I'm adam in today's video, we're gonna look at measurements and we're gonna look at measurements in everyday use is so these are measurements that you will hear and have to say pretty regularly when we're talking about people or food or drinks or places, distances, et cetera.

So I'm gonna start with people and basically when we talk about measurements, we're gonna talk about a person's height and a person's weight.

Okay, so let's talk about height.

So I'm going to use the measure six ft two.

So for example, I am six ft two inches tall.

So if somebody asks me, how tall are you More most commonly, I will say I'm 62.

6 to everybody understands six is feet.

And this is the symbol for feet two is inches and that's the symbol for inches.

Okay, one apostrophe and quote double quote.

So how tall are you?

I'm 62.

But if I want to expand, I can say I'm six ft two, I can put the actual unit of measure.

We're talking about feet.

one ft is 12 inches or about 30 and 300.4 something centimeters.

Okay, so I'm six ft two and if you want to know if you're not sure how to pronounce inches, inches, inches, that's how it's pronounced.

Doesn't not necessarily the way it looks.

Okay.

Now this is where english becomes a little bit crazy.

Now technically you want to make it plural because there's six of them.

Right?

So you're thinking, why do I say foot?

I don't know.

That's just the way we say I'm six ft two.

But if I'm going to use the word tall, If I'm going to use the full expression, Then I'm going to use the correct expression.

I'm six ft 2" tall.

So how tall are you?

I'm six to how tall are you?

I'm six ft two.

How tall are you?

I'm six ft two inches tall.

Okay.

It depends how you saying, how you say.

It depends which way you're going to say foot twice feet once with the tall.

Okay, now sometimes you might hear it's a little bit rude.

It's not very nice to say, but for a short person, How Tall is that guy?

He's five ft nothing.

5-foot nothing.

Nothing basically means zero.

So 5 ft period.

If somebody is six ft tall, six ft tall, how tall are you?

6?

But again, you wouldn't say sick.

You say six ft.

If there's no inches, then you just say six ft 6 ft tall, it doesn't matter foot feet, whatever with no inches.

That's how it is.

If somebody's really short, five ft nothing means nothing basically means short.

Okay, or just say five ft.

Okay, A meter 88.

So for those of you who don't know imperial measures.

So again in Canada, we are we are influenced by both american english and british english.

So Canadian english is a bit of a blend.

So if somebody asks me how tall I am, I'll answer in the american way and if they ask me the distance, I'll answer in metric and kilometers, not miles.

Okay.

But so feet and inches.

But if you need to know the metric, I'm a meter 88.

Now you can spell meter this way or this way.

This is more of the british spelling.

This is the american spelling.

The pronunciation is meter or if you have s five m, Okay, meters.

So I'm a meter 88 or 188 centimeters.

Okay, so that's for height, feet and inches, meters and centimeters.

Okay.

If you want to talk about somebody's weight again in Canada, most people will tell you their weight in pounds, but in other countries they'll tell you their weight and kilograms.

So first thing to know.

So how how much do you weigh?

I'm 100 and £95.

Now I have heard people say Libs or lives.

We do not say this word.

The actual word is libra, but we don't actually use this word ever to talk about weight or any sort of measurement.

We say pounds.

Okay, that's the original latin was libera libera pond or something like that.

And that's where the pounds comes from.

So 195 lb.

Power pau pounds.

Okay, that's the pronunciation.

And if you want to convert it to metric 88 kg.

Okay, Now there are two ways to say this as well.

Some people will say kilos.

Okay.

And some people will say the full word kilograms.

The pronunciation is a little bit different.

If you're saying kilos, then it's key lois and if you're saying kilograms, then it's que lo actually we don't actually have the W k lo grams kilograms, kilos kilograms.

Okay.

And British people sometimes still use stone.

One stone is £14 in case you ever hear a stone, I think only in England, they use this as far as I know in Canada.

If you tell somebody your weight and stone, they have no idea what you're talking about.

So keep that in mind.

So we're talking about people.

Now, let's move on to a completely different area.

Food and beverage, food and beverages, food, you eat, beverage, you drink.

Okay, now here we have all kinds of things we can work with.

We can work with ounces.

So, oh, zed, that's the unit of measure shortened.

It's ounce.

That's what it looks like.

Open pronounced our ounce.

Okay, One ounce equals 28 g.

So we can use ounces for small units of weight measure.

We can also use ounces for volume measure for liquids.

One ounces, 29 a half million liters.

Mai lee tres Some people will say mil or mils 29 mils.

That's again, that's a shortcut.

If you hear it, you understand it's milliliters, we don't say kegs.

However, we say mills, We don't say kids.

Okay.

Uh, and we also say cubic centimeters again.

Not in Canada.

I've heard it more used in europe when they talk about liquid measures cubic centimeters cubic centimeter and uh one ounce is also 29.5 cubic centimeters or 25 29.5 mil.

Okay, now then we get £2 and again we're talking about small amounts.

If you're talking about larger amounts you just give the large amount or the kilograms here you're gonna give £1 is 16oz.

So again, when you're reading a recipe for example, excuse me.

And they say use a 16 ounce can of crushed tomatoes.

A 16 ounce can is a £1 can Or 454 g.

