Shadowing Practice: Free English Class! Topic: Storage ๐๏ธ๐ฆ๐งฐ (Lesson Only) - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Well, hello and welcome to this English lesson about storage.
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You might think this is a strange topic but as I thought about a lesson idea, one of the ideas on my list was to talk about storage.
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We all own a lot of things.
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As you go through life, you accumulate things.
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You buy things.
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By the way, accumulate means you get more and more.
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Um and you need to put all of those things somewhere.
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Whether it's um knives and forks in the kitchen, whether it's a camera that you just bought,
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whether it's something like the laptop that you take back and forth to work.
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It's nice to have a place to store things.
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So, then in English, storage is the word we use to talk about the places we put things
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when we want to be organized.
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In fact, I like the phrase in your house, everything should have a home.
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Your cups should have a home.
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Uh your computer should have a home.
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If everything has a home in your home, if there's storage for everything, your house is very very organized.
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So, once again, welcome to this English lesson about storage.
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So, the idea for this lesson started when I was looking for my suit jacket in my closet.
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A closet is a small little, it's not really a room.
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It's a space in a room or in a hallway with a door usually where you can store things usually clothing.
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Although we do have a closet where we just store boxes of old clothes and boxes of things we don't use anymore.
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But generally, a bedroom closet is used to store clothing.
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So, I have my suit jackets in there.
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My blue shirts hang in my closet as well.
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After we do laundry, we put clothes on hangers and put them in the closet.
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So on coat hangers.
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Uh closets are really really nice because you can put all your stuff in there
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and close the doors and then everything is neat and tidy.
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Now you heard me say bedroom closet.
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That's how we describe closets.
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We put the word in front if we want to say where it is.
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So bedroom closet, upstairs hallway closet, downstairs closet, back room closet, living room closet.
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Whenever you talk about a closet.
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You just put the room name in front and that's where that closet is.
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Shelf.
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Probably the next most common uh way place to store things would be a shelf.
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Um there are things like bookshelves.
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There are just normal shelves where you put a variety of things but you probably in your house have a few shelves.
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Notice the plural.
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We lose the F and add a V.
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Uh a shelf is a nice place to put things if you want to be able to see them still.
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Uh I have a shelf in my old studio where I have all my camera gear.
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When I need a camera, I go to that shelf and grab one.
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So, it's nice to have a shelf for that
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and we used to have shelves in our kitchen but we uh we replace them with cupboards.
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Drawer.
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So, the next most common place to store things would be in a drawer.
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Notice how I'm pronouncing this word drawer.
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It's kind of a weird sound, isn't it?
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Drawer.
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It looks like drawer but a drawer is someone who draws.
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Oh, my friend's a good drawer but this is a drawer.
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This is a drawer.
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I've said it enough times now, I think.
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A drawer pulls out.
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You can open a drawer and close a drawer and again, when you're referring to a drawer, you can mention the room as well.
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It's in one of the kitchen drawers.
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It's in one of the drawers in your dresser in the bedroom.
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So, you can kind of mention where it is but a drawer is handy.
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You can put small things in.
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This looks like a drawer in a teacher's desk.
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Desks also have drawers because it has a lot of pens and sharpies and elastics.
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It definitely looks like the drawer in my desk at school.
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And then we have of course the cupboard.
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Another strange pronunciation.
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It's cupboard.
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In our kitchen, we have kitchen cupboards.
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So, we We keep our plates.
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We keep food in our cupboards.
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When the cupboards are bare, it means there's no food in the cupboard.
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But definitely, a cupboard is a nice place.
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You have a door.
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You open the cupboard.
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You put things in the cupboard.
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When you come home from getting groceries, you put the groceries away in the cupboard.
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So, we go to the grocery store.
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We buy groceries.
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We come home.
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We unpack the bags and we put the groceries away.
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We put the groceries in the cupboard.
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Um nice handy.
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Usually drawers and cupboards go together.
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You can see there are cupboards on the bottom and there's a row of drawers here.
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So kitchen cupboards and kitchen drawers.
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And then there's another word cabinet and we use this word kind of interchangeably with uh cupboard.
