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also a TV show many years ago called Home Improvement. It was
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buy tools. You can buy everything you need to do some
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with a building and there's some people working there and
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switches and tools as well. You can buy some of the things you remodels on her house. So, I'm curious if Brent is in the
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long and then they're like, okay, it'll be this much money electrician is someone who knows a lot about how to
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could say, oh, I need to go buy some wood but you could also and then I go out and they put it in my van. So, a lumber yard So, a contractor is someone who owns a construction business.
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is a place where you can go to buy lumber. So, lumber of the wheelbarrow. It allows humans to move a lot of heavy
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need to do home improvements but not everything but they'll home improvements. So, the most common store in Canada is
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call them lumber yards. We don't call them wood yards. this exact hammer somewhere. I should go find that as well.
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up of a person putting a screw in with a hammer II. Didn't
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they can get things from the ground up to the higher parts construction site like I mentioned in Canada, often the
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a lumber yard and then you might go to a hardware store. A that's a remodel by the way. the remodel. I use it as a verb
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I've never heard that. That that's don't remember that it's of wood. And then you have what's called a drill. This is
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and inches. So I might say, oh I need 12 by fours, eight feet
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course is wood that you use to build things. Okay. So you
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have most of it and usually every town has a hardware store hardware store is simply a place where you can buy light say I need to go buy some lumber and generally, we do cement. Everything you need you can find at a home improvement store like the Home Depot and then there's also something called a lumber yard. If I need to buy wood, I usually go to a
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you say in English, sorry, in Canada, we everything's in feet lumber yard. A lumber yard. Is this a place is just a place you need to do home improvements. If you need to do Home Depot because it's far away but they have everything stopped. We have a lot of stores that are called home I'm not sure what happened there. My voice suddenly
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where you can buy wood. You can buy nails and screws. You can
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a renovation, you can buy windows and wood and bags of popular in the United States as well. I don't often go to the something called the Home Depot. I think this is very improvement stores. A home improvement store is a place wheelbarrow with stone. You could actually drive the wheelbarrow. Probably one of the coolest inventions ever is don't know enough about them to give you the definition. We
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what's called a jackhammer. This is something you might
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things. We have a lot of stores where you can go if you need the cement doesn't get hard. Of course, there's always the dump
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might be one of the coolest inventions ever. We also have bulldozer is used to move dirt around. We talked about this in
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hear in the city a lot. A jackhammer goes that's that's uncle used to make cement in a wheelbarrow. Very cool. A father mixed those elements by hand at first. Yes, my dad and
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dig a hole but I have to say this is what we call it. In my
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bucket. We call it an excavator. Some people call it
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stuff very easily. Instead of carrying it a wheelbarrow makes
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or a floor. It's just something that it's a machine that makes wheelbarrow somewhere but you could never carry that much
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to. Sorry, my impression of a jackhammer but it vibrates up and down very quickly and it's used when they have to remove part of a build things on a construction site and then, of course, our lesson about Earth a couple of weeks ago. It's a very truck. A dump truck is a vehicle where you can put dirt
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gravel. I see Judith in the chat saying cement mixer. My
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part of Canada, a big machine with tracks and a big arm and a the Canadian, it will be excavator. A machine used to ready to go and these turn while they're driving so that
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physics of leverage and having a wheel. So, if you called a strong machine that can move dirt and soil. So, They can
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stone yourself. It's a very cool invention. I think it a digger but we would call it an excavator and then here's a know the difference between cement and concrete. They are
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might need a dump truck to take dirt away or to bring stone or
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a lot of noise when it vibrates and it's good at removing very similar but think we use the words interchangeably and I
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or stone in the back and then it can dump and all of it falls
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it a lot easier. It's it's just a cool invention based on the crane is used to lift things off the ground and put it on
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excavator in every lesson. If you learn one word with Bob, on construction sites. A job site might have a crane so that
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This is a small machine that you can use to make cement. So, they put the part of the house on which is called the roof. machinery, you might find something called a crane. A
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think for my lessons from now on, I'll try to include an extension ladder. So, let's go through what we call the trades you're doing work or you might just use a step ladder or an
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that's not normally how you do it. I thought it was kind of a
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you don't pronounce the letter B. So, plumber, an electrician
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want to use the word concrete as well but I don't actually the roof trusses which are part of the roof are sometimes the very top of a house or building in order to make sure flat roofs on buildings but a roofer is someone who works on up one side and then you can reach higher areas an extension
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lot of work with cement and you don't want to make it yourself, you might just call and a cement truck will come with it
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there's an excavator. This is going to be the running joke. I have what's called a cement truck. So, if you have to do a
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out so often when often when you are building something, you parts to it and you lean it against the building and then
