Because... oopsies.
Hi guys, welcome back to English with Max.
Today I have a craft and DIY vocabulary video for you. So we will look at nouns
and verbs related to craft and DIY. DIY simply means do-it-yourself, and
normally it refers to doing things around the house, like decorating,
renovating or repairing. But sometimes people also use the term "DIY" for crafts.
You've probably heard lots of teachers say that it's best to learn
vocabulary in context, and repetition is also important. Which is why I'm going to
do a demonstration for you today. If you don't know what I'm talking about,
don't worry, you will see, there is method in the madness.
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CC button. Okay, let's get started. Now because it's the Christmas season,
I thought we could make a beautiful Christmas decoration. To make this
decoration what you need is: a piece of green cardboard, you will need a marker,
a pencil, a ruler, a paperclip, some sequins,
some ribbon, some scissors. Remember this is... it's not countable. You can't say "a scissors".
You have to say "some scissors" or simply "scissors".
And finally you will need some glue. It's best if you can find some wood glue or
craft glue. Those are basically the same things. It's for gluing... what? Material,
like fabric, paper or cardboard. But if you don't have that, you can use super glue.
Super glue is the really powerful glue that can glue your fingertips together
or your eyelids. I don't know why you would have it near your eyes, but
it's good to know the risks. I'm sure it's happened. Okay.
So let's get started. You need to get your cardboard and draw the shape of a
Christmas tree. It will be easier if you use a ruler.
Once you have drawn the shape of your Christmas tree,
you need to get your scissors, and cut it out. Cut out.
Okay. Oh shoot. I forgot the little thing... What's that called?
Anyway, you know what I mean, this bit here.
So we'll get one... we'll get a piece of this. A piece of... another piece of cardboard.
Cut it. Now we'll get some sticky tape
and we will stick it to that. Okay, there we go. That's better.
So a little bit on this side. Okay, now we are going to take our marker and draw the tinsel.
It's really strange. This tiny little thing, can be called so many things.
Some people call them felt-tip markers. In the US they're sometimes called magic markers,
or sometimes Sharpie, because - oopsies - because Sharpie is a brand.
In Australia we call them Textas because Texta is a brand. But if you
call them markers or felt-tip pens, everybody will understand you. Okay, so
you take your marker and you draw some tinsel.
Just something like that.
Okay, now we are going to add some sequins.
So you need to open the packet.
Oops.
Shit.
Now to stick the sequins to your tree, you're going to need some glue.
We'll first put it here. Okay. Like this.
Then you are going to take... What did I do with that? Oh yes, a toothpick
and you're going to put some glue onto the tree. Just like that.
Little dots where we can then put the sequins on.
Okay, once you've put the glue on, you can put your sequins on.
I hope they stick.
Yes, life is sometimes kind.
Oh doesn't that look pretty?
Right, so you will have something that looks like that.
Just gorgeous. Now, of course, we need something to attach it
to the tree, because this is a Christmas tree decoration. What you can do is get a
paperclip and then bend it. So "to bend" means to to do something like that.
Like to go like that. So we're going to bend the paperclip to make something
that will allow us to attach it to the tree. So we need to put a little hole in here.
Oops. Be careful of your fingers.
Pencil!
Okay.
There we go.
And that is...
That is a bit shit. I think it will be much better though
if we used some ribbon. Okay, so we take out the paper clip.
Ah yes, we'll use some green ribbon. Ribbon, traditionally, was made of fabric.
So traditionally ribbon is something like this. But nowadays ribbon is often
made of plastic and things like that.
Okay, so we'll take some ribbon - probably enough.
And then once you have it through the hole... Oops, they're falling off. I'll fix that later.
You can then tie a knot. We need to do a double knot
if it's going to stay. So we have the single knot, and then we can do a double knot.
There we go, that is much better. If you don't have any ribbon, you can use string.
This is string. When string starts to get a bit thick, it...
Well, we no longer call it string. We start to call it rope. So if you have
something like this, something that's quite thick. I mean rope can be like
really thick, you know like the things that they use on boats, but we would also
call this rope. String is something quite thin.
I think we're done.
What do you think, Frank? Do you think it's beautiful? He's so loyal.
Thanks very much for watching, guys. I hope you've learnt something.
If you didn't learn any vocabulary, then hopefully you've learnt some craft skills.
If you liked the video, please hit the thumbs up button, and don't hesitate to
leave a comment down below. I probably won't see you before Christmas, so if you
celebrate Christmas, I would just like to wish you and your families a very Merry Christmas.
See you next time!