WEBVTT FILE 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.241 Well hello everyone and welcome once again to an English lesson 2 00:00:04.241 --> 00:00:07.601 with me Bob the Canadian. This morning we're going to be 3 00:00:07.601 --> 00:00:11.841 talking about gifts in North America and in many parts of 4 00:00:11.841 --> 00:00:15.081 the world. We celebrate Christmas which made me think I 5 00:00:15.081 --> 00:00:19.521 should do a lesson about gifts. This lesson won't be just about 6 00:00:19.521 --> 00:00:23.401 Christmas. We give gifts at many different times of the 7 00:00:23.401 --> 00:00:27.761 year. It is customary to give gifts for certain things. So in 8 00:00:27.761 --> 00:00:32.061 this English lesson we'll learn a gifts. I'll teach you some of 9 00:00:32.061 --> 00:00:36.141 the words and phrases we use when we talk about giving gifts 10 00:00:36.141 --> 00:00:40.021 or what we sometimes call gift giving. Uh and hopefully at the 11 00:00:40.021 --> 00:00:44.061 end of this lesson you'll know how to have a good conversation 12 00:00:44.061 --> 00:00:48.540 about gifts with someone in the future. In English of course. 13 00:00:48.540 --> 00:00:53.100 So again welcome to this English lesson about gifts. So 14 00:00:53.101 --> 00:00:56.981 the verbs that we use when we talk about gifts when you want 15 00:00:56.981 --> 00:01:01.500 someone to know that you appreciate them you might give 16 00:01:01.501 --> 00:01:05.541 them a gift. We use the verb to give. Uh in a few weeks I'm 17 00:01:05.541 --> 00:01:10.221 going to give gifts to my kids at Christmas. Um one of my kids 18 00:01:10.221 --> 00:01:14.740 had a birthday a few weeks ago. So we gave gifts to that kid. 19 00:01:14.741 --> 00:01:18.340 Um sometimes it's nice to give gifts. It's nice to give 20 00:01:18.340 --> 00:01:22.140 someone a gift because it just makes them happier and it makes 21 00:01:22.141 --> 00:01:26.981 them feel better. If you don't believe me a few weeks ago 22 00:01:26.981 --> 00:01:30.681 sorry a few months ago Mode Eggs actually gave membership 23 00:01:30.681 --> 00:01:34.561 gifts to people. That was really cool. Uh when that 24 00:01:34.561 --> 00:01:38.361 happened. That was thanks for that by the way. And then if 25 00:01:38.361 --> 00:01:41.321 you're on the other end you're on the receiving end. It's nice 26 00:01:41.321 --> 00:01:45.681 to receive gifts. It's nice to receive gifts from people. But 27 00:01:45.681 --> 00:01:49.601 I'll just say this. The verb to receive when you're when you 28 00:01:49.601 --> 00:01:52.481 say that you are going to receive gifts. It's a very 29 00:01:52.481 --> 00:01:56.601 formal way of saying it. In fact we usually just use the 30 00:01:56.601 --> 00:02:00.921 verb to get. I'm going to get gifts at Christmas. I hope I 31 00:02:00.921 --> 00:02:04.121 get a lot of gifts at Christmas. I hope I get what I 32 00:02:04.121 --> 00:02:08.881 want for my birth day. Um I hope that when I get gifts on 33 00:02:08.881 --> 00:02:12.641 my birthday they are things that I think are cool. But be 34 00:02:12.641 --> 00:02:18.641 careful here. You could actually use this verb you 35 00:02:18.641 --> 00:02:24.241 could actually use this verb in two ways. So I could say this. 36 00:02:24.241 --> 00:02:29.841 I'm going I hope I'm going to get a gift for my birthday. Or 37 00:02:29.841 --> 00:02:33.641 I could say I'm going to get Jen a gift for her birthday. 