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well hello I hope everyone's having a

good day I hope you're ready to learn

some English words and phrases about

tools I'll explain why I chose this

topic in just a little bit but uh we'll

get started in 34 seconds hopefully

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who knows four 3 2 1 well hello and

welcome to this English lesson about

tools tools are the things that we use

as human beings to make things or to fix

things tools are just really really

handy I hope you have some small tools

at home hopefully you at least have a

screwdriver and a wrench and uh a hammer

uh so that when something is broken or

when you need to put something together

you have the tools that you need to do

that in this lesson I will talk about

the names of all the tools the

vocabulary that you need to know but I'm

also going to talk about what verbs you

use with each of these tools you know

when you use a screwdriver you use it to

tighten or loosen a screw and so it's

important not just to know the name of

the tool but also the actions that go

with the tool so welcome to this English

lesson about tools and the verbs that go

with them well hey how's everybody doing

I hope you're having a good time hello

to all of the familiar faces in the chat

LLY LLY know that Arya Bost ho farbor

miy ke Park uh hockey Freddy wolf um who

did did I say LLY LLY already John wedge

Ralph uh it's good to see all of you

it's good to see all of you in the chat

Michael is here wand pra VOR Deni I'm

sure rand's in there somewhere um good

to see everybody if I forgot your name

uh sorry about that so A lesson about

tools and some of you know that my

lesson ideas come from my life so this

past week I've been working um not sure

how well you could see that photo but

I've been working on putting pavers down

uh by the front entrance of our house so

I'm about a third of the way I hope to

finish this today after the live stream

right now it's Shady there till about

1:00 that area is Shady so I hope to get

it done while it's still Shady my son

and I put down Co Stone and then we're

putting down a finer Stone and then

laying pavers on top of it so I'll I'll

give you a picture of it when it's

totally done uh but for now that is what

I am working on um anyways some details

please use the chat to have fun English

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then uh please as you're listening try

