Name: English Vocabulary Lesson on Vehicles: Cars, Trucks, and Vans
Uploaded: 2019-04-24T03:26:47.000Z
Duration: 12 min 38 s
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I thought today we would learn some English
words and phrases about vehicles.

My van's not broken by the way, but I thought
it might be fun just to go over a lot of different

terms and words that we use when we talk about
vehicles in English because some of you will

probably have a vehicle and maybe you want
to replace that vehicle by buying a new one.

Maybe you're just giving someone a ride
and you need to be able to talk about some

So let's take some time to talk about my
van today!

So this is the front of the vehicle and there's
a few things that you'll need to know to

be able to talk about the front of your vehicle
in English.

These are the lights you turn on when you're
driving at night.

We also have the signal light or the turn
signal which you use to indicate if you're

It's a little bit out of frame, but the
licence plate is the registration number on

a plate that you put on the front of your
vehicle so that the police and the government

So the hood is what you open when you need
to access the motor or the engine of the vehicle.

The antenna is connected to the radio inside
so that you can listen to the music and to

You should know too that when we refer to
a vehicle we talk about the driver's side

The reason this is important is because if
you go to get your vehicle repaired, you usually

refer to which side the problem is on by passenger
side or driver's side.

So often I'll say, you know, the driver's
side front tire is making a funny noise.

Or the passenger side rear door isn't opening
properly.

So driver's side, passenger side, front
and back, are how you refer to the different

So there's a couple more things we need
to look at at the front of a vehicle.

It's the window at the front of the vehicle,
and these down here are the windshield wipers.

That's what you turn on when you're driving
in rain or snow.

So we have the windshield, we have the windshield
wipers.

So we're here at the back of the vehicle,
by the way I think this is a good day to teach

you some English about vehicles because it's
one of the first nice days here and there's

We have the tail lights or the brake lights,
these are also the signal lights.

So these are the lights that go on when you
hit the brakes to slow down.

We also have the back up lights or the reverse
lights so that people know if you're backing

So we have those obviously on the driver's
side as well as the passenger side.

So you can lift the tailgate up and down in
order to get in and out of the vehicle.

It also has a rear window that you can look
out when you're driving.

So we have the tailgate, it also has a licence
plate on the back as well.

So in Ontario, Canada we have licence plates
on the front and back of our vehicles.

On my van in particular down here there's
what we call a receiver so that you can put

So I can put this down here and that allows
me to hook up a trailer.

You can see the ball there let's me hook
a trailer up to my van.

You can see we have the back seats in the
van and each seat has what we call a headrest.

You can barely see this but this is the muffler
right here.

The muffler is the part of the vehicle that
makes the engine quieter.

Without mufflers vehicles are pretty loud.

This is something that you often do need to
replace.

So many times your vehicle will get a hole
in the muffler or the muffler system and it'll

get quite loud and you'll need to go to
a garage to get your muffler replaced.

You can kind of hear the motorcycles going
by probably right now.

Let's take a look at the side of the vehicle.

So here we are looking at the side of my van
and let's, let's talk about a few parts

of this to help you learn a few more English
words to talk about vehicles.

Number 1, we have the wheels or the tires.

Now the distinction, the difference between
a tire and a wheel isn't really that big,

but we would call this entire thing the wheel.

We would call the rubber part the tire ok.

So a lot of times in Canada at this time of
year we go to the garage to have our winter

tires taken off and our regular tires put
on.

So these right now are winter tires for driving
in the snow.

So we have the tire, we have the hubcap, the
silver part.

We also have a mirror, the driver's side
mirror, for the driver to be able to look

We also have the rear tire which I already
mentioned.

And we have of course the driver's side
door, and what we would just call the back

sliding door or the back door of the van.

If you watched my other video about going
to the gas station you already know that this

is the gas cap and this is where you put gas
into a vehicle.

So you would take the gas cap out, put in
the gas nozzle and fill the vehicle with gas.

This is what the driver uses to steer the
van.

And most vehicles in the centre is how you
operate the horn.

So when I push this the van makes a honking
sound.

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