Free English Class! Topic: Moving 🚛📦🚚 (Lesson Only)

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Learn English with Bob the Canadian


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Well hello and welcome to this English lesson about moving.
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People sometimes live in one place and then they move to
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another place. Sometimes they move because they have to start
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a new job in a different city. Sometimes people move because
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they need to go to school. There are a lot of reasons to
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move. Sometimes children move out of their parents' house.
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But we certainly people certainly do move from time to
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time in their lives. Some people move more often than
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others. I have an uncle aunt who have moved 19 or 20 times
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in their life. Um personally I've only moved probably five
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times in my life maybe six. I have not moved a lot. But
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moving is when you live somewhere and then you decide
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to take all of your things. You take everything you own and you
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go to a different place and then you start to live there.
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That's my best explanation of what moving is. Um it is
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something that is stressful. We talked about it I think in the
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lesson about stressful things. Um but it can be very exciting.
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It can be exciting to decide that you want to live in a
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different part of the country or you want to move to a
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different country entirely or you just want to live somewhere
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else for a time. So once again welcome to this English lesson
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about moving. So the first slide I have has two verbs on
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it. The verb to move and the verb to move house. In Canada
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and I think in the United States when you move we just
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say move. When are you moving? I move in three weeks. Um in
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the UK though in Britain when I watch British TV shows they
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often say move house. Um are can you come out do you want to
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go out to eat this weekend? No I'm moving house or when are
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you moving house in a couple weeks. So just kind of ignore
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my explanation of the second phrase you'll have to look in
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your British English dictionary to get a good description. But
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in Canada we just say move. When are you moving? Or when
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did you move? Um or do you need help moving? Uh I'm going to
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move in three weeks. By the way I'm not moving. If you are
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wondering if this lesson is like a secret way for me to say
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I'm moving I'm not moving. I'm not moving for a very long
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time. So we have two different phrasal verbs. To move in and
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to move out. And obviously you can tell the difference. When
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you move in it means that you are entering a place to live
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there. Okay? So you could say to someone when are you moving
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in to your new apartment? Or you could say when's your
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move-in date? Which is kind of how we refer to the day you
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move in somewhere. So that's the day that you would be
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entering your new place. People can also move in with you.
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Okay. When my son is done university he will move in with
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us again. So that just simply means he's going to live here
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again. And we have to move out which can be used the same way
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as well. When someone moves out means they leave a place. So
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you could say when do you need to move out of your apartment?
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Uh what day do you need to leave? And you could say oh I
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need to move out in three weeks. Uh I need to move out on
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April 17th or something like that. So and as well when you
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live with other people they can move out as well. I could say
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oh my son is going to university in September. He's
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going to move out at the end of August. So move in move out the
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two directions of moving. And we have something called moving
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day. So a lot of times when people are planning to move. Uh
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they will refer to the day when they are going to move as
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moving day. Uh they'll say oh yeah moving day's in a couple
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days for me. So I need to get ready. I need to pack my stuff.
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Or you might say oh you're moving. When's your moving day?
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And you would say oh my moving day is April whatever. April
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17th. I'm just using that date randomly. But the day when you
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move is called moving day and people will often refer to that
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with that to name. They'll say you know when's your moving
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day? Oh I'm my moving day is not for a few more weeks yet so
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I can relax. In English we use the word stuff and we use the
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word things a lot. In fact Jen and I were laughing the other
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day because we were having a conversation and we used the
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word stuff so many times. It was making us laugh. But when
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you move you take all your stuff. Okay? Before you move
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you might need to pack all your stuff up. And you need to put
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all your stuff in a car or in a van. And then you need to drive
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your stuff across town or you need to drive to the next city.
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Then you need to take all of your stuff out and put your
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stuff in the new place. This is a very useful English word, the
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word stuff. And we also use the word things. Like oh do you
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have a lot of things to when you move do you have to take a
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lot of things with you? Oh I need to get all my things ready
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because I'm moving in a few days. So stuff and things. Just
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very Yeah very useful English words to refer to all of the
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things that you own. All of the stuff that you owned. Boxes.