to think and picture not just the tool

but the action so if I'm talking about a

hammer try to picture the action that's

happening as well anyways good to see

all of you um 41 words in this lesson 40

words so we better get started it'll

take almost the full hour with questions

so here we

go toolbox I thought I would start with

this one a toolbox is a great thing to

have you can use it to store your tools

you can use it to keep your tools in the

same place I actually have multiple tool

boxes I don't use them very well though

often when I use my tools I forget to

put them in the toolbox or put them back

in the toolbox but a toolbox is a very

handy thing to have it's very useful um

you can even lock some of them um

anyways I was saying I have multiples I

have one toolbox for my screwdrivers

another toolbox for wrenches

but as I said I'm not that good at

keeping my tools in the tool boxes

they're usually kind of left in the

places where I most recently worked but

you would use a toolbox to keep your

tools or to store your

tools a hammer so I thought I'd start

start with one of the most obvious tools

a hammer is used to hammer things so the

noun and the verb are the same or to hit

things or to pound things so if I have a

nail I can Hammer the nail into a piece

of wood I can hit the nail into the

piece of wood or I can pound the nail

when you use pound it kind of you saw my

arm go further it's like you're really

hitting the nail but a hammer is a tool

and it actually has two ends this type

of hammer the one end is used to hit a

nail the other end is used to pry a nail

out after sure you put it in probably

one of the most common tools I hope all

of you have a hammer

somewhere there's also something called

a sledgehammer let me say that again a

sledgehammer sledg Hammer it's used to

smash or pound things you wouldn't use a

sledgehammer to put in Nails it's just

too big a sledgehammer is very very

heavy and a sledgehammer is used for

instance you could pound found a post

into the ground um notice I'm using two

hands now if I'm using a smaller hammer

or a bigger

Sledgehammer uh I'm definitely going to

use two hands you can use it to smash

things let's say there's a wall in your

house and you don't want it anymore you

could use a sledgehammer to smash that

wall you could use it to get rid of that

wall I actually have this I just got

this yesterday this is a type of hammer

but it's called a rubber mallet um I

need this to kind of help put the pavers

in place the patio stones that I'm

putting down so that is a mallet kind of

another word for a type of

hammer Jackhammer so I've run a

jackhammer before um a jackhammer is a

um basically a mechanical hammer it has

an airline if that's the type you're

using and it goes

like hopefully that's not too loud for

you a jackhammer is used to demolish or

to break things you would never build

something with a jackhammer you use a

jackhammer let's say you had a sidewalk

and it was tilted and cracked you might

use a jackhammer to break the sidewalk

or to demolish the sidewalk so that you

can remove it but a jackhammer is

definitely in English we would say say

not for the faint of heart it's very

loud and it's very hard to control I've

used small jackhammers and large

jackhammers in my

life a saw so a saw can use can be used

to saw something you can saw a board in

half or you can cut a board in half a

saw is of course something it's a piece

of metal with all little Jagged teeth

and it goes

V when you cut so you can see this

gentleman here here he is deciding to

saw this board in half or to cut this

board in half obviously he needs it a

certain length so he's decided to cut

the board in

half then of course most of us just use

a power saw um we sometimes call this a

circular saw and you use this to saw or

to cut or to rip

so let me give you the difference

between cut and rip if I have a board

and I go like

this that's to cut but if I go this way

along the long side of the board that's

to rip you don't often rip a board with

a handsaw it takes a very long time um

but mostly we would just use the verb to

cut hey Bob can you cut me a piece of

wood uh that is 130 cm long could you

please cut me a piece of wood that is 3T

long by the way those aren't the same

130 CM isn't Tre feet but yes definitely

a power saw or circular saw is used to

cut things a hacks saww so we use this

to saw and to cut as well but usually we

use a hacksaw to cut pipe or maybe to

cut metal you wouldn't use this to cut

wood the teeth are very very tiny on a

hacksaw the only time I use a hacksaw is

to cut pipe so if you have a long pipe I

would use a haacks saww to cut the pipe

in half and of course you can saw the

pipe in half as

well and then a chainsaw so a

chainsaw you there's a like you pull it

to start it it's

like you use a chainsaw to chop down or

to cut down trees or simply to cut

things you don't usually use it to cut

wood or Lumber that you know you don't

have a piece of lumber and use a

chainsaw you use it usually

outside and you use it either to chop

down a tree to cut down a tree or to cut

logs um you don't use it for regular

wood um notice even though it's not an

axe we still say to chop down I'm going

to use the chainsaw to chop down a tree

and then when the tree starts to fall

you're supposed to yell timber

as the tree is falling down to warn

people that the tree is

falling so we talked about this in the

lesson about measurements a few weeks

ago this is either called a tape measure

or a measuring tape both names are

equally used and you use it to measure

things so if I needed a piece of wood I

actually did this yesterday Jen needed a

piece of wood to attach to our Market

canopy and it needed to be about 8 ft

long and so I used a tape measure to

measure a piece of wood I used a

measuring tape to measure a piece of

wood and then I cut it so it was exactly

