hi welcome to Ingrid I'm Adam in today's
video we're gonna look at measurements
and we're gonna look at measurements in
everyday uses so these are measurements
that you will hear and have to say
pretty regularly when we're talking
about people or food or drinks or places
like distances etc so I'm gonna start
with people and basically when we talk
about measurements we're gonna talk
about a person's height and a person's
weight okay so let's talk about height
so I'm gonna use the measure six foot
two so for example I am six feet two
inches tall so if somebody asks me how
tall are you
more most commonly I will say I'm 6 2 6
2 everybody understands 6 is feet and
this is the symbol for feet 2 is inches
and that's the symbol for inches okay
one apostrophe or quote double quote so
how tall you I'm 6 2 but if I want to
expand I can say I'm 6 foot 2 I can put
the actual unit of measure we're talking
about feet one foot is 12 inches or
about 30 and point for something
centimeters okay so I'm 6 foot 2 and if
you want to know if you're not sure how
to pronounce inches inches inches that's
how it's pronounced doesn't not
necessarily the way it looks ok now this
is where English becomes a little bit
crazy now technically you want to make
it plural because there's six of them
right so you're thinking why do I say
foot I don't know that's just the way we
say it I'm 6 foot 2 but if I'm gonna use
the word tall if I'm gonna use the full
expression then I'm gonna use the
correct expression I'm 6 feet 2 inches
tall so how tall are you I'm 6 - how
tall you I'm 6 foot - how tall you I'm 6
feet 2 inches tall
ok it depends how you're saying how you
say it depends which word you gonna say
foot twice feet once with the tall okay
now sometimes you might hear it's a
little bit rude it's not very nice to
say but for a short person
huh tall is that guy he's five fat
nothing five had nothing nothing
basically means zero so five feet period
if somebody is 6 feet tall 6 feet tall
how tall are you 6 but again you
wouldn't say so you say 6 feet if
there's no inches then you just say 6
feet 6 feet tall it doesn't matter
foot feet whatever with no inches that's
how it is if somebody's really short
five foot nothing means the nothing
basically means short okay or just say
five feet okay a meter 88 so for those
of you who don't know imperial measure
so again in Canada we are we are
influenced by both American English and
British English so Canadian English is a
bit of a blend so if somebody asks me
how tall I am I'll answer in the
American weight if they ask me the
distance the answer in metric and
kilometers not miles okay
but so feet and inches but if you need
to know the metric I'm a meter 88 now
you can spell meter this way or this way
this is more the British spelling this
is the American spelling the
pronunciation is meter or if you have s
five meters okay meters so I'm a meter
88 or 188 centimeters okay so that's for
height feet and inches meters and
centimeters okay if you want to talk
about somebody's weight again in Canada
most people will tell you their weight
in pounds but in other countries they'll
tell you their weight in kilograms so
first thing to know so how how much do
you weigh I'm 195 pounds now I have
heard people say libs or leaves we do
not say this word the actual word is
Libra
but we don't actually use this word ever
to talk about weight or any sort of
measurement we say pounds okay
that's the original Latin was liebe
liebe rap Ando or something like that
and that's where the pounds comes from
so 195 pounds pow
it's Powell its pounds okay that's the
pronunciation and if you want to convert
it to metric I'm 88 kilograms
okay now there are two ways to say this
as well some people will say kilos okay
and some people will say the full word
kilograms the pronunciation is a little
bit different if you're saying kilos
then it's key lows and if you're saying
kilograms then it's kid look I said we
don't actually have the W K low grams
kilograms kilos kilograms okay and
British people sometimes still use stone
one stone is 14 pounds in case you ever
hear stone
I think only in England they use this as
far as I know in Canada if you tell
somebody your weight and stone they have
no idea what you're talking about so
keep that in mind so we're talking about
people now let's move on to a completely
different area food and beverage food
and beverages food you eat beverage you
drink okay now here we have all kinds of
things we can work with
we can work with ounces so oszi that's
the unit of measure shortened it's ounce
that's what it looks like
open pronounced ow its ounce okay one
ounce equals 28 grams so we can use
ounces for small units of weight measure
we can also use ounces for volume
measure for liquids one ounce is 29 and
a half milliliters
me Lily tersh some people will say mill
or Mills 29 Mills that's again that's a
