Bob's Short English Lessons

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English terms SPACED OUT and SPACE CADET

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English term spaced out. Now you can have things spaced out. You can see these trees here are spaced out. When Jen and I planted those willow trees years ago, I think they're about three paces apart. We spaced them out. You can also see along my driveway here the little markers so people don't drive in the snow are spaced out. But when you say someone is spaced out, it means that they're not paying attention. It means that things are happening in the world and they are not aware of what's happening. They're kind of thinking about other things. They're a little bit spaced out. So two meanings. One meaning that things are set out in an orderly fashion the same distance from each other. When we put plates on the table, they're spaced out. And then it can also mean kind of daydreaming a lot and not really knowing what's going on.

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If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadianThe other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the term space cadet. This isn't used a lot anymore, but you might hear it in an older tv show or movie. When you say someone is a space cadet, it means that they again aren't really aware of what's happening around them. A student who's sitting at the back of class and doesn't know there's a test or quiz that day could be called a space cadet. Oh, that person's such a space cadet they never know what's going on.

So to review, when things are spaced out, they're orderly. When a person is spaced out, they are not orderly. They're kind of disoriented and unaware of what's going on. And if you call someone a space cadet, it simply means that they don't... they're not really aware of what's happening around them.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from MRfisheri. Nice sunglasses, coach Bob. And then my reply. Thanks, I like them too. So these sunglasses have lasted a while. I'm quite happy that I haven't lost them. I haven't sat on them. Sometimes I leave sunglasses on the seat in my van. Again, as all of you know, I buy cheap sunglasses from the dollar store. So I'm just very happy that these have lasted so long and they work well on days like this.

This would have been a great day for an eclipse. Unfortunately it was a little cloudy yesterday. Today it's just bright sun. It's a beautiful day. You can see I'm outside in my short sleeved shirt. So that is a big change from a few weeks ago. It's definitely... feels like we're jumping ahead to summer instead of having spring. So hopefully it cools off a bit now, but it is nice to feel the sun on my skin. It's nice to be outside and just enjoy the day. Jen is loving it because she's getting lots of work done on the flower farm and I will be helping her as well a little bit. Anyways, as I was mentioning in my other video, my busy time was last week and a little bit of this week. It's slowly coming to an end and hopefully life just goes back to normal.

I did notice this though. One of my kids must have put extra weights on the basketball net. The basketball net fell over a few weeks ago, in the wind and it's not quite a circle anymore. I'll have to straighten that out when summer comes and it looks like in order to prevent that from happening, this bottom is filled with sand so it should be heavy enough to prevent it from falling over. But perhaps.... Well, it was really windy. I don't see any damage other than the bend like nothing's broken. So that's good. Yep. So I'll just have to straighten that out in the summer when I'm more in farm work mode. The basketball net counts as p

So today's English lesson is going to be a little different. I'm going to tell you a joke, and the joke is this, how does the moon cut his hair? I'll let you think about that for a bit. You'll understand why I'm asking this joke in about 3 seconds. How does the moon cut his hair? Eclipse it. And this is kind of a little bit of a play on words. An eclipse is when the moon goes across the sun, which is happening in a few days here. But it sounds like, he clips it. So when you say eclipse it or he clips it, it almost sounds the same. So the joke is just a little play on words. How does the moon cut his hair? Eclipse it.

Hey, I don't have a comment to respond to today. Sorry about that or a second phrase. I just thought I'd pop out and talk to you for a bit about things that are happening. So yes, I am going to try and do a live stream on my other channel on Monday, April 8 about the eclipse. So hopefully you can make it to that. It's not the best time of day for most of you. It's at three. I'll probably livestream from about 03:00 until 04:00 the eclipse will have already started, but I think we have total darkness from 3:20 until 3:24, something like that. So I'll try to start at a good time. I might start a little earlier than 02:00 but it's happening right here. So I'm really looking forward to that. Why don't I have a comment to reply to?

And why don't I have two phrases today? Well, because if you ever listen to my... when I describe my year, this is another busy time. If you want to guess. Why is Bob busy right now? It's midterms. So midterms would be the middle of the semester. That means that I just spent this week making sure all my students had everything graded. I put grades in for midterm grades. I had to write a little comment for every student. That's done as well. So it makes my week a little busy. It's not overwhelming, but it was busy enough that when I got to this point in the day, I thought, you know what, I'll just go outside and tell a joke and kind of explain my busyness.

I used to apologize when I'm busy. I don't do that anymore because many of you have said, don't apologize, Bob, you make lots of really good lessons for us. And sometimes having one or two lessons late or sometimes skipping a lesson isn't a big deal. I don't really like skipping them. But anyways, I hope you're having a good week. I hope you have a good Friday. I hope that you understood the joke and hopefully you can tell it to someone else. And I hope to see you on Monday in the chat. I'll have my eclipse glasses on so I'm not sure if I'll be able to read the chat, but hopefully I see you there. I'll probably schedule the live stream sometime... I'll schedule it Sunday with the exact time that I'm going to start on Monday and be prepared that I might start a bit early. I don't know a lot about eclipses so I'll have to kind of play it by ear. There's a good phrase for you maybe look that one up. I have to play it by ear.

Anyways, thanks for watching. See you in a couple days with another short English lesson. Bye.

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases FAIR SHARE and NO FAIR!

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase fair share. When you get your fair share, it means something has been divided up and everyone got an equal amount. Let's say I'm sitting in my kitchen and I'm about to eat a piece of pie, and all of my children come into the kitchen. I might cut the pie up into exactly eight pieces so that everyone gets a fair share. But that wouldn't actually be a fair share because that would mean I still get a piece tomorrow because there's only seven people in my family. But when you divide something up so everyone gets a fair share, it means they all get an equal amount. If I had a class of 30 students and I brought 90 candies to class, I would give every student three candies and everyone would get their fair share.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase no fair. And we sometimes say, not fair. This is a complaint you make when people don't get their fair share. So if I brought 90 candies to class and gave all 90 candies to one student, the rest of the students would probably yell, hey, no fair. Or they might say, hey, that's not fair. Notice we sometimes use no or not. It does mean the same thing. If I was to bake a pie and sit down and eat half of it, my kids might say, no fair. We wanted some pie, too. Why did you eat half of it? Hmm. That'd be yummy. Apple pie is good, by the way. I don't think I would eat an entire apple pie or half an apple pie. Sorry, I'm getting a little distracted here. Let me get back to the phrases.

To review, when you get your fair share, you get an amount that you think is good and equal to the other people who are getting an amount. And when you say no fair or when you say not fair, it means you don't think people were given what they should have been given. Things weren't equal. Things weren't fair.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Judit, also known as Aerosmith77. Thank you for the small lesson. It was a nice walk. And my response, it's not the safest area to walk. Lots of big trucks and no sidewalk. But it's pretty quiet, so I wasn't too worried. And I was referring. Thanks, Judit.

I was referring to the industrial park that I was in when I made my last video. And another viewer made a comment, too that I found interesting. They said in their country there would be sidewalks and bike paths in an industrial area. In my industrial area, there are none, which is kind of too bad. It would actually be kind of nice if there were bike paths and sidewalks in that area.

It looks like a goose flew over, and the goose seems to have lost its feather. So I'm not sure when that happened. I'm sure. Oh, maybe this is the goose. Oh, you know what this is actually, you probably can't see it. I think that's actually a bald eagle flying there. It's just a tiny dot in the sky. I'm supposed to report that we have a bald eagle living close to our farm because they're... they're kind of rare. I think they're endangered. I'd have to look that up. Maybe they're not, but I'm supposed to let people know so that they can record that on a map that there's a bald eagle living close to us. But that's pretty cool.

Anyways, goose feathers, bald eagles flying by. There's also some smaller birds flying by, but that's not a big deal. I was going to show you this. You saw this in the video on my bigger channel. My son cleaned up someone's yard for them, and they had all of this wood, by the way... like, this is giant. Like, it's up to here o

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English terms TO TAG ALONG and TO PLAY PHONE TAG

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to tag along. When you tag along with someone, it means you go with them. If Jen said that her and her brother were going to see a movie, I might say, hey, can I tag along? I'd like to see that movie as well. So it does have a positive sound to it. When you tag along, it can be a positive thing, but we sometimes use it to talk about a little more of a negative situation when we talk about kids. Sometimes your little brother or sister wants to tag along every time you go somewhere. And that's a situation where you might not like that. If you think back to when you were 16 and if you said to your mom and dad, when you were 16, I'm going to go see a movie with my friends, they might say, hey, can your little brother tag along? Can you take him with. And you might think, no, I don't want my little brother to tag along. I just want to go out with my friends. Maybe that was your situation. Maybe you let your younger siblings tag along. I don't know.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is to play phone tag. So I think I might have taught this. Sorry, did I just say lesson? The other phrase I want to teach you today is to play phone tag. I probably said it correctly. Who knows? It means to call someone and leave a message, and then they listen to the message, and then they call you and leave a message because you didn't answer the phone. And then you listen to their message and then you call them and leave a message. So when you play phone tag with someone, when you have a little bit of phone tag going on, it means that you're calling, leaving messages, calling the other person, leaving message, and it just goes back and forth because you never quite connect.

So to review, to tag along means to go with someone. A couple of weeks ago, I made a video at the mall and you were able to tag along virtually. You were able to come with me. And to play phone tag means to phone someone and then leave a message. And then they phone you and leave a message. And then you phone them and leave a message. I think you get the point about what phone tag is.

