Learn 30 English Action Verbs In 7 Minutes! Acted Out For Easy Memorization! 🧱🔨🛒

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wheel
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swat
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fill up
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slam
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In this English lesson, I'll help
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you learn over 30 action verbs.
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And in order to make them easy
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to remember, I'll act them all out.
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So sometimes Jen will ask me to wheel a cart like
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this out to the field so she can plant these plants.
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In English, when you push something like this
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cart with wheels, you can use the verb
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to wheel to talk about it.
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You can also use the verb to drive.
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So I can wheel this cart out to the field for
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Jen, or I can drive it out to the field.
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So as you can see, there's a
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bare patch in my lawn right here.
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So I have some grass seed.
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I'm going to sprinkle some grass seed here.
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I'm going to spread some grass seed.
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Sprinkle is more like this, where you do a little bit
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spread is more like this, where you do a bit more.
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But I'm going to sprinkle some grass seed here.
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I'm going to spread some grass seed
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here and hope that it grows.
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It's really handy to have this tap out here,
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if I need to fill this pail with water. I can turn
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the tap on and I can fill this pail with water.
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We also have the verb to fill
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up and it means the same thing.
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I don't know why we have two verbs, but if I want,
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I can fill this pail with water or I can fill up
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this pail with water and then I can take it over there
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and Jen can use it to water the flowers.
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Now I have water in the bucket, but what
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if I want the water out of the bucket?
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I can dump the water on the ground, or
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I can use the verb to dump out.
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I can dump the water or I can dump out the water.
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I'm not sure why I did that, though,
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because we kind of need that water.
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Now I'll have to fill this pail again.
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I'll have to fill up this pail again.
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So I know you know the verbs to open and to close
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when we're talking about a door, but we have another verb that
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we use when we close a door really, really quickly.
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And it's the verb to slam.
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I can slam this door shut.
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Usually people slam doors when they're
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feeling a little bit annoyed.
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Maybe I'm really annoyed about something and I
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slam the door because I'm really annoyed.
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I'm not using full force here because I
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don't want to break anything, but sometimes when
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people are annoyed, they will slam a door.
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So there are a few things I can do
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with this tire. I can roll the tire.
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So if I wanted to move this tire
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over there, I could roll it over there.
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That's an easy way to move a tire.
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I could also spin the tire so
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you can see the other side.
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I could also use the verb rotate.
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I can rotate the tire so you can see the other side.
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And if the tire fell over, I
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could then pick it up again.
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Or if the tire was just laying here, I could flip it.
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Or I could also use the verb to flip over.
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I could flip over the tire.
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Sometimes you just need to move something.
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If I needed to move this
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brick, I could lift this brick.
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I could lift up this brick.
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Or I could pick up this brick.
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Then I could carry this brick over here.
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And then I could set down this brick.
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Or I could put down this brick, or I could
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just say, I'm going to put this brick here.
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I could also, if I wanted to, slide the brick.
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So let's put it back here.
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If it was too heavy, I could just slide
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the brick along instead of lifting it up.
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So sometimes in the early spring,
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it gets really cold at night.
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Sometimes we have frost.
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That's when the temperature goes below zero.
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And then the night before, we
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might cover some of our plants.
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Some of the plants don't like cold weather,
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but if we cover them with a little
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pot like this, they will stay warm.
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In the morning, we come out and we
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uncover the plants so the sun can shine
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on their leaves and they can grow again.
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So sometimes you need to cover something,
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and sometimes you need to uncover it.
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So this is a chicken tractor, and it
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needs to go out into the field.
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Our chickens are going to live in
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here this summer, and hopefully they'll eat
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lots of insects in the flower field.
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In order to move it, though, I need to
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first lift up this end, and then I need
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to pull, but it doesn't seem to be moving.
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I think that it might take two people to move
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this one person at the front to pull and another
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person at the back to push or to shove.
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You can use either verb.
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So maybe Jen will lift up the front and
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pull later, and I will come to the back
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and I will shove the chicken tractor.
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I will push the chicken tractor out into the field.
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So sometimes there's flies or mosquitoes around
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and you try to swat them.
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You swing your arms like this to
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try and swat the fly or mosquito.
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But if you're lucky, you have a fly swatter,
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and then you can swing the fly swatter and
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use it to swat the fly or mosquito.
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So notice there's two verbs there.
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You can swing something.
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You can swing a baseball bat.
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You can swing a cricket bat.
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You can swing a fly swatter.
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But when you actually hit the
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fly, we call that swatting.
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So I can swing this really hard and try to swat a fly.
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So sometimes on the farm we have to
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put posts like this in the ground.
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So we use a hammer to hit the post.
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I don't want to do it.
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It's actually really loud.
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Or we can use the verb to hammer.
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I can hammer this post into the ground.
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Or we use the verb to pound.
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I can pound this post into the ground.
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In fact, that's how we normally do it.
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We use something called a post pounder.
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A post pounder is a special tool that
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you use to pound posts into the ground.
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So a number of years ago I built these stairs.
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And I remember when I built them,
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I needed to measure a lot.
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I took out my tape measure, my measuring tape.
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It has two names and I measured every single
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board, so I knew where to cut the board.
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So whenever you build something or
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make something you need to measure.
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Maybe you need to measure
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fabric before you make clothing.
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Maybe you need to measure wood before
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you build something like these stairs.
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So I have some landscape fabric here
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and it's kind of a mess.
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I need to flatten this before I fold it up.
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So when you flatten something, you
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make it all nice like this.
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I can even say that I'm going to smooth it out.
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Once that's done.
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I can nicely fold it.
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Or I can use the verb to fold up. So I can flatten it.
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I can smooth it out.
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I can fold it or I can fold it up.
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So I can't reach this branch here.
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But if I set up my stepladder, then I
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can reach this branch. So I can set up
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my stepladder so I can reach this branch.
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When I'm done, though, I should take down my
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step ladder after I use my step ladder.
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I take it down when I'm done using it.
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Well, hey, thanks for watching this English lesson where I
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hope you were able to learn over 30 action verbs
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that you can use in your next English conversation.
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