it. It

earlier in the lesson when a place is secluded, It means

word again. let's see here. Traditional some places can be

to visit. You can also use the word enchanting very similar to

forget about the real world. They might say that it was

door back on the house. If you replace the windows or the

trick so some people when they go to a place that makes them

describe it as magical. It was a magical place, meaning that

very traditional. So there are historical areas or places

look maybe a certain street or neighborhood, and then you

it was like there was magic in the air. You know what magic.

down where they do their laundry and park their cars. so

feels like this is maybe from a story where magic is real, so

Disney world or when people visit castles. Sometimes they

magical. You can see here that this road the trees. it's very

and even part. Of buildings can be run down. I have a friend

just really nice to look at and feels magical. I'll use that

we would describe it as enchanting something that is

magical by the way I would love to visit this castle and

believe this is in Germany that would be a very magical place

Is like when you pull a rabbit out of a hat, It's a magic

run down like the tables were falling apart and you know you

fixing them. okay. So you can go to places that are run down

very nice apartment building, but the basement is very run

that lives in an apartment building in Toronto and it's a

trip was lovely, but we went to a restaurant and it was kind of

can go to places where things need to be fixed and no one is

picture of it or it looks like a beautiful picture. When I

a piece of art sometimes. And then we have run down which I

It's worthy of having a picture taken or it can mean it just

sometimes people will go on a trip and they'll say Oh the

a very cosmopolitan city. So picturesque when you describe a

together. so we would say it's very cosmopolitan. If you went

to Montreal and you were craving food from your home

speaking different languages. you'll it's just it's probably

Montreal. You will have many different, you'll hear people

crowded the Eiffel Tower. When they went up was crowded. there

cosmopolitan. It has English speaking people and French

cosmopolitan. What you usually mean, is that many people from

attractions. They had to wait in line because it was so

trying to get somewhere when you go to. A sports game when

moving in one direction and you can also use the word crowded.

looks like a picture like it looks like nature can look like

down, it means that things are starting to fall apart. so

especially if it's after work, it might be bustling when it's

bustling when a place is bustling, There's lots of

find in areas where you just feel a sense of history. When

many other countries in the world and so you will have.

many different countries who speak many different languages

are all living in the same area. The best example I can

charming. If you go to an older city in any country, you will

country, you would probably be able to. Find a restaurant

can hear people moving around and walking and everyone's

with people okay. So it's just a lot of people all kind of

very calm. The trees all have leaves on them now, and it's

because it simply means a place where you just want to take a

speaking people, but it also has a lot of people from from

river on my farm and it was very picturesque. The water was

just a beautiful thing to see. it's very picturesque. It's it.

crowded cities were crowded when they went to tourist

give is this. The Canadian City of Montreal is very

mentioned earlier when I talked about dingy when a place is run

of years ago to Europe and they visited and. Of European cities

look at the river this morning, I looked out the window at the

the city in Canada that has the highest number of people from

closed. There are many places in the world right now where if

originally from your country who owns that restaurant. It's

still going over the falls, but the rest of the city is closed.

Many different restaurants, many different types of food in

to be crowded. In fact, our school went on a trip a number

there that makes it and you would find someone who was

different parts of the world, all living and working

the arena or the stadium as being the streets are bustling

and they went during a time when it was very busy and so

were so many people who were there. And then we have the

you are there and you see older things and it's just very cute

word cosmopolitan when you describe a place as being

you visited, they are very boring. Okay. It's very boring

boring in the world. Charming when you describe a place as

they found everything to be very crowded restaurants were

the game is over, I would describe the streets outside

so there are many places right now that are a little bit

people and there's lots of you can hear people talking and you

usually a lot of fun and exciting, but you can see the

okay some people when they travel, they find some places

and very charming. So I used the word bustling once already

downtown area, so if you go to an old city in North America or

an older city in Europe, you'll see places that are very

All of the stores and shops are closed. so it's rather boring.

inexpensive like you could say, Oh, we went to London and it

was very inexpensive. It wasn't very expensive at all. it was

our older cities and it has. Really old buildings in the

places would love tourists to start visiting, although it's

travel if you were allowed to, it's very inexpensive plane

very expensive. and of course, there's also places that are

to go to downtown Toronto right now because Toronto's in

have an area where wealthy people like to go so they have

charming, it usually has some history to it. If you go to

actually quite cheap. I think that right now if you were to

you can describe a place as being boring, so this street is

actually somewhat boring to go to Niagara Falls. The water is

Quebec City, which is in the province of Quebec. it's one of

Canada because they want to use the money to protect our parks.

