Learn Some English Phrases about Beauty and A Tour of the Flower Farm!

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Learn English with Bob the Canadian


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In this English lesson, I'm going to teach you
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some English phrases about beauty.
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And of course, I'm going to show you lots of flowers
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here on our flower farm.
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So if you like learning English and you like flowers,
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stick around, I think you'll enjoy this lesson.
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(gentle flowing music)
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Well, hello and welcome to this English lesson
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where I'm going to help you learn some English phrases
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that you can use to talk about beauty.
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Before we get started, though,
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if this is your first time here,
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don't forget to click that red subscribe button over there.
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And give me a thumbs up if this video
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helps you learn just a little bit more English.
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Well, the first flower I want to talk about is the zinnia.
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The zinnia is an amazing flower.
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It comes in all different colors.
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It looks beautiful in bouquets and people love them.
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But it reminds me of the English phrase
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beauty is only skin deep.
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The phrase beauty is only skin deep basically means
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that a person might look very attractive,
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but on the inside, their actual personality
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might not be that good.
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So when you see a very handsome man
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or a very beautiful woman,
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they might not actually be that nice.
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They might be kind of mean.
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They might be prone to jealousy,
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or just not a very nice person.
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So we would use the phrase beauty is only skin deep.
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If you look out in the distance,
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you can see Jen is getting ready
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to water some of her flowers.
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She has just hooked up a hose.
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She's getting ready to water the zinnias.
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The zinnias need a lot of water.
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They're one of our thirstiest plants.
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And if we turn, you'll see her helper.
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Right here sitting on the lawnmower is Oscar.
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He is almost always in the field with Jen
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when she is working on the flowers.
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He is a great helper.
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Most of the time, he helps by laying in the shade
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or by chasing rabbits or squirrels.
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Let's just get a little closer and say hi.
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Hi, Oscar.
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He doesn't really like the camera, but I think he smiled.
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This flower is called sedum
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and not everyone thinks it's a beautiful flower.
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It's not super colorful,
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but I think it's an amazingly beautiful flower.
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And it reminds me of the English phrase
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beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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When you say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder,
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it means the person who's looking at it
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thinks it's attractive or interesting.
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You can say this about people as well.
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There might be people in the world
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that you don't think are beautiful,
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but other people think they're beautiful or handsome.
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And in that situation, we would say,
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you know, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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One of my favorite flowers on the farm
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is a flower called lisianthus.
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It is a small, delicate flower.
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It looks a little bit like a rose.
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And I would describe it by saying
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it's a real thing of beauty.
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in English when you say something is a real thing of beauty,
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or when you say something is a thing of beauty,
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it means that you find it exceptionally beautiful.
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It means that it has certain little characteristics
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that make it extremely attractive,
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extremely pretty, and very, very beautiful.
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So the lisianthus is a flower where I would use that term.
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It is a real thing of beauty.
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On our farm we plant sunflowers every week.
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Because we only get one flower from every seed,
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we have to have a constant source of sunflower plants.
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So you can see here the baby sunflowers,
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we would call these the seedlings.
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You can see that this little cart of sunflowers
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is ready to be taken to the field.
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They're loaded up. They're ready to go for a little ride.
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And later today they will be planted in the ground.
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Once the seedlings are big enough,
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we start to plant them out in the field.
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You can see this row is small.
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This row is a little bit bigger.
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And this row over here is bigger yet.
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And you can see these are bigger yet.
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These are even bigger.
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And if we go far enough, you'll start to see
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that some of them have small flowers
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just starting to open.
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And of course the final stage in the whole process
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is when we put them into bunches
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so that we can sell them at our local market.
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We usually put them into bunches of six,
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if they're really, really big.
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But if they're a bit smaller,
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we sometimes put them into bunches of seven or eight.
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The sunflower is a very happy flower.
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When we sell it to people at market,
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they often tell us how happy this flower makes them.
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And this reminds me of the English phrase
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that's the beauty of it.
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When something has a characteristic of making it beautiful,
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when something has a certain element to it,
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a certain aspect that makes people happy,
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or it makes people feel a certain way,
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we say that's the beauty of it.
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It's just a way of highlighting and defining
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what you really like about that thing.
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And for sunflowers, it's definitely the fact
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that they make people happy.
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That's the beauty of it.
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So I'm out here in the dahlia patch,
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and we grow a lot of different kinds of dahlias.
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They are like zinnias in a way,
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in the sense that they come in a lot of different colors.
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But there's one dahlia in particular that's a beauty.
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In English, when you say something's a beauty,
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it's when you just say the thing itself is so beautiful
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you're going to use the word beauty to talk about it.
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That dahlia is called the cafe au lait.
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The cafe au lait dahlia is about the size of my hand,
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sometimes bigger, and it comes in two colors.
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It comes in a slightly purple color
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and it comes in this really nice,
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almost like a mocha coffee color.
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It is a beauty.
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So some of you might recognize this flower.
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It's called a marigold.
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Our marigolds are ready a little bit early this year.
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We grow a slightly larger variety.
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We grow a variety that has really long stems
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so that we can put them in bouquets.
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People like the fact that they're beautiful,
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but they also like the way that they smell.
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Well thank you so much for watching this English lesson,
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where I got to show you some of the flowers on our farm
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and where I hope you were able to learn
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some new English phrases to talk about beauty.
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I do have one last phrase to teach you though.
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(yawns) I need to go in the house now and have a nap.
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I need my beauty sleep.
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In English when you say that you need your beauty sleep,
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it means you need to have a good nap or a good night's sleep
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in order to stay handsome or beautiful. (laughs)
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Sorry, I'm making myself laugh when I say that.
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So when I'm done editing this video,
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I will have a nap because I need my beauty sleep.
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Anyways, thanks for watching.
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If this is your first time here,
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don't forget to click that red subscribe button over there
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and give me a thumbs up if this video
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helped you learn just a little bit more English.
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And if you have the time, why don't you stick around
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and watch them another English lesson.
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