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[Assistant] Now NASA has created a new aircraft called X-59, intended to become the future of supersonic commercial air travel, but they've had to spend decades researching ways to fix issues with supersonic travel, like a little thing called Sonic Boom. Sonic Boom!


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[Assistant] No, not the special attack by Guile from Street Fighter. This Sonic. An enormous amount of sound energy created when an aircraft breaks the sound barrier, which is about 750 miles per hour. The boom registers at about 110 decibels, about as loud as a thunderclap, and loud enough to crack windows on a house.


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[Assistant] Even though NASA says the X-59 will cruise at about 925 miles per hour,


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[Assistant] It is designed to produce more of a thump than a boom, spreading out the sound rather than bringing it together. Besides the loud sound, like all air travel, another concern is the impact on the climate. NASA has a program looking at sustainable fuels for supersonic flight because that's going to be another requirement to truly make it a viable option in the future.


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[Assistant] For today's story, getting a 10 out of 10, a conspiracy theory swirling around online ahead of the NFL conference championships this weekend. Just four teams remain and the winners go to the Super Bowl. But are the two teams that will eventually face off in Las Vegas predetermined? And is there a clue in the Super Bowl logo?


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[Assistant] Follow me down the rabbit hole as we investigate this theory that there's more than meets the eye to the colors of the Super Bowl logo.


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[Assistant] Alright, something's going on with the Super Bowl logos. Is this magic coincidence, something supernatural, or maybe it's part of this giant league-wide conspiracy? As some have said, are the NFL seasons scripted? What's going on here?


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[Assistant] At the start of the season, the NFL launched an ad, joking that the games were scripted, but many online, they think it's true. For the last two seasons, the Super Bowl logos matched the color schemes of the two teams playing in it, but the league tells us they designed these logos up to two years in advance.


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[Assistant] In 2022, the Super Bowl 56 logo had the orange of the Cincinnati Bengals and gold of the LA Rams. The following season, the colors were replaced by Philadelphia Eagles green and Kansas City Chiefs red. Is this some master plan and we're all just drinking the Kool-Aid? Was I predetermined to play for the Falcons and the Buffalo Bills before that? No.


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[Assistant] Some online are calling foul, suggesting some nefarious conspiracy theory that the league already knows what teams it wants to make the big game and they flaunt a predetermined outcome right in our faces.


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[Assistant] This year's Super Bowl logo colors purple and red, leaving only one possible outcome for this weekend's conference championships. Time will tell if the Ravens and 49ers prove the Super Bowl logo right yet again. The NFL has denied any conspiracy theory.


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[Assistant] Thanks to producer Will Edmonds. Clearly we had some fun with that. You know we are committed to telling you the what, letting you decide what to think. Thanks to my CNN 10 producers this week, Jeremy Dunn, Victoria Fleischer, Nader Nikupur, Kat Jennings, Sovi Asap, and Matthew Abshire. We thank all of you. Today we're giving a shout out to


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[Assistant] The rail splitters at Lincoln Park Middle School in Lincoln Park, Michigan rise up. And this shout out goes to


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[Assistant] The Clippers at Patterson High School in Baltimore, Maryland, rise up. Good luck to your Ravens. Have an awesome weekend superstar. Remember that you are going to be the light that someone needs someday. You are more powerful than you know. I'm Kui Wire. It's been a blessing to spend this week with you.


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[Assistant] Well, hello and welcome to this English lesson about shopping. Shopping is something that we all do.


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[Assistant] Uh, in order to live, in order to, uh, go through your day, you have to buy things every once in a while. We need to buy food, we need to buy clothes, we need to buy houses if we live in houses. Uhm, we have to buy a car if we need to drive to work. So shopping.


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[Assistant] The act of taking your money and exchanging that money for something.


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[Assistant] Is very, very common. These are usually very popular English lessons. Whenever I talk about shopping, people are quite interested. So please enjoy this lesson about shopping where you'll learn lots of words and phrases that we use as English speakers when we go shopping.


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[Assistant] Before we get started, I do want to mention there is a study pack for this lesson. If you go to BobTheCanadian.com, you can find that study pack and there's also a link in the description below. That study pack has


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[Assistant] So the general term for someone who buys things is shopper. When you go to the mall you will see lots of shoppers. Uhm, when I go to the mall I'm a shopper. So a shopper is a person who is engaged in the act of shopping. So if I take my wallet


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[Assistant] Focused shopper. I don't just wander around and buy things randomly. But the person who buys things is a shopper.


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[Assistant] And there's two ways to talk about the act of shopping. We can say shop, like just the verb to shop or to go shopping.


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[Assistant] So I could say this. Tomorrow I'm going to shop at the mall. Or tomorrow I'm going to go shopping at the mall. Both sentences work. Both are completely correct. And this is the verb we use to talk about buying things. So if you go to the mall, you're going to the mall to shop.


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[Assistant] Or you're going to the mall to go shopping. We also sometimes say to do some shopping. I need to do some shopping this weekend. I need new shoes and a new pair of shorts.


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[Assistant] Now there's a few different kinds of shopping and we just add the word in front to describe it. If I need food, I go grocery shopping. So I go to the grocery store or supermarket and I go grocery shopping. I might say to Jen, I need to do a bit of grocery shopping after school today. Is there anything we need? If I need clothes, I would go clothes shopping.


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[Assistant] Jen and the kids really like going clothes shopping. I think everyone likes to have new clothes. So we go clothes shopping.


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[Assistant] Not a lot, but it's probably one of the more common things that we shop for. So if you need food, you go food shopping, or you go grocery shopping, sorry, you go grocery shopping. If you need clothes, you go clothes shopping. If you need a car,


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[Assistant] You can actually go car shopping as well. So car shopping, uh, is something that you do when you need to buy a car. You might go to a couple of different places to look at the cars they have.


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[Assistant] We call those places car dealerships so you might go to three or four different car dealerships on a Saturday


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[Assistant] Uh, to do some car shopping. You're going to figure out which car you want. You're going to decide which car you are going to buy.


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[Assistant] So notice as well, shopping doesn't always involve actually buying something. So I can go shopping at the mall.


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[Assistant] And then you can go house shopping. Uhm, so if you want to buy a house, you don't buy the first house you see. In Canada, you would call someone called a realtor. And a realtor is someone who will take you and show you different houses. They will take you house shopping.


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[Assistant] And then you can see a few different houses. You can decide on what house you like and you can buy one that, uh, you feel comfortable living in. So very nice. Jen and I didn't ever do this. We didn't go house shopping because we bought our house from my mom.


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[Assistant] And then there's of course online shopping, a relatively new kind of shopping.


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[Assistant] Online shopping is shopping that you do on your computer, uh, or on your phone. Uhm, so you decide you need to buy concert tickets. You go on your phone and you buy concert tickets. Maybe you want to buy a new computer. So you go on your phone and you do some online shopping.


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[Assistant] And you buy a new computer. So online shopping, another way to spend money to buy things.


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[Assistant] I should have changed this picture. I should have found a picture with paper grocery bags.


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[Assistant] In Canada, when you buy groceries, when you buy food at the grocery store or supermarket, they now put them in paper bags or you need to bring your own bags. I always bring my own bags.


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[Assistant] We do not have plastic grocery bags in my part of Ontario, Canada anymore. They're just not allowed.


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[Assistant] Plastic bags are not allowed anymore. There are no plastic bags.


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[Assistant] So I should have changed this picture to something a little more current. Now if you go to the grocery store, if you need bags, they will give you paper bags and they will charge you 10 cents for each bag. So you do have to pay for the bags now. We're doing it for the environment. Um, plastic bags are not good for the environment.


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[Assistant] We also have shopping bags and there's less of these now too. People are more likely to just carry their items.


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[Assistant] Or people might get one bag at the first store they shop at, one shopping bag and then use that for the rest of their shopping trip. We'll do that sometimes. We'll buy something at a store at the mall and they'll give us a big shopping bag and then at each


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[Assistant] Uhm, each store we go to after that, we'll just keep putting the things in the first shopping bag because we don't need, well, like this lady has too many shopping bags. That stuff could have all fit in one or two bags, I think, and I think that would have been a little bit better.


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[Assistant] Then of course we have price and you find the price on the price tag. So the price is what the vendor or store or salesperson has decided


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[Assistant] Uh, freeze once or twice outside before we harvest it. But anyways, price is what you pay for an item.