38 00:02:33.641 --> 00:02:38.561 The verb to get in English is extremely useful. So it can 39 00:02:38.561 --> 00:02:41.881 mean that someone will give me gifts. I hope I get a gift for 40 00:02:41.881 --> 00:02:44.681 my birthday. Or I'm going to get Jen a gift for her 41 00:02:44.681 --> 00:02:48.721 birthday. That simply means that I'm going to buy Jen a 42 00:02:48.721 --> 00:02:53.561 gift. So I'm using it in that sense. So when you get a gift 43 00:02:53.561 --> 00:02:56.320 for someone it means you're going to give it to them. If 44 00:02:56.321 --> 00:02:58.921 someone gets a gift for you it means you're going to get it. 45 00:02:58.921 --> 00:03:02.601 Hopefully I'm not confusing you. To buy is a simpler way to 46 00:03:02.601 --> 00:03:06.201 talk about it. I'm going to buy a gift for my friend because it 47 00:03:06.201 --> 00:03:09.381 is his birthday next week. I'm going to buy a gift. I'm going 48 00:03:09.381 --> 00:03:13.821 to go to a store. I'm going to spend money. I'm going to buy 49 00:03:13.821 --> 00:03:17.381 gifts for that person. By the way today in North America and 50 00:03:17.381 --> 00:03:20.581 I think in other parts of the world it's Black Friday. It's 51 00:03:20.581 --> 00:03:23.581 actually the second day of American Thanksgiving. 52 00:03:23.581 --> 00:03:26.501 Yesterday was American Thanksgiving. And this is like 53 00:03:26.501 --> 00:03:30.861 a bonus day. They they get two days for Thanksgiving. And this 54 00:03:30.861 --> 00:03:35.380 day is one of the biggest if not the biggest shopping days. 55 00:03:35.381 --> 00:03:41.440 Um in America. So I'm Brent is out at a store lined up early 56 00:03:41.441 --> 00:03:46.521 to buy something new that's on sale for Black Friday and then 57 00:03:46.521 --> 00:03:50.361 of course there are two words for gift. One word is present. 58 00:03:50.361 --> 00:03:53.961 One word is gift. I'm going to give Jen a present for her 59 00:03:53.961 --> 00:03:57.641 birthday. I'm going to give Jen a gift for her birthday. At 60 00:03:57.641 --> 00:04:01.241 Christmas many people will put presents under the tree. People 61 00:04:01.241 --> 00:04:05.161 will put gifts under the tree. Completely interchangeable. You 62 00:04:05.161 --> 00:04:10.821 can use either. Uh they mean exactly the same thing. And 63 00:04:10.821 --> 00:04:13.941 then of course along with a gift you might get a greeting 64 00:04:13.941 --> 00:04:19.701 card. So if it's your birthday or your anniversary or if you 65 00:04:19.701 --> 00:04:23.861 have graduated from school. Someone might give you a card 66 00:04:23.861 --> 00:04:27.861 with the gift. The card is not considered a gift. The card is 67 00:04:27.861 --> 00:04:31.221 considered something that you give with the gift. And then 68 00:04:31.221 --> 00:04:36.740 often when my kids get a gift if there's a card with it we 69 00:04:36.741 --> 00:04:41.201 have to remind them to open the card first because that polite. 70 00:04:41.201 --> 00:04:44.761 If my mom gives one of my children a gift and gives them 71 00:04:44.761 --> 00:04:48.440 a card with it sometimes our kids want to open the gift 72 00:04:48.440 --> 00:04:51.720 first because that's more exciting but it's polite. It 73 00:04:51.721 --> 00:04:55.321 shows respect if you open the card first and you read the 74 00:04:55.321 --> 00:04:59.161 card to everyone who is there. So a greeting card is something 75 00:04:59.161 --> 00:05:04.401 you will often give with a gift. And then just so there's 76 00:05:04.401 --> 00:05:09.841 some clarification. A gift card is not the same as a greeting 77 00:05:09.841 --> 00:05:13.521 card. A gift card is a card that you would give. Let me see 78 00:05:13.521 --> 00:05:16.561 if I have one in my wallet. I don't actually have a card in 79 00:05:16.561 --> 00:05:20.161 my wallet. No I don't. But a card would be something like 80 00:05:20.161 --> 00:05:25.921 this for instance. Uh and it has money loaded onto it. I 81 00:05:25.921 --> 00:05:29.361 know the amount is stored in the cloud on a computer 82 00:05:29.361 --> 00:05:33.361 