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So I can say I keep my food in my kitchen cabinets or I keep my food in my kitchen cupboards.
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cabinets are it's I guess a little more formal way to say it.
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Sometimes people will put some cabinets in their garage to store things
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but cupboards are usually the I think that's the more common way to refer to them.
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You know we have lots of cupboard space in our kitchen.
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That means we have lots of cupboards to put things in.
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We have lots of kitchen cabinets.
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Cubby hole.
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So this might be one of the first ones that you might not know.
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A cubbyhole is a small square storage area.
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Probably the most common place where you'll see a cubbyhole is at a school especially for younger children.
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When kids are six or seven or eight in their classroom, they might have a cubbyhole where they can keep their stuff.
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So, a cubbyhole refers to it's usually square.
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It could be round but most furniture is square and it's a little place where you put things like backpacks or bags.
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There was a gym I used to go to where when I went to the gym, I had a little cubbyhole I could put my stuff in.
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The gym I go to now though, I have a locker and I'll talk about lockers in a bit.
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But a cubbyhole, just a small little area where you can store your belongings.
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That's how we refer to the things you own when you go somewhere.
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You might go to a variety of different places.
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Where you might find a cubbyhole.
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So, when you store paper or when you store folders or when you store important documents, you will probably put them in a file cabinet.
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I actually have one right there.
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I can't show you because it's a mess.
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As I talk about storage and organization, the room behind me is always neat and tidy.
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So, this is usually neat and tidy behind me
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but the rest of the room behind the camera is a bit of a mess.
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I need to store things better but I do have a file cabinet.
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It's a place where when you get important things in the mail, if you need to keep them, you put them in the file cabinet.
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Yesterday, I renewed the license plates for my vehicles and
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so I printed out the renewal
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and stored one copy in the glove compartment of our vehicle and one in my file cabinet.
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By the way, I didn't put glove compartment on the list of storage.
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I should have done that.
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File cabinet, great place to store paper.
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You'll probably see a lot of these in an office building. And then locker.
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I mentioned this briefly earlier.
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Sometimes when you go to a gym, you will get changed in a change room and you will put your stuff in a locker.
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A locker is usually a steel cabinet.
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It's usually made out of metal.
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It usually locks.
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Hence the name locker.
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It usually locks and your belongings are then secure when you go to work out.
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They're also very popular in schools in North America, particularly at a high school.
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A high school will often have lockers in the hallway
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and a student will be given a locker at the beginning of the year.
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Your locker number 93, they'll say.
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And then you will have a place to put your backpack
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and your textbooks and your computer laptop and then you can put a combination lock on it.
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So, a locker, another really nice place to store things.
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And then we have something in North America.
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I'm not sure if everyone has this in the world but it's called a storage locker or self storage.
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North Americans some of them have so much stuff it doesn't all fit in their house.
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This is kind of a weird thing about North America.
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So some people not everyone but some people will rent a storage locker
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or they'll rent a locker at a self -storage facility and they'll keep some of their things in a locker.
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Uh if you've ever watched the show Storage Wars, that's when someone doesn't pay for their locker and so then the company auctions off their stuff.
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Look it up if you haven't seen it.
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It's an interesting peek into North American life.
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And of course, a lot of people have a garage as part of their house.
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You can see in the bottom photo, This is a garage door and often people will put shelves in their garage
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or other things so that they can store stuff.
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So here you see they have a lot of containers.
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They've put their things in containers and put them on shelves.
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So our garage as well has a large shelf in it and we store many many things in our garage.
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It's just a great place to store things.
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Basement.
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So a lot of North American houses have what's called a basement.
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This is the area of the house which is below ground.
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So, we go down our basement stairs and we have a basement.
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North Americans don't often live in their basements.
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They might have a living room.
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They might have one or two bedrooms down there but they might also have a large area like this.
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Let me make this a bit bigger for you.
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So we as well have an area in our basement where it's not for living.
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It's for storage.
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You can see these people have built a lot of shelves in their basement.
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Often you will keep camping gear in your basement like tents.
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You might keep your Christmas tree in your basement if you have a fake Christmas tree and all of your Christmas decorations.
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Uh you usually buy a lot of boxes and containers and I'll talk about those in a bit.
