Let's Learn English! Topic: Talking About Things You Like! 🍫☕🍕 (Lesson Only)

Well, hello and welcome

to this English lesson where I'm going

to talk about things I like.

Now, this might sound a little strange.

You want to learn English and I'm going

to talk about the things I like.

How does that help you?

Well, it actually does.

As I talk about each of the things I

like, you'll hear words and phrases

that we use as English speakers when

we talk about the things we like.

Talk about what I like, why I like it,

and you can, even if the thing that

I'm talking about isn't something you

like, you can probably insert into

these phrases the thing that you

like.

And I'll also talk about,

you know, things about it that I like

and reasons why I don't like other

things related to that item.

So once again, welcome to this

English lesson where I'm going

to talk about things I like.

In order to help you learn how to talk

about the things that you like.

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I like chocolate.

In fact, I think I like

chocolate too much.

And that's a good phrase

for you to learn as well,

to like something too much.

I eat a pack of milk chocolate.

M&MS.

I was gonna say once a week.

It's not quite once a week.

I probably eat two a month.

The problem I have is that

when I get gas, the gas

station sells these as well.

So sometimes when I go

to pay for the gas, I buy

a pack of peanut And Ms.

So it's a peanut with chocolate

and then a candy coating around it.

I like chocolate.

I've always liked chocolate.

It is delicious.

In my opinion.

There are two kinds of chocolate.

Milk chocolate and dark chocolate.

There's also white chocolate, but I

don't quite consider that chocolate.

And I like both.

Sometimes Jen and I will get dark

chocolate, will eat a little square of

chocolate every day and then this is

obviously covered in milk chocolate.

You can see that on the package.

So what is one

of the first things I like?

I like chocolate.

I like it really, really Good.

I really, really.

I like it a lot.

What was I gonna say there?

I like it a lot.

That would be how you would say it.

I like pizza.

This is pretty obvious.

I've probably mentioned this

about 20 or 30 times over

the last number of years.

I like P.

In particular, I like pepperoni pizza.

So when you say you like something,

and there's a wide variety of them,

you use the phrase in particular

to talk about the one you like.

So I can say, I like pizza.

In particular, I like pepperoni pizza.

I could say I like chocolate.

In particular, I like M&Ms.

They're very, very yummy.

I like homemade pizza.

Pizza that you make at home.

And I like pizza that you buy

from a pizzeria.

So I love pizza.

And similar to chocolate,

I have always loved pizza.

By the way, notice this is

a lesson about using

like, but I use love as well.

We're very free with using

the word love to describe something

we really, really like.

Okay, So I could say I love chocolate.

I love pizza.

It means that if this is,

like, love's a little.

A little bit of a stronger emotion.

But, yes, I like pizza.

I like kindness.

And I don't want to sound preachy.

When you're preachy, it means you're

telling other people how to behave.

But I just appreciate it when

people are kind to each other.

I think this is a result of a certain

part of my life where maybe I was

not as kind as I should have been,

But I find that since I had heart

surgery, it's been a number of years

now. How many years has it been?

Five or six years ago.

That scared me a little bit,

and it made me realize that

it's important to be kind to people.

Like, kindness is probably one of.

It's almost like a superpower.

If you are.

If you use it properly.

The more kind you are to people,

the better your life becomes.

It's kind of weird.

You.

You shouldn't be kind,

so your life becomes better.

But it is one

of the things that happen.

So I like seeing when people

are kind to each other.

Like, it when people

treat other people with respect.

It's very, very important to me.

I think it's one of the messages

that I give as a teacher as well.

I quite often encourage my students

to be kind to each other,

even though I'm just teaching them

about computers and French.

It's all part of it, I think.

I like walking.

Here's a picture of me out

walking the other day.

This is from about four days ago.

If you look in the distance, you

can see my farm way in the background,

possibly just a little bit.

But I like walking.

I should actually describe

that a little differently.

I like walking, but I also like

how I feel after I go for a walk.

So walking for me is exercise.

I walk at a brisk pace and so when

I go walking, I want to make

sure my heart rate is elevated.

And I just love walking.

I love it.

I love being out in the fresh air.

I even like waving

to the people who drive by, who I know

sometimes the neighbour will

drive by or someone else.

But definitely I like walking.

So anyways, if there's something

you like doing, like I like running,

I like lifting weights, you

can use the similar description.

I like learning new things.

I haven't learned to do this yet.

There's a couple of videos here

about sourdough bread.

Some reason I've always enjoyed making

pizza dough and making bread,

but I've never tried making sourdough

bread, which is a different kind.

I think you keep yeast and in

the fridge or something.

I'm not sure I have to watch

these videos, but I my.

For my entire life, I have

liked learning new things.

So there's another phrase for you.

For my entire life, I have

liked learning new things.

As a kid, I liked reading books

and learning about electricity or

a new game I could play

with my siblings, my cousins.

So I like learning new things and I

don't think this will ever end.

I think I will always like

learning new things.

So I've always liked learning

new things and I will always

like learning new things.