somewhere. But when you buy a gift card it's like giving a 83 00:05:33.361 --> 00:05:36.241 person money for that thing. You could buy them a gift card 84 00:05:36.241 --> 00:05:39.841 to go to a certain restaurant. You could buy a gift card for 85 00:05:39.841 --> 00:05:43.601 their gaming console. But a gift card is a way to give 86 00:05:43.601 --> 00:05:48.901 someone money but the money is actually in the form of a card. 87 00:05:48.901 --> 00:05:54.460 And then a long time ago and maybe still today you might get 88 00:05:54.461 --> 00:05:58.021 a gift certificate from someone. Someone might give you 89 00:05:58.021 --> 00:06:01.621 a gift certificate for a local restaurant. And it will say 90 00:06:01.621 --> 00:06:06.861 something like this. This gift certificate is worth one00. Um 91 00:06:06.861 --> 00:06:10.261 and you can use it to buy a meal at this restaurant. Or 92 00:06:10.261 --> 00:06:14.820 this gift certificate is for this certain store. And you can 93 00:06:14.821 --> 00:06:18.981 go to that store and you can buy whatever you want. I used 94 00:06:18.981 --> 00:06:24.061 to get certificates as a Christmas bonus at work. Now we 95 00:06:24.061 --> 00:06:28.261 get gift cards. So gift cards have replaced gift certificates 96 00:06:28.261 --> 00:06:32.061 a little bit. So gift cards are more common now than gift 97 00:06:32.061 --> 00:06:35.861 certificates. And then of course there's always just 98 00:06:35.861 --> 00:06:41.621 cash. Cash is always a nice way. Let me just open my sorry 99 00:06:41.621 --> 00:06:46.061 I didn't have my second monitor open. There we go. Cash is 100 00:06:46.061 --> 00:06:49.940 something that if you don't know what to get someone cash 101 00:06:49.940 --> 00:06:53.980 is a good to get people. So cash is simply just money. When 102 00:06:53.981 --> 00:06:56.380 you give someone cash you're giving them money. I put 103 00:06:56.380 --> 00:07:00.140 American money here because everyone recognizes American 104 00:07:00.141 --> 00:07:04.101 money. If you don't know what to get someone. If you don't 105 00:07:04.101 --> 00:07:07.861 have an idea for what gift they might like you can always get 106 00:07:07.861 --> 00:07:13.301 them. Uh just give them some cash. Everyone loves cash. When 107 00:07:13.301 --> 00:07:16.901 you give someone a gift you will most likely wrap the gift. 108 00:07:16.901 --> 00:07:21.101 The gift might already be in a box. If not you might put it in 109 00:07:21.101 --> 00:07:24.701 a cardboard box and then you'll wrap it with wrapping paper. 110 00:07:24.701 --> 00:07:28.461 You want the gift to look good. You can buy wrapping paper for 111 00:07:28.461 --> 00:07:31.941 Christmas like this wrapping paper. You can buy wrapping 112 00:07:31.941 --> 00:07:35.621 paper for a birthday. You can buy wrapping paper if you're 113 00:07:35.621 --> 00:07:39.461 giving a gift because someone just had a child. So if you're 114 00:07:39.461 --> 00:07:43.341 celebrating a the birth of a child you could buy special 115 00:07:43.341 --> 00:07:47.581 wrapping paper. But yes you want the gift to look fun. You 116 00:07:47.581 --> 00:07:51.901 want the gift to have a cool look to it. So you will wrap it 117 00:07:51.901 --> 00:07:57.301 with wrapping paper. And the verb is to wrap or to gift 118 00:07:57.301 --> 00:08:00.941 wrap. So you could say I'm going to gift wrap all of the 119 00:08:00.941 --> 00:08:03.341 presents. You could say I'm going to wrap all of the 120 00:08:03.341 --> 00:08:06.781 presents. You could say are you going to gift wrap the presents 121 00:08:06.781 --> 00:08:09.141 or just hand them to people and you could say oh I'm going to 122 00:08:09.141 --> 00:08:12.541 gift I'm going to gift wrap them. Um we probably say to 123 00:08:12.541 --> 00:08:17.560 wrap more often. I'm going to wrap the gifts. And you might 124 00:08:17.561 --> 00:08:22.441 even put a bow or a ribbon on the gift. So after you wrap it 125 00:08:22.441 --> 00:08:26.921 with wrapping paper you might put a bow on the gift. And if 126 00:08:26.921 --> 00:08:30.481 you want to make it look even snazzier. I don't know if 127 00:08:30.481 --> 00:08:34.041 snazzy's here today but snazzier like look even cooler. 