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0:00Well, hello and welcome
0:01to this English lesson
0:02about hard working verbs.
0:04You probably have guessed that
0:06this lesson is about the verbs
0:08we use to talk about work
0:10that we do with our hands.
0:13And this lesson is filled with all
0:15different verbs that we use when
0:17we're, putting a picture on the
0:19wall, when we are repairing
0:21something, when we are tightening
0:23something, when we are aligning,
0:26This lesson is made for
0:28all English learners.
0:30All of you, at some point
0:31in your life, need to be able
0:32to talk about the verbs we use
0:35to talk about hard work.
0:37Maybe you need something repaired
0:39in your home, maybe you need
0:41something fixed in your apartment.
0:43These verbs will help
0:46So once again, welcome
0:48to this English lesson about hard
0:50working verbs to attach.
0:53Now, you might be wondering,
0:56the idea for this lesson?
0:58Well, if you look right here,
1:01this rolling tool cabinet had to
1:04have the wheels attached, so it
1:06came almost fully assembled.
1:09But I did have to flip it upside
1:11down and I needed to attach
1:14the wheels to the bottom.
1:15So when you attach something,
1:17it means you have something
1:18and you use either a bolt
1:21or screw or something else
1:23to make it connected.
1:26So the wheel had to be attached.
1:28So the first thing I did was I
1:30attached the wheels to the
1:32bottom of the toolbox and now
1:35it can be rolled so I can roll
1:36it out of the way when I want
1:38to vacuum that part of the room
1:43So if any of you have a large
1:47I guess all TVs are flat screen.
1:49Now you might have it
1:51on a TV stand or you might want
1:53to mount it to the wall.
1:56So this person is putting
1:57up a little piece of metal.
1:59He is going to mount that
2:01to the wall and then he's
2:03going to mount the TV onto
2:06that hanger or holder.
2:09So when you mount something, it
2:11usually means it's large
2:13and you're putting it on the wall.
2:18Like you can hang a TV
2:20on the wall, but usually we
2:22would use the word mount.
2:23I have a large light here and I
2:25want to mount it to the wall.
2:27So I want to perman to the wall.
2:32We usually use hang up
2:33for things like pictures.
2:34Like you can hang a picture
2:37up a picture to coil.
2:40So you can see that someone
2:41took the time to kind
2:44of like bend this copper pipe
2:47until it is now a coil.
2:49They decided to coil it.
2:51They probably had something round
2:55the pipe around that thing
2:57and then when they slid it
2:58off, they had nice coil.
3:01This also looks a little
3:04But, we would say that
3:06the person decided they wanted
3:10Copper pipe is bendable, so they
3:13decided to coil the pipe to hoist.
3:18In this picture, you can see
3:20there is what we call a truss, or
3:24someone might call it a rafter.
3:26And it is on a crane and they
3:28are going to hoist it place.
3:31So when you hoist something, it
3:33means you pick it up from above.
3:37Actually, it doesn't have
3:38to be from above, but it
3:40usually means you're putting
3:41something heavy into place.
3:43You can hoist something
3:45Like you can lift something
3:46heavy and hoist it up
3:48somewhere, or you can hoist
3:50something this way as well.
3:52And you might be wondering
3:54what's the difference
3:55between hoist and lift?
3:58But when you say hoist it,
4:03something very, very heavy.
4:06So something like this, you
4:07wouldn't be able to lift, by hand.
4:09So you would use, a crane
4:12to hoist it into place.
4:15If you ever have string and it's
4:18just laying all over the floor,
4:19you might decide to wind
4:20the string on into a ball.
4:23If you have extension cord, you
4:25might wind up the extension cord.
4:27Although we sometimes say wrap
4:29up the extension cord.
4:31But anytime you have something
4:32long like a string or yarn or
4:36rope or a cable or a cord, you
4:39can wind it into a ball or you
4:42can wind it into, I guess you
4:46What would you call that after
4:47you wind up the extension cord?
4:50That's what you're doing.
4:52So you can see by the action that
4:54this person is doing, they are
4:58basically around itself to secure.
5:03If you have ever put anything
5:05on the back of a truck or
5:07on a trailer, you want to secure
5:10the load before you start driving.
5:13When you secure the load, it means
5:19Let me make this a bit bigger.
5:23Whatever you put on the trailer
5:25or truck is now connected.
5:31to make sure that it is secure.
5:33And we use the verb to secure.
5:35You want to secure your load
5:38You want to secure all
5:40of the wood or lumber or pipes
5:42in this case that you bought.
5:43You want to secure them
5:45so they don't fall off when you're
5:47driving along the road.
5:49So to secure simply means to
5:52make sure something is tied down.
5:55On a trailer or truck,
5:57you can secure things
5:58in other ways as well.
