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Hi Bob the Canadian here.
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Let’s learn English downtown!
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Hi Bob the Canadian here.
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If this is your first time here and you’re learning English don’t forget to click the subscribe button down below and give me a thumbs up at some point during this video if it’s helping you learn English.
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Hey Bob the Canadian here.
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I thought that we would take some time today to learn some English downtown.
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Downtown is how we describe the parts of a town or city where it originally started.
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So this is the downtown area of my local town.
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And it has a lot of things for us to look at and along the way I’ll teach you a little bit of English.
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So this is downtown Dunnville!
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So in a downtown area you’ll find sidewalks, you’ll see a sidewalk over here.
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Where the sidewalk meets the road is what we call the curb.
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So this right here is the curb.
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It’s a little hard to see because of all the snow.
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And then usually on each side of the street you’ll see what we call parking spaces or a parking spot.
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In some towns there will be a small meter, a parking meter where you can put money in in order to pay for the parking spot, but in this town, yeah you can see the lines right here, you’re allowed to park on each side of the street for free.
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So that’s kind of cool!
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The parking areas that you find in a downtown area sometimes have a sign that tells you what the parking rules are.
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So this parking spot says you can park from 8AM to 2AM but only for 2 hours.
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And above that it says it’s a snow route from November 15th to April 15th and you’re not allowed to park there from 2AM to 8AM.
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That’s to let the snow plows come through and clear out the snow.
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Another thing you’ll see in a downtown area are storefronts.
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So you can see along the other side of the road there that there’s a number of stores and if I turn around you can see behind me there’s also a row of storefronts.
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So storefronts usually have of course the entrance, let me see if I can find an entrance here, this green door is an entrance, but they also have their front display window.
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You’ll find all sorts of different stores in a downtown area.
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In this downtown there’s a music store, there’s a sweets shop where you can buy candies, there’s a couple of restaurants.
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Across the street there’s a jewelry store, there’s a bank, and there’s also an electronics store.
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So generally in a downtown area you can find almost any kind of store you want.
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When I look across the street I see a shoe store, I see a drug store, and two more banks.
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I guess banks are important because you can get money to go buy something.
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Another nice thing about downtown is you usually have streetlights.
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You can see along this street here there are a few streetlights and there’s one above me as well.
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I’ll give you a closer look at it.
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You can see that these streetlights are still decorated for Christmas.
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But the nice thing about a downtown is it has streetlights, it has the storefronts, and at night you can come down and do a little bit of shopping because there’s lots of light.
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If you listen you can hear a bird singing.
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I hope that means Spring is coming!
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Another thing you’ll have downtown are places to park your bikes or a bike rack.
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So you can see here even though it’s winter in Canada, someone still rode their bike to the downtown area today and they have a bike lock on it, you can see the bike lock here attaching it to the bike rack.
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So a lot of times in a downtown you’ll find a bike rack where you can park your bike and lock it up.
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Another thing you’ll see in a downtown area are a lot of fire hydrants.
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So fire hydrants are a place where firefighters can come with their fire truck if there’s a fire and it’s a source of water where they can hook up their hoses in order to fight the fire.
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So you’ll see a lot of fire hydrants in a downtown area as well.
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So because a downtown area is a place where the town wants people to come and enjoy themselves you usually have some park benches.
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So even though we’re not in a park you can see that there are some park benches here.
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As well there will often be lots of garbage cans.
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It’s nice to keep the downtown clean so you’ll almost always see garbage cans and benches along the way just to create a nicer area for people to spend time in.
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So you’ll often find a mailbox in a downtown area where you can still mail letters.
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The letters go in the top here.
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You can open it up, put your letters in.
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By the way if you haven’t sent me a postcard yet you still can.
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My address is down in the description.
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In Canada where it freezes in the winter you’ll see a lot of this.
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This is a bucket of salt or a container of salt.
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And we have that there because we put salt down when it’s really cold and frozen and there’s ice on the sidewalks and the salt will actually melt the ice.
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So quite often in downtown area you’ll have businesses but above the businesses you’ll have small apartments.
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So you have stores or businesses on the bottom level, but in these buildings the next two levels are actually small apartments where people live.
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So you could rent an apartment and live in the downtown area above a small business.
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There’s a pigeon that lives in this town.
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I’m not, I’m not sure what, I’m not sure what he’s doing but he was up on this roof and he just flew down here so.
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In a lot of bigger cities you’ll see a lot of pigeons.
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I think ‘cause people feed them.
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That would be my guess.
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So the place between two buildings is called an alley, or an alleyway, or a back alley.