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When you move you're going to need boxes. You're going to
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need a lot of boxing. Sorry not boxing. Boxing is this. You
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don't need to do any boxing. You'll need a lot of boxes. Um
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but when you move you want to put your stuff in boxes. It
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just makes it more convenient. You want to put all of your
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things in boxes. So you might go to a store and ask if they
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have any old boxes. You can actually buy moving boxes.
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Boxes that are made for moving. When you go to a company to
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maybe rent a truck That company might also sell boxes and you
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can buy some boxes in order to put your stuff in boxes so that
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you can move them. And you of course will want to sort
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things. When you sort things in English it's not just when
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you're moving you sort things anytime you want things to be
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organized. But when moving day is approaching in the days
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leading up to your move-in date. You might want to sort
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things. So you might want to get boxes and put all of your
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books in one box. And put all your clothes in another that I
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I like this picture because there's a box that just says
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stuff. And you might want to put pillows in another box. And
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that way you when you sort things you kind of put all the
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things that are the same together and then it's a lot
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easier to find later. Then once you move in when you're
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unpacking it's easier to find the things you need if you took
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some time to sort. We also have this English verb to go through
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phrasal verb to go through. When you go through stuff it
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means that you kind of let's say I had like a couple hundred
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books and I'm moving. I might want to go through my books.
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That means I'm going to look at each of them and decide which
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ones I'm going to keep. Before I move I might want to go
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through my clothing. Because there are things I don't wear
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anymore. And it's probably a good idea to go through my
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clothes and say okay I'm going to keep this one. I'm
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going to get rid of this one. I'm going to keep this one. So
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sorting is when you kind of organize things. When you go
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through your stuff. When you go through your You're kind of
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sorting but you're kind of looking for the things you
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want to keep and the things that you don't want to keep.
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And then of course you need to box things up. You need to box
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up all of your stuff. Um this is kind of an interesting verb.
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You could say I need to put my stuff in boxes. But it's easier
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to say I need to box up my stuff. Have you boxed up your
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stuff yet? When are you moving tomorrow? Have you boxed up
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have you boxed up your stuff? No I haven't started. That
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would be bad by the way. If you are moving tomorrow I hope that
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you already have all of your stuff up. Hopefully you were
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able to sort and go through all of your things and you were
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able to box up what you're taking with you. To declutter.
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So this is an interesting word. As you live somewhere you you
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just have more and more things that you own. But you might not
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need all of them. In particular if Jen and I were to move we
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have a lot of mugs. So in order to declutter it means kind of
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to sort through and get rid of things. So if I was to say oh
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we need to declutter a bit. It means you have too many of
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certain things and you want to get rid of them. A common thing
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to do with extra stuff is to give it give it away. Give it
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to family or friends or donate it to a thrift store or a
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charity that will be able to resell those items in order to
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make a bit of money. So when you declutter it means you
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minimize the amount of stuff you have and it's just a good
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thing to do before you move. To give away. I kind of mentioned
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this. One of the things that you might do is you might give
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away a lot of stuff. I know the one time that Jen and I moved
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we kind of went through our stuff and we gave away a few
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things. We gave some things to our neighbours. We gave some
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things to my brothers and sisters. Um sometimes when
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you're moving it's nice to give away things you don't need. Uh
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so that the move goes easier. There's less stuff to put in
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boxes. If you give away Some things before you move. And
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then I like these three verbs here. To chuck, to throw out,
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to get rid of. So all of these mean to just simply throw
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something in the recycling or throw something in the garbage.