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cool material that we can build things out of called cement. I you pour in some stones, some sand in a bag of cement, and a on the building in Canada, even when they build houses, when ladder is a ladder that can extend. There's usually two
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tiles on the roof of a house or building or they might even put
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it doesn't leak. That's their primary job is put shingles or install all of the pipes in your house or in a building so,
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making sure that the electricity is working So, an who works with wood. Their primary tool is a hammer. A
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is responsible for putting all of the wiring in a house and
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roofer You might on job sites find certain kinds of kind of work. Our roofer is someone who puts shingles or
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top of a building. So, in the city, you will often see cranes I'll pick you up. I'll take my work truck and then he'll take
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brick layer or a block layer will be someone who does that bricks or blocks so when something is small and a
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little bit of water and when you are done, you have that in our part of Canada. Trades are things like carpenter. A there's nothing that's going to stop this person from falling
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lifted up with a small cream. You might have a cement mixer. might have their saws and things like that. We had new
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things that are about this size that we call blocks. So, a put in with a screwdriver and a nail is something you put in
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sinks and they would make sure that the water is all working
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install plugs and outlets and light switches and lights and
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tiles or something on the roof so that when it rains, the both words for this. This person is standing on a
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reddish color, usually it's a brick but you can have bigger he refers to it as his work truck. So, a work truck is any
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water doesn't get in the house or the building. So, that is a tools in the back. It might have a large toolbox in the here. Our Welcome as a member, good to have you here. Thank
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they do all of the wiring in a house. A brick layer will lay for a sec. I'm going to switch chat to anyone. Here we go. I've tested it. Let's move on. A toolbox is a box that you keep tools in. They're not always red but they are quite
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plumber is some who works with pipes. So, a plumber would
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they would hook up things like taps and they would install scaffold. So, in order to get up high in order to reach use a nail or you might use a screw. A screw is something you
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so usually it has a place to put ladders. It has a bunch of
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funny picture. Let's see here but yes, a carpenter is someone carpenter is pounding a screw in with a hammer. So, again, carpenter is someone who works with wood. I think this just say, where's the ladder? Can you go get the ladder? But is something you would use if you need to get up high while are many different kinds of trailers but many people who
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could climb up and work at work up in the air. Now, I will say
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off. So, this is very dangerous scaffolding but definitely this
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properly. so, they are a plumber. Notice. you don't say in Canada, this scaffolding would be illegal because and then inside the trailer, it's like a little workshop.
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step ladder is something that you open up and then you climb he needed to cut a little piece of wood or anything like that. truck. My friend, when we go somewhere, he might say, oh, back as well. But definitely you would refer to it as a work
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They might have a workbench, they might have tools, they but if you are someone, let me just make a little change here
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You might see scaffolding on job sites or a scaffold. We use
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something, this person built some scaffolding so that they you so much for becoming a member. So, this is a pickup
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law is a contractor actually and he has a pickup truck but
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you climb up. So, again, both of these are ladders. You could
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this is what's called a step ladder and this is called an did it had a trailer and then he could go in his trailer if
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extension ladder. So, a little bit of a difference here. A English. Hey, Gohan, welcome to the lesson. Good to have you
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are construction workers or contractors will have a trailer
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windows put in our house a few years ago and the person who roads. It's good to be highly visible. We would say in
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for the gas then I guess Let's see here a trailer. So, there realize that til til this morning. Let me See here, you
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the truck that he normally uses for work. Because his boss pays a lot easier to see them. It's very dangerous working on the
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truck that is used to do construction type work. Okay, truck but we might just call it a work truck. So, my brother in with a hammer by hitting it. I think I have a picture coming
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on. They are required to wear a safety vest because it makes it something that you have to hit in with a hammer. So, you might
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when you see road work, the workers will have a safety vest three of them are red. One is black but they are places where
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might need to wear a safety vest. So, when I was a pieces of wood together. You might use a nail and a nail is is the color but I mean, I have four or five toolboxes. I think
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construction worker, I didn't need to wear one but many times you can keep your tools. Let me see here. You are putting often red. Many people have red toolboxes. I don't know why red are construction workers will have a toolbox. Now, if you fix cars, you might have a toolbox as well if you're a mechanic loud. I think I damaged my ears more going to rock concerts when I was younger rather than on the farm. Many people who where I like to wear hearing protection. If it's very, very
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workers use look like this because when you pull the tape get the picture exactly level. We would say in English, I
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they work, you can use them safely but you would use a
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might have to wear hearing protection. When I was a word construction site and that's true but the shorter of and then we have things called power saws which are used to back in on construction sites. There's a little saying measure pole. For Jennifer, we screwed a sign to the pole using a
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skiing. So, safety goggles look a little bit like that and you through the tools rather quickly. So, this is a hammer.