Anyways, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from ksenom. I... I just wave to people. I don't know who that was, but I thought it would be nice to wave. The phrase a regular haunt was new to me. It sounds like a place where ghosts go frequently. These words I had to look up in the dictionary, toboggan is a sled, finicky, demanding divot, a torn up piece of turf, like from golf and then some life events in my past have also come back to haunt me in the present. But that's another story. And my response, this is a great example of making your own homework after watching a lesson. Great work.

So thank you. ksenom, sorry I didn't read the whole comment. I don't want to take up the whole video. But it was a great comment, and that is a great example of making your own homework. What I mean by that is, when you're done watching a lesson, it's a good idea to do other things to help you practice what you learned. So you made a comment, you made some notes, you looked up some other words. That's all awesome, and I hope a lot of you do that. Anyways, thanks for that comment.

Where am I? I'm in the industrial park. So in our towns, we have different areas. We have residential areas where there are houses. We have commercial areas where you find stores, and then we have what we would call industrial parks. So this is an industrial park. This pla

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases A REGULAR HAUNT and TO COME BACK TO HAUNT

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase a regular haunt. So, haunt is a word we use to talk about ghosts. Like, ghosts can haunt a building, but when you say something was your regular haunt, it means it's a place you used to go to a lot. So this used to be my regular haunt. 25 years ago, I played soccer. I didn't play a lot of soccer, but I played on a soccer team, and this was one of my regular haunts. That simply means it was a place where a couple of nights a week, you could find me here, either, practicing my soccer skills. I played defense when I played soccer. I'm making it sound like I played all these sports when I was younger. I didn't play a lot, but I did certainly play on a soccer team when I was.... I think I was 30. It's when I started to feel old. But this soccer field here was one of my regular haunts, a place where I could be found.

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When you say to come back to haunt, we use this phrase to talk about something you did in the past that might bother you in the future. A good example would be this. When I played soccer, I ran really hard, I played defense, and I was always trying to stop the person. And I think now it's come back to haunt me a bit because my knees and ankles get sore sometimes. So things that I may have injured in the past have now come back to haunt me a little bit. Not in a major way. I do know, though, that I used to go tobogganing a lot, and I think from jumping over little snow ramps with my toboggan, it hurt my back a bit. And I think that's going to come back to haunt me someday. It's basically something that you did in the past that might negatively affect you in the future.

So a regular haunt is a place where you go a lot. Maybe there's a restaurant that you go to every Friday, and it's one of your regular haunts. And when something comes back to haunt you, it means that it's something you did in the past that may affect you negatively in the future.

I'm just going to move a little bit before we look at a comment. I'm going to try and get out of the wind. I hope the microphone's working pretty good. I'm going to stand by this sign. I don't know if that will help. We'll see. It might be worse. Who knows? Anyways, this comment is from an anonymous user. I hope you don't forget your tripod. After this short lesson. And I replied, thankfully, it was still there when I got back. Someday I think someone will swipe it. That's another word for steal, by the way. But little do they know it's a bit broken, and only I know the little tricks to make it work right.

So, yeah, that's from the last video. I was in town and I just kind of walked away, right? And as I'm doing right now, I just randomly leave my tripod somewhere as I walk away and talk a little bit to you. So maybe someday someone will swipe it, but it is a little bit finicky. That's a word we use for it. Oh, I'm going the wrong way. I was going to show you something else. Well, we'll go this way and I'll show you. It's like a $30 tripod. It was a super cheap tripod, and if you don't quite know how to use it, it doesn't work properly. But I kind of know how to turn certain things so they click right and stuff like that.

Anyways, I was going to show you this. This is the lock that keeps the park. That's a nice sound, I guess... that keeps the park closed in the winter. So our parks, especially our parks that have a lot of grass and soccer fields, they're usually locked in the winter because you can damage the soccer fields if

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English terms YOU'RE ONE TO TALK! and LOOK WHO'S TALKING!

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, you're one to talk. This is kind of a sarcastic phrase that we use to kind of make fun of someone when they're being critical of other people, but they are doing the thing, they're being critical of themselves. That sounded a little confusing. Let me explain. If I was eating a doughnut and if I said to you as I ate the donut, those people eat too much, and I pointed to some people across the street, you could then say to me, You're one to talk! You're eating a donut. If I was to say, people in the world should eat healthier food, and then I started on my second donut, you could legitimately say to me, you're one to talk, to kind of make fun of me because I'm judging other people, but I'm doing the same action myself.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase, Look who's talking! This means exactly the same thing. The two phrases are identical today. Well, that is a loud truck, eh? Let's have a look at that. A big truck full of chips. People eat too many chips. And then you could say, look who's talking as I sit at night and eat a big bowl full of chips while I watch a basketball game on TV. That was kind of timely to have a chip truck go by. It's hard to believe a whole truck is just full of chips.

But anyways, to review: You're one to talk! or Look who's talking! are both phrases we use to kind of make fun of someone when they are expressing an opinion that they are guilty of themselves.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Konstantin. Great time, Bob. We say free cheese is only in a mousetrap. Our mowing season is yet to come, but we're getting our trimmers ready, too. And my response, I like that phrase. I'm going to start using it. Yeah, free cheese is only in a mousetrap. That's related to my lesson the other day about how there's no such thing as a free lunch. So I'm just out in town. Oh, by the way, Konstantin, thanks for that comment.

I'm just out in town. Once again, pop out of work. I guess I could show you things like this. This is a sketchy alley, which you may have seen in a previous video. Behind me, though, is a really old building. I'm not sure if that building is going to last. I don't know if it's going to be torn down. This whole area here, let me give you a little bit better. Look at it. Let me spin you and let me cross the street safely here. We'll look this way and then we'll look this way. Look safe. Here we go.

This whole area here, there was a sign up here that they're going to build something here. I don't know if they're going to build some houses or if they're going to do something else, but I think this building, this old building did have a little yellow sign in the window, which usually means that it's going to be torn down. So usually in Ontario, Canada, if they're going to tear a building down, especially in town, they have to tell everyone so that you have time to complain about it.

So let's say I loved this building, and if it was scheduled to be torn down in a year, there would be a process where you could write letters to the town to kind of say, hey, I like that building, please don't tear it down. Or my friends and I have lots of money, we'll donate it to the town to keep that historic building open. So again, I'm not 100% sure. I'm not sure if it's going to be torn down, but I do think I remember seeing that little yellow notice sign in the window a couple of months ago. So maybe th

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO DO LUNCH and THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A FREE LUNCH

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to do lunch. If you say to someone, hey, do you want to do lunch tomorrow? It simply means you want to have lunch with them. You want to go to a restaurant and order some food and sit and eat it together. You could also say, hey, do you want to go have lunch tomorrow? It means the same thing. But do lunch is usually something you say to a colleague, like I don't ever say to Jen, hey, do you want to do lunch tomorrow? But if I'm at work, I might say to someone, hey, we need to talk about this new project. Maybe we can do lunch tomorrow and we can talk about it while we eat. So to me, at least, it's like asking someone if they want to have lunch, but you're kind of talking about work, like a work meeting at lunch.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is, there's no such thing as a free lunch. You can say this other ways, like, there ain't no such thing as a free lunch. The way I say it is there's no such thing as a free lunch. And this simply means that nothing in life is actually free, even if it says it's free. If I get a letter in the mail and it says that I'm going to be given something for free from a business, generally there are strings attached. That means they want me to buy something. So when we say there's no such thing as a free lunch, we simply mean, even when something is said to be free, nothing in life is actually free. There's usually something else going on.

So to review, to do lunch simply means to have lunch with someone. And when you say there's no such thing as a free lunch, it simply means that nothing in life is actually truly free.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Francisco Brainiac is also a supervillain in the DC Comics. He's the enemy of Superman and the Justice League. His name is a portmanteau of the words brain and maniac. And my response? Ah, yes, I just looked him up. I didn't realize that. So I didn't realize that. I think I talked about Lex Luthor the other day in one of my videos as being the arch enemy, but I didn't know that there was another one.

By the way, portmanteau is when you put two words together, probably the best example I can think of is brunch. So you take the word breakfast and lunch, and you combine them. Breakfast is in the morning. Lunch is at noon, but brunch is around ten or 11:00 a.m.

So anyways, not sure if you can see the gentlemen working across the river. I will zoom in. But every year they come out with their four wheelers and a little trailer and their chainsaws and they cut up all the wood that kind of floated onto their land. In previous videos you've probably seen the river flooded onto that piece of land and they're out there today chopping up all the little pieces of wood. They'll probably end up using them as firewood.

And it's another beautiful day here, so it's a great day to do that. Jen and I will probably clean up parts of the yard this morning as well. We'll probably try to get things in tip top shape before the grass starts growing soon. Not really soon, but soon we will have to start mowing the lawn. So we do like to clean up all of the sticks and everything else that's kind of fallen onto the lawn so that it's nice and clean when we do start mowing. We actually had our lawn mower serviced. Our riding mower is all ready to go. Blades are sharpened, oil has been changed. It starts up really well and runs really well. So we'll be abl

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English terms A NO-BRAINER and A BRAINIAC

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English term a no-brainer. When we say something is a no-brainer, it means it's very obvious, it's very easy. There's not a lot of thought that needs to go into the decision to do it. Here are a couple of examples. Jen loves growing things. Jen loves flowers. So it was a no-brainer for her to decide to start a business where she grows and sells flowers. She didn't have to think about that a lot. She didn't have to stress about whether she was good at it. She already knew that she was good at it. So it was a no-brainer. For me I always loved computers and still do. And I've been talking in front of people in a classroom for a long time, and I am a language teacher, so it was a no-brainer for me to decide that I should start making English lessons on YouTube. So when something's a no-brainer, it means it's a really easy decision, because everything's fallen into place already for you to make that decision.

