Let's Learn English! Topic: Furniture! 🛏️🪑🛋️ (Lesson Only)

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Learn English with Bob the Canadian


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Well hello everyone and welcome to this English lesson about
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furniture. Furniture is all of the stuff that you have in your
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house or apartment that you sit on that you lie down on that
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you relax on that you maybe set a plate on. All of the things
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that make your life easier. Furniture is pretty cool. You
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can see here there are a couple of pieces of furniture in this
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picture as well. I do have to say I did do a lesson a long
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time ago on rooms and furniture. And this lesson is
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just about furniture. Um I found a whole bunch of words to
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that I could teach you this morning. Some will be very
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familiar. Some maybe will be new to you. I do have to say
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though that these are the names we use in my part of Canada. I
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would say 95% of these are probably used in every English
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speaking country. Uh but there might be a few in here that
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that are unique to Canada. We'll see as we along. But
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anyways once again welcome to this English lesson about
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furniture. Let's talk about furniture. As I mentioned
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furniture is anything that you use in your house to be
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comfortable. Sometimes it's just something you use because
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it's useful like a table. Sometimes it's the place where
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you sit. Sometimes it's the place where you lie down.
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Sometimes it's the place where you have a nap. Sometimes it's
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what you use to be comfortable sitting while you read a book.
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This is a piece of furniture. I'm not sure why it's outside.
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But we do refer to furniture using the word peace. This is a
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piece of furniture. This is a piece of furniture. This couch
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is a piece of furniture. It's a unique phrase. I'm not sure why
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we use the word peace. But people will say things like
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this. Oh your new apartment looks good. It looks like you
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still need a few more pieces of furniture. Or do you need to
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buy a piece of furniture or a two for your new house? Or did
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it come furnished? When something comes furnished it
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means it has all the furniture there already. But we
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definitely use the word piece when we're talking about a
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single piece of furniture. If I could use the word to defy the
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phrase that would be great. One of the things that is very
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common in my part of the world is something called a recliner.
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And we also sometimes call this a lazy boy. This is a type of
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chair for one person. And it will recline. It will go back
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and you can put your legs up. A little thing comes out from the
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bottom for your feet to rest on. The general term is
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recliner. But lazy boy is actually the name of a company
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that makes this type of chair. And we now use that word to
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refer to this type of chair. So when you sit down at night and
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you want to watch a basketball game you might sit in a
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recliner. You might sit in a lazy boy And you might put the
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chair back. That's what we say. Put your feet up and sit and
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enjoy what you are watching. When I do this though sometimes
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I fall asleep. Um whenever I'm in a recliner and I go back if
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I'm a little bit tired sometimes I doze off. Here are
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the standards. A couch or sofa is something that looks like
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this. This is a place where multiple people can sit. Maybe
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you've invited friends over for coffee and you're going to just
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sit in your living room or you might sit in your rec room rec
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creation room. We call it rec room. Um to just have a cup of
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tea or a cup of coffee and to sit and chat. You might sit on
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a couch. We also call this a sofa. There's this belief that
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Canadians call this a Chesterfield. I've never called
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this a Chesterfield. I have always called this a couch. And
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I rarely use the word sofa. I almost always use the word
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couch when I'm talking about this. If two people can sit
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here. It has a unique name. We then call it a love seat. So a
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couch can sit three or four people or more if it's a huge
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couch. But a love seat is designed for two people. I'm
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not sure why we call it this. As a child I used to giggle
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when my parents called it a love seat because I would
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always imagine a couple sitting on there really close together.
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Not going to mention any more things but a love seat is a
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couch designed just for two people. Um and this might be
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unique to my part of the world but I don't think it is. I'm
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wondering if Brent could chime in in the chat if he calls this
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a lazy boy. And if he calls this a love seat. I would be
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interested to know that. So we have the standard the chair. A
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chair is anything that you sit on. Usually a chair has four
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legs and a back. Although I think there are might be chairs
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with three legs that would be rare. But a chair generally has
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four legs. Sometimes it's cushioned. Sometimes it's just
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made of wood or plastic. Sometimes it has arms.
