Hi, Bob the Canadian here.
Last week when I shot a video there was an enormous amount of snow.
And as you can see behind me, it has all melted just a little bit.
Now if you noticed I just used two words there.
I used the word, “enormous” to represent a large amount, and “little” to represent
a small amount.
And in this video we’re going to look at a number of adjectives that you can use to
describe size.
So as I was looking through a lot of the messages that you have sent me on Facebook, I noticed
that there’s a theme.
A lot of you were asking about how to talk about size.
How to use the words “little”.
How to use the words “big”.
And what are more words you can use to describe the size of something.
So in this video, I’m going to talk about size, and we’re going to work from small
to large.
When we talk about size.
So from the smallest end we begin with words like, “miniscule” or “microscopic”.
And this would refer to things that are so small you actually would need a microscope
in order to be able to see them.
So microscopic is obviously from the word microscope.
So it would refer to something like a small piece of dust that you had in your eye.
I have a microscopic piece of dust in my eye, or I have a miniscule piece of dust in my
eye.
Moving up to something a little bigger we would use the words “little”, “small”,
and “tiny”.
So these refer to things that are quite small, but easy to see.
So for instance you might say, “I’ll have a little piece of cake.”
Meaning that you don’t want very much.
You might say, “Oh look over there, there are some small children playing.”
Because children are obviously smaller than adults.
Or you might say, “I’ll just have a tiny bit of sugar in my tea or coffee.”
Referring to that you just want a tiny small small amount.
Moving up from that we have words like, “average” or “medium”.
So for instance you’ll see this a lot of times on a crime drama if you watch tv.
Someone will be asked to describe a person and they’ll describe the person as, “They
were about average size.”.
“They were about a medium size person.”
So referring to the fact that they’re not small, but they’re also not tall in any
way.
Now we move into words like, “big” words like “large”.
This refers to obviously to somebody or something that’s quite a bit bigger than small or
medium.
A large person would be at least six feet tall, and excuse me, I know I am Canadian,
and I should know know my metric sizes, but I think it would be someone who is more 200
centimeters tall.
A big person though would someone who is not just tall, but also just body size they are
larger than the normal person.
So we would have a large person or a big person.
Not to be confused with tall which just refers to someone’s height.
After that we have a number of words to describe things that are extremely big.
So we have words like, “huge” “humongous” “gigantic” “enormous”.
You would use that to describe things like a large airplane.
You would say, “I came on an enormous airplane.”
You would use it to describe things like, “Last week we had a snowfall, it was a gigantic
amount of snow.”
Another word you could use is the word, “massive”.
“Last week we had a massive amount of snow come down.”
Or “On my way to work there was an enormous amount of traffic.
There was a gigantic amount of traffic.”
I just want to check my notes because I had a few other words written down.
I just want make sure that I talked about, oh, immense is another word.
“I had an immense amount of fun when I went out with you last week.”
So immense is another word to describe size.
Lastly, I just want to talk about in North America when you go into a restaurant or coffee
shop and you order something to drink we use sizes to determine how big of a cup you would
want.
So for instance you could go into a restaurant a small cup of tea, you could order a medium
cup of coffee, you could order a large soft drink or you could order an extra large.
And so those are the standard four sizes we also have extra small sometimes, and there
is things like I know certain stores have something bigger than an extra large and they
have their own name for it.
So hopefully this video helped you a bit in terms of understanding size.
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I hope you’re having a great weekend.
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