the right

length a planer I don't ever use one of

these uh this is used to plain or to

smooth wood so if you have a piece of

wood and it's not perfectly smooth you

would use a planer to remove a really

small slice of wood so if there was a

piece of wood like this you would use a

planer to remove the pieces that were a

little bit too tall you would use it to

plain the wood or to smooth the

wood and then a screwdriver this is

probably next to the Hammer Hammer and

screwdriver are probably the two most

common tools this is used to tighten a

screw or to loosen a screw or simply to

turn a screw um by the way in English we

say righty tidy Lefty Loosey so it's a a

little thing you can remember so you

know which way to turn a screwdriver or

a wrench so righty tidy means if you

turn it to the right the screw will get

tighter if you turn it to the left it

will get looser so you use a screwdriver

to tighten to loosen or to turn you

could even

say you use it to put in screws you

could use the verb to put in I'm going

to use the screwdriver to put in some

screws that would be very common as well

um but yes I'm sure you have multiple

screwdrivers they have different tips in

uh my part of the world we call this

type of screwdriver a Phillips we have

Phillips and Flathead and Robertson

those are the three most common kind I

think the Robert Robertson screwdriver

is very common in Canada it's the square

tip

but yes

screwdriver and then wrench a wrench is

similar in the sense that you use it to

tighten and loosen things but you use it

to tighten and loosen bolts and nuts so

you have a bolt and then you put a nut

on the end and you turn the nut and you

can use a wrench to tighten that nut or

you can use it to loosen that nut as

well so you put one wrench on the bolt

head put the other wrench on the nut and

you turn it until it's super super tight

um my friend gave me a set of wrenches

for my birthday this year very nice I

was very happy with that gift very

cool uh hey let's do some questions

they're not showing up on the screen I'm

not sure why let me just check something

for a sec there they are let me get the

first question on the screen after I

have a sip of

water let's see here here we go from

Denny

wait no it's from know that my bad hello

Bob do you have a separate area for your

tools like a workshop with a workbench

vices Etc where you store them or where

do you usually keep them thanks Bob so I

will I will make a video of this at some

point in my machine shed what we also

call the drive shed that really big

building close to the road where I have

my tractors um I do have a workshop with

workbenches

now my son also uses that he runs a

lawnmowing business so he has all his

tools and I have all my tools we try not

to get them mixed up if we if I use his

tools I make sure I put them back but

yes I definitely have a vice an anvil

three workbenches it's a very nice place

to work and that's where I try to keep

all my tools I try to keep them all

there from Den hello Bob what's the

weirdest tool you've ever used what tool

tools of your trade as a teacher might

be useful in farming so the weirdest

tool I own is probably something called

a gear puller so a gear puller it has um

like three arms and you put it onto a

pulley or gear and then you tighten the

other end and it pulls it off the shaft

it's pretty technical description there

U what tools uh anything that measures

so teachers use rulers and measuring

tapes and on the Farm we use rulers and

measuring tapes as

well from rousin hello dear teacher Bob

how are you today I'm good rousin what

is your favorite tool kit brand have a

sunny weekend sir so I have

Mastercraft I have husky um I have

Craftsman it doesn't matter to me as

long as it's not cheap I don't like

cheap tools I tend to break cheap tools

um so those are the name brands in

Canada I also have a DeWalt cordless

drill very very very very nice

tool from Young hi Bob did you ever

build a tree house when you were a child

with your father does Canada have this

tradition like in the United

States I built a fort or not like a fort

and Treehouse are similar a fort's like

a little fun place to play um my dad and

I built a fort in the barn once above

love um the area where we prepared feed

for the cows I had a little fort up

there with a radio in it um but I did

build a treehouse with my cousins when I

was older um is it a tradition I know if

you have trees you might build a tree

fort at some point in time but uh I

wouldn't say it's a uh a super common

tradition many people do it though yes

for sure Lucas says hey Bob October Fest

takes place again in over one month do

you like it have you attended I have not

really like I've been to an Ontario

version I have not been to Germany to

experience it uh from Ram hi Bob not

only French teacher but also wrench

teacher are you familiar with the phrase

bike shed when you over dispute

unimportant details no I'm not familiar

with that phrase at all um but uh yes I

am I would like to say I'm handy with

tools but it's

more yeah I'm I I I get by with

tools from M hello Bob I hope you're

doing well as you seem to be I am do you

call them gadgets are tools and what is

the difference between them so a tool is

something like a screwdriver or a hammer

or a wrench a gadget is

more yeah is a little more complex like

when I talked about the gear puller the

tool I have to pull a gear or pulley

that's more of a gadget when it has

moving parts and it does one specific

task um I would say maybe but usually

tool we usually do uh Tool uh use tool

as the word from Peter good morning Mr

Bob how are you today I'm very excited

to watch your live stream today also

your topic is wonderful no question

thank you have a nice day I hope you do

too uh let's see

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here I don't know William how many tools

