Free English Class! Topic: Sounds Our Bodies Make! 🤏👃🏽🗣️ (Lesson Only)

Well hello and welcome to this English lesson about sounds our

bodies make. So we all have bodies and our bodies can make

sounds. Obviously we can talk and I'm not going to talk about

talking in this lesson. There are sounds that our bodies make

involuntarily. That means we don't decide. It's just a sound

our body makes. And there are sounds that we make

voluntarily. And I'll talk about both of those types of

sounds in this lesson. Some of these sounds I will make. Some

of these sounds I will not make while we're doing the lesson.

So stay tuned for that. If it's something simple like snap your

fingers I will make that sound. But if it's one of the other

ones I think I will avoid that. So we all have bodies those

bodies make sounds sometimes and in this English lesson

we'll talk about 20 over 25 of them. I did want to mention

that this lesson does also have a study pack. If you look in

the description below there's a link. I've been experimenting

with making study packs. If that is something that's

interesting to you why don't you take a look at it? So one

of the first sounds you can decide to make is you can snap

your fingers. I do it by putting these two fingers

together and going like and pushing really hard and then

going like that. The sound is actually from when this finger

it's not working very well. There we go. When this finger

hits here I think. I think that's where the sound comes

from. We sometimes snap our fingers to get someone's

attention. It's considered rude though in a restaurant to snap

your fingers if you want the server or waitress or waiter to

come over. Um but sometimes in the classroom I'll snap my

fingers at students. Sometimes if they're misbehaving I'll be

like hey stop that. So it's a way I'm doing it too much

right. It's a way to get someone's attention. And it's a

sound our bodies make that we decide to make. You might all

Also tap or drum your fingers. I'm not sure how I'm going to

demonstrate this one. Um have you ever been in a meeting? And

someone is doing that on the table. Uh sometimes when people

are impatient when they're waiting. Sometimes if they're

at the counter at the doctor's office talking to the

receptionist they might drum their fingers because they're a

little bit impatient. So we would say tap your fingers or

drum your fingers. That's the action you would do. This one

I'm very familiar with. This is an involuntary sound. Now if

you don't know the difference between a sound that is

voluntary or involuntary. An involuntary sound happens and

you can't control it. Sometimes I'm really really hungry. And

you will hear my stomach growling. Or you will hear my

stomach rumbling. You can use either word. Um sometimes when

I'm at market it's really busy. And we don't have time to eat.

And then all of a sudden my stomach will start to growl. So

this is a sound our bodies make when we're really really

hungry. Um it's definitely a sound our bodies make when we

need food. So sometimes your stomach will growl. It's not

nice when you're in a meeting and your stomach is growling.

Usually that I just kind of slip out and go have a little

snack. But if you're hungry your stomach might growl or

your stomach might rumble. So a gasp is like a quick intake of

air when you're surprised about something. If someone told you

bad news you might go so you can hear I'm quickly taking air

in. And I have a bit of a surprise look on my face. We

sometimes cover our mouth when we gasp like so generally it's

a sound we make when we're surprised about something. I

don't gasp very often. Not a lot me anymore but every once

in a while I might go that's interesting or no way. So it's

a really quick intake of breath. It's hard to

demonstrate but I think you kind of heard the sound. So we

do have to cover these two. Burp or belch. I'm not going to

demonstrate either of these. When you burp it's because you

have gas in your stomach. Usually I'm I'm trying to think

the best example is if you drink carbonated so or pop we

call it in Canada and you have a lot of gas in your stomach

you might burp. A burp is when you release gas from your

stomach through your mouth. Um and a belch is just a really

long loud burp. Um and you sometimes burp after eating.

Sometimes you'll eat food and you'll burp when you're done

eating. Um but yes it's releasing gas from your stomach

through your mouth. I'm not going to demonstrate. I'm

definitely not going to demonstrate this one. I

describe this in a previous lesson as when Eric or Gas

comes out the other end. I described it as the other end.