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of it or maybe it was a verb and we made a noun out of it
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a job site, you will need to wear safety goggles or safety spring inside. So, when you pull the tape measure out and
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glasses. So, safety glasses actually look like glasses and
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didn't need it but on some job sites, you need hearing protection. The place where I worked wasn't loud and so I twice cut once. What that means is if you need to cut a piece of wood, it's a good idea. It's a good idea to measure twice.
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power saw to cut wood. There's a few things that you need on a cut a piece of wood longer if you accidentally cut it too
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construction worker, I didn't have to wear hearing to put screws in. I sometimes use my drill as well to do that
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job site or construction site. By the way, I said, we use the
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are a little bigger, little more like what you would wear because your hand is getting sore, you can also use a drill to put screws in. If you don't like using a screwdriver think you're familiar with what a screwdriver is. I just used a
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they protect your eyes from things hitting your eye Goggles used to drill holes. So, a drill is used to drill again So, you're absolutely sure and then cut once because you can't
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cut wood a little bit dangerous but once you are aware of how it's a long straight piece of material and it has little
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protection sometimes. There, there are certain jobs I do it is to just say job site. Okay, So often when you are on
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wasn't afraid that my ears would be damaged and so I measure things. Most tape measures that construction
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measure out and let go, it automatically goes back in. In you put pictures on the wall. Sometimes you use a level to
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short. If you cut it too short, you have to use another piece screwdriver. A tape measure is something that you use to
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very often in English. We take a noun and we make a verb out you measure something and you let go, it automatically goes screwdriver the other day to mount something outside on a level. You may have used a small level in your house when
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a cordless drill. A drill is used for a couple things. It's English, we would say it's spring loaded. Okay, There's a
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but you use a drill to drill a hole. You can also use a drill was getting ready for this lesson. And of course, we have
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level. If the bubble is exactly in the middle, it makes it I think I mentioned this in another lesson. I actually have in the pouches of my tool belt. I actually, I actually couldn't
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glass sections with a bubble in it and if the level is too
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you want to use the level to create things that are construction workers and it's a place where you can keep all of
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my tape measure a pencil and I would keep nails in the front and got it but I didn't. A tool belt is worn by people who are It doesn't hurt because there is a piece of metal inside the boots and basically, they're designed so that your feet
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high, one way or the other, the bubble goes to the top and so
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completely flat or level. So, you use a level to make things things. You have things like hammers. I think I'll go worker, I had a pair of work boots. I had a pair of safety
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shoe to keep your feet safe. So, I still wear work boots on and hard hats are nice when you when something falls on a
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in as well. They're very heavy. It can be a little hard on your call it a construction site. Generally, when you driving and
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feet and knees to wear work boots but they do protect you that we have both on there. By the way, a lot of our
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have a steel toe and the bottom of the shoe is durable so that
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and keep you safe. So, I have a tool belt. I should have went world or even other parts of Canada but where I live The
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wearing your hard hat, you don't get hurt and this call it a construction zone. Construction zone ahead is a
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the general term tools. So, tools, that's the word we use work on the roads. They start working early in the spring and
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was road work and we generally call so the place where they're
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to refer to anything that we use as humans to build or fix
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You have something called a level and what a level is is job site. There might be more than one person with a white
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find that either. I think it's in the barn somewhere. Bob. The when they're fixing the road, we usually call it a
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joking. Hard hats are very important on job sites on a hat is a very durable hard hat. I don't know if you can hear my
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Canadian failed at finding all his construction gear when he person with the white hard hat is the most important person
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hit me on the head but I had my hard hat on so I didn't get hurt. Let's see here. Where am I at? work boots. So, these are very common sign in Canada. so II couldn't find my hard hat.
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they have a steel toe and the bottom has a steel plate in it really a cool job to have now. I think Down the road there is
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also called safety boots. Sometimes in Canada, they have that way last summer, they were fixing the road as well. There
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your tools. So, when I did construction, I had my hammer, they work long hours and about 6 days a week for the whole
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the farm by the way. They look more like running shoes but morning. I see a crew out there working on the road when I went
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construction site and lands on your head and when you're centimeters or meters. We kind of use both but when you buy
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happened to me once my cousin dropped his tape measure and it hat hat and it might be different in other parts of the
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a little green triangle on the side and that means that they
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don't get hurt if you drop a piece of wood on your steel architect. If you are an architect, you dream up new
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ahead, reduce your speed. So, generally, just kind of to
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It has been so many years since I've worn a hard hat. that II.
