How to read a book in English | Canguro English

hello everybody and welcome to another live English class I'm Christian and this is kangaroo English hmm today in this live class I'm going to do something a little bit different reading reading books is an absolutely fantastic way to learn vocabulary and to to absorb all of those those grammatical structures to absorb them to observe them being used in a natural way you know reading reading is really really such an important an important way to to enjoy English as well because telling stories and reading stories is a great a great way to just enjoy the language without like studying and and I think reading reading books that you like it doesn't feel like hard work it feels like it feels like fun so today today I'm going to teach you how I'm going to show you how much fun it can be to read a book I have I have a classic book to share with you today and although it's although it's a children's book I think that that children's books sometimes are much better than than adults books because they contain moral and ethical like lessons right they they teach us about life and about how to be better people and you know children's books are great are great for this so so let's have a look who do we have here we've got you require a bar salman alejandro David David Wallace Aaron Reese's here we've got the some you know some some Russian person I can't I can't read the text I'm sorry we've got Danna read even if he had named Ayub Sadia sorry Achmed in montreal montreal hello Lenny Escobar's here from Brazil hey Lenny llena de Silva Tony Ward Carlos Pedro's can I help level up leveling every day every day level up Andre of silver Roman avais Denis Olga Ynez thank you yes you know normally normally I wouldn't wear pink but every time I wear the shirt people say great t-shirt so obviously pink is a good color for me katidis Gina let's coschka okay so she says if she reads on her Kindle yeah I think it Kindles great a Kindle is great because you know books are cheap and it's easy to change books and it's a good thing which which band is most loved in Australia midnight oil or men at work I don't know that that's a subjective question I think maybe men at work you know they have less of an influence in general because you know they they don't they made less music you know by midnight oil I mean the guy I can't remember his name the bald guy he became a politician in Australia the lead singer of midnight oil and he became a politician at a green a green politician he was against mining and for you know for nature against mining and for nature I don't even know why that's not normal why does that have to be something special shouldn't that be common sense anyway yeah and so I think that you know maybe they have a bigger legacy I'm not sure I don't know I don't really like either of those bands narrator is here who else have we got lots of people so listen I am Peter Garrett there we go Peter Garrett so catcher isn't a cat or a cat or Regina says that using Kindle you can create sticky notes to remember words okay so listen I I don't want to spend a lot of time your chatting let's get into it let's read this book okay so this book is called pigtail pigtails so you can see its tail like a tail like story not tail like you know like tail right it's written by Helen Oxenberg and this is a classic book because it was written in 1973 this book was written before I was born so what we're going to do is where I'm going to read you the story all of the story and then we're going to go back and look at some of that vocabulary and some of those grammatical structures and I'm going to tell you about the origin of some of the words some of the new vocabulary to help you remember them it's going to be great okay so first we're going to just read the book we're going to read the book all at once with no stopping and then we're gonna go back jury jury Sluka wants me to speak with an Aussie accent the thing is that my a my my straily an accent so I can turn it on and off like a tap so if I want to sound really Australian I just sort of elongate those vowels maybe [Music] maybe you know I like like cut a few little like you know maybe change my t's it's DS a bit and like I maybe cut off the under words use a bit of that high rising tone at the end I go on up at the end that's my true odds the accent coming out no not really not really okay so let's read the book and it's a great book it has a great moral moral tale I feel a lot of connection to this book my mum read this book to me when I was younger and I hope you like her I really do okay here we go so I'm gonna flip the camera round here we go okay pigtailed by Helen Oxenberg this is the story of two bored pigs she was called Bertha and his name was Briggs they would lie in the grass and moan and complain nothing happens to us every day is the same they had plenty to eat a warm Stein with a thatch an orchard to play in and trees for a scratch cool mud for a wallow fields full of flowers soft grass for a doze or to gossip for hours but bertha and briggs were never content on money and riches their two minds were bent there were so many wonderful things they would do only then would they really be happy they knew then one sunny day they were nosing about when Briggs grubbed up a chest with the end of his snout they opened the lid with a squeal of delight for the chest contained treasure all glittering bright we are rich they cried out as they cleaned themselves down and clutching the chest they set off for the town the noise of the traffic alarmed the two pigs but Bertha clung tight to the trata of