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[Assistant] And if it is a tag, like if it's hanging like this, this is just the price written on a card or a piece of paper, but this is an actual price tag. A little piece of paper hanging from the article of clothing or hanging from the thing that you want to buy telling you how much it costs.


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[Assistant] And then if you want to pay, you can pay with cash or money.


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[Assistant] We use the word cash a lot in my part of the world. So Jen might say, um, Hey, do you, can you pay for this? Do you have cash on you? And what she's saying is, do you have actual like bills in your wallet? Do you have $5 bills, $20 bills, $50 bills? And I'll say, yeah, yeah, I have money. I brought money with me or I have cash.


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[Assistant] The other way to pay is of course with a gift card. So a gift card is a card for a specific store.


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[Assistant] And it basically has a certain amount of money on it. I actually have an Amazon gift card. I have one right here.


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[Assistant] I'm not going to show you the back because if, I think if you can see the code, you could steal it. So this is an Amazon gift card. Hopefully this focuses and it says on the back,


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[Assistant] They get them as a gift, and then I order something from Amazon. I do some online shopping. And then they give me the gift card to pay me back. You can also pay with a credit card or a debit card. And these work slightly differently. A credit card basically, they send you a bill every month.


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[Assistant] A debit card takes the money straight from your bank account and gives it to the store. So let me repeat. If you have a visa card or a master card, when you use that to pay by sliding it or tapping it or inserting it and punching in your code,


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[Assistant] You are actually, Visa's actually paying for your stuff and then Visa charges you interest and you have to pay them back. A debit card, the money simply comes straight out of your bank account. It's always better to pay with a debit card because then you're not borrowing money in order to buy something.


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[Assistant] Coupons are pieces of paper that help you get a deal or something cheaper at a store. So there might be a coupon in a newspaper or on a, in a flyer and it simply says 25% off. Bring this coupon to the store. Buy whatever you want. We'll give you 25%.


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[Assistant] When you're buying things online, there often can be discount codes. If you punch this discount code in, you will get a certain percentage off. Or you can buy two things for the price of one with, uh, a discount code.


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[Assistant] Uhm, grocery store, supermarket. So we use both words here in Canada. When you talk about the store that you go to to buy food.


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[Assistant] We would call it a grocery store or a supermarket. I often use the word grocery store. I think it might be very Canadian. I know in French we say supermarché. In French I think you say supermarché, which is the French equivalent of supermarket.


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[Assistant] If someone says the word supermarket, I know what they mean. It's just not a word that I use very commonly. I often just say grocery store. Hey, I'm gonna go to the grocery store today. Hey kids, I'm going to the grocery store after work. Is there anything you want me to buy? We also have


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[Assistant] Malls, which are, that's the short form for shopping mall. A shopping mall is a large building with many, many stores inside.


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[Assistant] Shopping malls, by the way, are really nice places to go in the winter in Canada. When it's minus 20 degrees outside, it can be fun to just go to the shopping mall to do some shopping, to shop, to go shopping.


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[Assistant] Uhm, even if you don't need to buy anything or want to buy anything because they're big enough that you can, you can walk quite a bit. Like you can walk.


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[Assistant] If you walked the entire shopping mall, it might be a whole kilometer of walking.


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[Assistant] So I have in the past on really cold days, if I want to get some steps in for my fitness tracker, I might go with Jen to the mall and do some walking. But a mall sometimes has two floors or three floors. You can see here there's an escalator that people are going up and down.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and a mall just has like a hundred or two hundred stores. It's a great place to go if you need to go to a variety of stores to buy things. You go to the shopping mall or what we just usually call the mall.


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[Assistant] So, some people ask sometimes what's the difference between a store and a shop.


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[Assistant] So in North America, stores are generally bigger. When I use the word shop, I'm often talking about like a nice little store in a town.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but that being said, it is interchangeable. You could say there's some really cute shops at the mall.


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[Assistant] There's some really cute stores at the mall. So again, for me as a Canadian and I think in North America, store usually means something a bit bigger and a shop is something a little bit smaller. Uhm, the street where the farmer's market is, there's some nice shops on that street.


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[Assistant] There's also some big stores on that street. So it's not.


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[Assistant] Shopping cart. By the way, this is called a trolley, I think in the UK. If you're learning British English, you're on the wrong channel, but that's okay. You can stay. We call this a shopping cart or a grocery cart or just a cart.


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[Assistant] So when I go to the grocery store I go and get a cart, I go get a grocery cart before I start shopping. Now you are probably familiar though with the word shopping cart.


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[Assistant] Or the word cart, because when you do online shopping, we still use this term. When you buy something on Amazon, it goes into your shopping cart, it goes into your cart, uh, even though it's a virtual.


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[Assistant] But yes, I would call this a shopping cart. Again, if you are on the other side of the Atlantic, if you are in Britain, you would probably call this a trolley. I think that's what they call it. We just call it a grocery cart. Seems simpler to me.


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[Assistant] When you go to a store, it's always fun when things are on sale or when the store has a sale. Let me use those two terms again. A store can have a sale. So you might say, oh, that store is having a sale.


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[Assistant] A lot of stuff is on sale. So notice I'm using it differently. The store has a sale. There is a sale at that store. The stuff in the store is on sale.


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[Assistant] Usually in Canada, all of the summer clothing is on sale in September. They know that it's hard to sell bathing suits and t-shirts in the winter.


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[Assistant] And in the spring, a lot of the winter clothing is on sale. The store will have a sale and the winter clothes will be on sale in March and April because they would rather sell the winter clothes instead of, uhm, keeping, keeping all the winter clothes through the summer.


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[Assistant] So this has a lot of names, but when you are at a store or shop


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[Assistant] Let's see here. If I was buying this pair of glasses, I would need to find the till or the checkout or the cash register or the front counter in order to pay for these. And the most common word would be checkout. And it's also the verb. Oh, I need to check out.


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[Assistant] I need to find the checkout so I can check out. Usually though you would say, I need to find the checkout so I can pay for all of this stuff. Uhm, yeaah. Welcome to English. Sometimes there's lots of different words for things.


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[Assistant] Uh, and then now we have, this is where the updated part of the lesson comes in. We have a lot more stores with self checkout. This is becoming more and more common in Canada. Almost every


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[Assistant] The grocery store that I go to now has self-checkout, okay? Self-checkout is when you walk up to one of these machines, which we call the self-checkout machine, or just the self-checkout, and then you scan your items yourself, so you go, like, beep, and then you put it on the, on the, um,


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[Assistant] On the little, I think there's a scale. I think these machines weigh everything and then the machine knows if you're lying or cheating. Um, but self checkout is becoming much more popular in Canada. Um, we see it almost in every grocery store now. I don't mind it. It's if you're in a hurry, it's kind of nice.


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[Assistant] And there's also stores, now I have not seen a store like this, but I watched a video, maybe these are more popular in Europe and other parts of the world where when you go grocery shopping, you get a cart, and you get a scanner,


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[Assistant] And as you shop, you scan the items with the scanner, and then at the end,


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[Assistant] You just pay and you're done. Like, it's kind of a different way of doing self-checkout. Kind of similar though. If you have this in your country, let me know in the chat if you use scanners in your country.


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[Assistant] And then there's two kinds of people at a store. There's a cashier. This is the person who works at the checkout, the person who works at the till. And then we have a store clerk. This is someone who helps you in the store. So if you are done shopping, you go to the checkout and the cashier will ring up.


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[Assistant] We still use that. I never thought about that. She'll ring up your total. There's no ringing anymore. But she will scan each item and tell you how much money you need to pay.


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[Assistant] If though I am in a clothing store or I'm in a grocery store and I can't find something, I might ask a store clerk. I might, I might ask a clerk to help me find the bananas, for instance. Hey, could you tell me where the bananas are? That's something I might say to a clerk. So the cashier will check you out.


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[Assistant] Like, if I'm in a store, and if I have a question, I might say, have you seen a worker? Uhm, if you see a store worker, let me know, cause I want to ask them something. But clerk is definitely the correct term, for sure. Receipt.


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[Assistant] So a receipt is a piece of paper you get after you buy something. Some stores now send you a receipt via email, but usually when I go to my grocery store,


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[Assistant] When I'm done buying groceries, they give me a little piece of paper. It comes out of the cash register and they hand it to me and it tells me how much money I spent and it has a list of all the things that I buy.


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[Assistant] When I go to the grocery store and get groceries and also buy myself a chocolate bar, sometimes Jen looks at the receipt later in the day and she says,


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[Assistant] You bought a chocolate bar? Did you get me one? So it's important to know what to do with your receipts.