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The other term I wanted to teach you today is the term a brainiac. Now, this isn't an insult. It is informal. It's not always flattering, but it's used to refer to someone who's really, really smart. So I have a cousin who's a brainiac. I hope they're not watching this video. Someone who's just really good in school, someone who gets 100% on every test, someone who goes to university. We would describe that person as a brainiac. Someone who is really good at thinking.

So, to review, a no-brainer, by the way, did you notice both these terms have the word brain in it? And I think I taught this one a couple of years ago, maybe four years ago. But a no-brainer is something where you don't really need to use your brain much to make a decision. And a brainiac is used to describe a person who's really, really smart. Yeah, I have some really smart cousins on my mom's side of the family. My dad's side of the family has some smart people, too, if you're watching. But there are certainly some brainiacs, a few university professors on that side, I think even some crazy stuff like that.

Anyways, let's look at a comment from a previous video from Qiu Park. Amazing spring day. I can feel it even through the screen. Thanks, Bob. And then my response, it certainly is starting to feel that way. If you listen, there's actually birds chirping right now. Today and tomorrow are supposed to be quite nice, like today and tomorrow. I'll use your comment in the next video to remind myself to talk about it.

So yeah, it's really nice out here today. I have a sweatshirt on and I don't think I need it. By the way. I feel like I do get a little repetitive in my videos. I feel like every spring when the daffodils come up, I come out here and show you. So here are the daffodils. They are popping out of the ground. They will start blooming in a few weeks. And then, as I mentioned, if you listen, you can hear some birds chirping. I'm not sure if you can hear it. I hope you can. So all of that together makes it feel like spring.

I'm trying to get closer to this bird here. It's actually up here in the tree. See, how, uh.... How close can I get to it? It's up there on the branch. I would say it's a robin, but I'm not 100% sure. It kind of looks like one. I'm not... I'm not 100%... I'm not a tree expert necessarily. So it's spring. Soon we'll have to clean all the sticks up off the ground. Soon the trees as well.... I'm not sure if I can get to a close branch, but you can see that the trees will soon leaf out. They're budding a little

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO EYE SOMETHING and TO HAVE AN EYE FOR SOMETHING

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to eye something. When you eye something, it means you look at it usually because you want it. It can have other meanings as well, but usually when I eye something, it means I want it. If I'm sitting in a room and there are cookies on a plate, I will eye the cookies while I'm talking to people because I'm thinking, hmm, those look yummy and I want to eat one. So I will eye the cookies. This happens sometimes at school as well. Sometimes we're having a staff meeting and there will be treats for us to eat when we have our coffee break and I will eye them during the meeting. I'll think, do I want a cookie or a doughnut when we have our coffee break. So when you eye something, it means you look at it.

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Now, the second phrase is to have an eye for something, and it's slightly different. And I think I explained this one in a previous video. When you have an eye for something, it means you're good at it. And we're usually talking about something visual. Some people have an eye for home decorating. Some people are just really good at choosing paint colors and making a room look really good. They have an eye for it. As I said in my previous explanation of this phrase, I think Jen has a real eye for making bouquets. She knows what flowers to put together and how many of each flower and what colors look really good together. She has an eye for it. So when you have an eye for something, it means you're good at something, but it's usually something visual. You have an eye for decorating a room. You have an eye for making bouquets. You might have a real eye for something like art. You might use that phrase as well.

So to review to eye something means to look at it because you want it. And to have an eye for something means to be really good at something visual, something that people can see. But anyways, let's look at a phrase from a previous, uh... let's look at a comment from a previous video. This is from Mohd Ags. Back to where it all started. Under the backdoor of your van on a rainy day after seven full years Learn English with Bob the Canadian has come full circle. Good phrase by the way. Man, so many amazing memories came flooding back to me. Very cool. My response. Yes, except this time I actually got really wet. When I went back to work, a few people gave me a funny look. I guess I should start to carry an umbrella with my video gear in the spring.

So that's something I don't do. By the way, Mohd. Thanks for the comment. I don't carry an umbrella with me. I should start doing that. I think it's really common in Britain to carry an umbrella. In Canada, umbrellas actually aren't that common, I think, because we're just used to if it's bad weather, you just get in your car as quickly as possible and then you get into your house or get into your building at work as quickly as possible and just try to avoid the weather. Maybe Canadians don't walk as much as they should and so we don't tend to always have umbrellas with us.

What was I going to talk about today? It is spring break for me. As you watch this, I'm making this video on a Thursday evening. I just finished my last day of work and I am now on break. So it's Friday. If you're watching this, that's when this video will come out. My first day of spring break. I'm really looking forward to it. Some people go away during spring break. Jen and I will be going away for a couple of days, but most of spring break we will probab

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO MAKE EYE CONTACT and TO MAKE CONTACT

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to make eye contact. When you talk to someone, you can look directly into their eyes. You can make eye contact when you talk to them. But often when you're having conversations, you do look away occasionally as well. There's a little bit of lightning there. I hope I can get this video done safely. Anyways, when you make eye contact, it means you look at someone. If you look straight at my eyes right now we're making eye contact kind of through the Internet, I guess. In North America, it's okay to make eye contact when having a conversation with someone. In some cultures, it might not be, but where I live, it's common. The way I talk to you on the camera is the way I talk to people normally. Sometimes I look away. Sometimes I make eye contact for a little bit. Sometimes I look away again. So what you see when you're watching these videos is how I actually talk to people.

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The second phrase I wanted to teach you today is to make contact. When you make contact with someone, it means that you call them or you text them or you send them a letter. Maybe you have an uncle who moved away and you want to make contact with him to invite him to a family event. You might send him an email. You might send him a quick text on the phone. You will make contact however you can so he knows that something's going on.

Anyways, to review, to make eye contact means to look at someone directly in the eye. Eye to eye. And to make contact means to contact someone.

But, hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Konstantin, and it is... Duplex. Looks like a townhouse, but only for two families. Thanks for showing around and keep having a nice, warm weekend. My response? Yes. When there are more than two units, we usually call them townhouses. I'll try and make a video in front of some of them.... ...in front of some next time.

I'm having trouble reading English today, so that's where I am. And the rain has stopped a little bit, so we can go on a little tour. These are townhouses, so every house is very similar to the house beside it, and it's probably a little hard to see, but there are four separate residences in each building. There's a little gap down here that you'll see in a minute, but there's a door here. Number 67, number 65, number 63, and number 61. This whole building, actually, I think there's six in here. Did you see the lightning in the sky? I should get back in my van, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.... There's actually eight in this one. So there are eight separate families or eight separate people, sets of people living in this house. They don't have to be families, of course, and each one has their own residence.

So we would call this a townhouse. I think it might be called row housing in some places, but we would call them townhouses. This one's for sale. If you're moving to Canada, you could move into this townhouse right here. I have no idea how much it costs. I'm going to guess it probably costs around $600,000 or maybe a bit less. I might be on the high side with that guess. So, yeah... Townhouses. There's a whole street of them here. They're considered one of the cheaper ways to buy a house. I know I just said $600,000, but when you're looking to buy a house, often you will buy a townhouse if that is the first house you're buying, because they're on the cheaper side of what houses cost here in Canada.

So, anyways, townhouses. I'll let you see them in the b

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO BUGGER OFF and TO DO BUGGER ALL

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to bugger off. Now, this is definitely an informal phrase. You wouldn't use this in a formal situation, but when you say someone is going to bugger off, it means that they are going to leave, and it usually means that you probably didn't want them to leave. A good example would be this. If I had a car accident, if someone hit me, I wouldn't want the other guy to bugger off. I would want that person to stay until the police come. And this does sometimes happen. Sometimes people have a car accident and the person who hit them will bugger off. They'll just drive away. And if the police do catch them, they'll get in lots of trouble. I think having a dash cam is a good way to catch people on camera after a car accident before they bugger off.

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The other phrase I wanted to help you learn today is the phrase to do bugger all. So if someone does bugger all, it means they haven't really done anything. And again, this is a very informal phrase, but if I came home from work, let's say I'm working on a project with another teacher and we are supposed to be doing it together and I do all the work, I might come home to Jen and say, oh, today, Joe didn't do bugger all on the project. He just sat around and talked while I did all the work. So when you do bugger all, it simply means that you aren't doing anything when you're supposed to be doing some work.

So to review, to bugger off means to leave. And the accident example is probably the best one. If I was to get in an accident, I wouldn't bugger off, and I wouldn't want the other person to bugger off either. And to do bugger all simply is a very crude way, a very informal way to say someone is doing nothing. Jen would get really mad at me in the summer if she was working hard and I didn't do bugger all. She would be like, get to work. We got to sell these flowers.

But, hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Gabriella. I hope I'm remembering that right. Hello, Bob. This way of teaching by telling your life story is simply fantastic. Thank you. And then a big wave. And my response. You're welcome, Gabriella. So thank you for that comment.

Yeah, I do enjoy talking about myself and I'm glad that you all enjoy listening to me. So, first of all, I wanted to mention something about, again, my life. Can you hear the wind chimes? I don't see them, but there's definitely wind chimes here.

Anyways, the other day, I was bringing my son to a friend's house. That friend lives way down this road. You can see my van there. But that was the other day, and I noticed on this side of the road that there was all kinds of new houses that I had never seen before. So I feel like this subdivision just showed up. I swear. First of all, I don't think I've been down this road for two or three years, and I think that the last time I drove down this road, I don't think these houses existed. I think they were all built probably during the pandemic or maybe a year after it, but they looked really new, and I wanted to show you.

This is what we call a duplex. So one house is on this side, and one house is on the other side. So this garage door belongs to one person. This garage door belongs to another person. And they aren't attached between. So it's one building right here, but there are two houses in this building. So there's a wall down the middle separating the two houses. And you would either live on one side or the other side of the duplex. We

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO BE OFF and TO BACK OFF

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the phrase to be off. Now, this has a few meanings. The one I'm going to focus on today simply means to leave. If I said to Jen, I'm off. I'm going to go to town and buy some gas. It means that I have my keys in my hand. It means that I'm about to go out the door and I'm going to drive to town. So when you say that you are off, it means that you are going somewhere. The other day, Jen said, well, I'm off. See you at 4:00 and then I responded by saying, oh, where are you going? And she said, oh, don't you remember? I said I was going to go pick up the kids from school, so I'm off to go get them. So it simply means to leave.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase to back off. Now, this can mean to physically back off from someone, but we also use it to talk about if you're talking to someone and it's obvious they're upset, you might back off a little bit. Especially in situations where as a parent, sometimes if I'm talking to one of my kids and it's obvious they're upset about something, I might back off a little bit. Instead of saying, why did you come home so late? I might say to them, oh, you're obviously upset. We'll talk about it later. So I might back off. Instead of saying, you're supposed to be home by 11:00 p.m. You broke your curfew, you're grounded. You can look all those words up, by the way. Instead, I might think, oh, my child seems a bit upset. Maybe they didn't have a good evening. I'll back off. Instead of being a harsh dad, I'll back off. And then maybe Jen will go talk to them about it.

So anyways, to review, to be off simply means to leave. Like after this video, I'm off to town to go have supper with my family. And to back off means to kind of step back a little bit, either physically or just in a conversation so the person has some time to think and calm down from the situation.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Ruslan. Thank you for the cool lesson, dear teacher Bob, so much snow, it looks like you went beyond the wall, Bob Snow. And then my response, I showed the clip to my mom and she laughed. She loved the snow piling up on my head. By the way, nice Game of Thrones reference.

So Ruslan there, thanks for that comment. Made a little reference to Game of Thrones. I don't know if you've watched that. It was a TV show a few years ago. It's a fantasy show, and part of the show was in the northern parts of that area, there was a large wall made of ice. And then if you went beyond the wall, it was a very scary place. I think there were. Were they called White Walkers? I can't remember. It's been a while since I read the books and watched that show.

But anyways, I'm out here. I'm going to cross the road safely once again, looking both ways twice. Before I cross the road, I wanted to show you that there are tractor tracks here. Farming has begun in Canada. Just a little bit of farming. If you look behind me as I walk, you'll see that every few feet there are tractor tracks. What they've done here is they've done some frost seeding. They probably planted clover in this field. Clover is a seed that you can plant this early in the year and it will eventually grow. I don't think you'll be able to see any. I can see some on the ground here. I don't know how close this camera will go, but there should be some little, almost like freckles on the snow if you can see them. And what those are, are most likely clover seeds. And they will sink through the sn

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO BLOW OFF STEAM and DON'T BLOW IT!

So I thought we'd start this video by watching the sander truck go by backwards. We're getting a little bit of snow here, so that's a little bit of fun. So I'll start the lesson in just a sec. Let me get set up. I wasn't quite ready.

Well, there's a little bit of snow on my lens, but hopefully you can see this. In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to blow off steam. Now, when you need to blow off steam, it usually means you go do something physical to relieve some stress you might be experiencing. Here's a great example. If I have a really stressful day at work, I might go for a walk to blow off steam. Let's say at work, I'm not getting along with my boss, and I really like playing basketball. That night I might go and play some basketball to blow off steam. So it's an activity you do, usually a physical activity that helps you to reduce the amount of stress you're feeling. Have you ever exercised when you're stressed and when you're done, you're usually not as stressed. Hey, is the snow the same color as my hair? It probably is. So anyways, to blow off steam means to do a physical activity to help yourself relax, help to reduce the stress that you are feeling.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase don't blow it. So when you blow something, it means you mess it up. So sometimes when you're going to do something that takes some skill, someone might say, don't blow it. It's not a nice thing to say. Basically they're saying, don't mess up. Don't screw up. Don't blow it. When you do that. The very first time I did a live stream, I was a little bit worried. I thought I was going to blow it. I thought I was going to mess up, and it wasn't going to go very well, but it ended up going okay. And the way I look at it is you got to do one so that you can get better at doing the ones that you do later.

So to review, to blow off steam means to physically exercise or do something to relieve anxiety and stress. And when you say to someone, don't blow it, you're basically saying, don't make a mistake for whatever the thing you're doing. Don't make a mistake.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. I think this is the most snow that's fallen during a video. I'm kind of cracking up. This is from Tammy. I am prone to eating too much, so I avoid going to the kitchen. And my response that's a good strategy. We try to not buy the bad food so it isn't in our house. But it doesn't always work with kids. Have you ever noticed that? I don't know if some of you are in the same situation as me, but when you have children you tend to buy a lot of snack food. And then at least in my situation, I tend to eat lots of that snack food. But hey, anyways, thanks for that comment, Tammy. That is something I'm prone to do as well.

Anyways, again, I hope you can see this. I see little flakes of snow landing on the lens. We are finally in a winter wonderland again. And you know that this makes Bob very, very happy. I really enjoy a good winter. I was starting to get worried that maybe we wouldn't see snow again. It certainly is nice to get a little bit of snow so it can land on my head and on my face, I guess a little bit. But yes, certainly appreciating this. It isn't so cold that the creek is frozen. You can see some ducks swimming over there.

Actually, you can see one right down here. I think there's a few more coming through, but it's certainly cold enough for us to have a little bit of snowfall instead of rai

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO BE WIRED FOR and TO BE PRONE TO

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to be wired for. We sometimes say to be wired to, but I actually use for more often. When you're wired for something, it means you're naturally good at it. If you think about a professional hockey player, they're wired for skating on the ice. It just seems like their brain already knew how to do that. Like, if you can picture wiring in your brain that tells you how to do certain things, they're wired for it. They're just very, very natural at it. I think Jen is wired for growing flowers. She really likes caring for things that are living, like plants and animals. She's just wired for it. So it means that you're good at something in a very natural way. Like you didn't necessarily just learn how to do it. You already had a natural ability to do that thing.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase to be prone to. Now, to me, this phrase sounds similar, but I usually use it to talk about negative things. So to be wired for is about positive things. To be prone to can be negative. Like he's prone to falling off his bicycle. He's prone to eating too much food. When you're prone to something, it means you're likely to do it. And it's sometimes a mistake. Like he's likely to come to class with no pen or pencil to write with. So he's prone to. He's likely to. It's something that will probably happen.

So to review to be wired for something means to have a natural ability to do that. Hopefully you're wired for learning English. That will help you a lot. And to be prone to means to regularly make mistakes. I'm prone to making mistakes when I speak French. Quand je parle français, je fais des fautes. Hopefully I said that right? But I am prone to making mistakes.

Anyways, let's look at a comment from a previous video. It's a little colder out here than I expected, and I didn't wear my gloves or coat. This is from Dhiraj, I think. Dhirajlama. Very useful phrases. Thank you, teacher. Actually, I have a request for you to make the next video on. Somebody is wired to and somebody is prone to. I hear them a lot, but slightly confused with them. Sometimes they seem similar to me, or maybe I don't have any idea about these two. I would be very delighted if you could work on this request, please. And my response? I'll do that today. Wait, I'll do it today. Not that I'll do it today. See, I'm prone to making mistakes when I speak English as well. Well, thanks for that comment, Dhirajlama. Yes, I did it. I'm done. I made that lesson and hopefully my explanation made some sense to you.

Well, hey, like I mentioned, I'm out here today without my coat on. I probably should have worn it. I think I've just gotten used to mild weather and I just leave the house now with no coat on. But I should have worn it. Anyways, some of you have seen this place before. This is my local community center. I'm sure in your country you have things that are similar to this. Our community center has a walking track. It has an ice rink. It has a basketball court that you can also play volleyball or pickleball on. I don't know if you know what pickleball is. It's a new sport that people are starting to play in Canada.

It has... this section here is actually the library. I'm not sure if I've ever shown you the inside of that, but it is a very nice place. It took a while for them to get all the money together to build it. And they did have to take down the old arena, which is back. It was back there behind me where that band

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases GIMME A BREAK! and GIMME A SEC!