Briggs Briggs was soon dreaming of shiny new cars while Bertha gazed into shop windows for hours they came to a bank and looked shyly about till the manager angrily ordered them out he ordered them out then he noticed the box and his eyes had a gleam like a wily old Fox Briggs lifted the lid of the treasure so rare the manager gasped and said well I declare he bowed and he scraped and he said with a purr won't you please take a seat now dear madam and sir I will give you some cash mr. Briggs if I may you will find it as simpler than jewels when you pay he locked up the treasure behind a steel door and gave them a case stuffed with banknotes galore thank you oh thank you said Bertha with glee come Briggs let us start on our great shopping spree they went to a large and luxurious store where Bertha bought dresses and hats by the score Briggs turn was next and he felt quite a swell he tried on four suits and they fit him quite well for from the store to the showrooms was not very far so they hurried to buy an expensive new car this models the latest the car salesman said then I'll have it cried Briggs feeling light in the head in jumped the two pigs and they sped on their way to purchase a house by the end of the day they went to an agent who handed to Briggs some pictures of houses just right for two pigs Bertha soon spotted the house with most charm the one she had seen from the gate on the farm the agent escorted them both to the door then left them alone to go in and explore that night they were happy as two pigs could be and they talked and they planned until well after three but tossing and turning twixt blankets and sheet poor briggs hardly slept on account of the heat bertha made breakfast briggs puttered about he polished the car she cleaned a house out bertha cooked dinner while Briggs sat and read he made a few phone calls they watched TV till bed one day feeling Restless with nothing to do while Bertha was busy preparing his chew Briggs drove his new car through the green countryside speeding down lanes that were not very wide suddenly out of the engine there shot a cloud of black smoke and of steam boiling hot the car gave a cough and a lurch and a leap and then rolled to a halt near a flock of white sheep Briggs lifted the hood and prodded around but the cause of the trouble just could not be found the longer he struggled the madder he got till at last in despair very tired and too hot he threw down the wrench and uttered a moan he just have to start on the long walk back home when he opened the door Briggs instantly knew that Bertha's new gadgets were troublesome to Oh brick spur 'this sobbed what a miserable day I've been working so hard I've had no time to play from that moment on nothing seemed to go right house garden and pigs were a terrible sight at last the two pigs couldn't stand any more Briggs grabbed Bertha's arm and they dashed through the door from the garden they gazed at the country beyond and Briggs in a rage pushed his car in the pond they felt no regrets as they ran through the gate and away from the life they had soon grown to hate they pulled off their clothes and ran on faster still didn't even look back as they tore up the hill breathless they ran through the old orchard gate for a roll in the mud the two pigs couldn't wait to be careless and free and to romp and to play was all that they wanted to do every day that night as they lay gazing up at the sky Bertha and Briggs heaved a rapturous sigh let's stay here forever said Bertha to Briggs and they fell fast asleep too tired happy pigs well what an awesome book what a what an awesome story it's like you know it's a story about you know you want you want something you know you think that you will be happy if you have money and you know and then you get those things and you realize it doesn't make you happy that you just want the simple things right to play to roll in the mud - laughs you know and that's and that's what um that's what this book is about you know and this this kind of thing you find in children's books and I love it I think it's great so now what what I want to do is I want to look at some of the specific vocabulary so that so that you can remember it okay I think I hope you understood a lot from context but let's look at the let's look at the details okay so let's begin with first page so if if you if you want to just go now if you if you're happy with the story just go but if you really want to sort of maybe to remember some of this vocabulary and some of the structures just stay stay with me for another you know for another 20 minutes and let's look at this okay so the book is called peak tale by Helen Oxenberg okay let me do a run this way actually there you go pigtailed whoops pigtailed by Helen Oxenberg okay so the first page here they are so the story of two board pigs she was called Bertha and his name was Briggs they would lie in the grass and moan moan moan and complain okay so this word is is onomatopoeia onomatopoeia means the words sounds like the thing and this is quite common in all languages so Mon is like a synonym for complain it's like this burn burn burn moan do you hear the sound the sound of that type of complaining right is like is like that mo life is so difficult I wish I had money Mon Mon Mon okay so that's easy to remember because it sounds like the thing okay and you will notice that a lot of this vocabulary okay is based in onomatopoeia okay so let's have a look at the next page turn the camera around okay here we go so they had plenty to eat and a warm sty with the thatch so stai is basically where pigs live that's what a stylist and