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Hi.
James from engVid.
Today, we will learn about the senses.
We will learn about a famous artist called Picasso, and he will help teach us about touch,
smell, seeing, hearing, and tasting.
Why these are important?
I know you're not a basic student.
You probably know these words, but what I want to do today is to show you how we take
these words and we integrate, which means put together, these words in our language
to have a higher meaning.
So, we'll go over the basics, and then we'll go further than that.
Are you ready?
Let's begin.
Okay.
I'm going to start off with taste.
Okay?
Taste with your tongue.
When we talk about taste, we can talk about food.
We taste food.
You put it in your mouth.
Now, when you put it in your mouth, you get the beginning of the taste of the food.
After a little while, you get what we call more taste, fuller body.
But this is interesting because what it helps us to understand is the beginning of understanding.
When you get a taste of something, you begin to understand it, just like when you put it
on your tongue, you get a small piece of what the rest will be like.
Okay?
Is that good?
You like that?
So, taste leads us to beginning to understand.
Here's the best part.
After you begin to understand and you have a sophisticated or elevated understanding,
we lead to what's called class.
Prince Charles and the Queen have class because they understand things the rest of us don't.
They are higher, you'll see.
Yes.
So, they're not at the beginning of understanding with a taste.
They have class and are superior.
Yes?
So, when you say someone has class, it means they have a very deep understanding.
They're no longer at here.
So, sometimes we say, "They have a lot of taste."
Good class.
Like that?
So, we go from beginning to deep in the same word, taste.
What's the next one?
Touch.
Well, touch.
Touch is, you know, ding, ding, ding, ding.
I'm sure right now you're doing this, okay, because I'm trying to touch you.
Yeah?
It's like 3D.
Yeah?
3D movie.
Special effects.
Touch means contact.
When you touch something, contact means the two come together.
Touch.
Yeah?
So, when we go from this, we can go up to two different things.
Many Canadians or English speakers say, "Stay in touch.", "Keep in touch."
And you're saying, "Why do you say 'keep in touch'?"
Remember contact?
It means the relationship we have, I want to keep together.
I want us to stay together.
So, we will keep in touch, sometimes by mail, snail mail for you young folks, or email,
right?
Email people or face each other, FaceTime, yeah?
The other thing we talk about contact is feeling.
When I say something touched me, it touched my heart.
It means it came from deep feeling.
So, when you watch a little girl with a, you know, sitting there with a little dress on,
and the sun is out, and a puppy comes up, and it has a flower in its mouth, and it looks
at the girl, and the girl looks down, and your eye starts to water, and you say, "That
touched my heart."
See, it touched my heart.
It made me feel something, so that's a touching moment.
Or, "I was touched by what you did for me.
I felt it in my heart."
So, we've done taste, we've done touch.
What's the next thing?
Well, let's look, or can you see where I'm going with this?
Can you see?
Smart.
Can you see where I'm going?
We're going to look at see.
When we see something, we use our eyes, right?
We talked about touching, right?
We touched, sorry, touching, we talked about tasting, but when we see, if you look over
here, see, we use our eyes to see.
We see, with our eyes, pictures and movies, okay?
Now, you look at pictures.
What does that mean?
When we look at it, we're actually searching for information.
I look at a picture for it to tell me what it is and what I'm looking for, but we can
also use the word see, or when we say see, look for information.
So, we go from see to look for information, but you can also look at the emotion on someone's
face.
"He looked pained," pained, it's like, that's constipation, watch.
Don't try it at home.
It's not good.
Constipation means you cannot go to the bathroom, you cannot go to the toilet.
So he had a pained expression, if he looked pained, or he looked excited, all right?
We're talking about the look or the emotion on a person's face, yeah?
Next, we can look at different types of seeing.
We talked about look, look for information, all right?
Okay, did you see it on the Internet?
We can talk about looks, the types of looking.
So there's staring, this is staring, I'm still staring, see that, blink, stare, okay?
We can glare.
If you don't like this, watch Mexican soap operas, they're very good at this, "I am Don
Diego."
Mexican soap operas, very good, or Bollywood, they do it well as well, okay?
There's a glance, sorry, glance, Americans and Canadians say, "I glanced at it."
What that means is to look quickly at something, whoop, I'm finished, see, whoop, I'm finished,
there, I glanced at you.
So if somebody says, "I'll glance at your work," it means I'm not going to read every
word, no, I'm not, I'm going to look, one, two, three, four, I'm finished, I glanced
at it.
And it means I quickly looked at something, right?
Or if I glance at you, I look quickly and look away quickly.
Instead of stare, I'm not like glare, which is angry eyes, okay?
Now also, when I say, "I see what you're saying," I mean understand, I understand you.
