05. The Action

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Transcript

Let's talk about the action. In the picture we can see a man riding a powerful Harley Davidson motorcycle. The man is wearing a black full face helmet with a black leather jacket. He's also wearing blue jeans and a black leather boots. Okay, pronunciation repeat after me. In the picture we can see a man riding a powerful Harley Davidson motorcycle.

The man is wearing a black full face helmet with a black leather jacket. He's also wearing blue jeans and black leather boots. Okay, all right. So let's talk about some of the vocabulary. Powerful. This means a lot of strength, right?

This motorcycle probably has a big engine. Hmm, very powerful. All right, Harley Davidson, I think is famous around the world. Let's take some take a look at some pictures. And we can make sure we understand what is a Harley Davidson motorcycle. All right.

First, maybe we'll look at the logo. I bet most people have seen the Harley Davidson logo, right. So it's very American, very famous, very successful company. Alright, so let's take a look. Harley Davidson motorcycle. They have a lot of different kinds.

I would say most of them especially the high quality ones with a lot of power and a lot of features. They're very expensive, but they have a very good reputation of being high quality and people love them and they have clubs in the hands. motorcycle gangs. But yes, Harley davidsons are very, very popular. Okay, right. So we can see the Harley Davidson logo right here on the gas tank.

This part of the motorcycle is the gas tank, that kind of round thing on top is the cap which you can unscrew and then put the gas in. Okay, so we have the logo on the side. It's not very bright, but it's still there. And you can see what kind of motorcycle it is. All right, let me point to it so we can make sure we see it logo is right there at the tip of the arrow on the gas tank. All right.

Okay, so the guy is wearing a helmet, right? It's not a partial helmet is called a full face helmet. And the idea behind a full face helmet is that if you crash, your chin and your whole face will be protected right? full face helmet. All right. Okay.

In here, this is a full face helmet that even will protect your chin. They have another thing called a think it's a three quarter helmet. And I remember right this one does not protect your chin. So your ears your head and like your forehead stuff like that protected. But if you suddenly land on the ground like this, your chin is gonna be wiped off. But this is a three quarter helmet.

Um, then let's see they have different ones. motorcycle helmet. Right, so this is the full face, three quarter and I don't remember exactly, this one. This one just kind of rides on top of your head and I guess it offers some protection but when I drove a motorcycle back in the state, I only use the full a full face helmet especially because I was driving on the freeway, which is very fast. Cars are sometimes crazy and they don't always see motorcycles and they drive around you and you have to adjust and get out of the way and Okay, so this is a full face helmet. Alright.

It will point at it the full face helmet is right there. Okay even has the visor. The part that comes down is called the visor vi s. AR, and we'll just quick put that in was a motorcycle helmet visor. Right so this part right here, the glass part or hard plastic is a visor support that comes down and protects your eyes in your face from rocks, bugs. More you know if you're in an accident, somebody is flying towards you or protect your face in your eyes. Okay, let's move the arrow back.

All right, he has a black leather jacket. All right, we can see That right there. He's wearing blue jeans. Yes he is. and black leather boots. Kind of dark but we can make out that he has black leather boots on.

And leather gear is considered very good for motorcycle riding because leather is made from the skin of animals like a cow, right? And it's tough. And if it goes across the road, you slide because you got in an accident, then it doesn't rip as easy, right? If you just wear a T shirt, or even jeans aren't really that good. They're they're good, better than nothing better than shorts. But they rip very easily.

All right, so leather is actually quite good and will protect your body more. Alright, so let's move forward. Here we go. More about the action what's happening in the picture. The motorcycle is black and silver with a single headlight and dual exhaust. The size of the motorcycle increases Listen to the man leads us to believe that this motorcycle is very powerful.

It has a very large engine and can go very fast. Okay, pronunciation repeat after me. The motorcycle is black and silver with a single headlight and dual exhaust. The size of the motorcycle in comparison to the man leads us to believe that this motorcycle is very powerful. It has a very large engine and can go very fast. Okay, let's talk about some of the vocab There we have.