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Uh but many people will have a storage area in their basement and they will store a lot of things down there.
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We do that definitely.
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Our Christmas tree is in our basement right now on a shelf.
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And people sometimes will have a small shed in their yard.
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So, they'll either buy a shed.
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A shed is a small building specifically for storage or people might build a shed.
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The interesting thing in Canada is you can build a shed that's 10 feet by 10 feet
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and you don't need a building permit.
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You don't need permission from the government.
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But a shed again is a small building and people will keep their lawnmower, their garden tools, and those types of things in it.
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It's a great place to store things that you need to use when you do yard work.
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When you are gardening, it's nice to have a shed with all your gardening tools in it.
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In fact, some people call it a garden shed.
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Let's talk about the things you can store stuff in.
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This might go a little quicker.
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Sorry if I talk too fast.
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I'll try to talk my normal speed.
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The simplest place to store something is in a box.
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We order things from Amazon.
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Those things come in boxes and we keep the boxes because the cardboard box, this is a cardboard box.
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It's really handy for storing things.
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I like to have boxes to put things in.
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In fact, beside my file cabinet is a stack of boxes with stuff in them.
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So, the most basic thing to store things in would be a box.
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And here we have a storage box.
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I just wanted to highlight that sometimes we add the word storage to things to indicate what it's for.
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This box is handy because it has a lid.
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In English when we say something's handy it means it's very very useful.
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So definitely box and storage box are two common things that people use to store things.
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And then if you have valuable things like if you have jewelry.
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By the way, this is the North American spelling of jewelry.
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So, there might be an extra L and E
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if you are learning British English but often people will have a jewelry box and they'll keep their rings, their bracelets, they'll keep their necklaces.
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By the way, if you're wondering what happened, you can see I'm a little bit scratched up here.
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I was working in the field
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and there were a lot of thistles thistles are a type of plant with prickly things on it
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and my arms got scratched up a little bit.
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So, now I have a burn that's healing and my arms are scratching up.
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Sorry, this has nothing to do with the lesson.
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Let me continue.
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A jewelry box is handy for storing earrings, rings, bracelets, necklaces.
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I think I've mentioned most of the things that you would store in a jewelry box.
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And usually, people will keep this in their bedroom
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because one of the first things you might do in the morning is put on your jewelry
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and you might take it off at the end of the day.
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In our kitchen, we have a lot of containers.
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Now, there's a few different words for these containers.
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You can just say food container.
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Uh at the end of a meal, we put our leftovers in a food container.
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You could call it a plastic container.
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Some people refer to all of this as Tupperware.
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Tupperware is a brand name of containers you can buy to use in the kitchen.
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Um and some people have started to call them Ziploc containers.
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Remember, a Ziploc bag, if you squeeze it, it closes but Ziploc also makes containers and people have started to call them that.
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So, container, food container, storage container, Tupperware, Ziploc, whatever you want to call it.
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The things you use to store food.
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And we also have what's called a crate.
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Excuse me.
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A crate.
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Oh, let me make that a bit smaller.
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A crate is usually usually open on the top although the one pictured it does have a lid.
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Um this is a variety of crates.
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They can be made out of wood.
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They can be made out of plastic.
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Uh and they're used to not just store things but to ship things.
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So when a company builds something they'll put it in a crate
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and they'll send it on a truck or a boat in the crate.
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Now when a crate gets to its destination, people often use the crate to store things.
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It's a handy little, I guess it's kind of a box.
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We have, you see this black one here.
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In Canada, this is called a milk crate because milk comes in bags in Canada.
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So, they put the bags in the crate.
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But they're a really handy thing to have.
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We use a lot of them on the flower farm.
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Anyways, these are crates.
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Just handy little things.
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I guess you could say boxes that are used to move things.
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And then we have basket.
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So, a basket is a little different than a box or crate.
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A basket often, if you poured water in a basket, it would run out.
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So, a basket has some airflow.
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We use baskets at the grocery store.
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So, these are baskets you would grab if you're buying groceries.
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Uh we also use them to store laundry.
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That's a laundry basket way on the other side.
