Learn Everyday English for Heat Waves and Hot Days! ☀️🔥🌞 — Transcript

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1. 0:00Well, hello and welcome to this
2. 0:01English lesson about heat waves.
3. 0:04This is day one of a heat wave
4. 0:06here in Ontario, Canada.
5. 0:08Jen and I are not looking forward to it.
6. 0:10In fact, I'm outside this morning
7. 0:12at 10:30am in the shade
8. 0:14because it's already 29 degrees
9. 0:16and it's going to be 34 degrees
10. 0:18today and 35 degrees tomorrow.
11. 0:21If you don't know what a heat wave is,
12. 0:23a heat wave is when the temperature is
13. 0:25in the mid-30s during the day
14. 0:27and in the mid-20s at night.
15. 0:29And that's in Celsius, by the way.
16. 0:31So what we're looking at is
17. 0:33highs in the mid 30s during the day,
18. 0:35highs in the mid 20s tonight,
19. 0:37tomorrow, Thursday as well.
20. 0:39I think the heat wave is going to break.
21. 0:42When the heat wave breaks, it means
22. 0:44it ends sometime during market.
23. 0:46And, unfortunately, when heat waves end,
24. 0:49often there is a big storm as well.
25. 0:51So we really hope that either
26. 0:52happens sooner or later.
27. 0:54But anyways, welcome to this English
28. 0:56lesson about heat waves.
29. 0:57An extended period of time,
30. 0:59two or three days or more, where
31. 1:01it's just really, really hot.
32. 1:03In this lesson, I'll teach you some
33. 1:04more English phrases we use to talk
34. 1:06about heat waves and hot weather.
35. 1:08So I'm sitting here in the shade because
36. 1:10over there the sun is beating down.
37. 1:13In English, when you say the sun is
38. 1:15beating down, you're describing a day
39. 1:17where the sun is brighter than normal,
40. 1:19or it seems brighter than normal
41. 1:21and it seems hotter than normal.
42. 1:23I'm sitting here because
43. 1:24it's nice and cool.
44. 1:25I'm in the shade of this tree.
45. 1:27If I went over there where the sun is
46. 1:29beating down, I think I would overheat.
47. 1:32I think I would get really,
48. 1:33really hot really quickly.
49. 1:34So I think I'm going to stay here
50. 1:36instead of over there
51. 1:37where the sun is beating down.
52. 1:40Sometimes in English, we exaggerate
53. 1:42a bit to describe the heat.
54. 1:44And there's one English phrase that
55. 1:46I think is kind of funny, and it's
56. 1:47the phrase, it's so hot you
57. 1:49could fry an egg on the sidewalk.
58. 1:52Basically, what you're saying is if
59. 1:53you got an egg and you cracked it
60. 1:55onto the sidewalk, the egg would cook.
61. 1:58The egg would fry right
62. 1:59there on the sidewalk.
63. 2:01Now, this sidewalk isn't
64. 2:02actually that hot.
65. 2:03It is, again, an exaggeration,
66. 2:06although I have seen people actually do
67. 2:08it when it's like 37 or 40 degrees.
68. 2:11And if the sidewalk is black or a dark
69. 2:13color and gets really, really hot.
70. 2:16But if you want to exaggerate
71. 2:17a bit to describe the heat,
72. 2:18you could say it's so hot
73. 2:20out, you could fry an egg
74. 2:21on the sidewalk.
75. 2:23So there are two versions of this
76. 2:25next phrase to describe a hot day.
77. 2:27The first one is to say, it's
78. 2:28like an oven out there.
79. 2:30And the second one is to say,
80. 2:31it's like an oven out here.
81. 2:33Now, as you can probably tell, it
82. 2:35depends where you are standing.
83. 2:37If I come into the air conditioned
84. 2:39house and it's 36 degrees
85. 2:41Celsius outside, I could say to Jen,
86. 2:43it's like an oven out there.
87. 2:45But if I'm outside and it's 36
88. 2:47degrees Celsius, I could say
89. 2:48to Jen, if we're both outside,
90. 2:50wow, it's like an oven out here.
91. 2:52So again, similar to frying the egg
92. 2:55on the sidewalk, we talk about cooking
93. 2:57because cooking involves a lot of heat.
94. 2:59So when you talk about the outdoors,
95. 3:01sometimes you compare it
96. 3:02to an oven, the appliance that you use
97. 3:05to cook and bake things.
98. 3:06So right now it's actually not too bad.
99. 3:09But later today it's going to be
100. 3:11like an oven out here.
101. 3:13So sometimes when it's really hot
102. 3:15outside, it can also be very humid.
103. 3:17When we say it's humid, it means there's
104. 3:19a lot of water vapor in the air.
