Let's Learn English! Topic: Noises! 💥🐝🧊 (Lesson Only)

Well, hello and welcome to

this English lesson about noises.

This lesson has been requested.

It was actually requested a long time ago

by regular Mohd Ags and a few others

have requested this lesson as well.

I will say that I did put together about 30 words

that are easy to explain when it comes to noises.

I did have to leave a few on the

list because they're difficult to show in pictures.

But in this lesson, I will talk about the words

we use to describe noises we hear as we go

through our day and as we go through our week.

So welcome to this English lesson about noises.

I think you will enjoy it. Tick.

So when you wear a watch, if you

wear an old watch, the watch will tick.

When something ticks, it sounds like,

here's my first sound effect.

It's like it's a very quiet sound.

And I do want to explain that all of

the noises and sounds that I will be teaching

you can be used in the following way.

You can say, I hear a tick, or

you can say, my watch is ticking.

So we switch to the ing version.

So when you say, I hear a tick,

it means you hear something like, tick, tick.

Then when you say something is ticking, you mean

that you are hearing that sound coming from it.

So if you have an older watch, the kind that

you wind up, you might hear your watch ticking.

You might hear a tick.

I wonder where it's coming from.

But it is your watch that is ticking.

Crash.

So again, you can hear a crash.

You might hear a car crashing into another car.

So when you hear a crash, you tend to look, I

don't know when the last time you heard this sound.

If you drop a whole bunch of plates on

the kitchen floor, you will hear a crash.

The plates will go crashing down.

You will hear the plates crashing onto the floor.

If two cars hit each other, you will hear a crash.

You could say, oh, I was walking the other

day and all of the sudden heard a crash.

And I turned and I saw two cars hitting each other.

I can't do this sound effect very good.

But it would sound like there. There's.

There's my crash sound.

It's the sound of two things hitting

each other or something hitting the floor.

The rustle.

So there are two things I can think of that rustle.

The first thing I can think of would be paper.

You move paper around, you'll hear,

like, you'll hear the paper.

It's probably better to do the

sound effect with my hand.

You'll hear the paper moving against each other,

and you will hear the paper rustling.

You will hear a rustle.

The other thing that rustles would be leaves on a tree.

Especially in the fall when the leaves are

dying and turning brown, the wind blows.

You'll hear the leaves rustle in the wind.

You'll hear the leaves rustling.

So definitely those are the two things I can

think of that will rustle and then rattle.

This is the thing you don't want to hear.

But I'm trying to think, how

could I make a rattling sound?

I think here's a good way to do it.

If you were driving along, just using my lens cap.

If you were driving along and you heard

a rattle, you would be worried because it

means something's broken on your car.

If your car is rattling.

If you hear a rattle, it means something's loose.

You can see in this picture the mechanic or

the person working on the car is tightening something

because there was probably a rattle again.

If something is supposed to be put

together tightly, there will be no sound.

But sometimes you're driving along.

Maybe you're driving along and there's no noise.

And all of a sudden you go over a bump.

And then you hear it goes.

What was the last one?

It goes bang.

We didn't do bang yet.

And then you hear.

That would be really, really annoying.

Should I do it right here?

It's probably annoying to hear,

but that would be rattle.

Not a nice to hear.

It might mean your muffler is falling off.

Or you are having some sort

of other problem with your vehicle.

White noise.

So this is an interesting one.

We don't often see a screen like this on our TVs

anymore because everything is digital but a long time ago.

And maybe you still have a

TV like this with an antenna.

If you tune to a station no

one's broadcasting, you will get white noise.

White noise sounds like this.

There's really no other way to describe it.

We actually have a little

machine that generates white noise.

And then when we go away and sleep somewhere else,

we use it to kind of help us sleep. We have some white.

A white noise generator, I guess.

But that is the sound of white noise.

We sometimes say it's also the sound of static.

If you tune a radio, you will hear some static.

You will hear white noise and then a beep. I. I'm.