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase give me a break. Which is the short, informal way of saying give me a break. This is a sentence or phrase we use in a couple situations. One is when you really need a break. Let's say Jen and I are putting flowers in the van and Jen is trying to get me to work faster. I might say to her, give me a break. I'm working as fast as I can. I'm expressing my frustration a little bit. I'm expressing that I want to go slowly and methodically. I don't want to go fast because I might make a mistake. So I might say, oh, give me a break. You also use this phrase when someone tells you something that just annoys you. So let's say your cousin likes to borrow things and your cousin hasn't returned all of the things that they borrowed from you and they call to borrow something again, you could say, oh, man, give me a break. You still haven't returned my saw and my hammer that you borrowed last week. Give me a break. This is really frustrating.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase give me a sec, which is short for give me a second. This is simply a way to tell someone to wait. If I was doing something and I felt like I needed to sit down for a bit, I might say, hey, give me a second. I'm just going to sit down and maybe have a drink of water. In the summer when it's really hot, you might hear me say this to Jen, hey, give me a sec. I just need to have something to drink. If you're on the phone and someone says, hey, can you tell me how many flowers someone ordered last week? You could say, okay, give me a sec. I'll look up that information. So it's just another way of saying wait.

So to review, give me a break is a phrase you use to express frustration in any certain situation. And give me a sec simply means that you need a second or two to do something. You need that person to wait.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from.... I think it's from Natalia. Let's see here. Yes, Natalia, this is my guess. The barbed wire is tilted towards the park. By the way, I'm there again, if you want to look, the barbed wire is tilted towards the park, probably protecting the road from animals that might run out of the park. And my response, possibly Jen thinks there might have been a train station there. There used to be train tracks, but they were removed years ago. Maybe I'll go back and investigate.

And so that's what I'm doing right now. If you're wondering what that loud truck noise was, there's a water truck right there that's leaving. Anyways, I am back here, and I think I do have it figured out. I'm not sure what was behind this fence, but it probably was related to the fact that there used to be train tracks here. If you look across the road, you see those big rocks over there? That's where the train track used to be. And years ago, they removed the train track. And if you look behind me, where these houses are, that's where the train track used to go. So I hope I'm not confusing you.

That's why I think we have this really tall chain link fence here. I think it's because there was either a train station or a train refueling station or something here. And obviously a long time ago, because if you look, you'll see that the tree has grown into the fence. And there's another one down here. I'll show you, which is basically part of the fence. So obviously this fence has been here for a very long time. I'm gonna make sure I don't step in any dog poop. There's

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases A TWO-WAY STREET and THE WORD ON THE STREET

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase a two-way street. Now, the street behind me is a two-way street. You can drive that way on that street or you can drive the other way. But this phrase also has a different meaning. It's used to describe a relationship or situation where things go both ways. Let's think about respect. When two people respect each other, it's a two-way street. I respect to Jen and Jen respects me. In order to be respected, you have to respect other people. It's a two-way street. I think this happens as well with trust. In order to trust someone, they need to trust you. It's a two-way street. You can also use this to describe a situation like this. Sometimes Jen doesn't have enough flowers, so we get some from another flower farmer, but it's a two-way street. When they don't have enough flowers, we sell them flowers as well. So we help each other out.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase, the word on the street. This is what we use when we talk about information that we've heard from someone else. It doesn't have to be information you heard while walking along the street, but you could say to someone, hey, word on the street is you're expanding your business. Or you could say, hey, word on the street is you took an English test and you passed it. So when you hear something from someone else, you would say, it's the word on the street. It's what people are talking about, about that person.

So to review, a two-way street is that street behind me, but also any relationship or situation where things go both ways. And the word on the street is a phrase we use to talk about information we've heard or things we've heard about other people.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Andres. Oh, volunteer firefighters. Interesting. If you were a firefighter, were you allowed to interrupt your lesson at school, jump in your car and go to the accident/fire? Will this affect your performance as a teacher? And my response? I'm pretty sure volunteer firefighters have an agreement with their boss that they can leave. It's for the greater good, after all. So thanks, Andres, for that comment.

And I did actually look this up, and it's actually a law in Ontario, Canada. Let me read a little snippet of the law to you. It says, no employer shall without good cause prevent a person who is a volunteer firefighter from leaving for work to attend any kind of fire or accident or other firefighter related incident. They may either leave work or fail to appear at work for those situations. So it's the law. If you're a volunteer firefighter, it means you can get out of work when you need to.

Hey, I'm going to cough for a sec. It's just a little cold out here.

I wanted to show you this fence. I find this fence interesting. We're actually at a park. Okay. But this park has this really tall chain link fence. We call this a chain link fence. And at the top it's kind of bright in the sun there. It actually has barbed wire. This is the kind of fence you would more likely find at a prison. You don't normally find a fence like this at a park. Now you can just come in the park down there. I'm not sure why this fence is here. I have a funny feeling that maybe this used to be something else. Maybe this park used to be some sort of power station or some sort of small water pumping station for the town. And then maybe the park part came later. But yeah, definit

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases AN OPEN MIND and IN THE OPEN

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase an open mind. When you have an open mind, it means that you're willing to listen to other points of view. It means that even if you've decided you think something is a certain way, you're willing to listen to other people say that they think it's different. Here's a good example. When I was young, I remember that we had garbage day, but we didn't have recycling day and the town decided that we were going to start recycling. But before that they wanted everyone to come for a special meeting. And I remember my dad saying, I'm going to go to the meeting. I don't think recycling is going to really be a good thing. He was wrong. But I'm going to keep an open mind. I'm going to have an open mind when I go to the meeting and I'm going to listen to what other people say, because maybe it is a good idea. So when you have an open mind, it means you think one thing, but you are willing to discuss an alternate thing as well with other people.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is in the open. Sometimes people do things in secret, but sometimes they do things in the open. A good example of this would be when Jen and I are working at market. We're working in the open. People can see us make the bouquets while we're at market. But the night before, Jen works at home in her flower studio and then she's not really doing it in secret, but you can't see her make the bouquets. Sometimes people do things in the open so that people can see it. Sometimes when they count votes, after a vote, they will do it in the open so that it's all done fairly and correctly.

So to review, when you have an open mind, when you keep an open mind, when you go somewhere with an open mind, it means you're willing to hear a different point of view. And when you do things in the open, it means other people can see you doing it. There's some things you shouldn't do in the open, by the way. There's some things you should always do in secret.

I'm not going to go into too many details, but let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Natalia. Hi, Bob. Do your dogs have their own dog houses or kennels? It should be relatively warm there. And my response, they sleep in the garage at night and on days when it is too cold.

So yes, our dogs, they don't actually have.... well, we had a dog house, but it blew down or it blew away. And we don't have a kennel for them, but they are allowed to go in the garage at night. We often have our dogs in the garage at night. In the winter especially... actually year round, they just sleep in the garage and they both have their own little crate, we call it, which is like a little pen, I guess they could go in, but we don't close the door. And they also can go in the barn sometimes. So it's not the nicest place to go. But we will take the dogs out to the barn and then that's a little warmer for them.

Hey, I'm at the fire station. I've been here before, but I haven't been here for a while, so I was just going to walk up. You can see me in the window. You can sort of see in, in our town, the fire trucks are red. In some towns, in some cities, the fire trucks are actually yellow, but ours are red. And it looks like they're ready to go. If there was a fire or a car accident, that's when our firefighters actually go out. Now, we operate in this town with volunteer firefighters. We don't have full time firefighters, so if there's a fire, they are notified and they drive

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS and TO JUMP THE GUN

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to jump to conclusions. When you jump to conclusions, it means you think something is true before you actually have all the facts or know for sure that it is true. Let me think of an example. Let's say you came to school and you went to my classroom and there were no students there. You might jump to conclusions. You might think, oh, Bob must have kicked all his kids out of class and he's not teaching them today because he's angry. You might jump to conclusions and think that maybe all of my students are on a field trip, but the reality is, the truth is there just wasn't any school today. So when you jump to conclusions, it means you see some evidence or you know some facts and you think something is true before you know all of the details.

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The second phrase I wanted to teach you today is to jump the gun. When you jump the gun, it means you do something before you're supposed to do it. Let me think of an example. Let's say Jen was harvesting flowers and she had 100 Lisianthus sitting in buckets here. I might jump the gun and start selling them to people without talking to Jen. So I might do something before I know I'm actually allowed to do it. Another example would be, let's say I was making an invitation to a party and we hadn't quite decided on the date, and we had a draft version of the invitation, and I decide to print it and send it to everybody before actually talking to the people organizing the party. I would be jumping the gun. So when you jump the gun, you do something before you're supposed to do it.

So to review to jump to conclusions means to think something is true before you have all the facts. And to jump the gun means to do something before you're supposed to do it. I don't often jump the gun. I'm pretty good at doing things when they're supposed to be done.

But, hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This is from Aquiles. At minute 4:05. Wow, the cat is running outside with that weather. He's not even wearing a sweater. And my response, our cats are quite furry and well adjusted to the winter weather.

So, yes, sometimes people voice their concerns when they see our dogs or cats outside in the winter when it's -15C or even -20C but rest assured, our cats all have an extra thick layer of fur. Our cats grow lots of hair when the winter is approaching. I think it's a very natural thing for animals to do Oscar and Walter as well have winter coats on right now. They grow extra fur, they're furrier and it just helps them be outside. Now we are cautious with our dogs outside when it's really cold because their paws. You don't want their paws on frozen ground if it's -20C. But the cats do live in the barn. They have lots of cozy places in the hay and straw where they can hang out. So it's not too bad.