128 00:08:34.041 --> 00:08:38.201 You might put some ribbon on it. So gifts don't always come 129 00:08:38.201 --> 00:08:41.961 in a box. Gifts aren't always wrapped up with wrapping paper 130 00:08:41.961 --> 00:08:46.741 in a box with a ribbon and a bow. Sometimes it's easier to 131 00:08:46.741 --> 00:08:50.141 put it in a gift bag. Um you put the gift in the bag and 132 00:08:50.141 --> 00:08:54.301 then you put some tissue paper on top and you're done. So if 133 00:08:54.301 --> 00:08:58.221 you ever are in a hurry when you're at a store you can ask 134 00:08:58.221 --> 00:09:00.980 them to just put it in a gift bag. So if you buy them 135 00:09:00.981 --> 00:09:04.181 something that fits in a bag. Uh and usually the bag will 136 00:09:04.181 --> 00:09:07.741 look something like that. Um we actually have a whole 137 00:09:07.741 --> 00:09:12.461 collection of gift bags that we keep and reuse all the time. Um 138 00:09:12.461 --> 00:09:16.801 but it's just a quicker and handier way to give a gift. You 139 00:09:16.801 --> 00:09:20.160 don't need to wrap it. It's not as fun to open a gift bag but 140 00:09:20.160 --> 00:09:25.780 it's certainly quick. There's something called a gift basket. 141 00:09:25.780 --> 00:09:30.780 A gift basket is something that sometimes you would give to 142 00:09:30.780 --> 00:09:34.380 let's say you are a boss and you own a business. You might 143 00:09:34.381 --> 00:09:39.061 give all of your employees a gift basket if you sold a lot 144 00:09:39.061 --> 00:09:42.101 of stuff one month. You might give them a gift basket at 145 00:09:42.101 --> 00:09:47.061 Christmas. A gift basket is a basket filled with all little 146 00:09:47.061 --> 00:09:51.061 gifts. It might have chocolate in it. Sometimes it has dried 147 00:09:51.061 --> 00:09:55.301 meat or crackers or cheese. It might have different kinds of 148 00:09:55.301 --> 00:10:01.301 jam or jelly. A gift basket is a fun thing to get. Um at work 149 00:10:01.301 --> 00:10:04.901 for Christmas we usually get a gift card for a restaurant as a 150 00:10:04.901 --> 00:10:08.741 Christmas bonus. But we have in the past also received gift 151 00:10:08.741 --> 00:10:13.021 baskets. Filled with all kinds of yummy things to eat. Gift 152 00:10:13.021 --> 00:10:19.941 baskets are very very cool. Um we also get a gift basket from 153 00:10:19.941 --> 00:10:24.821 the neighbour who does some of my field work on the farm. 154 00:10:24.821 --> 00:10:28.401 Sometimes he gives all of his customers a gift basket to 155 00:10:28.401 --> 00:10:30.521 thank them each year and there's usually lots of 156 00:10:30.521 --> 00:10:35.660 chocolate in it. I really like that gift basket. Interestingly 157 00:10:35.660 --> 00:10:40.460 enough sometimes you get a gift and maybe you already have that 158 00:10:40.461 --> 00:10:44.461 thing. Or maybe you get a gift and you don't actually like it. 159 00:10:44.461 --> 00:10:48.541 You can then return the gift. You can take the gift back to 160 00:10:48.541 --> 00:10:52.581 the store where the person bought it. And this is actually 161 00:10:52.581 --> 00:10:56.861 quite common and it's not considered rude. In fact 162 00:10:56.861 --> 00:11:00.981 sometimes people will get a gift receipt. So when they give 163 00:11:00.981 --> 00:11:04.341 you the