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[Assistant] Also, when I buy something for our business, I keep the receipt because we want to enter the amount we spent into our accounting software. When you run a business, it's important to keep your receipts. So if the government ever asked you what you spent, you would have proof of what you spent.


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[Assistant] And then you want to keep it as well in case you want to do a return.


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[Assistant] You should come back to market the next week and we will either give you a return. We will give you your money back or you can exchange it for a new bouquet of flowers. This happens quite regularly. I actually had a pair of shoes once and when I bought them, they didn't fit. I bought them online and they were the right size, but they still felt really tight. So I brought them to the actual store.


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[Assistant] Or one up here that was a little bit bigger, but they didn't have them. So a return is when you bring it back and they give you money. An exchange is when you bring it back and they give you something else from the store. Shoes are a great example. If you buy size nine and a half and they don't fit, you might want to exchange them for size ten.


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[Assistant] And you should bring your receipt, by the way. If you don't have your receipt, you can't return or exchange stuff. Sometimes you just want a refund, okay? So a refund is the name we give for when they give you money back. So when you return something, they give you a refund.


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[Assistant] When you buy something you give them money. When you return something they give you a refund. They give you your money back. Sometimes customers get angry


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[Assistant] We're talking about not just when the store is open during the day, but what days they're open. So if someone said to Jen and I, what are your hours?


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[Assistant] Actually, we don't have hours. Let me, let me give a better example. If I went to the hardware store and I said to the store clerk, what are your hours? He would say, Oh, we're open Monday through Saturday, eight to six.


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[Assistant] So you can see here, opening hours, Tuesday to Friday, 730 AM to 5 PM, Saturday, 8 AM to 5 PM. So again, we use the word hours, but it refers to the days and the time during those days that a store is open.


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[Assistant] Is the act of bringing something to someone's house or apartment. Okay. So when you order pizza, it comes with free delivery.


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[Assistant] They bring it to your house. Uhm, the act of coming in your driveway, walking up to your door and giving you a pizza is delivery. Okay. So when you buy a mattress, sometimes you need delivery because the mattress doesn't fit in your car and so you need delivery.


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[Assistant] And so we kind of use these interchangeably though. They're very, very similar. In fact, sometimes you get free delivery. Sometimes you get free shipping and it means the same thing. Okay. But generally delivery is the act. Like when the person is at my house, he's making a delivery.


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[Assistant] But when I pay for shipping, I'm paying for the item to leave the store, travel down the road and come to my store.


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[Assistant] I didn't explain that very well. They are kind of the same thing, but there is kind of a slight difference.


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[Assistant] Uh, in the chat can explain it a little bit better, but sometimes something is too big and you need to pay for delivery or you need to pay for shipping.


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[Assistant] Sometimes you want to buy some clothes. Maybe you need to buy a new pair of pants. You need to buy a few shirts. And you go to a clothing store to do some clothes shopping. And uh, you want to try things on. And so you would ask, where are the fitting rooms or where are the change rooms?


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[Assistant] So a fitting room is a small place like this where you can go and take your shirt off and put on the new shirt and see how it fits. Look in a mirror and see how it looks and then decide if you want to buy it or not.


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[Assistant] So you kind of look and decide, hmm, what looks the best? What am I craving? When you crave something, it's what you want to eat. And then you order it. Usually when I go to the food court,


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[Assistant] I usually get pizza. Sometimes I get a hamburger.


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[Assistant] Uh, and then a couple of terms to finish off here in stock and out of stock. Let me make these a little bit bigger.


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[Assistant] When a store has something in stock, it means that they have that item.


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[Assistant] Okay, so you can see here this cleaner is in stock. If you look at the shelf, you can see that there are bottles of cleaner there.


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[Assistant] Above though, there are no bottles, so they are out of stock. So when something is in stock,


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[Assistant] It means it's something the store sells and they have it in the store.


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[Assistant] The store sometimes has lots of that item in stock, but sometimes something's on sale and then very quickly they're out of stock. They just don't have any anymore. It's disappointing when you go to a store to buy something that's on sale and they say, sorry, we're out of stock or we sold out this morning. That would be another way to.


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[Assistant] Uh, and then you can of course ask for something called a rain check. That means when the product is back in stock.


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[Assistant] You can come and pay the price that you would have paid when it was on sale. Anyways, when something's in stock, it means they have it. When something's out of stock, it means they no longer have it. They have sold out. There are none left on the show.


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[Assistant] Well, hello and welcome to this English lesson about music.


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[Assistant] Music is a fun thing that all of us enjoy in life. Maybe you enjoy listening to music. Maybe you enjoy singing. Maybe you play a musical instrument. And I'm sure there's a certain type of music. There's a certain genre that you really, really like. For me, it would be rock music. But I thought it would be a good idea today


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[Assistant] To teach you some of the words and phrases that we use in English when we talk about the music that we listen to.


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[Assistant] Uh, the music that we enjoy, the music that is all around us. The thing that is central to music is something called a song. Songs are ancient things. They are like poems, but when you say them, your voice goes up and down using different musical notes.


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[Assistant] So it's really cool when you are able to sing a song. Many of you probably have sung your national anthem. So when you sing a song, you use the verb to sing.


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[Assistant] Interesting. I better research that verb. But anyways, a song is something that someone has written, something that someone has invented that all of us can use, uh, to sing and enjoy


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[Assistant] Some words, uh, sometimes you can just whistle a song as well if you don't know the words, or you can hum along.


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[Assistant] A song is usually composed if it has lyrics, if it has words. It usually has a section called a verse and it has a section called a chorus. The verse is part of the song that tells a little bit of the story.


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[Assistant] And then the chorus is usually a part that's repeated sometimes between each verse. So you might sing verse one of the song and then you will sing the chorus and then you might sing verse two.


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[Assistant] And then the chorus. There's also something called a bridge. Sometimes a song will have a bridge between the chorus and the verse or between the verse and the chorus. But generally, a basic song usually has about three or four verses and then a chorus that people sing in between.


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[Assistant] So when you sing a song, when the lead singer in a band sings a song, they sing the melody.


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[Assistant] The melody is the part of the song where you sing the words to. There are probably many other notes being played.


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[Assistant] Uh, during the song, but when you sing a song, you usually sing the melody. There might be also a drum or a piano or some other instrument playing other parts to the song that might be in harmony to the melody. Uhm, but generally when you sing a song, you are singing the melody.


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[Assistant] We also have the English word tune and we use the word tune in a funny way. You could say I listened to some tunes in my car the other day or I'm going to put in my ear earbuds and listen to some tunes while I go for a run.


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[Assistant] We also use it to talk about when you make an instrument play the correct notes, you can tune a guitar before you play it so that when you play each string, it plays the proper frequency, the proper note.


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[Assistant] So, tune has a number of different uses. The informal, uh, kind of slang use of it is just another word for song. You know, he sang a lovely tune the other day while I was working with him or I'm going to listen to some tunes.


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[Assistant] We also call them tracks. Sometimes you will have a track list or a playlist. Uh, you might hear on the radio that Adele has a, has a new track out right now. Um, so that just means song. I think track has been used for a very long time, uh, since the days of when people had records.


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[Assistant] When there were grooves in the record and that was the track. So a track is just another word for a song.


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[Assistant] So music is composed of notes. So all music is composed of notes. There are quarter notes, whole notes, eighth notes, and those determine the length of the note and where it appears on the staff is the frequency or the note that gets played.


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[Assistant] Someone who writes a song is called a composer or a songwriter.


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[Assistant] So you might know someone who likes to sit down occasionally and put notes on a page. They maybe might whistle to themselves or sit at a piano


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[Assistant] So a composer or a songwriter is someone who writes songs. Notice we use the verb to write when we talk about songs. So when you create a song, the verb we use most often is the verb to write. Uhm, he likes to write songs, she likes to write songs.


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[Assistant] Someone who plays an instrument is called a musician. This person is playing a guitar. So we could also call him a guitarist.


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[Assistant] But generally when you talk about someone who can play one or two or more instruments,


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[Assistant] Okay, so you might be a musician. You might play one or two instruments. You might be in a band with some other musicians. So musician is the general term for anyone who can play a musical instrument.


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[Assistant] Singer is the general term for someone who sings. Not everyone can sing. I am not a very good singer. I have trouble singing, uh, the correct notes. I'm always out of tune.


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[Assistant] So there's the word tune again. When I sing what should be a C note, it probably sounds a little bit too high or low. I have trouble singing in tune, but a person who sings is called a singer.


