English Vocabulary Lesson on Vehicles: Cars, Trucks, and Vans

English Vocabulary Lesson on Vehicles: Cars, Trucks, and Vans

It’s time to learn some English words and phrases to be able to talk about cars, trucks, and vans. As you learn English you’ll want to be able to talk intelligently about your vehicle or the vehicles of other people.

In this English video Iesson I’ll go over a whole bunch of vehicle parts and their meanings while we take a look at my van.

You’ll learn to identify all of the common parts of a vehicle that people like you and me need to know!

⌛ Remember: Always watch the video three times. Twice today with English subtitles on, and once tomorrow with the English subtitles off. This will reinforce the English you have learned!

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✅ TRANSCRIPT:

Hi! Bob the Canadian here. I thought today we would learn some English words and phrases about vehicles. My van’s not broken by the way, but I thought it might be fun just to go over a lot of different terms and words that we use when we talk about vehicles in English because some of you will probably have a vehicle and maybe you want to replace that vehicle by buying a new one. Maybe you need to get it fixed. Maybe you’re just giving someone a ride and you need to be able to talk about some of the different parts of the vehicle. So let’s take some time to talk about my van today!

So this is the front of the vehicle and there’s a few things that you’ll need to know to be able to talk about the front of your vehicle in English. These are the headlights. These are the lights you turn on when you’re driving at night. We also have the signal light or the turn signal which you use to indicate if you’re turning left or right. Down here we have the licence plate. You can’t quite see it. It’s a little bit out of frame, but the licence plate is the registration number on a plate that you put on the front of your vehicle so that the police and the government know who owns the vehicle. We also have the hood. So the hood is what you open when you need to access the motor or the engine of the vehicle. And over here we have the antenna. The antenna is connected to the radio inside so that you can listen to the music and to radio stations. You should know too that when we refer to a vehicle we talk about the driver’s side and the passenger side. So this is the side the driver sits on. That’s the side the passenger sits on. The reason this is important is because if you go to get your vehicle repaired, you usually refer to which side the problem is on by passenger side or driver’s side. So often I’ll say, you know, the driver’s side front tire is making a funny noise. Or the passenger side rear door isn’t opening properly. So driver’s side, passenger side, front and back, are how you refer to the different parts of your vehicle.

So there’s a couple more things we need to look at at the front of a vehicle. This is the windshield. It’s the window at the front of the vehicle, and these down here are the windshield wipers. That’s what you turn on when you’re driving in rain or snow. So we have the windshield, we have the windshield wipers. Let’s go and take a look at the back.

So we’re here at the back of the vehicle, by the way I think this is a good day to teach you some English about vehicles because it’s one of the first nice days here and there’s a lot of vehicles driving by. This is the back of the vehicle. We have the tail lights or the brake lights, these are also the signal lights. So these are the lights that go on when you hit the brakes to slow down. We also have the back up lights or the reverse lights so that people know if you’re backing up. So we have those obviously on the driver’s side as well as the passenger side. This on a van is called a tailgate. So you can lift the tailgate up and down in order to get in and out of the vehicle. It also has a rear window that you can look out when you’re driving. So we have the tailgate, it also has a licence plate on the back as well. So in Ontario, Canada we have licence plates on the front and back of our vehicles. On my van in particular down here there’s what we call a receiver so that you can put a hitch on the van. So I can put this down here and that allows me to hook up a trailer. You can see the ball there let’s me hook a trailer up to my van.

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50 Comments

  1. Ale Ottobre on November 17, 2022 at 1:55 pm

    Awesome!



  2. Tha Na Ra on November 17, 2022 at 1:56 pm

    thank you Mr Bob the Canadian .



  3. TW Yang on November 17, 2022 at 1:57 pm

    These vocabularies are seldom seen in the textbooks. Thanks a lot!



  4. Grigori on November 17, 2022 at 1:57 pm

    Great overview of car dictionary
    Very useful!



  5. Kavindu Gunaratna on November 17, 2022 at 1:58 pm

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  6. Kiki Xatz on November 17, 2022 at 1:59 pm

    You are the best teacher.😏😏😏



  7. Penny Peng on November 17, 2022 at 2:00 pm

    Thanks Bob, It’s very fun to learn about the word of vehicle, thank so much for your loving heart!! 🎉 ❤ 😊



  8. Diep Nguyen on November 17, 2022 at 2:01 pm

    I’m really interested in this video.



  9. b charnuu on November 17, 2022 at 2:02 pm

    Your lessons are undeniably wonderful and useful.



  10. Azizjon Uralov on November 17, 2022 at 2:03 pm

    Thank you too



  11. Kingdom of Sabbir on November 17, 2022 at 2:04 pm

    Good luck



  12. Cecilia Romia on November 17, 2022 at 2:07 pm

    I love this video, Bob!!! Thank you so much!!!



  13. Stan on November 17, 2022 at 2:07 pm

    Where do you put blinker fluid?



  14. 孫弘 on November 17, 2022 at 2:11 pm

    Your every video is very helpful , educational



  15. Gamar Ahchx on November 17, 2022 at 2:12 pm

    Hay bob the Canadian you are a great teacher . Your teaching style just awesome. What a effective way you are teaching us english. I am from so far “ Bangladesh 🇧🇩. I love your lesson. Thanks a bunch for giving us such a good opportunity to learn english.



  16. Gabriella Nunes on November 17, 2022 at 2:18 pm

    thanks amillion for lessons about car parts! you van make also a verbs about to driving car and turning on and off parts of car.



