🍁 An English Lesson About the Country of Canada 🍁

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Learn English with Bob the Canadian


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Hi, Bob the Canadian here.
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Welcome to this English lesson on the country of Canada.
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Many of you have asked me to do an English lesson
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on the country that I call home, so I thought
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in this video, I would teach you 20 interesting facts
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about the country that I know and love, called Canada.
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(upbeat guitar music)
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Canada has two official languages, English and French.
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In fact, everything you buy in Canada
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has an English side and a French side.
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You can see on this Cheerio box
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that it says Honey Nut Cheerios and then on the French side,
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it says Cheerios au miel et aux noix
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So in many provinces in Canada, milk comes in bags.
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This is a bag of milk.
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And inside, there are three smaller bags of milk.
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If I was out here with another Canadian,
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I would probably say things like,
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"It's pretty bright out here, eh?"
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Or "It's pretty cold out here, eh?"
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Canadians tend to end their sentences,
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once in a while, with the word eh.
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One of the most popular coffee shops in Canada
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is a place called Tim Horton's,
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or as some Canadians sometimes say, Timmies.
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Tim Horton's is a place where many Canadians go
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every morning on their way to work to get a coffee
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and something to eat for breakfast.
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Canada is the second largest country in the world.
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By the way, the largest country is Russia,
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and I should say hi to all of my Russian viewers.
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But Canada is the second largest.
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And we have a population of 37 million people.
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Actually, a little more than that.
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About 37 and a half million people.
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An interesting fact though, is 66% of Canadians
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live within 100 kilometers of the southern border
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that we share with the United States.
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I think because Canada is such a cold country,
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most of us live as far south as possible
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so we can stay a little warmer
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during our cold Canadian winters.
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Money in Canada is very colorful and we also have a $1 coin
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which we call a loonie, because if you look at a loonie,
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you'll see that there is a loon on it,
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which is a kind of bird that lives in northern Canada.
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When the government decided that we needed a $2 coin,
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we simply called it a toonie, because it rhymed with loonie
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and it was worth $2.
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It just seemed like a really good name for it.
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By the way, did you know that Justin Bieber,
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Celine Dion and Shawn Mendes are all Canadian?
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I'm sure you've heard some of their songs before.
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They are some of the greatest talent
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that Canada has produced.
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The leader of Canada is called the prime minister,
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not the president, by the way.
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Sometimes, people from other countries
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mistakenly think that our leader is called the president.
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But we call our leader the prime minister.
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Our current prime minister is Justin Trudeau.
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You might recognize him because he might
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have visited your country in the past,
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with a trade delegation so that we can keep relations
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between our country and your country in good standing.
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Canada is divided up into provinces.
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Not states, like the United States.
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And we have 10 provinces, stretching from the Pacific Ocean
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in the west all the way to the Atlantic Ocean in the east.
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I live in the province of Ontario,
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which is almost right in the middle of Canada.
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Provinces are quite large.
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In fact, our provinces might be bigger than your country.
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I'm not trying to brag, but provinces
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are definitely really, really big in Canada.
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The capital of Canada is a city called Ottawa.
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And it is a beautiful city.
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It is located pretty far north, in the province of Ontario
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and it's usually quite cold there in the winter.
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If you ever have a chance to visit our capital, Ottawa,
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you should do it.
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It is a beautiful city.
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I do recommend, though, that if you don't like the cold,
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that you visit it in the summer, although if you visit it
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in the winter, you will have a true Canadian experience.
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Canada is full of maple trees.
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There are a lot of maple trees in Canada.
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In fact, some of the trees behind me are maple trees.
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And most of the trees that you see
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in parks in Canada are maple trees.
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It's the reason why we have the maple leaf
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in the centre of our flag, because
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there's just so many maple trees in Canada.
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And one of the most popular exports
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from our country is maple syrup.
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That's when they take the sap from the maple tree
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and they turn it into a really sweet and tasty syrup.
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If you haven't tried maple syrup, you should try some.
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And if you try some, make sure
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it's authentic, Canadian maple syrup.
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Oh, another famous Canadian is this guy
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who teaches English on YouTube.
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What's his name again?
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I think it's Bob the Canadian.
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Okay, I'm not really that famous.
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But I just wanted to put this piece in here.
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We actually have two official sports in Canada.
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Our official winter sport
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is a little game called hockey.
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You may have seen the Canadian hockey teams
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play at the Winter Olympics.
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They usually do really well.
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Probably because most of our rivers, lakes and streams
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in the winter are frozen solid and young Canadians
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have lots of opportunity to practice the game of hockey.
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As well, most small towns have a hockey arena.
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So the amount of time that you can spend skating
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as a young Canadian is really, really high.
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Our second official sport is a summer sport.
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Our official summer sport is a game called lacrosse.
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This is a little different than hockey.
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If you want to see some lacrosse, just do a search
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on YouTube for the game of lacrosse in Canada
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and you will be able to find a game and watch a bit of it.
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It's a very interesting game to watch
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and it's a very interesting game to play as well.
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Canada has a lot of fresh water lakes.
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In fact, we have over two million
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fresh water lakes in Canada.
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And I think because there are so many lakes and streams
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and rivers in Canada, and because there
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is so much fresh water, we have animals
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like the beaver that live here.
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The beaver is our national animal.
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I don't know if you've ever seen a beaver before.
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They are really cool.
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They tend to chop down trees and they build dams
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in streams and creeks so that the water will flood
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and then they can build a home in the flooded part
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of the river or lake.
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It's a very interesting animal
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and it's our national animal of Canada.
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So in Canada, taxes are high.
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Canadians pay a lot of income tax.
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We pay a lot of sales tax.
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In general, if you live in Canada,
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you will pay a lot of tax, but healthcare is free.
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So if you break a bone or you need heart surgery
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or you're having a baby, it is totally free in Canada.
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Now, the dentist isn't free.
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If you need work done on your teeth.
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And the eye doctor isn't free, if you need glasses.
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But everything else is covered.
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Mostly because we pay really high taxes.
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But, I will never complain about the fact
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that healthcare is free.
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I had heart surgery.
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It cost me zero dollars.
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Sometimes, people think that Canada's biggest export
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is wood, but it's not.
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Our biggest export is actually oil.
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The province of Alberta actually has huge oil reserves.
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Canada's largest trading partner
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is about 100 kilometers straight that way.
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I'm pointing south.
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Can you guess what country is 100 kilometers south of here?
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It is the United States of America.
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Well, hey, that was 20 interesting facts
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about the country of Canada.
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The country that I know and love.
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I'm Bob the Canadian and you
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are learning English with me here on YouTube.
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I hope this lesson helped you learn
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just a little bit more English and a little bit more
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about the country of Canada.
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