Free English Class! Topic: Comfort! 🛁🥣🐕 (Lesson Only)

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Well, hello and welcome to
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this English lesson about comfort.
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When we talk about comfort in English, we talk
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about the things that make us feel comfortable, the
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things that make us feel happy, the things that
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help us to relax, things that are soothing.
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That might be a new word
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for you, things that are soothing.
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I did do a lesson about a year ago on relaxing
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where talked about the things you can do to relax.
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This lesson is similar, but it's a little different.
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I'm going to be talking about the things that
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we like to have that help us to be
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comfortable, the things that give us comfort in life.
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So I'll talk about things like blankets and
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warm fires and all those kinds of things.
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So once again, welcome to this English lesson
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about comfort where I'll teach you about 25
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different words to talk about comfort in English. Comfy.
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So I wanted to start by
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first talking about the word comfy.
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So it is a short version of the word comfortable.
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Now, when you see the word comfortable, you might
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want to try and pronounce all of the sounds
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in the word, but we just say comfortable.
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And if we don't feel like saying
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that, which is easy, we say comfy. Here.
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I'm wearing a comfy shirt when I
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get home on Fridays, I often put
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this sweatshirt on because it's really comfy.
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It's nice and warm, especially in the winter.
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Sometimes in our house, it's a little bit chilly in
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some rooms, so I put on a comfy sweatshirt.
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We also call this a hoodie, by the way.
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I put this on because it's comfy. It's comfortable.
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It just feels nice.
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It's like the shirt's giving me a
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hug when I get home from work.
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So comfy simply means comfortable and it's
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our first word in this lesson.
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I don't even know if it's a real word.
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I should have looked it up.
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I think it's in the dictionary.
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We use it quite a bit.
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A hug.
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So one of the things that can give you comfort, one of
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the things that can make you feel loved or appreciated or that
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someone likes you and cares for you is a hug.
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A hug from your mum, a hug from your
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partner, a hug from your spouse, a hug from
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a friend you haven't seen for a long time.
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All of these things make us feel happy.
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They give us comfort and they give
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us a little bit of joy.
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So if there's someone in your family that needs a
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hug today, you should hug them after this lesson.
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It's definitely something that brings
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people comfort in life.
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A nice hug, but be careful.
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Here, at least in Canada, we don't hug
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everybody, so I don't hug people at work.
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That would actually be a little bit
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strange in my part of the world.
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I will hug my mum. I will hug Jen.
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I will hug my kids.
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If a friend of mine came to visit who I hadn't
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seen for a while, I would give them a hug.
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But it's not something we do all the time.
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I should do a whole lesson
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on displays of affection sometime.
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A pillow, a blanket.
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These two things are probably the number one
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and number two things that give people comfort.
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When I sit on a couch, it's nice to have a pillow.
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If I'm watching the Raptors game and it's a little
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chilly, sometimes I will have a blanket as well.
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It just helps when you sit on
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a couch or in a big chair.
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It's nice to have a little pillow to make
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it more comfortable, to make it more comfy.
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I'm going to say those words a lot.
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Or to have a nice blanket.
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The pillow makes it easier to relax.
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The blanket makes you feel nice and cozy and warm.
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There's another good word for you, cozy.
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When something is cozy, it helps you stay
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warm and happy and very, very comfortable.
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A weighted blanket.
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So this is a new thing.
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I actually don't like weighted blankets, but these
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are very popular right now in Canada and
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I would imagine in the United States.
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A weighted blanket is a blanket that is heavy.
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It actually has things sewn into it to
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make it heavier than a normal blanket.
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Jen has a normal blanket.
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Two of my kids, sorry, a weighted blanket.
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Two of my kids have weighted blankets.
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I find they're just a little too much for me.
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I think I like my blankets lighter, but this can feel
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like the blanket is giving you a hug, I think.
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I think that's what the joy is of a weighted blanket.
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Let me know in the chat if
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any of you have weighted blankets.
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I'd be curious to know.
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But again, it has something sewn into it.
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It might even be like little beans or
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some other dried heavy thing that makes the
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blanket heavy and nice to wear.
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A fire.
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Now, we had a wood stove.
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This is a wood stove.
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This person is sitting in front of a wood stove.
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We didn't have a fireplace.
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So a wood stove is a metal stove that you use
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to burn wood to heat your house and to stay warm.
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A fireplace is like in the wall and it's made of brick.
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And you can have a fire in a fireplace as well.
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We used to have a wood stove.
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The wood stove was considered
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dangerous by our insurance company.
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So we eventually took the wood stove out.
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But when we had the wood stove, it was very, very nice.
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When you had a wood fire, the smell
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of the wood burning was very, very nice.
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The heat from the wood stove was very nice.
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So I would say this is on
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a high level of comfort for me.
