Learn English Vocabulary for Everyday Life: On the Farm - Daily English Conversation — Transcript

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1. 0:00[Music]
2. 0:02English-speaking course
3. 0:03[Music]
4. 0:10hello
5. 0:11I'm Bill nice to meet you
6. 0:14oh hi I'm Ellie this is my friend Linda
7. 0:19nice to meet you
8. 0:22glad to see you too
9. 0:25look this cat is so cute is it yours
10. 0:29well it's the farm cat he's been here
11. 0:33for five years already
12. 0:43Jesus this field is so big what is the
13. 0:47machine next to the Tractor over there
14. 0:50it's a snow blower a big helper during
15. 0:54winter time
16. 0:55[Music]
17. 0:57Megan here
18. 1:00she always have big crops to harvest
19. 1:02don't you
20. 1:04well we have wheat barley
21. 1:09potatoes and sugar beets
22. 1:14OMG a huge sunflower field
23. 1:16[Music]
24. 1:18look there's a girl harvesting
25. 1:20sunflowers
26. 1:22that's May after harvesting she will cut
27. 1:26those beautiful sunflowers and put them
28. 1:29into bouquets
29. 1:31what do you do with the soil after
30. 1:33harvesting till it and clear all the
31. 1:36crop residue
32. 1:38yeah
33. 1:41and sometimes we mix manure with the
34. 1:44soil to fertilize the soil
35. 1:47[Music]
36. 1:50we put manure around fruit trees and
37. 1:54this is one of the best natural
38. 1:56fertilizers for them
39. 2:00oh they're dipping ripe strawberries and
40. 2:02putting them into those baskets
41. 2:05yeah and later we'll separate out the
42. 2:09damaged berries and store them in Cold
43. 2:13Storage
44. 2:19the market
45. 2:22yes and we also use them to bring food
46. 2:25to feed animals
47. 2:28you can see on your left side over the
48. 2:31fence is the pasture
49. 2:35there's a flock of sheep grazing there
50. 2:39so where do you keep the livestock
51. 2:42oh there
52. 2:45we keep animals in this barn and keep
53. 2:48feed for them in this silo
54. 2:52near The Silo you can see a river
55. 2:55which is the main source of water on our
56. 2:58farm
57. 3:04isn't this Barn too big for all the
58. 3:06Sheep on the pasture
59. 3:09oh we have other cattle here
60. 3:12there are goats horses and dairy cows
61. 3:18oh it's almost noon now let's go back
62. 3:21and have something for lunch we'll come
63. 3:24back here after lunch time
64. 3:35okay so here are the harvested
65. 3:37sunflowers from this morning
66. 3:40we're gonna trim the sunflowers then
67. 3:43wrap them in newspaper
68. 3:46can I try
69. 3:48sure I'll show you how
70. 3:51you fold the newspaper like this and
71. 3:54then put sunflowers on it
72. 3:57now wrap it tightly and tie it with the
73. 4:00yarn
74. 4:02Jesus I'm too clumsy for this I can only
75. 4:05do this much though
76. 4:07you're kidding right this looks
77. 4:10beautiful actually
78. 4:12it looks like you've done this thousands
79. 4:15of times before how wonderful
80. 4:19thank you
81. 4:21Ally's got a thing about these things
82. 4:23she's an estate
83. 4:24[Music]
84. 4:26okay so what's next
85. 4:29let's go Shear the Sheep now
86. 4:34buy the pickup truck outside
87. 4:37that's right
88. 4:38[Music]
89. 4:43oh this is a sheet Barn isn't it
90. 4:47yes it is
91. 4:48sheep on our farm are sheared once a
92. 4:51year
93. 4:53hello so in what month do you shear
94. 4:56sheep
95. 4:57the best time of the year to Shear your
96. 5:00sheep is in early spring
97. 5:03before the lambing season starts and the
98. 5:06hot summer weather sets in
99. 5:09how am I gonna do that
100. 5:12let me show you
101. 5:16[Music]
102. 5:17let me try
103. 5:21okay now we're gonna get milk from these
104. 5:24dairy cows in the milking station over
105. 5:27there
106. 5:29[Music]
107. 5:31cows on our farm are milked two to three
108. 5:34times a day
109. 5:36how am I gonna do that
110. 5:39look they all have four teats at the end
111. 5:42of their utter
112. 5:44what you're gonna do is hold then
113. 5:48squeeze the Udders to get the milk like
114. 5:52this
115. 5:54oh all right this is much harder than I
116. 5:57thought
117. 5:59you know what I give up my hands are
118. 6:01getting weak
119. 6:03look we got a big bucket of fresh cow
120. 6:06milk
121. 6:08wait I can hear chicks chirping and
122. 6:10Ducks quacking somewhere
123. 6:13oh chickens and geese we don't have
