hi there I'm drew back to the world's
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fluency guide and in this video lesson
lesson we're going to be describing
describing a knife wow
wow so this was actually a requested
requested video or a requested object
object i should say so this is a new
new video series where we're just
just trying to explain things in beginning
beginning intermediate and advanced
advanced english just so you can develop
develop fluency and see what it's
it's like to express yourself and
and obviously learned a few new vocabulary
vocabulary words as well so let's
let's begin with a basic kind of definition
definition or explanation about this
this knife so
so this is a bread knife i bought
bought this bread knife in Japan and
and it is a stainless steel bread
bread knife made in Japan it
it has a wooden handle and it is maybe
maybe about a foot long maybe one
one foot and a few inches long I
I don't know what that is in centimeters
centimeters maybe I don't know 35
35 centimeters something like that
that so that is a basic way of expressing
expressing or describing a bread knife
knife
knife now
now if i want to be a little bit more
more interesting the intermediate
intermediate way of expressing this
this would be this is a bread knife
knife with a serrated edge or serrated
serrated edge now a serrated edge
edge means that you have instead of
of a flat surface like this side here
here and i'll give you a closer look
look of the blade here so you can
can see that the edges are serrated
serrated so they go up and down and
and they move in and out in and out
this the way a saw
saw blade does so a serrated blade
blade
blade the
the reason this is on a bread knife
knife is because when you want to
to cut a piece of bread if
if you have a star rated edges like
like this it makes the cut easier
easier but the cut becomes a little
little bit uneven so it's easy to
to cut when you have a seer rating
rating edge but the cut itself is
is not exactly as nice as it would
would be if you have a straight flat
flat edge so some knives have a straight
straight flat edge or a cutting edge
edge or a serious edge like this so
so i'm talking about even something
something
something when
when you get into a basic definition
definition or even an intermediate
intermediate definition you can get
get more specific about the particular
particular parts of an object like
like a bread knife so I want to get
get an excuse me even more specific
specific in the advanced way of talking
talking about it so I'm talking about
about from the knife and moving to
to the discussion of these serrated
serrated edge so this is a ser RA
RA te d serrated I believe that's
that's the way spell and i'm really
really not the greatest speller but
but hopefully that makes sense so
so we're going to go into the advanced
advanced way the fluid way of expressing
expressing this knife so
so this is a fluent I'm like thinking
thinking fluid now so
so this is a knife that i picked up
up here in Japan it's called ready
ready that's the name of the knife
knife lot of knives in Japan a lot
lot of various objects actually have
have some really interesting names
names in Japan people like a lot of
of cute names out here but just to
to talk about this knife specifically
specifically it's got a serrated edge
edge and the reason it has a serrated
serrated edges because it's easier
easier to cut for something like a
a bread like a loaf of bread that
that can be kind of hard on the outside
outside but may be soft on the inside
inside
inside so
so if you have a fin a flat cutting
cutting edge like that it's easy to
to pull a knife through something
something but it becomes more difficult
difficult because you have to flatten
flatten down the bread to push it
it down hard in order to get the cut
cut into the bread so
so a bread knife with a serrated edge
edge makes the cutting easier now
now you'll see a serrated knife sometimes
sometimes on scissors so again a serrated
serrated edge is something that's
that's got a jagged edge like this
this so it goes up and down this edge
edge you couldn't really it's serrated
serrated but you wouldn't call it
it jagged so a jagged edge is really
really hard kind of zigzag shape like
like that and you would see that much
much more on maybe
maybe like a Swiss Army knife or some
some small knife that you want to
to have a good cutting pressure so
so something that you can pull quickly
quickly and tear through something
something but maybe the cut is not
not as clean as if you have a particular
particular flat edge like that so
so I'm just going into the details
details i'm not really talking so
so much about the history of the knife
knife or anything like that interesting
interesting about it but
but just because when you look at
at an object even something as simple
simple as a knife there's
there's always something interesting
interesting to learn if you go deeper
deeper into that thing so
so yes this is a knife it is a cutting
cutting edge and a handle and that's
that's basically every knife but if
if you want to get more specific you
you can learn a lot more about the
the separation of the knife why
why we have a serrated edge or other
other interesting facts about the
the knife and that would lead you
you to discover more interesting things
things as well like the fact that
that bread knives are actually really
really good for cutting tomatoes because
because if you if you cut a tomato
tomato with a flat edge you can cut
cut it tomato like that but it's much
much easier to just use a bread knife
knife because of the serrated edges
edges
edges they
they cut through the skin of the tomato
tomato without smashing the tomatoes
tomatoes so if you have not tried
tried a bread knife for cutting up
up tomato
up tomato you
you should give that a try anyway
anyway that is describing a bread
bread knife i hope you have enjoyed
enjoyed this video don't be fooled
fooled especially if you are the kind
kind of learner that thanks well a
a knife is kind of boring why do I
I want to study that the point the
the point of me using these simple
simple objects in lessons is that
that it gives you an indication of
of how you can practice your English
English and how you can speak without
without using you know something about
about politics or something like that
that you really can take a simple
simple object like a knife or a bottle
bottle or even a t-shirt like this
this and give a really great explanation
explanation and talk about it fluently
fluently so find anything like that
that in your everyday life learn about
about something and then see how native
native speakers are expressing that
that thing and that will give you
you a much better example of how to
to express it yourself if you have
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