thatch okay thatch is this type of roof with the with the hay like this is a traditional type of roof okay now here we have an orchard - plain orchard now these words are not too common so I'm not going to I'm not going to to talk about these words but this word orchard orchard is a very common word orchard so let's look at the two parts of this word or should orchard so the first part is what it comes from the old english word wart wart means vegetable in fact in some european languages it sounds very similar the word for vegetables is what in fact in English we have medicinal herb a medicinal herb called John's wort okay so what is vegetable and then or chard orchard yard yard is garden orchard what yard vegetable garden so that's all that this word means when you know when the pigs are here they're in the vegetable garden it was originally vegetable garden but now an orchard is a place only for fruit trees so orange trees apple trees lemon trees that's an orchard but it means vegetable garden originally okay so trees for a scratch and what about this one look at this cool mud for a wallow look at this great word wallow now maybe it seems like a word that you're not going to remember it seems like a very abstract word wallow it doesn't sound similar to other words what does it mean well what do the pigs do they in the muds they're in the mud going yeah so they're turning they're doing this right they're doing this now what else does this can anyone tell me a word that sounds similar to wallow that does this that goes round and round anyone know what it could be wallow what's the word that sounds wallow that goes round that you can find maybe on your car you can find maybe you can find it maybe on your bicycle yeah you can find it everywhere very good murillo Marilla vila and no regard it is a wheel so that's what it means wallow is basically from the same root as wheel it means that you're turning around so the pink is basically doing a wheel doing a wheel wallow in the mud turning around and so you can wallow in mud but you can also wallow abstract right so I could wallow in misery maybe I'm feeling depressed I'm having a bad day so I get my up my big ice cream my big container of ice cream and I I watch a sad movie and I wallow in misery or or maybe I can wallow in happiness or wallow in desire I'm in it spinning around in it okay next let's continue here we go so yes fields full of flowers I think there's no and this one soft grass for a doze doze doze now if you looked at the picture what what do you think this could mean a doze if you look at the picture any ideas what it could be a doze what's a doze very good Nadia coyote fur it's like a nap now we have we have so much vocabulary in English for sleeping you can sleep you can doze you can nap you can take 40 winks you can have a siesta you can have a catnap lots of vocabulary and a doze maybe now if you are from a Scandinavian country like if you're from maybe Norway or Finland maybe you recognize this word because in Swedish deucer means to sleep so it comes we took this from the Vikings a Viking word to those and that what it means is you're not really sleeping you're kind of like like a little bit like semi-conscious you know it's like a lot maybe you spend 20 minutes like lying in the grass to sort of maybe maybe sleeping a little bit maybe not sleeping you know just like a high a high level of relaxation that's dozing okay okay now this this this vocabulary word one of my favorites one of my favorites or to gossip for hours gossip so you can see the pigs they're gossiping gossiping so what is gossiping really gossiping is when you sort of talk with normally people that you know right like maybe your family or your neighbors or your you know people in your people that are close to you and gossip normally is negative like you know you tell stories like did you see those two together oh oh I think that maybe you know maybe or you talk about how maybe somebody doesn't have any money or how they have a new car or how they're very stupid normally gossip is negative but where did this word come from so again we're going to break this word into two parts gossip god sip God sip gossip God sip basically means God parent so if you are a Christian or a Catholic then probably when you when you were were christened when you had your christening you had you chose or somebody gave you a godparent it's normally a member of your family somebody close to you who who is responsible for your religious formation in the past now they're just responsible for giving you really good presence it's changed a lot societies change so in the past your godparent was about helping you to be you know like a good Catholic but now it's about giving you the best presents a Christmas I think that's that's the only role of the godparent so so think about that why would God send your your godparent why would that be related to gossip because normally your godparent was like a neighbor or a family member or a very good friend exactly the type of person that you would tell this gossip to so when you're talking about did you see them and oh my god and then when you're doing all this gossiping it's with people who are close to you with your godparents okay okay so let's so let's continue let's continue okay here we go camera around so so here they are dreaming dreaming about cars and holidays okay so Bertha and Briggs were never content on money and riches their two minds were bent bent so here we have straight my arm is straight okay now my arm is bent bent so your your mind your mind is not focused on maybe going to your work and doing a good