Name: Let's Learn English in the Snow!
Uploaded: 2019-04-10T03:45:59.000Z
Duration: 9 min 12 s
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Modal verbs - A2

So I'm pretty happy because yesterday we had
a nice winter storm and you can see that it's

It's, it's actually brighter on a winter day
than it is on a summer day for us here in

Canada because the, the sun reflects off the
snow.

There's a couple things that I need to do
today and I'll teach you some English along the

I'm actually gonna blow the driveway out with
the snowblower and I'm gonna do a little bit

It's actually, it's actually hard to walk
through this snow right now.

When you're snowed in it means that there's
so much snow that we can't get our vehicles

It's cold, it's minus 15, you don't want to
be out here too long without bundling up.

So you can see I have my winter hat on, which
we call a toque in Canada.

I got my winter boots on my feet, and I got
lots of layers on.

So the accumulation, that's the amount of
snow that came down, they said was gonna be

I think here we got maybe about 10 centimetres.

So when it's this cold outside you want to
make sure that you don't get frostbite.

Frostbite is when your skin actually freezes.

When it's minus 15 you can safely be outside
for quite a while, an hour or two, but you

do want to make sure that you're covered up
as much as possible when you're out in cold

We'll go and see if we can get the big tractor
started now.

If I lived in the city I would have to clean
my driveway with a shovel or a small snowblower.

For me it's a lot more fun to clean it with
the tractor.

So it's so cold that in order to start the
tractor we have to have it plugged in.

We don't plug our cars in in the winter in
this part of Canada, but there are parts of

Canada where it's so cold that you have to
plug your vehicles in at night just to keep

So we do this with things like tractors around
here.

I'm always glad when things start in the winter
when it gets this cold.

So this machine here, on the back of my tractor,
is the snowblower and what it does is it'll

bring the snow in here and it'll shoot it
out through that piece up there.

I'll give you a, I'll give you a little video
of it working.

That's how you move a lot of snow really,
really fast.

I don't think it's very safe to drive a tractor
at the same time as running a snowblower.

So the driveway's all nice and cleaned out.

We'll be able to get the vehicles out now
when we need to go to work.

I'm not sure if you can see out there but
we have what are called snowdrifts.

So snow in the winter will get picked up by
the wind after it's on the ground and it will

It'll start to build little snowdrifts in
different areas.

Drifting can be a little annoying because
after you've cleaned the driveway, after you've

shovelled or blown the driveway out the wind
can fill it back in again.

So that's never fun because then you have
to go and clean the driveway again.

I'll probably have to clean the driveway again
a bit later.

So when it's cold and windy at the same we
have something that's called the wind chill

And the wind chill factor is, it'll feel colder
than it actually is, so right now it's minus

15, that's the actual temperature, but with
the wind chill it feels like minus 20.

So the real temperature is minus 15 degrees
celsius, but with the wind chill factor it

It's so cold in fact that my camera only works
for about 5 minutes before it says that it's

So I've been outside I think 4 times now to
make this video.

So we're gonna head behind the house right
now.

We have a hill and the hill has a nice covering
of snow on it.

And the kids are back there sledding, they
have their sleds out there.

Sledding is when you get a sled and you go
down a hill, you slide down the hill on the

We also sometimes use toboggans in Canada,
but it's a lot of fun so let's, let's go check

Like are you gonna videotape us going down?

Winter is finally here, we're outside doing
some sledding, some tobogganing.

Try not to hit the camera on my way down.