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If I can sit in front of a
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wood stove, I really, really like it.
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Jen's parents still have a wood stove.
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We don't have one anymore.
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So, yeah, a little bit dangerous.
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But if you take care of them
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and use them properly, they work well.
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Slippers.
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So I actually wear slippers sometimes.
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There's a couple of reasons to
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wear slippers, by the way.
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Slippers are like small, warm, cozy shoes.
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They're sometimes like a big sock.
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These are a little more like shoes.
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They are footwear that you wear in
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the house to keep your feet warm.
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Or maybe just because you don't like walking
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around in bare feet or sock feet.
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By the way, bare feet is when
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you have no socks or shoes on.
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Or sock feet is when you just have socks on.
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Did you know that? I should explain again.
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You can walk around in sock feet or bare feet.
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We don't say shoe feet, though.
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That's not a thing.
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Or you can wear slippers.
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So sometimes in the winter, when it's really, really
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cold and it's hard to keep our house warm,
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I will wear a pair of slippers to keep
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my feet warm and to be comfortable. Very, very nice.
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I love slippers and socks.
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So you'll notice that a lot of these
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pictures have to do with things you do
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for comfort when you live somewhere cold.
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So I know many of you live somewhere warm, and there
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might be other things you do, but there's a certain.
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How would you describe this?
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It's nice to wear really warm socks in the winter.
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In Canada, it's nice to have a
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pair of slippers for your feet. In Canada.
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Both of these items give you comfort.
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I have normal socks for work, but I
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also have some socks that are thicker.
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And I just find sometimes on the weekend I wear my thicker
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socks because at work I have shoes on all the time.
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But at home we just walk around
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in our house in sock feet.
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So it's nice to have a nice thick pair of warm socks.
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Very nice to have.
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And then, of course, you could always have a warm bath.
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A warm shower is nice.
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A warm bath is even nicer.
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A warm bath is nice.
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After maybe you've gone to the gym and worked
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out, and the next day your muscles are sore
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and you're looking for some comfort, some relief.
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Having a warm bath would be one way to do that.
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A warm bath, just, you can smell the aroma.
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Maybe you put some scented body wash or
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something in the water and it just feels
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really nice and smells really nice.
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The steam, maybe if your nose is stuffed up, the
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steam helps to make your nose start to run.
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That's not a nice picture I'm making there.
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But anyways, a warm bath.
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I've always enjoyed these in the winter.
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I do not enjoy baths in the summer.
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Normally I'll just have a hot shower, and I
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think a hot shower would be the same.
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Like I find a hot shower very comforting. For sure.
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By the way, you can say a hot bath or warm bath.
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Warm shower or hot shower.
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We generally use the word hot.
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A hot tub.
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So again, listen to how I say this.
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A hot tub, not a hot tub.
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There's no pause.
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It should be one word.
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In fact, I think some people spell it that way.
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But a hot tub is a special
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kind of tub that's usually outside.
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They can be inside that's filled
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with very, very hot water.
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And it usually has a pump that makes bubbles.
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So the water is circulated very rapidly.
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And when you sit in a hot tub, it's very soothing.
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A hot tub is especially nice if you
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have sore muscles or a sore back.
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It's nice to sit in a hot tub.
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Jen and I, many years ago, before we had children and
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where we could do fun things, we went to blue mountain
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and they have hot tubs outside in the winter.
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So you kind of come out of the building and you
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run in the freezing cold weather to the hot tub.
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And then you get in the hot tub and you're in
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this very hot, warm, bubbly water in the hot tub.
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Very, very soothing.
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Very nice for your muscles.
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Definitely a lot of comfort when you're in a hot tub.
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Very nice.
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So some people really like certain articles of
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clothing, and those can make you happy.
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Those can bring comfort as well.
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Some people, like I said, when I get home
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on a Friday, I put on an old sweatshirt.
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Some people have an old pair of jeans or
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a t shirt that just makes them feel happy.
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Like it's fun to put on an old t shirt and an old
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pair of jeans on a Friday night after work and sit down and
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have a hot cup of coffee or tea or have hot chocolate.
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All of those things, to me, say comfort.
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That would be a very nice evening for me.
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So again, this isn't necessarily the jeans you wear when you
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go out, but it might just be you bought a pair
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of jeans once and they just fit really nicely.
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And so they give you comfort when you wear them.
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Any kind of warmth, and I
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think sunshine is the next one.
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Any kind of warmth gives humans comfort.
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When you walk outside on a nice warm day, not too warm.
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When you sit in front of a wood stove,
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like this person is doing, warming up their feet.
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When you get up in the morning, for
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us, the house is colder at night.
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We keep the house cold at night.
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And in the morning, the furnace starts running around
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630 and hot air starts to come out of
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the air vents to warm up the house. Warmth.