A beep is simply as it sounds.

So it's like you have a timer in the kitchen.

When it gets to zero, you

hear beep, beep, beep, beep, beep.

It's the sound that an alarm clock makes.

It's the sound that a timer makes when it's time to get

up, or with a timer, when the timer gets to zero.

So if you are baking bread and you put

it in the oven, you will set a timer.

Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep.

It actually beeps when you set the timer too. Ours does.

It's like, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep.

And then you hit start, and then, then when it

gets to zero, it goes, beep, beep, beep, beep.

It's also the sound you will hear when a truck

or other large piece of machinery is backing up.

It will beep as it backs up.

Bark.

So this is a pretty simple one.

I think most of you know this one.

Sometimes you will hear a bark, and you'll

wonder, what was that there a dog somewhere.

You will hear a dog barking.

Again, notice how I switch between the

word and then the ing form?

So you can hear a bark.

That's the noise a dog makes.

You can also hear a dog barking.

The action of making that sound.

Sometimes our dogs bark while I'm doing a live lesson.

And then I'm always curious to know who's here,

because usually I only hear a bark from the

dogs when someone drives in the driveway.

But a dog makes this sound.

A dog will bark. Clink.

I didn't bring any ice cubes, but a clink is the

sound that you hear when you put ice into a glass.

You won't hear it when you put ice into a plastic cup.

When you put ice into a glass, something

actually made out of glass, it will go.

It literally sounds like the word.

Like, it'll go, clink, clink,

clink, clink, clink, clink.

The ice cubes will drop in, and as the ice

cubes hit the glass, they make a very unique sound.

And we call that a clink.

You can also hear this sound when two glasses

touch each other when you are toasting someone.

If you celebrate, say we were to celebrate the

birth of John Wedge's baby, and we all had

a glass, and we would say, congratulations, and then

a toast to the health of John's baby.

And then we would touch.

Like, it would go, clink, clink.

You would just hear clink, clink, clink

as people touch their glasses together.

So the sound that an ice cube makes

when it hits glass or the sound of

two glasses clinking together and then a clunk.

You don't want to hear a

clunk when you're driving your vehicle.

A clunk Is similar to a

rattle, but probably a lower sound.

So a clunk would sound like this.

Hopefully you could hear that.

Let me see if my mic is picking that up.

That would not be a nice sound.

If your tire is coming apart, you might hear

a clunk every time the tire goes in.

One does one revolution.

But a clunk usually means there's

something major wrong with your car.

And then you would go to the

mechanic and say, my car is clunking.

Our car actually was clunking at a certain speed

once and it ended up being one of these

parts here, a tie rod or something.

But when your car clunks, when you hear a clunk

while you're driving your car, it's not a nice thing.

It means you're going to be spending money. Click.

So I think we're very familiar with this because

most of us, when we ride in vehicles, we

hear that sound when we put our seatbelt on.

So as you put it in, all of a sudden

it will go, that was a bad sound effect.

It more goes.

Is that a good sound?

Yeah, something like that, right?

Like there is something inside that clicks.

And so it holds the seatbelt in.

And as you put it in, you hear the seatbelt click.

When I have other people riding with me, if

I don't hear all of the seatbelts click, I

will say, hey, does everyone have their seatbelt on?

Because I'm very, very concerned if

people drive without their seatbelt on.

Because if I get in an accident, I

don't want them flying around inside my car.

So when you put your seatbelt on, you will hear a.

That's the best sound effect I can do.

You will hear a little click

when they put their seatbelt on. Boing.

So I don't know if you are

familiar with the cartoon Winnie the Pooh.

In Winnie the Pooh, there is a

character called Tigger and he bounces around.

It's like he has a spring in him.

And I always think of the sound

boing when I see Tigger bouncing around.

But if you have a spring, you bend the

spring and let it go, it'll go boing.

Like it'll just kind of go back straight again.

If you push a spring together and

let it go, it'll go boing.