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head. My head's hard enough. I don't need a hard hat. No, I'm construction zone. So, when you're driving in Canada, you because computers are really cool and it's really, it's
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thumbnail, I tried to find my hard hat. I couldn't find it.
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toed boots. That's what we also call them on your work boots. system. The person who makes a blueprint is called an
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person with the white hard hat is the person in charge of that and it wrecks parts of the road. It destroys parts of the
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nails can't go through it. So, when I was a construction measurements in the contraction industry are in imperial. We
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year to fix parts of the road. You can see here, he's cutting April. road work begins everywhere. Winter wrecks roads
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don't know where it is. It's in our garage somewhere but a hard became known as a blueprint. Interesting thing in Canada,
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a part of the road out probably to put a new piece in. So,
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So, last night when I was going to take a picture for the you build a new house, you will have a blueprint. Now, the
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when water gets into the road and freezes the water expands but there weren't really a lot of computers back then. It was
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building something like a house we call a construction site but
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clarify again, a house. If a house is being built, we would road. So in Canada, we often have road crews, people who
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might see a sign that says road work ahead or construction zone
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they're fixing the road or building the road. We would I was young again, I might consider becoming an architect
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definitely lots of road work. In fact, there's road work down the road from me right now. when I go for my walk every wood in Canada, it's always it's usually eight feet long or blueprint is a piece of paper and it has the plan for what
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live close to our friends in the US and we want to make sure Definitely, if you put an addition on your house or if
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instructions so that someone can build that someday. I have a blueprint kind of showing what you want to build.
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thought briefly about becoming an architect when I was younger build in your mind and then you create blueprints as
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road work in Canada around the end of March. beginning of ten feet long or twelve feet long. We don't use the metric
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all done by hand like how this person is doing it. I think if you want to build. Even if you do a renovation, you'll usually
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have both units of measurement on our blueprints because we our blueprints have both inches and centimeters on them. We
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build our houses in Canada using inches and feet, not not blue any Most blueprints are printed in black ink but a long time ago, the ink on a blueprint was blue and so it lines on a blueprint used to be blue a long time ago. They're if you want to know what that machine is, it's an excavator. Renovations are expensive. By the way. we did a renovation in
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than we expected. It was definitely a little bit pricey the back of our house. A few ago and it was a lot more money
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existing building but everything is in such bad
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way. I'm going to make one lesson all about excavators chat. If you can let me know whether he uses that as a verb
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Also, it can be used for demolition when you build a new shape. They decide that it's just it's it's not worth close to 35 years old, they might think, you know what? I
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and a noun as well. We also have the the word home
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house, you usually have what's called a blueprint. So, a noun, she's doing a remodel. My sister has actually done a few and there's another word remodel so, sometimes people
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say that in Canada, we would use remodel as a verb and as a
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renovating or remodeling. It's it's just worth being destroyed if that's if you could say that. So, they will have their kitchen and a fresh coat of paint and you might say that
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demolition is the best thing to do. Here's an excavator by the the walls and they'll redo the bathroom so it looks brand new.
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someone come in to demolish it. They will decide that that are called home improvement stores. There was
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when someone wants to do some construction, they have an improvement and you'll see La that there's actually stores means he has a small house and because he needs more room, he
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they might put new kitchen cabinets in new cupboards in is adding an extra couple rooms. I think two rooms and a
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someday just for mowed eggs so he can so he can laugh but yes, very, very funny. So, when you demolish something when you do with this guy is here. He can help me here. So, I would say So they'll take the toilet out. They'll take the sink out.
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We put up some new curtains. You can't see them but renovation but it might be more just the look of things. So, They'll take the bathtub out. They'll remove everything from
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your house that improve it. So, putting putting a fresh coat of
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a demolition, it means that you destroy what's there. Sometimes will remodel part of their house and this is similar to a think it's time to do a reno. It's time to do a renovation.
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painted this room. We did a little a few home improvements. improvements. home improvements are anything that you do to
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basically, anytime you improve your house, you call it a home could also say my sister is doing a remodel and we would site So, a couple of interesting words here in
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this, my sister is going to remodel her kitchen and then I
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paint on in a room in this room here. Jen and my one of my kids Canada, if you go on a construction site, if you visit
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room is ten or twenty or 30 years old and if it's getting you could definitely use both. There's a lot of people on that
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American renovation shows, they often use the word reno. So,
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everything and you make everything new again. So, dizzy. Those are the names of his pieces of equipment.
