hey there i'm ronnie
this is a piece of wood it's really nice
for
pretending to play baseball or
making a shelf it's also a homophone um
this piece of wood w-o-o-d
is the exact same pronunciation as a
modal verb
w-o-u-l-d so it's very confusing
because we want to say world order you
like to
play baseball with me but actually the
pronunciation is
the same as this wood so
you're going to learn some homophones
and the really cool thing about this is
you're going to learn about
one of my favorite things in the world
trees trees are amazing
and you're going to learn english and
about trees in the same
lesson the value of this lesson
it's just outrageous really when you
think about it so um
let's learn english with some trees or
one tree badly drawn
i didn't draw this i don't know how to
draw somebody else drew this it wasn't
me
and i definitely love trees a lot and
i do live in a tree so this is actually
my house
and these are the parts of my house
the outside part of the bottom of the
tree
is called bark we'll get to that later
the big
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brown usually brown part of the bottom
of the tree is called a trunk
we have leaves which is the plural
of leaf hold on
look at this spelling here this is crazy
so in singular
we say leaf l-e-a-f but
when we make it plural we have to change
the
f to a v
and add es and this is just really
crazy that english does this
people who made english before said so
let's spell it l-e-a-f
or other words k-n-i-f
knife e k-n-i-e but when we make it
plural let's just not put an
e-s or an e or an s let's just
change it and put a v and then an e and
an s
as well so leaf becomes leaves
and yeah the spelling's a little bit
mental but
hey we're learning english and there's a
lot more
um the large part of
the tree that grows out of the trunk is
called a branch
the trunk is the base of it and then we
have roots
roots are in under the ground and they
stabilize the tree sometimes the roots
you can see them on the ground you can
flip over them i've done that i flipped
over a root before
um when we cut the tree you killed the
tree
we can get wood from it as i showed you
and
um larger pieces before we actually cut
it into slices
it's called a log so the basic
anatomy of a tree we have leaves leaf
branch trunk the roots and the bark
now the cool thing about this is that
when they were making english language
you're like oh let's
let's have some fun with trees and let's
take verbs and nouns and give them
the same word but let's let's make them
completely different from a tree so
they did this first of all bark is a
verb
and it's what dogs do now i'm not sure
if dogs have their own language
and it's interesting that dogs kind of
understand other languages
because my dog speaks english and
understands japanese which i think is
pretty cool but he barks
so my dog barks
at everyone so bark is a verb and this
is what
dogs speak dogs speak cats say meow
and dogs bark next one we have a log
so if you are a star trek
not wars okay star trek fan you're gonna
know
that in the narrative they say captain's
log stargate
is 42. and a captain's log is a journal
so this is something for a boat
a captain can be on a spaceship because
they exist or a boat
and a log is basically a journal of
their travels
now the funny thing is log is also
slang for turd and you can see by my
picture i do this picture
the deterred is a piece of poo okay so
it's usually a large piece of poo maybe
you go to the toilet like
wow who dropped the log in the toilet
we're not talking about a piece of wood
here
this is a big poo or a big jobby
that someone has put in the toilet and
it's funny
okay let's go right to this one wood
is also a homophone
as i said we have this word w-o-u-l-d
and we try our hardest to say all of
these letters
well you like something but actually you
don't have to you can just say would
as a modal verb would you like
a hamburger okay
would is a homophone as a noun
in slang would means an erection
for men obviously um we
we more say morning would so a man could
wake up in the morning say
i have a morning wood darling and this
means that
he has an erection so wood has very
wonderful wonderful connotations at the
same time
another homophone we have is a root in
the singular
is the homophone of
the way that we take on a highway
there's a very famous
highway in america called route 66 but
the
spelling without the s is exactly the
same
so r-o-u-t-e is the exact same as
r-o-o-t root
also has its meaning of his own it's the
bottom part of your teeth which can make
sense or bottom part of your tooth
you might have to go to the dentist and
have a root canal
it's very expensive okay and a root
canal
means that there's a problem with the
roots of your teeth
so trees have roots and so do our teeth
root
also means the source origin
or basic cause of something so you might
hear somebody say
the root of all evil is money
and you're like but a tree has roots but
it just has a different meaning
what is the root of your problem this
means what's what's hidden underground
that we can't see that's causing this
problem so
this is kind of a fun word a trunk
is the back storage
compartment of a car now when i was
writing this as a this seems
very very formal to call it a storage
compartment
but it is so if you've got some crap
you open it you put it in the trunk you
close it you're done famous for dead
bodies that's where you put them
you don't put them in the front seat
because then you'll see stick them in
the trunk
interestingly enough too in
the uk they don't call it a trunk they
call it a boot
and trees don't have boots so we're not
going there hold on
people from the uk we'll do that in the
next lesson
branch is a local office
of a larger corporation so if we have a
wonderful corporation called
ingvid.com wonderful
by the way if you've never seen it
engvid.com
okay um we can say the toronto branch
of ingvid and you think it's a tree but
it's
but you can think of it like the trunk
is
the main part and then the branch or the
other offices
that emanate from the one main
corporation that'll work and this is
always fun
leaf so the leaf is a noun it's a
beautiful green or blue or red thing
that grows off of a tree
and we can use this as a verb
and if you read the sentence i leaf
through magazines do you remember
magazines when you went to the doctor's
office or the dentist's office there are
these
wonderful pieces of pictures and glossy
things you don't need and you could
you can look at them and leaf through
them so if you
leaf through a book it means that you
kind of don't actually
read it you just look at it and pretend
to read it
make sure it's not upside down because
that's a dead giveaway that you're not
actually reading something
but if you leave sue something it means
you look at it quickly
it's in my notebook okay um magazines
are
done now because everyone just stares at
their phones
but you're staring at your phone now
watching this so keep
on concentrating do not pick up that
magazine that does not exist
so we can lead through a magazine and
we can put a leaf in
not on but a leaf in the table
because we need a bigger table let me
explain
growing up i had a family we had dinner
and we ate dinner at a table i know
that's shocking but it's true
and we had four people we sat around the
table eight
that was fun sometimes other people
would come to our house
and the table wasn't big enough for our
guests so
we had to expand the table pulled one
side
pulled the other side and then we put
this other piece of wood in the middle
voila we have a bigger table
this piece of wood that extended the
table
guess what it's called it's called a
leaf
so my parents would say okay put the
leaf
in the table we need a bigger table
so it's an extension of the table
be careful with your prepositions of
this point
if they said hey ronnie can you put the
leaf on the table
i would have to go to the tree outside
and get a leaf
and put it on the surface or on top of
it so be careful with prepositions
if you have to put the leaf in the table
you're extending the table
but if you put something on like the
book
it's going to be on top of something on
the surface of it
so i really love this one
this one's fun because it helps you
remember two things first of all
leaves this crazy spelling
and it really is going to help you
remember this verb
so in the present tense we have i
leave tomorrow but remember if we have
he she or it you have to make it
plural with an s so you have to say he
leaves
tomorrow look at that that's the same
word so
the leaf leaves tomorrow
it's gonna drop you can now make
as many wonderful jokes about leaving
and leaves and trees
as you would like but let me leave you
with my personal favorite from grade
three
i'm gonna make like a tree and leave