124. 6:17Ducks here
125. 6:19do you guys want to get chicken and
126. 6:21goose eggs
127. 6:23sure
128. 6:29look at that rooster over there Linda it
129. 6:32has a big crown on its head
130. 6:34you're right and I think that's the
131. 6:36biggest rooster here oh some excellent
132. 6:40Brown freckles on them look how cute
133. 6:42they are Ellie
134. 6:43this is much easier than milk and cows I
135. 6:47swear
136. 6:48OMG look at that goose egg it's huge I'm
137. 6:52gonna get it
138. 6:53wait no Ellie its bomb is right next to
139. 6:57it
140. 6:59ah no that crazy goose is attacking me
141. 7:02shoot go away back off
142. 7:07don't worry Ellie I'm gonna catch it
143. 7:11oh gosh all right everything's good now
144. 7:15you can come down here
145. 7:18Jesus you jump on the tree like a monkey
146. 7:22[Music]
147. 7:23if I didn't jump on that tree that goose
148. 7:26would have killed me
149. 7:26[Music]
150. 7:28it became aggressive because you took
151. 7:30its egg from her
152. 7:31[Music]
153. 7:32sometimes they get angry but it's all
154. 7:35right now
155. 7:36are you hurt
156. 7:38oh I'm just scared but I feel okay now
157. 7:42well let's do something less scary now
158. 7:47I'm gonna take you to our biggest
159. 7:49strawberry garden
160. 7:51[Music]
161. 7:54this time is the June bearing strawberry
162. 7:58harvest season
163. 8:00we have about three weeks to collect all
164. 8:03the ripe ones
165. 8:05can you show me how to harvest
166. 8:07strawberries
167. 8:10you grasp the stem then pinch it off
168. 8:13about an inch above the green cap
169. 8:17remember to pick strawberries at their
170. 8:20Peak ripeness
171. 8:22how am I supposed to know that though
172. 8:24[Music]
173. 8:26oh you look at the berry
174. 8:29the fully ripe ones have a deep shade of
175. 8:32red without any green or white coloring
176. 8:37okay I got it
177. 8:44[Music]
178. 8:47how do you guys feel is it an exhausting
179. 8:50day to you
180. 8:52oh I'm a bit tired and it was
181. 8:54interesting at the same time
182. 8:56[Music]
183. 8:57true and I thought I would die because
184. 8:59of the goose this afternoon
185. 9:02oh that's so funny Ellie oh I took a
186. 9:06picture of you
187. 9:07being chased by that goose let me show
188. 9:10you
189. 9:11Jesus Linda it was terrifying not gonna
190. 9:15lie
191. 9:16but it's an unforgettable memory though
192. 9:20oh for dinner we'll have seared Goose
193. 9:23breasts
194. 9:25I bet both of you gonna love it
195. 9:28wow sounds nice
196. 9:31this is May she's the best cook of all
197. 9:35time
198. 9:36your flattering with Bill
199. 9:39let us help you with that
200. 9:42oh thank you
201. 9:45oh you have a lot of cheese here
202. 9:49yeah it's the homemade cheese I made
203. 9:51from cow milk on our farm
204. 9:54really wow I bet it tastes better than
205. 9:57any kinds of cheese you've tried before
206. 9:59Ellie
207. 10:01you sure
208. 10:05oh my God it's true
209. 10:08now I know why Bill said you're the best
210. 10:10cook here
211. 10:12I'm glad you like it
212. 10:14[Music]
213. 10:15oh may also made strawberry cakes for
214. 10:18dessert
215. 10:20they're always my favorite
216. 10:23yeah I made them from the strawberries
217. 10:26you collected this afternoon on our farm
218. 10:29really can't wait to try that
219. 10:36this is amazing
220. 10:39everything is so fresh and you can make
221. 10:41everything on your own
222. 10:45thank you
223. 10:48vocabulary highlight Farm vocabulary
224. 10:52number one snow blower machine that
225. 10:55clears fall and Snow by blowing it to
226. 10:57the side
227. 10:59number two wagon vehicle used for
228. 11:02transporting goods
229. 11:05number three to till prepare the Earth
230. 11:08and work on it in order to grow crops
231. 11:11number four livestock animals kept or
232. 11:15raised for use
233. 11:17number five pickup truck truck with
234. 11:20enclosed cabin to deliver Goods
235. 11:24number six sheep shearing the act or
236. 11:27occasion of cutting the wool of a sheep
237. 11:31number seven to harvest to gather crops
238. 11:35number eight Hen House a small shed for
239. 11:39keeping chickens in
240. 11:41number nine geese Coupe Acadia pen for
241. 11:45confining geese
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