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Although the last one to get rid of. You know that can also
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mean to give to someone else. You know I'm going to get rid
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of my car. I'm going to give it to my brother. But the first
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two to chuck actually it's similar to throwing. So it's
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the action of throwing something in the garbage or
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recycling. Uh to chuck to throw out before you move. The more
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stuff you can chuck the better. The more stuff you throw out
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before your moving date is it's just really really helpful. Get
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rid of as many things as you can before you move. That's my
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recommendation if any of you are moving. To throw out your
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back. I thought I would mention this one. Uh because this is
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something that commonly happens when people move. People don't
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heavy things everyday. But when you move you need to lift a lot
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of heavy things. This guy is wincing in pain because when
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you lift something heavy sometimes you throw out your
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back. This just means that you suddenly have a pain in your
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back usually when you're lifting something heavy and
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it's not very pleasant. So this is not directly related to
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moving but certainly when people move the chance of
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throwing out your is higher because you have to lift
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couches and refrigerators and other pieces of furniture and
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big boxes. Um the chance of you throwing out your back is
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pretty high. Okay so just the standard word for putting
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things in boxes and putting things in suitcases is to pack.
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When you are moving you need to pack your stuff. Okay. You need
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to put everything in boxes. You need to put things in
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suitcases. You need to put things in bags. Whatever you
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are in order to move you need to put your stuff in there. You
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need to pack. So generally we use this word as well when
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you're going on a trip. Before you go on a trip or on vacation
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you need to pack. Before you go before you move you also need
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to pack. And then you need to label things. We had a picture
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earlier where the boxes were labelled books and clothes and
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those kinds of things. Um when you move it's just a really
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good idea to label the boxes. Dishes from the kitchen, books,
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bedroom, kitchen. So you either write on the box what's in the
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box. Or you write on the box what room the box needs to go
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into in the new place. This is a very cool thing to do. Or if
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you were me I would write both. I would write like dishes put
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in kitchen or dishes kitchen. And then the if people are
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helping you move they know where to put the box when they
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get there. You might even write fragile on the box. When you
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say something as fragile you it means that it can break easily.
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So if you have things like maybe you have like really
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expensive dishes or you have maybe little figurines or
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things that if you drop them they would break. You would put
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them in a box you would probably put them in old
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newspapers so that they're cushioned a little bit. Uh and
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then you would write fragile on the box. I think some people
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say fragile. I should check the pronunciation. I say fragile. I
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should check if other people say fragile. Maybe I'll ask
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Brent in the chat what he says. Fragile or fragile. Make sure
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you look up that pronunciation. Um depending on where you live.
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It might have a different pronunciation. Uh and it might
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even say this side up. You might have things where you
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don't want them to be upside down when they are being moved.
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So you pack them all nicely in a box. And then on the outside
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you would put a sticker that says this side up. It means
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don't put this box upside down. Because there are things in
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this box that must remain upright. You don't want them
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upside down. They need to stay right side up or upright. Um I
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can't think of anything right now but I'm sure there's some
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things that you don't want upside down and you would put a
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sticker on it like that. You might use packing tape. So
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packing tape is just a special kind of tape that's really good
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for putting on boxes when you close them. It's a little bit
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wider and it sometimes comes in a nice tape dispenser and you
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can just put that on the top of your boxes really quickly and
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easily and it will hold your boxes shut very handy if you
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are moving to close the boxes with some packing tape. And
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then storage. So interestingly enough in North America some
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people rent a storage locker or they rent space in a facility
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that has storage. Uh and then what they do is instead of
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moving everything to the new place they put some things in
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storage. Sometimes people will move overseas or they'll move
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to another country temporarily. I know that a friend of mine as
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a teacher he went to teach in Japan for nine months. And so
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he put a lot of his stuff in storage. So this is just a
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storage locker. You can find and rent storage lockers in
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most places. Um Most cities in Canada and the United States.
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But sometimes when you move you have too much stuff and so you
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need to put some stuff in storage. Um and that's how we
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say it. We just say put it in storage. Yeah I rented a
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storage locker. I'm going to throw some of my things in
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storage while I go away for a few months. You might hire
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movers. I've never done this. I have enough family and friends
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that when I moved I just asked a lot of people for help. But
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you might not know a lot of people. Or you might be moving
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on a day where it's not convenient for people to help
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you. So you might need to hire movers. Movers are people whose
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job it is to help people move. You need to pay them obviously.
