A shoe and a book joke, but I didn't think it would go well.
But Mr. E is saying to me: "I gotta hand it to you." Right?
Today I want to teach you about body parts as verbs, and how certain parts of our body,
from our hands to our mouths, to our heads can be used as verbs and have a meaning.
Now, before I go any further, I want to say two things.
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Now, I'm going to move on to our lesson, but just to point out because you grammar heads
out there will say: "He wrote 'gotta', and that's not a word in English."
But I'm saying: "You gotta hand it to me", because I'm using one of these body parts
as a verb right there: "hand it", it means have got to.
"I have got to hand it to you."
But in English, we say: "gotta" because it's faster and simpler. Right?
So: "I have got to hand it to you" is very formal, "I gotta hand it to you" is very natural.
If you're writing, write: "I have got to", but if you're speaking, you could say to a
Canadian: "I gotta get going now", and they'll understand you have to go.
First things we want to talk about, and I tried to do this in order with your body so
I cannot walk like this, it doesn't make sense.
I turn my head in the direction I'm going.
So, when somebody says: "Where are you heading?" they're saying: "I see your head is going
So: "heading" means direction.
"He was heading to his house", that means the direction he was going of his house.
"She was heading to the store", she was going in the direction of the store.
"To eyeball somebody" is to look at them.
Usually used in a negative sense.
If someone says to you: "Are you eyeballing me?"
It means: "Are you staring at me or looking at me?
Because I don't like how you look at me, okay?
Sometimes you've seen women look at other women, and they look them up and down, like:
They're eyeballing, because you can see their eyes moving and checking them out.
Or guys eyeball each other, like: "Yeah, he thinks he's tough", and they eyeball you.
Okay?
I don't want to bite you and get your blood, but "necking" isn't when two people put their
necks together, but "necking" is kissing, but long-time kissing, so it's like you're
with your partner: "[Kisses]".
So that's why I have two lips, because they're kissing and that's why the two people are
"Necking" means long-term kissing or long-time kissing and passionate kissing.
Okay?
You can see the mouth is jumping off of a box.
Let me finish that box, it doesn't look like a full box, there.
"Mouth off" is to say things, like: "Get out of here.
Being rude, maybe sometimes using slang towards someone.
So, for example, if your dad were to say: "Hey, could you pick up the box?"
And you go: "Yo, old man, why don't you pick up the box?
You're bigger than me, you should pick up..."
I would say: "Stop mouthing off.
Okay?
Or: "...talking back to me like that".
"Shoulder", "shoulder a burden", that's just one example, but when you shoulder something,
like a responsibility, it means you carry it with you.
So if you're shouldering many responsibilities, maybe you are a student, maybe you're trying
to learn English, maybe you have a job, maybe you have a fam-...
That's a lot of things to put on your shoulders.
Because shoulders are used to carry, so you're carrying a lot of these things on your shoulder.
Okay?
Next one, number six: "armed".
We say: "armed" to mean have a weapon, like a gun.
"Pewng."
That's a phaser, by the way, from Star Trek.
"Pewng, pewng, pewng, plewng."
You can use a pen as a weapon.
In fact, to be honest, if you're armed, you could use words as weapons.
It's anything that can hurt someone, we say they were armed.
So if you're not very smart, you might not be well-armed in an argument.
But think of "armed" being a weapon, like a gun, or a knife, or a sword.
Okay?
"Elbow", that's this part of your arm, the elbow.
Okay?
Now, I don't know where you are in the world, but Canadians will know this one and Americans,
but if you elbow somebody in hockey it means to hit them with your elbow.
So: "elbowing" usually means to either hit somebody with this part of your body, or to
push your way into a situation.
And it means there's physical contact or a little bit of violence, because if I elbow
into the room, it means I'm going: "Excuse me.
Excuse me", and I use these to get room.
Or if I elbow past you, you're standing there and I go: "Excuse me, got to go", and I will
hit you with my elbow to make you move.
But if you watch hockey, elbows happen all the time.
Okay?
Now, because this is YouTube I'm going to give you the finger, but it's not this finger,
This finger here, but I'm not allowed to show it on network TV, or kids...
So: "give someone the finger" is not this finger...
Okay, don't use this finger, don't use this finger, don't use this finger, don't use this
But I have to illustrate it like that.
It means to tell someone to go away in a very strong way.
In fact, you might say it's the F-word.
You can go find it out for yourself.
But if you go like this: "Hey, you", and I give you the finger, I probably will have
to run away because you're going to probably want to hit me back.
Okay?
So, go figure out what "the finger" is.
Okay, I don't know if you can see my butt - that's my bum-bum, but you can't see it.
Okay.
Okay?
"To butt in line" means to take this thing and to push your way in line.
Told you, all the stuff I do for engVid.
There is a line and everyone's lined up nicely, and you're like...
You go: "Excuse me", and people go: -"You can't butt in line.
Your butt has to go back with everyone else at the end."
Because if you butt in line, you try to get in line when you shouldn't.
Don't try that in England - the queue is everything.
You do that England, they'll all say: "Excuse me?
Right, you can't butt in line."
"You can't invade the queue like that.
Go to the back of the line like everyone else."
And number 10: "skinned alive".
How do I explain "skinned alive" to you?
"To be skinned alive" means somebody...
Skin is what covers your whole body on the outside.