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Sometimes it doesn't. But a chair can be found in the
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kitchen. A chair can be found in the living room. Uh a chair
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can be found anywhere in the house actually. We even have a
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chair in our bedroom. We even have a chair in our hallway I
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think. Yes. I'm not sure why. I should figure that out. And of
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course I mentioned this already. A chair with arms is
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called an armchair. So an armchair has a spot where you
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can put your arms on the side. This is really nice when
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reading a book because you can put your elbow on the arm of
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the armchair while you hold your book and then you can read
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it. So an armchair is a chair that has arms. Pretty pretty
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simple actually. And we have something called a beanbag
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chair. We had a beanbag chair. But eventually it broke. A
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beanbag chair is filled with small dried beans or small
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beads made of plastic that just make for a very comfortable
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chair. When you sit in it the chair forms around the shape of
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your body. Um so when you sit in a beanbag chair it's very
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cozy and it's very comfortable. I actually think maybe we
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should buy another beanbag chair. They're very very fun.
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Kids especially enjoy beanbag chairs. So Brent who's from the
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United States says yes to me. We both terms are used. So the
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term lazy boy and the term love seat are familiar to Brent as
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well who speaks the American flavour of English. Yes I
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should buy another beanbag chair. That would be super fun.
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I love beanbag chairs. And then sometimes we have what's called
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a footstool. Um when you sit on a couch or when you sit on a
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chair you can put your feet up on a footstool. By the way you
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can sit in a chair and you can sit on a chair. It kind of
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depends what kind of chair it is. If I was to sit on a
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kitchen chair I would say I'm sitting on a chair. But if I
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was to sit in an armchair I might say I'm sitting in a
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chair. So you can sit on a chair and you can sit in a
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chair. I think it just depends how much of the chair is around
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you. Um a footstool can sometimes be called an ottoman
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as well. A footstool is just a nice place to put your feet.
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When people say I'm going to go home and put my feet up and
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relax they usually mean that they're going to sit somewhere
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where they have a footstool where they can put their feet
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on the footstool and simply relax a little bit. And then we
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have of course a rocking chair. A rocking chair is very common
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in a baby's room. Often a rocking chair is used to soothe
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a child or baby who won't sleep. You'll hold the baby and
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then you'll rock in the rocking chair. By the way I'm sitting
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in an office chair not a rocking chair. But it does
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happen to go back and forth as well. Um but a rocking chair is
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a fairly common thing to have when you are when you have
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babies. Um to have a rocking chair so that when the mom's
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feeding the baby or when either the mom or dad are just with
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the baby trying to get the baby to sleep. Sometimes you'll sit
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in a rocking chair and the rocking motion will soothe the
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baby. And then we have what's called a stool. A stool is
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simply a really high thing to sit on. Usually with four legs.
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It can have three. Um and they're really nice because you
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don't sit all the way down. It's easy to get on and off a
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stool because the where you sit is the same height as your butt
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basically. And we have another type of stool called a bar
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stool which simply has a back on it. So you can sit and be a
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little more comfortable. Stools are Common in rooms like if you
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have a rec room if you have a pool table or a dartboard or a
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room where people would stand more than sit you might have a
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few stools around for people to sit on. Um and we have a bar
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stool. I think in the barn we have a bar stool. A really old
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one that cheap Bob the Canadian found on the side of the road.
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I should take a picture of it someday and show you. A bed. So
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a bed simply put is the place where you sleep. And other
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things can happen there with consenting adults. I won't go
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into that. But a bed is usually consist usually consists of a
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frame. A box spring and a mattress in my part of the
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world. So this is a little hard to describe. But the bed frame
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is made out of wood or metal. And it is the basically the
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skeleton of the bed. It's what everything else goes on. We
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call that the bed frame. In my part of world we put something
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on top called a box spring which is simply a big square.