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[Assistant] We sometimes, uh, call singers artists as well. Usually if someone writes songs


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[Assistant] So many parts of the music making process. So someone like Ed Sheeran, you might hear him referred to as an artist. That doesn't mean he paints. That doesn't mean that he gets out paint and he makes paintings. We use the word artist sometimes


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[Assistant] To refer to people who also create music, perform music, write music, and are able to sing and play instruments.


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[Assistant] If you go to a club or if you go to a bar or if you go to a discotheque, I don't know if those exist anymore, there will most likely be a DJ. This is a short version for Disc Jockey.


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[Assistant] A disc jockey is someone who plays music so that people can dance. So you'll see here this disc jockey, this DJ is playing some tunes. He's playing some tracks for people. Those tracks or tunes probably have a really good beat so that people can really start to move.


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[Assistant] So, if you play something, that thing is called a musical instrument. There are musical instruments, uh, of all different shapes and sizes. Anything that humans have been able to use to make sounds with,


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[Assistant] They've usually created a musical instrument. So if they could make sounds by blowing through a stick, they made musical instruments. If you could make a sound by plucking a string, we've made that into a musical instrument.


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[Assistant] Uhm, if you are really good at playing music, if you are a good singer, we say that you have talent, or we say that you are talented.


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[Assistant] So I have friends who are very talented. They not only know how to play guitar,


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[Assistant] They're really good guitarists. They are really good at playing guitar. They are talented. I know at school sometimes I will have a student in my class who's very talented who's someone who's a good singer. They are very talented. They have a lot of


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[Assistant] If you are starting out playing an instrument, you usually take lessons, just like you're taking English lessons. If you wanted to learn to play the guitar, you would take guitar lessons.


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[Assistant] The way we talk about lessons in English is we just put the instrument name in front. So you can take drum lessons, you can take guitar lessons, you can take


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[Assistant] Flute lessons you can take, try to think of another musical instrument, trumpet lessons. So you simply say the name of the instrument and then the word lesson.


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[Assistant] If you want to be really good at speaking English, you need to practice a lot.


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[Assistant] So practice is something you do every day in order to get better at playing that musical instrument. Usually after you go to a lesson, your teacher will tell you, please do this for practice between now and next week's lesson.


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[Assistant] So practice is something that you do in order to get better and better at playing an instrument.


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[Assistant] A few, uh, of the more common instruments in North America. I'll go through these somewhat quickly. We have the acoustic guitar. That is a guitar that does not plug into an amplifier. It's simply a hollow


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[Assistant] An electric guitar is a guitar that you plug into an amplifier. It has definitely a different sound than an acoustic guitar. Uhm, and I think it's a little different to play it as well. I think the neck is a little narrower on an electric guitar.


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[Assistant] There's the piano, which has keys. It has white keys and black keys. Uh, and when you learn to play the piano, uh, you learn to play with your right hand and then you learn to play with your left hand. And there's pedals on the bottom too that do various things.


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[Assistant] There are drums which some people find to be too loud. Sometimes when people have children who are taking drum lessons, they make them practice in the garage or they make them practice in the basement far away


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[Assistant] Uhm, there's usually cymbals on a drum set as well as a bass drum and a snare drum and people use that to basically create the rhythm or the beat when the song is being played. If you play


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[Assistant] Any instrument, uhm, you probably can be in a band. A band doesn't have to be a rock band. If a band plays rock music, we call it a rock band. But when a group of people get together,


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[Assistant] And if one of the people or a couple of the people sing, we call it a band. So here you see these people have formed a band. That's the English word that we use. We'll say, oh, my nephew is forming a band.


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[Assistant] My nephew and some of his friends have formed a band, uhm, and then usually a band will pick a name. Sometimes it's a cool name, sometimes it's a little bit strange, but a band is a group of people who play different instruments together and they perform songs or they record songs. You might play in an orchestra,


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[Assistant] Or you might go see an orchestra. Uh, when you go to an orchestra, you'll notice that people play older styles of instruments. They play things like the violin. They play things like the cello. They play things like the timpani, which is a kind of drum.


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[Assistant] The orchestra usually plays classical music but sometimes plays modern music as well. But you can see, uh, this orchestra


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[Assistant] The people look a little bit, uhm, older than the people in the band. There's a little bit more gray hair, but that's not always true with an orchestra, but uhm, definitely young people tend to form rock bands, and I think older people play in things like jazz quartets or orchestras.


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[Assistant] You might sing in a choir or you might know someone who sings in a choir. A choir is a group of people that get together and sing.


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[Assistant] They might be accompanied by a piano or an organ or another instrument, but generally a choir is a group of 10 or 20 or 30 or 40 or 50 or 100 people who all get together and learn songs and sing songs


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[Assistant] Uh, so that they can perform them. So you'll see here a choir is getting ready to perform. It's quite common to go and see choirs perform around Christmas. There are usually a lot of choirs uhm, that perform outdoors and at other events during the Christmas season in North


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[Assistant] Where they don't just act and have speaking parts, they also break out into song during the play and that's how we describe it. So this is a play called Mamma Mia based on the


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[Assistant] So, I called it a play, but it's really a musical. So when you go, they act, and then after a few minutes of acting, one of the characters in the play will break out into songs.


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[Assistant] And then they will do a song and then it will become a play again and then they'll do a song and we would call that a musical. Musicals are a lot of fun. Uh, I've actually seen Mamma Mia. I saw it in Toronto many, many years ago with Jen. It was pretty cool to go and see it.


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[Assistant] So we also have what's called a soundtrack. So a soundtrack is...


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[Assistant] When you went to see a movie. So if you went to see Guardians of the Galaxy, which was a movie that came out a few years ago, it had a really cool soundtrack.


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[Assistant] The songs that you kind of heard in the background or during big scenes in the movie, you can buy all of those songs either, you know, on iTunes or you could actually go to the store and buy a CD still. And we would call that a soundtrack. You can't quite see it. Let's make this a bit bigger.


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[Assistant] But here it says Guardians of the Galaxy Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. It says that down there. I know it's a little hard to read. Uh, so a soundtrack is, uhm, all of the songs that you heard from a movie. So different movies have different soundtracks. Sometimes movies


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[Assistant] Have very popular soundtracks and everyone likes the songs. Sometimes no one even remembers the songs from the soundtrack.


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[Assistant] But now there are concerts scheduled in Canada for the spring.


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[Assistant] So if you want to go see a certain band, you can go to a concert. I think starting in April or May, we will once again have concerts in Canada, but uh, concerts are fun. It's where a whole bunch of people buy tickets. You buy a ticket for the concert.


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[Assistant] And you go and you sit or stand. Usually you stand.


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[Assistant] Uhm, if it's a really good concert and you listen to music that is performed live by a band, concerts are super, super fun to go to.


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[Assistant] So I mentioned live performances. When you see a band play live, if someone says, I'm going to see Ed Sheeran live, it means you're going to a concert


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[Assistant] And they're going to be up on a stage and you're going to see them. You're going to be in a stadium or an arena.


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[Assistant] And you're going to see a live performance. Sometimes restaurants or bars will hire a band and then they'll have a sign out front that says live music Friday and Saturday or live music Saturday night. And people enjoy live music.


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[Assistant] But there's no words, and you sing the words as you read them off the screen.


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[Assistant] When you go to a live performance, there is a stage. The stage is the area at the front where the band will be. Uh, so sometimes people like to be close to the stage. Sometimes people like to be very far away from the stage. If you're right in front of the stage, you have front row seats.


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[Assistant] If you are really far back and really high up at the back, we call it the nosebleed section. I don't know why we call it that in English, but if you are at the very, very back of a concert,


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[Assistant] In Canada, some of our parks have what's called a band shell or a bandstand.


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[Assistant] This is a small outdoor building, or it can be kind of large.


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[Assistant] That is built for the purpose of people performing outside, for people to perform live. So a band shell or bandstand is basically a stage. It's a raised platform.


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[Assistant] So that if there's bad weather, the, uh, the band, uh, or the performers don't get wet. Uh, there are quite a few parks.


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[Assistant] I was gonna say near us, the bigger cities tend to have a band shell or a bandstand. Uhm, but, uh, yeaah, there is definitely one in the town.


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[Assistant] Close to me to the south. They have a bandshell bandstand.


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[Assistant] There's something called the charts. So a song can be on the charts. Uhm, the most common chart is called the Billboard 100. That's a chart in the United States where the company decides what songs are the most popular.


