Let's Learn English in the Snow!

64,577 views ・ 2019-01-22

Learn English with Bob the Canadian


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So I'm pretty happy because yesterday we had a nice winter storm and you can see that it's
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pretty white outside.
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It's also pretty sunny.
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It's, it's actually brighter on a winter day than it is on a summer day for us here in
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Canada because the, the sun reflects off the snow.
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There's a couple things that I need to do today and I'll teach you some English along the
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way.
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One is I need to clean my driveway out.
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I'm actually gonna blow the driveway out with the snowblower and I'm gonna do a little bit
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of sledding with the kids.
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It's actually, it's actually hard to walk through this snow right now.
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I don't know if you can see.
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We're a little bit snowed in today.
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When you're snowed in it means that there's so much snow that we can't get our vehicles
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out.
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It is a really nice day though.
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It's cold, it's minus 15, you don't want to be out here too long without bundling up.
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So you can see I have my winter hat on, which we call a toque in Canada.
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I got my winter gloves.
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I got my winter boots.
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I got my winter boots on my feet, and I got lots of layers on.
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So I'm nice and bundled up to stay warm.
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So the accumulation, that's the amount of snow that came down, they said was gonna be
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10 to 25 centimetres.
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I think here we got maybe about 10 centimetres.
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So when it's this cold outside you want to make sure that you don't get frostbite.
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Frostbite is when your skin actually freezes.
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When it's minus 15 you can safely be outside for quite a while, an hour or two, but you
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do want to make sure that you're covered up as much as possible when you're out in cold
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weather.
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We'll go and see if we can get the big tractor started now.
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If I lived in the city I would have to clean my driveway with a shovel or a small snowblower.
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Not as fun.
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For me it's a lot more fun to clean it with the tractor.
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So it's so cold that in order to start the tractor we have to have it plugged in.
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We don't plug our cars in in the winter in this part of Canada, but there are parts of
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Canada where it's so cold that you have to plug your vehicles in at night just to keep
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them warm.
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There's a small heater inside.
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So we do this with things like tractors around here.
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I'm always glad when things start in the winter when it gets this cold.
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So this machine here, on the back of my tractor, is the snowblower and what it does is it'll
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bring the snow in here and it'll shoot it out through that piece up there.
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I'll give you a, I'll give you a little video of it working.
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That's how you move a lot of snow really, really fast.
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So probably won't be very easy to see.
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I don't think it's very safe to drive a tractor at the same time as running a snowblower.
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So the driveway’s all nice and cleaned out.
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We'll be able to get the vehicles out now when we need to go to work.
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I'm not sure if you can see out there but we have what are called snowdrifts.
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So snow in the winter will get picked up by the wind after it's on the ground and it will
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start to drift.
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It'll start to build little snowdrifts in different areas.
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Drifting can be a little annoying because after you've cleaned the driveway, after you've
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shovelled or blown the driveway out the wind can fill it back in again.
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So that's never fun because then you have to go and clean the driveway again.
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I'll probably have to clean the driveway again a bit later.
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So when it's cold and windy at the same we have something that's called the wind chill
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factor.
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And the wind chill factor is, it'll feel colder than it actually is, so right now it's minus
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15, that's the actual temperature, but with the wind chill it feels like minus 20.
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So the real temperature is minus 15 degrees celsius, but with the wind chill factor it
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actually feels 5 degrees colder.
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And it's cold out here.
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It's so cold in fact that my camera only works for about 5 minutes before it says that it's
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too cold and then it shuts down on me.
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So I've been outside I think 4 times now to make this video.
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So we're gonna head behind the house right now.
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We have a hill and the hill has a nice covering of snow on it.
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And the kids are back there sledding, they have their sleds out there.
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Sledding is when you get a sled and you go down a hill, you slide down the hill on the
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sled, or toboggan.
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We also sometimes use toboggans in Canada, but it's a lot of fun so let's, let's go check
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it out.
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Like are you gonna videotape us going down?
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Yeah.
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Let's look at the camera.
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Hi Bob the Canadian here.
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Winter is finally here, we're outside doing some sledding, some tobogganing.
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I think I'm gonna go down the hill now.
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I'm gonna go first. Ok you go first.
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Sled coming down!
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Wish me luck!
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Dad there's a ramp on one side!
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Ok!
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Here I go!
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Ahhhhhh!
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Ahhhh!
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Oh no!
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You might squish it!
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Try not to hit the camera on my way down.
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Hahahaha!
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Whooooo!
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Heheheh, hohoho!
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Oh!
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That hurt a little bit!
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Wheeee!
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Oh no I got snow in my glove!
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Oh no!
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Well, hey, Bob the Canadian.
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Learn English with Bob the Canadian.
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Thanks for helping me clean my driveway and for taking a ride down the hill on a sled.
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Don't forget to click the subscribe button below and give me a thumbs up if this video
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helped you learn some English and I'll see you next week in the next video.
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I’m just super happy that we got some snow.
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I think most Canadians like snow, not all of us, but most of us.
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Anyways.
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Have a great week!
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