I think most of you are in

this situation as well.

I don't think you would be here if

you didn't like learning new things.

Similar to me, like teaching.

This is a screenshot from a video

where I think I talked about

what students use in a classroom.

There's a whole bunch

of things in front of me.

This is a video of me

teaching you English.

I've just always liked teaching things.

I actually think these two

things are tied together.

When you say things are tied

together in English, it means

they're related to each other.

I think lot of people who

like learning new things

probably also like teaching.

They like teaching those new

things to other people

once they have mastered them.

So I have always liked teaching.

I still like teaching and I

think I will continue

to enjoy teaching as I go forward.

So another little phrase in there.

You can say you like something.

You can also say you enjoy something.

I enjoy teaching.

I enjoy pizza.

I enjoy learning new Things.

So.

And how long have I been a teacher for?

Since 1998.

97.

It's been a long time.

It's almost been 30 years.

That's a long time, isn't it?

But I'm not ready to retire yet.

Okay, this is a funny one.

I like coffee.

In fact I love coffee,

but I don't drink coffee.

And here's the reason.

Caffeine has an interesting effect

on me.

So I love coffee, love the taste

of coffee, I love the smell of coffee.

I love putting a bit of cream

and sugar in my coffee.

But when I drink coffee

I get agitated and I get aggravated.

So if I also get a lot

of energy from it.

So if I'm going to work on something

by myself for an entire day, I

might have a little bit of coffee

and then I will be like a machine.

I'll work really hard.

But if I know I'm going to be

working with other people, I don't

have coffee because then other

people bother me and I get agitated

when they don't work as fast as I

want them to.

So anyways, I like coffee,

but I don't actually drink it.

I'll have a decaf

every once in a while.

A decaf coffee.

I like taking a nap.

In fact I last semester

I had a nap every day.

I would come home from work around

2:30, 3:00 and I would have a nap.

I'm part time now.

My schedule is different where

I don't go to work until 10am

and then I don't come home until 4:30

and so I'm missing it.

But I love taking a nap.

I like having a nap.

You can use either verb.

This is me sleeping in bed.

I don't usually take a nap in bed.

I usually take a nap

by sitting on the couch.

If I lay down to take a nap, I sleep

deeply and I don't feel

very good when I wake up.

But yes, almost, if I could, I would

have a 10 minute nap every day.

Informally in English you

sometimes just say snooze.

I'm going to have a 10 minute snooze.

It means you're going to have a nap.

I like baseball.

So there's two things about baseball.

One, when I was a kid

my dad used to watch baseball.

In fact think he either watched or

yeah, he more likely listened on

the radio to almost every single game.

And the team that is close to us

is called the Toronto Blue Jays.

And they, they are a major

league baseball team.

So I have fond memories there's

another word for you for this lesson.

I have fond memories of watching

baseball with my dad or listening

to baseball on the radio with my dad.

Often, because we were on the farm, we

were still working at night when

the baseball game was being played, so

we would listen to it on the radio.

So why do I like baseball?

Number one, I have fond memories

of it from when I was a child.

So, again, fond

memories, good memories.

And the second is Jen enjoys baseball.

And a few years ago we

started watching baseball.

I've always liked

the Toronto Blue Jays.

They won the World Series twice,

by the way, back

in the 90s, early 90s, I think.

So what sport do I like the best?

I kind of like basketball

and I like baseball.

But I would say it's really

fun to go to a baseball game.

It's like the.

You're kind of outside.

It's during the summer.

It's really fun.

So anyways, I like baseball.

I like it a lot.

Did I teach that phrase yet?

You just say a lot at the end,

like, I like it a lot.

Do you like pizza?

I like it a lot.

Do you like baseball?

I like it a lot.

So again, you're emphasizing

how much you like it.

And I like Toronto.

I didn't know there was a swan

in the front there.

This.

I don't.

I don't actually like swans.

Sometimes they chase you,

like in geese as well.

But I like Toronto.

Toronto is a city that is

relatively close to me.

Notice if you say it slowly,

it's Toronto, but people

in my area call it Toronto.

Toronto, so we say it very

quickly and we flap the T

and all that kind of stuff.

So Toronto.

Jen and I go to Toronto probably

five times a year.

Sometimes we go just to experience

the city, sometimes we go to see

a Blue Jays game, sometimes we go

to see a show, like in a theatre.

But Toronto is probably.

It's about an hour and a half to get

to Toronto, So it's a bit of a drive.

Actually, not really.

We drive for 45 minutes and then

we take the train for 45 minutes.

So train rides, nice, because

you can just sit and chat.

But anyways, I like that city.

It's cool.

There are many things to do

there and I like to go there.

I like technology.

You could say I'm a bit

of a nerd, bit of a geek.

I have loved technology

since I was a kid.

My parents bought me a computer

when I was 8 or 9 years old.

It was a Commodore Vic 20.

Within a year, my Brother and I

had learned almost everything

we could that computer.

And then they bought us a Commodore 64.

Sorry to reminisce so much.