So anyways, guess what? As you are watching this, I am teaching as you watch this. It's Tuesday today, but you'll be watching this on a Wednesday. It's the first day of classes and someone asked me today if I was nervous for tomorrow and I just said, I'm not nervous for tomorrow, I'm nervous for the day after. The first day of school is rather easy. You hand out textbooks, you learn the students names. You kind of get them enrolled in the different online software packages that you use. The first day of school is actually quite easy and the classes are also a little bit shorter because we meet as a school in the morning just to have an assembly, we would call it.

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO FREEZE TO DEATH and TO BE FROZEN IN TIME

Hey, I'm going to start this lesson by showing you how Canadians put gloves on with one hand. You have to use your mouth.

Anyways, in this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to freeze the death. To freeze to death. Sorry, I'm having trouble talking because it's so cold. We use this phrase sometimes to exaggerate. I mean, to use the word death to exaggerate something isn't very nice, but we do often use it in this phrase. For instance, if my son was going outside today without a winter hat on, I would say, put a winter hat on, you're going to freeze to death. I don't actually mean that he's going to die. That would be horrible. And that's something that I don't even want to think about. But we do sometimes use the word death when we exaggerate. If my son was going outside wearing shorts today, I would say, put some pants on. You're going to freeze to death if you don't.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase to be frozen in time. When something is described as being frozen in time, it means that it hasn't changed. Probably the best example I can think of is that when my parents lived here, the house was frozen in time. They built the house and then they never painted any rooms, they never bought different furniture. The house was literally frozen in time the whole time that I lived here as a kid. It's hard to hold these with big gloves on. By the way, I'll explain why I'm wearing my big gloves in a moment. But yeah, the house was frozen in time. I think the same was true when I think about my grandparents' house. They lived in a house in town after they retired from farming, and that house was frozen in time. It had old brown wallpaper and all kinds of other things that just made you feel like they never changed anything. My grandpa had the same chair the whole time when I was a kid. I think I'm doing the same thing now. I think my studio office in the house is frozen in time a little bit, too.

Anyways, to review, when you say someone is going to freeze to death, one of the mean it can literally mean freeze to death. But we do sometimes use it as an exaggeration to talk about how cold it is. And when something is frozen in time, it means that it doesn't change.

Now let me see if I can find the comment from the previous video. It's right here. Get my glove back on again. The commemt is from Konstantin. Nice shades Bob, my son's just finished reading Two Against the North. Farley Mowat, Canadian author by the way. And there's an episode where the guys suffer snowblindness due to not wearing sunglasses. Cool story. And the sequel isn't bad too. Keep yourself warm. And my response it can get so bright. Sun in the sky, sun reflecting off the snow. So much light. So yeah, thanks Konstantin for that comment. It can get that bright. It can get so bright. It was actually that bright when I first came outside and it might get that bright again. We'll see as I finish making this English lesson.

Anyways, why the big gloves? Well, it's -17 today and it's windy. This is about as cold as it gets. If it gets colder than this, then I would probably be making the English lesson inside. This is cold enough that when I went for my walk this morning, I wore my balaclava, I wore my ski mask. I'll put a little picture here of what that looks like. And I wore multiple layers this morning. Man, it was a chilly walk. But what was I going to show you? Oh yes, this is a day where it's actually hard to move my fingers.

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Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases THAT'S COLD! and TO STOP COLD

In this English lesson, I wanted to teach you the English phrase that's cold. This is a phrase we use to describe when someone does something that's kind of mean, something that's not very nice. Here's a good example. Let's say your cousin is dating someone and he decides to break up with your cousin. So he sends her a text message saying, I don't want to go out with you anymore. We would say, oh, that's cold. Because when you dump someone, when you end a relationship with a text message, it's very impersonal. It's not very kind or nice. It would probably be nicer to say to the person in person, hey, I don't think it's working out. So when you dump someone, when you end a relationship with a text message, this is a great way to describe it. That's cold. That's not a very nice way to do it, although I hear that's the common way to break up with people now for younger people.

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But anyways, the other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase to stop cold. If I was doing the lesson and all of a sudden I stopped like that, I would describe that as stopping cold. Maybe I heard something, maybe the dog barked, but I stopped cold. When you stop cold, it means you stop what you're doing very quickly. When I'm walking outside at night, sometimes if I hear a scary sound, I might stop cold because I'm not sure if it's someone stealing something from the barn or something other weird... or some other weird thing that's happening out here.

So to review, when you describe something by saying, that's cold, you're describing an action by someone that's kind of mean and not very nice. And when you stop cold, it means that you stop what you're doing very suddenly in order to listen or look around or do something else.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from, I think, Tara. Yes. In Russian, it's to move like a turtle, referring to yesterday's lesson or the previous lesson, what have you done with the snow? It vanished. Here in Ukraine, everything is covered with snow and it's minus twelve. Well, it's exactly the same weather at my place right now, Tara. It is minus twelve out here and everything's covered with snow. My response is, it's back again today.

So, yes, the snow has kind of come and gone a few times here. And one of the things that I find interesting is I had to find my sunglasses yesterday because even though if you look up in the sky, the sun is not very, very bright. Oh, it's over there. But because of the snow, it's very hard to see. Like if I take my glasses off, I have to squint in order to see the camera. So I dug out my sunglasses. They were in the van, buried under all kinds of junk. By the way, I don't keep my vehicles very tidy on the inside. I've never shown that on camera, but definitely a messy person when it comes to vehicles. So I dug around, I found my sunglasses, and now we're all set.

I know I show you geese a lot, but this is kind of fun. The river has frozen a little bit. I'm not sure how many geese are down there, but it is a lot. So they're standing on the frozen part of the river, but they're also swimming in the non frozen part of the river. Sorry, I stopped cold there for a second because the camera wasn't turning around. So, yeah, our yearly winter visitors, the geese, they don't seem to mind the cold at all. They're definitely similar to me. I'm out here, it's minus twelve. I don't even have a winter hat on. And I'm not cold at all. In fact, on my walk this morning, I had too many layers on, so I ha

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In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase at a snail's pace. Now, I'm not going to tell you what this means right away. I'm going to give you a few seconds to think about this. If you know what a snail is, there's a good chance you know what a snail's pace is. So let me just go one, two, three. Let you think about it for 3 seconds. It means to go very, very slowly. If you're driving your car in an 80 kilometer an hour zone and the person in front of you is doing 60 kilometers an hour, would say that they're going at a snail's pace. Do you know what a snail is? It kind of looks like a slug, but it has a shell on the back and it goes really, really slowly when it moves. I hope my mom's not watching this, but sometimes when I ride with my mom, she goes at a snail's pace. She's a very slow and cautious driver, so that's probably a good thing. But when I'm in a hurry, if someone in front of me is going really slow, especially if they're below the speed limit and they're going at a snail's pace, it gets me a little bit agitated. I'm like, just get going, man. It's time to go. I need to get to where I'm going.

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The second phrase I wanted to teach you today is to pace yourself. You can pace yourself in a number of different things. If you're running a race and you normally take a certain amount of time to run a kilometer, you want to make sure that you pace yourself and you run each kilometer about the same speed, maybe the last kilometer a little faster. But you can pace yourself doing other things as well. If you're going to eat a big meal, maybe you should pace yourself. Instead of eating really fast, maybe eat slowly, have some conversation, eat a little bit more. You might need to pace yourself to get it done. If you have a lot of work to do in a certain day or week, it's nice to pace yourself instead of working really quickly, just kind of lay out the work for the week in a logical way and get it done one little bit at a time until the end of the week comes and you're done. It's nice to pace yourself.

So to review at a snail's pace means to go very, very slowly. And to pace yourself means to kind of do something in an organized, logical, timely fashion. I had a lot of work to do this week, but I paced myself and I got it all done.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Silvia. Seven years ago, you took your camera and started to make lessons. You have succeeded. You have a special natural style. When I see your videos, I feel like a Canadian friend is sharing with me his daily life. Double dipping is not polite and is considered gross here in Argentina, too. That's from the last lesson. Yesterday's. Yeah. Seven good years. Here's to seven more.

You think I can do it? Seven more years. Can you guys watch for seven more years? Seven more years of me showing you the river whenever it floods. This is a rare occasion. If you look way in the distance, there's actually a lake over there at the provincial park. But the river has almost risen so much that it might actually connect to the lake. Not sure how well you can see this behind me, but it's definitely flooded. If we look over here, you'll see that these trees are actually in the water. So the river has really come up. It's almost touching that big, round, concrete thing down there. That's one of the things we look at to kind of measure how much the river has come up. So definitely flooding.

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In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to double down. When you double down on something, it means you work harder at it. This week at school, even though the semester is almost over, I need to double down on some of my work. I'm a little behind in my grading. I have some student work that I need to look at, so I need to double down. That means instead of coming home at the end of the work day, I might stay for an extra hour. Instead of getting up late in the morning, which I never do, I might get up extra early because I need to double down on getting that work done. This is sometimes used to talk about sports as well. A player who is having a bad year might need to double down at practice. They might need to work harder and get stronger so that they can perform better when they're out on the field.

