Learn English with These Five TV Shows

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Learn English with Bob the Canadian


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So we all know that television shows
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are a great way to learn English.
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Television shows are a great way
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to practice your English,
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but I've never given you specific television shows
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that you should watch, so in this English lesson,
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I'm going to give you five different television shows
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that you can watch to learn English,
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and to practice your English.
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(light music)
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So, the first show that I think you should watch
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is called The Amazing Race.
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It is a reality TV show,
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that means it takes place kind of in real life,
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and the reason I like this show
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is because the people who are in The Amazing Race,
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the competitors in The Amazing Race,
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have to do a series of challenges,
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and those challenges are often in real world situations.
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So sometimes they have to go to a store
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and buy something.
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Sometimes they need to go to a certain place
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in a town, and do a certain task,
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and while they're doing it,
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they have to talk to each other,
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so you get a lot of really good,
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authentic English conversation
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when you watch The Amazing Race.
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Because it's a competition,
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you also learn some words and phrases
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for cheering people on when they're doing certain things.
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So The Amazing Race is a great show.
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In fact, if you want, there's even
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The Amazing Race: Canada,
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where they have an amazing race
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across our own country, and other parts of the world.
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One of the other reasons I do like The Amazing Race,
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is because they do go to other countries.
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I think that The Amazing Race is an amazing show,
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because they travel the world,
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and you get to have a small glimpse
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of what it's like in other countries.
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So, that's the first one, The Amazing Race.
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Great show, my kids love it, by the way.
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The second show that I think you should watch is Survivor.
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Now, in the show Survivor,
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people are on an island and they can't get off,
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and every week someone gets kicked off the island,
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so it's also a reality TV show,
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and it's a very interesting show
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because oftentimes you'll hear people fighting.
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You'll hear a lot of arguments on Survivor.
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People do things in the show
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that annoy other people, and so you end up
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with these great authentic English conversations,
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or arguments where people are kind of
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verbally fighting with each other,
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so it's a great show for that reason.
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It's also a great show for the same reason
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The Amazing Race is, because you'll see a number
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of competitions, and you'll hear people,
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you know, cheering each other on,
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cheering on their team.
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It's also a great show to learn English,
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because when people get kicked off the show,
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sorry I don't mean to laugh,
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but when people get kicked off the show,
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they show a lot of their emotions,
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so it's a great show to see
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how people respond emotionally
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to things that are exciting,
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and to things that are disappointing,
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so that's the second show, Survivor, great show.
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The third show that I think you should watch
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is an older show, and it's called Friends.
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It's a show about three ladies that live together,
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and three men that live across the hall.
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Actually two live across the hall,
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one lives somewhere else,
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and it's just a good look at
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what conversations between people look like
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in an American city.
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It is a bit of an older show,
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so it might not be exactly current,
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but what I like the best about that show is
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the characters are very relatable.
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You get to know the characters on the show really well,
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and you start to have a character who's your favorite,
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a character who annoys you,
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but it's very, very entertaining.
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It's good to watch television shows
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as you're learning English,
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that you want to watch,
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and I found a long time ago when I watched Friends,
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it was just highly entertaining for me.
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It was a great show for me to watch
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as a native English speaker,
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and I think you would really, really enjoy watching it.
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I'm pretty sure it's on Netflix.
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I'm not sure if it will be on Netflix in your country,
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but Friends is a really, really good show.
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I'm not gonna tell you who my favorite character is
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on the show, but what I will tell you
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is that he is a Canadian in real life,
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so that's a little clue for you.
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So that's the third show I think you should watch,
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a show called Friends.
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The fourth show that I think you should watch,
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and this one is great for building your vocabulary,
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it's called Jeopardy, and it is a game show.
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So on the show Jeopardy there are three contestants,
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and they have to try and guess the answers
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to the questions that the host asks.
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Actually they try to guess the question
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to the answer that the host asks,
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but Jeopardy is a great show for building your vocabulary.
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You do have to realize though,
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it's a pretty difficult show to watch
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for someone learning English,
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but it certainly is a great show,
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because it will help you build your vocabulary,
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and because it is a competition,
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because it is a game show,
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there are categories.
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So, the categories for the questions,
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or for the answers,
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help you to start to think about
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what the answer could be in advance.
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So it's very, very cool in that sense,
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that there will be a category on movies,
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so you already can start to think about movies
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as the show begins, and then the last thing
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that's cool about it is Alex Trebek is Canadian.
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Notice I really like shows
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that have Canadians on them.
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And by the way, all the shows that I have mentioned so far
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are actually American shows.
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Because I live so close to the American border,
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it's only about 45 minutes away,
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when I was growing up, and even now,
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a lot of the television that I watch is from America,
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so that was four, number four was Jeopardy,
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and then here's the last one.
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If you can find the English broadcast
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of a show, or sorry, of the sport
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that you like to watch, you should do that.
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For me, when I was learning French,
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it was awesome to be able to watch hockey in French.
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If you watch football, if you watch American football,
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if you watch, maybe you watch rugby,
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and maybe you watch cricket,
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if you can change the language on that show
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to be in your, from your own language to English,
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that will really, really benefit you.
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One of the biggest benefits is that
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you already know the sport really well,
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so because you already know the sport,
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it's easier for your brain
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to understand what's going on,
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and you'll learn a lot of new words
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and vocabulary really, really quickly.
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So, watch your favorite sport in English.
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Maybe you like some sort of auto racing.
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Maybe you're a Formula 1 fan.
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I highly recommend you start watching Formula 1 in English.
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So, anyways, Bob the Canadian here,
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that was five different television shows
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that I think you should watch.
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I think they will help you a lot to learn English,
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and I think that if you are new here,
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you should subscribe.
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Maybe give me a thumbs up,
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and I appreciate that you are watching,
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and I hope that this video helped you learn
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just a little bit more English,
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and I'll see you in the next video.
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