do you have in your home so we have

tools in the house we have a small set

of tools in the house you know a small

Hammer screwdrivers those kinds of

things um and then hundreds of tools

there are tools here from when my

parents own the farm so there's just

definitely tools

everywhere posum pibble says hi Bob the

bathroom light doesn't work there is

electricity in the house but I think

there is no electric current going to

the bathroom light how can I fix this

safely

fix it very very safely the first thing

you should get um is you should the

first thing you should get is you should

find something that detects whether

there is electricity in the socket or

Outlet before you work on it and then

make sure you turn off the breaker or

remove the fuse to that socket uh and

then I would just have a look once you

know how to do it safely make sure

there's no electricity there

um from tagal hello dear teacher Bob no

questions today just want to say I

really love sound effects done by you I

should work on them more um I maybe I

that's what I should do I should take a

class and become a professional uh sound

effects Creator maybe that's my uh maybe

that's my future hey we're going to get

back to the lesson after I have a sip of

water it's funny because kesar in the

chat says I'm positive that this is not

live it's it's just a pre-recorded video

no it's not a pre-recorded video in fact

um if you look here I'll show you if you

look here it is currently

8:49 oh they won't stay on the

screen

8:49 uh amm Eastern Standard Time August

16

2024 um the Olympics ended last week by

the way thanks to all of you from France

for hosting the Olympics um

but yeah this is definitely live kesar

um John wedge says gear pulley is very

handy to take off bearings yes it I like

that tool it is a handy tool okay let's

get back to the

lesson pipe wrench so this is a a wrench

that's adjustable you can spin part of

it to open and close it and you can use

it to tighten pipes when you put one

pipe into a fitting

you'll use a pipe wrench to tighten that

so you use this once again to tighten or

to loosen something and in this case a

pipe wrench is used to tighten and

loosen pipes um and I did forget to

mention there is something called an

adjustable wrench I don't have a picture

of that that's a handy uh wrench to have

as well because you can you can open and

close it so it's the right size but a

pipe wrench is used to tighten and to

loosen

pipes a crowbar so I think this has a

lot of different names I call it a

crowbar it's also called a pry bar it is

used to pry things if you had two pieces

of wood that were nailed together and

you wanted to get them apart you would

try to put the end of the pry bar

between them and then you would pry

that's the English verb we use you would

move the bar and pop open or separate

those two pieces of wood a very handy

tool to have generally when it has the

curved end I call it a crowbar if it's

just a bar um like the one I showed you

in my picture that's leaning against the

wall can we get back to that real fast

let's see how fast so you see that red

handled thing leaning against the wall

that's a pry bar um or what I would call

a pry bar whoa went too far bolt cutters

so you were asking about tools that

teachers and farmers use so at school we

have a set of bolt cutters in case a

student forgets the combination to their

lock or if someone puts the wrong lock

on a locker we use a bolt cutter to cut

the lock off but generally a bolt cutter

is used to cut actually you can cut wire

like metal wire or bolts or locks with

it and we just simply use to cut you

might say to snip you might use the bolt

cutters to snip some wire but uh

definitely a handy tool to have when you

squeeze the end of the bolt cutter um it

puts

enormous uh pressure on where the end is

closing like when you squeeze the one

end because of all the little lever

mechanisms it really uh cuts through a

lot of stuff yes a clamp a clamp is used

to clamp things or to hold things so if

you like making things out of wood and

you need to glue them together so you

put glue

like you put glue on and then you put

the two pieces of wood together you then

need to clamp them as the glue dries you

put on a clamp to hold the wood together

or you can say you clamp the wood

together so very handy tool to have you

can see that you can spin the end and it

closes and opens or you could say it

tightens and loosens as

well and this is a utility

knife just in the chat I see keevan say

oh I really thought it was pre-recorded

too but thank you anyway you're awesome

yes it's definitely not pre-recorded uh

this this is the real thing uh let's get

back though oh no that says your

students get the locks provided they are

provided

um but sometimes students will bring

their own and then um if the school

doesn't uh own the lock we can't figure

out how to open it if we own the lock we

have all the combinations we look at the

serial number but

yeah a utility knife so a utility knife

is interesting generally it has a

retractable blade so if you look at this

utility knife there's a little thing on

top you can slide and then the blade

will go in and out this is for safety

you use a utility knife uh to cut things

to carve things to scrape things there

are a lot of uses for a utility knife um

and then usually inside there's extra

blades so if you open it up there's a

little storage compartment where you can

have extra blades but a utility knife is

super handy you can use it to cut rope

you can use it to um cut little zip ties

off of things you can use it for many

many things and usually it has a

retractable blade for safety so when

you're done using it you can put the

blade back inside and then uh no one

will injure themselves safety glasses

hearing protection work gloves these are

all things that we wear to protect

ourselves so when you are doing um any

kind of work you want to protect your

you will wear goggles safety goggles or

safety glasses in fact on this

screen on the white background those are

safety goggles and on the blue

background I would call these safety

glasses these are things we wear to

protect our eyes when you're cutting or

grinding or snipping uh things can fly

at your face and you don't want

something to go in your eye so wear

safety glasses to protect your

eyes similarly when you are working with

uh different kinds of tools Power Tools

in particular it can be very loud and

you will wear some kind of hearing

protection don't have mine here I wear

the little tiny ones that you can put in

your ear but you can also wear these

large ones you wear these to protect

your hearing so you wear these to

protect your eyes and your eyesight you

wear these to protect your not really

your ears but your hearing you use those

to protect your hearing because

sometimes when you're cutting a piece of

wood with a power saw it's so loud it

can damage or hurt your ears and then

work gloves I always wear work gloves

when I was younger I didn't but it's

very common if you see me working on

something to see me wearing safety

glasses sometimes it I'm just wearing my

reading glasses as safety glasses

because it's hard for me to see close up

I'm usually wearing some kind of hearing