6:01a birdhouse to a pole.
6:06But usually when I think of secure,
6:09I think of, a trailer to fasten.
6:13So when you mount something
6:16you put some screws in it.
6:18When you fasten it to a wall,
6:19you're doing the same thing.
6:21Basically, this person has, I
6:23think, the two verbs I can fasten.
6:28I would use mount to put it.
6:29I would mount a TV on the wall,
6:33Actually, sure what this
6:34guy is putting on the wall.
6:36This is the verb I would use.
6:38He had to fasten this piece
6:40of metal to the wall.
6:41Basically, it means that he has
6:43decided to put screws in it.
6:45So it is now attached
6:47to the wall to fasten.
6:49What else would you fasten?
6:51You fasten your seatbelt.
6:55once again that two things
6:57become connected to adjust.
7:01So this person is not fixing this.
7:04The person is adjusting it.
7:07Maybe the door closes too slowly.
7:10This to me looks like
7:11an automatic door closer.
7:13And so the person can adjust it.
7:16He can turn a little screw,
7:19and that will make it either
7:21close the door faster or slower.
7:24So when you adjust something,
7:25it means you usually turn
7:27something or move something.
7:29Let's say you have a heater
7:31and it's too warm in your room,
7:33you would adjust the knob
7:35or the thermostat so that it is
7:38cooler and nicer in your room.
7:41So to adjust means there's
7:43different settings and you're
7:45changing it between the settings.
7:47You can also, like, I can adjust
7:48my light right now if I want.
7:53Would also use the verb to dim.
7:55What number did I have it at?
7:56I think I had it at 85.
7:58So when you adjust something,
7:59you change its setting
8:03to tighten, to loosen.
8:05So I've talked about these
8:06in other English lessons.
8:07In English, we often say righty
8:09tighty, lefty loosey in order to
8:12remember which way to turn a bolt
8:15or nut or screw for it to either
8:18get to tighten it or to loosen
8:22So if I wanted to tighten this
8:24bolt, I would put a wrench
8:25on and I would turn it to
8:27the right or clockwise, I guess.
8:33I guess you have to be above
8:37I don't want to explain too much.
8:40Lucy, I'm probably mirrored
8:41on your screen, so hopefully
8:44this makes some sense.
8:45But when you tighten something, for
8:48instance, if this bolt was here,
8:50it would be loose, and you would
8:52tighten it so that everything
8:54is now firm and in place.
8:56And if you wanted to take
8:58something apart, if you
9:00Wanted to disassemble it.
9:01You might loosen the bolts or
9:03nuts in order to do that.
9:05When I put the wheels on this,
9:09I had to tighten the bolts.
9:11If I wanted to take the wheels
9:13off, I would loosen the bolts
9:14and then they would come off.
9:18If you're putting pictures
9:19on the wall, we generally
9:20use the verb to hang.
9:22Now, I thought I also had
9:25but maybe I changed it.
9:28Yeah, you can use either you
9:29can hang some pictures
9:31on the wall, or you can hang
9:32up some pictures on the wall.
9:33Both would work, and both
9:36would be, correct English.
9:39So this person has decided
9:40they would like some pictures
9:42on the wall, and so they decided
9:44to hang the pictures.
9:45Jen found this picture of a tree.
9:49It's not really in focus for you.
9:51How would I make it in focus?
9:52Do I have to get out of the.
9:54I get out of the frame.
9:56Does it come in focus?
9:58No, it's still focused on me.
10:00Sorry, that was a bad attempt
10:01at getting it to focus.
10:05If you remember, there was
10:06a tree across the river
10:07and it blew down years ago.
10:08But for my whole life it was there,
10:10and it was my favorite tree.
10:17To put something on the wall
10:19somewhat permanently to roll up.
10:22Now, I would actually
10:24probably say to wind up.
10:26But you can also roll up.
10:28This is an extension cord.
10:29And this person has decided
10:31to roll up the extension cord or
10:33to wind up or to wrap up.
10:35But I probably wouldn't use
10:37to coil up, even though I taught
10:39you the verb to coil earlier.
10:41So when you have a long
10:43extension cord, because you
10:45need to have electricity far
10:46from an outlet, when you're
10:48done, you want to roll up the
10:49cord or wrap up the cord or
10:52I would use any of those verbs,
10:54and they would all work to wrap.
10:59So these people are putting
11:03on this house called home wrap.
11:05So they have decided
11:07You can also wrap a present by the.
11:11Before you give someone a
11:12present, you will wrap it so
11:13you can tell it's the action
11:15of covering something,
11:17usually with paper or plastic
11:20or something very, very thin
11:23They will wrap the house so
11:25that it doesn't have any drafts,
11:28so wind can't blow in.
