Let's learn some English outside! We all know that rain falls out of the sky, but where does it go from there, and what are all the English words and phrases you need to learn to describe it?
In this English video lesson I'll talk about rain, eavestroughs, ditches, and more! I even go all the way to our local lake and all along the way I'll be teaching English.
As you continue to learn English you'll need to expand your vocabulary, so although this video might not be super exciting for everyone, there are a lot of new English words for you to learn.
I hope you enjoy it!
⌛ Remember: Always watch the video three times. Twice today with English subtitles on, and once tomorrow with the English subtitles off. This will reinforce the English you have learned!
--
✅SEND ME A POSTCARD:
Bob the Canadian
P.O. Box 419
Smithville, Ontario
Canada
L0R2A0
--
✅Talk to a real English tutor / teacher at preply: tracking.preply.com/SH2X
(This is an affiliate, signing up for this service helps support my channel).
--
FOLLOW ME:
✅ Join me on Instagram: / engbobthecanadian
✅ Sign up for my email list and receive exciting free tips to improve your English: eepurl.com/dmbDYX
✅ Ask me questions on Facebook: / bobthecanadian
--
✅ TRANSCRIPT:
Hi Bob the Canadian here. You can see behind me that we have quite a few clouds today. So I thought I would do a video to help you learn English and talk about rain and snow - where rain goes after it falls and kind of just teach you some English along the way.
So if you look up in the sky behind me you can see that we have some dark clouds. We could call these dark clouds. We could call them rain clouds. If they were a little bit darker I would probably call them storm clouds, and two things fall out of the sky, two kinds of water. We have raindrops, so a raindrop is, is the smallest little drop of water that falls out of the sky. And you can’t quite see it but the other thing that can fall is snow, and snow falls as snowflakes. So you can have raindrops that fall out of the sky and you can have snowflakes.
There’s a couple different kinds of rain that falls out of the sky. You can have a drizzle. A drizzle is when hardly any rain is falling out of the sky. You can have a sprinkling. You can say it’s sprinkling outside. When it’s sprinkling outside it means that even bigger drops are falling. You could have a light shower. A light shower would be when you almost need an umbrella if there’s a light shower. And then you can say it’s pouring rain. And when it’s pouring rain there is just a lot of rain.
So if you look right here you can see puddles. After it rains you end up with puddles which are small pools of water that form on driveways, in parking lots. This particular set of puddles that is in my driveway at home. And puddles, they kind of stay until the sun dries them up. And we call that evaporating. We say that the sun causes the water to evaporate. So these puddles, they don’t go anywhere. The water doesn’t flow anywhere, and we just have to wait a few days for them to evaporate or for them to dry up.
That’s kind of fun!
So if you look way up there on my shed we have what we call an eavestrough. An eavestrough is a gutter, it’s a trough along the side of a building so that when it rains the water goes from the roof into the eavestrough. From there - I’ll zoom up a bit if I can - from there you’ll see that the eavestrough is connected to a downspout. I’m not sure I went high enough. And the downspout takes the water down. So this over here, this is the downspout. This one just opens onto the ground. On my house the downspout goes into a cistern which is a place where you can store water.
So I’m, I’m standing out here along the road. You can see the road over there, and this right here is what we call a ditch. So when it rains, when the rain hits the road over there it flows off the road into the ditch, and the ditch takes all that water down the road usually to a stream or river, we’ll go look at that in a minute.
So a ditch isn’t just something you’ll find along the road. You’ll also have ditches in fields. So this is a small ditch in this field so that the water has somewhere to go when it rains.
#speakenglish #learnenglish #bobthecanadian
**Note: All images used under:
CC0 License ✓ Free for personal and commercial use ✓ No attribution required
From pexels.com or pixabay.com