protection if it's loud and then gloves

because the last thing I want to have

happen is I don't want to hurt my hands

while I'm working on something I do not

enjoy that so you need to protect

yourself I also wear knee pads right now

when I'm laying pavers but I don't have

a picture of

those uh a square so a square is used to

square things up what I mean by this is

if you have a piece of wood and another

piece of wood where they come together

you want this to be a 90° angle

sometimes and in order to do that you

use what's called a square so you put a

square in the corner and then you know

it's a perfect 90° angle and then you

can nail it or screw it together we we

also use a square to Mark a piece of

wood before we cut it so if I have a

piece of wood I can lay the square

across and then draw a line so that I

can make sure I'm creating a 90° cut so

I should have added that you can use a

square to square up two pieces of wood

or to Mark a piece of wood with a pencil

so you know where to cut

it pliers very handy the this uh set of

pliers is actually called needlenose

pliers you use these to squeeze to twist

to tighten to loosen to cut Pliers are

very very handy I love a good pair of

pliers you can use a pair of pliers like

this to squeeze something together so

the ends come you can squeeze something

together you can twist something with

them you can if you have two wires you

can put the pliers on and then you can

twist the wires you can tighten

something you can loosen and then

there's actually a tiny little this pair

of pliers has a little cutting area

right at the base of most pairs of

pliers you can cut string or wire pliers

very very handy and similar to scissors

it's pliers um we always use the

plural um so you you can have a pair of

scissors a pair of pliers um etc etc and

a pair of pruners by the way um we use

pruners to prune to snip and to cut and

we use these for plants Jen uses pruners

to cut flowers I use pruners to prune my

trees you can use pruners to snip weeds

off in the garden although you should

pull them out by the roots but pruners

um look similar to pliers but they are

made like it's sharp the edge of a

pruner is very sharp it's made to cut

things to snip things to prune things

very handy be careful when you use

pruners wear

gloves ratchet so ratchets are cool this

ratchet has a socket on the end you

would put the socket onto a nut and then

a ratchet is neat because when you turn

one way it

goes and when you turn the other way it

tightens I'm not making a very good

ratchet sound and then you can flip a

little

switch and then it goes was the opposite

which way was I going before I can't

remember but now it will

loosen so it has a mechanism inside that

allows it to turn one way and then not

the other way I hopefully that made some

sense it is used in the same situation

as a wrench but sometimes it's just

handier to use a ratchet to tighten or

to loosen bolts and nuts so again you

put a socket on the end you find the

right side socket maybe you need a 12 mm

socket you put it on the end of the

ratchet use it to tighten and to loosen

bolts and then a chisel a chisel is used

for many things you can use it to Chisel

to carve to chip um so for instance if

you had a block of wood and you wanted

to make uh turn it into an owl you could

use a chisel with a hammer or just by

hand to kind of carve that wood if you

had a piece of stone you could chip

pieces of the stone off with a hammer

and chisel to make it a different shape

so you can use the verb to Chisel to

carve to chip whenever you are using a

chisel hey let's do members only chat

let me get a sip of water Ralph says now

I understand the meaning of the gear in

Ratchet and Clank oh yeah there you

go for

sure um

William says I like this class because

I'm learning new tools it's different to

my country new tools thanks for that Bob

yeah no problem uh let me get the

members only chat turned

on uh where do we go here and I just

want to say hi to the 266 people who are

currently watching that is awesome you

do not need to leave members only chat

is about 10 minutes long if you are a

member you can ask a question directly

in the chat and I will answer it and I

will also continue to answer tool

related questions from the question form

although this first one is not tool

related but I'll still put it up here uh

it says let me see

here from Anakin hi Bob have a good day

do you know what's the difference

between Cuisine and dish so I use

Cuisine to talk about a certain type of

food like do you like French cuisine um

and I don't use dish like dish I would

use more like um

yeah I don't use the word dish a lot

like it's a yummy dish like oh my mom

made stew and it was a yummy dish that's

how you would use that but I don't often

use the word dish to be honest know that

in the chat me Members chat when it

comes to fixing things on your farm or

in your house which do you prefer to do

Bob the ones in your house or on your

farm I think I like the farm ones better

um there are things I like to do and

things I don't like to do in the house

and outside I don't mind working with

wood or pavers or stone or gravel I

don't mind doing electrical work I

understand electricity I do not like

doing Plumbing like pipes and water and

water pressure that that doesn't

interest me like I I call a plumber if I

have a problem with that so definitely

Farm though I like outside I like fixing

things like if Jen needs a new door on

the chicken Coupe I like that kind of

work I can do that John wedge hello Bob

no question today just having fun with

your sound effects awesome uh Anna

takaha says thank you for the helpful

class I'm listening to you while washing

my plates very good you're multitasking

maranto is here good to see you maranto

hello he says Wanda says Hi teacher Bob

do you have special tools to fix your

car thank you that is another thing I do

not really do myself I will change

windshield WI ERS I will change

headlights um but everything else I have

done at a garage including like if I had

a flat tire I would put on a spare tire

or get the tire fixed but uh generally

I'm I'm

not like I could learn how to do it but

it doesn't interest me it's easier just

to get it fixed by someone John wedge

says don't forget to give a thumbs up

folks yes thank you for that John uh LLY

do you allow your children to use your

tools yes but they know they are

supposed to put the tool back but we all

uh sometimes forget to do that so uh yes

they are allowed to use the tools in

fact it's encouraged I like it when kids

learn to fix things know that says have

you ever had a project where after you

started it you reached the limits of

your craftsmanship and had to call in a

company/

professional Yes actually I installed a

new stove top uh probably over 10 years

ago now I removed the old stove top um I

found the breaker in the basement I made

sure the electricity was off as I

mentioned earlier I removed the old

stovetop I installed a new one and I did

everything but I still had an

electrician come to check to make sure I

did it right because it's electrical

it's not gas or propane it's and so I

thought I and so he came and said

everything was good and he still charged

me $50 but that was fine it was worth