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[Assistant] So right now you could say, oh, Adele has a new song on the charts or Adele's song is number one on the charts. So the charts simply refer to what song people have listened to and downloaded and requested, which songs are the most popular ranked in order from one to ten or one to a hundred. So I do think right now on the charts,


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[Assistant] I think Adele has a hit song, uh, Easy On Me, and I think right now Adele has the number one song on the charts. She has a hit song. So again, the charts...


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[Assistant] Are the ranking of the songs that are the most pop- from most popular and then as you go down they're a little bit less popular. And right now Adele has a number one song. She has a hit song and it is number one on the charts.


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[Assistant] We also have something called a greatest hits album or just greatest hits. If you like the band ABBA, you can buy ABBA gold, which is a collection of their greatest hits. So as ABBA was releasing songs through the seventies and eighties, many of those songs were


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[Assistant] Really high on the charts. Some probably even hit number one.


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[Assistant] And so you would say that Abba had a lot of hits. They had a lot of songs that were very, very popular and they put them all together on one album and it's called Abba Gold. So if you are an Abba fan, if you really, really like Abba, you most likely have uhm, this album somewhere, Abba Gold.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna ignore the phone, okay? Uhm, it's nothing important, and if it is, I'm sure Jen will answer it.


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[Assistant] There are a number of different genres. I used the word genre when I started this lesson. There are a lot of different musical genres. One genre is country music. Another genre is rock music. We also call this rock and roll.


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[Assistant] Rock and roll, but usually we just call it rock now. Rock music. So rock music is probably one of the most popular genres in North America.


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[Assistant] We also have classical, which was mentioned earlier. Classical music is usually played on instruments like violins or flutes or oboes. Um, violins and oboes and flutes produce a really nice sound and orchestras usually play classical music using those instruments.


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[Assistant] We have jazz. Jazz is a type of music where


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[Assistant] The song has structure, but as people play the song, they play around within the structure of the song, okay? So a jazz song will not, I'm gonna say a jazz song is rarely the same.


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[Assistant] Every time it is played because people take time to improvise and they play whatever they feel like playing at certain points in the song. Jazz is a very very cool type of music. I don't listen to a lot of jazz but uhm, it is a cool type of music, a cool genre.


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[Assistant] We have rap of course, which is usually a beat with some sort of melody in the background and then the person instead of singing usually speaks the words.


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[Assistant] They might actually sing a little bit as they speak the words, but generally a rap song, uh, is characterized. A rap song generally has someone just speaking the words to a beat. Rap is a very, very popular type of music. Very, very popular genre. We have pop music.


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[Assistant] I know ABBA, uh, is an older band, but, uh, right now, uh, pop music refers to popular music. It's the music that you're most likely to hear when you're at the mall or when you turn on the radio. It is the most popular kind of music for that date.


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[Assistant] So, we shorten it, of course, to pop music. Uh, ABBA was a very, very, uh, famous band in the 70s and 80s and they are putting on a new show in London starting later, I think in 2022.


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[Assistant] Uhm, where you can go and see ABBA, but they're holograms. That should be very, very interesting, I think.


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[Assistant] So lyrics or words, I've mentioned this a few times, when a song has words that can be sung.


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[Assistant] Then we call those lyrics, or we call those words, uh, in French I think you call them paroles, les paroles, yes. So the lyrics are written by a lyricist, or the words are written by a lyricist. Sometimes,


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[Assistant] Someone writes a song, and someone else writes the lyrics. So maybe in a band, one person writes the music, and another person writes the lyrics, and we would call them a lyricist.


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[Assistant] A song often has a rhythm or beat, uhm, and it might change throughout the song. There might be a different tempo during the chorus, uh, or the verse, but usually the rhythm or beat, uh, is played. In a rock band, the drummer and bass guitarist usually keep the beat.


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[Assistant] And the bass guitarist and the rhythm guitarist keep the rhythm. Beat and rhythm are somewhat simpler. It's how the notes are organized.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the tempo and speed at which they're played together.


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[Assistant] Sometimes, uhm, I think about the days when I had albums. So when I was very, very young, my uncle gave my brother and I all his rock albums. Albums by Bob Seeger and Deep Purple. We had a whole stack of albums and then we would take them out of their sleeve and put them on my dad's record player. And we would read the album cover.


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[Assistant] All of those words and phrases I just used don't really exist in common English too much anymore because everyone just listens to songs on their iPhone or on their phone. But way back when album covers used to be beautifully designed.


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[Assistant] So inside there would be a vinyl record. I actually think that was a really fun era. Sometimes the album cover or the jacket, as it was sometimes called, would have all the lyrics to the songs inside of it. So it was really fun to play a record on a record player.


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[Assistant] To drop the needle onto the record and to kind of read the lyrics in the album cover while you listen to it.


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[Assistant] Then we moved on to CDs or compact discs. Many people still listen to music off of CDs. We still have many, many CDs in our house, but we don't, uh, listen to them very often because as I mentioned, we have Amazon Music, which is a streaming music service and we use that to listen to music.


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[Assistant] Most people though listen to music off of iTunes.


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[Assistant] So they will buy songs on iTunes. They will have playlists on iTunes of their favorite songs. They might have a playlist on their phone on iTunes for when they work out. They might have a playlist for when they do homework. If they're a student, they might have a playlist for when they go for a walk, but definitely


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[Assistant] I would say the most common way to listen to music right now is probably to use your phone and to listen to it with something like iTunes.


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[Assistant] When someone sings by themselves, it's a solo, okay? So you might have a band that has more than one singer, and when the person starts to sing by themselves and the instruments stop, we say they're singing a solo. Sometimes we would say acapella, that means without instruments.


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[Assistant] But, uh, we also have it where sometimes during a performance, the guitarist will play a guitar solo.


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[Assistant] So the rest of the band will stop or they'll play a little more quietly and the guitarist will have the light on them and they will play really really a really really cool part of the song and we call that a guitar solo.


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[Assistant] Sometimes you'll have a drum solo as well. A drum solo would be the same. It's when the rest of the band stops playing and singing or they play a little bit and the featured, uh, musician for that time is the drummer. So we would call that a drum solo.


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[Assistant] And when two people sing together, we call it a duet. There are some very, very common, or very famous duets in the world that people have sung in the past. Uhm, for some reason I can't think of one right now, but I think Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton sing a duet.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I think there is a very popular duet


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[Assistant] Now I'm losing track, sorry. Uhm, but a duet is when two people sing a song together.


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[Assistant] In this module, we're going to talk about adjusting some of the parameters on a well section. Open up the well section template.


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[Assistant] Clicking on specify, click on the little black triangle here.


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[Assistant] All of these options come up as to change the type of depth track that it is. If we change it to SSTVD, SSTVD will now appear here and also be changed up here in the well section template.


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[Assistant] Patrol allows you to change the width of the tracks in the well section interactively. By putting your cursor on the edge of the tracks and moving it left to right, it will change the width.


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[Assistant] And when we hit the apply button, all the tracks will be 11 millimeters wide.


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[Assistant] If we click this lock button before we hit apply, then patrol will not let us change them interactively. We can only come back here and change them in this location.


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[Assistant] Well section has not been set to a defined scale and each of the wells might possibly set at a different scale.


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[Assistant] Then all the wells in the well section, and these are the wells, it just also lists them here in the window are set to the same scale.


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[Assistant] Then when that survey comes up, right click on the survey, go to import on selection. Now make sure down here that you are using


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[Assistant] It also says the inline number is in 181 and the crossline number is in 185. So again, click next to inline number, go to 181, click next to crossline number,


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[Assistant] And now we have all of our information in the correct spot. Once again, we can click the okay button.


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[Assistant] It will read the data in and then give us a chance to change the CRS if we need to. We're going to go ahead and use the same CRS. So when we click okay, it now reads in the new information.


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[Assistant] And click on the eye to make sure we can see them. Here we can see our inline crossline. We might want to change the vertical exaggeration to something a little bit different for this new type of data. There we are. And here we can see our inline crossline information.


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[Assistant] The base map information for all the inlines and crosslines on top. Now we can work with this data.


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[Assistant] Anderson pulls out of a cul-de-sac off the Newton Arzod at 7.30 on the nail every day.


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[Assistant] Lots of layers, uhm, and especially the layers close to your skin, uhm, you wanna have, uh, breathable fabrics if possible, uhm, especially if you're, you're, uhm, engaging in activity.


