Let's Learn English! Topic: Gigantic Things! 🐳⛰️🗼 (Lesson Only)

The universe. So all around us there are planets. There are

don't disturb the game. So you most likely will have a

sports photographers. You want you can't be on the field to

would be the place that you would go in order to in order

tickets to the opera. Uh you would go to an auditorium. That

concert maybe you're going to maybe you bought you've bought

for some reason the state of Texas in the US in North

little bit of a joke. If you're from Texas I'm not trying to

because the mall is gigantic. So again a mall is a shopping

America. There's also in Canada something called the West

gigantic mosquito. Malls. So I believe this is the mall of

there's a gigantic spider. Um don't go in that room. There's

selling bouquets of flowers and there was a spider in one and

when we see one that's extra scary and bigger than you would

have a gigantic nickel in Sudbury Ontario. So a tourist

Canada where they mine nickel and so they have a gigantic

decided to build a really big pencil. There's a place in

it's human size. But this one is extra big. Um so some have

gigantic. Um I see more billboards when I'm in Michigan

then the signs you see along a highway are called billboards.

other sister and her husband have two kids and they all run

kids. The other sister and her husband have three kids. The

gigantic farm I know one brother and his wife have four

family to do all the work. Now a lot of farms are gigantic.

I was a kid almost all of my friends lived on a farm. There

the United States and in Canada most farms are now gigantic.

family farms. A family farm is a small farm. Maybe 100 acres.

a mansion. Certainly if you are a billionaire you will most

million or 30 million or $50 million dollars. You might buy

reason I use the word multimillionaire is because

multimillionaire or a billionaire would own. The

in that city. So certainly I know on the edge of Central

So I'm not sure this is a competition. But we certainly

willow tree broke and a big branch was hanging in the

remember on my farm last summer we had a gigantic storm and my

that I had to drive 40 kilometres an hour. And it was

you look here these people are standing in front of one and I

close. That would be fun someday to do that. Trees. So

Um sometimes if you see a person in the distance you

be a gigantic mistake. For sure. Icebergs. If you have

forgot what day their exam was. Um a student came to school a

day later and their exam was actually the day before. So

that would be a gigantic mistake. That would definitely

accidentally drove your car in the ditch because you turned

forehead or I'm going on a date and I realize I have a gigantic

ah it's picture day at school and I have a gigantic zit on my

want to look. Sometimes on our faces we get things that we

physically fit. Um and huge. Yeah you would use that word as

see someone like this. I think this is an actor. I think he

boxing match. You might say a men's boxing match. You might

last 20 years that people no longer consider my tractor to

tractors have become so enormous and gigantic over the

few years ago. Um so then seeing a hot air balloon up

gigantic. It's really fun to see a gigantic hot air balloon

Caribbean. It's the same place by the way. I just say it two

necessarily gigantic. But when you see one up close it seems

cruise ship on a cruise through the Caribbean. Or the

and go through the Caribbean or the Caribbean. There's two

this? Like a floating hotel. That might be a good way to

is more for fun and for enjoyment. I have never been on

containerships to get certain things. If I want to buy a car

container ship got stuck in the Suez canal it canal. It

affected the whole world. Because we all rely on

the world but there are also a lot of container ships. So a

different kinds of ships. There are a lot of cruise ships in

gigantic. Some are small. I mean they're all big but some

it didn't go on an actual ship. It went on a plane. But we used

shipped. So interesting thing here. We use the Verb to ship

cargo. So again cargo is anything that needs to be

country to be sold to Canadians but cargo planes are full of

plane is filled with a whole bunch of iPads coming to my

we will often use cargo planes. A cargo plane plane is

an auditorium is where you would go in order to hear a

sports event and there was a photographer there and the lens

right there. Uh when you have a camera it has a little lens on

though. There's one in Niagara Falls. But a mall depending on

and auditoriums. So if you go watch soccer or what most of

in Texas. Everything is Gigantic in Texas. That's a

Canada that goes all the way from the coastline to this

island of Prince Edward Island. So this enormous enormous

bridges. Some of them are gigantic. Cargo planes. So one

of the biggest planes in the world I believe is a cargo

where that came from but that's a common thing. Auditoriums. So

probably have a gigantic lens because you want to be able to

America we always imagine everything in Texas is

gigantic. Stadiums are gigantic and etcetera. I don't know

on his camera was even bigger than this one. And so sometimes

gigantic lens. And then I'm going to end with this slide.

