In this English lesson, I'm going to teach you
some English phrases about beauty.
And of course, I'm going to show you lots of flowers
here on our flower farm.
So if you like learning English and you like flowers,
stick around, I think you'll enjoy this lesson.
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Well, hello and welcome to this English lesson
where I'm going to help you learn some English phrases
that you can use to talk about beauty.
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Well, the first flower I want to talk about is the zinnia.
The zinnia is an amazing flower.
It comes in all different colors.
It looks beautiful in bouquets and people love them.
But it reminds me of the English phrase
beauty is only skin deep.
The phrase beauty is only skin deep basically means
that a person might look very attractive,
but on the inside, their actual personality
might not be that good.
So when you see a very handsome man
or a very beautiful woman,
they might not actually be that nice.
They might be kind of mean.
They might be prone to jealousy,
or just not a very nice person.
So we would use the phrase beauty is only skin deep.
If you look out in the distance,
you can see Jen is getting ready
to water some of her flowers.
She has just hooked up a hose.
She's getting ready to water the zinnias.
The zinnias need a lot of water.
They're one of our thirstiest plants.
And if we turn, you'll see her helper.
Right here sitting on the lawnmower is Oscar.
He is almost always in the field with Jen
when she is working on the flowers.
He is a great helper.
Most of the time, he helps by laying in the shade
or by chasing rabbits or squirrels.
Let's just get a little closer and say hi.
Hi, Oscar.
He doesn't really like the camera, but I think he smiled.
This flower is called sedum
and not everyone thinks it's a beautiful flower.
It's not super colorful,
but I think it's an amazingly beautiful flower.
And it reminds me of the English phrase
beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
When you say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder,
it means the person who's looking at it
thinks it's attractive or interesting.
You can say this about people as well.
There might be people in the world
that you don't think are beautiful,
but other people think they're beautiful or handsome.
And in that situation, we would say,
you know, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
One of my favorite flowers on the farm
is a flower called lisianthus.
It is a small, delicate flower.
It looks a little bit like a rose.
And I would describe it by saying
it's a real thing of beauty.
in English when you say something is a real thing of beauty,
or when you say something is a thing of beauty,
it means that you find it exceptionally beautiful.
It means that it has certain little characteristics
that make it extremely attractive,
extremely pretty, and very, very beautiful.
So the lisianthus is a flower where I would use that term.
It is a real thing of beauty.
On our farm we plant sunflowers every week.
Because we only get one flower from every seed,
we have to have a constant source of sunflower plants.
So you can see here the baby sunflowers,
we would call these the seedlings.
You can see that this little cart of sunflowers
is ready to be taken to the field.
They're loaded up. They're ready to go for a little ride.
And later today they will be planted in the ground.
Once the seedlings are big enough,
we start to plant them out in the field.
You can see this row is small.
This row is a little bit bigger.
And this row over here is bigger yet.
And you can see these are bigger yet.
These are even bigger.
And if we go far enough, you'll start to see
that some of them have small flowers
just starting to open.
And of course the final stage in the whole process
is when we put them into bunches
so that we can sell them at our local market.
We usually put them into bunches of six,
if they're really, really big.
But if they're a bit smaller,
we sometimes put them into bunches of seven or eight.
The sunflower is a very happy flower.
When we sell it to people at market,
they often tell us how happy this flower makes them.
And this reminds me of the English phrase
that's the beauty of it.
When something has a characteristic of making it beautiful,
when something has a certain element to it,
a certain aspect that makes people happy,
or it makes people feel a certain way,
we say that's the beauty of it.
It's just a way of highlighting and defining
what you really like about that thing.
And for sunflowers, it's definitely the fact
that they make people happy.
That's the beauty of it.
So I'm out here in the dahlia patch,
and we grow a lot of different kinds of dahlias.
They are like zinnias in a way,
in the sense that they come in a lot of different colors.
But there's one dahlia in particular that's a beauty.
In English, when you say something's a beauty,
it's when you just say the thing itself is so beautiful
you're going to use the word beauty to talk about it.
That dahlia is called the cafe au lait.
The cafe au lait dahlia is about the size of my hand,
sometimes bigger, and it comes in two colors.
It comes in a slightly purple color
and it comes in this really nice,
almost like a mocha coffee color.
It is a beauty.
So some of you might recognize this flower.
It's called a marigold.
Our marigolds are ready a little bit early this year.
We grow a slightly larger variety.
We grow a variety that has really long stems
so that we can put them in bouquets.
People like the fact that they're beautiful,
but they also like the way that they smell.
Well thank you so much for watching this English lesson,
where I got to show you some of the flowers on our farm
and where I hope you were able to learn
some new English phrases to talk about beauty.
I do have one last phrase to teach you though.
(yawns) I need to go in the house now and have a nap.
I need my beauty sleep.
In English when you say that you need your beauty sleep,
it means you need to have a good nap or a good night's sleep
in order to stay handsome or beautiful. (laughs)
Sorry, I'm making myself laugh when I say that.
So when I'm done editing this video,
I will have a nap because I need my beauty sleep.
Anyways, thanks for watching.
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