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Uh baskets can be made out of plastic or they might be uh woven out of different kinds of material.
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And then we have of course the bag.
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Now their bag a bag can be a knapsack.
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A bag can be like this one that you would carry.
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It's kind of something with handles that you can put things in.
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It's not exactly for storage although it can be.
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I mean I have bags that I put cameras in.
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I have a camera bag so you can have a bag that's used for storage.
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I usually keep my camera in a camera bag.
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In our garage, we have a few hooks.
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In the barn, we have hooks.
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By our front door, we have hooks.
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Hooks are anything that you can hang something on.
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When I come home, I have hooks over there and I can hang my coat on a hook.
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In the garage we have hooks and we can hang garden tools on the hooks.
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Hooks are nice.
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Um and you always hang something on a hook.
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That's the verb you use in English.
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So the other day when I came home I was wearing my jacket.
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I took off my jacket and I hung my jacket up on a hook.
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Um in the winter when I get home next winter
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when I come home I will hang my coat up every day on a hook.
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And this is the picture I wanted to show you.
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This isn't my actual bottle.
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Sometimes people use a bottle to store things.
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When I was a kid, I didn't have a piggy bank.
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I had a bottle just like this one.
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I got it to from some Italian friends who used them to make they would make wine
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and this would be their wine bottle
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and they gave me an empty bottle once and then I used that bottle to keep all of my money in.
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So, if I got a quarter from my grandma or if I found a dime in the street.
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Whenever I found coins I would put them in my bottle.
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So this was kind of my piggy bank when I was a kid.
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This is how I stored money.
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But yes people use bottles to store all kinds of things. And then there's barrels.
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So barrels typically used probably the most popular thing is for wine.
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Wine is often aged in barrels.
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Barrels are used to make whiskey and all different kinds of alcoholic beverages.
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Um even uh up till a while ago, I think you could buy pickles in a barrel.
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Pickles are cucumbers that are in a um like a salt brine solution but a barrel is definitely looks like this.
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There are plastic barrels as well.
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We buy certain things for the farm in barrels.
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Uh usually a barrel is if you put it on its side, you can roll it.
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Sorry, I'm knocking my mic here but a barrel is another cool place to store.
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Usually liquids I think.
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Although pickles I guess pickles are in salt water so or brine.
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A toolbox if you are someone who likes to fix things you will probably have tools.
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The best place to keep your tools is in a toolbox.
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The worst place to keep your tools is the last place you use them.
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I'm guilty of leaving my tools in the last place where I use them.
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Sometimes I forget to bring them back to the toolbox
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or I forget to put them in the toolbox or hang them on the hooks that we have.
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We have hooks as well for different tools.
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But a toolbox is a small box made out of metal or plastic and it's a great place to store your hammer,
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your screwdrivers, your wrenches, and all the other tools that you use.
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So, a mailbox isn't really a storage area
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but at my place of work I have a mailbox and I actually use it to store things a little bit.
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Sometimes I put things in my mailbox just so that I know where they are.
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We don't use our mailboxes as much anymore because we use email a lot more.
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So we have these little storage.
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You can almost call them cubby holes
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but we have these little mailbox slots at our school
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and sometimes I keep some paperwork in there so that I know where it is.
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So, we're gonna talk a little bit about a trunk and I think the next phrase is trunk.
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The trunk.
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Let me make these bigger.
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trunk trunk.
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So this is a trunk.
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We might also call this a chest.
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I'll talk about a chest in a minute.
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Some people will have a trunk and they'll store old clothing in there.
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Some people will keep their winter clothes in a trunk during the summer.
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So they'll put their winter coat and their hat
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and mittens in a trunk because they don't need it for a few months.
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Um so they might have a large trunk somewhere and they put things in there.
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Um often people will have a trunk in their attic or in their basement.
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I'll talk about attics in a bit.
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Um but a trunk is a place where you can keep things.
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I think it's very common in Canada to put all your winter clothes in a trunk.
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Uh and then take them out uh in the late fall when it gets cold again.
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And then trunk of a car.
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We don't call this a boot in Canada.
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We call this the trunk.
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Um you don't really store things in the trunk but I thought because I'm talking about trunks, I should talk about trunks.