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It looks like a mattress but it's actually kind of hard and
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then on top of that we put the mattress. The mattress then has
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sheets and everything like that. By the way at this end of
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the bed we have what's called the headboard. So once again a
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bed is where you sleep. Uh it is it consists of a bed frame.
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And then in this part of the world we put a box spring and
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on top of that we put a mattress. And then earlier
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someone mentioned bunk bed Mode Aggs was talking about bunk
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beds. Bunk beds are stacked beds. One bed on top of the
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other bed. Usually found in kids rooms. They could be found
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in like a dorm at a university. Or maybe if you are in the
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military and you are in the barracks. Where people live on
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a military base. They might have bunk beds. But a bunk bed
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is basically a bed with another bed on top of it. Interestingly
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enough when I think about the word bunk bed like oh are you
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going to buy a bunk bed I would say yes and if someone said oh
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do your kids have bunk beds I would say yes so the
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pluralization of bunk bed like in the singular it still means
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two beds when you say bunk beds it can mean one set of bunk
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beds or more than one set. Kinda weird. I didn't realize
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that. And sometimes I learn things when I make the lessons.
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Uh beside the bed you will find a night table or nightstand.
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This is just a small piece of furniture. Notice I'm using the
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word peace again. I've used it often. A small piece of
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furniture that you can put things on. Usually people will
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have their alarm clock. They might have a book on their
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nightstand or night table. In the nightstand they might have
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a few other things. I sometimes put my watch in the drawer of
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my nightstand because it glows at night. And I don't like the
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glow. Um and usually People will have a small lamp. This is
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within easy reach when you're in bed. So if you need to turn
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the light on quick or if you need to set your book or in my
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case your reading glasses down before you go to sleep that's
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where you would put them on your night table or nightstand.
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Often people will have a dresser in their bedroom. This
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is simply a large piece of furniture with many drawers.
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And this is where you would keep your foldable clothes.
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This is where you keep your socks and your underwear. Maybe
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your T-shirts. Things that you wouldn't hang up on a hanger.
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Things that you would fold. So again those are the big three I
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think. I keep my shorts in here. I keep actually keep my
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jeans in my dresser. Um but then I have other things that I
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do like to hang up. And you would then put them in a
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wardrobe. Now Jen and I don't have a wardrobe. We actually
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have closets in our bedroom where we can hang things up.
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But a wardrobe is a piece of furniture with doors on the
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front. With a place where you can hang things up on coat
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hangers. So if you had like nice shirts. Or maybe you have
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really nice dress pants and you don't want them to get
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wrinkled. You would hang them in your wardrobe. Again in my
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case Jen and I hang our clothes in our closet. So a closet
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isn't a piece of furniture. It's part of the room. But a
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wardrobe is something you could buy. It's a large piece of
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furniture that you can buy and put things in. So when you
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first move somewhere if you don't have anything for your
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bedroom you might go and buy a bedroom set. You can buy all of
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these things at the same time from a furniture store. So you
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could go and say I need a bedroom set. And that would
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consist of a night table. Maybe two night tables. Uh a bed. A
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wardrobe, a dresser, there's different kinds of bedroom
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sets. But when we talk about everything that goes in a
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bedroom especially when you are buying it. We would say you're
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buying a bedroom set. When people get married then they
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usually go and buy a bedroom set because they're moving into
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a house or apartment together and they need all of those
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pieces of furniture. So they and it's usually cheaper to buy
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a bedroom set. You get a little bit of a better price when you
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buy when you buy everything at once. If you have a baby or if
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you know someone who has a baby they will most likely have a
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crib. A crib is of course a small bed for babies and for
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toddlers up to a certain age. Kids will sleep in a bed. Um
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it's designed so the baby can't can't fall out. You don't want
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the baby to roll off the mattress. So we have a crib so
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that the child is safe when they are sleeping. They can
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roll around to their heart's content and they are safe the
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entire time. Um we all have what's called a changing table.
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And I actually sometimes call it a change table. Um but
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changing table seems to be the correct term according to the
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internet. This is where you would change a baby's diaper.