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It's hard to say, isn't it?
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Warmth is a very nice, comforting thing as humans.
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If you live in a country where it can be cold
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outside, it's nice to have a place that you live where
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there is warmth, where you have a feeling of warmth.
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I love this, by the way.
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When we're at Jen's parents, sometimes we come in from
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the cold and we sit by the woodstove and the
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warmth of the woodstove is very, very comforting.
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Sunshine I mentioned as humans as well, we
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love to feel the sun on our skin.
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The winter in Canada is sometimes a little
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bit gray, like the sun isn't out right
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now when I look out the window.
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But it certainly is nice on days where it starts to like
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Monday, my class walked to town for a class trip and there
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was a little bit of sunshine on the way back.
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And it was very, very nice.
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I very much enjoyed the sunshine.
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It's funny how things that bring comfort, like
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warmth and sunshine, you could describe it by
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saying they make you feel warm inside.
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Like you have a nice warm feeling.
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That means joy or cheer or happiness.
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Like when you have a warm feeling, deep breathing.
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It's nice, deep breathing.
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Sometimes when you are feeling the opposite of comfort.
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When you're feeling the opposite of happiness, when you're
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feeling stress, if you do some deep breathing, if
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you just go somewhere quiet and take five or
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ten deep breaths, it can really change your mood
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and make you feel a lot better.
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So again, stress is kind of the opposite of comfort.
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Do you understand that?
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Work is stressful?
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When you're home, you're very comfortable.
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So when you're feeling stress, this is one of the things
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that you can do to de stress a little bit.
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If you are looking to do that,
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you can do some deep breathing.
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So we talked about comfort food a little bit earlier and
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then there's also, oh, I put the wrong picture there.
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That's not a drink, Bob.
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Anyways, comfort food.
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Someone asked about this earlier.
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Comfort food is usually hot food.
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It's, I think, something I associate
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with fall or winter, the seasons.
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In Canada, where it's cold outside, it's nice to have a
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hot bowl of soup or a hot bowl of stew.
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Stew is just a thicker soup, if you're wondering.
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And I mentioned earlier that for me, comfort food, when I
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think of comfort food, I think of a hot bowl of
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soup and some fresh made bread, like the smell of bread
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baking in the oven or in the bread machine.
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That's where we make our bread and a bowl of hot soup.
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To me, that's comfort food.
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At school, sometimes on Fridays, we
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take turns bringing food in.
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So three people will bring food in and the
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whole staff, all the teachers will share a meal.
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And I would consider that comfort food because it's
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usually soup and fresh bread and things like that.
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It's very, very yummy.
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Sometimes a cup of coffee, a cup of hot chocolate,
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a cup of tea, all of those things bring comfort.
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It's just so nice.
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And again, I'm talking a lot about cold countries.
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Sometimes you use the cup of tea to warm
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up your hands while you're drinking the tea.
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If Jen and I work outside in the winter,
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when we come in, sometimes your hands are cold
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and so the tea warms up your hands, but
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it's also soothing to drink the tea as well.
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A phone call.
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So sometimes we refer to comfort as relief as well.
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So let's say someone.
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Yeah, again, a little bit.
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Remember I said it's the opposite of stress.
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Sometimes when someone phones you and lets you
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know they arrive somewhere, you have a feeling
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of comfort or you relax a little bit.
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Sometimes it's just nice to talk to an
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old friend or maybe you have a sibling,
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a brother or sister that lives far away.
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And a phone call is just something that makes you
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feel better and enjoy the day a little bit more.
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So a phone call can bring comfort as well.
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And maybe they'll say things to you
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that make you feel better as well.
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Soft lighting.
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So this is what I would call warm lighting.
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So you can see it's a little
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bit yellow, a little bit orange.
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In English, we might say yellowish or orangish.
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Sometimes we add ish to the end of the word.
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At night, I like this color of lighting.
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I don't like harsh white light,
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like what's on me right now.
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If I'm going to sit and read a book
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at night, I like soft lighting like this.
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That certainly makes the room feel a little bit more
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cozy and a little bit more enjoyable to be in.
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So soft lighting would be lighting
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like this, not very bright.
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And also, the color is a little bit.
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It's not pure white.
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It's a little bit orange, a little bit yellow. Pets.
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So cats, dogs, they're probably the
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most cuddly and nicest pest. Pests.
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Not pests, sorry.
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Did you know if you switch the s and
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t, it's an animal or insect you don't like?
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So, like, raccoons are pests, flies are pests.
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But pets, of course, do bring comfort.
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It might be nice to sit with your dog.
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You might have a cat that likes to
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sit on your lap at night and purr.
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And for some reason, humans and pets, there's a
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level of comfort that comes from having a pet.