shortcut if you hear it you understand
it's milliliters
we don't say kegs however we say Mills
we don't say kegs okay and we also say
cubic centimeters again not in Canada
I've heard it more used in Europe when
they talk about liquid measures cubic
centimeters cubic centimeter and one
ounce is also twenty nine point five
cubic centimeters or twenty-five twenty
nine point five mil okay now then we get
two pounds and again we're talking about
small amounts if you're talking about
larger amounts you just give the large
amount or the kilograms here you're
gonna give one pound is sixteen ounces
so again when you're reading a recipe
for example excuse me and they say use a
16 ounce can of crushed tomatoes a 16
ounce can is a one pound can or 454
grams if you want to use the metric
measure for this now if you go to a pub
but you want to order a beer you will
order a pint let's say or a half point
now here's where it gets a little bit
confusing British and Canadian pints are
20 ounces or 568 milliliters and if you
want to if you go to the states and you
order a pint you're gonna get a 16 ounce
beer and that's 473 milliliters so it's
important to understand the different
things now now they're not a big deal if
you go to the states and you order a
pint and it's smaller than you're used
to whatever you just order another pint
but if you go to the States if you're
used to American pints and you go to
Canada or you go to the UK and you get a
pint it's bigger so make sure you don't
get drunk that's the key okay and if
you're following recipes if it's metric
just convert okay it's very easy to go
online
and find conversion charts so don't
worry if you find a good recipe for a
dish you really like and all the
measurements are in American
measurements are like imperial
measurements or if they're in metric
just go online find yourself a
conversion chart and make the changes
necessary so you can follow the recipe
okay let's look at some other points
where we use measurements ok so now
we're going to look at different
measures we're going to look at
distances lengths and some sizes and
we're gonna look at talking about gas
and talking about temperatures so let's
start with distance first of all in the
States if you drive down to the state's
your speedometer on your car will be a
little bit confusing if you've rented a
car in Canada for example and you drove
down to the States
keep in mind they use miles in Canada we
use kilometers one mile is one point six
kilometers so a hundred I don't remember
the exact thing but if you're going a
highway and your speed limit is 100
kilometers per hour in the States that's
about 60 or 65 something like that I
don't really remember but anyway
kilometers que la meters notice that
it's not meters okay and it's not like
like kilograms is about the same chalo
chalo kilometers kilograms so the law is
a little bit different and the meters is
not meters it's meters kilometers meters
okay 1 mile 1.6 kilometers now again
Americans use yards one yard is 0.9 one
four meters now another thing to notice
kilometers has an S meters doesn't why I
really don't know but that's the way it
is meters we don't put the s kilometers
we do kilograms we do centimeters we
don't okay so a point naught now another
thing to notice I say point nine one
four okay you can say zero point nine
one four if you want but this is
pronounced point not a decimal not
period nothing else like that now again
we talked about height so they're using
feet and inches so one foot is thirty
point four eight centimeters one inch is
2.54 centimeters if you want to be
precise generally speaking we don't get
too deep into these numbers what we do
is we round things off but I'll talk
about that in a minute we go to the
nearest whole number
so we just cut this out and just say
thirty technically two point five four
so we just cut this out and say two
point five will go to the nearest
thousandth you can say point five if you
want as well thirty and a half
centimeters so inches now the thing
about measures when we talk about size
okay a lot of people like to use
analogies an analogy is basically a
comparison to something else something
more familiar so especially in America
or Canada we use sports things sports
facilities you'll quite often hear
Americans describe something as very big
or very long by how many football fields
it is so let's say they somebody wants
to talk about the new aircraft carrier
the Navy has just built it's huge
it's very big it's three football fields
it's the length of three football fields
okay and we would say like this the
length of three football fields each
football fields is a hundred and twenty
yards if you want to get the idea a lot
of people if you want to use metric use
Olympic pool so the the city or the new
town or the farm the the person's farm
is the length of five Olympic pools one
Olympic pools fifty meters it is 250