If you want to use the metric measure for this.

Now if you go to a pub and you want to order a beer, you will order a pint, let's say or a half point.

Now here's where it gets a little bit confusing British and Canadian pints are 20 oz Or 568 mm.

Uh and if you want to, if you go to the states and you order a pint, you're gonna get a 16 ounce beer, that's 473 ml.

So it's important to understand the different things.

Now, not not a big deal.

If you go to the state and you order a pint and it's smaller than you're used to whatever, you just order another point.

But if you go to the state.

If you used to american points and you go to Canada or you go to the U.

K.

And you get a point it's bigger so make sure you don't get drunk.

That's the key.

Okay?

And if you're following recipes, if it's metric, just convert, okay, it's very easy to go online.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And find conversion charts.

So don't worry if you find a good recipe for a dish you really like and all the measurements are in american measurements like imperial measurements or if they're in metric, just go online, find yourself a conversion chart and make the changes necessary so you can follow the recipe.

Okay, let's look at some other points where we use measurements.

Okay, So now we're gonna look at different measures, we're gonna look at distances lengths and some sizes and we're gonna look at talking about gas and talking about temperatures.

So let's start with distance first of all, in the States, if you drive down to the States, your speedometer on your car Will be a little bit confusing.

If you rented a car in Canada for example and we drove down to the states keep in mind they use miles in Canada, we use kilometers, one mile is 1.6 km.

So 100 I don't remember the exact thing but If you're going to highway and your speed limit is 100 km/h in the states, that's about uh 60 or 65, something like that, I don't really remember.

But anyway, kilometers que la meters notice that it's not meters.

Okay.

And it's not like, uh, like kilograms is about the same killer.

Killer kilometers, kilograms.

So the law is a little bit different and the meters is not meters, it's meters kilometers meters okay, One mile, 1.6 km.

Now again, Americans use yards, one yard is .914 m.

Now, another thing to notice kilometers has an S meters, doesn't why?

I really don't know, but that's the way it is meters.

We don't put the s kilometers, we do kilograms.

We do centimeters, we don't.

Okay.

Uh, so point not now.

Another thing to notice, I say .914.

Okay, you can say 0.914 if you want but this is pronounced point not decimal, not period, nothing else like that.

Now again, we talked about height.

So they're using feet and inches.

So one ft is 30.48 centimeters one inch is 2.54 centimeters if you want to be precise.

Generally speaking, we don't get too deep into these numbers.

What we do is we round things off, but I'll talk about that in a minute.

We go to the nearest whole number.

So we just cut this out and just say 30 technically 2.54.

So we just cut this out and say 2.5, we'll go to the nearest uh, thousands.

You can save 0.5 if you want as well, 30.5 centimeters.

Uh, so inches.

Now, the thing about measures when we talk about size.

Okay.

A lot of people like to use analogies, an analogy is basically a comparison to something else, something more familiar.

So, especially in America or Canada, we use uh, sports, uh, things, sports facilities.

You'll quite often hear americans describe something as very big or very long by how many football fields it is.

So let's say that somebody wants to talk about the new aircraft carrier the Navy has just built.

It's huge.

It's very big.

It's three football fields.

It's the length of three football fields.

Okay.

And we will say like this, the length of three football fields.

Each football fields is 120 yards.

If you want to get the idea, a lot of people, if you want to use metric, use olympic pool.

So the, The city or the new town or the farm, the person's farm is the length of five Olympic pools.

one Olympic pools, 50 m.

It is 250 m long.

Okay, In Canada, you'll sometimes hear people because we love hockey in Canada.

You'll sometimes hear people compare it to your hockey rink.

Hockey rink is 200 ft long.

Okay, that's what they play on.

Now.

Sometimes people will talk about things in terms of a marathon.

Okay.

If you're talking about how far it is.

Oh, it's a marathon.

You can't walk it, it's too far a marathon is 42 kilometers or 26 miles, A lot of people do half marathons.

So they do whatever.

21 and 13.

Right?

So we again, we use analogies because we can picture a football field.

If you tell me something is 500 yards long, I can't really imagine 500 yards.

If you tell me, it's more than four football fields.

Okay, Wow, that's very long.

I can imagine that you'll also often hear the quarter mile, especially in racing.

If you saw movies like fast and furious, they always have a race or a quarter mile in horse racing, they raise a quarter mile.

So a quarter mile is 402 m.

But these are expressions you'll hear often.

Now again, if you don't go to the States, you think, I don't need to know these expressions, but if you watch Hollywood movies and they're using american english, they're going to use a lot of these expressions.

A lot of these measures.

If you don't have the subtitles, it's a good idea to have and at least a close idea of what the conversion is.

Okay.

Now, where it gets very confusing is when you're using tools depends what kind of tools you're using, you can use imperial, which is basically american or technically imperial measures are british, but we now think about them as american or metric.

So if you're going, if you're going to fix a car and the car was built with uh, Metro expects we call these specs short for specifications.

Okay, So the builder used metric specs.

So all the tools are gonna be metrics.

So if you need like a wrench with a socket and you need a 10 millimeter socket and all you have is imperial tools are there and it's like uh, 3/16 of an inch.