Name: Free English Class! Topic: Plants! ??? (Lesson Only)
Uploaded: 2024-05-31T12:29:29.000Z
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Well, hello and welcome to this English lesson about plants.

Plants are these wonderful things that grow outside and sometimes we grow them inside.

They make the world beautiful in my opinion.

They make us feel good inside and in in addition to that, they also feed us.

We eat all kinds of fruits and vegetables that plants provide for us.

So, plants are amazing and certainly a worthwhile English lesson for today.

So, welcome to this English lesson about plants.

This is where you should start when talking about plants.

Seeds, in my opinion, are one of the most amazing things in the world.

It's this tiny little thing and you put it in the ground and it turns into a tree or it turns into grass or it turns into a little bush.

Seeds are these little dormant parts of the plant.

When I say dormant, I mean, a seed is kind of asleep, waiting to grow at some point.

So, when you have seeds, you basically have plants that will grow someday.

Jen and I plant many, many seeds in the spring.

We start our seeds in little seeding trays in our basement and then eventually, they all grow into plants and seeds can be yummy too.

It's fun to eat sunflower seeds or pumpkin seeds.

There are many types of seeds in the world that are very yummy to eat as well.

This is what we use when we talk about putting a seed in the ground.

Farmers in our area will plant a lot of seeds in the ground later this spring.

So, when you take a seed that's dormant and you put it in the ground or you put it in soil and if it gets the right things which I'm going to talk about in a moment, it will start to grow but the verb we use is to plant and you put it into the soil or the ground.

Generally, we plant seeds into soil in our seeding trays.

If you are putting seeds into a pot, you would probably say you're putting it into soil.

If you're outside, you plant seeds in the soil or in the ground.

You could use either word to describe it but that is what will make seeds come out of their dormancy and start to grow to germinate.

So, once a seed starts to grow, it sends out usually a little root and a little stem.

The gets to a point where it will start to grow and we call that germination.

We hope that when we plant seeds, they will germinate.

It's nice to see them germinate and start to send down roots and send a stem up and the verb is to germinate.

So, a sprout is something that might be familiar to you because we eat sprouts.

Um you can eat bean sprouts, you can eat sunflower sprouts, you can eat alfalfa sprouts.

A sprout is when the seed has germinated and it's sent out either maybe just a root, maybe a root and a little bit of a stem but usually just that first root and then you are able to eat it maybe in a salad or something else.

Um Jen used to do more sprouts in our kitchen.

We should probably do that more because sprouts are very very healthy.

So, as I mentioned, plants have different parts.

The root is the part of the plant that grows down into the soil.

So, generally, when a seed germinates, it will send out its first root and that root will go down into the soil so that the plant can get water and other nutrients from the soil in order to grow.

I think it has a couple other pronunciations but I say root.

They actually make the soil healthier as well because they go down and they break up the soil.

There are some crops that we grow just to make the soil better because the roots help make good soil.

So, when a plant germinates and sends its first root down and then it sends its first stem up, eventually, it comes out of the ground and the verb we use is to emerge.

Um when I plant crops in my big field, I'm always eager for the seeds to emerge.

I'm looking forward to seeing the plants.

I'm looking forward to seeing the plants emerge from from the ground.

It is a very exciting time when you see things.

So, it's fun to see plants come up or to emerge from the ground.

When a plant first starts to grow, that tiny little plant, that first little stem and a few leaves that come out of the uh a seedling.

Um Jen in the basement because we grow flowers on our flower farm.

She plants seeds in the soil in the tray.

Eventually, it will germinate and then the seed will emerge and then we'll have a little seedling after a day or two.

It'll put up a stem and then a couple little leaves and we'll have these cute little seedlings.

So, the difference between emerge and germinate.

Germinate means the seed starts to grow underneath the ground and when you say the seed, when you say the plant emerges, it means it comes out of the ground.

They are very similar but scientifically, germination would be the seed takes in water and sends out its first root.

So, you might not see it yet and then eventually, it will emerge and you will see it start to grow above the ground.

That would be the little difference between to emerge and to germinate.

The stem is just that piece that doesn't have anything else happening.

It just connects the bottom of the plant to the first leaf.

If you go far enough up, you will have a the stem.

With a tree, you might actually call the main part the trunk or you actually call the main part the trunk and then you might say stems but usually we say branches when we're talking about a tree.

Leaves of course or leaf in the singular.

These are the green, usually green parts of a plant.

This is the part of the plant that the plant makes in order to capture sunlight and I won't go into the details of what plants do with sunlight but they use sunlight in order to get energy to grow.

So, leaves are the part of the plant where sunlight can hit and the plant can grow and be strong and produce food or produce branches or produce.

I'm thinking fruit or anything else that a plant produces.

So, a bud is anything that looks like this that will become a flower or a leaf, okay?

Generally, a bud becomes a flower but our trees right now have all little buds on them and those buds on a maple tree will open and become leaves on the tree.

When we see a bud on one of our flowering plants, that bud usually opens and becomes a flower.