When you reminisce, you talk

fondly about the past.

There's the word fondly again.

So anyways, I like technology.

It's one of the reasons why

I'm a teacher because I actually,

I don't know if I've.

I've shared this before.

If technology didn't exist, I don't

know if I would enjoy teaching.

Like, I like teaching French and using

computers for part of the class.

I like teaching computer classes

where we make videos or animations.

So I like technology.

I like video games.

I like computer programming.

I like sitting and watching

YouTube videos.

I like being able to research

anything I want instantly.

Like the other day I was,

I was researching the.

The history of Chile.

That was really fun.

But yes, technology, I love it.

And then I know a lot of people

think technology is bad

and I think some parts of how people

use it, things could be better.

But I, I really like it.

I like reading.

My mom was a librarian

and my mom valued reading.

When you say you value something,

you think it's important.

So my mom was very much

in favour of kids reading.

So we went to the library every

Saturday morning like clockwork.

In English, when you say you do

something like clockwork, it.

It means it happens regularly.

And we would get out three or four

books every Saturday and we would

read them through the week and then

we would return them the next Saturday

and take out some new books.

So I grew up in a family where

reading was encouraged, where it was

normal to see my mom reading.

My dad, not so much.

My dad read the newspaper, but he

didn't really read books.

But all of my siblings

are avid readers.

When you use the word avid,

it means you do it a lot.

They read a lot.

I like watching tv.

This is a picture from last night.

This is current.

This is the Blue Jays on their way

to losing baseball game.

But yeah, I've just always

really, really enjoyed watching tv.

I like, sometimes I watch a show

on my computer or on my tablet,

but I do like just sitting on

the couch and watching a good TV show.

Lots of fun.

Have always really,

really enjoyed that.

I also like watching movies.

And now when we go back to reading,

watching TV and watching

movies, I generally like watching

science fiction movies.

I love TV shows that,

that take place in space.

I like reading books where it's the.

A thousand years in the future that

is the genre that I enjoy the most.

So what do I like for entertainment?

I like reading science

fiction novels or books.

I like watching sci fi TV shows.

Sci fi is the short form

of science fiction and I love a good

science fiction movie.

Really, really enjoy that.

Although I will say this,

these people are wearing 3D glasses.

I don't enjoy 3D movies.

They I don't know what it is.

It having the glasses on.

It takes me out of the experience

a little bit where I don't

enjoy it as much as I could.

This is a simple thing, One

of the simple pleasures in life.

I just like clean clothes.

I like it when I have clean clothes

to put on in the morning.

So I'm not sure how

you wear your clothes.

I generally wear clothes

for multiple days.

The shirt that I wear I will usually

wear for one or two days, maybe three.

If it's just a normal, like you have to

think, go to work for not that long.

And it's not a physical

job where I'm sweating.

I will wash this maybe once every three

weeks and then pants maybe once

every week and a half or I don't know.

But I do like clean clothes.

I really, really enjoyed

the smell, especially if they were

hung out to dry outside.

I really enjoyed the smell

of clean clothes.

Hopefully you weren't too weirded out

by my schedule of wash my clothes.

But I just like the smell of clean

clothes and I like putting them on

and I like feeling like you feel it.

It's a fresh feeling, right?

I like a good haircut.

I almost need one.

Again, not quite there.

It gets a little unruly.

When you say something is unruly.

It's like hard to control.

Students can be unruly

as well in a classroom.

But I like a haircut.

In fact, sometimes when I'm not

feeling, you know, when you have a day

where you just don't feel energetic,

One of the things I will

often do is I'll go for a walk.

I'll cut my fingernails.

I'll have Jen help me cut my hair

and trim my beard.

And then have a shower

and put on clean clothes.

And it's kind of a funny thing,

but it makes me feel a lot better.

So I enjoy getting my hair cut.

I like it when it's nice and tidy.

Everything looks the way

I like it to look.

I like going out with Jen.

I like going to the mall with Jen.

I like going to a show.

Here we are.

We went to see the Lion

King in a theater.

Was a lot of fun.

I like going

to a baseball game with Jen.

I like just driving with Jen

in a car to go visit her sister

and brother in law or whatever.

I think that one of the things

that I appreciate most in life

is that Jen is just awesome.

So I'll just say that right here.

But going out with Jen is fun.

I think that's what helps people

to have successful marriages when they

actually enjoy each other's company.

And then this is my last one.

I did say it was gonna be

a bit of a short lesson.

I really like work.

I know some people don't.

And I will say that there are

days where I don't enjoy my job.

Just like anyone, I am a normal person.

But overall, I actually

like going to work.

I like having a job.

I like teaching students.

I like driving into work.

I like getting a, a snack at Tim

Hortons a couple times a month.

I like coming home from

work and talking to Jen

about how my day went.

So part of it is that

I've had a few different jobs in life

and some I didn't like.

But I have a job now where

I enjoy the work, I enjoy teaching

students, I enjoy my colleagues, etc.

Etc.

So yes, last slide.

I like work.

I enjoy work.