knowing I had done it right

um Freddy wolf Bob I'm pretty sure you

will soon have a phone call from a movie

director who wants to hire you for

making the sound effects of his next

Blockbuster I'm not sure we'll see know

that just a little fun question which

repair tasks are more likely to cause

you to get injured except for sinks

anytime I pry

something sometimes when you are prying

something with a crowbar or pry bar the

end will pop out and then this hand

might get smashed against the wall so

anytime I'm like exerting a lot of force

with a pry bar or even pulling a nail

out with a hammer that's when I'm most

likely to get injured that's why I

always wear gloves uh from LLY loly

thanks for your answer Bob no problem

Ralph the chainsaw was indeed close to

an original motor well done yeah

chainsaws there there's even more safety

equipment for chainsaws there's a visor

there's um special pants you can wear

that will stop the chainsaw from cutting

you um it's important to wear protective

gear when using a chainsaw Michael hello

Bob do you know how to weld I learned

stick welding in a bit from a pipeline

crew that camped on our farm once by the

way what's the difference between a

farmer and welder the welder knows he

can't

farm so yes I do know how to weld I do

own a welder I haven't used it for a

long time if I have any welding to do

and if it's portable I go and have and

see if Jen's dad can do it he's a very

good welder know that when you were

studying back then Bob did you know that

you would work in construction during

the semester breaks or was that a

spontaneous decision of yours when I was

16 I got a job a summer job doing

construction and I worked for that

person for a few Summers and then I

worked for my uncle for a few Summers it

was the best paying job where you could

get the most hours as a summer like as a

student worker so I could work N9 and 1

half hours a day and I could work

Saturdays and that's so there was lots

of work I was good at it my uncle had a

business and a friend of mine worked for

someone so initially I worked for the

same boss as my friend it wasn't

spontaneous it was very calculated I

paid like $3 an hour more than any other

job Freddy Wolf by the way the par

Olympics open ceremony will take place

August 28th and the games will last till

September 8th I hope that they will be

as amazing that the former one was

thanks for all Bob yes and thanks again

to everyone in France for hosting the

Olympics and the paral Olympics

hopefully everything goes well no that

says thanks for your answer no problem

um let's get another question on the

screen and it's weird when I switch

doesn't pop up right away and then all

of the sudden it does pop up or do I

have to go oh that's what I have to do

from hockey

did you want to be an engineer when you

were young because you are very familiar

with tools and mechanical things I guess

have a great day

no no that never really interested me um

maybe an architect a little bit but not

not an engineer I I like fixing things

and Building Things but not enough for

it to be my

job from Tommy I'm going to arrive in

Canada next week very cool in Canadian

culture how could we get a part-time job

should I go directly to the business and

ask for this look for Help Wanted signs

close to where you are living so often a

business will put a sign in the window

that says help wanted and it means they

are hiring and then the other option

would be to there might be a job bank or

a Community Job Center near you and they

might have a list of jobs that you could

look for uh from the chat ke Park says

hi Bob would you always organize your

tools or just put them out in your

garage I try to organize them but as I

mentioned before I'm not that good at

keeping things organized it's very

tricky um oops Adam hello Bob in Canada

the students can use their electronic

Tools in school in my country the

government wants to ban the electronic

Tools in school for students

thanks in my school and in most schools

I think you're talking about phones

right uh in my school if you're in a

class where you you're learning to make

videos you can have your phone uh in

most other classes you can't have your

phone that's that's kind of been that

way for a few years now at my school and

other schools are starting to do that as

well you can use your phone at

lunchtime we might ban

them we might ban them completely at

some point but uh so far um it's okay to

use them in your free time okay let's

see here let me turn off members only

chat

and we will get back to the lesson in a

moment let me do

this let me check to see if there are

any last members

questions John wedge says hey Bob by the

way I'll soon be using tools to set up

the crib and children's things yes it's

handy when you buy things like that

sometimes they come with a little

toolkit so you have all the tools that

you need to actually do it okay where

did we leave off everyone were we on

chisel I think we were let me have

another sip of

water and then we will get started on

the lesson again an axe an axe is used

to chop to chop down to cut it's a very

difficult tool to use like a chainsaw is

easier uh to use than an axe um sorry an

axe is easy to learn to use but it's

very physically demanding like you need

a lot of muscles to use an axe but you

can use an axe to chop down a

tree you can use an axe uh to cut up

some logs whatever you need to do a

level when you build things you want

them to be square so you use a square to

make 90° but you also want them to be

level what we mean by level is if you

hang a picture on the wall and it might

be a little crooked you could use a

level it has a little bubble inside of

air in liquid and as you move the

picture with the level on top eventually

the bubble will move between two lines

and then you know it's perfectly level

so again I'm try to use my hands here

crooked crooked and right in the middle

level and you would use a tool like this

to make sure things are leveled it's

called a level you use it to level

things drill cordless drill and you use

it to drill or to make a hole um I

picked a really bad picture though

because this guy's actually using the

drill to put screws in he's not drilling

a hole but uh Hey if you watch Jen's

video that's coming out this Sunday I do

drill some holes in that but uh you

would just call it a drill or a cordless

drill so you have drills that plug into

the wall but you have drills with

batteries so drill is the general term

and then cordless drill would be a drill

that has a battery use it to drill use

it to make a hole obviously you can also

use it to put in screws if you need

to jigsaw so a slightly different kind

of saw the blade goes up and down really

fast in fact it's similar in a way

to like it's similar to a hacksaw in

that sense although you can use it to

cut wood if if you need to but uh a

jigsaw is a very cool tool because as

you cut you can turn when you use a

circular saw or a power saw you have to

cut straight but with a jig saw you can

kind of like follow a curved line if you

need to a sander we like things to be

smooth when we build them out of wood

and sometimes even when it's made out of

metal a sander has sandpaper on it

that's

really like rough paper with actually

