Name: Let's Learn English During an Ice Storm! English Phrases with the Word "ICE"
Uploaded: 2020-04-28T02:08:31.000Z
Duration: 9 min 25 s
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welcome to this little English lesson about an ice storm.

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We're currently having an ice storm here in Ontario, Canada, and

I thought this would be a great opportunity to come outside

and teach you some English words and phrases about ice.

Well hey, welcome to this video about an ice storm.

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Well, we're having a little bit of freezing rain

when it lands on different surfaces it freezes,

and we have what we would call an ice storm.

So let me show you a few things that you will see,

and let me teach you a few English phrases

and words that you would use in an ice storm.

because many of you live in parts of the world

So I don't want to stand too close to this tree,

because what you can see here is that the branches

are covered in ice and what makes this dangerous

is that the entire tree is covered in ice,

and as the ice forms it makes the tree very heavy.

You can actually hear this tree behind me

because the wind is blowing the branches,

and some of the branches have even started

So one of dangerous things about an ice storm

is the ice weighs down the branches of the tree,

So I thought, since we're out in an ice storm,

the first phrase I can think of is to break the ice.

You are doing things that help you get to know each other,

in order to have an English conversation with them.

ask how someone's doing, maybe tell a small joke,

So one of the things that happens during an ice storm

is the rain lands on our vehicles and it freezes.

So you can see here that this is a lot different

than what we saw during the snow storm a few weeks back.

I will have to start my van early to warm it up.

but one of the things you will see during an ice storm

is a lot of vehicles get covered in a thin layer of ice.

Another thing that happens during an ice storm,

which might not be very easy for you to see is that

In fact we will often say during an ice storm,

If you remember in the video in the snow storm,

So it's kind of shiny because my driveway

Another English phrase with the word ice in it

We sometimes use this to describe someone.

So we also will say someone is a very warm person,