job and being you know coming home to your family and you know it's not focused on your reality no your mind is bent it's bent like my arm it's thinking about holidays and riches and cars things that you don't have things that are out of your vision right so your mind can be bent so you can say this normally in English you know you could say but you don't have to say money you can say he is bent on doing something like he is bent I am bent on becoming the best English teacher in the world hellbent okay so let's just continue a little bit here so there were so many wonderful things they would do only then would they really be happy they knew okay and then here they are in the in the mud and they found this treasure so look at this so then one sunny day they were nosing about so you can see we're using the word in' the noun as verb we're using the noun of the verbs and they're like you can imagine right there nosing in the mud yeah nosing about so when Briggs grubbed up a chest with the end of his snout snout okay so different animals have different different names for their for their nose but in general nose related things in English everything related to the nose is sooner like a sniff sound like for example you have sniff sniff you have snot you know if you have a cold then you have the liquid the liquid that comes out of your nose that's not you have sneeze at you you have smell to smell you have to snort like some people when they laugh they snort I don't know if you have ever met anyone in your life who snorts Wow look at this just now so you know maybe maybe I don't know if that's related but yeah your nose is like yes now and snore you guys are amazing students of course when you're asleep you like your snoring so all of the nose words are slurred words because you know language evolves from a root like a simple root so you know we have the snow his nose and so all of the nose words of snow but my my favorite thing is how um how the Spanish stole the word sniff from English and turned it into sniffing and change the meaning completely okay so let's um let's have a look at next page next page huh okay here we go come on camera okay so he grabbed up a chest with the end of his now this is a chest a chest okay because it just think about it this is your chest right this is your chest your chest is made of your ribs that protect your heart look at that strong chest just like that that thing okay which protects the the treasure okay your chest so chest with the end of his snout they opened the lid with a squeal of delight so onomatopoeia for the chest contain treasure all glittering brights glitter now I want you to just remember that word glitter because here's another root blue blur that glitter that blur roots gives us so much vocabulary you'll see you'll see in a moment okay so here we go this I need to turn the camera so we are rich they cried out as they clean themselves down and clutching the chest they set off for the town the noise of the traffic alarmed the two pigs and Bertha clung tight to the trata of pixel look at this we have clung so the infinitive is cling and then we have clutch so again we have this similar thing cling clutch we have the club as cliff sounds and what do you call this if it's an animal who knows what the color word is for an animal hmm who can does anybody know this vocabulary very good Cal silvus Trini ever LAX's in there Nadia court Ava it is a claw so you see we're starting to develop this this sort of like a a very low like like a like a dictionary of roots so we have the the claw and the clutch and the cling and the clasp ok so if you have like a bag but maybe if you have a bag you know when you when you close the bag this class wow that's really strong you know you can sort of guess a clip that is a clip clip you guys are amazing what an amazing group of students very nice very nice ok so again let's go back here so Bertha clung tight to the trata of Briggs Trotter so oh Carlos good question is clap related to claw and clean and clutch I don't know maybe let's say yes if it helps you to remember it great so so you a Trotter now this is an example of what they call back formation so Trotter started as a verb ok so you know maybe if you speak Spanish or Italian I liked what they are ok they have the verb which means an animal walks the animal walks and then from the verb trotty are we we make a noun so now this is a Trotter because you use the Trotter to trot a out or trot out ok no it's not a strata do you ever deal bad verb endings Christian I in Italian trattoria so and I don't know in in Italian what is the name for the for the foot in Spanish is a petunia which is the two are not related in Italian I don't know ah Allah o Allah PA Adi remember guys Italian 101 if you want to speak Italian this is this is it okay this is everything is Italian when you do this okay so Briggs was soon dreaming of shiny new cars while Bertha gazed into shop windows for hours gays this is to cater this look for a long time it's different from staring staring is kind of like rude staring like this you know when I live in a small town if you come to the small town people will stare at you who is this new guy in town hmm staring at you but gazing is more positive gazing is like like if you're a woman and you're having dinner with George Clooney you decide you know just looking at my arm so look she's gazing she's gazing in the windows look she's gazing thinking about those beautiful dresses and look at this they came to a bank and looked shyly about till the manager angrily ordered them out okay so let's let's think about this this quite quite a