has sand glued to it and it moves really

fast so a sander would be

like so it's moving really really fast

in one direction or many directions and

then it basically removes a tiny layer

from the wood or metal to make it very

very

smooth and you use it to sand or too

smooth a ladder is used to climb so if

you need to get up somewhere you would

use a ladder to climb to climb up or to

get up somewhere those would be all the

words you could use you can see this

person they leaned a ladder against the

front of their house now they can climb

the ladder to maybe paint or clean

something or whatever they need to

do and then we have a step ladder so

this ladder is one piece you need to

lean it trying to pretend that's the

house you need to lean it against the

house a step ladder you can set up and

then you can climb one side so a step

ladder is handy because you do not need

to lean the step ladder against a wall

you can just simply set up the ladder

and then climb the step ladder by the

way we would just call this a ladder as

well like if someone said to you hey can

you grab that ladder they don't always

say step ladder unless there's two

ladders then you would want to specify

which ladder the step ladder please a

vice so a vice is a

device a vise is a device that's used to

hold or to squeeze things so when you

have a vice you can turn the end and

then it comes together and so you could

put a piece of wood in and then tighten

it to hold that piece of wood and then

you could drill something you could

drill the wood or cut the wood or um

pound things into the wood you could do

many many different things but a vice is

used to hold or squeeze things I do have

a vice in my machine shed it's very

handy a visce is a very handy tool to

have Sor I have a fly

here an anvil so an anvil is

something it's just a big heavy piece of

hard metal that you can use when like if

you have a hammer and you want to

flatten something you would lay it on

the Anvil and then you would hit it

repeatedly with the hammer um maybe you

want to bend something you might put it

on the Anvil and then slowly hit it as

you turn it to bend it so an anvil it

doesn't actually do anything but it's a

surface that you use to shape or flatten

or curve or bend something I also have

an anvil it's the Anvil my dad bought

many many years ago it's it's huge it's

very cool U I'll make a video at some

point showing you my machine shed and

you will see the

Anvil a wheelbarrow a wheelbarrow is

used to wheel things around if I fill my

wheelbarrow with stone I could say to my

son hey can you wheel that behind the

barn and dump it oh you also dump a

wheelbarrow so you can wheel and then

dump hopefully you're understanding my

actions there um so a wheelbarrow is a

little cart with one wheel on the front

and two handles on the back and then a

place to put stuff and you can use it to

wheel things to different places on your

property you can use it to carry things

let's say you had a lot of branches that

fell off a tree you could uh chop up the

branches uh with your chainsaw and put

them in your wheelbarrow and then you

could wheel them to a different place

and uh then you could dump

them a paintbrush and a paint roller you

use a paintbrush to paint or to brush

you use a paint roller to paint or to

roll so if you don't like the color of

the walls in your house you can use a

paintbrush to paint the walls you can

use the paintbrush to brush on some

paint maybe I should add the word on to

that verb or you might use a paint

roller a paint roller is just really

wide and it turns so you can put more

paint on uh than you can with a

paintbrush um we usually paint the

corners and around the doors with a

paintbrush and then we usually roll

paint on the rest of the room with a

paint roller it's just faster that way a

shovel so a shovel there are many

different types of shovel shovels you

use a shovel to shovel to dig so the

difference being if I have a pile of

stone I can shovel the stone into the

wheelbarrow okay but if there if

I'm out in my yard I can dig a hole in

the ground okay so shovel means simply

to move stuff like you can shovel some

Stone from one place to another but when

you dig you're actually making a hole in

the ground that would be the difference

between to shovel and to

dig to rake or a rake so this is a rake

we would might we might call this a

garden rake by the way this is a leaf

rake or fan rake we would call this a

garden rake or just a rake you use it to

rake things like when you pull a rake it

kind of gathers whatever's on the

surface um you can also use it to level

things out so in my job right now I'm

using a rake to level out Stone okay but

you could rake Stone you could rake dirt

you can um whenever you need to just

rake or gather or level something you

can use a rake and then a leaf rake or

fan rake this is a special type of rake

used mostly for cleaning up leaves um

people often in this part of the world

will rake their leaves in the fall um

when you have a rake like this it's very

light you could not use this for stone

it's it's plastic and it's not very

strong but it is perfect for raking

leaves if you need to rake leaves that

that that is the kind of rake you would

want a leaf rake or fan

rake hey one last picture let's make

this

bigger so yes this is my current

project how big can I make

this I'll put that in the middle of the

screen um that's where I'm going to be

today that's where I'm going to go I'm

going to go

outside uh and I'm going to finish that

job right after this live stream

hopefully it doesn't take too long I do

have help by the way um couple of my

kids will be helping um and we um we're

using the tractor to move the pavers not

the wheelbarrow so it's actually not too

hard we just load them in the tractor

and drive them over but anyways thanks

for watching everybody hope you uh were

able to learn some things oh wait do I

have to do questions yet what am I doing

let me get what's left

here okay three more questions Hobart hi

Bob have a nice day

I I never you have been a farmer in

childhood used a lot of tools to plant

the plants but I don't know the name of

the tools in English oh I see I was a

farmer when I was a kid and I used a lot

of tools to plant the plants but I don't

know the name of the tools in English

well hopefully you know some of them now

there are a lot more gardening and

farming tools I could do another lesson

on that at some point uh we'll see o hi

what is the difference between scissors

pruners and Snips so

for me scissors cut paper pruners cut

branches and um stems of plants and

Snips are used to cut metal so if you

have like really thin metal you can use

Snips we sometimes call them tin snips

so for me in my part of the world in

English scissors cut paper and other

paper type things paper string like you

would use scissors in a house pruners

are for plants and Snips are for cutting

really really thin

metal from Bridget do you also need an

examination or certificate to cut huge

trees and how to handle safely the

motors saw as a farmer I am allowed to

have a chainsaw and chop down a tree if

I go to chop down a tree in town I think

I would need to have some I I think

there are laws I'm not 100% sure though