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The second phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase to double dip. Now, when you double dip, you know, when you eat chips and there's a bowl of dip or hummus and you dip, you take a brand new chip from the bag and you dip and you bite half of it and then it's not considered polite to then dip again with the piece that you already had part of in your mouth. I hope that makes some sense. If you take a piece of bread and it's straight from the bowl and you dip it into some hummus and you bite it, you're not supposed to dip again because the bread's touched your mouth. And so we call that to double dip. So sometimes my kids will say to one of my other kids, hey, no double dipping. That's gross.

Anyways, to review, to double down means to work harder. Sometimes when the new year starts, people who like to exercise, they will double down on their exercise and start going to the gym a lot more. And to double dip means when you're sharing a bowl of food with someone and you're dipping chips or pitas or bread into the bowl, you should always dip once and then eat the whole piece of bread. Don't dip a second time. It's considered a little rude, at least in North America. I'm curious to hear what it's like in your country.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Ünsal. Hi teacher Bob. I don't know if it's just me, but in the modern age, time passes so quickly and is so inadequate. If it is decided to do something, it should be started without wasting any time. There is truly no time like the present. And my response well said. I agree 100%. 2024 is the year to do the thing you've always been dreaming of. And thanks Ünsal for that comment.

I was listening to a podcast the other day and it was a guy who was, he was 56 years old, or 57, and he talked a little bit about how there's no time like the present because eventually we all get old. And he talked about things like he wanted to go and climb a certain mountain. And he said if he thinks about his mom, his mom is in her 80s, she can't climb a mountain anymore. He's in his fifties and he's still able to climb a mountain. So he said at some point he's going to be the same age as his mom, so there's no time like the present. Eventually he won't be able to climb the mountain that he wants to climb, so he needs to do it now.

I think I felt the same way a little bit when I started my YouTube channel. I think I felt like I really needed to kick out a lot of videos really quickly in those early years because I was so old. I mean, I was 47 or 48 at the time. I wasn't that old and I don't feel old at all now, but certainly at the time I felt like I need

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases THERE'S NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT and TO BE PRESENT

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase there's no time like the present. This is a phrase that we say to people when they're talking about starting something new or they're starting about maybe restarting something. You might say, hey, there's no time like the present. So let's say my brother said to me, I'm thinking of going to the gym again. I haven't gotten to the gym for a couple of years and I'm thinking of going to the gym again. I might get a membership. I think I might do that sometime in the new year. I could say to him then, hey, there's no time like the present. Basically what I mean is, why don't you go and do that today? Why don't you go to the gym today and get a membership? You could also use this when talking about English. Maybe you need to increase the amount of English studying that you're doing in 2024. Well, you know what? There's no time like the present. You could get started today.

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The second phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase to be present. Now, this kind of has two meanings. When I take attendance in my class, the students are present. They even say to me present when I say their name, and it means that they are there. So to be present means that you are somewhere physically sitting or standing in that space. But it could also mean to be listening to someone. If Jen is talking to me and I'm on my phone, I'm not really present. It's important for me to be present when Jen's talking to me, both physically, like actually standing or sitting, but also to not be distracted by other things. It's nice to be present when people talk to you.

So to review, there's no time like the present simply means it's just a little saying that means, hey, why don't you start on that thing you're talking about today? Today is a great day. Right now is a great time to start on it. And to be present means to be physically present, but also to be mentally present, to be paying attention to someone.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video before I get too cold out here. It's a little chilly today. It's minus seven right now. Can you believe it? I have gloves on, but no, toque. This is from Francisco. I need to pull my socks up with my English. I woke up with good intentions. And my response, there's no time like the present. Now, you know where I got the idea for that phrase from.

And it's true, right? Like sometimes it's easy to talk about doing something. It's easy to. In English, sometimes we say, oh, he talks big. If someone says to you that someone talks big, it means that the person talks a lot but never actually does what they're planning to do. With the example of my brother. If my brother said, I'm going to go to the gym, I'm going to get a membership, I might just say, he's just talking big. He's not actually going to do it.

Hey, another boring lesson out here in my yard. But I did want to show you that. Sorry, I'm using my new camera and I keep pushing the power button to spin the camera around. I did that in another video before, but there are some geese swimming across the river. A little hard to see. I'll zoom in a bit when I do the edit and then if we look over there as well, there are a whole bunch of geese across the river on the neighbor's property. Let's see if we can see these again. Kind of curious to see if my new camera, whether I can do a nicer zoom when I zoom in when I do the edit, we'll have to see.

No, we haven't burned the pallets yet. We

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO PULL YOUR SOCKS UP and TO BEAT THE SOCKS OFF

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to pull your socks up. Or you could also say to pull up your socks. Both work. It simply means to work harder and work better. I think I did teach this phrase in a lesson on my bigger channel at one point. But when you say to someone, you need to pull your socks up or you need to pull up your socks, it means they're not doing a good job. It means they're not working hard. Let's imagine a younger Bob working at a greenhouse, moving pots and the boss coming and saying, you're not working fast enough or hard enough, you need to pull your socks up. Or you need to pull up your socks. That didn't actually happen, by the way. I've always been a pretty hard worker, unless I'm not feeling well. I'm usually working hard and usually working fast, but I could imagine maybe that could have happened in the past at some point. I'm trying to use some could phrases for you.

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Anyways, the second phrase I wanted to teach you is to beat the socks off of. When you beat the socks off of someone, it's usually a sporting event and it means obviously that you won the game. Last night, the Raptors beat the socks off of the Cavaliers. They won their game. It was really exciting. They got two new players and it was really cool to see them win. They really beat the socks off the other team. So to review to pull your socks up means to work harder and faster and better. And to beat the socks off of means to win a sporting event handily. By the way, there's another phrase to knock your socks off. If you are someone who has drinks, beverages that have alcohol in them, if the alcohol is really strong, you might say, oh, this is going to knock your socks off.

But anyways, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This is from sanoakley. Hi, Bob, what kind of breed is the black one, please? Thanks for the lesson, by the way. And my response, he's mostly black lab with a bit of something else I can't remember. I'll ask Jen and mention it in the next lesson.

So his name is Walter. He was just out here with me and he has kind of disappeared a little bit. Not sure where he went. He might not appear in this video. We'll see. Yeah, so he's part black lab and part chocolate lab. I'll try to find pictures of both of those for you. And there's a little bit of something else in him and I don't know what it is so part black lab, part chocolate lab, which is like a brown lab. And lab is short for Labrador, by the way. Oh, I thought I heard him, but I didn't. But that is what he is.

And he also has a good dose of happiness in him. He's one of the happiest dogs we've ever had. He's happy to see strangers. He's happy to see people we know. He's happy to see me. He's just happy all the time, which is good. But you do want your dogs to bark when strangers come as well.

I mentioned in the comments to some of you that we have a little bit of snow here. You can see some over there in the yard as well. As well as behind me here. We would call this a skiff of snow. I mean, not a lot of snow, but some snow. So that's nice.

And if you're wondering what that is, that is some wood that my son brought here that we will eventually burn. It's actually a bunch of old skids. Do you know what skids are? We sometimes call these pallets or skids. And I think he cleaned up someone's yard and he brought them all here. We'll probably burn them later this week so that they are gone. We don't burn a lot of stuff. We only burn wood

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases IN A JIFFY and BEFORE YOU KNOW IT

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase in a jiffy. This simply means that something happens very, very quickly. It's an older phrase. I don't actually use it that often anymore. But I did hear my mom use it the other day. She said she was going to be back in a jiffy. We were playing a board game and she went to get something out of her purse and she said, oh, I'll be back in a jiffy. So it is something that is still used, but maybe by older people. If you're watching an older movie or an older tv show, you might hear the phrase in a jiffy. When someone talks about doing something really, really quickly.

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The second phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase, before you know it, this means the same thing. To do something very, very quickly. The other day I was at the garage and I needed a new windshield wiper. And you know what? Before you know it, they're done installing that. They do it very, very quickly. I actually went to talk to the mechanic, and the other mechanic installed the wiper before I knew it. So I got to change the tense here a little bit. But he popped the old one off and he put the new one on. Sometimes I do it myself, but with my blue van, it's not as easy as you would think. So sometimes I just have the mechanic do that for me, even though it's an easy job.

So to review, when you do something in a jiffy, it means you do it very, very quickly or almost instantly. And if someone does something before you know it, it means the same thing. When you're in a restaurant, sometimes you order food and before you know it, the server comes back with the food. That's always nice. A colleague of mine went to a restaurant a few days ago and waited 2 hours for his food. That's definitely not quick at all.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Denis. I miss the old days when I could learn English with short lessons and then the little, few dots at the end and then my response, I'm back.

Yeah, thanks, Denis, for that comment. It's been a while, hasn't it? It has been a while since I have made little short lessons on this channel. And many of you have told me before, don't apologize when you take a break. But I do feel a little bit bad. But it's nice to be back at it. It's nice to be doing it again. It's nice to come outside on a rainy December day. It's kind of strange. And to make a little lesson for you and teach you a couple of phrases. My plan is to keep going from now on.

I think that I have started doing everything again. I've done live streams again. I've started walking quite regularly again. I'm caught up on all my schoolwork, and I think it's time for this channel to start rolling again. So you'll get a lesson today. It's Friday today that you're watching this. I'm making it on a Thursday, by the way. And as well, next week, Wednesday, and Friday. For the foreseeable future, you should be seeing lessons.