So first we're talking about the color. It's like a chrome black, I guess we could call it and some of the metal is still silver. So it's kind of a black and silver theme going on. And it has a single headlight. Alright, you could say headlight, or you could say headlamp. But this is what we're talking about right there.

So that is the headlamp, right? So the light so you can see at night, right, or you turn it on during the day, my motorcycle had its headlight turned on all the time. And it's actually good because even during the day, it's easier for people to see you if you have your light on even during the day. We have the orange turn signals, right, we have one on this side, one on that side to show which direction you want to turn in. Those are the front turn signals. Back here we have the rear turn signals.

So whoever's coming behind you see, you know which way you want to turn. And then let's see the end dual exhaust. All right. Dual means to write more than one. And the exhaust pipes are right here. We have one, one on top and the second on the bottom.

So dual exhaust just means the engine is probably more powerful, right? So whoever built the engine wants make it really powerful in the added dual exhaust to make the engine, you know flow nice and well and I'm not a mechanic, but dual exhaust means more power. Okay, then this engine is probably really large, large maybe, I don't know 2500 maybe 3000 cc, I'm not sure my motorcycle was about 650 cc. I'm here in Indonesia now and the motorcycles are common like 125 below 200 cc's so they're not very powerful but they you know, they do what's necessary, but Harley davidsons are known for being very powerful motorcycles, right? Big engines, big engines. Okay.

So we talked about the size of the motorcycle in comparison to the man. So in comparison means we have two things, right? And we are comparing them. We're putting them side by side and saying, Okay, how is this size? How do they compare to each other? What does this one look like?

What does this look like? What is different? What's the same? And when we look at the size of this motorcycle, it's a big motorcycle. And this guy sitting on top of the motorcycle, he looks like a decent size, but the motorcycles even bigger. So to have a motorcycle of this size, you need a very powerful engine.

All right. So let's quick Take a look. We'll see people riding a motorcycle. And we can look at the compare the size of the motorcycle with the size of the body, riding a motorcycle. Okay, so let's see. These are pretty big, powerful ones that did it.

Yeah, this one has dual exhaust here, like this motorcycle, it's not a huge motorcycle, and it's a lady so she's probably not huge already. But when we compare the size of the motorcycle to the size of her body it's not like her body seems small and actually seems good size for this motorcycle. However before in our picture, let's see, we can find well maybe we'll put riding a small motorcycle well this is a tiny motorcycle, but you know this guy is so big so this motorcycles not going to be as powerful but the one that we have in the picture the motorcycles big in the guys, you know, a good size too, but the motorcycle sees seems much bigger than he is. So I would say it leads us to believe it makes us believe or gives us good evidence to believe that this motorcycle is very powerful right now.

A large engine it can go very fast. Alright, here we go moving forward. The man is sitting erect with one hand on each handlebar. His feet are firmly planted on the foot rest. He's looking straight forward, even though he's wearing a helmet and protective clothing and accident at this speed would likely result in grave injury. Hmm.

All right, let's do pronunciation then we'll get into the vocabulary. Repeat after me. The man is sitting erect with one hand on each handlebar. His feet are firmly planted on the foot rests. He is looking straight forward Even though he's wearing a helmet and protective clothing, and accident at this speed would likely result in grave injury. Okay, so we did pronunciation Now let's talk about some of the vocabulary.

First, the man is sitting erect. And when he's sitting erect, we can look at his back. He's sitting straight up, right? He's not slouching. slouching is like bending over a little bit, not sitting straight up. But if someone is sitting erect, they're sitting straight up, their spine is straight.

Right? It has he has one hand on each handlebar. Right? So the handlebar is the part that goes all the way across, I guess we could probably just say on each handle because there's just One handlebar that goes across. So maybe we'll change that to a heat with one hand on each handle. of, let's see one hand on each handle of the handlebar.

Okay? Alright, so let's move this back. His feet are firmly planted, firmly planted on the foot rests. So first let's see what are the foot rest. Foot rests are the parts down here, the parts that stick out from the motorcycle, and you can, you know, put your feet on top. Take a look what are foot rests, motorcycle foot rests.

