Name: REAL ENGLISH: Talking about measurements: cm, m, km, ', ", lb, kg, g, oz, ml, cc
Uploaded: 2021-11-15T20:00:20.000Z
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I'm adam in today's video, we're gonna look at measurements and we're gonna look at measurements in everyday use is so these are measurements that you will hear and have to say pretty regularly when we're talking about people or food or drinks or places, distances, et cetera.

Future simple

So I'm gonna start with people and basically when we talk about measurements, we're gonna talk about a person's height and a person's weight.

So I'm going to use the measure six ft two.

So for example, I am six ft two inches tall.

So if somebody asks me, how tall are you More most commonly, I will say I'm 62.

And this is the symbol for feet two is inches and that's the symbol for inches.

Okay, one apostrophe and quote double quote.

But if I want to expand, I can say I'm six ft two, I can put the actual unit of measure.

one ft is 12 inches or about 30 and 300.4 something centimeters.

Okay, so I'm six ft two and if you want to know if you're not sure how to pronounce inches, inches, inches, that's how it's pronounced.

Doesn't not necessarily the way it looks.

Now this is where english becomes a little bit crazy.

Now technically you want to make it plural because there's six of them.

That's just the way we say I'm six ft two.

But if I'm going to use the word tall, If I'm going to use the full expression, Then I'm going to use the correct expression.

It depends which way you're going to say foot twice feet once with the tall.

Okay, now sometimes you might hear it's a little bit rude.

It's not very nice to say, but for a short person, How Tall is that guy?

If somebody is six ft tall, six ft tall, how tall are you?

If there's no inches, then you just say six ft 6 ft tall, it doesn't matter foot feet, whatever with no inches.

If somebody's really short, five ft nothing means nothing basically means short.

So for those of you who don't know imperial measures.

So again in Canada, we are we are influenced by both american english and british english.

So if somebody asks me how tall I am, I'll answer in the american way and if they ask me the distance, I'll answer in metric and kilometers, not miles.

But if you need to know the metric, I'm a meter 88.

Now you can spell meter this way or this way.

The pronunciation is meter or if you have s five m, Okay, meters.

Okay, so that's for height, feet and inches, meters and centimeters.

If you want to talk about somebody's weight again in Canada, most people will tell you their weight in pounds, but in other countries they'll tell you their weight and kilograms.

Now I have heard people say Libs or lives.

The actual word is libra, but we don't actually use this word ever to talk about weight or any sort of measurement.

Okay, that's the original latin was libera libera pond or something like that.

And if you want to convert it to metric 88 kg.

Okay, Now there are two ways to say this as well.

And some people will say the full word kilograms.

The pronunciation is a little bit different.

If you're saying kilos, then it's key lois and if you're saying kilograms, then it's que lo actually we don't actually have the W k lo grams kilograms, kilos kilograms.

And British people sometimes still use stone.

One stone is £14 in case you ever hear a stone, I think only in England, they use this as far as I know in Canada.

If you tell somebody your weight and stone, they have no idea what you're talking about.

Now, let's move on to a completely different area.

Food and beverage, food and beverages, food, you eat, beverage, you drink.

Okay, now here we have all kinds of things we can work with.

So, oh, zed, that's the unit of measure shortened.

So we can use ounces for small units of weight measure.

We can also use ounces for volume measure for liquids.

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