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and as a noun and I'm wondering if Brett from American English built is usually called a construction site. Okay, In
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sometimes people will look at their bathroom and maybe their they'll say, oh, we're doing a reno. So, a renovation is when be, not always but if you go to a place where they are building
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someone builds on an existing house or adds to an existing
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could say this, my brother in law is putting an addition on house. That's why we say addition. So, for instance, I some It's generally called a construction site. So, when I he's going to build an apartment building and rent out
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So, if I wanted to build a new house, I would call a
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English when you say someone is building an addition, an awesome. I don't need a new one. I would call a contractor and they would tell me how much money it would cost and then
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was younger, I worked at many construction sites. Notice I used at and on. you could use both with this. Sorry about the
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addition is an extra room or a couple of extra rooms that the Canadian was younger when he was in college and
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he's on the construction site. I think I would more us at but things that are being made that are new. The person or the most
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construction site is a somewhat dangerous place for people to
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bathroom. He's putting an addition on his house. We also have the word renovation which if you watch any of the a new house, which I'm not going to do. my house is
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Anyways, I'll move on. Now, The place where something is being construction worker. Construction work is considered term is construction worker. My uncle was a construction
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you take an existing part of your house and you remove in Canada. when you go to a construction site, the person Construction almost always refers to things that are being
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construction site. He's going to meet me at the construction hard hat and work boots and other safety gear. A spring, summer, and fall and there's a lot less construction
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his house. He is building an addition on his house. So, that bridge or a road or an overpass or they're building a highway
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leads me to my next slide. I'm not sure what it's like in your
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we're talking about Construction and generally for
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you have young children who are learning English or if you
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to watch Bob the Builder. He is definitely a construction
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prepositions in English. He's at the construction site or yourself are a beginner, Bob the builder is a great cartoon country In Canada, there is a lot of construction during the
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kind of a mad race to get things done before the winter
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build. We use the verb to build to talk about the things that
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was a construction worker and the person who owns a business a little too cold in the winter. We generally see things
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they would build a house for me I'm not sure if you are
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but I can't really remember it. Bob the builder. Can he fix it? familiar with the cartoon Bob the Builder but my kids when construction industry would be the term construction worker.
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worker. My cousin is a construction worker. When Bob
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university or university during the summer. I was a
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Yes. Yes. Can. Yes, that's how it goes. I think Scoop much and
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a construction site, you have to make sure that you wear a one of the best paying jobs for students during the summer. part of the world. In Canada, it seems like there's always
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construction. So, we use the word construction to talk about they beep. I'm sure they do that in your country as well
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built out outside. So, you can see in this picture, they are
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to build a new road. They're going to build a house That man
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Now, there are specific names for every type of construction
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worker and he definitely builds things. I would sing the song is going to build an apartment building. He's a rich man and under construction during the spring, summer, and fall. It's
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So, I, if I did need to build something, if I wanted to build but I thought I should do a lesson on construction. I
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It's very hard work but it pays well. So, when I was younger, I
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contractor. You can see guy has a white hard hat on generally
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wearing the white hat is the boss. That person is in charge. in the winter. It does still happen but usually in the
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worker and I'll talk about those later but the general we would just say that they make them in the factory.
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they were young, really liked watching Bob the Builder. If that does construction is usually called a contractor. the apartments. So, we use the verb to build quite a lot when under construction or drive slowly road ahead is under
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protection on the farm. Jen and I actually wear hearing are under construction. Okay, so you would say they're going
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common term when you talk about someone who works in the comes and I wanted to talk a little bit about the verb to building a house. That house is under construction and that or an apartment building or a skyscraper or a house, we call
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construction. So, in part of the world. I think because it's summer, especially we see a lot of signs like this that say refer to this as construction. I was laughing because as I was construction happening. People around the world like to build
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in a factory. Okay. So, if a factory makes ovens or stoves, road. They're doing a little bit of road work down the road. to talk about construction. I'm not sure what it's like in your
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thought I should talk about all of the words and phrases that
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anything that is being Okay, so, if someone is building a
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it construction. We don't use this to talk about things made we use in English when we talk about the world of starting, lesson. I could hear a truck backing up down the Hello and welcome to this English lesson where I'm going
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The road is under construction and when trucks back up here, have been building things for a long time and generally, we things. We like to build houses. We like to build apartment buildings. We like to build roads and bridges. People
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