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In fact, I'm pretty sure they've proven scientifically that
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people who have a pet are usually happier.
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Okay, I don't think this is true of me.
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I think it's true of Jen and one or two of my kids.
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But definitely pets are something that,
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well, look how cute they are.
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Doesn't that just looking at them make you feel happy?
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The cat looks a little annoyed, though,
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because I said pests instead of pets.
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But maybe I should do a lesson on words that look.
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Words that are really similar if
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you switch a couple of letters.
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But pets can bring comfort.
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Stuffed animal.
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So if you are a child, you
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all were children at one point.
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You probably had a stuffed animal.
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You might have even had a blanket as a child.
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A lot of times a child will have a blanket they
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carry around with them, or they'll have a stuffed animal and
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a blanket, and they have these things for comfort.
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These objects, these things bring them comfort.
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When I was a kid, I had, did I have a little dog?
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I think I did.
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And I definitely had a blanket when I was a kid.
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I don't remember what it looked like.
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And all of our kids, at a certain point in time
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for comfort, would have a blanket or a stuffed animal.
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Very common for children to have those things.
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A sauna.
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So we say sauna in English.
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I think the correct pronunciation is sauna.
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Those of you from the scandinavian
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countries, northern Europe, can correct me.
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We don't have saunas in our houses in Canada, normally.
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But when you go to a hotel and you go
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down to the pool, there might be a pool, a
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hot tub, and a sauna at the hotel.
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A sauna is a room filled with very hot, moist air. Okay.
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You can see some of the moisture right here, and it
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will make you sweat, and it will make you very warm.
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They're supposed to be very healthy for you.
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It's supposed to be healthy to go in a sauna and
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sweat for a bit and then jump in a pool afterwards.
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But a sauna is another thing that
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can bring you a sense of relaxation.
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Something that is very soothing.
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Before the lesson, Freddie mentioned that he
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was sitting in his comfy chair.
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I think that's what he said.
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And I responded and said, there is a slide for that.
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So here it is.
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A comfy chair is any chair
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that you find very comfortable.
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Comfy chair.
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So this is a recliner.
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We sometimes call it a lazy boy.
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It doesn't have to be a recliner.
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Your comfy chair might be an old rocking chair.
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I find this chair from 1958 that I
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use to be a very comfy chair.
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Although the bottom, I think the bottom
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cushion is getting a little worn out.
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But a comfy chair is of course then
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a chair that you enjoy sitting in.
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Maybe it's a chair where you sit to read
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a book, maybe you sit to watch tv.
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Maybe you just put the chair back and go to sleep.
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Some people like to have naps in their comfy chair.
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My mum has a comfy chair and she
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likes to take naps in her comfy chair.
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But yes, a chair that is very, very comfortable.
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So I mentioned potpourri.
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If you're wondering where this lesson came
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from, it came from last week.
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I talked about the word potpourri.
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This is potpourri.
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Potpourri is like dried flower petals and maybe some spices
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in a bowl that gives a room a certain aroma.
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It gives off a certain comforting smell.
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Okay, so potpourri, it might be,
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I'm trying to think like lavender.
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It might have lavender in it.
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A very nice smelling flower.
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It might have dried peony petals in it.
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Another nice smelling flower.
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But yes, potpourri, not as common as it used to be.
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I remember growing up in the late eighty
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s, a lot of people would have potpourri.
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Maybe everyone's houses smelled really bad back
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then so they had a little bit
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of potpourri to make things smell better.
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But yes, dried flower petals and maybe different
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types of spices to make a room in
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a home smell very, very appealing. And nice.
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Candles, also dangerous, by the way, when the power
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goes out, it's not recommended that you use candles.
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It should be the thing you use as
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a last resort because a candle obviously has
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a flame and that can start a fire.
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So if the power goes out, you should use
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other rechargeable lights before you decide to use candles.
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But candles are really.
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They create a certain coziness in a room.
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Like at Christmas, when we have Christmas dinner, we have
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candles on the table, and the candles smell nice.
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The candles give off a nice soft light.
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The candles, they flicker and they're nice to watch, and
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they just make the room seem a little more cozy.
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So sometimes maybe you come home and you're going to
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have a bath, and you light a few candles and
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you have a hot bath or a warm bath.
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That, to me, would be something you
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would do because you want comfort.
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You want something that's comfortable and enjoyable.
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But be careful with the candles.
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House plants.
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So actually, two weeks ago, I had to sub for a teacher.
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Was I subbing? I forget.
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But in their classroom, they had lots of house
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plants, so I know it's not their house.
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We still call them house plants, and
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it just created a really nice feeling.
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When we have green plants around
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us, it can be very comforting.
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When you go for a walk out in the
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forest, it can be very comforting and soothing to
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have lots of green plants around you.
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So house plants are another
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thing that can bring comfort.
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