meters long okay in Canada you'll
sometimes hear people because we love
hockey in Canada you'll sometimes hear
people compare it to a hockey rink a
hockey rink is 200 feet long okay that's
what they play on now sometimes people
will talk about things in terms of a
marathon okay if you're talking about
how far it is oh it's a marathon you
can't walk it it's too far a marathon is
42 kilometers or 26 mile
a lot of people do half marathons so
they do whatever 21 and 13 right so we
again we use analogies because we can
picture a football field if you tell me
something is 500 yards long I can't
really imagine 500 yards if you tell me
it's more than four football fields okay
wow that's very long I can imagine that
you'll also often hear the quarter mile
especially in racing if you saw movies
like fast and furious they always have a
race or a quarter mile in horse racing
they race a quarter mile so a quarter
mile is four hundred and two meters but
these are expressions you'll hear often
now again if you don't go to the states
you think I don't need to know these
expressions but if you watch Hollywood
movies and they're using American
English they're going to use a lot of
these expressions a lot of these
measures if you don't have the subtitles
it's a good idea to have and at least a
close idea of what the conversion is
okay now where it gets very confusing is
when you're using tools
it depends what kind of tools you're
using you can use imperial which is
basically American or technically
imperial measures are British but we now
think about them as American or metric
so if you're going if you're going to
fix a car and the car was built with
metric specs we call these specs short
for specifications okay so the Builder
used metric specs so all the tools are
going to be metric so if you need like a
wrench with a socket and you need a 10
millimeter socket and all you have is
imperial tools are there and it's like
3/16 of an inch it might not fit exactly
so you might be a little bit it might be
a bit difficult for you to use the
different tools most mechanics who fix
cars have two sets of tools an imperial
set and a metric set that way they can
work on any car that they need to okay
speaking of cars if you go fill up gas
again in Canada we use liters and we
have a price per liter I think today the
price per liter is a dog
ten and ten cents per liter if you go
down to the states you're paying for gas
by the gallon now a gallon is again it's
a measure that has different numbers in
the UK and different numbers in the
states in the States one gallon is 3.8
liters I rounded it up a little bit or
in the UK it's four and a half liters so
round it off we say is rounded off or to
round off is the verb so for example the
3.8 is actually three point seven eight
six or something like that but I'm
thinking too many numbers I don't want
to deal with all this numbers so what I
want to do is I want to round off to the
nearest tenth okay the first point so
tenths hundredths thousandths very
difficult to pronounce so I make this
into an eight okay because a eight I go
up one if it was under five I would go
down to the next number but then I'm
thinking three point eight why deal with
all these numbers why make it difficult
for difficult for myself I'll just round
it out to four so round off to four
liters so if I'm measuring so US gallon
if I want to compare to Canadian so one
gallon is four liters that's how much
I'm thinking how much it will cost me in
Canadian and then I understand that you
know American gas is cheaper than
Canadian gas because it's you paying per
gallon so then let's talk about
temperature so that was gas let's talk
about temperature and we have Fahrenheit
and Celsius now it's very confusing to
try to understand how the conversion
works but the main numbers you need to
know 32 degrees Fahrenheit again this is
used in the u.s. is zero degrees Celsius
Celsius is used pretty much everywhere
else
32 and 0 that's the freezing point okay
so that's freezing and then you need to
know 212 degrees Fahrenheit equals 100
degrees Celsius that's the boiling point
the only time they are the same is minus
40 degrees Fahrenheit and minus 40
degrees Celsius that's when they're even
now there are formulas you can try to
figure out how to convert but don't you
have a you have a phone you have Google
on your phone get a conversion chart and
just ask Google to do it for you because
the math is too complicated for
Fahrenheit and Celsius okay but if you
really want to know the difference
between American and British
measurements Jill my co-teacher here at
Ingvild has done a very good video
comparing the two countries measurements
you should go watch that also if you
want to make sure you understand all of
these units of measurement and all the
ways to use them go to Ingrid comm
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