So you can kind of hear in the way I'm saying

it, when something goes boing, it, it makes a funny little

sound, but it kind of keeps moving a little bit.

In Canada, we have these little door stops, you houses.

And it is a spring.

And as a Kid. My.

My parents would get annoyed, but it was fun

to flick it, and it would go boing.

My parents hated that sound. They.

They would yell at me to stop doing it.

But if you have a spring, which you can compress

when you let it go, or if you bend it

and let it go, it will make a boing.

It will go boing.

Boom.

I think we're all familiar with this one.

I want to keep this on the nicer side of things.

There are things that go boom in times of war,

but I like to talk about something like fireworks.

Just seems like a nicer topic

for something that goes boom.

When you go to a celebration where they

have fireworks, the firework will go up in

the sky, and then it will go boom.

Like, there will just.

Hopefully that wasn't too loud there.

It's like this deep.

We also have the word thud.

Like, it just goes boom.

And then maybe it even echoes a little bit.

But it's like this deep, strong

sound when the firework explodes.

This type of firework in particular makes that sound.

It usually goes boom.

Fun to watch.

I don't get to watch fireworks until the May

24th weekend, Victoria Day, Canada Day on July 1st.

That will be the next two opportunities.

Fizz.

If you drink Coke or any other kind

of soda, when you pour it into a

glass because it's carbonated, eventually it will fizz.

It'll be like fizz.

And so you'll have all these little bubbles

coming to the top, and it makes this

really, really, really fun fizz sound.

You could say, oh, my.

My cup of pop is fizzing.

I open my can of pop, I can hear it fizzing.

So when you hear a fizz, it's that sound

of all the tiny little bubbles coming to the

surface and making that very distinct sound, the fizz.

Slosh.

Have you ever worn rubber boots and then

you get water inside the rubber boot?

The rubber boot is supposed to keep the water

out, but sometimes you get water in it.

And that is the best description of the word slosh.

The water.

Just like there's just water in your boot when

you put water in a pail or tub.

And if you go like this, the water will.

The water will slosh around, and it

will make that sound like, shlosh. Shush.

Like it's the.

It sounds like the word slosh, which is.

Most of these words are what we call onomatopoeia.

That's when a word sounds like the sound it makes.

That's my best description for that.

So sometimes when you wear boots and you get water in

the boots, the water will slosh around in the boots.

Very uncomfortable.

Or if you have a tub of water like this or a

pail, and if you slide it back and forth, it will slosh.

Twang.

So we often say that country western singers

sometimes will have a twang in their voice.

So a twang.

You can hear it in the word twang.

A country twang would be like, I don't

want to try to do that accent.

Let's talk about a guitar.

When you pluck a guitar string, like,

it makes, like, a twang sound.

Like, so you can hear how the sound.

If I was to graph it, like, it's a.

It's a pretty cool sound, the twang.

When someone speaks with a twang, it's.

It usually means you're watching some sort

of western or someone from the south.

They might have a twang in their voice.

Vroom.

So we often use the word vroom to talk about car

or other type of vehicle going by really, really quickly.

And you hear the sound of the engine. So if.

If someone was to leave my house when they

go on the road, you would hear them.

It would just vroom.

They would vroom.

It's kind of a weird word, but you would just

say, oh, there were a lot of cars vrooming by.

Like, it was hard to cross the road

because there were so many cars vrooming by.

So it's probably most used by kids playing with

small toys where they go like, vroom, vroom.

So as they're driving their little

toy cars, they make the sound.

They say, vroom.

So it's like, vroom, vroom.

And that's the sound they make

as they are playing slurp.

Believe I taught this word before, and

I think I even used this picture.

And I think I made the sound using my cup.

It sounds like this.

That is a slurp.

It's when you are eating something like soup or drinking something,

and the liquid goes in your mouth, but a little bit

of air goes in your mouth at the same time.

And so it ends up making this sound.