but as a farmer I can do whatever I I

want I am free to do what I

want uh from Ismail hi Bob could you

tell me please is entrance way used only

for the area inside a building's

entrance or can it also refer to the

space outside the front door thank you

so interestingly

enough if you look at that door I call

that the entrance to my house I could

also call it the entrance

way when I go inside that door I'm

standing in the entrance way to my house

so it can be used for me I actually use

it for both the outside and inside it's

by the front entrance that can mean if I

say my keys are by the front entrance it

can mean inside or outside but close to

the door but I would call this the

entrance way oh the package was by the

entrance way or the package is in the

entrance way both would work for me it

might be different in other parts of the

English speaking world but uh that's how

it works for me hey that's it I'm going

to say bye bye

everyone I hope you have a good day bye

to John wedge Pedro hoaky ke Park Fatima

o vtor jezen LLY LLY I know if I scroll

back bye to uh Freddy wolf know

that uh Oleg G gerilla Runner lots of

fun names there know that says thanks

for the great lesson Bob it was awesome

awesome hanging around with you I wish

you and your family a wonderful day and

a pleasant weekend enjoy it and remember

to relax a bit oh and I think I will do

that know that but I think you also know

that also further back said could you

give my regards to Dave the Canadian Bob

it would be cool to see WR him here

again sometime but I I'm sure he's super

busy I do not see Dave very often I

haven't seen Dave for a long time but if

I do run into him I will pass that on uh

let's see here Michael says thank you

for the amazing lesson no problem Leo

says by CK Chen uh sterk says

thanks uh Ismail says thank you Bob

thanks for the lesson says Fatima bye

says haki yes bye to everyone have a

good weekend this was fun remember this

lesson will come out in a shorter

version in a couple days you should

watch it it's good because it helps you

remember everything you have heard and

everything you have learned repetition

is important for remembering vocabulary

um so you don't have to watch the whole

lesson but you should probably listen to

it and if you can understand it you can

even speed it up a bit that's helpful as

well but yes do do that and uh I will

see you Tuesday with another English

lesson and if you didn't watch this past

Tuesday's lesson I'm in a barrel you

should go watch it it's on prepositions

of place I tried to make it as funny and

entertaining as possible I think you

will enjoy it in fact I will get you a

link for that give me one second

here um where do I go for that I click

here I click here I click here I click

here and then there we

go

um now I think I did it right here we go

here

is I have a different keyboard here here

cuz we set this computer up for Jen to

edit it's about prep so you probably

hear the loud

keyboard than you I can't type at

all it's like one of my kids's old

gaming keyboards it has

really loud keys so but anyways I should

finish this off uh bye everybody have a

good day um

Keen says please make a video about the

difference between W could and make I

will try sometime but that gets a little

tricky um oh and John wedge says and

follow Jen's Channel as

well um that

is I'll get a link for that as well if

people are

interested um let's see here Jen's

flower farming

Channel um

um I'm uh going overtime now don't you

guys have to get to work or enjoy

yourself so there you go um if you want

a uh English lesson on prepositions of

place uh you can see the link right

there I will pin it and if you are

interested in Jen's Channel about flower

farming it's also uh linked right there

I'll put that in

again if if you go to Jen's Channel only

go if you're interested in farming and

flowers there you won't learn a lot of

English it's a lot more Beauty than it

is actual uh talking Jen likes to show

the process of growing flowers and some

people have found it quite enjoyable to

follow along but anyways um and I'll put

a link to Jen's Channel Below in the

comments as well so anyways thanks for

watching everybody see you I'm going to

go uh work I think it'll take me four

hours I'll post a picture on the

Community page when I'm

done let me see I'll see maybe I will

we'll see have a good weekend uh bye

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
tool /tuːl/ A1	noun - device used to carry out a task
hammer /ˈhæm.ɚ/ A1	noun - tool with a heavy head used for striking
screwdriver /ˈskruː.drɪ.vɚ/ B1	noun - hand tool for turning screws
wrench /rɛnʧ/ B1	noun - tool for gripping and turning nuts or bolts
saw /sɔː/ A1	noun - tool with a toothed blade for cutting
sledgehammer /ˈslɛʤˌhæm.ɚ/ B2	noun - large hammer used for heavy demolition work
bolt /boʊlt/ B1	noun - metal fastener with a threaded hole
nail /neɪl/ A2	noun - thin metal spike used to join things
measure /ˈmeʒ.ɚ/ B1	verb - to determine the size, amount, or degree of something
tighten /ˈtaɪ.tən/ B1	verb - to make or become tighter
loosen /ˈluː.zən/ B1	verb - to make less tight
adjustable /əˈdʒʌs.tə.bəl/ B2	adjective - able to be changed or moved to suit a purpose
handy /ˈhæn.di/ B2	adjective - convenient or useful
clamp /klæmp/ B2	noun - device that holds objects tightly together
utility /juːˈtɪl.ɪ.ti/ B2	noun - useful function or service; a practical tool
gear /gɪər/ B1	noun - a toothed wheel that transmits motion
pliers /ˈplaɪ.ɚz/ B1	noun - hand tool with two hinged jaws for gripping
chisel /ˈtʃɪz.əl/ B2	noun - a tool with a sharp edge for carving or cutting hard material
drill /drɪl/ A2	noun - handheld power tool for making holes
jackhammer /ˈdʒækˌhæm.ɚ/ B2	noun - pneumatic tool for breaking concrete and stone

Key Grammar Structures

• I hope you're ready to learn some English words and phrases about tools.

  ➔ Present simple with verb *hope* + infinitive clause

  ➔ The infinitive **"to learn"** shows the purpose of the hope.

• You can use a toolbox to store your tools.

  ➔ Modal verb *can* + base verb + infinitive of purpose

  ➔ The infinitive **"to store"** tells why you can use the toolbox.

• When you use a screwdriver you use it to tighten or loosen a screw.

  ➔ Zero conditional (if/when + present simple, present simple)

  ➔ The infinitive **"to tighten"** / **"to loosen"** expresses the function of the screwdriver.

• I would like to say you use a screwdriver to put in some screws.

  ➔ Modal phrase *would like* + infinitive

  ➔ The infinitive **"to put"** shows the action that follows the verb *use*.

• If you want to put a nail into the wood, you can hammer it.

  ➔ First conditional (if + present, can + base verb)

  ➔ The modal **"can"** expresses ability in the result clause.

• You should wear safety goggles when you are cutting or grinding.

  ➔ Modal verb *should* + base verb + adverbial *when* clause

  ➔ The verb **"wear"** follows the modal *should* to give advice.

• I haven't used it for a long time.

  ➔ Present perfect negative

  ➔ The auxiliary **"haven't"** shows an action that has not occurred up to now.

• I wish I had more tools.

  ➔ Wish + past simple for present unreal desire

  ➔ The past verb **"had"** does not refer to past time, but to a hypothetical present situation.