thing in the world. There's nothing bigger than the

when you have a camera I can't show you because my camera's

used for sporting events. Or for taking Pictures of

wildlife. If you were a wildlife photographer you

take a good picture. You need to be far away. Um so that you

enormous lens or a gigantic lens. Usually these lenses are

just owned and run by by a by a boss who hires lots of

sign is gigantic. I think if you were up close the letters

So this is a billboard and some billboards are definitely

than I do in Canada. I'm not sure if we have stricter laws

attraction or a tourist attraction. And different

things as tourist attraction. So this is called an Adirondack

around a campfire mosquitoes will bite us and sometimes

I'll have to check. Malls can be gigantic. When I go to the

there will be a really big mosquito will say oh as a

though in Toronto and I can't remember the name and it's

can't cross and so we build bridges. When we started

tiny. Maybe a small foot bridge. Maybe just a small

eventually we built cars and we needed a way to get cars across

a gigantic farm. Uh and some are just businesses. They're

the girl said there's a gigantic spider in there. And I

going to talk about gigantic spiders today. People who are

gigantic. You could literally if you track your steps. You

afraid of spiders when they see a big spider will often say ah

could get your 10000 steps just by shopping in that mall

indoors. We do have outdoor malls in this part of Canada

where you are could be described as gigantic. Stadiums

think soccer stadiums are the biggest stadiums in the world.

might also be I think maybe the biggest stadium in the world is

Um they're definitely bigger than a hockey arena or a

Edmonton Mall in Edmonton. I think it's still called that.

it's not enormous. It's not gigantic. There is a mall

mall. It's a collection of stores. Um usually indoors like

99% of the time a mall is something where you are

attraction or a roadside attraction. Uh these are

sometimes gigantic. They decide to build something gigantic for

bugs are actually quite small. But we used the word gigantic

people to look at and for people to see. So spiders and

expect or bigger than normal. So just last night we were

towers incredibly tall towers so again I'm using tall and

Gigantic. So you'll see that gigantic can be used to mean

oceans that they are that there are. But the ocean is so

term for you. An ocean going vessel is a boat that is able

background of my videos for a month or two until I finally

see a building and you'll say that's a really tall building.

But sometimes it's just gigantic. Like a gigantic

building would be just way taller than any other building

laughed which wasn't nice. But I laughed because I knew I was

can make it look. So around the world there are different

stars. Um there are galaxies. All of those things are

everything that exists. So the universe is the most gigantic

gigantic. Are all mansions gigantic? Possibly. A mansion

these days if you're a millionaire you're not going to

likely own a mansion. So again a mansion is just a really

a gigantic spider. And sometimes when we are sitting

to cross the ocean. So oceans definitely definitely huge.

realized the ski slopes at the top were open. So we came back

really really big house. A gigantic house. Farms. So in

rocky mountains. And they are gigantic. I have seen the rocky

enormous farms. Thousands of acres. And there's more than

the next day and we skied all day. Was a super super fun day.

all of their kids will run a farm. So maybe so the one

gigantic. But the universe is the word we use to talk about

United States there are trees called sequoia. And they are

have gigantic maple trees in some places. Close to me

have been building some gigantic buildings in the

world. In the last ten, 20, or 30 years. Sometimes you will

finished. So I do not own a mansion. But some mansions are

Here's a term for you. Many years ago there were a lot of

think you need four or five people to join hands to put

definitely are things that can be gigantic. Storms. Last night

we actually had a really bad storm here. As I was driving

hopefully I say this one right. In western in the western

Maybe 200 acres. I know that might seem big to you but when

were a lot of family farms. So the parents and the kids had or

just a family working there. Sometimes a gigantic farm will

be three or four families. Like a brother and two sisters and

show this but I found a royalty free picture so I will. Um the

Hollywood sign. Apparently it's I'm I'm not sure I'm allowed to

are way bigger than you are as a person. Um but a sign and

in Canada about billboards. But when I'm in Michigan there are

sorry this isn't a nickel but this is some money. Um they

cities in the world have decided to build extra big

home last night the storm was so bad the rain was so intense

you mean then is that that person has a lot of muscle.