common adjective shy what does it mean when you're shy it actually means that you're you're scared so this is the adverb shyly but the adjective the more common adjective is shy so so shy shy means you're scared right and what do you do when you're scared you you try to escape the situation so maybe you know you're shy because you don't like talking to people so you you try to avoid the people because you're shy now you will find the root of this word in other Romance languages in in Spanish it's Escobar to Escobar is to like dodge right so here's the here's the the person trying to talk to you like no you're trying to ask you about in Italian it's ski ski Varde you're trying to ski valley it's the same thing so in English it's shy you're trying to to you know avoid that thing you're shy and and also in English think about the you know when if you want something to go away or like shoo shoo it's the same thing you're shy you're like go away it's exactly like timid it's a synonym for timid okay so let's let's have a look at the next section okay here we go so the bank manager he tells them to go away and then he sees the treasure chest and he says he ordered them out then he noticed the box and his eyes had a gleam like a wily old fox a gleam now remember I told you to remember the word from before which was which was glittering remember that they said the treasure the treasure was glittering so here's another route so glittering is something that's shiny a bright glittering and then we have gleam his eyes had a gleam in that shining bright light and then we have other words like glisten you know when you come out of the water and you have your skin is like glistening it's all sound very similar all related cyst is seeing and this brightness glow you know a light it glows go via great a great little phrase all that glitters is not gold also there was a film with Mariah Carey called glitter I don't recommend what you sorry Mariah and then we have glimmer there's another word which is similar glimmer and glint so all of these kind of globe words that related very similar sort of meanings ok so that's let's go back and okay here we go so so Briggs lifted the lid of the treasure so rare the manager gasps and said well I declare he bowed and he scraped and he said with a purr what a great sentence what are now now look at this with a purr now let me ask you what animal purrs who knows what animal purrs in English it's not a pig Prince math my nan Prince math and need to bench it exactly it's a cat a cat purrs it's an onomatopoeia automatic and and this this type of this type of like metaphor so saying he is purring he's like oh oh the trash don't you know when you're writing don't be afraid to use that you know take the characteristic of an animal or a machine okay you could a lion a lion can also purr so maybe if we say that we could say that he roared at them a common thing to say in English he roared at me it's like a lion rap so don't be afraid to take characteristics and use them in your writing to be to be creative in Portuguese or melodia in Spanish it's our own Ronnie our if you if you can't roll your R's it doesn't sound the same ido ronnie best verb ever best and yes so and also it says this here says look he bowed and he scraped bound I talked about this before bow is something which is bent right for example you have your bow and arrow because your bow is like this you have a rainbow with a rainbow and you have here your elbow because but but if I if I want to be reverential to you I bow you see I'm bowing and my body look my body is bent I'm bowing and he scraped so he bowed and he scraped he did this with his hand scraped on the floor oh let me give you money okay okay one final thing one final thing around here we go so I will give you some cash mr. Briggs if I may you will find it is simpler than jewels when you pay you see because this is full of jewels jewels now jewels it comes from Latin the Latin Latin it's Jo Carly I don't know why I always say Latin with an Italian accent just seems right I don't know jo Carly and so jewels are called Jo Carly because in Latin chocolate means something that makes you happy jewels make you happy right so Carly the jewels that make you happy and it's the same Latin roots as the English word joke so a joke makes you laugh a jerk makes you happy and so do the jewels you see look how happy they are it's not related to joy but it's similar similar route but not the same okay where is okay one one final word from this page episode 30 a very nice Goa very nice okay thank you oh thank you said Bertha with glee come Briggs let us start on our great shopping spree so again we have that word Glee she says that with Glee she's very happy because remember the glue the glue is things that are very bright and very shiny and things that are bright are things that are happy son is happy bright is happy a bright person is an intelligent person Glee is happiness gleeful is happiness very good go veered very good okay just one little thing yeah anyway I hope I hope that you guys are enjoying this some this this what can I say this thorough reading of a book about pigs who knew I bet that you never guessed that I was going to read you a book about pigs so coolly yes glee can be an adjective or a noun and an adverb gleefully okay so look at this so here we go here she is trying on dresses she's so happy they went to a large and luxurious store where Bertha bought dresses and hats by the score score what a score mean score actually means 2020 now we in English we make fun of the French system of counting like in French if you want to say