Let's learn English at the park!

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I thought today would be a great day to come to the park.

And I'm at a park that has everything that I would want to have at a park to be able

to do a video where I can help you learn English.

So let's walk around and I will show you a whole bunch of things that, that a park,

that a city park would have.

Often at a park you will find a playground.

A place for kids to come and play.

There will usually be a playground area like this, and usually there will be swings.

I should go try one of these swings right now, what do you think, let me just aim the

camera a little closer and let me run over and, and let me see how this goes.

I think I'm getting too old for that.

Let's, let's move on to the next part of the park.

One thing that I really like at a park is if people keep it clean.

It's really nice if people pick up their garbage and put it into a proper garbage can.

This particular park has a really nice path where if you wanted to go for a walk, or if

you wanted to go for bike ride, or if you just wanted to go for a run.

It's nice when a park has paths.

This particular park also, I'm not sure if you can see them in the distance let's

turn for a sec, actually has light poles way over there.

You can even come here at night if you needed to go for a run and you could do it safely.

Often times at a park you'll also find outdoor covered areas.

This particular covered area we would call a gazebo in English.

It's just really nice if it's a really hot sunny day or if it's a rainy day you

can still come to the park and sit in the gazebo.

You can bring a book, there's some benches where you can sit.

This is what we would call a pavilion.

Sometimes in the summer you can rent a pavilion at the local park, and you can have a family reunion

in the pavilion.

A family reunion is when you just get together with all of your family, and all of your extended

family, just to see how everyone's doing and what they've been up to.

Sometimes at the park the landscaping is even more extensive.

We're going to walk to the top of this in a minute.

I think this is here and it's up on a hill so that you can watch ships go by.

I don't think there's a ship going by today in the canal.

I was really hoping there would be, but we'll walk to the top and we'll see what we can

see.

So I'm not sure how well you can see this, but behind me is the actual Welland Canal.

When I was a kid every once in a while we would come to the canal and we would wave

at all the sailors on the boats.

And it would be people from all different countries.

People from some of your countries that would be on huge ships.

They would come through the Welland, they would come through the Welland Canal on their

way out to Lake Ontario, and the eventually making their way down the St. Lawrence River

to the Atlantic Ocean.

But today, there's no boats.

Sorry.

I was really hoping there would be a boat.

One of my favourite things at the park is really big trees.

I just love trees that have lots of shade.

Normally if I do go to the park in the summer I end up sitting under a tree like this one.

I'm not a big fan of really warm days and lots of sunshine.

There's , so, parks are cool because there's big trees and there's usually lots of grass

and just lots of green, so you feel really close to nature.

If you're lucky, the park you're at will have what we call a skate park.

A skate park is a place where you can bring your skateboard, your roller blades.

This is for much younger people.

I, Bob the Canadian does not come to the skate park, but you can come to the skate park,

usually there's a bunch of people here.

Today it's kind of empty, but anyways, one of the things you might find at a park is

a skate park.

Somebody forgot their helmet at the park.

I think I'll just leave it here and while I'm making the video maybe they'll come

and pick it up.

It's really nice if a park has restrooms, or bathrooms, or in Canada we call them washrooms.

But sometimes you just need to go to the bathroom, you need to use the restroom and it's nice

if a park actually has that.

Some smaller parks don't, but usually a larger park like this park will have a restroom

where maybe you're here with your family and your little kids, it's nice to come

to a park where you can just take them to the bathroom.

Well, hey, that was super fun to be able to show you what a park looks like in Canada.

I'm sure in your cities you have parks.

They probably have even more flowers, if you're in a warmer place.

But it was super fun to be able to show you the park and all of the different areas here.

I'm Bob the Canadian.

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