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Hi, Bob the Canadian here.
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Let's learn English on the road!
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I have to make sure I don't get run over!
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Haha!
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Hey Bob the Canadian here welcome to this video about roads, streets, and highways.
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Well, hey, welcome to this video we're going to talk a little bit about roads, streets,
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and highways today, and some of the things that you will find beside them.
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This road here is a paved road, that means the surface of the road is hard and that means
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that cars can go a lot faster and it's just easier to drive on.
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And this part right here is called the shoulder of the road, so when you pull off the road
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you can go onto the shoulder of the road.
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This part over here is kind of a little hard to see is called the ditch, and the ditch
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is where when it rains all the water would run off the road into the ditch to keep the
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road nice and dry.
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The road behind me is what we would call a gravel road or a dirt road.
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A paved road like we saw has a hard surface.
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A gravel road has all of these little stones, I'll hold them up to the camera.
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So there's a couple ways that you'll know that you need to stop when you get to the
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end of a street or road.
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Behind me you'll see a stop sign.
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This is a red sign with the word stop in it, and it has eight sides, it's an octagon.
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So a stop sign is one of the ways that you know that you need to stop your car.
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So the intersection behind me here is called a four way stop, or an all way stop.
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If you can see under the stop sign here it says, “All Way”.
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What that means is that whoever stops first at the intersection gets to go next.
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So everyone needs to take turns going through this intersection.
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So another way you'll know when to stop is when you see a stoplight or a traffic signal.
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So behind me is an intersection where two roads cross and up here you can see that the
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light just turned red.
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Red lights mean stop, and green lights mean go.
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You can also see right here these white lines are what's called a crosswalk.
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This is where if you push the button on the pole over there, there's a pole, and you
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wait then eventually it tells you, this little hand here will turn to a person and you can walk.
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..we have a little sign here, how's it going!
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So I'm at a railway crossing right and if you notice right here there's a railway
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crossing light.
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When that light comes on it means there's a train coming.
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I think I'm just in time to see this.
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Let's watch the train go by.
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Here it comes!
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So that's why when that light's going you should not cross the railroad track.
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So we looked at stop signs, which tell you that you need to stop.
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But sometimes you wanna know how fast you can go.
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On the sides of the road you will see speed limit signs which tell you how fast you can
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drive your vehicle.
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This is speed limit sign from a city or town and it says you can do 50 kilometres an hour
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maximum.
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This is a speed limit sign from out in the country.
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It says you can 80 kilometres an hour max, and if you go any faster you might get a ticket.
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So I'm gonna let you guess what this sign means and you can post it in the comments
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below.
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I'm not gonna give you any hints but if you think you know post it below.
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So sometimes along the side of the road they want to protect things so they put up what
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is called a guardrail.
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A guardrail stops vehicles from going off the road if they lose control.
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So let's say the road was really icy and slippery and if you lost control you would
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hit the guardrail first instead of that pole that they're trying to protect.
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So this is a guardrail.
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So I'm going to walk through the ditch here, if you remember the ditch is the part on the
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side of the road that the water can go into, but we're going to kind of jump across the
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ditch here because I want to show you this pole.
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So in Canada we call these hydro poles, let me lean back for you and you can see the hydro wires.
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In the United States they're called utility poles or telephone poles and the lines at
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the top are usually called power lines.
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Hopefully I don't get my shoes wet when I go through the ditch this time.
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Let's see how it goes.
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I think I'm gonna make it.
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So behind me here you'll see a street, a city street, and what makes a street a little
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bit different than a road is that you will usually find a sidewalk.
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This is a place for pedestrians to walk.
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Pedestrians are people who are walking along the sidewalk.
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Sometimes you'll even find a bike lane.
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If you look down here you'll see the shape of a bike because on this road there's a
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special lane just for people who are biking.
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And one of the main differences is that in the city you're going to always find….
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I always have trouble pointing.
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You're always gonna find street lights.
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So right here we have a nice street light and there's a few of them all along this road.
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There's another one right here.
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So this street, is well lit at night.
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You noticed I just called it a road.
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I think that's because I live in the country and it's easier to refer to this that way.
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But this is a street, it's definitely a street.
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It is a city street.
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Sidewalk.
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Bike lane.
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Street lights.
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So behind me you can see the highway.
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This is a six lane highway.
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It has three lanes going in either direction.
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If you look over here it's a little hard to see but you can see the off ramp.
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The off ramp is what allows traffic to get off the highway, and if you look over here
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you can just sort of see the on ramp.
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The on ramp is where you can speed up to get on the highway.
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I'm standing on what we would call an overpass.
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An overpass is the road or street that goes overtop of a highway, and below me the cars
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are going under through the underpass.
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It's a lot of traffic.
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Well hey, thanks for watching this video about roads, streets, highways, and the things that
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you sometimes find along them.
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Bob the Canadian here.
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Hope you're having a good day and hope you have good week!
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