Remember we talked about taste as the beginning of understanding because it's on your tongue?
When you look at something enough, you really understand it, so you get a clear picture.
So you say, "It's clear, easy for me to understand," or I go, "I see what you mean, I actually
do see a picture in my head."
Do you like that?
Good, because we have two more to do.
So I said we have two more, so let's take off.
So we had these ones, looking and staring, but you don't always look and stare.
Sometimes you -- do you smell that?
Do you smell what the rock's cooking?
If you're from the '90s, you know it's a wrestler, but we're not talking about the rock.
We're going to talk about scent, sniff, and bad.
When something smells, it gives off a scent.
Humans give off scents, food gives off scents, flowers give off scents, and your cologne
or hopefully you're wearing some deodorant, that gives off a scent, which means a smell,
usually a pleasant smell.
So if I like your scent, I like your cologne.
All animals have scents, which means individual body smell.
Humans have a scent.
Trust me, don't have a shower for two to three days, go someplace, they'll tell you.
You have a scent, a very strong scent, but they'll change the word to odor.
So when somebody says, "That is a nice scent," it means you smell well or you smell good.
You have an odor, usually bad, that's an odor, okay?
Sniff.
Well, how do you know something smells?
You do this.
So I'm smelling this.
Don't smell that, it's good.
Sniff means to take in a little bit of air to get a taste, remember?
A taste, beginning understanding of what something is.
So what does that smell?
Sniffing, you will find out because you'll get some air that will give you the smell.
Now sometimes we talk about smell as in something smells bad.
Remember we said bad smell for food or for people, right, dead fish?
Watch out for dead fish, okay?
I'm just saying that.
Figure it out.
You'll learn when you learn more English, okay?
Watch out for dead fish.
Anything that smells bad, we say that smells bad.
But because of that, we don't like it.
When we say something smells bad, we can talk about situations.
I'll give you an example.
You come to my house and I say, "Okay, here's what we do.
You're going to leave me $1,000, okay?
You're going to leave me $1,000 on this table here.
You leave it on the table.
Then what you're going to do is you're going to leave, you see, you're going to leave and
you're going to come back in two weeks.
And in two weeks, that money will then become $2,000, just like that.
I guarantee it.
Now you just go and leave the money, okay?"
Well here's what's going to happen.
Your friend will go, "Okay."
If you've got Mr. E, "Mr. E's not here.
Now he is.
Mr. E is here to save the day."
He'll go, "James, this smells like a bad situation.
I don't think we should leave the money."
Because he's saying, "I don't like it.
Like I don't like the smell of bad fish."
Understand?
So situation's smelling bad.
Now finally, we're going to go to hearing.
Dumbo, big ears, hearing.
Hearing, right?
With your ears.
"Listen to me when I'm speaking.
When I say that, I mean I want you to focus, because if you listen now, I will go over
this very quickly and you'll understand all of this, okay?
So you need to focus."
Or in that case, when I say, "Listen to me, pay attention."
Interestingly enough, the word "understand" comes up again.
I'll finally explain "understand" in two seconds.
When I say, "Listen", I'm trying to say, "Try to understand.
I don't think you understand now.
I want you to try.
So you need to listen and focus, pay attention, and try."
That's why we say, "Listen to me."
But here's something really interesting.
If we go from hearing and we go just to hear for sound, boom, that's a sound.
You weren't focused and not paying attention because you didn't know I was going to do
that.
But you heard the sound.
It's usually unexpected, like, boom, didn't expect that either.
That's just the sound.
Or traffic.
If you hear the cars, you're hearing sound.
You're not focused.
There's things coming out.
But when we use the word "hear", we also use it to say, "I do understand."
Notice this is different.
"Listen" tells you to focus so you can try to understand.
When I hear you, I do understand.
I don't need to focus.
I have sympathy.
We are the same.
I understand completely.
Now, if you look here, we have "understand" for "listen".
We have "understand" for "look".
We have "understand" for "taste", beginning, middle, and end.
Why?
Because we use our senses, which is what we're studying, to understand the world.
We get a beginning of it, we can try to, which is the middle, and then we fully understand
and get a picture.
Do you get the picture?
Does this look like it's right to you?
Does it seem right?
Do you hear what I'm saying?
If you do, you're just getting the smallest taste of English, but it tastes good, yeah?
It doesn't smell bad.
It tastes good.
And what I want you to do, though, to get more of a taste is this, because you're just
beginning to get a taste of it.
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It'll touch your heart, right, leaving you feel good when you're done, right?
Okay, so I'm done.
I've talked too much.
This is a long lesson.
I see you get the picture now.
You understand what I'm saying, right?
I hear you're saying it's time to go, so I'm going to take off, and I'm looking forward
to you staying in contact and coming to the website.
Ciao.