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So a changing table has a small soft top or pad. And underneath
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it has an area to store baby wipes, diapers, and all the
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stuff you would need when you're taking care of your
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child. So if you have a baby or a young child that's wearing
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diapers. Uh and if they need their diaper changed you would
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change it on a changing table. Very handy piece of furniture
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when you're changing diapers a lot like Jen and I were many
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years ago. It's so nice to have a changing table. And of course
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in the kitchen if you have a young child you will have
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what's called a high chair. Um notice I don't say high chair.
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Notice how I say it. I say high chair. So even though it's two
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words. And even though the first word is high. I actually
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say it more like this. Highchair. It's a high chair.
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So it's it's Like I don't finish the word high. Um so a
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high chair is just a chair that's really tall so that the
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baby is at the same level as the parent. It's much easier to
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feed a child when they're sitting in a high chair. Um and
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usually it will have you can strap them in. So that they
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can't climb out. There's usually like a little almost
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like a seat belt for the child. Um so definitely something
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that's very common in a home where you have really really
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all children.
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As we move to other rooms you might have something called an
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entertainment centre. So the piece of furniture underneath
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this TV is called an entertainment centre. We also
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sometimes call it a TV stand. They are pretty much identical.
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Um they are just low small low pieces of furniture where you
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can put your Blu-ray player if you still have one of those.
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Where you can put your gaming consoles. Maybe you have an
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Xbox or a PlayStation or a Nintendo Switch. You would put
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those things in the bottom of the entertainment centre. Maybe
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you have cable TV and you have a little cable TV box that
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would sit in the bottom of the entertainment centre. So this
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little piece of furniture here we would call an entertainment
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centre or we would call it a TV stand. If you went to a
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furniture store and said where are the entertainment centres
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or where are the TV stands? They would they would send you
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to the same section. They mean the same thing. And of course
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the general term table. Anything with four legs and a
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flat surface that you would put things on we would call a
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table. So you might sit and eat at a table. You might have a
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small table for playing games with friends. A table is
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usually a standard height. I'm not sure what the standard
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table height is. But it's a place that it's comfortable to
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sit at. So notice you can sit on a chair but you can sit at a
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table. Which requires a chair by the way. When we have
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meetings at work sometimes we sit at tables to have that
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meeting. At lunch I sit at the table in the staff room. At
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night Jen and I call the kids down and we say come to the
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table. Everyone sit at the table we're going to have
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supper. So a table four legs flat surface. Very very useful
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invention. Um you might have something called a card table
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or folding table. Jen and I have a table like this in our
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back room. If friends come over and we want to play cards or a
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board game we will get out the card table or folding table.
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The legs fold up and we can store the table in a special
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room in our house so it's out of the way but when we need it
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we can take it back out and use it. And then of course I've
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mentioned this a couple of times you have what's called a
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kitchen table. This is the table that you would usually
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find in the kitchen of a home. They are different sizes
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depending on the amount of people who live in the home. We
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have a big family so we have a big kitchen table. We can
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actually sit 10 people at our kitchen table. So we have
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enough room and our kitchen table has what's called leafs
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in it. So you can take pieces of the table out. And you can
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make bigger and smaller. I should have found a small video
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on that. But our kitchen table has four leafs that you can put
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in. So we can continually make the table bigger or smaller
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depending on how many people are coming over for supper or
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dinner. And then usually you have kitchen chairs around the
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kitchen table. Uh in our living room we have a coffee table.
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This is a low table usually located in front of a couch.
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And the coffee table is basically where you put things.
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You might have a few books there. Um the remote control
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for the TV is usually on our coffee table. It's just a handy
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little table. If you are actually having tea or coffee
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with people you will put your tea or coffee cup on the table.