gift you can take it back to the store if you don't 164 00:11:04.341 --> 00:11:08.681 like it. Let's say I buy my brother-in-law a gift for his 165 00:11:08.681 --> 00:11:12.681 birthday. And I buy him a really nice sweatshirt. I would 166 00:11:12.681 --> 00:11:16.881 probably give him a gift receipt at the same time and I 167 00:11:16.881 --> 00:11:22.041 would say I'm not sure if it's your size or if you like it. So 168 00:11:22.041 --> 00:11:26.321 I've included the gift receipt so you can return it or 169 00:11:26.321 --> 00:11:30.681 exchange it for one that you do like. So it's not considered 170 00:11:30.681 --> 00:11:36.280 rude to return a gift. Okay sometimes it's rude. It depends 171 00:11:36.280 --> 00:11:40.600 what the giver of the gift says to you. Um and by the way a 172 00:11:40.601 --> 00:11:45.601 gift receipt is a receipt that doesn't say how much money a 173 00:11:45.601 --> 00:11:49.521 person spent. So you notice it doesn't have a total here and 174 00:11:49.521 --> 00:11:55.721 it doesn't say how much money the person spent on the gift. 175 00:11:55.721 --> 00:11:58.641 But sometimes you'll get something and the person will 176 00:11:58.641 --> 00:12:02.961 say I don't mind if you return this. Here's a gift receipt. 177 00:12:02.961 --> 00:12:05.881 And I said this wasn't rude. But there are times though when 178 00:12:05.881 --> 00:12:09.681 someone will give you a gift and it would be rude. You would 179 00:12:09.681 --> 00:12:14.841 need to kind of under stand the situation, to decide whether 180 00:12:14.841 --> 00:12:21.701 it's rude or not. It can be really hard to know what to buy 181 00:12:21.701 --> 00:12:25.221 someone. So there are a few things that you can do. One is 182 00:12:25.221 --> 00:12:29.101 you can go on the internet and search for gift ideas. Gift 183 00:12:29.101 --> 00:12:33.741 ideas for a teenager. Gift ideas for my wife. Gift ideas 184 00:12:33.741 --> 00:12:38.660 for a grandparent. Gift ideas for a friend. Birthday gift 185 00:12:38.660 --> 00:12:41.740 ideas for a friend. Those are all things you could search and 186 00:12:41.741 --> 00:12:45.981 you would then find some information that another person 187 00:12:45.981 --> 00:12:51.841 has put together To help you decide what to buy. Um 188 00:12:51.841 --> 00:12:55.561 sometimes before Christmas Jen and I will go on the internet. 189 00:12:55.561 --> 00:13:00.521 We'll open up a web browser and start to search for gift ideas 190 00:13:00.521 --> 00:13:04.921 for kids and we might even put the age in. Gift ideas for a 12 191 00:13:04.921 --> 00:13:09.201 year old or gift ideas for a 20 year old. It's a good way to 192 00:13:09.201 --> 00:13:14.280 figure out what's cool in the world for someone that age. You 193 00:13:14.280 --> 00:13:21.260 might also ask people make a list. This is common especially 194 00:13:21.261 --> 00:13:25.981 around Christmas. People might say let's buy each other gifts. 195 00:13:25.981 --> 00:13:30.540 But everyone should make a list or make a wish list. A wish 196 00:13:30.541 --> 00:13:34.741 list or a list of things that you might like. This is my 197 00:13:34.741 --> 00:13:39.780 Christmas wish list so far. It says chocolate and binoculars. 198 00:13:39.780 --> 00:13:44.020 My current binoculars are 30 years old. And they've been 199 00:13:44.021 --> 00:13:47.660 dropped a few times. So they don't work perfectly anymore. 