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[Assistant] We don't want to run any, uhm, engine operated equipment, uh, or, or gas or propane powered, uh, heating devices indoors because of the risk of carbon monoxide.


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[Assistant] Lots of layers, uhm, and especially the layers close to your skin, uhm, you wanna have, uh, breathable fabrics if possible, uhm, especially if you're, you're, uhm, engaging in activity.


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[Assistant] We don't want to run any engine operated equipment, uh, or, or gas or propane powered, uh, heating devices indoors because of the risk of carbon monoxide.


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[Assistant] We are walking around with the supercomputers in our pocket. How amazing is that? So it is disappointing.


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[Assistant] We're still using mouse and keyboards, we're clicking on screens and buttons. Mobile phones are the same. We're just using fingers instead of the mouse. So is that it?


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[Assistant] Is it how the future looks like? We're going to be stuck in the screens with our faces, not seeing the world around us? That's not the future I imagine, not the future I'm attracted to. What I'm always interested in is things.


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[Assistant] Things tell our story, they tell who we are, they tell a lot about us. Let me give you an example.


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[Assistant] These are photographs of things a person touched during 24 hours. What can you tell about him? He loves his motorcycle. The biggest thing in his picture. What can you tell about this girl? She spends all her time on the beach. There's a surfboard. She lives by the sea. What can you tell about this guy?


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[Assistant] He's a chef. Look at all the ingredients he touched during the day while he was preparing the food. And computer is a tiny part of his life. These sad things in the corner.


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[Assistant] So if we're using things all the time, and this is a big part of our lives, can things become a way for us to interact with our digital life? Can the world become your interface?


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[Assistant] And that was my idea. I've been working for 20 years now.


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[Assistant] My idea is that in order to interact with your digital life, you don't need to have screens and keyboards and mouses. You can interact with your digital life just by using things you use every day.


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[Assistant] And to realize this idea, I need to solve three big challenges. Let me tell you about them. The first one, obviously, isn't even possible. How can you take an everyday thing


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[Assistant] Now I was inspired by the book, Huckers, I read when I was a teenager. An essential idea of this book, one of the essential ideas of this book, is that you can change the purpose of things by inventing new technology and then hacking into things and changing them.


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[Assistant] So I've been thinking what kind of technology I can invent so that it can hack into things you use every day and make them interactive.


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[Assistant] So when I was working at Disney, I invented this sensor, which injects structured electrical fields into objects and turns them into gesture interfaces. So this door knob, unmodified, can become a gesture sensor. It can know how you're touching it. It can feel how you're touching it. It may circle, or it can grasp.


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[Assistant] And this doorknob is unmodified. There's nothing special about doorknobs. Anything can become interactive. What about plants?


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[Assistant] So the plants are interesting, because with plants I can actually know where you're touching. You see the line moving up and down in the image. And I can turn to the musical interface.


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[Assistant] Now, we do have also practical applications, a calendar plan for those who are obsessed about practicality.


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[Assistant] So everything can be different, and everything can be, uh, represent what it feels.


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[Assistant] In this example, we hugged your body so you can measure how you're folding your hands and then using your hand gestures to control something else. So if you don't want to listen to music for thousands of times, you simply can cover your ears to turn it off.


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[Assistant] So everything can be hacked, and research is important, but the second challenge we have is how can we go from R&D and prototypes to real products? How can we make real things that are also interfaces?


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[Assistant] And you may ask yourself, who do this? Silicon Valley? Is it do Shenzhen? Now the challenge there, that the world of things is huge.


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[Assistant] Every year apparel industry places 150 billion garments. In comparison,


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[Assistant] Technology industry only makes 1.4 billion phones. The world of things is much bigger than the world of technology. We can't, the technology world cannot change the world of things. Instead, we need to create technology which changes makers of things, people who make chairs and coals and everything else,


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[Assistant] So to this challenge, we came up with a very simple kind of idea and challenge. Can a tailor make a wearable?


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[Assistant] Now we don't want to take a tailor and turn the tailor into an electrical engineer. We still want to have some tailors around.


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[Assistant] But what we would like to do is create technology which looks, feels and behaves like a raw material used by the tailor to make their clothes.


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[Assistant] For example, a touch panel made for a tailor would look like this, made out of textile, so you can cut it with scissors and sew it in.


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[Assistant] The small factory which was making kimono yarn for generations.


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[Assistant] We worked with my collaborators, who were not engineers. It was an artisan who knows how to make things, and an artist who knows how to make things beautiful. Working with them, we created one of the best yarns in the world.


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[Assistant] Which consists of thin metallic alloys wrapped around with polyester fibers and cotton fibers. These yarns were made on the same machines which were making yarns for kimonos for generations.


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[Assistant] We then took these yarns and gave them to the factory, which is making textiles, and we wove our smart textile using regular machines in a variety of colors and materials, and we gave those textiles to Taylor and Savile Row in London.


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[Assistant] So tailors are traditionalists, particularly in civil war, that don't use computers.


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[Assistant] They don't use machines. They use hands and they cut. They feed their products on the human body, not on 3D avatars.


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[Assistant] Technology is not a part of their vocabulary, but they are modern people. They know how to use technology. So if technology can be formed and shaped like a button, like a textile, like something they can use, they absolutely can make a wearable. A garment, which can place a phone call.


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[Assistant] So now we've proven that you can actually make a wearable, not by the electronic company, but by the tailor. We worked in collaboration with Levi's, our partners and our neighbors.


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[Assistant] And it was made in the same factories, which made all their products. And you have noticed, is I've been controlling my presentation from the jacket, from the sleeve of the jacket. I do like this, go forward, like this, go backward.


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[Assistant] And of course I can do more things. It's not just to control presentation. You can control my navigation, control my, my, uh, music. But most importantly, it stays the jacket. It stays the thing which makes me look, you know, great.


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[Assistant] How can we go from one product to many products? And that's what we're doing right now. Let me tell you how we're going to do this. First of all, I want to make myself clear. I'm not talking about the Internet of Things.


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[Assistant] I'm not talking about creating another gadget you get bored with and throw in the back of your drawer and forget about it. I'm talking about foundational, important principles which guide my work.


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[Assistant] It makes them better by connecting them to your digital life and adds new usefulness and new functionality.


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[Assistant] While remaining the same original purpose, not changing it. This jacket I'm wearing can control my mobile phone and presentation, but it remains a jacket.


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[Assistant] Everything would have its own set of actuaries, displays and sensors specific for those things. A pair of running shoes does not need to have a touch sensor. Why would they have a touch sensor on a pair of shoes? It would have a sensor which would measure your running performance or knee impact while remaining in the great pair of shoes.


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[Assistant] Makers of things will have to start thinking what kind of digital functionality they have to offer to their consumers. They will have to become service providers, or they may become irrelevant. We will have to create a service ecosystem


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[Assistant] Just like we've done for mobile phones, where you have apps and services and everything else, and sometimes you're still making a phone call. Now to make this ecosystem possible, we have to avoid fragmentation. We have to avoid


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[Assistant] Different interfaces for different people, for different things. We have to create a uniform user experience. And for that reason, we have to create a single computing platform.


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[Assistant] Which powers all those things. What will the platform gonna be? And I think the answer is obvious. It's a cloud.


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[Assistant] So let me show for the first time the real device which we've built. We're showing this for the first time. That's how it looks like.


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[Assistant] And it's a small device which will be connected to things we put, we, uh, we want to make smart and connected interactions. How it's gonna work? So on the back you have a little, uh, some, some few electrodes. So when you plug them into different things, like here,


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[Assistant] The device will recognize where you plug in them, and then reconfigure itself to enable specific functionality for this particular thing.


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[Assistant] We would like to give this device to makers of things, people who make your clothing and furniture, so they can use it just like they use


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[Assistant] And have all this new exciting digital functionality where you don't need keyboards and screens and mouses to interact with your computer.


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[Assistant] So I've been working on this idea for 20 years, and now it's taking shape. And as it's taking shape, what we are realizing


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[Assistant] That I, I always thought I'm working on computer interfaces, I always thought myself as an interaction designer, but I'm realizing


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[Assistant] That I'm not building an interface. What I've realized is that me and my team, we're building a new kind of computer, an ambient computer. Thank you.


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[Assistant] Well, hello and welcome to this English lesson about moving. People sometimes live in one place and then they move to another place. Sometimes they move because they have to start a new job in a different city. Sometimes people move because they need to go to school.