Um and I put this in the thumbnail of this video as

well. Um first of all what can I say about farting? Kids think

farts are hilarious. Kids think farts are funny. Farts smell.

They are not pleasant. Um and the phrases like in our house

if I walk into room and it has a funny smell. I might say who

farted? But at work or at school it's not polite to fart.

Or if you think someone farted it's not polite to ask who did

it. Generally farts in public are not are not good things.

Enough about farting. Let let's go to the next slide. To clap

your hands. So when you clap your hands generally this is

done after you watch a performance and it's called a

applause. So often when I go and watch a show not a movie

but if I go and watch a play when the play is done there is

applause. People clap their hands. Um I'm doing it quite

quietly. Um but generally that's what it's for. You can

also use it to get attention. Again as a parent I might say

to one of my kids hey listen to me. So I might make that sound

to indicate I want them to listen. But mostly when you

clap your hands it's done as a a show of appreciation for a

job well done. Crack your knuckles. So I can't do this

one. This my my knuckles don't crack. I'll make the sound

effect with my mouth. Some people can go like this. Uh

that was my mouth making the sound. And they can make their

knuckles crack. They can make these these little popping

sounds when they do that. And they might do it like this as

well. They might just go like that. And you might hear a

crack or a pop. I've never been able to do it. I don't know if

that's a good thing or not. But definitely when you do that we

would say that you are cracking your knuckles. It's not a

pleasant sound. I don't really enjoy that sound at all.

Hiccup. So this is another involuntary sound. I can

pretend to have hiccups. But it's when somehow I think it's

your called your diaphragm above your stomach. There's the

muscle that helps you breathe. Not your lungs. And I think

it's that muscle moves involuntarily every minute or

every 30 seconds. And you go like that. Hopefully pretending

to have the hiccups doesn't actually cause the hiccups. The

Most annoying thing about hiccups is you can't stop. They

you just have to wait for them to go away. Some people will

drink water to try and get rid of hiccups. Some people will

try to swallow three times to get rid of hiccups. But

generally they are very annoying. And not a fun thing

to have. And that's how you describe it. You say oh I have

the hiccups. Hopefully I don't whistle So I can't sing on tune

but I can whistle pretty good. So whistling is when you

basically do what this guy's doing. So let me see here. I'm

trying to not whistle an actual song because I don't want to

get a copyright strike on the video but whistling is when you

you produce sound with your lips and tongue And then some

people can do it where they can I don't I don't know how to do

it but they can use their fingers to whistle as well. I

can't do that. But I can whistle like that. I don't know

if I need to talk about this anymore but people sometimes

like to whistle while they're doing stuff. Um sometimes when

I'm by myself in my classroom I might whistle while I'm

working. That's an actual phrase or is it a song lyric

whistle while you work? Um but whistle If you don't have music

to listen to, you might whistle. You might whistle a

song that you know. Sneeze. So this is involuntary as well as

coughing. Sneezing. We used to sneeze like this like achoo.

But we've been told now to sneeze into our elbow. The

english word is achoo. I've said that. That's the sound.

That's how we describe the sound when you sneeze. But you

sneeze when maybe you're sick. And you have a stuffed up nose.

Or maybe you've got something in your nose. Maybe you

breathed in a lot of dust. And you're like achoo. Achoo. And

then it's like a quick we would say you expel air through your

nose when you sneeze. Um sometimes people will have a

sneezing fit. That's when you sneeze a whole bunch of times

in a row. That's not very fun. Especially if you're at work or

sitting in a class. And then a cough. Like sorry. We're

supposed to cough like that now. Uh that's when you spell

air from your lungs quickly through your mouth and through

your throat. Um usually because you are sick. Maybe you have a

cold or you have congestion. Which means your lungs have

lots of fluid in them. And then you cough to get it out. Pretty

common terms. Sneeze and cough.

So we usually cover our mouth when we yawn. And that is the

I'm not actually bored by the way. That is the sound we make.