  17. Lyes Bold on November 17, 2022 at 2:18 pm

    the best teacher in the world



  18. pooja phogat on November 17, 2022 at 2:18 pm

    your videos really help thanks for sharing that



  19. Terry Zhang on November 17, 2022 at 2:19 pm

    Very useful for me,



  20. Seven Shen on November 17, 2022 at 2:19 pm

    so great



  21. Chummy Ezung on November 17, 2022 at 2:22 pm

    Hello sir, watching your video is worth❤️
    I have learnt lots and lots of vocabulary from your video.
    Your speaking is very clear and specific, I regret knowing your channel lately. Keep going your channel I really love it.



  22. james xiao on November 17, 2022 at 2:22 pm

    As a new comer in Canada I’m greatly feel Bob’s lessons are useful for me. Thank you Bob!



  23. Amith Das on November 17, 2022 at 2:23 pm

    Thanks Sir



  24. tam duong on November 17, 2022 at 2:25 pm

    Thank you very much Bob, I learn a lot from your videos.



  25. Mykola Kudelia on November 17, 2022 at 2:26 pm

    Thank a lot!



  26. Фирдавс Файзиев on November 17, 2022 at 2:26 pm

    What does the word to park mean? Also what does in park mean? Park brakes? What is it?



  27. Jesus Ruiz perz on November 17, 2022 at 2:28 pm

    Hi teacher Bob i am learning manny english whit your you tuve video you are the Best teacher tank’s a lot god bless you



  28. yummy chun on November 17, 2022 at 2:31 pm

    thanks for your sincere lesson.. good teacher, Bob.



  29. Koala Chen on November 17, 2022 at 2:31 pm

    Bob is so cute, I love this opening



  30. *1870* Backstage's Super's “Master” on November 17, 2022 at 2:34 pm

    Спасибо большое за всё за все это время я думаю что ты мне не знаю что ты мне за все время время я думаю что



  31. Катя Хименко on November 17, 2022 at 2:34 pm

    hi Do you use hazards to say like thank you if you want to change the row while driving and behind cars let you to so by slowing down or stopping a littkle bit?



  32. Master Master on November 17, 2022 at 2:35 pm

    Good luck bro🥇



  33. Shawn Hou on November 17, 2022 at 2:36 pm

    Tsk a lot,learned



  34. Azizjon Uralov on November 17, 2022 at 2:39 pm

    Bob can you make a video about parts of trucks, semi trucks, tractors and other special cars?



  35. Andrew S on November 17, 2022 at 2:40 pm

    Thanjs Bob! Dont stop with your lessons! They are amazing! In Russia we also use winter tires,!



  36. Van Geline on November 17, 2022 at 2:42 pm

    Thanks Bob!..please..could you make a video about…engines..inside engines…( with a mechanic for example)…about cars problems, and general mechanic terms…etc… thanks!!



  37. Jose luis Torres castillo on November 17, 2022 at 2:43 pm

    Muy buen video amigo el bob



  38. Abu Tiger11 on November 17, 2022 at 2:43 pm

    I come from the Iraq well done



  39. Nimrod Nimitz on November 17, 2022 at 2:44 pm

    Hi Bob. Your van is great…a v8…powerfull engine. Congrats from rio, brazil



  40. shelby tse on November 17, 2022 at 2:46 pm

    Nice



  41. Katia Ruiz on November 17, 2022 at 2:47 pm

    Thank you so much Bob for your very interesting and useful videos! 😀👌 It’s very fun learning English with you. Thanks again



  42. Ramya Chandani on November 17, 2022 at 2:48 pm

    I’am from sri lanka. Your teach very good. I like you pronounce English



  43. Gabi Florez on November 17, 2022 at 2:49 pm

    Thanks a lot , was a really good explanation !!



  44. Pony Taylor on November 17, 2022 at 2:49 pm

    Thank you Bob👍



  45. Lourdes Moraes on November 17, 2022 at 2:50 pm

    Bob, please, go in making só great vídeos like this! How helpful they are!



  46. rahm blog on November 17, 2022 at 2:51 pm

    Hello Sir Bob.. thank you so much for your blog. Your vedio is Very interesting. There are some drivers didn’t know that.👍



  47. Surya Sankella on November 17, 2022 at 2:52 pm

    The best thing is that the dude uses an actual car & not an animated one.



  48. Hary300 on November 17, 2022 at 2:52 pm

    I didn’t know much about cars, and I learned many things from this video. Thank you so much, Bob. 
    I could say your van is automatic because it doesn’t have a clutch pedal. Right, Bob? 
    Bob, I want to know what you would call an extra wheel that we use to replace in case we have a flat tire.



  49. Marcio Alves Cavalcante on November 17, 2022 at 2:53 pm

    Teacher bob one day I’ll get there rsrs,
    Eu consigo traduzir alguns textos ou frases em inglês.

    Mas quando eu encontro alguém aqui no Brasil no meu estado São Paulo , um nativo de linha inglesa.
    Em uma conversa informal, se falar de vagar eu entendo um pouco rsrs mas se falar rápido , ai eu me perco na conversa e partiu falar em português kkkkkkkkkk um grande abraço professor.



  50. João Paulo Matos on November 17, 2022 at 2:55 pm

    Thank you so much! It’s been at least 4 years since I last studied vocabulary related to cars so I had forgotten a lof of words, your video helped me a lot. May God bless your life.