Name: 讓我們通過河流、湖泊和溪流來學習英語吧｜帶字幕的英語學習視頻。 (Let's Learn English by Rivers, Lakes, and Streams | A Video to Learn English with Subtitles)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T08:03:00.000Z
Duration: 9 min 55 s
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情態助動詞 A2

You can see behind me that we have quite a
few clouds today.

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So I thought I would do a video to help you
learn English and talk about rain and snow

- where rain goes after it falls and kind
of just teach you some English along the way.

So if you look up in the sky behind me you
can see that we have some dark clouds.

If they were a little bit darker I would probably
call them storm clouds, and two things fall

We have raindrops, so a raindrop is, is the
smallest little drop of water that falls out

And you can't quite see it but the other
thing that can fall is snow, and snow falls

So you can have raindrops that fall out of
the sky and you can have snowflakes.

There's a couple different kinds of rain
that falls out of the sky.

A drizzle is when hardly any rain is falling
out of the sky.

When it's sprinkling outside it means that
even bigger drops are falling.

A light shower would be when you almost need
an umbrella if there's a light shower.

And when it's pouring rain there is just
a lot of rain.

So if you look right here you can see puddles.

After it rains you end up with puddles which
are small pools of water that form on driveways,

This particular set of puddles that is in
my driveway at home.

And puddles, they kind of stay until the sun
dries them up.

We say that the sun causes the water to evaporate.

So these puddles, they don't go anywhere.

The water doesn't flow anywhere, and we
just have to wait a few days for them to evaporate

So if you look way up there on my shed we
have what we call an eavestrough.

An eavestrough is a gutter, it's a trough
along the side of a building so that when

it rains the water goes from the roof into
the eavestrough.

From there - I'll zoom up a bit if I can
- from there you'll see that the eavestrough

So this over here, this is the downspout.

On my house the downspout goes into a cistern
which is a place where you can store water.

So I'm, I'm standing out here along the
road.

You can see the road over there, and this
right here is what we call a ditch.

So when it rains, when the rain hits the road
over there it flows off the road into the

ditch, and the ditch takes all that water
down the road usually to a stream or river,

So a ditch isn't just something you'll
find along the road.

So this is a small ditch in this field so
that the water has somewhere to go when it

So behind me here we have a small stream.

It's flowing underneath this bridge here
and you can see the stream has fairly fast

If it was summer and it was warmer you could
walk through the stream because it's only

So we would call this a stream, you can also
call it a brook.

And if you've ever heard the the term “a
babbling brook”, if I stop talking for a

minute here you'll be able to hear this
stream makes kind of a babbling sound so let's,

let's listen to it, not the car going over
the bridge.

So hopefully you could hear that a bit as
the water flows over the rocks, it's like

So behind me you'll see what we call a pond.

I'm not sure exactly how to describe a pond.

It's definitely bigger than a puddle, and
it's smaller than a lake.

So it's really just a small body of water.

A river is obviously a lot bigger than a stream
or brook.

Once the rain has fallen, and the raindrops
have flowed through ditches and streams, eventually

And rivers are really cool because people
can do recreational activities on a river.

So I was on my way to the lake and we're
still going there by the way, but I was driving

by this river, this is called the Grand River,
and I remembered that there was a couple of

One is the edge of a river is called the riverbank.

And sometimes the water in a river can rise,
and the water can go over the bank and you

So a flood is when water goes where it's
not supposed to go.

Rivers do that quite often where the water
level will rise, especially in the spring

So as all the snow and ice melts the water
rises in the river and sometimes it floods,

goes over the bank of the river and you have
a flood.

So let's, let's keep going so we can get
to the lake.

So behind me is a river and that river flows
into a lake.

You can see the pier behind me and a small
lighthouse.

And way in the distance all of that water
is a lake.

I'm going to walk out to the end of the
pier, as I'm walking out if you look back,

one of the cool things about lakes is they
often have a beach - a sandy beach.

So similar to the ocean, lakes sometimes have
a beach, obviously in the middle of January

no one's swimming, but there is a bit of
a sandy beach there where in the summer you

could come and wear your bathing suit and
go for a little swim.