gigantic. But you might say to a friend do you see that guy?

you call football you probably go to a gigantic stadium. Um I

to the person. You wouldn't walk up and say you're

basketball arena. Um football stadiums though in America

insult you. Uh but I should ask Brett about this subday. But

He's gigantic. Meaning that he's has a lot of muscle. Very

somewhere on my face. We call this a zit. And even though a

zit on my face. So even though the zit is actually small we

English. And high schooler often get these or teenagers.

But sometimes I'll get a zit too. Um it's not uncommon for

zit is actually tiny. When you get a zit often people will say

this picture smaller because it's gross to be out of it. We

feel. It makes us feel a little bit embarrassed. Mistakes.

why. But if you're watching the heaviest weight class in a

enormous mistake or a huge mistake. One might be that you

ever been on a ship in the North Atlantic you would most

likely have seen icebergs. I have never seen an iceberg in

don't recognize them until you get up close. And then you can

a gigantic mistake that I recently saw someone do is they

up close. So notice again I'm using the phrase up close. When

Um and you can't you can't put your arms around it. Like I

to hear that concert or to see the thing you bought tickets

for. Lenses. So I was at a sports event a high school

it. Or a big lens on it. But sometimes it will have an

take pictures of the wild animals from far away.

Especially if they're dangerous. The same is true for

we do have gigantic storms. It seems that the last couple of

summers we've had more and more gigantic storms. If you

normally would have been a half hour but it took me longer. But

Sometimes you make a gigantic mistake. Sometimes you make an

economy. So containerships and cruise ships. So a cruise ship

building right now that's either being built or almost

Park in New York. There's a really gigantic apartment

more and more gigantic storms in the summers here. Buildings.

cleaned it up. But yes we definitely have it seems like

be a very big tractor. So people So this is an

half an hour and I was still in the storm. So it was well it

really bad rainstorm. And it was gigantic. Um I drove for

vehicle. Their break lights were broken. So I was in a

comes on a container ship. If for some reason that ship can't

that's made in Japan we can buy Japanese cars in Canada it

things on this ship are called containers. It is how we ship

didn't have any lights on their trailer or on the back of their

would dare say this isn't even the biggest tree in the world.

also starting to get dark. And the person in front of me

actually now considered to be a medium sized tractor. Because

machinery. Have you seen a newer tractor? Have you Seen

farmer bought a lot of machines or the farmer bought a lot of

was damaging your your flowers that you were growing. Mashi or

But as yet noone has really gone to live on the moon long

have space stations that orbit the earth that people live on.

as a civilization. Container ships. So there are a number of

there's one of the oldest maple trees in Ontario my province.

are relatively small but some are gigantic. A Boeing 757 is

familiar with these. A passenger plane can be

But trees can be gigantic. In Ken we have gigantic trees. We

the biggest trees in the world I think. They are gigantic. If

yours to put your arms around the whole tree. So trees

say oh the the fighter from Belgium. He's gigantic. What

interchangeably. A farm has a lot of machinery. They have

a machinery. So we kind of use these two words

her flower field and mushed or crushed a lot of her flowers a

different ways. Hot air balloons. Now these aren't

city close to me the mall there is big. It's a big mall but

chair. This is what we call this type of chair. Normally

For some reason. So there's something called a roadside

a lot of billboards along the highway. Not as many in Canada.

earth. And the elephant might be the largest land animal. So

star. Uh stars are quite big. The sun is enormous. The sun is

then stars if you didn't know this the sun is actually a

employees. Signs and billboards. So this is the

is an enormous house. A mansion is a gigantic house that a

pigs or chickens and the farm was just big enough for a

state of Florida in the southern US and then take a

cruise ships that leave from Florida in the United States

people who are sailing from port to port in order to visit

lots of muscle. Okay? So here's when I hear the word gigantic.

