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What is this right here?
What is this?
This is grass.
How would you describe this grass?
It's green.
Yes.
So three words you can use to
describe this grass is the grass is green.
That's one sentence.
The grass is very short.
It's very short.
The grass is not very tall.
The grass is very short.
That's the second sentence.
And the third sentence, the grass looks very healthy.
It looks very healthy.
Looks very healthy.
Now, I want you guys to make one sentence
and put it in the comments to describe the
grass.
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What do you see here that you can describe.
Let's continue.
What is this right here?
What is this?
That is a tree.
Correct.
This is a tree.
A tree.
What is this part of the tree called?
What is the main part of the tree called?
That is called the tree trunk.
Correct.
This is the tree trunk.
And this tree is different.
This looks like a palm tree or a coconut tree.
I'm not a tree expert, as you can tell, but
most trees have roots that go in the ground.
The roots go in the ground and
they're spread throughout the ground.
The roots, usually you cannot see the roots.
You cannot see the roots because they are underground.
They are underground.
A tree has roots that are underground and then it has the
tree trunk that's above ground
and from the tree trunk there are branches.
And at the end of the branches there are usually leaves.
Leaves there are leaves.
If there is just one leaf, you would say there is a leaf.
Leaves leaf.
that right there, that is a white wall.
There's also some sort of pattern on the upper part of the
wall in the shape of a diamond,
that is a wall.
What am I doing right now?
Standing.
Correct.
I am standing still.
Or I am standing.
You can say, "He is standing.
She is standing.
They are standing."
Or "I am standing.
I'm standing still."
Now we're going to walk into a park that has many trees,
lakes and other animals and we
are going to describe them in slow
English using comprehensible input.
Let's go.
Right now we are walking on this path.
We are walking on this nice path.
The path is easy to walk on because it is paved.
It's paved.
This to the right of me is a building.
This is a building.
A big white building.
And right here, this is an underpass.
So now we are going to walk under here.
You can see in here on the ceiling there are LED lights.
LED lights.
These are these very bright, almost blue lights.
These are these very, very bright white lights.
LED lights.
And it is dark inside this underpass.
But it is also cool.
On the outside it is very hot because the
sun is beating on your skin and it is very
humid.
So it is hot.
So it feels refreshing to go underground in the underpass
and be protected from the elements.
This right here looks like the main gate, doesn't it?
Or maybe not the main gate but a gate.
This is a gate, yup.
We are going into the botanical gardens.
And you can actually see right on
the path there, there are monkeys.
I did not know there were monkeys here, did you?
I had no idea.
They look mischievous, do they not?
I don't want to get close to them
because they will try to steal my backpack.
Yeah, these ones look worse than
the ones we saw at Monkey Beach.
Yeah, these ones definitely have more human contact.
Yeah, but this is where we are.
We are at the botanical gardens.
This right here is a map.
On the side here we call this a legend.
Legend has multiple meanings in English but
in this case it is just a place that has all
the items on the map listed.
So you can see number 22 and number 22.
Edible garden, a legend.
You can see the monkeys over there.
The monkey just climbed up that tree.
You got to hold onto that camera tight.
Oh I know.
That one there is eyeing you up.
Look at the monkey.
Look at him.
Look at all of them.
Look at the one up there.
Oh look at that guy.
I'm going to take out my phone, open up my
camera and I'm going to take a video of the
monkeys. Can you see them?
I'm mostly going to take a video of the monkey.
They look kind of chill now that we are closer to them.
But look at this tree.
Those look like roots but I'm pretty
sure that's just the way the tree is.
But those all look like roots.
That's a cool tree actually.
Now a question for you.
What is the difference between
that green part and this paved part?
What is the difference?
Can you give me three differences?
And you guys too in the comments give me three differences.
Okay three differences.
The first and most obvious in my opinion
is this is organic and this is inorganic.
What is another way to say that?
This is natural.
This forms naturally.
So grass just grows without you needing to do anything.
Grass is natural.
This however is not natural.
This is unnatural.
It is not naturally formed in nature
especially in a perfect path like this.
Second.
This grass is colorful
This just looks grey and dead.
The last one.
This is a living organism.
It's alive.
This is not alive.
There is no life in this.
Yep.
So grass is alive.
That's why it can grow.
Even if you cut it it will grow.
However pavement and cement is not alive.
This right here is a gazebo.
A gazebo is an open air structure like this usually where
you can eat and have barbecues
or just sit and relax like this one.
It is a lot cooler in the shade of this gazebo.
It is a lot cooler.
And up top there you can see an LED light.
Tell me guys is the light on or off?
The light is off.
Over there in the lake.
What do you guys see?
What is that?
That is a fountain.
A fountain.
How many fountains are in this shot?
There appears to be one, two,
three, four, five, six fountains.
I am not sure if you can see them all on your screen.
So if there is more than one of something
whether it's an object, a person or anything
There are fountains.
If there is just one fountain
you would say there is a fountain.
So plural there are fountains.
Singular there is a fountain.
Time for a quick quiz.
What do you call this part of the tree?
The tree trunk.
What do you call the part of the tree that is underground?
The roots.
What do you call the part of the tree that
grows out of the tree and usually has these
small green things on them?
What do you call that?
The branches and the leaves.
This lake looks to be naturally formed.
The color of the lake is green.
The lake is green.
It is not blue.
It is green.
