Episode 53 English Storytime - My Grandpa's Garden

This week I'm talking a little more about my Grandpa's garden. I'll put a video together on YouTube so you can see some of the pictures and things from the garden.  I talk about some of my experiences as a child in the garden and the history behind how the garden came about, it's a pretty young garden, by British standards, but it's definitely the best garden I know...but maybe that's because it's so personal.  See you next week! Vocabulary acre - this is a measurement of land in the UK. Traditionally it was 66 by 660 feet, however these days most farmers are measuring their land in hectares, which are 10,000 m2. bungalow - This is traditionally a single storey house in the UK and usually build especially for pensioners. In fact my Grandma's house does have an upstairs, but it doesn't look like it from outside and it's always been called a bungalow by the family. twigs - small sticks planting it up - we can use the phrasal verb 'to plant up' to describe putting plants in the ground or in a pot. how it would be laid out - the phrasal verb 'to lay out' is used when something is planned or organised, we can see where everything will go, how it is structured but nothing is permeant yet. wade - when we walk through water, usually the water is up past our knees. If just our feet are getting wet then we're paddling. quite a dip - when a place slopes downwards (and often comes back up) we can call it a dip she set off at a full tilt run - 'set off' phrasal verb meaning to start leaving a place. 'full tilt' means you're going at full speed. grinding halt - 'to halt' means to stop, we have several different co-locations that go with halt 'skid to a halt' is another. They describe different ways to stop. froze - when somebody stops moving and just stands very still we can say they froze. With humans we especially used it when somebody stops moving when we think they should be moving, perhaps they are scared of what's happening or they are in shock. he came tearing in - if someone 'tears in' it means they run very fast den - this is a word we use to describe a hiding place someone has made, often in the woods. In this case my brother's dens were usually made from wood and things he found in the garden, they were often quite big and would have lots of things stored inside that he thought were important. It is possible to make a den inside the house, we might also call it a tent or a fort, when we build something with part of the sofa or table and a big sheet, for example. buddleia - a kind of plant that grows quickly and is favoured by butterflies.