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Uh but they will come to your house or apartment. They will
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take all of your stuff and they will put it in their moving van
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and then they will unload it at the new place. So really good
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idea to label your boxes. So the movers know where to put
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things when they get to the place that you are moving into.
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They will have a moving truck or a moving van depending on
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what vehicle it is. You would use a different name. But the
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movers will come in a moving truck or moving van. They will
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help you load all your things into the moving van and then of
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course help you unload them. So yeah a moving truck is simply a
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truck that's used by movers to help people move stuff. You can
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also rent from places like U-Haul. You can rent a moving
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van or moving truck and use that to move and then you don't
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have to pay the movers but you have to pay to rent the moving
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truck. And you might have something called moving
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blankets. So moving blankets are really thick soft blankets
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that you can put over things that you don't want damaged.
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But they're too big to put in boxes. So let's say you had a
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really nice table. Uh and you didn't want the table to get
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scratched during the move. Uh it would be be a good idea to
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use some moving blankets. So these are big soft blankets
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that you could put over top of things. So that they don't get
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scratched or dented or damaged during the move. Things get dam
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when you move it's just it's just going to happen and you
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just have to kind of prepare yourself for the fact that when
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you get to where you're going a few things might have been
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damaged on the way there but moving blankets certainly help
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quite a bit to keep things from getting too damaged and you
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might use what's called a dolly or a hand truck in my part of
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Canada we would call this a dolly it's a two wheel dolly
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and it just makes it a lot easier to move things I highly
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recommend if you move, even though I haven't hired movers
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before, I would hire movers if you can afford it, and I would
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certainly recommend that you have a dolly to help you move
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heavier things, it's just way you, you won't throw out your
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back, if you have a dolly, or you're less likely to throw out
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your back, but yeah, I would highly recommend, if you can do
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it, make sure you have carts and dollies hand trucks if
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that's the word you want to use and if you can hire movers hire
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movers I know a few people who hired movers and they loved it
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because four people just came in and carried all their stuff
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out to a moving truck and then carried all their stuff into
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the new house and they just thought it was the best
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experience ever so I use this word I use the word to load
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anytime in English when you are putting things into a car or
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putting things on a truck notice the difference there you
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could say put things in a truck but I would probably say the
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movers are going to load your things onto the truck. Uh you
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might load things into the car. This is the act of putting many
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things into a vehicle. Okay. Before you go on a trip you'll
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load your car with all your stuff. When you move you'll
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load all of your things onto a truck. Uh so that they can
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bring it to the new place. So you'll notice this guy he has a
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dolly too on the far side there. The orange thing. Um
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he's a smart person. And then I think those blue things in the
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back of the truck it's a big stack of moving blankets. Uh
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and then you certainly want to find people to help if you can.
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Uh all of the times that I have moved. I've had people help me.