It means while you are alive, like I am alive, they take a knife and they cut off all of
Yeah, you never want to be skinned alive.
But if someone's being skinned alive, it's an expression we use to show that what is
happening is very painful to the person experiencing it.
It's almost like being killed.
You know: "I felt like I was being skinned alive when they were asking me these questions.
Because to have your skin cut off while you're alive, not something I've ever...
No, of course I've never gone through it, and nor do you want to go through it.
Okay?
"Skinning someone alive" means to put them through extreme pain.
Cool.
I think we've done 10 of these, so I think it's time, if you remember...
So, let's go quickly through it.
"Heading", direction; "eyeball", look in a bad way; "necking", kissing for a long time;
So these are the verbs that they're going to...
"Mouthing off", you're being rude to someone.
"Shoulder a burden", carry, carry something heavy, like responsibility; "armed", right?
Could be armed to the teeth, many weapons.
"Elbow somebody", get that room in there, get that elbow happening; "give somebody the
What was that movie with that guy, the British guy?
So, you had the guy doing this.
"Give them the finger", means give them...
"Butt in line", you saw my bum, take this thing and try to get in front of other people.
Actually, don't try it because if they're armed, they will skin you alive.
And "skinned alive", remember?
Cause extreme pain to someone.
Cool?
Well, now you got it, let's test you on it.
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All right, the magic of the ciao.
First I'm going to give you a bonus before we go to do our quiz, you know, a little bit
extra so you can add to your vocabulary.
Okay, a foot fits in your shoe.
"Foot the bill" means to pay for it.
If you say: "Who's footing the bill?" you're actually asking someone: "Who's going to pay
for this?" or "Who's paying for this?"
"Face", look at this beautiful face, only a mother could love it.
"Face the facts" or "face facts", it means there are things that are happening and you're
not...
You don't think they're real or you're not paying attention to them, or you're not taking
So when someone says: "It's time to face facts", they're saying: "This, and this, and this
You're not doing anything about it or you're pretending it doesn't exist, and we have to
Once again, the things I do for engVid.
Okay.
To knee someone is err, err, hit them with the knee.
I'm sure that was blacked out, but it's the thing between your legs that can hurt you.
So, if someone knees you in the groin it means they will kind of kick you, but with their
Okay?
So it's a "poo-yah" to the special area.
But you can also knee someone in the head, you can knee them in the stomach, you can
You can use that part of the body and hit anyone, like a kick.
Okay?
I got kneed in the groin while playing soccer.
Somebody hit their knee in my you know what.
Now, normally I do a quiz, I usually have blank spaces and I ask you to look at the
For you visual people, you know, you people who learn best by seeing pictures and visuals,
I'm going to give you a shot today.
So I have the picture and I want you to tell me what the word would be, the corresponding
word.
Each one has a picture of the body we were talking about, but now you have to use it
properly in the sentence to show that you understand.
And in doing that, you have to use the proper verb tense, so: "head" might be: "heading"
"One day", our hero, "Mr. E", you know that, so this is Mr. E was...
That's right: "heading to the movies".
"...when he saw a couple in the movie line".
For those of you who don't know: "a couple" is a...
It could be a boy and girl, or what have you, a married couple that are together.
You know, in a relationship, a couple.
"They were holding hands and they started", what?
"...necking". Remember kissing?
So they're holding hands and then they're waiting for a movie, they're in love.
"Mr. E thought he could", yeah, remember?
I have a nice one of these ones.
That means to sneak in the line and go ahead of someone.
So, when the couple are kissing, Mr. E thought: "I can just go in front and they will never
see because they were kissing each other and holding hands."
Okay? "...and they wouldn't notice.
So Mr. E", remember that part of your arm?
So they're kissing, he went: "Excuse me.
"Mr. E elbowed past them, but other people saw him
and eyeballed Mr. E." So they're going: "Oh, what are you doing?
Okay?
Remember, this is the funny part because he has no hands, but...
"So Mr. E gave them the", yeah, he's got no arms so he was like this, but he was going:
"He gave them the finger and ran away because they were armed", they had knives and guns.
Let's cut him alive! Ah!" The end. Did you like my story?
Probably not, but you learned English, that's the important part.
There are many ways of learning, I mean we can use the words, but if pictures work for
Okay?
Different methods will get there for some people faster than other methods.
I hope you enjoyed this because it probably made you giggle, will help you remember.
Giggle means to, like, laugh, like: "Hehehehe", right?
It's kind of funny, the finger and the bum-bum.
Anyway, before I go, we have homework because this is a quiz, but you learn and you grow
The homework I'd like you to do is take five of the body parts...
I believe I gave you 10. Right?
You have 10, so 10 to choose from, and use them in your own short story.
It could be with myself, it could be with you, Mr. E, whoever. Right?
"Was James eyeballing Mr. E while he was doing his lesson?"
I don't know, it's your story.
And then when you're done, go to engVid and share.
Once again, there's a community there.
You can tell people your story, and they might say: "Hey, this is a good one, but I did this",
and you can learn from each other.
You might even exchange a few new ones that I didn't give you.
Anyway, I've got to go, and as always, I want you to go to www... www.eng as in English,
vid as in video.com (www.engvid.com), engVid where you can do the quizzes there.
And I look forward to seeing you, and you can see other people that I work with. Right?
Anyway, it's been a good day. Don't forget to subscribe somewhere around here, and I will see you soon.