11:30But, when you wrap a present,
11:33you do it because you want to hide
11:35what the present is someone
11:37until they decide to open it.
11:41To cover something with
11:42paper or cloth or fabric or
11:45plastic, something thin.
11:48In order to cover it, I guess
11:54If you take out a window you have
11:56to install a new window.
11:58If you take the radio out
12:00of your car or the stereo out
12:02of your car, you might buy a new
12:04one and then install a new one.
12:07So it's hard to explain exactly
12:09what this means, but it means you
12:11are putting something in the place
12:14where it needs to go permanently.
12:16So you can install a door in a
12:18house, you can install a
12:19window, you can install a
12:20stereo in a car because there
12:22is a hole in the dash where
12:26If I bought, I don't have a remote
12:30car starter, so I can't
12:32start my car from in the house.
12:34But I would love to install
12:37remote starter in my car.
12:38So it doesn't have one.
12:40They would need to install one.
12:42I had a pickup truck
12:45many, many years ago and it
12:46had a remote starter.
12:48And that's really nice
12:51So to install, to put something
12:53in place permanently to clamp.
12:57If you have two pieces of wood
12:59and you put glue on one piece
13:01and then you put another
13:02piece of wood against it, you
13:04need to clamp the wood so
13:07that it dries very, very
13:11And so a clamp is something
13:15pieces of wood together.
13:16Are we going to have like
13:17the sunshine effect here?
13:20I thought we were past that era,
13:23but, maybe we will have that.
13:25So by the way, that's
13:28Would use a clamp to clamp
13:30two pieces of wood together.
13:32Basically, you tighten the clamp.
13:34There's another verb we just
13:36learned in order to press the two
13:38pieces of wood together really,
13:40really strongly to connect.
13:44When you have two things that can
13:46go together, you can connect them.
13:49So you can connect, two
13:51extension cords together.
13:54What else can you connect?
13:55I'm trying to think after we
13:57set, put the Christmas lights
13:59on the tree, we connect them
14:00to an extension cord.
14:02In that case, you can
14:07But, yes, when you have two things,
14:11if you have two, chains, you
14:15can connect them together as well.
14:18Not sure I'm explaining
14:19this one really well.
14:20But when you connect two things,
14:22you them together to link.
14:26So this was a, kind of a hard one
14:28to find a picture for.
14:30But here you have two electrical
14:32panels and they decided
14:34to link them together.
14:37So you can see the black cable that
14:39goes from one box to the other.
14:41You could use the verb to connect.
14:45connect them together.
14:46You could also say they decided
14:48to link them together.
14:50This reminds me of a long time ago.
14:56I was going to talk about.
14:57We would have four computers
15:00be linked to a printer.
15:01And then we had a little box
15:03and you had to choose
15:04which computer could print.
15:06This is like 30 years ago, before
15:07we had a network at school.
15:10But you could also use it
15:11to talk about computers.
15:12All the computers in the world
15:15are linked together,
15:17through the Internet.
15:18My computers in my house are linked
15:20together because I have a network.
15:23The computer I'm sitting at is
15:26linked through the network, to my.
15:29My, larger computer over there.
15:32So to link, to connect two
15:34things together, to tie.
15:37So this is a simple one.
15:39You mostly do this with rope
15:41or string when you create a knot
15:45so that the rope or string is
15:47connected to something else.
15:49Here they decided to tie
15:51the rope to this wooden pole.
15:58Oh, this is an elastic, but I
16:00could pretend this is a string
16:02and I could tie this around my
16:04finger to help me remember.
16:07I'm very good at tying
16:08to help me remember something.
16:11I did a really bad job.
16:12But, anyways, when you tie
16:15two things together, or when
16:16you tie something, it usually
16:18involves a string or rope,
16:20I would call this a rope.
16:21And you create a knot so that that
16:23thing is basically held to
16:26whatever you tie it to, to hook.
16:31So here you have two hooks,
16:35to hook them together.
16:37When you hook something, it usually
16:39means there is some kind of hook.
16:43So, a hook is usually
16:44a bent piece of metal.
16:46It can be made out of wood as well.
16:50And so if I had my glasses here
16:52and I had something with a hook, I
16:54could hook it onto my glasses.
16:57When you put your clothes
16:58on a coat hanger, you then hook it
17:00on the bar in your closet.
17:03So a, hook is anything that is
17:06shaped like this that is meant to
17:09kind of connect in the way you see
17:10in this picture here to another
17:13thing to place, to position.
17:17So this is a little tricky
17:18to explain, but they are hoisting
17:22this beam and then they're going
17:25to place it in the right spot.
17:27So this is a general verb.
17:29Like I can take my cup and I can
17:32place it, on top of my camera.
17:37I don't know why I would do that.
17:38That's a bad example.