105. 3:21There's a lot of moisture
106. 3:22in the air and it makes it feel
107. 3:23hotter than it actually is.
108. 3:25And we have a fun English phrase
109. 3:27to describe this as well.
110. 3:28Sometimes we say it's like a sauna.
111. 3:31Now if you don't know what a sauna is, a
112. 3:33sauna is a room that people go in and
113. 3:36it's extra hot and there are like rocks
114. 3:38in the middle and they put water on the
115. 3:40rocks to create water vapor and steam.
116. 3:43So the room is very steamy, it's very
117. 3:45hot and it makes you sweat a lot.
118. 3:47I don't really like going in saunas.
119. 3:49Sometimes when you go to a hotel
120. 3:51in Ontario, Canada, they might have
121. 3:53a sauna, but I don't really enjoy them.
122. 3:55I know some people do, but when
123. 3:58it's a day like this, when
124. 3:59the temperature is really high and when
125. 4:01the humidity is really high,
126. 4:02sometimes we say it's like a sauna.
127. 4:06So even though it's a heat wave, later
128. 4:08today I will be working outside.
129. 4:10There are a lot of jobs that need
130. 4:12to be done on the farm.
131. 4:13So I will be working outside and I
132. 4:15will definitely be sweating buckets.
133. 4:17When you say that you are
134. 4:19sweating buckets, it means
135. 4:20you are sweating a lot.
136. 4:21And I think you know what sweating is.
137. 4:23When it's hot out, or when you exercise
138. 4:26or when you work in hot weather.
139. 4:27Your body releases water from your skin
140. 4:30and it's meant to help cool you off.
141. 4:32Although if it's really humid outside,
142. 4:34it doesn't work perfectly.
143. 4:36But the English phrase we use,
144. 4:38and it's kind of a humorous one, is
145. 4:40to say, I'm sweating buckets.
146. 4:41It's so hot outside
147. 4:43that I'm sweating buckets.
148. 4:45Literally saying that you're
149. 4:46sweating so much you could fill a pail
150. 4:48or a bucket with your sweat.
151. 4:50That's a little bit gross.
152. 4:51So later today I'm going to work
153. 4:53outside, I'm going to drink a lot
154. 4:56of water and I'm definitely
155. 4:57going to be sweating buckets.
156. 5:00So there are three words
157. 5:01that I use quite regularly
158. 5:03to describe hot weather,
159. 5:04especially if I'm outside in the hot
160. 5:06weather or working in the hot weather.
161. 5:08I would probably say it's brutal.
162. 5:10The heat is brutal.
163. 5:12I might say the heat is unbearable,
164. 5:15or I might say the heat is relentless.
165. 5:18So when we say it's brutal, when
166. 5:20we say the heat is brutal, we mean
167. 5:21it's like it's forcefully hot.
168. 5:24It's so hot that you can't think
169. 5:26about anything else except
170. 5:27the fact that you're hot and it's
171. 5:29taking all of your energy.
172. 5:31When we say the heat is unbearable,
173. 5:33it means that we can't
174. 5:35stay out in it for very long.
175. 5:37We need to go in the shade
176. 5:38and drink lots of water because
177. 5:40the heat is unbearable.
178. 5:41It's something that's hard to bear.
179. 5:44And when we say it's relentless, it
180. 5:46means it doesn't end like it gets hot
181. 5:48by 11am and it will stay hot till
182. 5:5110 or 11 o' clock at night.
183. 5:53It is relentless.
184. 5:55So three words we use
185. 5:56to describe a hot day.
186. 5:58We might say it's brutal.
187. 5:59The heat is brutal, the heat is
188. 6:02unbearable, or the heat is relentless.
189. 6:05So as soon as you take an ice cube out
190. 6:07of the freezer, it will start to melt.
191. 6:09It will turn from a solid to a liquid.
192. 6:12Instead of having an ice
193. 6:13cube, you'll have water.
194. 6:15And we sometimes use this
195. 6:16to describe a hot day as well.
196. 6:18By saying, I'm melting, or it's
197. 6:21so hot outside, I'm melting.
198. 6:23Now, you're not literally melting,
199. 6:25but if you think about an ice cube, as
200. 6:27soon as it gets hot, it starts
201. 6:29to turn to liquid, it turns to water.
202. 6:32When I'm outside, sometimes I feel
203. 6:34like the heat is doing the same thing
204. 6:36to me and I might say I'm melting.
205. 6:39Well, hey, thank you so much
206. 6:40for watching this English lesson
207. 6:41about heat waves and hot days.
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214. 6:52Anyways, I hope you can use some of these new
215. 6:53words and phrases in a future English
216. 6:55conversation, and I'll see you next
217. 6:57week with another English lesson.
218. 6:59Bye.