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[Assistant] There are a lot of reasons to move. Sometimes children move out of their parents' house, but we certainly, uhm, people certainly do move from time to time in their lives. Some people move more often than others.


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[Assistant] I have an uncle and aunt who have moved 19 or 20 times in their life. Uh, personally, I've only moved, uh, probably five times in my life, maybe six. I have not moved a lot. But moving is when you live somewhere


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[Assistant] And then you decide to take all of your things. You take everything you own.


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[Assistant] And you, uh, go to a different place and then you start to live there. That's my best explanation of what moving is. Uhm, it is something that, uh, is stressful. We talked about it I think in the lesson about stressful things. Uhm, but it also can be very exciting. It can be exciting to decide


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[Assistant] So the first slide I have has two verbs on it. The verb to move and the verb to move house.


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[Assistant] In Canada, and I think in the United States, when you move, we just say move. When are you moving? I'm moving in three weeks. In the UK though, in Britain, when I watch British TV shows, they often say move house.


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[Assistant] Can you come out? Do you want to go out to eat this weekend? No, I'm moving house. Or when are you moving house? In a couple weeks.


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[Assistant] Just kind of ignore my explanation of the second phrase. You'll have to look in your British English dictionary to get a good description. But in Canada we just say move. When are you moving? Or when did you move?


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[Assistant] Uhm, or, uh, do you need help moving? Uh, I'm going to move in three weeks. By the way, I'm not moving.


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[Assistant] If you were wondering if this lesson is like a secret way for me to say I'm moving, I'm not moving. I'm not moving for a very long time.


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[Assistant] So we have two different, uh, phrasal verbs to move in.


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[Assistant] And to move out. And obviously you can tell the difference. When you move in, it means that you are entering a place to live there. Okay? So you could say to someone, when are you moving in to your new apartment?


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[Assistant] Or you could say, when's your move-in date? Which is kind of how we refer to the day you move in somewhere. So that's the day that you would be entering your new place.


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[Assistant] People can also move in with you, okay? When my son is done university, he will move in with us again. So that just simply means he's going to live here again.


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[Assistant] And we have to move out, which can be used the same way as well. When someone moves out, it means they leave a place. So you could say, uhm, when do you need to move out of your apartment? Uh, what day do you need to leave? And you could say, oh, I need to move out in three weeks. Uh, I need to move out on April 17th or something like that.


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[Assistant] So, and as well, when you live with other people, they can move out as well. I could say, oh, my son is going to university in September, he's going to move out at the end of August. So move in, move out the two directions of moving.


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[Assistant] And we have something called moving day. So a lot of times when people are planning to move,


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[Assistant] Uh, they will refer to the day when they are going to move as moving day. Uh, they'll say, oh yeah, moving day is in a couple days for me, so I need to get ready. I need to pack my stuff.


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[Assistant] Or you might say, uh, oh, you're moving, when's your moving day? And you would say, oh, my moving day is, uh, April, whatever, April 17th. I'm just using that date randomly.


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[Assistant] But the day when you move is called moving day and people will often refer to that with that name. They'll say, you know, when's your moving day? Oh, I'm my moving day is not for a few more weeks yet so I can relax.


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[Assistant] In English, we use the word stuff and we use the word things a lot. In fact, Jen and I were laughing the other day because we were having a conversation, uh, and we used the word stuff so many times it was making us laugh. But when you move, you take all your stuff.


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[Assistant] Okay, before you move, you might need to pack all your stuff up and you need to put all your stuff in a car or in a van and then you need to drive your stuff across town or you need to drive to the next city. Then you need to take all of your stuff out and put your stuff in the new place.


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[Assistant] This is a very useful English word, the word stuff. And we also use the word things, like, oh, do you have a lot of things to, when you move, do you have to take a lot of things with you? Oh, I need to get all my things ready because I'm moving in a few days. So stuff and things, just very, um,


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[Assistant] Yeah, very useful English words to refer to all of the things that you own. All of the stuff that you owned.


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[Assistant] Boxes. When you move, you're going to need boxes. You're going to need a lot of boxing. Sorry, not boxing. Boxing is this. You don't need to do any boxing. You'll need a lot of boxes.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but uh, when you move, you want to put your stuff in boxes. It just makes it more convenient. You want to put all of your things in boxes. So you might go to a store and ask if they have any old boxes.


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[Assistant] You can actually buy moving boxes, boxes that are made for moving. When you go to a company to maybe rent a truck.


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[Assistant] That company might also sell boxes and you can buy some boxes, uh, in order to, uh, put your stuff in boxes so that you can move them.


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[Assistant] And you of course will want to sort things. When you sort things in English, it's not just when you're moving. You sort things any time you want things to be organized.


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[Assistant] But when moving day is approaching in the days leading up to your move in date, you might want to sort things. So you might want to, uh, get boxes and put all of your books in one box and put all your clothes in another that I, I like this picture because there's a box that just says stuff.


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[Assistant] And you might want to put your pillows in another box. And that way, you, uhm, when you sort things, you kind of, uhm,


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[Assistant] Put all the things that are the same together and then it's a lot easier to find later. Then once you move in, when you're unpacking, it's easier to find the things you need if you took some time to sort.


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[Assistant] We also have this English verb to go through. Phrasal verb to go through. When you go through


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[Assistant] Stuff. It means that you kind of, let's say I had like a couple hundred books and I'm moving. I might want to go through my books.


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[Assistant] That means I'm going to look at each of them and decide which ones I'm going to keep. Before I move, I might want to go through my clothing because there are things I don't wear anymore.


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[Assistant] And it's probably a good idea to go through my clothes and say, okay, I'm going to keep this one. I'm going to get rid of this one. I'm going to keep this one.


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[Assistant] So sorting is when you kind of organize things. When you go through your stuff, when you go through your things, you're kind of sorting, but you're kind of looking for the things you want to keep and the things that you don't want to keep.


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[Assistant] And then of course you need to box things up. You need to box up all of your stuff. Uhm, this is kind of an interesting verb. You could say, I need to put my stuff in boxes.


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[Assistant] But it's easier to say, I need to box up my stuff. Have you boxed up your stuff yet? When are you moving? Tomorrow. Have you boxed up, have you boxed up your stuff? No, I haven't started. That would be bad by the way. If you were moving tomorrow, I hope that you already have all of your stuff boxed up.


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[Assistant] Hopefully you were able to sort and go through all of your things and you were able to box up what you're taking with you.


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[Assistant] To declutter. So this is an interesting word. As you live somewhere, you, uhm, you just have more and more things that you own. But you might not need all of them. In particular, if Jen and I were to move, we have a lot of mugs. So,


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[Assistant] It means kind of to sort through and get rid of things. So if I was to say, oh, we need to declutter a bit, it means you have too many of certain things and you want to get rid of them. A common thing to do with extra stuff is to give it, uh, give it away.


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[Assistant] Give it to family or friends or donate it to a thrift store or a charity that will be able to resell those items in order to uhm,


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[Assistant] Make a little bit of money. So, uh, when you declutter it means you minimize the amount of stuff you have, and it's just a good thing to do before you move.


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[Assistant] And we gave away a few things. We gave some things to our neighbors. We gave some things to my brothers and sisters. Uhm, sometimes when you're moving, it's nice to, uhm, give away things you don't need, uh, so that the move goes easier. There's less stuff to put in boxes if you give away some things before you.


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[Assistant] And then I like these three verbs here, to chuck, to throw out, to get rid of.


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[Assistant] So all of these mean to just simply throw something in the recycling or throw something in the garbage.


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[Assistant] Although the last one to get rid of, you know, that can also mean to give to someone else. You know, I'm gonna get rid of my car, I'm gonna give it to my brother. But the first two to chuck, actually, it's similar to throwing, so it's the action of throwing something in the garbage or recycling. Uh, to chuck, to throw out before you move.


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[Assistant] The more stuff you can chuck, the better. The more stuff you throw out before your moving date, uh, is, uh, it's just really really helpful. Get rid of as many things as you can before you move. That's my recommendation if any of you are moving.


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[Assistant] To throw out your back. I thought I would mention this one. Uh, because this is something that commonly happens when people move.


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[Assistant] People don't lift heavy things every day, but when you move,


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[Assistant] You need to lift a lot of heavy things. This guy is wincing in pain because


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[Assistant] When you lift something heavy, sometimes you throw out your back. This just means that


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[Assistant] You suddenly have a pain in your back usually when you're lifting something heavy and it's not very pleasant. So this is not directly related to moving, but certainly when people move, the chance of throwing out your back is higher because you have to lift


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[Assistant] Couches and refrigerators and other pieces of furniture and big boxes.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the chance of you throwing out your back is pretty high.