If you're watching the Olympics and you're watching the men's

interesting usage case. We don't often use the word

gigantic unless we're talking about extremely big men with

That means you have more than a million dollars. You have 20

might have a big house. But if you are a multimillionaire.

buy a mansion. You'll probably just have a nice house. You

different countries. It's very popular for Canadians to go on

a cruise ship. I'm not sure I ever will go on a cruise ship.

They are actually called agribusinesses. They are

was in Game of Thrones. I'm not sure. Um but you would say not

You're also saying they're probably quite tall. But if you

mountains a few times in my life. In fact my brother-in-law

Definitely gigantic. Mountains. So in Canada where I live there

cross the ocean in ocean going vessels. Okay there's another

enough that we could go to the moon and we could we could

Earth has one moon. Obviously the moon is smaller than the

opinion. Uh people are not very big when it when you start

weightlifting. You might say that guy is gigantic. We don't

often use the word gigantic to talk about women. I'm not sure

have a tractor that I thought was a big tractor. But it's

gigantic. So it has a couple of slightly different meanings

we use the two words interchangeably. Like the

and sister-in-law used to live out west. And so when we

the last few hundred years that people and safely started to

the oceans in boats. Um it wasn't until fairly recently in

gigantic that for a long time people did not regularly cross

A combine harvester. Um machines and machinery. Again

combine to harvest things. You could also call it a harvester.

tractors and they have wagons and they have what's called a

There's the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, the Arctic

be simple but I'm going to use other words as I describe it.

there. And then oceans. So around the planet we live on a

how gigantic tractors have become. Here's a funny story. I

I've only seen pictures. And I've never seen an iceberg up

see who they are. So I've never seen an iceberg in real life.

This is not the Confederation Bridge by the way. Um but yes

plane. I'm not 100% sure. In order to bring lots of things

bridge in the world over ice covered water. So there you go.

bridges. We built all kinds of bridges to cross usually water

container ship has a lot of containers on it. All of these

the verb ship to talk that way. Passenger planes. We are all

T-shirt was shipped. They shipped it via cargo plane. So

you see something up close it means that you're close to it.

real life. It is a mystery to me what they actually look like

well. So this one's a little gross so look away if you don't

building bridges hundreds of years ago they were pretty

make we use the word gigantic because of how it makes us

use the word gigantic to describe it. I'm going to make

in July 1 year. We went to a local mountain to hike. And we

me to do an English lesson and there's like a small red spot

call zits or pimples. We use the word zit a lot in Canadian

gigantic. They they are they're so big. They're so tall that my

it's filled with military equipment. Maybe the cargo

different than a passenger plane. A cargo plane is usually

bridge. I forget the name of it. Um bridge to PEI. The

become gigantic. There's actually a bridge in Eastern

the wrong way. Or something. You made a gigantic mistake. Um

elephants are definitely enormous land animals or

definitely we have really learned how to make planes well

well. But yes definitely whales are enormous sea creatures. And

Biggest air bus. Airbus A 380 is a gigantic plane. Um so

enormous a lot too. Jupiter is a gigantic planet. Certainly

gigantic. They are enormous planets. Remember again this

we'd learned that Pluto is a a planet. Pluto is relatively

I don't know how many. But moons as well are big. They're

have multiple moons. I believe Jupiter has a number of moons.

huge. An airbus I want to say 380 what's the biggest airbus.

