Learn English AT/ON the Beach 🏖 (WITH SUBTITLES)

Hello. This is Jack from tofluency.com

and I am on. No, at. On maybe at on at the

beach. In this English lesson, i'm going

to tell a couple of stories about the

time my family and I went to the beach.

Before I tell you a couple stories, let's

get a little bit of admin out of the way

a little bit of preposition confusion.

The confusion is that when you're

talking about being at the beach,

normally you say at. And when you say at,

what you're saying is like in general,

I'm at the beach. But if you do some kind

of activity like, for example, play

football or a lazy activity like

sunbathing, then you would say: we're

playing football on the beach. I'm

walking on the beach. But let's not take

all this time to talk about prepositions

because I want to talk about the time

when I found some money when I was on

vacation on the beach. So, I think I was

about eight years old and we had just

arrived to a place called Poole in Dorset

and I wanted to go look for crabs. So, I

wanted to find some crabs and I found

this little pool of water as soon as we

got there - as soon as we got there, I saw

this pool of water. I took my Spade and I

started to dig and tried to look for these

crabs. And I saw something straight away

so I just went with my spade, put it on

my spade and took a look at it. And I

remember exactly what I said - I looked to

my mom and said: I found a wallet with

money in it! So, my mom took the wallet

had a look at it and she was getting

excited.

There was a lot of money in there - I

think about 380 pounds and that was back

in nineteen ninety something - quite a lot

of money. So, we found this wallet and we

did the right thing: we took the wallet

to the police station. So, then the

policeman went through the book of

everything that was lost and found and

he couldn't find it and my mom actually

spotted it she said I think it's that. So,

the guy got his wallet back - he was so

grateful and he actually sent me a check

for 15 pounds and I used that check to

buy - I can't remember the computer game

World of Soccer I think. It was a soccer

computer game. Anyway, I was super happy

with that - to be able to get that game

because it was a game that everyone else

had at that time. Another thing I

remember about going to the beach as a

kid is the fact that my sister would go

in the ocean, come out, and they just roll

around in the sand. And I never

understood why she did that - why she

wanted to be covered in sand because I

hated sand as a kid, you know, I liked

going to the beach but when it was time

to go home, I wanted to rinse it all off - I

wanted to ensure that I didn't have any

sand on me, but for whatever reason, she

just really enjoyed doing that. Anyway, I

feel so fortunate to be able to spend

this time at the beach - it's been, a great

break. We've still got one more day left and

this afternoon and evening. And I'm just

going to take advantage of it. Rest up a

little bit and then be back next week

with another episode of the TOFLUENCY

SHOW. So, please have a look at the

description because I'm going to leave

some of the words and phrases I used in

this video.

This will give you great listening

practice and I also want you to learn

something from it especially you know in

terms of English. So, take a look at the

description. if you have any questions

about prepositions - on or at the beach - it's

super confusing. English's hard. I

understand this now - but if you have any

questions at all please let me know.

thank you for watching and if you don't

have it yet, download my book: the

five-step plan for English fluency. I'll

leave a link just over here. bye for now!