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Hi Bob the Canadian here.

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Let's learn English around the house.

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Come on in.

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Hi Bob the Canadian here.

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Welcome to this video.

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This is your first time here.

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Don't forget to click the subscribe button below and give me a thumbs up at some point during this video if it's helping you learn English.

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Well today, we're going to learn some English words and phrases that you can use to describe a house.

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I just came in through the front door.

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Houses generally have a front door and a back door.

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I'll show you that one a bit later and I'm standing in the front entrance or the entrance way of the house.

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It's a little warm so I'm going to take off my coat and you'll notice behind me there is a coat hanger.

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So I'm going to hang my coat here and I'm going to do what we traditionally do in Canada and that is that I'm going to take off my shoes.

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Before we go any further though, I want to thank Barb the Canadian for letting me use her house today to make this a video to help you learn English.

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The front entrance way also usually has a closet where you can hang coats and other items.

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So especially in the winter when you come into a home, you might want to hang your coat in the closet if there's not enough room on the coat hangers.

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So you'll notice behind me here the kitchen.

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The kitchen is one of my favorite rooms in the house.

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I really like food so I really like kitchens.

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You'll notice behind me here that a kitchen has a certain number of items.

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We have the refrigerator or the fridge where you can keep food cold.

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This fridge has a freezer on the bottom.

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We also have the stove and generally we call this part the oven where you would bake things and here we have the stove where you would cook things.

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If you look behind me here you'll see we have a sink so when you're all done making your food and eating your food you can do the dishes.

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You can wash the dishes in the sink and if you look over here on the counter you'll notice that we have three things that you find quite often in a kitchen.

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We have a coffee maker.

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We have a kettle for boiling water and we have a pitcher of water if you just want to drink some water.

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Up here you'll notice that we have cupboards.

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So cupboards, notice it's not pronounced the way it looks.

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In a cupboard you'll find things like plates and bowls that you can use for eating.

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Those are pretty loud and if we look over here we'll have what we in Canada would call a utensil drawer.

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So this is a drawer where you would keep spoons, forks and knives.

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You'll also see this area here is what we would call the counter or the countertop.

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You can use both words interchangeably.

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So you might use the countertop or the counter to prepare food.

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And you'll notice hiding over here in the corner we have a microwave.

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Just a small appliance that lets you heat up food really really quickly.

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So that's the kitchen.

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One of my favorite rooms.

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Let's move on to the living room.

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So we're in the living room now.

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The living room is the room in the home where you will usually find chairs and sofas or what we also call couches.

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It's the room where when you just want to relax, this is the room that you would generally sit in.

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Maybe you want to read a book.

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Maybe you want to watch TV.

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If we look over here you'll see that this living room also has a TV, a television where you could sit just to have a quiet relaxing evening where you are going to entertain yourself by reading a book.

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Maybe sitting and talking with friends or watching some television.

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So that's the living room.

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Let's look at the dining room next.

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So another part of the house that I really like is the dining room.

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So this is a room with a table specifically for eating meals.

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So you would have breakfast, lunch, and supper at this table in the dining room.

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You can tell that Christmas is coming soon.

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I'll do a video soon about Christmas.

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I think next week I'm going to a parade and I'll show you a whole bunch of stuff about Christmas.

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But this is the dining room.

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We have a dining room table and we have chairs to sit at as we would eat our meals.

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So we're in the bathroom now and there's really three main parts to a bathroom.

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We have a sink where you could wash your hands.

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So you could turn on the water and wash your hands.

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We also have, if I turn just a little bit, behind me here we have a shower so you could jump in here to have a shower.

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Maybe at the end of a long day of work.

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And then we also have, and I'm not going to describe what this is for, but we also have a toilet.

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I think everyone in the world knows what this is for and how to use it.

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So I'm not going to spend any time describing it.

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But you have a toilet.

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This is the toilet seat.

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You have toilet paper.

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And this is where you would go if you felt the call of nature.

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That's the nice way of putting it.

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So we're in the upstairs of the house now.

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You'll notice that we're in a bedroom.

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So there's a good reason why it's called a bedroom.

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It's because there's a bed.

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So in a bedroom you're going to have a bed.

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You're also going to have things that in English we call dressers.

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So if you look over here, there is a dresser.

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And a dresser is a place where using these drawers, this is where you would store all of your clothes.

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So in a bedroom, you generally have a bed, which is right here.

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And you have a dresser where you can store stuff.

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There's also in this bedroom what we would call night tables.

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So there's a table on each side of the bed with a small lamp.

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This is a place where you could keep a book if you read at night before you go to bed.

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You would keep it on your nightstand or night table.

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So this is a bedroom.

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I'm not sure how easy this is to see, but I'm standing in a hallway.

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So a hallway is the part of the home that connects all the rooms together.

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This room is empty.

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In English we would call this a spare room.

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Sometimes a spare room has an extra bed in it.

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This room is just empty.

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So we would call this a spare room.

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I just came down these stairs and I'm now in the basement of this house.

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A basement is the part of the house that is below ground.

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And many times in a home the basement is used to store things.

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It also usually has a furnace.

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This is what heats the home with gas or oil in the winter.

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And a hot water heater.

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This is what makes hot water for the house as well.

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And usually those types of things are found in a basement.

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So we're here in the basement.

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It's the part that's below ground.

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I'll just show you a window over here for a sec so that you get a sense of where we are.

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So here's the basement window.

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It's a little hard to see, but if you look outside you'll notice that we are at ground level or below ground level in the basement here.

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So a lot of Canadian homes will also have a garage.

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A garage is a place where you can keep your car.

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And a garage has a garage door, which you just saw open behind me.

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As well a garage sometimes has a garage door opener.

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This is a device that's on the ceiling of the garage.

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And I'll just show you for a sec.

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This is a device that's on the ceiling of a garage that opens the door automatically when you click the button in your car.

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So that's a garage door opener.

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It's a little cold to be out here with no coat on, but I just wanted to show you earlier I mentioned the back door.

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This is the back door of the house.

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When you have a back door a lot of times you'll have a barbecue outside.

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And then also down here there's just kind of a patio area.

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So there's an area where you can come out to cook some food in the summer months when it's warmer.

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You can come out your back door, you can go down your steps, and you can use your barbecue to cook some food.

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So this is a small patio area outside the back door.

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Well hey thanks for joining me today to learn some English that you can use around a house.

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Bob the Canadian here.

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Learn English with Bob the Canadian.

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I hope you enjoyed this video and have a great day.