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  • wheel

  • swat

  • fill up

  • slam

  • In this English lesson, I'll help

  • you learn over 30 action verbs.

  • And in order to make them easy

  • to remember, I'll act them all out.

  • So sometimes Jen will ask me to wheel a cart like

  • this out to the field so she can plant these plants.

  • In English, when you push something like this

  • cart with wheels, you can use the verb

  • to wheel to talk about it.

  • You can also use the verb to drive.

  • So I can wheel this cart out to the field for

  • Jen, or I can drive it out to the field.

  • So as you can see, there's a

  • bare patch in my lawn right here.

  • So I have some grass seed.

  • I'm going to sprinkle some grass seed here.

  • I'm going to spread some grass seed.

  • Sprinkle is more like this, where you do a little bit

  • spread is more like this, where you do a bit more.

  • But I'm going to sprinkle some grass seed here.

  • I'm going to spread some grass seed

  • here and hope that it grows.

  • It's really handy to have this tap out here,

  • if I need to fill this pail with water. I can turn

  • the tap on and I can fill this pail with water.

  • We also have the verb to fill

  • up and it means the same thing.

  • I don't know why we have two verbs, but if I want,

  • I can fill this pail with water or I can fill up

  • this pail with water and then I can take it over there

  • and Jen can use it to water the flowers.

  • Now I have water in the bucket, but what

  • if I want the water out of the bucket?

  • I can dump the water on the ground, or

  • I can use the verb to dump out.

  • I can dump the water or I can dump out the water.

  • I'm not sure why I did that, though,

  • because we kind of need that water.

  • Now I'll have to fill this pail again.

  • I'll have to fill up this pail again.

  • So I know you know the verbs to open and to close

  • when we're talking about a door, but we have another verb that

  • we use when we close a door really, really quickly.

  • And it's the verb to slam.

  • I can slam this door shut.

  • Usually people slam doors when they're

  • feeling a little bit annoyed.

  • Maybe I'm really annoyed about something and I

  • slam the door because I'm really annoyed.

  • I'm not using full force here because I

  • don't want to break anything, but sometimes when

  • people are annoyed, they will slam a door.

  • So there are a few things I can do

  • with this tire. I can roll the tire.

  • So if I wanted to move this tire

  • over there, I could roll it over there.

  • That's an easy way to move a tire.

  • I could also spin the tire so

  • you can see the other side.

  • I could also use the verb rotate.

  • I can rotate the tire so you can see the other side.

  • And if the tire fell over, I

  • could then pick it up again.

  • Or if the tire was just laying here, I could flip it.

  • Or I could also use the verb to flip over.

  • I could flip over the tire.

  • Sometimes you just need to move something.

  • If I needed to move this

  • brick, I could lift this brick.

  • I could lift up this brick.

  • Or I could pick up this brick.

  • Then I could carry this brick over here.

  • And then I could set down this brick.

  • Or I could put down this brick, or I could

  • just say, I'm going to put this brick here.

  • I could also, if I wanted to, slide the brick.

  • So let's put it back here.

  • If it was too heavy, I could just slide

  • the brick along instead of lifting it up.

  • So sometimes in the early spring,

  • it gets really cold at night.

  • Sometimes we have frost.

  • That's when the temperature goes below zero.

  • And then the night before, we

  • might cover some of our plants.

  • Some of the plants don't like cold weather,

  • but if we cover them with a little

  • pot like this, they will stay warm.

  • In the morning, we come out and we

  • uncover the plants so the sun can shine

  • on their leaves and they can grow again.

  • So sometimes you need to cover something,

  • and sometimes you need to uncover it.

  • So this is a chicken tractor, and it

  • needs to go out into the field.

  • Our chickens are going to live in

  • here this summer, and hopefully they'll eat

  • lots of insects in the flower field.

  • In order to move it, though, I need to

  • first lift up this end, and then I need

  • to pull, but it doesn't seem to be moving.

  • I think that it might take two people to move

  • this one person at the front to pull and another

  • person at the back to push or to shove.

  • You can use either verb.

  • So maybe Jen will lift up the front and

  • pull later, and I will come to the back

  • and I will shove the chicken tractor.

  • I will push the chicken tractor out into the field.

  • So sometimes there's flies or mosquitoes around

  • and you try to swat them.

  • You swing your arms like this to

  • try and swat the fly or mosquito.

  • But if you're lucky, you have a fly swatter,

  • and then you can swing the fly swatter and

  • use it to swat the fly or mosquito.

  • So notice there's two verbs there.

  • You can swing something.

  • You can swing a baseball bat.

  • You can swing a cricket bat.

  • You can swing a fly swatter.

  • But when you actually hit the

  • fly, we call that swatting.

  • So I can swing this really hard and try to swat a fly.

  • So sometimes on the farm we have to

  • put posts like this in the ground.

  • So we use a hammer to hit the post.

  • I don't want to do it.

  • It's actually really loud.

  • Or we can use the verb to hammer.

  • I can hammer this post into the ground.

  • Or we use the verb to pound.

  • I can pound this post into the ground.

  • In fact, that's how we normally do it.

  • We use something called a post pounder.

  • A post pounder is a special tool that

  • you use to pound posts into the ground.

  • So a number of years ago I built these stairs.

  • And I remember when I built them,

  • I needed to measure a lot.

  • I took out my tape measure, my measuring tape.

  • It has two names and I measured every single

  • board, so I knew where to cut the board.

  • So whenever you build something or

  • make something you need to measure.

  • Maybe you need to measure

  • fabric before you make clothing.

  • Maybe you need to measure wood before

  • you build something like these stairs.

  • So I have some landscape fabric here

  • and it's kind of a mess.

  • I need to flatten this before I fold it up.

  • So when you flatten something, you

  • make it all nice like this.

  • I can even say that I'm going to smooth it out.

  • Once that's done.

  • I can nicely fold it.

  • Or I can use the verb to fold up. So I can flatten it.

  • I can smooth it out.

  • I can fold it or I can fold it up.

  • So I can't reach this branch here.

  • But if I set up my stepladder, then I

  • can reach this branch. So I can set up

  • my stepladder so I can reach this branch.

  • When I'm done, though, I should take down my

  • step ladder after I use my step ladder.

  • I take it down when I'm done using it.

  • Well, hey, thanks for watching this English lesson where I

  • hope you were able to learn over 30 action verbs

  • that you can use in your next English conversation.

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