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Usually brothers and sisters and friends. Um just people who
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come and you can load their vehicle as well as load your
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vehicle. Um I have helped a lot of people move as well. Uh
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probably the most fun I had moving was a friend of mine and
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his wife rented a U-Haul truck. They rented a moving truck. And
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we moved all of the stuff from Toronto. Um so it was fun to
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help them move. Me and a couple other friends helped them load
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everything onto a big truck. Lots of fun. Uh and then at the
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end of the day they bought us pizza. Which was really really
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fun. To lend a hand is simply another way to talk about
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helping. You might say hey I'm moving in 3 days. Can you lend
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a hand? Hey I'm moving in three days. Can you help? So both
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simply mean to help someone. Uh when my friend moved like I
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meant earlier in the lesson. I was happy that I was able to
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lend a hand. I was happy that I was able to help. Um so it's
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kind of funny it's like you're letting them use your hands for
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the day but obviously it just means to help. To unload we
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talked about this a little bit. I mentioned that when you put
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things in a vehicle you are loading the vehicle. When you
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load a vehicle you put boxes in you put stuff in. Um and then
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when you get to your new house or apartment you need to unload
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the vehicle. So it simply means to take the things back out
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again. Um you unload and you bring the things into the
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house. So when you leave your current house or apartment you
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will load a vehicle. When you get to your new house or
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apartment you will unload your vehicle. And when you you're in
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the house you'll need to unpack. So we talked about
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packing. Packing is when you put everything in boxes when
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you get to your new place. You will need to unpack. People
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don't often unpack the same day they move. This is what I've
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noticed in terms of when I move and when I help other people
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move. They usually move all their stuff. They unload all
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their stuff. They put all their stuff in their house. Like they
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put all the boxes in. And then they usually just get a few
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things out in the kitchen like some plates and then order
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pizza and then usually they set up their bed and then they
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sleep and then the next day they start to unpack
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everything. Usually the next day is the day where they start
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to take everything out of the boxes. And put it in the new
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places where those things will go. And then we have this
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interesting phrasal verb to get settled. Or verb phrase I guess
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to get settled. Um sometimes it takes a while to get settled in
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a new place. After you move the new place doesn't feel like
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home right away. It feels like you're in someone else's
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apartment or someone else's house. It can take a while to
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get settled. When we talk about getting settled it means you
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feel happy in your new place. It means you've put all of the
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things in the right spots in your own place. Um so all of
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the stuff is in the kitchen. All of the bathroom stuff is in
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the bathroom. You've arranged the furniture in a way that is
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pleasant for you. Uh when that's all done we would say
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that you have you are able to get settled, okay? It can take
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a few days or a few weeks or even a few months to to get
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settled, to have that feeling like you are in a place you
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would call home. Hey just a few random things here too. It's
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quite common for older people to downsize. So we didn't talk
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about this but one of the reasons people move is because
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they're in a big house. Maybe they had four or five children
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and they needed a big house. But all of the kids are now
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older and have moved out. And so the older couple might then
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downsize. When you downsize it means you sell a big house.
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Because you don't need a big house anymore and you buy a
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smaller house or you move into an apartment. So I know that
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it's quite common. My mom Years ago she said I think I'm going
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to downsize. All of you have moved out. I'm going to sell my
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big house and buy a smaller house. So definitely a common
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reason to move as well for older people is they simply
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want to downsize. They want to live somewhere that's a little
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smaller because they don't need lots of rooms. And we talked
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about this earlier as well. Uh sometimes you need to relocate
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because of work. Um as mentioned someone mentioned
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that their bank manager or their dad was a bank manager
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and moved every four years. So in that situation we would say
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He needs to relocate every four years because of work. Or let's
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say your dad or mom needed to relocate and you're starting at
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a new school. Someone could say why'd you move here? You would
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say oh my mom we relocated here because of my mom's job or
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because of my mom's work. And then I'm not sure why this is
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the last slide. I guess because it has the word vital in it. Uh
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I should have put this earlier in the lesson in terms of the
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theme of the lesson but when you leave wherever you're
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leaving once you load everything in the vehicle you
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usually do a final walk through. So you take everything
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out of your apartment and you load it into a truck or car. Or
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you take everything out of your house. And then before you
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drive away it's always a good idea to do a final walk
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through. This means you go back into the place you're out of.
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Uh and you just walk and just check to make sure you didn't
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forget anything. So you kind of look around to see oh did we
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forget a box? Did we forget something somewhere? You do a
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final walk through. Um I actually do this as well when
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Jen and I leave a hotel. If Jen and I stay in a hotel when we
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are the day we are leaving we pack all our stuff up. Uh and
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then I usually just do a final walk through of the room. I
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just check to make sure that we haven't forgot anything. Um
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it's not nice to forget stuff when you are leaving a place
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for another place because then you have to go back and try to
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get it.
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