200 00:13:47.660 --> 00:13:51.680 But as you know on my property binoculars are very Cool. It's 201 00:13:51.681 --> 00:13:55.241 nice to be able to see things. So I have made a list and made 202 00:13:55.241 --> 00:14:00.280 sure that Jen and the kids all have it so they can decide what 203 00:14:00.280 --> 00:14:05.000 I want. By the way don't send me binoculars. One of my kids 204 00:14:05.001 --> 00:14:08.160 will probably buy me binoculars. So if you want to 205 00:14:08.160 --> 00:14:12.360 send me a gift you'll have to think of something else. We 206 00:14:12.361 --> 00:14:16.681 also have especially for a wedding. Something called a 207 00:14:16.681 --> 00:14:21.521 gift registry or a registry. This is when you go to a 208 00:14:21.521 --> 00:14:26.761 specific website or use a specific app. If Jen and I were 209 00:14:26.761 --> 00:14:31.641 going to get married. We would list all of the things we need 210 00:14:31.641 --> 00:14:35.521 on a gift registry or on a wedding registry or on a 211 00:14:35.521 --> 00:14:40.961 registry. And then people can visit that and see what you 212 00:14:40.961 --> 00:14:44.961 need and when they buy it they can check off that someone has 213 00:14:44.961 --> 00:14:48.441 bought it. They won't put their name. But this is very very 214 00:14:48.441 --> 00:14:51.981 common when people are Having when people are getting 215 00:14:51.981 --> 00:14:56.621 married. Uh it's not as common for a birthday but it might be 216 00:14:56.621 --> 00:14:59.861 common if you're celebrating the birth of a child. They 217 00:14:59.861 --> 00:15:04.821 might have a gift registry. Just a place where they list 218 00:15:04.821 --> 00:15:12.081 what they need. At Christmas in particular sometimes we have 219 00:15:12.081 --> 00:15:17.201 what's called a gift exchange. Sometimes it's hard to buy 220 00:15:17.201 --> 00:15:22.041 gifts for everyone that's coming to a party. Um because 221 00:15:22.041 --> 00:15:25.641 there's too many people. And not everyone has enough money 222 00:15:25.641 --> 00:15:30.361 to do that. So instead of buying a gift for everyone you 223 00:15:30.361 --> 00:15:33.801 might have a gift exchange where you simply need to buy a 224 00:15:33.801 --> 00:15:39.241 gift for one other person. A gift makes things a little 225 00:15:39.241 --> 00:15:43.401 simpler if you have 30 or 40 people coming to a Christmas 226 00:15:43.401 --> 00:15:49.041 party. So for instance in our family we did what you would 227 00:15:49.041 --> 00:15:53.161 call to draw names. So sometimes a family will put 228 00:15:53.161 --> 00:15:57.401 everyone's name in a hat and then each person will pick a 229 00:15:57.401 --> 00:16:00.641 name out and then they only need to buy a gift for that 230 00:16:00.641 --> 00:16:08.201 person for the gift exchange. So instead of me buying 17 231 00:16:08.201 --> 00:16:12.720 gifts I only need to buy one gift because I can't afford buy 232 00:16:12.721 --> 00:16:17.041 to buy 17 gifts. So sometimes you'll have a gift exchange 233 00:16:17.041 --> 00:16:20.320 where people will give each other gifts and you usually 234 00:16:20.321 --> 00:16:24.161 only buy a gift for one person and you usually draw names 235 00:16:24.161 --> 00:16:30.161 before that so that you can all get just one gift for someone. 236 00:16:30.161 --> 00:16:36.680 To regift. So when you regift something it means that you 237 00:16:36.681 --> 00:16:40.721 received it as a gift. You got it as a gift. And then a little 238 00:16:40.721 --> 00:16:44.481 while later you give it to someone else as a gift. So you 239 00:16:44.481 --> 00:16:48.041 can buy someone a gift. You can make something and give it to 240 00:16:48.041 --> 00:16:52.161 someone as a gift. But you can also take a gift that you got 241 00:16:52.161 --> 00:16:55.961 from someone else and give it to another person. This can be 242 00:16:55.961 --> 00:17:00.801 considered rude but it can also be considered a good idea. In 243 00:17:00.801 --> 00:17:05.001 fact I know a family where at Christmas instead of buying 244 00:17:05.001 --> 00:17:09.601 each other