like 95 you have to say catheter catheter Bank oh my god I don't know how to say how do you say how do you say 15 a French cat can clams couple of my cows I think captain van can help me if you're French help me here so so so score means means 20 right so in French you were saying four times 20 is 80 and then 15 is fifth and I think it's Kansas yes so four times 20 so Canada fan now in English in the past we did exactly the same thing if you listen to one of the most famous speeches in all of English is Abraham Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address so you know Abraham Lincoln was the famous American president with the hat and the goatee Abraham Lincoln and the first sentence of of the Gettysburg Address is four score and seven years ago now most people have no idea what that means but what he's saying is 87 years ago the same as in French for score so four times 20 is eighty and seven four score and seven years ago so when when when they're saying that she's buying dresses by the score was Saint by the 20s and the 20s hundreds of dresses many many dresses okay let's continue let's continue so brick Stern was next and he felt quite a swell he tried on four suits and they fit him quite well as swell swell now if you're interested in in in the ocean if you're interested in boats then the swell is very important so you have waves okay have big waves but the swell the swell is the difference between the the the lowest point of the wave and the highest point that's your swell so honor honor on a calm day when the water is very calm the swell is is nothing maybe no 30 centimetres of swell right like this very gentle very gentle but then if it's a storm maybe you have a 5 metre swell where the difference between the highest point of the water and the lowest point is extremely exaggerated that swell and so think about that big thing so he feels I'm the number one big I got the money and the suit I'm swollen swollen you know if you maybe if you twist your you twist your your your your wrist it's swollen it's the same thing it swells up so he feels swollen okay so here we go 97 in French is katha divan captive Andi set woof 4 2010 6 come on French you can you can I have to say congratulations on winning the World Cup good job France good job friends and now I'm sure that maybe one of the big clubs in the Premier League will pay out of our 700 million pounds for birthday no problems okay so let's continue okay so here we go from the store to the showrooms was not very far so they hurried to buy an expensive new car this model is the latest the car salesman said then I'll have it said to said Briggs feeling light in the head why it's like he feels like I'm head like oh wow this is so good I'm gonna what a great thing what a great thing I got and yes why not so in jumped the two pigs and they sped on their way so look at this verb we're using speed as a verb nice okay and look at this jumped they jumped into the car you know when you're writing when you're expressing yourself okay Gosha says they don't have a driver's license yeah it's true but yeah because they're pigs with money they can do whatever they want you know when you're writing don't be afraid to use verbs that are maybe not you know not not that you would associate with with that action so you know you're jumping in the car you're not in the car jumping you know means you jumped in the car you went quickly and then you speed on your way please don't be afraid to experiment you know good writers good writers break the rules they use language in in unexpected ways it's not about being safe it's about pushing the limits you know so you could say they jumped in the car or what about some other verbs they slid into the car they rolled into the car they tornado do use it as a verb why not they tornadoes into the car you know whatever you want there are no rules well there are some rules but please break them I want to see I want to see all of you breaking the breaking the breaking the rules okay let's son okay so listen Raphael has a great question which is should I stop and look for their definitions to learn more vocabulary or should I learn it by context look I'm I'm going through a lot of words today you know I'm talking about maybe 40 or 50 words there is no way that you are going to remember that many that many vocabulary words it's impossible in one day no and it takes I think if you're reading a book and you're enjoying the book don't ruin the fun don't don't spoil the fun by going to the dictionary and looking at every word because it makes it more it makes it more like studying you know do do two words or three and then use them in that day and then they'll be there forever that that's you know this is not not only because it's boring right but because our our short-term and long-term memories have very strict limits you know if you try to to force yourself to learn 50 words in a day it's just not number one you probably want okay maybe if you're a really disciplined person you will but what's the point you learn 50 today and 50 tomorrow and at the end of the week you have 250 new words but you've never used them in context you know you've never they're not I think it's the difference between having vocabulary and actually using it it's like I have all these books but I never read the books what's the point you know you can say to your friends hey I was on I was on memorize yesterday and this week I've memorized 5,000 words I don't I don't care I'm not impressed not impressed at all if you said to me you know this week I learned ten words and I wrote this poem then I'm impressed yeah that