I was going to try to...

A shoe and a book joke, but I didn't think it would go well.

But Mr. E is saying to me: "I gotta hand it to you." Right?

"You tried."

Yeah, I did try.

Unfortunately I failed.

Today I want to teach you about body parts as verbs, and how certain parts of our body,

from our hands to our mouths, to our heads can be used as verbs and have a meaning.

Now, before I go any further, I want to say two things.

Thank you to Baz and Tomo.

Thanks, guys, you made this lesson possible with some of your suggestions.

And if you guys have suggestions for me at all for lessons, please, don't hesitate.

Go to engVid, www.engvid.com, and just say, you know: "Can you teach this, this, and this?"

or "Could you help us with...?" and you might get your name on the board.

Now, I'm going to move on to our lesson, but just to point out because you grammar heads

out there will say: "He wrote 'gotta', and that's not a word in English."

You're right, this is slang.

But I'm saying: "You gotta hand it to me", because I'm using one of these body parts

as a verb right there: "hand it", it means have got to.

"I have got to hand it to you."

But in English, we say: "gotta" because it's faster and simpler. Right?

So: "I have got to hand it to you" is very formal, "I gotta hand it to you" is very natural.

Keep that in mind.

If you're writing, write: "I have got to", but if you're speaking, you could say to a

Canadian: "I gotta get going now", and they'll understand you have to go.

Cool? All right. Moving on.

First things we want to talk about, and I tried to do this in order with your body so

you will remember the order.

"Head", I have a head.

I cannot walk like this, it doesn't make sense.

I turn my head in the direction I'm going.

So, when somebody says: "Where are you heading?" they're saying: "I see your head is going

in this direction.

To where are you going?"

So: "heading" means direction.

"He was heading to his house", that means the direction he was going of his house.

"She was heading to the store", she was going in the direction of the store.

Number one: "heading".

Number two: "eyeball".

"To eyeball somebody" is to look at them.

Usually used in a negative sense.

If someone says to you: "Are you eyeballing me?"

It means: "Are you staring at me or looking at me?

Because I don't like how you look at me, okay?

Stop doing it." Okay?

So: "to eyeball someone".

Maybe you, you know...

Sometimes you've seen women look at other women, and they look them up and down, like:

"Look at her."

They're eyeballing, because you can see their eyes moving and checking them out.

Or guys eyeball each other, like: "Yeah, he thinks he's tough", and they eyeball you.

Okay?

Number two: "to eyeball".

Number three: "neck".

I'm not a vampire, I don't...

I don't want to bite you and get your blood, but "necking" isn't when two people put their

necks together, but "necking" is kissing, but long-time kissing, so it's like you're

with your partner: "[Kisses]".

"Necking", okay?

So that's why I have two lips, because they're kissing and that's why the two people are

happy because messing...

Messing.

[Laughs] Kissing means...

"Necking" means long-term kissing or long-time kissing and passionate kissing.

Okay?

Number four: "mouth off".

You can see the mouth is jumping off of a box.

Let me finish that box, it doesn't look like a full box, there.

So it's jumping off a box.

"Mouth off" is to say things, like: "Get out of here.

I don't care."

It's being rude.

Being rude, maybe sometimes using slang towards someone.

So, for example, if your dad were to say: "Hey, could you pick up the box?"

And you go: "Yo, old man, why don't you pick up the box?

You're bigger than me, you should pick up..."

You're mouthing off.

I would say: "Stop mouthing off.

Stop being rude."

Okay?

Or: "...talking back to me like that".

"Mouthing off".

"Shoulder", "shoulder a burden", that's just one example, but when you shoulder something,

like a responsibility, it means you carry it with you.

You carry it with you.

So if you're shouldering many responsibilities, maybe you are a student, maybe you're trying

to learn English, maybe you have a job, maybe you have a fam-...

That's a lot of things to put on your shoulders.

Because shoulders are used to carry, so you're carrying a lot of these things on your shoulder.

Okay?

Next one, number six: "armed".

Dunh-dunh-dunh-dunh.

"Arm", this is your arm.

We say: "armed" to mean have a weapon, like a gun.

"Pewng."

That's a phaser, by the way, from Star Trek.

"Pewng, pewng, pewng, plewng."

Or a sword.

"Ta-ching, ching."

Even a knife.

You can use a pen as a weapon.

In fact, to be honest, if you're armed, you could use words as weapons.

It's anything that can hurt someone, we say they were armed.

Right?

So if you're not very smart, you might not be well-armed in an argument.

Sorry, it's funny.

Really, it is.

But think of "armed" being a weapon, like a gun, or a knife, or a sword.

Okay?

So, are the...

Were the people armed?

Did they have weapons?

"Elbow", that's this part of your arm, the elbow.

See that part?

That's your elbow.

Okay?

Now, I don't know where you are in the world, but Canadians will know this one and Americans,

but if you elbow somebody in hockey it means to hit them with your elbow.

So: "elbowing" usually means to either hit somebody with this part of your body, or to

push your way into a situation.

And it means there's physical contact or a little bit of violence, because if I elbow

into the room, it means I'm going: "Excuse me.

Excuse me.

Excuse me", and I use these to get room.

Or if I elbow past you, you're standing there and I go: "Excuse me, got to go", and I will

hit you with my elbow to make you move.

All right?

But if you watch hockey, elbows happen all the time.

Okay?

So: "elbow someone".

Now, because this is YouTube I'm going to give you the finger, but it's not this finger,

it's another finger.

This finger here, but I'm not allowed to show it on network TV, or kids...

The kids' channel.

So: "give someone the finger" is not this finger...

Okay, don't use this finger, don't use this finger, don't use this finger, don't use this

finger, use this one.

But I have to illustrate it like that.

It means to tell someone to go away in a very strong way.

In fact, you might say it's the F-word.

You can go find it out for yourself.

But if you go like this: "Hey, you", and I give you the finger, I probably will have

to run away because you're going to probably want to hit me back.

Okay?

So, go figure out what "the finger" is.

Number nine: "butt in line".

Okay, I don't know if you can see my butt - that's my bum-bum, but you can't see it.

So, hang on a second.

The things I do for engVid.

Okay.

Dunh-dunh-dunh.

Okay, so, that is my butt.

Get a good look.

Okay?

"To butt in line" means to take this thing and to push your way in line.

What do I mean?

I mean there is a line...

Sorry, give me a second.

Told you, all the stuff I do for engVid.

There is a line and everyone's lined up nicely, and you're like...

Remember "elbow"?

You go: "Excuse me", and people go: -"You can't butt in line.

Your butt has to go back with everyone else at the end."

-"Damn it."

Because if you butt in line, you try to get in line when you shouldn't.

Don't try that in England - the queue is everything.

You do that England, they'll all say: "Excuse me?

Right, you can't butt in line."

No, sorry.