gifts you needed to regift something. You needed to 245 00:17:09.601 --> 00:17:13.721 find something that you had gotten as a gift in the past 246 00:17:13.721 --> 00:17:16.401 and you needed to give it to different person. When you 247 00:17:16.401 --> 00:17:19.160 regift you can see the line here it says recycling at its 248 00:17:19.161 --> 00:17:24.001 finest. So regifting is very nice for the planet. It's nice 249 00:17:24.001 --> 00:17:28.080 for the environment because you're not creating waste by 250 00:17:28.080 --> 00:17:32.080 buying something new. So sometimes you regift things. 251 00:17:32.080 --> 00:17:35.880 We've done this at work. Sometimes at work we have a 252 00:17:35.881 --> 00:17:39.721 gift exchange. And then a year later people will regift some 253 00:17:39.721 --> 00:17:44.541 of the same gifts. If it's something that doesn't go bad 254 00:17:44.541 --> 00:17:49.100 over time. To have a gift. So when you say someone has a gift 255 00:17:49.101 --> 00:17:52.340 you mean they are talented. You mean they are really good at 256 00:17:52.340 --> 00:17:55.100 something. You might hear your niece play guitar or your 257 00:17:55.101 --> 00:17:57.701 nephew play drums and you might say wow they really have a 258 00:17:57.701 --> 00:18:02.220 gift. What you're saying is that their ability to play that 259 00:18:02.221 --> 00:18:06.901 instrument is very natural and they're just really really good 260 00:18:06.901 --> 00:18:09.821 at it. You might say there's another phrase too to have the 261 00:18:09.821 --> 00:18:13.701 gift of Gab. The gift of Gab means that you're good at 262 00:18:13.701 --> 00:18:20.521 talking to people. We also use gift as a verb. This is a 263 00:18:20.521 --> 00:18:25.040 little more formal. You could say that someone is someone is 264 00:18:25.041 --> 00:18:28.601 going to gift you something. And we often use this when we 265 00:18:28.601 --> 00:18:32.361 talk about someone's will. A will is where you say what 266 00:18:32.361 --> 00:18:36.001 happens to your things after you die. So you could say 267 00:18:36.001 --> 00:18:40.321 something like this. When he died he gifted 1 million 268 00:18:40.321 --> 00:18:44.761 dollars to a charity. When he died he gifted his car to his 269 00:18:44.761 --> 00:18:49.261 son. Um so again when you use gift as a verb it's very 270 00:18:49.261 --> 00:18:54.820 formal. Like I would never say on my son's birthday I'm going 271 00:18:54.821 --> 00:18:58.301 to gift him a new car. We wouldn't say that. It it's 272 00:18:58.301 --> 00:19:02.301 correct. But it's very formal sounding. Um but when someone 273 00:19:02.301 --> 00:19:06.421 when you're talking about a will or someone expressing 274 00:19:06.421 --> 00:19:09.580 their wishes for what will happen with their things after 275 00:19:09.580 --> 00:19:16.040 they pass away we often use the word gift. As a verb. Uh you 276 00:19:16.041 --> 00:19:18.681 Might be giving someone a housewarming gift at a certain 277 00:19:18.681 --> 00:19:22.361 point in life. When someone moves into a new apartment or 278 00:19:22.361 --> 00:19:25.401 when they move into a new house they might have a party. They 279 00:19:25.401 --> 00:19:28.361 might have a housewarming party. I think I talked about 280 00:19:28.361 --> 00:19:32.041 this in my lesson about celebrations. When you go to a 281 00:19:32.041 --> 00:19:35.361 housewarming party it's a good idea to bring a housewarming 282 00:19:35.361 --> 00:19:39.481 gift. You might bring them a picture you might bring them 283 00:19:39.481 --> 00:19:41.801 I'm not sure what these two things are here. This looks 284 00:19:41.801 --> 00:19:45.080 like something you put the teabag in after you make tea or 285 00:19:45.080 --> 00:19:50.080 a