There is a lot of wildlife in this park.
When we were walking here we saw
about four or five monkeys, right?
Yes.
They were kind of big too.
Yeah, they were running across the path, the monkeys.
But they seemed pretty calm and I
think they might be scared of people.
And another thing right on the ground here you guys.
You can see all these rocks.
All these rocks.
Rocks are very smooth.
You can see the rocks are very smooth and shiny.
But this is uneven.
It's uneven.
So if you're walking it doesn't feel that
comfortable to walk on since it is uneven.
These benches are made of very tiny rocks and cement.
The floor is made of bigger sized
rocks and also cement but it is not smooth.
So you can really see the difference.
These rocks are tiny.
These rocks are tiny.
Those rocks are about normal size.
They're not very big but they're also not tiny.
And as you guys can see the
ceiling of the gazebo is broken.
It's broken or it is damaged.
The gazebo ceiling is damaged.
The inside part here is the ceiling
and the outside you would call the roof.
The roof and the ceiling.
What material does it look
like this ceiling is made out of?
I will give you a hint.
It's made out of the same material as this pillar.
Wood.
It is made out of wood.
The ceiling is made out of wood.
The roof is made out of clay tiles.
As you guys can see there are
a lot of pigeons just chilling.
Another one flew down.
Pigeons in my opinion are kind of like a dirty animal.
A lot of people refer to pigeons as rats that can fly or
rats of the sky because they are
kind of like a dirty animal.
A dirty animal.
I agree with that.
They are always digging through garbage
And there are a lot of them.
So it makes sense why people call them rats of the sky.
But there is a nice breeze where we're standing.
So I could just feel the nice cool breeze just hit me.
And it's very relaxing because it is hot.
I'm sure you guys have heard me
say that about a million times.
That right there is an exaggeration.
I was exaggerating.
I didn't actually say it a
million times but it's an exaggeration.
It's very normal in any language I believe
to exaggerate a fact or to exaggerate what
you're saying.
But that breeze feels very nice.
We are currently at the very beginning of the park.
So you could walk around this whole lake and if you go
further that way you will find more
lakes.
So there are more lakes in that direction as well.
So what do you guys call this?
What do you call this?
You can call that dirt or soil.
Or you can call it the earth but
people mostly call it dirt or soil.
Here I would just call it soil since it's
beneath the tree but you can also call it
dirt.
They pretty much mean the exact same thing.
Dirt and soil.
Or if you want to get fancy, earth.
When you walk through a park you can either say you're
going for a walk or it sounds a
little bit better if you say you're going for a stroll.
A stroll is similar to walking but
it's just like a relaxed form of walking.
You're not really walking anywhere particular.
You're just going for a stroll.
You're just walking around the park.
Oh I'm going to go for a stroll in the park.
It's more for pleasure rather
than specifically going somewhere.
So you can see this small little ditch here.
Ditch for water.
So when it rains the ditch will fill up
and the water will flow into the lake instead
of flowing onto the path where people are walking.
And right now I want you guys to guess what I'm doing.
Tell me what action this is.
There are a couple correct answers
but I just want you guys to give me one.
What did I just do?
You can say I jumped because I did.
I jumped or I hopped.
I just hopped over this ditch.
I hopped.
So instead of saying oh he jumped you could say he hopped
which is like either just small
hops like this or what I just did there.
A jump you can refer to that as a jump as
well but also you can use jump when you jump
higher.
So if I jumped really high like if I ran and then jumped
then you would say jumped because
that's not really a hop.
A hop is not as high as a jump.
Let's continue.
How would you describe this right here?
The path is blocked.
So yeah you could say the path is
blocked or you could say the path is overgrown.
So this bush is overgrown.
So now it's blocking the path so we have to
go around and this path I don't think it's
used very much.
What do you think?
Maybe just by the monkeys.
Maybe just by the monkeys.
But yeah it looks like some people put sticks there.
It doesn't look like that's naturally there.
Why do you think that?
Maybe to defend themselves or clean up.
From what?
Maybe.
Now on this side I don't even see the paved path anymore.
I just see like a dirt trail now.
Yeah I think it ended over there.
Yeah.
This is part of the trail but it
looks like it continues up over there.
Yeah the initial stretch was like nice and
paved but then it went overgrown and now it
looks like the sand from the top of this small hill has
come down and completely covered
the paved trail.
So we're kind of like bear grills out here in the wild.
Yeah this looks a little wet.
So I think when it rains because it just
rained yesterday it brings this all down and
covers it.
Is it normal for it to be raining
this much this time of the year in KL?
Like the past week or two it's been raining every day.
At night usually but yeah is that normal?
Well from what I understand monsoon season is right away.
I think it starts in March so this is the
beginning of the monsoon season and then
when it's monsoon season it's going to rain every day.
From my understanding it starts in April
and from what I've heard from people they said
it is very unusual for it to be
raining this time of the year.
This time of the year is supposed to be dry and hot.
When does the rainy season start in Kuala Lumpur?
The wettest months are October, November and April.
We're currently according to this
in monsoon season November to March.
I thought it was dry season I might be tripping.
Let's keep going and walking
down this big heavy overgrown path.
I'm not sure if you guys can hear that.
If not insert some bird audio.
But the birds are chirping.
The birds are chirping.
Or you can say the birds are singing.
Birds are singing or they are
chirping which is very beautiful.
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