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So you can see there’s a building on this side and there’s a building on this side and this area here between the buildings is called an alley, or alleyway, or back alley.
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Here’s what this town looked like a long time ago.
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It’s kind of cool because you can see the old cars, but a lot of the buildings are still the same as the buildings that, that we were just looking at.
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So it’s pretty cool.
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A nice old picture of the downtown.
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Well hey that was a look at the downtown area of one of my local towns.
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I hope this video helped you learn some English.
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I’m Bob the Canadian here.
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Learn English with Bob the Canadian.
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Thank you so much for watching.
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Don’t forget to subscribe below if this video helped you learn some English.
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Give me a thumbs up and share this video with a friend and I’ll see you in the next video.
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本課的詞彙與口語要點
這段影片共有 76 個句子、1222 個單詞可供跟讀。 講話部分時長為 7:26。 說話人語速自然，每分鐘約 164 個詞，接近日常對話。 84% 的單詞屬於英語最常用的 3,000 詞，其餘的詞建議在練習前先學一下。
影片中的重點詞彙
影片中 15 個不太常見的單詞，附發音和釋義：
- downtown /ˈdaʊ̯nˌtaʊ̯n/ (名詞) — 市中心, 中央商業區 /中央商業區. The main business part of a city or town, usually located at or near its center.
- alley /ˈæl.i/ (名詞) — 弄, 里弄. A narrow street or passageway, especially one through the middle of a block giving access to the rear of lots of buildings.
- sidewalk /ˈsaɪdwɔk/ (名詞) — 人行道, 步道. A paved footpath located at the side of a road, for the use of pedestrians.
- bench /ˈbɛnt͡ʃ/ (名詞) — 長椅 /長椅. A long seat with or without a back, found for example in parks and schools.
- entrance /ˈɛn.tɹəns/ (名詞) — 入口, 門口 /門口. The action of entering, or going in.
- rack /ɹæk/ (名詞) — 架子. A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other.
- garbage /ˈɡɑɹ.bɪd͡ʒ/ (名詞) — 垃圾, 廢物 /廢物. Food waste material of any kind.
- freeze /ˈfɹiːz/ (動詞) — 凍結 /凍結, 凍 /凍. Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.
- subscribe /səbˈskɹaɪb/ (動詞) — 簽署 /簽署. To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name).
- thumb /ˈθʌm/ (名詞) — 大拇指, 拇指. The shortest and thickest digit of the hand that for humans has the most mobility and can be made to oppose (moved to touch) all of the other fingers.
- curb /kɝb/ (名詞) — 路緣 /路緣. A concrete margin along the edge of a road; a kerb (UK, Australia, New Zealand).
- metre /ˈmiːtəɹ/ (名詞) — 米, 公尺. The basic unit of length in the International System of Units (SI: Système International d'Unités), equal to the distance travelled by light in a vacuum in…
- pigeon /ˈpɪ.dʒɪn/ (名詞) — 鴿子 /鴿子. One of several birds of the family Columbidae within the order Columbiformes.
- hook /hʊk/ (名詞) — 鉤 /鉤, 鉤子 /鉤子. A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
- candy /ˈkæn.di/ (名詞) — 糖果, 糖. Crystallized sugar formed by boiling down sugar syrup.
影片中出現的短語動詞
- look at (動詞) — 觀察 /觀察, 看. To observe or watch.
- come down (動詞) — 下來 /下來, 降. To descend, fall down, collapse.
- turn around (動詞) — 轉身 /轉身. To physically rotate (usually around a vertical axis) for a half turn (180 degrees), a whole turn (360 degrees), or an indefinite amount.
需要注意的發音
說話人用了 29 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 you'll, I'm, I'll。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。
- 長單詞——注意重音位置: electronics /ɪˌlɛkˈtɹɑ.nɪks/, firefighter /ˈfaɪ.ɚˌfaɪ.tɚ/
如何用這段影片練習
- 先完整聽一遍影片，不要開口，記下不認識的單詞。
- 先用 0.75 倍速逐句跟讀，熟練之後再回到正常速度。
- 錄下自己的聲音並與原聲對比，特別注意 downtown, alley, sidewalk 這類單詞。
影片中的語法
說話人最常用的結構，並附上影片中的原話：
| 結構 | 影片中的用法 |
|---|---|
| 被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的 | are still decorated · is called |
| “will” 表將來 will + 動詞 — 決定、承諾或預測 | I'll teach · you'll find · you'll see |
| 現在進行時 am/is/are + -ing — 此刻或近期正在發生的事 | you're learning · is coming |
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