It's hard for me to make that sound because I.

You don't normally drink that way because it's considered

a little bit rude, at least in Canada.

So when you eat soup, when you eat soup with

noodles, you might be slurping, and you make a slurp.

There's another sound effect for you.

So you slurp, you eat it.

This one's familiar to almost all of you.

You might hear a buzz.

You might hear bees buzzing out in the garden.

I've described before that I

hate the sound of mosquitoes.

If I hear.

I know a mosquito landed on me somewhere as soon as the

buzzing stops, and then you have to try and swat it.

But a buzz sounds like that, and it isn't just

used to describe bees or other insects you might have.

When you drive your car, something

might buzz in your car.

I know the other day I had a bunch of

coins in the cup holder, and they would vibrate, and

there was this buzzing sound in the car.

And I didn't know where it was coming from.

And it ended up being because I had some coins car.

And for some reason they were.

Yeah, vibrating really quickly.

And I just heard like.

I'm like, where is that buzzing sound coming from?

And then eventually I figured it out.

A clank.

So we didn't do clank, did we? Oh, we did clunk.

We did click and clink.

We did clink and clunk and click,

but we haven't done clank yet.

So clank is usually the sound.

Metal hitting metal.

The best example I could come up with is if

you close this gate, it will clank when it shuts.

So it will make a sound like. Let me see.

Do I have anything that would.

Like this? Now, that's.

That's more of a clunk.

It's usually like a metal sound.

I should have found more things

to make sound effects with.

I don't have anything metal on my desk, but if

you can imagine type of latch, the sound it makes

as it closes, I would describe as a clank.

Oh, I heard the gate clank shut.

That means I heard the latch on the gate.

Let's see if we can make a clank here.

Yeah, maybe something like that. I think it would be a

little deeper and a little louder.

Crackle.

I don't think I'm.

I don't think I have crinkling, but we have crackle.

So crackle.

The best I can think of with crackle

would be the sound of a campfire.

When you sit around outside with friends and you

have a campfire, the sound that the fire makes

we usually describe as the crackle of the fire.

I can hear a crackle or I can hear the fire crackling.

If you have a wood stove in your house or a

fireplace, you can often hear the fire crackle the fireplace.

So the wood is dry, and as it burns, it makes like a.

I don't know what the hand is for.

That's kind of the this is the hand

represents fire, and the sound is the crackling.

You can also have crackling from things like, you

know, if you have, like, food and it's wrapped

in some kind of paper, the paper can crackle.

You open it up.

But generally, for me, when I think of the word

crackle, I think of the sound of fire creak.

So if you had a door like this, I guarantee you

when you opened it, it would go like, it would creak.

It would make a creak.

Whenever metal turns on metal or metal slides on

metal, often you will get a creak sound, which

means the door needs to be oiled.

You need to put a little bit of oil on the hinges.

But definitely when you open a door like

this, I think the hinges, the part where

the door turns, it would probably go often.

If you watch scary movies, they will have

doors that creak when you open them.

You could also have it where, if you walk on an

old wooden floor, the floor might creak as you walk.

Like, you take a step, and it's

like, creak, creak, creak every time.

Because the boards move slightly

or the wood moves slightly.

So it will creak.

I was trying to think of something else that.

Oh, I was just gonna teach you.

I didn't put the word rumble

in here, but my stomach rumbling.

And I'm hoping you didn't hear that.

I hope the mic didn't pick that up.

But then again, maybe it would be

good if it picked it up.

When you are hungry, your stomach will rumble. Okay.

Because you are hungry, it will

start to make, like, a noise.

So hopefully you aren't hearing that

as I do this lesson.

So I don't know if you know what this bird is called.

It's called an owl.

An owl will hoot.

So sometimes when you go outside, you'll hear.

So the owl doesn't pronounce the

T, but you will hear who. Who.

And it's different than coo, Coo.

That's the sound of a dove, but the

sound of an owl, this type of bird.