So that city can definitely be described as chaotic expensive.

actually kind of expensive compared to the rest of Canada.

hard to get back into Canada without quarantine right now,

lockdown and they're. Nothing to do so it's very boring. It's

nicer restaurants and nicer stores and shops, and it's very

Okay so camping. Inexpensive compared to going to Monaco,

can certainly describe a trip to a certain place. as being

little pylons and the gates there because this street is

probably usually bustling with people. This place is probably

tickets right now in Canada are very very cheap because. Most

it can be very very chaotic. So when something is chaotic, it

people waiting to cross the street. It's very very busy and

lacks order. so when something is very organized, it's very.

has become a little more expensive each year here in

lots of money. In fact, here's a funny story if you go. To a

car in Niagara Falls and I'm pretty sure most major. Cities

but camping can be still a little bit expensive, but you

less money. camping is usually inexpensive, although camping

expensive. As I mentioned earlier, Niagara Falls is

go train. There's people honking. There's crowds of

with. Lots of traffic in the downtown. If you go to downtown

inexpensive. So if a place is inexpensive, it means it cost

When you go to Niagara Falls, you tend to pay more for

chaotic. If you describe a place as being chaotic, there's

Orderly but when it's not, it can be chaotic so.

I think this is Monaco, you can go to places that are

restaurant in Niagara Falls, it will probably cost you about

in my mind. When I think about chaotic, I think about a city

certain things. Even gas is a little more expensive for your

Ubers. There's streetcar. There's the metro. There's the

Toronto, it can be very chaotic. There's taxis. there's

souvenir shops where people sell t shirts and little

Toronto actually isn't very touristy. There's not really

any tourist attractions in Toronto, though like the whole

about $27 for the same meal because Niagara Falls is very

the year. There are a lot of stores that specialize in

Falls is the tourist attraction. Let me see here

Canadian flags. so it's very very touristy.

city is a tourist attraction, whereas the actual Niagara

too many people. Around you so this happens in almost every

touristy. Okay. There's lots of lights at night. There's lots

I think that's the only place close to me that is touristy

to Niagara Falls, it's very touristy at certain parts of

of crowds of people walking around. There's a lot of

eventually those places can become very touristy. If you go

be a very good person to be on a submarine if I was in the

small places. so definitely you can feel claustrophobic. You

selling things to tourists. There's a lot of places where

things are very expensive because they know tourists have

claustrophobic, it means that the walls are really close

Navy and they said, Do you want to go on a submarine? I would

don't like being in small spaces. I don't think I would

alleyway. It's very very claustrophobic and let me just

country, there are places that are really cool to visit and

probably cost you about $20 for a meal. If you go to the same

can even feel claustrophobic in a crowd by the way if there's

claustrophobic. this alleyway. This is a claustrophobic

straight and it's a little bit dark. This would. A very

claustrophobic. if a person is claustrophobic. It means they

say no. I'm really claustrophobic. I don't like

check something here. Yeah. So claustrophobia is a fear of

being in really small places. It just makes me. Not scared,

opposite of open would be claustrophobic. This word is

really hard to say, but if you describe a place as being

buildings. It's just very. Flat and very open so the open

I'm just uncomfortable, but you can describe a place as being

plains we would call it in the Midwest of the United States

together and the spaces between buildings might be very narrow.

claustrophobic place to be you can also say that you are

You can see this alleyway is very narrow and it's not very

the province of Saskatchewan and Canada, it's very open.

and in the Midwest of Canada, it's very very open. the

when you look in every direction, there are no

mountains. There are no skyscrapers. There are no

farmland. So when you go out into the country, you could

that is calm that is soothing that makes you feel at peace.

where it's very calm like. If you describe a lake as serene,

place where you are is serene, it's usually quiet but also

vacation, maybe in the southern part of your country and maybe

think about a busy office building where you work, it's

not tranquil. It's probably loud and there's phones ringing

tranquil, it means that it's quiet. It's enjoyable. If you

in mind once in a. While as well, let's see here let's

nature and I hear water and I don't hear traffic. I don't

there's a really quiet place where you can go for a

lacks motion okay, but serene and tranquil can be used

nice island, maybe in the Caribbean or the Caribbean.

and everyone is working hard, but if you think of a really

There's two ways to say it or in the Mediterranean, maybe

use the word serene, we're usually talking about a place

make my slide a little smaller. I have a few slides that are a

it all in in order to see it all. I believe this is the

means that. You can have trouble seeing all of it

could happen that could happen to you in Toronto, I know

places in Canada as well. so, but yes, things can be

around so when you go. To large cities, there are sometimes

without turning your head so you you look this way and the

dangerous part of the city and someone stole my wallet that

at night we went out and we got lost and we ended up in a

a woman as being beautiful. You can also describe a place as

eye is what you would say so a lot of times when I make videos

know where this is. this is just a picture I found on the

gorgeous. so you'll see in this picture. This is just a very

open when a place is open. It means that there's no

describe it as being very open. You could say if you lived in

buildings. It means that there's mostly nature or

other, which sometimes happens in some people's houses. maybe

somewhat interchangeably and then we of course have the word

finish with this and then we'll jump into some questions so

to the lake or down to the river, I find those places to

be very peaceful. There are places where my I just relax

when I'm there because it's not necessarily quiet but I hear

so if you were to. Go and sit by water. Generally when I go

hear people. I don't hear kids fighting or yelling at each

Hopefully you don't live there. Hopefully one of you watching

internet so I don't know if this is a dangerous place.

