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hi i'm vanessa from speak english with

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vanessa calm are you ready to talk about

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vacation let's do it today I'm in

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beautiful sunny Costa Rica usually I

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don't film these videos outside so I'm

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sorry if there's some wind you're gonna

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hear some birds some trees rustling it's

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all part of nature right hopefully it

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will help you to relax and enjoy today's

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lesson we're gonna be talking about how

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to describe your vacation in English

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usually vacations have positive parts

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and sometimes negative parts as well so

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I hope that the expressions we talk

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about today will help you to naturally

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describe it and also I'm gonna show you

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a little bit around the farm so you'll

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get some real practice with these

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expressions the two expressions that

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we're going to talk about today are to

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get to do something and to have to do

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something today you're gonna get to

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guess some of the wonderful vegetation

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that's around me on this farm I'm gonna

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take you on a little tour throughout

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this lesson and I want you to guess what

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the different plants are let's talk

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about that first expression to get to do

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something this expression has a sense of

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honor of privilege kind of a sense of

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wow I get to be in this beautiful nature

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wow I'm so privileged I feel honored to

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be here you could just use the simple

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past or the simple present I am in

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beautiful nature but if we want to give

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a sense of honor

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privilege wow I'm so lucky to be here we

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can use get to I get to be in this

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beautiful nature what about that second

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expression to have to do something well

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in order to get to this farm we had to

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drive on some difficult roads they

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weren't always paved there were a lot of

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potholes they were really windy we had

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to drive on difficult roads when we use

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had to which is the past version of half

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- this says a sense of something

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difficult something undesirable I had to

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take out the trash I had to study for my

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exam it's

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think that's a little bit of a burden so

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here we have a positive expression I get

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to see beautiful nature we got to see

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amazing iguanas on the trail or

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something negative we had to drive on

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some difficult roads to get here we had

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to pay 15 dollars to get into the park

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before I tell you a little story about

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my experience here in Costa Rica let's

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go to our first question where you get

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to guess some of the plants around the

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farm alright first quiz question we have

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this beautiful tree with these

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interesting things hanging down hmm

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guess what this is what kind of plant is

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this

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I've got three seconds bring it

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one it is cacao this is the outside see

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the outside pod where you'll find

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chocolate I hope you enjoyed that first

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little quiz question there's gonna be

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three different quiz questions

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throughout this lesson let me tell you a

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little story about the first night that

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we arrived in this city when we got to

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the farm the farmer helped us to find

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the house that we were staying at it's a

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little bungalow a little cabin on his

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property and when he tried to open the

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gate he couldn't open it he tried one

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key then he tried another and he ran

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back to his farm and we had to wait for

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about 15 minutes while he looked for the

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key and then he came back with a key he

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was so excited he tried to open the gate

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and it didn't work hmm well he said

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you're probably going to have to wait

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for another hour while we work out this

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problem with the key for a moment I was

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just a little bit worried because we

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have a toddler and we'd been driving all

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day so we wanted to just open the door

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and let him run free finally but then he

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said to us well we have a dinner

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available at our eating area would you

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like to be our guest for dinner yes of

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course we would so we got to have an

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amazing dinner at the farm we had some

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rice beans and plantains and chicken and

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some guava juice all produced on the

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farm

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it was our luck really that we got to

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eat that dinner with them because we had

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no plans for dinner we were kind of

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worried what we were gonna eat because

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we just arrived here after a long day of

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traveling so because of this problem

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with the key he had to find the key

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somehow somewhere we got to have a great

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experience before we talk about the

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grammatical structure of get to and have

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to let's go on to the second quiz

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question

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quiz question number two we've got these

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interesting plants here with these

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little flowers what do you think these

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flowers will do someday when they're not

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flowers will they become this plant

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produce something quite important that

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probably a lot of you enjoy every day

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let's take a look

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give you three seconds three two one

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it's coffee this is a coffee plaintiffs

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the farm here has a lot of coffee as you

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saw also cacao and we'll see a third one

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in just a moment did you enjoy that

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second quiz question I hope so

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let's talk about the grammatical

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structure of using get and have in this

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sense of something positive or something

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negative happening we got to eat dinner

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on the farm he had to look for the key

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here we're conjugating that special word

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get in half into the past tense and do

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you see what's happening after that we

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got to eat make sure that you add two

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and then an unconjugated verb we got to

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eat he had to look for the key beautiful

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now that you know how to correctly

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grammatically construct a sentence using

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get to and have to let's go on to our

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third quiz question and then I'll tell

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you a final story about our trip using

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these beautiful expressions for a third

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quiz question it's quite obvious so I

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want to show you the base of the tree

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first and as we go up the trees start

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thinking about what is it what is this

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going to produce oh here we can see a

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little flower hanging down what is it

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what is it are you ready to guess three

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two one it's bananas so beautiful I

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didn't know that so many grew in a bunch

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like that is wonderful I hope you

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enjoyed that third quiz question in this

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little mini tour of the farm it's really

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nice to see nature in other areas around

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the world now that you know what get to

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and have to mean and you know the

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correct grammatical structure let me

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tell you another quick story about

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something that we did today and

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something that we plan to do in the

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future so that you can see the different

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verb tenses forget in half this morning

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we got to see an amazing waterfall it's

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one of the famous attractions of this

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area in Costa Rica but to get to the

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waterfall you have to walk down five

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hundred steps and then to go back to

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your car you have

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to walk up 500 steps but it was really

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cool because we got to see the waterfall

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and then we walked a little bit down the

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path and we got to really relax and feel

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refreshed and wade into the water is

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quite cold there were a lot of fish it

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was tons of fun

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and a great part was we didn't have to

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drive too far from the farm it was just

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about 15 minutes I'm not too bad over

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the next couple days we hope that we'll

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get to see some more animals may be some

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sloths maybe some more monkeys and we're

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guantes maybe an ant eater or two some

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parrots maybe some macaws that would be

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amazing if we get to see those so we're

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gonna go to a national park and then

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we're gonna maybe get to go to a hanging

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bridge park maybe we'll get to go to the

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lake we'll see but you have to drive a

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little bit of a distance maybe thirty

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minutes an hour an hour and a half to

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get to those locations but I think it'll

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be worth it we've already gotten to do a

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lot of cool stuff in Costa Rica and I

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hope that we'll get to other cool things

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in the next couple days thanks so much

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for joining me here on my vacation I

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have a question for you can you use get

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two and have two to talk about a future

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vacation or maybe a past vacation let us

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know in the comments try to create a

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sentence you can use get in the past

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have to in the future you can use it

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however you would like to fit your

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circumstance thanks so much for learning

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English with me and I'll see you the

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next time for a new lesson here on my

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youtube channel next Friday

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bye

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there are a couple other things on the

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farm that I'm not sure what they are so

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if you know what they are let me know

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this is the first one these long seed

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like pods it kind of looks like hair

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almost with little seeds little berries

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hanging off of it do you know what that

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is another plant that I've seen around

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the farm that I'm not sure what it is is

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this plant it's got these really cute

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orange vegetables or maybe it's fruit it

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looks like it could be a pepper maybe

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some kind of gourd and the plant is

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spiky it's got really big thorns let me

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know if you know what it is

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Punky's and of course we've got to say

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hi to the donkey's would you like some

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food please don't bite my finger

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