Well, hello and welcome
to this English listening practice lesson.
This lesson is a little bit different.
In fact, this video is a little bit different.
This is a 360-degree video.
That means if you're watching it on your phone
and if you move your phone around,
you can look all around me.
You can look in all different directions.
You might have to use your finger on your phone to do it.
Or if you're on a computer, you can use your mouse.
If you put your mouse right on the video,
you can look left, right, up, and down.
So, here is what I'm going to do.
In a few moments, the scene will change
and I will be hiding somewhere.
You'll need to look in every direction
and try to figure out where I'm hiding.
And while you're doing that,
you'll hear my voice kind of giving you hints.
So, I hope you like this English listening practice lesson.
I'm trying out something new,
I think it will be a lot of fun,
and I'm just gonna call it, "Where's Bob?"
It's a little bit like "Where's Waldo?"
At the end, after about 30 or 40 seconds of looking,
I will pop out somewhere and you will be able to see me.
So, let's get started.
I hope you enjoy this English listening practice lesson.
[Bob] So let's make this first one somewhat easy.
Remember, you're trying to look in every direction
and you're trying to find me.
I'm actually peeking out from the place
I'm hiding in right now.
I am behind something.
If you are looking towards the river,
you are looking in the wrong direction
and you'll need to turn around.
I'm hiding somewhere between the barn and the house.
I'm not in the house, I'm not in the barn,
I'm somewhere outside in between both of those buildings.
In a few seconds,
you will see me jump out from behind the tree
and you will have found the place where I was hiding.
Now, I'm running around the tree.
Hopefully, you found me and you see me now.
This next one is a little more difficult.
It's actually quite easy to find Jen,
but it will be very challenging to find me.
I am completely out of sight.
I will tell you this.
I am not in the flowerbed that you see.
I am not close to Jen who is out cutting flowers.
You might think that I am in the bushes behind Jen,
but I'm not there either.
If you look in the other direction,
you might think that I'm in the sunflower patch,
but I'm not there either.
I'm actually hiding behind something
that is black and has two wheels.
In a moment, you'll see me jump out from behind the trailer
and climb onto the riding mower.
We also sometimes call this a garden tractor,
or we just call it the lawn mower.
I'll let you just spend the last few seconds
looking at Jen's flowers.
So, I decided it would be fun
if I finish this lesson by going for a little drive.
And while I was driving,
I saw this gas station, which is under construction.
I'll tell you where I'm not hiding.
I'm not hiding behind the building.
I'm not hiding in the building
and I'm not hiding behind any of the gas pumps.
The place where I'm hiding
might actually start to shake a little bit right now.
And I'll tell you this.
I am inside of something.
And the place that I am inside of stinks quite a bit.
In a moment, you will see a door open
and you will see me come out of what we call a porta-potty.
We sometimes also call this a Johnny-on-the-spot.
It is a portable bathroom that is often found
at events and on construction sites.
A town close to me has a brand new roundabout.
This is a roundabout.
We're still getting used to roundabouts in Ontario, Canada.
They are relatively new for us.
Normally, we just have stop signs, or four-way stops,
or intersections with stoplights,
but lately, they've been starting to build roundabouts.
I know these are very common in other parts of the world,
but it's something that I'm still getting used to.
It was a little bit hard to find a place to hide
in the center of the roundabout.
Oops, I think I just gave you a big clue.
I'm somewhere in the center of the roundabout.
I'm definitely not behind a tree
and my feet are kind of sticking out
from the place where I'm hiding.
There I am, popping up from behind the sign
in the center of the roundabout.
You can see that I'm now in an area where there are stores,
and there is also a restaurant that is called Tim Hortons.
Tim Hortons is a very popular restaurant in Canada
and people go there to get coffee, donuts,
or maybe something else to eat.
You can see vehicles are currently going through
the drive-through.
Sometimes, people don't want to get out of their vehicles
when they want food,
so they go through the drive-through.
But where am I hiding?
If you look closely by the front entrance
of the Tim Hortons,
you'll see that I was hiding just behind the building,
and I've now popped out,
and you can see that I was standing
just behind the building the whole time.
A little further down from the Tim Hortons,
you'll find a grocery store as well as a hardware store.
The hardware store sells many things like tools, screws,
nails, basically all the stuff that you need
if you want to fix something.
The grocery store, of course, sells groceries
and this is the grocery store where we buy
many of our groceries on a weekly basis.
But where am I?
Am I in the grocery store?
Am I in the hardware store?
Am I doing a little bit of shopping
when I'm supposed to be making an English lesson for you?
I'll let you look around a bit
to try and figure out where I am.
Oh! The door of my van just opened.
I was hiding in my van the whole time.
So, that was a bit of a tricky one for you,
sorry about that, but I was just in my van.
In Canada, we call the sport
played on a field like this, soccer,
but I know that many of you call it football.
In Canada and in the United States,
football is that other game where you throw the ball
and try to get touchdowns.
We call this game soccer.
It was actually a little bit difficult
finding a place to hide.
There weren't many places where I could go behind
in order to hide from you when I was at the soccer field.
But if you look closely at the place
where soccer players try to shoot the ball towards,
you might see me hiding behind one of the goalposts.
In a moment, I'll jump out
and do my best impression of a goalkeeper
or goalie, as we sometimes say.
But certainly, this is a cool place for people to go
when they want to play the game of soccer.
Well, I'm home again and I'm hiding.
If you look towards the barn,
you might catch a glimpse of Oscar sitting on the lawnmower.
He really enjoys sitting there for some reason.
Often when Jen is unloading the flower cart,
Oscar will sit on the seat of the lawnmower.
Sometimes, I wonder if someday he'll learn how to start it
and mow some lawn, then he'd be able to earn his keep.
Where am I, though?
Well, I am close to the basketball net
and I've just jumped out.
If you look towards the basketball net,
you will see that there was a large bush.
I think it might actually just be a weed
and I was hiding behind it.
Well, thank you so much for watching
this English listening practice lesson.
I hope you enjoyed it.
I hope you enjoyed the 360-degree video
and the kind of cool experience that you were able to have.
And I hope that I can do a few more of these in the future.
Maybe I'll do a lesson like this every couple of months.
Anyways, Bob the Canadian here.
Thank you so much for watching this English lesson.
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And if you have a bit more time,
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