hi guys welcome back to ingvid today's
lesson
is a little bit different it is based
around
boats now the idea for this lesson
is that came from an experience that i
had
when i was trying to communicate in a
language that was not
my own on a boat i lived in spain for a
year and a half
and i was invited onto a boat
to take part in a hundred mile race and
the other crew the other guys on the
boat didn't really
speak much english or didn't want to
speak much english
so it was a test for my spanish so in
this lesson
i'm going to be going over
basic boat terminology particular
to a sailing boat rather than a
motorboat
and then in the second half of the
lesson we will be looking
at some idioms to do with the water and
boats okay so i hope it's interesting
for you
um now i first did this standing in
front of the whiteboard talking about
boats when i was about seven or eight
years old so
it feels quite weird to be doing it uh
for youtube
here we go so this is a boat um
there are two sails this one is actually
bigger than this one i'm just
not very good at drawing and this big
sail here gives all the power to
the boat the wind blows and it
through clever physics the boat's able
to go through the water
this one here is called the main sail
and the smaller one towards the front is
called the jib
and this huge great big pole
which may be metal or wood depending on
the type of
boat is called the mast the mast
now this thing here you have to be
really careful that it doesn't hit your
head
it's called the boom boom
you don't want it to hit your head and
sometimes this
will go from this side of the boat so
we're sitting here or there
and it will cross to the other side so
you have to duck underneath it
um so this is where the steering
takes place you hold this um
uh it's normally wood or or some sort of
aluminium or something
it's called the tiller that controls the
steering
um and it's connected to the bit that
actually goes down into the water
which is called the rudder okay
if you have an anchor it will be at the
front and you throw it
out if you want to i don't know go and
visit a nice beach
somewhere okay
so that are basic
very very basic parts on a boat
now some basic theory for you
let's imagine the wind is coming from
here
yeah you can't go directly
into the wind because it will blow
against you and
the sail won't know what to do so we
have to
bear away from the wind we have to turn
away from it
now this is the sail yeah my hand is the
sail
and this is the boat so the closer
we are to the wind the closer the sail
is to the boat and as we
bear away from the wind we let the sail
out okay um
and if you get here the sail the boat
will then be here
and you want the sail to come round to
this side
if that makes any sense at all with my
hands
okay so there are two points where
you'll turn you turn there and you turn
there
so what can you control on a boat well
you control
which direction you are going in
it's called bearing away or bearing
up into the wind if i turn away from the
wind or go in
closer to the wind
you can control this mainsail whether
it's close
or far out and to have that just in the
right place will affect
the speed of the boat you also will
control
whether the jib is in or whether you're
going to let it further out
depending on the wind direction
the center board can be all the way down
into the water or you can lift it
up i'm not going to explain why it's
complicated
and you can control where you sit
so to help with the balance of
the boat okay so
that in a nutshell is
the basic uh sort of rules not rules but
the basic idea of sailing
now let's have a look at some idioms
so here are our idioms
first one all in the same boat
if we are all in the same boat
like i was when i went on a 100 mile
race and we were on it for 24 hours
we were all in the same situation we
were all in the same
team this idiom all on the same boat all
in the same boat
yep it's the same for all of us
my cameraman is working just as hard as
i am
to push the boat out
let's push the boat out meaning let's
take a risk
um if you think about
uh the boats that headed off to the new
world
from from plymouth down in england
to push the boat out let's take that big
risk
i've written this wrong
to miss the boat
so think of that ship going off to um
the new world if you missed the boat
then you are not on it and you've missed
out on this
opportunity to miss the boat to miss
an opportunity now there's a song by bob
marley
um which is singing about i don't want
my boat to be
rocked okay if you rock the boat
you upset the balance so
to rock the boat it means to unbalance
cause unnecessary problems
um like ships that pass
in the night like ships that pass in the
night
this is comparing two people to being
ships or boats so it's like one person
gets up very very very very early
and comes back just as this person is
going off to do
that so like ships passing in the night
they see
the light of the other boats but that's
it
and these people they're on two
different schedules
two timetables and they don't really see
each other
to jump ship means you abandon
the ship that you are on so
it means you change what you're doing if
you jump ship from a business then you
leave it and you go and work
somewhere else i'll come to our
character ones at the end
um now the actual process of
um sailing so plane sailing is when
everything is going fine
yep the sun's shining the wind is not
too little it's not too much
and you can just sail so plane sailing
no problem this is easy
to sail through
means same same idea
of the travel being
relatively effortless if you sail
through your exams then you pass them
and it's not too much work and it's
you know no problem like i've got really
good grades great i sailed
through them um so why are we doing
these idioms
what's the point in doing them i was
just speaking about this
and we decided that
the purpose of it is so that you can
recognize them when you're watching a
film
or you're listening to an audio book and
you recognize these idioms it's it's
nice to understand
all of the language when when you're
watching something
but more than that it's good to be able
to use this stuff
so as we're going through if you're like
oh yeah i really like that one
then make the effort of trying to use it
to sail close to the wind
this means to be quite risky yep
i showed you earlier that you can't sail
directly into the wind
yep so this is impossible and you're
choosing to be
just possible yep you're taking risk
sail close to the wind to take risk to
hit
rock bottom so
here's our boat and we can't see that
under the water there is rock
if you hit rock bottom then
you're in the worst possible situation
because
you're going to drown maybe um
so hitting rock bottom the worst
possible
uh place to be now if we hit
the rock then water
is going to start coming into the boat
and we need to get that water out so
we're going to get
something to scoop it out a baler we're
going to bail
the water out
so this is an effort an attempt to get
out of trouble so if
someone is in prison and they need to be
bailed out
then someone is trying to get them out
of
uh trouble at least temporarily
all hands on deck deck
is like the surface of the boat all
hands mean
the people who are working on the boat
so everyone needs to be here
right now to get the water out of the
boat all hands on deck means everyone
help right now
to show someone the ropes
now if you go onto a big yacht
um or you know one where like
three master tall ship something like
that you'll notice that
it's incredibly complicated all these
different ropes
and if you're new onto that boat or ship
you'll want someone to explain how
everything
works you'll want them to show you the
ropes
so if someone shows you the ropes then
they are giving you basically an
induction
they're giving you a guide to how things
work
to run a tight ship a tight ship
is a well organized one everything is in
the right
place now if you run a tight ship
then you run an organized household or
business or whatever it is
um you know where the money's coming in
you know where it's coming out
everything's kind of clean and correct
and
as it should be now right at the bottom
we have a couple more which are sort of
describing character
so this is a very old expression here to
show your true
colors now back in the time
when wars happened on water
spanish boats probably the english did
it as well
sometimes hoisted yeah they lifted up
a flag that was not their own
to trick the enemy
in thinking that they were someone else
and when they finally showed their true
colors
um then the the the enemy was surprised
so if you show your true colors it means
that
you actually show that um you are
bad it's normally got a negative uh
connotation this um
so maybe if um
a child is found guilty of
um stealing from a shop the parent might
say oh you've really shown your true
colors haven't you
um yeah
okay to keep one's head it can be
positive as well but
more often it's negative with this one
next
to keep one's head above water
if you go under um then you're not
surviving
that's actually a phrase too to go under
means you're kind of going bankrupt
so if you keep your head above
water then you are surviving just
to be in deep water
so if our boat
starts to fill up with water and we are
a long way from land
then we're in deep water we are in big
big
trouble okay so
quite a few useful idioms for you to
try and learn and absorb why don't you
start that process now by doing the quiz
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