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But usually you put what's called a coaster underneath. I
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should have found a picture of that too. A coaster is a small
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piece of wood or other material that you put a hot thing on
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before you put it on a coffee table. And then of course we
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have what's called an end table very similar to a nightstand or
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night table except you will find this beside a couch or a
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chair or love's feet. An end table is just a small place to
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put maybe a plant maybe your books maybe your reading
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glasses you might put the remote control on the end table
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as well and you might just keep it there because then it's easy
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to find it back. Instead of losing it in the couch
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cushions. That's the worst thing when you can't find the
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remote control. So you might have a desk if you are a
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university student or if you're just a person like me. I have a
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desk. Where's my desk? My desk is right here. I'm actually
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sitting at a desk as well. I have two desks. This is where I
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do most of my work. And this is the desk that I live stream
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from. A desk is a small it's similar to a table but it's
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very tiny and it's made for one person. It usually has some
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storage. You can see this desk has drawers on the far side.
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Sometimes a desk will even have a small cabinet built in like a
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door that you open. But a desk is where you would do some
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writing. It's where you would put your computer. Uh let's see
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here. Let's see. I need to go now says mode. But before I do
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let me remind you one last time to keep your to keep your
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throat. It looks like you're feeling refreshed now and
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that's awesome. Thanks Mode. Have a good day by the way. I
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hope you have an enjoyable day. Um so yes again desk. By the
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way the lamp that you put on a desk is called a desk lamp. Uh
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and the chair you use at a desk is usually called an office
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chair. Or if you're young and you play computer games you
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might have a gaming chair. A really fun that goes all the
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way back. It's a little inside joke for you younger people. I
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think you'll know who I'm talking about. If you have a
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gaming chair that goes all the way back that's usually pretty
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cool. Um let's see here. Uh you might have a bookcase or a
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bookshelf. Same word for the same piece of furniture. This
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is a piece of furniture with many many shelves and you can
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store things on those shelves. Usually books but it doesn't
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have to be. Sometimes people will buy little thing and store
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them on their shelf. They'll have little knickknacks that
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they'll put. Or is it called brick a brack too? Think
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knickknacks. They'll buy little things. Maybe you go on a trip
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and you buy a souvenir. You might come home and put it on a
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bookshelf or bookcase. We also have outdoor furniture. All of
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my outdoor furniture is either put away or flipped upside down
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right now because it's winter and I don't want it to blow
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away. But outdoor furniture is furniture that's designed to be
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outside. In English we would say it's designed to withstand
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the elements. It's usually made out of a type of wood that does
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really really well outside. Um it's sometimes made of plastic.
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Sometimes it's made of metal. But outdoor furniture is just
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furniture you would use on a nice day. Not in the middle of
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winter. To sit outside and chat or read a book or enjoy
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someone's company. And we what's called patio furniture.
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You could also by the way call this a patio set. In Canada we
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often have a deck or patio attached to our house. And we
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would then buy patio furniture. This again is furniture that's
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designed to be outside. Um it's usually made out of really
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durable material. Because you don't want it to get wet and
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rot. So they build it out of material that stays really good
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when it's outside. So here you see a patio table, patio chairs
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and a nice umbrella so that these people can enjoy their
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time outside. So I have a picnic table outside. Most
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people in North America have a picnic table somewhere. It's a
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very common type of table. The design is very standard across
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North America. It's made from wood. Sometimes it's made from
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metal but it's usually made from wood. If you go to I'm
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going to say any park in Canada there will most likely be
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picnic tables somewhere for you to sit at to have little meal
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with your family. We don't often put a blanket on the
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ground when we go and have a picnic. We often go somewhere
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and sit at a picnic table. There's usually room for six or
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even eight people depending on the size of the table. Um and
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it's really really fun. Um by the way I promised one of my
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kids I would build a new picnic table. And I never did it. So I
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should make sure I do that next year. Our picnic table is still
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working but it's kind of falling apart. And then we have
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the classic lawn chair. So a lawn chair is a foldable chair
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that you can use outside. This is the old version of a lawn
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chair. There are newer chairs now that are much better
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designed. But when I was a kid this is what a lawn chair look
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like. And we still have lawn chairs that look like this. A
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very light foldable chair that you can bring with you when you
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go camping. Or in the summer when you go visit someone you
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might bring lawn chairs so that you can sit outside around a
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campfire to enjoy each other's company and to talk.
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