Hi, Bob the Canadian here. Let’s learn English on the road! I have to make sure I don’t get run over!
Haha! Hey Bob the Canadian here welcome to this video about roads, streets, and highways. If this is your first time here don’t forget to click the subscribe button below and the small bell icon so that you can be notified when I upload videos.
Give me a thumbs up if this video is helping you learn English, and don’t forget to scroll down into the description to look for free bonus material to help you practice the English that we’re going over in this video. Well, hey, welcome to this video we’re going to talk a little bit about roads, streets, and highways today, and some of the things that you will find beside them. This road here is a paved road, that means the surface of the road is hard and that means that cars can go a lot faster and it’s just easier to drive on.
And this part right here is called the shoulder of the road, so when you pull off the road you can go onto the shoulder of the road. This part over here is kind of a little hard to see is called the ditch, and the ditch is where when it rains all the water would run off the road into the ditch to keep the road nice and dry. The road behind me is what we would call a gravel road or a dirt road.
A paved road like we saw has a hard surface. A gravel road has all of these little stones, I’ll hold them up to the camera. So there’s a couple ways that you’ll know that you need to stop when you get to the end of a street or road.
Behind me you’ll see a stop sign. This is a red sign with the word stop in it, and it has eight sides, it’s an octagon. So a stop sign is one of the ways that you know that you need to stop your car.
So the intersection behind me here is called a four way stop, or an all way stop. If you can see under the stop sign here it says, “All Way”. What that means is that whoever stops first at the intersection gets to go next.
So everyone needs to take turns going through this intersection. So another way you’ll know when to stop is when you see a stoplight or a traffic signal. So behind me is an intersection where two roads cross and up here you can see that the light just turned red.
Red lights mean stop, and green lights mean go. You can also see right here these white lines are what’s called a crosswalk. This is where if you push the button on the pole over there, there’s a pole, and you wait then eventually it tells you, this little hand here will turn to a person and you can walk.
. . we have a little sign here, how’s it going!
So I’m at a railway crossing right and if you notice right here there’s a railway crossing light. When that light comes on it means there’s a train coming. I think I’m just in time to see this.
Let’s watch the train go by. Here it comes! So that’s why when that light’s going you should not cross the railroad track.
So we looked at stop signs, which tell you that you need to stop. But sometimes you wanna know how fast you can go. On the sides of the road you will see speed limit signs which tell you how fast you can drive your vehicle.
This is speed limit sign from a city or town and it says you can do 50 kilometres an hour maximum. This is a speed limit sign from out in the country. It says you can 80 kilometres an hour max, and if you go any faster you might get a ticket.
So I’m gonna let you guess what this sign means and you can post it in the comments below. I’m not gonna give you any hints but if you think you know post it below. So sometimes along the side of the road they want to protect things so they put up what is called a guardrail.
A guardrail stops vehicles from going off the road if they lose control. So let’s say the road was really icy and slippery and if you lost control you would hit the guardrail first instead of that pole that they’re trying to protect. So this is a guardrail.
So I’m going to walk through the ditch here, if you remember the ditch is the part on the side of the road that the water can go into, but we’re going to kind of jump across the ditch here because I want to show you this pole. So in Canada we call these hydro poles, let me lean back for you and you can see the hydro wires. In the United States they’re called utility poles or telephone poles and the lines at the top are usually called power lines.
Hopefully I don't get my shoe wet when I go through the ditch this time. Let’s see how it goes. I think I’m gonna make it.
So behind me here you’ll see a street, a city street, and what makes a street a little bit different than a road is that you will usually find a sidewalk. This is a place for pedestrians to walk. Pedestrians are people who are walking along the sidewalk.
Sometimes you’ll even find a bike lane. If you look down here you’ll see the shape of a bike because on this road there’s a special lane just for people who are biking. And one of the main differences is that in the city you’re going to always find….
I always have trouble pointing. You’re always gonna find street lights. So right here we have a nice street light and there’s a few of them all along this road.
There’s another one right here. So this street, is well lit at night. You noticed I just called it a road.
I think that’s because I live in the country and it’s easier to refer to this that way. But this is a street, it’s definitely a street. It is a city street.
Sidewalk. Bike lane. Street lights.
So behind me you can see the highway. This is a six lane highway. It has three lanes going in either direction.
If you look over here it’s a little hard to see but you can see the off ramp. The off ramp is what allows traffic to get off the highway, and if you look over here you can just sort of see the on ramp. The on ramp is where you can speed up to get on the highway.
I’m standing on what we would call an overpass. An overpass is the road or street that goes overtop of a highway, and below me the cars are going under through the underpass. It’s a lot of traffic.
Well hey, thanks for watching this video about roads, streets, highways, and the things that you sometimes find along them. Bob the Canadian here. Learn English with Bob the Canadian.
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