tranquil. We might also say it's serene. although when we

favorite. Actress you think is gorgeous. You can also describe

and we were in a certain city. I don't want to say a name and

So let me make this a little bit bigger. So when you

dangerous, usually at night in some parts of some cities vast.

beautiful part of the city. so the same way you might describe

at all. It's definitely a place that. That is messy a place

peaceful. just the standard word for describing a place

a city or a place that you are looking at as gorgeous so just

place is so vast you have to kind of turn your head to take

there's not very many waves on the lake. If you describe a

little more on the calm side. So when you describe a place as

people as well. I think I mentioned that already you can

it's kind of dark and smelly and dingy let's. Here and then

with no crime and that's simply not true. There are dangerous

sometime. People think Canada is this beautiful amazing place

very, very pleasing and attractive and pleasing to the

There aren't very many people around and it can be very

on my farm, people will say that the landscape behind me is

at on the ocean and we would describe that place as

dangerous. so you could say, Oh, we went on a on a vacation

see everything you have to look all around you because it's so

beautiful or that there was a gorgeous view of the farm when

describe a place as being vast, it's just really really big. It

doesn't say hey, that's my house and it's not dangerous. I

we also use some of the same words to describe places as

is very, very vast. You can't just look straight ahead and

took this picture because it's dark and it's there's no people

Grand Canyon. I'm checking my notes here. It is a place that

I made that lesson so using some of. The same adjectives

like in this picture, and it's just a place that's not homey

or a dingy house. The wallpaper might be coming off the walls

Places. And last week, we did a lesson on dangerous things and

places in those large cities where at night, it's very dark.

that we would use to describe people. we can also describe

word friendly to describe a place as well. I like to buy

another way to describe it. So sometimes people will see an an

apartment they can rent on the internet and then when they go

so if you look. Here this lady is selling flowers. that's not

dingy. it maybe doesn't have very much natural light. so

say that a place is beautiful. You can say that a place is

place is very much a place that is messy. a dingy Places will

different person selling flowers, but this looks like a

and cozy and when they get there, it's actually quite

Sorry, there's one meaning to this word. There's another

being beautiful in the same way as you might say, maybe your

dingy Places needs to be cleaned up in a dingy apartment

to look at it, The pictures on the internet look really homey

inviting so cozy is simply any place that makes you feel

that probably smells and a place that is run down. That's

they try to make it their own. They try to make it as. Hoy as

of maybe pillows that I like, maybe some posters or paintings

the more likely I am to be a regular. Customer also this

very friendly place. It looks like a very friendly place to

English lesson where I'm going to help you learn how to

spelling to talk about a person, but this is a word when

place that is well okay. Not really the opposite. A dingy

Homie for me when I think about Oh, it's just a really homey

smell a dingy Places will have stuff garbage on the floor. A

France, she didn't understand why we would say that a place

a cozy place is, but cozy. Can be almost anything some

we say Homie, we need to make something comfortable to make a

Jen by the way that's not Jen in the picture. It's a

when you feel. At home, then you would describe a place as

and that apartment is empty, it's not homey. one of the

will try to create a really homey space for themselves. So

things from friendly places. In fact, the friendlier a place is

first things people do when they move into a new place. Is

place where you go to read a book in your house is probably

possible they will move in their furniture. They will hang

is friendly, but if you go to a store and if the people there

being very homey. Which is kind of the opposite of dingy a

a very cozy place. But definitely for people who live

place like home. Okay. So if you move into a new apartment

word cozy if they think of a cozy place, they're probably

relaxed and comfortable any any of you that read books The

space or a homey place. I think of a comfortable couch. I think

things on the wall, a painting maybe that they like and they

in English for Describing things like Places, but that I

that a place is friendly. This is kind of weird when I was

there's two actual meanings to this word and two spellings.

on the wall that I like that would make me feel at home and

teaching English, a long time ago to a friend of mine from

thinking of a warm place where they can go after being outside

in the cold weather. So we use some adjectives to describe

in a country where there's winter if they think of the

people and we also use them to describe Places so you can say

world. It's a very much in my mind associated with a place

furniture and by decorating it in a way that makes it warm and

go and ask about flowers and buy flowers so we can use the

are friendly, you could also say that the store is friendly.

some new ones today and hopefully you'll enjoy this

students when they go to university have a small dorm

room, but they try to make it cozy by putting in comfortable

have a cup of hot tea and to be sitting in a room that has a

doesn't have to mean this, but my feeling of cozy would be to

fireplace that would be the Canadian interpretation of what

that's warm. that's warm when it's cold outside, but it

think maybe you haven't heard before because I know as you

put it this way. I try to find the words that are very common

try to find the words that aren't at well. Let me let me

learn English, you probably learn the most common words to

describe Places so. Cozy is in my opinion a very Canadian

like the next level of words for you. Hopefully you'll learn

have a number of English words that I'm going to teach you. I

Well, hello and welcome to this English lesson where I'm going

to help you learn how to describe Places in English. I

so Places can also be dangerous. I hope that II don't