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[Assistant] Okay, so just the standard word for putting things in boxes and putting things in suitcases is to pack.


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[Assistant] When you are moving, you need to pack your stuff, okay? You need to put everything in boxes, you need to put things in suitcases, you need to put things in bags, whatever you are using in order to move, you need to put, uhm, your stuff in there. You need to pack.


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[Assistant] So generally, uhm, we use this word as well when you're going on a trip. Before you go on a trip or on vacation, you need to pack. Before you go, uh, before you move, you also need to pack.


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[Assistant] And then you need to label things. We had a picture earlier where the boxes were labeled books and clothes and those kinds of things. Uhm, when you move, it's just a really good idea to label the boxes. Dishes from the kitchen, books, bedroom, kitchen. So you either write on the box.


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[Assistant] And then the, if people are helping you move, they know where to put the box when they get there.


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[Assistant] You might even write fragile on the box. When you say something is fragile, uhm, you, it means that it can break easily. So if you have things like, maybe you have like really expensive


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[Assistant] Uhm, dishes or you have maybe little, uhm, figurines or things that if you drop them they would break. You would put them in a box, you would probably


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[Assistant] Put them in old newspapers so that they're cushioned a little bit. Uh, and then you would write fragile on the box. I think some people say fragile.


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[Assistant] I should check the pronunciation. I say fragile. I should check if other people say fragile. Maybe I'll ask Brent in the chat what he says. Fragile or fragile. Make sure you look up that pronunciation. Uhm, depending on where you live, it might have a different pronunciation.


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[Assistant] Uh, and it might even say this side up. You might have things where you don't want them to be upside down when they are being moved. So you pack them all nicely in a box and then on the outside you would put a sticker that says this side up. It means don't put this box upside down.


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[Assistant] Because there are things in this box that must remain upright. You don't want them upside down. They need to stay, uh, right side up or upright.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I can't think of anything right now, but I'm sure there's some things that you don't want upside down and you would put a sticker on it like that. You might use packing tape. So packing tape is just a special kind of tape.


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[Assistant] That's really good for putting on boxes when you close them. It's a little bit wider and it sometimes comes in a nice tape dispenser. Uhm, and you can just put that on the top of your boxes really quickly and easily and it will hold your boxes shut very handy if you are moving to close the boxes with some packing tape.


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[Assistant] And then, storage. So, interestingly enough, in North America, some people rent a storage locker, or they rent, uh, space in a facility that has storage. Uh, and then what they do is, instead of moving everything to the new place, they put some things in storage.


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[Assistant] Sometimes people will move overseas or they'll move to another country temporarily.


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[Assistant] I know that a friend of mine as a teacher, he went to teach in Japan for nine months. And so he put a lot of his stuff in storage. So this is just a storage locker. You can find and rent storage lockers in most places, uh, most cities in Canada and the United States.


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[Assistant] But, uh, sometimes when you move, you have too much stuff and so you need to put some stuff in storage.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and that's how we say it. We just say put it in storage. Yeaah, I rented a storage locker. I'm gonna throw some of my things in storage uhm, while I go away for a few months.


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[Assistant] You might hire movers. I've never done this. I have enough family and friends that when I moved, I just asked a lot of people for help. But you might not know a lot of people.


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[Assistant] Or you might be moving on a day where it's not convenient for people to help you, so you might need to hire movers. Movers are people whose job it is to help people move. You need to pay them, obviously.


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[Assistant] Uh, know where to put things when they get to the place that you are moving into.


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[Assistant] They will have a moving truck or a moving van. Uhm, depending on what vehicle it is, you would use a different name. But, uh, the movers will come in a moving truck or moving van. They will help you load all your things into the moving van and then of course help you unload them. So, yeaah, a moving truck is simply a truck.


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[Assistant] That's used by movers to help people move stuff. You can also rent from places like U-Haul. You can rent a moving van or moving truck and use that to move and then you don't have to pay the movers but you have to pay to rent the moving truck.


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[Assistant] And you might have something called moving blankets. So moving blankets are really thick, soft blankets that you can put over things that you don't want damaged, but they're too big to put in boxes. So let's say you had a really nice table.


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[Assistant] Uh, and you didn't want the table to get scratched during the move. Uh, it would be a good idea to use some moving blankets. So these are big soft blankets that you could put over top of things so that they don't get scratched or dented or damaged during the move.


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[Assistant] Things get damaged when you move. It's just, it's just going to happen. And you just have to kind of prepare yourself for the fact that when you get to where you're going, a few things might have been damaged on the way there. But moving blankets certainly help quite a bit, uh, to keep things from getting too damaged.


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[Assistant] And you might use what's called a dolly or a hand truck. In my part of Canada, we would call this a dolly. It's a two wheeled dolly and it just makes it a lot easier to move things. Um, I highly recommend.


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[Assistant] If you move, even though I haven't hired movers before, I would hire movers if you can afford it. And I would certainly recommend that you have a dolly to help you move heavier things. It's just way better. You, you won't throw out your back if you have a dolly or you're less likely to throw out your back.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but yeaah, I would highly recommend. Uhm, if you can do it, make sure you have.


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[Assistant] Carts and dollies, hand trucks, if that's the word you want to use. And if you can hire movers, hire movers. I know a few people who hired movers and they loved it.


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[Assistant] Because four people just came in and carried all their stuff out to a moving truck and then carried all their stuff into the new house and they just thought it was the best experience ever.


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[Assistant] So I use this word, I use the word to load anytime in English when you are putting things into a car or putting things on a truck. Notice the difference there. You could say put things in a truck, but I would probably say, uhm, the movers are going to load your things onto the truck.


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[Assistant] Uh, you might load things into the car. This is the act of putting many things into a vehicle. Okay? Before you go on a trip, you'll load your car with all your stuff. When you move, you'll load all of your things onto a truck.


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[Assistant] Uh, so that they can bring it to the new place. So you'll notice this guy, he has a dolly too, on the far side there, the orange thing. Uhm, he's a smart person. And then I think...


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[Assistant] Those blue things in the back of the truck, it's a big stack of moving blankets.


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[Assistant] Uh, and then, you certainly want to find people to help, if you can. Uh, all of the times that I have moved, I've had people help me, usually brothers and sisters and friends.


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[Assistant] Uhm, just people who come and you can load their vehicle as well as load your vehicle. Uhm, I have helped a lot of people move as well. Uh, probably the most fun I had moving was a friend of mine and his wife rented a U-Haul truck. They rented a moving truck.


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[Assistant] And we moved all of their stuff from Toronto. So it was fun to help them move me and a couple other friends.


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[Assistant] You might say, Hey, I'm moving in three days. Can you lend a hand? Hey, I'm moving in three days. Can you help?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So both simply mean to help someone. Uh, when my friend moved, like I mentioned earlier in the lesson, I was happy that I was able to lend a hand. I was happy that I was able to help. Uhm, so it's kind of funny. It's like you're letting them use your hands for the day, but obviously it just means


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] To unload, we talked about this a little bit. I mentioned that when you put things in a vehicle.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You are loading the vehicle when you load a vehicle. You put boxes in, you put stuff in. Uhm, and then when you get to your new house or apartment, you need to unload the vehicle. So it simply means to take the things back out again.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uhm, you unload and you bring the things into the house. So when you leave your current house or apartment, you will load a vehicle. When you get to your new house or apartment, you will unload your vehicle.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And when you're in the house, you'll need to unpack. So we talked about packing. Packing is when you put everything in boxes. When you get to your new place, you will need to unpack. People don't often unpack the same day they move.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] This is what I've noticed in terms of when I move and when I help other people move. They usually move all their stuff. They unload all their stuff. They put all their stuff in their house like they put all the boxes in and then they usually just get a few things out in the kitchen like some plates and then order pizza. Uh, and then usually they set up their bed.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And then they sleep, and then the next day they start to unpack everything. Usually the next day is the day where they start to take everything out of the boxes and put it in, uh, the new places where those things will go.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And then we have this interesting phrasal verb to get settled. Or, uh, verb phrase, I guess, to get settled. Uhm, sometimes it takes a while to get settled in a new place. After you move,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, when that's all done, we would say that you have, uh, you were able to get settled, okay? It can take a few days or a few weeks or even a few months to, uh, to get settled, to have that feeling like you are in a place you would call home.