I'm impressed because that's that's what it's about about taking it in really understanding it and then spitting it out again but you know that's just my opinion okay let's continue I'm sorry I'm talking a lot today I'm talking one okay let's continue so they they went to an agent who handed to Briggs some pictures of houses just right for two pigs so Bertha soon spotted the house with most charm charm so there's two things I want to talk about spotted spotted now what is a spot now maybe if you're having a bad skin day you have a spot on your face no pimple or maybe if you're eating spaghetti bolognaise see and you have you know when you're eating spaghetti and it it sprays everywhere ah I hate that so you maybe your t-shirt is covered in spots of spaghetti bolognaise sauce me like oh my god was now this is actually related to this verb to spot because in the past to spot was only when you saw a bad person maybe a criminal or a thief or like a trickster so that that person that that that bad person that criminal that thief is like these spots they're dirty they are they're negative and so you spot them but then over time it changed to mean to see something in general to see something in general so you can so here they spotted they spotted the house so like our house I spot it Oh Francesco to paulus controversial opinion spaghetti bolognese is tagliatelle with ragu I don't know I think the Mafia is going to hunt you down my friends don't talk about spaghetti bolognaise like that the Padrino okay let's let's have a look at this okay so they spotted the house with the most charm charm charm now this is the and the the adjective charm and you can also use the adjective like charming you can say he's a charming person what a charming man now in in Spanish it's it's it's it's a nombre in come to order and we we now we're in the Spanish route maybe in if you speak a European language is something similar it comes from Latin do you know the very famous opera Carmen I think it's one of the most famous operas Carmen well in latin carmen means song so the name of the opera is actually song so carmen means song and a song can have this effect on you right this effect on you especially if you use a song to make magic right like in Harry Potter I don't know abracadabra and Maximus phileas I don't know any spells I don't know any magic but but this idea of singing a song or words that can create magic and create feeling that's what that's what this is charming is about so a charming man or a charming woman they're doing magic on you Wow they they sort of they capture you with magic Wingardium Leviosa i what does that mean Wingardium Leviosa flying wingman to rope into well no to rope into means that you you force somebody to do something they don't want to do imagine a cowboy a cowboy has the rope and he throws the rope over you and pulls you when he's roping you in you don't want to but he's like come here and do it come on okay okay let's so let's let's finish this book so spotted the house with most charm the one they'd seen from the gate on the farm the agent escorted them both to the door then let them left them alone to go in and explore that night they were happy as two pigs could be and they talked and planned until well after three after three in the in the morning but they were tossing and turning twixt blankets and sheets are twixt twixt now this is an old English word to remember this book is from 1973 you don't say this anymore that the word is betwixt which which means exactly the same thing as between so he was in the bed he was tossing and turning between the blankets and the sheets okay between waves of sheet and he hardly slept on account of the heat hardly hardly does not mean hard hardly means not at all or very very not at all no he's very very little very little okay so barely and scarcely very good go via so Bertha made brick first Briggs putted about which means he did nothing in particular like looking around yeah he polished the car so there he is come on focus camera seriously hello so he polished the car she's cleaning the house so Bertha cooked dinner and Briggs sat and read he made some phone calls and they watched TV nothing particularly exciting there okay now one day feeling Restless with nothing to do while Bertha was busy preparing as Stu now does anybody here know what a Stu is Stu it's a very important very important thing very good ever lakhs very good and cow exactly exactly so you can see you can see the roots so in in in Spanish as s too far in French in autonomous Tafari in French is it - there you can you can they all sound very similar they all mean very similar thing and they mean a hot bath you know like if you go to to Turkey if you go to Turkey and they have the big room with all of the steam and it's very hot and this big Turkish man who like beats your entire body with any walks on your back ok that's that's a hot bath and a hot bath is a stew because what you do is you take the meat and you take the vegetables and you take you take all the ingredients and you put them together in a hot bath and you boil them so ask you is this one pot with stuff in it I think every country has a variation of stew like you know you have the name I mean that you have stews in your country right I assume you all have a type of you know when you put all the ingredients meat and vegetables in a pot with water and you boil and boil for hours in Iran Gautama sub Z but is Ghormeh sabzi the food or the place with the big man beats the yeah yeah yeah honey yes me how's my pronunciation and Italians too fatty can you can hear the same stews de facto excuse