candle or a house plant or probably these are towels like 286 00:19:50.080 --> 00:19:53.160 dish cloths or something like that. When someone moves into a 287 00:19:53.161 --> 00:19:56.201 new apartment or a new house they might not have everything 288 00:19:56.201 --> 00:20:00.521 they need. So when they have a housewarming party or just 289 00:20:00.521 --> 00:20:03.441 because you want to help them celebrate the first time when 290 00:20:03.441 --> 00:20:09.661 you visit you might give them a housewarming gift. When you go 291 00:20:09.661 --> 00:20:14.861 somewhere touristy when you go to Niagara Falls or when you go 292 00:20:14.861 --> 00:20:19.701 to a museum they might have a gift shop. We also call these 293 00:20:19.701 --> 00:20:23.981 souvenir shops. But a gift shop is a place where you can buy 294 00:20:23.981 --> 00:20:28.540 small things. Many hospitals have gift shops. If you're 295 00:20:28.541 --> 00:20:31.300 visiting someone in the hospital you might stop at the 296 00:20:31.301 --> 00:20:36.221 gift shop on the way to visit them to buy them something just 297 00:20:36.221 --> 00:20:40.021 as a little gift because it's nice when you visit someone to 298 00:20:40.021 --> 00:20:44.741 give them a gift. When we go to Falls we don't go to the gift 299 00:20:44.741 --> 00:20:49.981 shops. We aren't tourists where we go to Niagara Falls because 300 00:20:49.981 --> 00:20:53.781 it's just 45 minutes down the road from my house. So when we 301 00:20:53.781 --> 00:20:57.141 visit Niagara Falls we avoid the gift shops because they're 302 00:20:57.141 --> 00:21:00.701 expensive. And we don't need anymore T-shirts that say 303 00:21:00.701 --> 00:21:07.121 Niagara Falls Canada. We have enough of those. I used this 304 00:21:07.121 --> 00:21:11.241 word earlier in the lesson and that word is customary. And 305 00:21:11.241 --> 00:21:15.401 people are often curious about when is it customary to give 306 00:21:15.401 --> 00:21:20.321 gifts. Well in North America you can give gifts at any time. 307 00:21:20.321 --> 00:21:25.281 But it is customary. That is it is our custom to give gifts on 308 00:21:25.281 --> 00:21:30.161 these days. There's probably more. But this is what I think 309 00:21:30.161 --> 00:21:34.281 is a good list to start with. We usually give gifts when it's 310 00:21:34.281 --> 00:21:38.101 someone's birthday. So on a birthday when you go to wedding 311 00:21:38.101 --> 00:21:42.101 you are expected to give a gift usually when someone has a 312 00:21:42.101 --> 00:21:45.340 child when there is a birth in the family you usually give a 313 00:21:45.340 --> 00:21:49.620 gift sometimes before the kid is born and after babies get 314 00:21:49.621 --> 00:21:53.461 lots of gifts when you are going to celebrate an 315 00:21:53.461 --> 00:21:57.340 anniversary with someone you would give them a gift you 316 00:21:57.340 --> 00:22:00.780 don't always give gifts when it's an anniversary sometimes 317 00:22:00.781 --> 00:22:05.901 eventually you just give a card many people will give a gift 318 00:22:05.901 --> 00:22:09.701 for a graduation if you finish school and you graduate and 319 00:22:09.701 --> 00:22:13.601 then Christmas and Valentine's Day are very common as Well and 320 00:22:13.601 --> 00:22:16.001 this isn't the whole slide. There's Mother's Day and 321 00:22:16.001 --> 00:22:19.801 Father's Day as well. You can give gifts at other times of 322 00:22:19.801 --> 00:22:24.041 the year but I would say this is an appropriate list to know 323 00:22:24.041 --> 00:22:28.361 when it's customary to give gifts in Canada and in the 324 00:22:28.361 --> 00:22:31.640 United States and many other countries. Um it's just 325 00:22:31.641 --> 00:22:36.801 customary to give gifts at those times.