And owls are good farm owls because

owls eat mice and other pests.

So if you ever hear that sound, it's a good sound.

It means there's an owl around, hopefully at work.

Mutter.

So I feel bad because I put

this picture of this old man here.

He's probably a very nice old man.

But if you ever hear someone muttering, it

means they're usually talking to themselves very quietly.

Like, you'll just hear like, those

kids are on my lawn again.

I don't know why they can't just walk on the

sidewalk and just really annoyed at those kids that go.

When you see an old man muttering,

it means he's annoyed about something.

And usually the classic is that

kids have walked on his lawn.

But you will hear the person muttering so it's quiet.

Complaining to yourself.

Other people probably can't quite hear you mutter.

And then a crowd, there might be a murmur.

So a murmur is when there's a lot of people talking at

the same time and you can't quite hear any one person.

So like in a crowd, that's a really bad example.

But you'll just hear murmur. So you're.

You can't quite hear words, but

you can hear people talking.

That is how I would describe a murmur.

And then we have plop and plunk.

These are challenging ones for me because they're.

To me they're the same thing.

But we couldn't quite agree on plunk yesterday.

If you throw a rock in the water, it'll go plop.

Like it'll make a sound.

If you throw a big rock in the water or if you

dropped something like this, it would go plunk like it would.

Just similar to bang.

Almost like plunk, it would hit the floor.

But plop to me is like not

sure if you can make that sound.

You could also do it like this.

My sorry.

That's something we used to do as kids.

We thought was really funny.

But it doesn't mean my head is hollow.

But you can make kind of that sound by doing that.

Should I do that again?

The hollow headed Bob the Canadian.

And then a plunk to me is something a little more.

A little louder and a little more violent.

Like you can plunk down in a chair.

Like you sit down really fast. You can.

You could throw like a piece of wood

on the ground and it plunks onto the

ground like it makes like a donk sound.

To me that's what a plunk is.

So plop and plonk little lower.

At least in my opinion, you can snip.

So you can hear a snip.

Like if you're using a pair of scissors to

cut a piece of paper, it would go.

You would just hear that little, you know that sound

of sharp metal going across metal makes the snip sound.

If you have flowers and you have pruners, you'll.

You'll hear the snip sound as you cut those flowers.

Wham.

And this is not the.

The duo from the late 80s

who made some really good songs.

This is the sound you hear when an accident

happens or when something big hits something else.

We often use it to describe this type of situation.

So you might hear someone say the car was

driving and then wham, it hit the guardrail.

Or I was sitting in traffic and all of

the sudden, wham, Someone hit me from behind.

So it's not a particular sound.

Like, this is the one where I

wouldn't say I heard a wham.

That doesn't sound right to me.

But it's an expression to talk about the noise

you hear when something big hits something else.

Like the car was crossing the range, the.

The train tracks, and wham, the train hit it.

So it's used to express that kind of situation.

Bang.

So what did we talk about earlier? Boom. Boom, Boom.

And bang.

So when the fireworks go up, they go bang.

So I can't make a really good deep bang sound.

But when you go see fireworks, they

go up in the air like, bang. That's.

I'm looking forward to seeing fireworks.

As I described them, bam.

This is similar to wham.

So you might say something like, I was driving

along and I was on ice, and then bam.

Hit the car in front of me.

Or my.

My mom was walking and slipped on ice, and whoo, bam.

She landed on the ground on her butt.

That's a.

Probably not a good example.

I think my mom would get hurt if that happened.

I should talk about myself.

I was walking on ice, and then I slipped and bam.

I landed on the ground on my butt.

That hurts, by the way.

Hopefully that doesn't happen to you.

Then hiss.

So if you poke a small hole in a tire, you will hear.

You will hear the air coming out of the tire.

You will hear that hiss sound.

You could say, oh, the tire

looks flat and it was hissing.

I heard the sound of air coming out of the tire.

Never a good thing.

When you hear S, that means your tire is flat.