okay so he's driving through the green countryside speeding down lanes that were not very wide suddenly out of the engine there shot a cloud of black smoke and steam boiling hot the car gave a cough and a lurch and a lead so what we're doing is we are taking human characteristics we're taking human characteristics and putting them on a car a car can't cough that's for humans or animals coughing but we're using it so for a bit you know we're using it for a literary effect so the car coughed and it lurched to lurch is to do this too much so you can imagine the car doing this okay and it leaped to leave is to jump very far so you can imagine the cars like you know when you're when you're learning to drive and you're not very good with the clutch and the accelerator and the car is going in English we call those bunny hops because it's like a rabbit like a rabbit jumping I did that a lot it was a horrible horrible experience okay so yeah so the car gave a coffin allergen a leap and then rolled to a halt near a flock of white sheep so flock is the name for a group of sheep okay maybe you know this word from the Latin focus which means like hair a bunch of hair a bunch of wool so Briggs lifted the hood this is the hood of the car okay the hood lifted the hood and he prodded about to prod this to poke like this with your fingerprint because but the cause of the trouble could not be found the longer he struggled the madder he got look at this construction the longer the madder the longer the matter great comparative construction so comparative it's a fixed construction so we say the with the comparative adjective and then the with another comparative adjective so the more pizza I eat the happier I am the the the more the more I study the more I know the faster I eat the the the worse the pain so there's something that's a great comparative structure to experiment with okay so till at last in despair very tied in to what he threw down the wrench and he uttered a moan there's our moan again oh he just have to start on the long walk back home so this is a this is a wrench this is a wrench so when he opened the door bricks instantly knew that Bertha's new gadgets were troubling to gadgets gadgets are like things like for example a telephone is a gadget this is like a gadget normally electronic or mechanical devices that that we don't know and and this comes from sailors so there is a word in French which is - it sounds very similar geshe which is a part of a lock so it's a very small mechanical thing and so the sailors on the boat they were like past me there the cash it's like a ship the thing the thing of me Bob they're watching I call it the who to be flip it's like a word for something you don't know the word for a gadget in a gizmo is another one similar so in um in Spanish it's choose me I mean that means choose me yeah okay okay let's let's continue with the with this so Oh Briggs Bertha solved what a miserable day I've been working so hard I've had no time to play from that moment on nothing seemed to go right look at the washing machine destroyed the clothes house garden and pigs were a terrible sight at last the two pigs they couldn't stand any more they couldn't tolerate it Briggs grabbed Bertha's arms and they dashed through the door dashed - you know this thing it's called this thing this little mark okay the technical name is a - but a lot of people call it a - because think about that you have the pen and you it's something like quick and fast good - like what's your email address Christian - quickly so you - out the door and if you watch The Incredibles you know the the Pixar film The Incredibles the little boy who can run really fast his name is - okay so from the garden they're gay so again we have the gays to look to look like to look with love they gazed at the country beyond beyond and Briggs in a rage he pushed his car in the pond they felt no regrets as they ran through the gate and away from the life they had grown to hate they pulled off their clothes and ran on faster still they didn't look back as they tore up the hill breathless with no breath they ran through the orchard remember that old yes the vegetable garden gate for a roll in the mud in the mud the two pigs couldn't wait to be careless and free and to romp to romp means to play was all they wanted to do every day that night as they lay gazing up at the sky again gazing with love birther and Briggs heaved a rapturous sigh let's stay here forever said Bertha de Briggs and they fell fast asleep too tired happy pigs so that's it I hope that you enjoyed reading the pig book with me and I hope that you really learnt some new vocabulary and just maybe I don't know just enjoyed just enjoyed reading a book in a pure way for a short time just like it's just like a child so that's it that's it I hope I've inspired you to go and read some books this week you know even if it's one book or half a book great if you can read five books great so yeah thank you very much for watching now I'm going to prepare my my next classes for YouTube this week I'm going to upload some some grammar videos or going back to basics a lot of people have been asking me about the difference between will and going to and I'm going to answer that question I will answer it and yes so so thank you all very much you guys are incredible students and I'll see you I'll see you all very soon so I'm Christian this is kangaroo English I'll see you in class lots of love bye

Channel: Canguro English

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Length: 74min 28sec (4468 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 16 2018