So it's like So you can see my mouth opens really wide. Um you

yawn when you're tired. But sometimes people yawn when

they're a little bit bored as well. Okay so if I'm if it's

late in the day I might It's getting a little bit contagious

now. I I might yawn a little bit because I'm tired. If I'm

sitting listening to someone maybe you're yawning right now

because you're bored with this lesson. Um but that is a yawn.

Um when you yawn when you're tired it's you don't decide to

yawn. It's just like

That was that might have been a real one. Okay back to the

lesson. I need to get to some more exciting slides. Sigh. So

we had this a little earlier in the questions. A sigh is an

expression of boredom or slight annoyance or that you don't

agree with someone. And it sounds like this. It's like

like like if my son said if my son asked can I borrow the van

and I said sure but please buy some gas he might be like Like

he might be like making a big sigh because he doesn't like it

that I told him he had to put some gas in the van. But

definitely when you sigh it is an expression that you you

don't agree with someone or you don't like what they said or

you're not happy about what's happening. So when you hum this

is kind of hard to describe. Your lips are together. So it's

different than whistling. Mhm. Some people will hum a song.

Like I almost hummed a real song there. What song was that?

Yankee Doodle Dandy. That would be a that would be a song that

Brent would hum. Not me. I don't know if that was the

right song but hm I actually do some humming before I do these

live lessons to get my voice ready. So you can hear it's not

singing. It's not whistling. It's just making sounds with

your throat and your vocal chords. So you have two muscles

that help you speak. I think that's what humming is. Um and

we do it when we want to maybe we're listening to a song and

we want to hum along. Maybe we're just walking and we just

want to hum a tune because we're happy that day. But

humming kind of a cool thing to do. So this is an interesting

one. So Usually only kids do this and we don't use this

regularly but I wanted to explain it. You can make your

tongue click or pop. So I shouldn't say adults don't do

this. I think my grandma used to do this if I was being bad.

She would say don't do that. Like so my tongue goes to the

roof of my mouth. And then I pull it down quickly. It's

probably similar to snapping. It's like when the tongue hits

the bottom. Um but we call this clicking your tongue or popping

your tongue. And sorry for the kind of strange looking

picture. I couldn't find a really good picture of this one

but try to think of when I use that sound. You sometimes use

this when you're like talking to a baby or maybe a dog like

hey Maybe. Anyways not used regularly but something that

you can do. Pop your mouth. So this is a kind of a weird one.

You can do this with your finger. Not very good at it but

you can just do it with your lips We don't use this sound

for anything. It's just a sound you can make. Kids think it's

hilarious to make a popping sound with their finger. It's

kind of fun to make that sound. Makes my microphone levels go

really high when I do that. But you can pop your mouth. That's

what we would call it. Raspberry. So there's no other

good way to demonstrate this without this being bad for my

mic but you can do it with your lips or with your tongue. Both

of these are called a raspberry or a raspberry sound. Again

these are sounds that adults don't often make. Let me let me

go back on that though. Adults don't often do this. Not very

common. Adults do do this though. They Do it when they're

tired like if I'm really tired at night I might say to Jen I

am tired. So I blow air through my lips. It makes my lips flap.

And it makes kind of a funny sound. So I don't know if in

your part of the world this is used for other things. Kids

very often will be like they'll do that to each other to bug

each other and stuff like that. But definitely a sound that you

can make. Uh if you're interested in making sounds

like that. Tap your feet. This is another thing people

sometimes do involuntarily without thinking. Sometimes

people do this because they're waiting somewhere and they're

impatient. So they'll tap their foot. That's not my actual

foot. That's I'm just pretending but you will tap

your feet when you're waiting for something. I don't often do

this. I know a few people who tap their feet just when

they're sitting because they they don't like sitting still

in English when you sit still it means you don't move and

they like to tap their feet and some people do it without

making a sound and some people will like I know that I don't

want to point this person out but there's someone I know in

my life who taps their feet quite regularly and it can be a

little bit distracting snore. So yes I snore. When you snore

you make a sound with your mouth and nose while you're

sleeping. Like That's like the weird snoring sound effect.

