We're Here! Learn English with Jack on Vacation 🏝

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Hello. This is Jack from tofluency.com.
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Welcome to the special English lesson
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where you're going to learn English in
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context and we're going to do that by me
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showing you around where we're currently
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staying in Florida for Christmas and I'm
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going to give you vocabulary and phrases
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related to what you see, so, let's start
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with the pool. So, here is the pool -
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this was one of the things that we
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wanted for this vacation rental and
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we're here with my family which is great
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because everyone loves the pool, Now, you'll
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notice a few things: firstly, it has this
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fence around the outside and we
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requested this because we have a young
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son who is just over three and it just
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makes things a lot safer. Now, a couple of
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things as well:
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this pool is heated which means that
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there is a heat pump for it which makes
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it warmer because, even though the
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weather is great, the sun has just gone behind the
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cloud but even though it's warm,
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it still needs a little bit of heat to
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make it more comfortable -
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the other thing is you can see over here
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my son's swimming shorts and some towels.
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Now, they are hanging out to dry
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they are hanging out to dry right now.
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Walking over here you can see these
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reclining chairs or sun lounges. This is
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a great place, obviously, to sit back,
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relax, have a sip of wine, something like
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that - to drink, eat, and just relax in the
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sun. This is the outside dining table and
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this is where I just recorded a live
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lesson there will be a link to that in
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the description below. The problem is the
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internet connection isn't the best here
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so, I might not be able to go live in HD,
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but we'll see how it goes.
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My dad loves to barbeque
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and, luckily, there is this barbecue here
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now this is a coal
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BBQ. A lot of barbecues in the US are
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gas-powered so they are gas barbecues
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but this one uses coal - you open it up
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and can see, it's nice and clean and it's
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ready to be used.
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Let's now go for a walk this way, I'm just
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going to show you the outside of the
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house, so, I'm gonna open up the gate -
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this is a good gate to have because, again,
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my son can't reach this - it just keeps
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everything, everything, secure. Now, we're
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going to go down the side of the house
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and... notice that we have lots of
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flowers. If you look next door they have flowers
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on their plants and their bushes as well and
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that's because in florida it doesn't
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really get cold here - it's the middle of
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December and it's really warm right now.
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Speaking of warm, this is the heater for
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the pool,
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apparently, it gets really expensive if you
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run it all the time - and that's a great
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verb to use: to run the water heater or
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to run the pool heater. This is the front of
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the house and the road that goes down
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here,
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luckily, we found a house that is at the
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end of a cul-de-sac... it's at the end of
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a dead-end road which means that there's
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not a lot of traffic, there's not a lot
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of through traffic - it's so quiet out here,
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it's really peaceful and relaxing.
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One thing you might have noticed:
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palm trees, so, in Florida there are palm trees
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everywhere and over here, in the bins,
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I'll just take you over there - over here,
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you can see some dead plants or dead
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trimmings of plants and what happens is
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they leave these out here and people
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will come and pick them up take them to
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a yard and turn them into mulch, and
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mulch is something that you can put under
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trees to help keep the soil nice and
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moist.
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One thing I do want to show you is next
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door, becuase, they have incredible Christmas
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decorations and last - I'll show you a
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picture on Facebook - but these lights are
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incredible they have lights all down the
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side of the house in this bush here on
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everything that you see out here. It's an
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incredible sight. Now, I'm just sitting on
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the front, on a rocking chair
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this is, again, it's just so peaceful out
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here you can probably hear some traffic
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in the background but when the birds are
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singing, in the morning, you can't hear
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anything - it's just a great place to be.
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Now, we chose Florida for our Christmas
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vacation because my family and I wanted
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to meet up; we wanted to spend Christmas
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together, but we wanted to go somewhere
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warm. And because we have just had a baby,
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my parents my sister decided to come and
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see us, so that we didn't have to get on
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a plane and travel long distances. So,
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they flew to Florida and we're just
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going to spend Christmas together. If you
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take a look at the description, I'll
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leave some words and phrases that I used
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in this video below, and that means that
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you'll be able to learn some English in
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context.
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Let me know if you have any questions
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about what we've talked about in this
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video. If you're new here,
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please subscribe, thank you for watching...
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see you in the next lesson!
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