Confederation Bridge 12. 9 kilometres long. The longest

online they would ship it to me. We even used the word when

to talk about whenever we send stuff. So if I bought a T-shirt

be a few other words you can learn along the way. Moons. So

talking about just one word that you might know there might

as well. I just used the term solar system. I said Jupiter,

was a gigantic whale. And when that whale jumped out of the

if not the biggest animals on the planet. If you were in a

used just for things. Maybe it's filled with cars. Maybe

from one country to another or to move them within a country

definitely use the word gigantic. You would say oh that

talking about cargo planes. So you would say my T-shirt is my

close. Wouldn't be exciting if it was damaging your yeah if it

up close unless you are my one of Jen's friends also grows

flowers and a hot air balloon made an emergency landing in

people walk to the top of the sea and tower that would be a

sea end tower. The CN Tower is quite tall. And it's I would

towers. In Toronto there's something called the CN Tower.

So an ocean is considered a body of water. Oceans are huge.

huge bodies of water. Remember how I said the vocabulary might

planet where there there's a lot of water. And oceans are

Canadians will in the winter drive or fly to Florida the

something really big. But I can also use it to talk about

describe it. A cruise ship is a gigantic ship filled with

We'll see. Um but a cruise ship what's a good way to describe

make it across the ocean. It really affects the world's

container ships continually moving around the world. When a

the vast majority of products on this planet. So there are

Tower. Towers are these things humans build because we want to

water and landed there was a gigantic splash of water as

we kind of distinguish between animals that live in the ocean.

think is I think the blue whale might be the largest animal on

something that's really tall. You could say well that tower's

words to say it. And visit all different islands. So a lot of

Earth. But it's still gigantic in my opinion. Some planets

climb that gigantic tower but towers humans for a very long

gigantic you would use a gigantic amount of energy to

a race you can use the stairs to go to the top and some

say it's gigantic. Every year I think just once a year there's

they might be words you know listen to the other words I use

might say it's huge. And if it's bigger than that I might

So if I drive about an hour and a half from here I can see the

gigantic. If we wanted to live on the moon. The moon is big

animals that live on land. Towers. So here is the Eiffel

the words in this English lesson might seem simple and

different shapes and sizes. Some things are small. Some

boat. And if a whale jumped out of the water you would

different whales kinds of whales are some of the biggest

And animals that live on land. So the whale or a number of

term. Maybe that will happen in my lifetime. We'll see. And

very very big things. So once again welcome to this lesson

build a moon base. We could actually build a place on the

see how tall we can make something and how beautiful we

comparing us to a things. And do remember even though some of

lesson is about gigantic things but I'm going to use the word

to talk about animals we have animals like a whale. A whale I

gigantic. Uh and it's also very very hot. Wales When you start

but sometimes just a valley or ravine. Um but bridges have

bridges and trains. So we built trestle we built suspension

suspension bridge that people could walk across. But

planets are gigantic. You might say a planet like Pluto I know

Bridges. So there are bodies of water that sometimes people

time have had this crazy desire to build incredibly gigantic

So that's just my personal order of how I describe very

visited them we would see the rocky mountains. And they are

about gigantic things. I have a lot of gigantic things to talk

about in lesson. Planets. Planets are gigantic. When you

say it's gigantic or enormous. I don't think there's any

I usually say that something is big. If it's bigger than that I

moon where we could live. So far visited the moon. So far we

aren't any mountains. In western Canada we have the

Ocean, the Indian Ocean trying to think of all these different

brother-in-law and I went skiing we went downhill skiing

Saturn, Pluto. Um so do remember that even though I'm

humans. Every planet in the universe is gigantic in my

much bigger than Earth. But if you think about it compared to

specific rules about when to use huge gigantic or enormous.

enormous. And that's kind of the order I use those words in

weeks ago. Uh some things are normal size. But some things

things are tiny. I did a lesson about tiny things a couple of

gigantic things. In the world around us. There are things of

some people say Pluto isn't a planet but when I was at school

small when it comes to planets. But Jupiter and Saturn are

there are planets in our solar system and a lot of those

think about things that we know and things that we can see

Well hello and welcome to this English lesson about gigantic

things. I'm a little bit gigantic in the phrase. Let me

are big. Some things are huge and some things are gigantic or

zoom out a little bit. Um today we're going to learn about

universe because everything is part of the universe.