It's because things are flapping in your mouth and the

back of your nose when you breathe in. And so you make a

noise. It's not very nice. Snoring is not nice especially

if you have a partner. And that partner is sleeping in the same

room or bed as you. And they can't sleep because you are

snoring. Not a very nice thing to do. But you can't decide not

to. Um by the way like I said I snore when I'm sleeping on my

back. So if I sleep on my side I don't snore or I snore less.

Pop or crack. So we talked about cracking your knuckles

right? We talked about you can make popping sounds. Some

people can like turn their head and it will pop. Some people

can kind of do this and make kind of a funny pop or crack.

As you get older this is more common. When I bend down my one

knee will pop or crack when I stand back up. It just kind of

goes click. I don't think that's a good thing but it's

one the sounds that our bodies make. Wheeze. So when you

wheeze it's like I'm going to try and reproduce it. Like So

when I breathe you can't really hear me. If I breathe quickly

you can hear me. If you wheeze it means you're having trouble

breathing. So Sometimes people who have smoked their whole

life. When they get older their lungs don't work very good.

That what we use to breathe. And they'll end up wheezing.

Some people have what's called a puffer. So this is something

that so it it puts some medicine or I'm not sure what

to call into your lungs and throat so that you can breathe

easier. But you wheeze when you are having difficulty

breathing. And that's the sound it is. Like generally people

who are sick will wheeze. Like if you have a cold you might

wheeze. So disc we don't I don't actually say tisk like I

don't go tisk tisk tisk but I do make this sound so it's

similar to but much softer so I might walk into my classroom

and there might be garbage all over the floor and I might go

that's annoying so I'm putting my tongue at the front of my

mouth and then pulling it back That's the that's what my

tongue is doing. It's on the roof of my mouth. And it's

showed it's used to show dissatisfaction like we often

shake our head when we make that sound. Um like oh did you

hear the price of milk is going up a dollar. That's annoying.

So we kind of make like a like a disappointed look on our face

and we shake our head and we're like what can we do? So tisk.

No one I don't think anyone actually says tisk. I think

it's much more common for people to make that sound.

It's not a very nice sound is it? Sometimes there's like

saliva is the liquid in your mouth or phlegm is the stuff

when you're sick like you just have something in your throat

and in order to talk you need to clear your throat. The word

we use is because that's the closest to the sound but most

people it would sound like this. So you're I'm trying to

think do you are you expelling air? You're just doing

something so that you can talk. I'm going to do a little

example here. Sometimes I'm talk and then I have to clear

my throat that I was just pretending. But you've probably

heard that before where someone's talking and they'll

do that. By the way it is polite to put your your hand

usually like this. And to if you're using a microphone to do

it far away. But sometimes you need to clear your throat. A

groan. So a groan is a loud sigh. It's an expression of

dissatisfaction. You're not happy about something. If Jen

said to me let me see. Oh we're out of let's see. I'm trying to

think of something that I would find annoying. If Jen said to

me oh let's say there were cookies in the kitchen. And

then after my live stream I went to have a cookie and Jen

said the kids ate them all. I'd be like ah. So a groan is an

expression like it's not like which is a sigh a soft

expression. It's like ah. And we call that a groan. It's not

a grunt. So a grunt is when you lift something heavy. Like so

let's say these glasses were heavy. That's a bad example. I

might grunt when I'm lifting them. But a groan is like ah.

You make this sound that expresses your dissatisfaction.

And we call it a groan

I doubt you could hear that. Let's try that again. I don't

know if this grosses you out. Like maybe you don't like this.

I know maybe you can hear that but a gulp is the sound that is

made when you swallow. So when you drink water or when you eat

food or drink something else when it goes from your mouth

down to your stomach you swallow it and you hear a gulp.

That was a fake one by the way. Um but that is what we call it.

So hopefully you don't you don't regularly hear me gulp do

you? Maybe you do. I don't know. It's kind of a strange

sound. Anyways a gulp is the sound that is made when you

swallow something.