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A trunk is a little storage area in a car and I should have mentioned glove box or glove compartment as well.
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That's a small storage area inside the car where you can keep things like gloves
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if you wanted to but I don't actually know that many people that keep gloves in their glove box.
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It's kind of a funny thing.
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But yes, that is a trunk. So, chest.
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There's not a whole lot of difference between a trunk and a chest.
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Although I would not call this a trunk because it has legs on it.
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I know that's kind of weird.
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Maybe that's just me.
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I would call this a trunk and because this has legs I would call it a chest.
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So maybe that's the difference but a chest again is a large wooden
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or plastic or metal box where you can store things.
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Now there's a unique kind of chest or trunk called a footlocker.
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This is a common thing for people to have at the end of their bed.
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Not everyone but a footlocker is kind of a nice lockable case I guess or chest.
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I'm just going to call it a footlocker.
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This is a footlocker.
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I'll just call it that.
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When I went to university a lot of students had foot lockers in the room
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because you shared the room with another person.
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You had a roommate and you might have a few things that you wanted to keep secure or safe.
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And so, you might have a footlocker that you could lock
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and then your roommate couldn't pry and look at all of your stuff when you were gone.
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I never had a footlocker at university but then I didn't really have much of anything at university.
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I just had my books and my brain.
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A pallet.
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This is also called a skid.
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A pallet is something that they use in factories.
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When they build things, they put them on pallets and then they put the pallets on trucks using forklifts.
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A pallet is designed so the forklift can lift it.
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Um but often pallets can be used as well to store things.
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We store things on pallets in our shed.
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On our farm, we have pallets.
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We store hay on pallets.
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So, there's airflow.
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At some places, they store things on pallets because they need to be able to move them easily.
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So, a pallet or what can also be called a skid, uh Looks like this.
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I think pallet is the more common word and it's a great place to store things.
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And then we have of course the shipping container.
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I think everyone has seen one of these.
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A shipping container is a large metal box but it's definitely bigger than a box.
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A shipping container is used to ship things but people have started to use shipping containers to store things.
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In our area, sometimes instead of building a shed, people will buy an old shipping container
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and a truck will bring it to their place
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and then they will put it in their backyard and they will store things in it.
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In fact, it became a bit of a problem.
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So, in my area, I'm pretty sure there's a law now that you can't buy shipping containers and use them to store things.
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I'll have to double check that but people were getting very upset
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because there were so many shipping containers but definitely used to ship things and also where you can store things.
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So I mentioned earlier that I store my camera in a camera case.
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You can also call it a camera bag.
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In fact, that's what I think I called it earlier.
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When I go somewhere, I take my camera bag
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and it has my camera in it but I also store my camera in my camera bag.
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So, the camera I'm using now, when I'm done this live stream, I will put it back in my camera case.
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I keep it in my camera bag or camera case during the week so that in case, I don't want it to,
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you know, I don't want someone to knock it over or accidentally touch the lens.
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So, I want to keep it safe so I store it in my camera case.
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Notice camera bag and camera case are interchangeable.
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Then we have what's called a bin.
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A standard bin looks like this.
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you can't quite see it but above the recycle symbol there's actually it says Rubbermaid on it.
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Rubbermaid makes a lot of bins.
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Um this wasn't the type of Rubbermaid bin I meant though
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but uh a bin is a place where usually it's open on the top and you can throw things in.
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You might have a trash bin.
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You might have a recycle bin.
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You might just have a bin.
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You know grab that bin um and fill it up with some newspapers.
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Right?
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It's just a handy container that you can use to store things.
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Uh let's see here.
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Dresser.
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So, in the bedroom of most houses, you will have a dresser.
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The dresser will have drawers in it.
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So, in our bedroom, we have two dressers.
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Um Jen uses one and I use the other and this is where we keep our clothes.
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After we wash our clothes and after we hang our clothes up to dry, we don't use a dryer.
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We hang our clothes up to dry.
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Then we fold our clothes and we put them in our dresser drawers.
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Um dresser drawers.
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That's hard to say, isn't it?
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This dresser has drawers.
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I put my clothes in my dresser drawers.
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There you go.