Right sometimes they're called foot pegs or foot rests, right maybe it's just the part right here where you put your foot on top. When they're disassembled they look something like this. Right? And over here, you know, we have the the break Right here, it looks like this on the right side. And, yeah, so it just you put your foot there so your foot doesn't slide off onto the ground. That is the, the footrest.

Okay. firmly planted, alright, so firmly, firmly means strong with good amount of energy planted means touching. So his feet are firmly touching the foot rests, right and planted means he's probably putting some weight down on his foot to have good balance so he can lean and he can maneuver and direct the motorcycle where he wants it to go, right. And if there's a bump or something, he can put his feet you know, push even harder on the foot rest to give him more balance and control. Right, he's looking straight forward. So if we look at his body, first, it's erect, which means it's straight up is a straight back, but his face is looking straight forward, right?

So he's probably looking down the road trying to see, you know, is there any animal a cat that's going to jump out? Are there any people are there any cars, because he's probably going very fast. The background is a blur. So he's going pretty fast down this road, and he wants to stay in control and not have an accident. So he's looking around. All right.

So even though he's wearing a helmet, we talked about the helmet and protective clothing, in this case, protective clothing would be the leather jacket, the and the boots and long pants. Right? It would be even better if they're leather pants, but jeans are better, much, much better than shorts. Right? So an accident at this speed would likely result in grave injury. Hmm.

So here grave is describing what kind of injury injuries when you get hurt, right? If you have an accident, you're bloody You're bleeding, you break a bone. So a grave injury. Hmm, what does grave mean? Remember, we're looking for an adjective we're going to describe What kind of injury? Let's go to a dictionary.

And let's put in grave. Right? It's going to give us a noun and it will also give us an adjective. We're going to look for the adjective. Let's hear the pronunciation. grave.

Grave. grave. Okay? So the noun is a place of burial, but we're not looking for a noun. That's a thing. We're looking for.

The second definition, adjective giving cause for alarm or serious. Alright, so we're talking about a grave injury. It's a very serious injury. Important, profound, significant, right? Oh, lots of synonyms for grave a grave injury or a grave problem or a grave conflict. It's very serious.

All right. So let's take a look. Here we are at this speed would likely result in grave injury. So likely we Result means it's probable that it would happen in grave injury in serious injury. Right, he's probably going pretty fast and if he flies off the motorcycle, you know, his head might be protected with a nice hard helmet but his body is going to be banging around and get caught up and probably have some problems grave injury, all right moving forward. In the picture, the motorcycle and the man are clear and in focus.

However, the background and everything around the man are blurred and out of focus. This helps to illustrate the rapid movement of the motorcycle. Right pronunciation repeat after me. In the picture, the motorcycle and the man are clear and in focus. However, the background and everything around the man or woman blurred and out of focus. This helps to illustrate the rapid movement of the motorcycle.

Alright, so let's talk about some vocabulary. So here we go in the picture of the motorcycle in the man. So here we are the motorcycle in the man. It's very clear, clear and in focus. So when we look at it, we don't have to squint or go what I can't really see what it is. It's very clear, it's obvious, it's easy to see.

However, the background so whatever is behind the man in the back in the back part of the picture, blurred and out of focus. So blurred and out of focus mean pretty much the same thing. Alright, so if we went to picture and we put in Let's see. Maybe blurred image. Okay, so it's blurry. I can't see what's going on.

Let's see, we'll put out of focus image. Same thing, what I can see what's going on is blurred. It's blurry. It's out of focus. It's not easy to see what's happening, right? Okay, so there we go, blurred and out of focus.

So around the man, it's blurred and out of focus. Even the road is kind of fuzzy, right? We can't quite see the details or the lines in the road. So this helps to illustrate, to show to give us a visual image of the rapid movement of the motorcycle. So because it's blurry in the background, our eyes tell our brain that oh, this guy must be driving at a pretty good speed right? Plus, he's not standing He's not balancing on the ground or have his feet on the ground to hold up the motorcycle.

He has his feet up and he's moving along very quickly. Right. So, all right, that is the action. All right. In this picture that was the action man and the motorcycle cruising down the road.

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