It's Spring! Let's Learn English Outside! An English Lesson about the Season of Spring

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Learn English with Bob the Canadian


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Hi Bob the Canadian here.
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It's definitely spring in Canada.
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The first day of spring was about a month ago, but today is the first day where it really
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feels like spring.
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So I thought this would be a good time to do an English video to help you learn some
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words and phrases about the season of spring.
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Well hey welcome to this video where I'm going to help you learn some English words and phrases
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about the season of spring.
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It's definitely spring here in Canada, but before we get started if this is your first
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time here don't forget to click the subscribe button below and the bell icon so that you
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can know when I put out a new video, and give me a thumbs up if this video's helping you
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learn English.
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Well it's definitely spring here in Canada.
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You can see that the lawn behind me is green and I'm just gonna take you on a little tour
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and show you some of the things that we would call the first signs of spring.
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You've probably noticed already that I'm dressed differently than I normally am when I make
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a video because it's spring and it's so warm out here, instead of wearing my spring jacket
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I actually ended up taking it off.
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I'm currently wearing a short sleeved shirt.
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I'm wearing a t-shirt.
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And I have my hat because it's quite bright out here and I like the front part here to
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protect me from the sun.
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And I have my sunglasses with just in case as well.
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So one of the things you'll see at springtime is people will start to wear different clothes.
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I'm still wearing pants.
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I haven't started to wear shorts, but it's definitely warm enough that I can come outside
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in just a t-shirt.
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I can have a short sleeved shirt on and I'm very, very warm actually.
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It's almost like summer.
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It's kind of funny to do a video about spring when it's almost like summer.
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One other thing you'll also notice is people start to open the windows on their houses
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when it gets warm enough.
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It's really nice that winter is over because we've had the house closed up for so long.
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It's nice that we can open our windows and we can get some fresh spring air kind of blowing
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through the house a little bit just to kind of freshen things up a bit.
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I think I should clean this window though.
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I should do a little bit of spring cleaning.
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So we don't quite have leaves on the trees yet, but we do have what we call buds.
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So if I bring this close to the camera you can see that we have these little buds here
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and as spring goes on these will eventually open up and this tree will be totally full
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of leaves.
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I'm looking forward to that because once the tree has leaves we'll have a little bit of
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shade on the ground.
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So trees when they get buds is definitely another sure sign that spring is here.
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This tree here still has buds but eventually it will have blossoms.
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So blossoms are small flowers that some kinds of trees have in the spring.
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We're going to have to wait a couple weeks though before we can see that happen, but
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this tree will eventually, the buds will turn into blossoms and then it will also start
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to grow leaves.
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So blossoms are another sign of spring, we're just not far enough into spring yet to see
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them.
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So another thing that happens in the spring is we start to see a lot more birds.
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And the birds start to sing.
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I'm actually trying to sneak up right now on a robin.
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There's a robin in this tree over here.
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I don't know if you can see him.
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He's up there on that branch.
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Hello Mister Robin!
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And now he has flown to another branch.
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So another sign that spring is here, birds come back and birds start to chirp and birds
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start to sing.
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Another cool sign of spring is some of the early flowers start to grow.
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These are daffodils.
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Over here we actually have some tulips that are starting to come up.
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I'm gonna walk out here just to give you a little peek.
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They're kind of hard to see, but at this point in the spring, it's really neat to see some
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of the early flowers start to push their way out of the ground.
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They start to grow and eventually they bloom and we see a nice spring flower.
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So, so I looked all over the farm and I could only find this daffodil that's close to blooming,
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but I couldn't actually find any flowers for you.
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Maybe in a couple weeks.
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Another thing that we do in the spring, and that's definitely a sign of spring, is we
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do spring cleanup.
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Because the winter is so harsh it blows a lot of branches off of trees and when we go
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out in our yards in Canada in the spring we have to do a little bit of yard work.
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Yard work is when you clean up your yard.
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You tidy things up a bit.
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We do this especially after the winter.
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So you can see here I gotta clean up some sticks.
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There's this old pail that came from somewhere, I don't know where it came from, but I definitely
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have some yard clean up to do today or maybe throughout the week ahead.
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So you can't actually see these 'cuz they're really little but, there's all tiny insects
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or bugs just kind of in the air here.
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They're very, very small, and it's, it's another thing that we see in the spring.
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So today's a really nice day but that isn't always the case.
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Usually in the spring it rains a lot so we end up with a lot of puddles.
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We call these mud puddles and we end up with a lot of mud.
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So if you look down here, let me see if I can get that in the shot, there's a lot of
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mud.
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Just brown soil and dirt that's gotten really, really wet.
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So it's very muddy and it's very wet out here in the spring.
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Here's some, some real mud.
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I'll probably sink in when I walk on it.
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Ah, it's not actually too bad.
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In fact sometimes it rains so much that the river floods.
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So if you look out this way, normally the bank of the river is somewhere around there,
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but because we've gotten so much rain the river has jumped it's bank and it has flooded
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a little bit.
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It's actually a little bit too wet right now, but another thing we have to do in the spring
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is we have to start to mow our lawns.
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So, this in front of me is a riding lawn mower.
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So this is a lawnmower that you can sit on to mow your lawn.
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So that's the push mower.
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It's obviously a little more work to use than a riding mower, but you can see that we have
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a riding mower or garden tractor and a push mower.
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I guess you could just call it a lawnmower that's the general term.
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They're both lawnmowers, but this is a push mower, this is a riding mower.
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If you just listen for a bit you can hear a few birds singing, or cars going by, one
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of the two.
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So the other cool thing about spring is people start to drive their motorcycles.
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So we have somebody coming by here right now let's wave.
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He did wave back.
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Maybe you didn't see it but we definitely see nicer cars, motorcycles, and boats on
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trailers start to go by in the spring as well.
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Well hey, that was just a little look at some English words and phrases that have to do
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with the season of spring.
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Bob the Canadian here.
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Thanks for watching.
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Don't forget to subscribe and click the bell notification.
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Have a great day!
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