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Try saying that five times.
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Some people have a walk -in closet.
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If you have lots of money or if you were lucky enough to buy a house with walk -in closets, I think they're really, really nice.
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A walk -in closet is similar to a closet but it's so big that you can walk into it.
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Okay?
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So when you have a walk -in closet, it means that you can walk in and you can look at all your clothing.
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I wish I had a walk -in closet sometimes but I don't.
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I'm sure some of you have walk -in closets but I do not.
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Handy walk -in closets.
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I have a nightstand.
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I keep my Fitbit and my wedding ring in the drawer of my nightstand.
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So when I go to sleep at night, I take off my wedding ring and my Fitbit.
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By the way, this is a fitness tracker called a Fitbit and I put them in a drawer in my nightstand.
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It's a nice place to store them during the night because then I know exactly where they are the next morning.
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A window sill.
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So some people store things on a window sill.
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So here you can see they have some plants there and a few tiny tiny gourds or mini pumpkins.
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We sometimes store our mail on our windowsill.
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When we get the mail, we bring it home and we put it on our windowsill and we might open it later.
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When we get magazines, we store magazines on our windowsill in our kitchen so that if I'm eating a snack, I can grab a magazine to read
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but a windowsill is a little ledge in front of a window
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and sometimes the ledge is big enough that you can store things on it.
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So, that is a windowsill.
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And of course, a desk, usually you have desk drawers.
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You might store things on your desk but you might also store things in the drawers.
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My desk drawers have paper for my printer.
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So, when I need paper, I open one of the drawers.
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When I order new paper, I put it in one of my desk drawers and that is where I store my paper.
447
So, if the printer ran out of paper, and Jen needed paper, she would say, where do you store your paper?
448
And I would say, it's in the desk drawer.
449
And then she would grab some paper, put it in the printer.
450
A wallet is a great place to store things.
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I don't think my wallet is right now.
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It's way over there.
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Um but a wallet is a place where you store money, where you store credit cards, where you store debit cards, which is a card connected to your bank account.
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Um and a wallet is not just for men.
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Women can have wallets as well.
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This is definitely a man's wallet.
457
It's a you know you might call it a billfold as well but I call it a wallet.
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Um like Jen has a wallet and I have a wallet.
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It's a gender neutral term for something you use to store money.
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ID cards, credit cards and those types of things.
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You might have a purse.
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Now, I had to ask Jen and my daughter what the difference was between a purse and a handbag.
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They said that a purse is usually smaller and has a strap
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so you can hang it from your shoulder whereas a handbag can be a little bigger
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and usually just has handles on top.
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So once again I'm not an expert.
467
Uh I don't own a purse or a handbag.
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Um but a purse I think is usually a bit smaller
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and has a strap and a handbag is usually a bit bigger and has handles.
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Earlier I mentioned the word attic.
471
So an attic is usually sorry not usually.
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An attic is something some people in North America have.
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Usually in an older house.
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it's a room way at the top and usually the ceiling is the actual inside of the roof.
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So, you can see in this one too.
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Uh the attic space is not a space where people live.
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Um often times it's not heated in the winter but an attic is a large storage area for some people.
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So, they might store things in the attic.
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In fact, the same way we store things in our basement, some people store the same things in their attic.
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We don't have an attic.
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This house was built in 1981 and
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that is considered a more modern home design even though that's like over 40 years ago.
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Um and they didn't build attics anymore.
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They started to put more insulation in houses.
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So the attic space
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or an attic as a room kind of disappeared in North America especially in the northern parts of North America.
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Some people still have attics though.
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They are a nice place to store things.
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And then I put this as the last slide because I thought this was funny.
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These aren't my children but my kids as they grew up
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when they were little they would store a lot of things on the floor.
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If you walked in their room you wouldn't be able to walk because all their toys would be on the floor.
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It's not a good place to store things.
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Especially if you're a dad and if you have to go
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and talk to a child at night because they're crying and you're trying to walk across the room in the dark, you often step on things.
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So, don't store things on the floor.
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Uh but I'm sure if you have children or if you have friends with children, you'll recognize that kids often will store things on the floor.
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Not the best place to store things.
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