17:40I can take my glasses and I can
17:42place them on top of my head.
17:43So it's a general verb that you use
17:47something is being put somewhere.
17:52They're Going to hoist it and then
17:54place it in the right spot
17:57to position means almost
17:59the same thing, but it might
18:02be a little more precise.
18:04So you could say this.
18:06They're going to place it
18:08in the right spot and then they're
18:10going to position it like
18:12they're going to make sure it's
18:13exactly in the right spot.
18:15But I could definitely use these
18:17two verbs interchangeably.
18:18They've hoisted the beam
18:20and they are going to position it
18:22to place it in the right spot.
18:26I like this little machine he's
18:28using to position the beam.
18:30When I worked construction, we
18:32would have done this by hand
18:33with like three people at each
18:35end lifting a 600 pound beam.
18:38But, he has a nice little
18:40machine he can use to position
18:51When you put two pieces of wood
18:53together, like this person is
18:55doing, you want to align them
18:57perfectly because if they're out
18:59of alignment, then the furniture
19:02or whatever you're building
19:05So you want to make sure
19:06that they are aligned properly.
19:09So again, if you look
19:09at my fingers, you don't want
19:11it out of alignment,
19:13you want it to be aligned.
19:15So you align them properly and then
19:17use glue and, and then you would
19:18use a clamp to clamp it together.
19:22So to align means to like,
19:26usually it's two or more things
19:27and you're putting them exactly
19:29where they need to go.
19:31The same happens when you put
19:33like there's trim around this door
19:36and you want to align the two
19:38pieces so that they come together
19:40with some precision to suspend.
19:45So Jen has lights in her work area,
19:48in the barn, in her flower shop.
19:50We decided to suspend some lights.
19:52We would probably use
19:55But this light, someone
19:56has decided to suspend the light
19:59So it simply means that there
20:02are ropes or chains or something
20:04that are holding it up.
20:06I would probably use
20:09Like Jen has decided to hang
20:11more lights in her workshop.
20:16But we do use suspend.
20:17Like, oh, you need to suspend
20:18more lights in that room if
20:19you want it to be brighter
20:22to assemble and to disassemble.
20:28But in this picture, the person
20:30has bought a piece of furniture
20:32and they are going to assemble
20:34the furniture, they are going
20:36to read the instructions and
20:38they are going to attach and
20:40connect tighten little bolts
20:43and they're going to make sure
20:45They align everything
20:47properly as they build.
20:49What looks like maybe a dresser,
20:53not sure what it is to assemble
20:55means to put something together.
20:58It means you have pieces
20:59and you are going to connect them
21:01together to make something.
21:03To disassemble is the opposite.
21:06This person might have decided
21:08they want to move their
21:09chair to another location.
21:12They are going to disassemble
21:13it, they're going to take it
21:15apart, and then they are going
21:16to move it, and then probably
21:18they will assemble it again.
21:20So, once again, to assemble means
21:22to put something together.
21:24To disassemble means to take
21:26something apart to reinforce.
21:31So sometimes when you connect
21:33things together, they're
21:35a little bit wobbly and they're
21:38and they need to be reinforced.
21:40So here you can see they
21:43pieces of wood angles.
21:46And those pieces of wood will
21:48reinforce what you've built.
21:51So it will be very secure and firm.
21:54And, it won't be wiggly
21:57So to reinforce means to add pieces
22:01to something so that it is
22:03more solid, so it is stronger.
22:07So it is safer as well.
22:12So it looks like this deck
22:17had a rotted board, and so this
22:19person has decided to replace it.
22:22So replacing the verb
22:24to replace means two things.
22:26It means to remove something
22:27and then put something
22:30If you have a board that is
22:33rotted, you will remove it
22:34and then put a new one in.
22:35You will replace it.
22:37So again, the action has two parts.
22:39When you replace something,
22:40you're removing something
22:41and putting something else there.
22:47Oh, my other glasses
22:52So if I was wearing these glasses
22:54and I decided that they weren't
22:56working, I could replace them
22:59I don't wear these very often.
23:02Not sure if these are
23:04I got them for free from my sister.
23:07So I know you guys can decide.
23:09But either way, when you replace
23:11something, it means you take
23:15one away and put something else in
23:18the place where it was to repair.
23:21So sometimes things break
23:23and you need to fix them.
23:25You need to open them up and take
23:27parts out and put other parts in.
23:30replace the battery.
23:32So again, you would then
23:33take the battery out
23:34and put a new battery in.
23:36But sometimes you just need
23:37to repair something.
23:38Sometimes something is broken
23:40and you need to repair it.
23:42So this is different than
23:44assembling something.
23:46This happens after you've used
23:49something or had something
23:50for a while, and then part
23:52of it isn't working anymore,
23:53so you need to repair it.