Hey. Yeah, so no snow. If you've been watching my other videos, you've seen that we did get snow one day. That was kind of nice. But we're kind of in this zone right now. It's flooding. It's December 28 today, and the river is flooded. In fact, way over there, I have a nice field of wheat. And there were Canadian geese eating my wheat this morning. I didn't like that. I was about to go out there with Walter and Oscar to chase them away. But, yeah, it's just that kind of year.

I can show you this direction as well. If you watch my videos a lot, you'll r

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase "to shake things up". When you shake things up, it means that you change things. Sorry, Walter just came running here. There he is. That scared me a little bit. I don't know if I jumped or not, but anyways, when you shake things up, it means you change things, hopefully so things get better. Here's a good example. I watch the Toronto Raptors and last year they decided that they were going to get a new head coach. They wanted to shake things up a bit. They also got rid of one or two players to shake things up a bit. So they changed things so that hopefully this year the team has a winning season. You might have this happen at work. Sometimes at work you might come in and they'll say, yep, Jim and Joe are gone. The boss fired them because the boss wants to shake things up a bit. I think I use a bit a lot when I use that phrase. They want to shake things up a bit. So it means to make a change.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase "to shake on it". When you shake on something, it means you agree on something. It means you actually shake hands with someone. I have someone coming to look at a water pump tonight and hopefully they want to buy it. And hopefully we can shake on it when we agree on a price.

So to review when you shake things up, it means you make changes to something, hopefully so that things go better. And when you.... To shake on it means that you shake hands with someone after you agree to do something.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. I hope this guy doesn't show up while I'm making this English lesson. This is from Andres. Mr. Bob, does YouTube provide you with metrics about how many users watch 10 seconds of your videos and how many users watch the entire video? And my response yes, although I don't usually pay it much attention, I make the video to satisfy a need. It doesn't matter to me how long people watch it for, so I can't see how long specific people watch it for. I do know that people watch about 60% to 70% of my videos before they give up and decide to do something else. But what that actually means is that most people watch the whole video and some people only watch the first 40% or 50%. I don't know the details, but anyways, yes, I do see metrics, but I do not pay a lot of attention to them because I just like making the video.

Hey, this is the pump. Do you think someone will buy it. We bought a different pump this year. We have two irrigation pumps. We bought an irrigation pump that has a pressure regulator on it so it turns on and off automatically. That pump just pumps water. It doesn't turn on and off. It just pumps water. As long as it's on, it's pumping water until you unplug it. But we like to use pumps where when it gets up to 50 psi pounds per square inch, the pump turns off.

So I'm actually waiting right now. The guy said he would be here around 5:30. It's 5:25 right now. And I thought, well, I'll kill two birds with 1 stone. I'll go outside and make a video while I'm waiting for him to show up. And then when he arrives, we'll have a look at the pump, and hopefully he offers me a price that we agree on and we can shake on it. And then hopefully, he gives me some money and he takes the pump away. I always like to sell things that I'm not using anymore because there's really no point in keeping things that you don't need otherwise, they just sit in your shed or sit in your garage. and kind of waste away.

So, anyways, thanks for watching this short English lesson. I'll see you in a few days with another on

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In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase "to be in the know". When you are in the know, it means that you know something is going to happen. Here's an example. If I was planning a surprise birthday party for my mom and if someone said, who all knows about this? I could say, well, my brother and sister are in the know. That means that they know that this party is going to happen. Maybe you're helping plan something at work and it's a top secret project and only certain people are supposed to know about it. Only certain people are allowed to be in the know about the project. That means you would have to make sure that you don't talk to the people you shouldn't talk to about the secret project.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is "for all I know". This is a phrase we use before we say something that we're not sure about. For all I know, it could snow tonight. I haven't checked the weather. I don't have enough information to actually know if it's going to snow tonight. So I could start that phrase by saying, for all I know, it could snow tonight. For all I know, some of you only watch the first 10 seconds of my videos. I don't actually know if you watch the entire lesson. For all I know, maybe you just watch the first little bit and think, this one seems a little bit boring.

So to review to be in the know means that you do know about something that's going to happen, and it kind of implies that there's people who don't know what's going to happen. And for all I know is a phrase we use to introduce something that we're not sure about. For all I know, these leaves might all blow away tonight if it gets windy. I don't know if it's going to be windy or not, but it might be.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Tammy. Yes, you always go to great lengths to make online lessons for us and all your lessons are a token of generosity. Thank you for your hard work. In my response, I do my best, but oddly, I just took a huge break on this channel. I'm back at it now.

So yeah, I took a little bit of a break. Many of you have told me, I'm just putting the comment back in my pocket. Many of you have told me, don't apologize when you take a break, that I deserve to take breaks once in a while. So I'm not apologizing this time, but man, that was a long break. It was a week and a half, I think. But I got lots of work done. I'm in kind of a little bit of the tail end of a busy stretch at work.

I do have parent teacher interviews tonight. We sometimes call these learning conferences as well. So I do have to go back to school. I'm just home to make this video and have a little bit of supper and then I'll head back in. I've talked about parent teacher interviews before. This is where parents and sometimes students come in to talk about their learning. We're at about the midway point of the semester. I do work in a semester system, we would call it. So we're at the halfway point.

Grades went out last week, so students are aware of how well they're doing in their classes. But yeah, tonight. But I only have three, so maybe that means I'm doing a good job. Maybe that means no one wants to talk to me. I don't know. By the way, I think there's like 15 time slots and I only have three interviews tonight. So my colleagues are a little jealous. Some of them have a full slate this evening. That means they have interviews from, like, I think, seven till nine and I just need to go in at ten to 8, 8:10

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases THE GREAT OUTDOORS and TO GO TO GREAT LENGTHS

In this English lesson. I wanted to help you learn the English phrase "the great outdoors". Well we're in it. We're in the great outdoors. This is simply a fun way to refer to being outside in nature. When I made my video on my other channel the other day, I was in the great outdoors. I went for a hike. It was a lot of fun. It's fun to be in the great outdoors. And we use this phrase a lot. We'll say things like, oh, it's nice to be out in the great outdoors. I love to go camping in the great outdoors. I love to go hiking in the great outdoors. I love to go fishing in the great outdoors. All very common ways to talk about being outside in nature. And why do we say it? I don't know. Because it's great. I think that's my simple explanation. It's great to be outside. It's great to be in the great outdoors.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is to go to great lengths. Now, when you go to great lengths to do something, it means you work extra hard and extra long and you focus on it really, really precisely and strongly. When I plan my lessons, I go to great lengths to make sure the lessons are good. I come up with the idea. I usually make a whole list of notes. I highlight all the words that I want to teach in the lesson, and then I take my paper with me because I like to go to great lengths to make sure that the lesson is done well and that all of you benefit from it.

So to review, the great outdoors is simply this. I'm in the great outdoors right now and it's really nice. And to go to great lengths means that you just work really hard. You put a lot of effort into something to make sure it is good. I go to great lengths to make lessons that I can do outside or in other places. I go to great lengths to make sure that happens.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. I know I seem distracted. There's sounds around me, but you can't hear them probably. I'm not sure what they are. Like a clunking sound. I should do that lesson on sounds at some point, shouldn't I? This is from Ricardo. The good mood is directly related to the brightness. It is a kind of chain reaction. The blue sky implies the sun. The sun implies vitamin D in our body, and the vitamin D contributes to generating endorphins. And eventually these give us a feeling of happiness. Closed circle. And my response, I guess there is an explanation for it.

And I think Ricardo is referring to how when you are outside, it is nice and beautiful and awesome and you just feel better. And a lot of that is because of things like the blue sky, the fresh air just being away from the sounds of traffic, although I can hear a large dump truck going by right now. So thanks, Ricardo, for that comment.

It is nice to come outside and get some sunshine, to get some fresh air and to allow my body to make some vitamin D. It's one thing that here in Canada, people often take vitamin D supplements in the winter. We're close to the time of year where the days are the shortest. We're about a month and a half away from the shortest day of the year. Not my favorite day. It will start to get dark at like 4:30 in the afternoon. Something that I guess for me is normal, but I guess in some parts of the world that would seem really, really strange.

But I guess on the flip side, in the summer it's light out till 10:00 at night in June. So, yeah, you get, what is it, six of one, half a dozen of the other. I think that might be the English phrase. You get a little bit of both. So I don't

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO TAKE FOR GRANTED and TO BE TAKEN ABACK

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase “to take for granted”. Now you can take something for granted, or you can take someone for granted and it means you don't recognize or notice them. Here's a great example, and it's coming up in the comment later. The sky where I live is very, very blue, but sometimes I take that for granted. That means I don't always notice how blue the sky is behind me. My mom worked really hard when I was a kid to feed us and make sure we had clothes and all the things that moms do. But I kind of took her for granted in the past tense. When I was a kid, I didn't really notice all the work that my mom was doing. So when you take something or someone for granted, it means you just don't notice how cool that thing is or how cool that person is.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase “to be taken aback”. When you're taken aback, you're I'm kind of acting it out. You don't actually back up like this, but when you're taken aback, it means you're surprised or shocked about something. You might go to buy a new car and then you're taken aback at how much the car costs. Maybe I was taken aback the other day at the gas station because the gas was $1.38 the Thursday before the long weekend, and then it was $1.62 on the long weekend, the Thanksgiving long weekend. So I was a bit taken aback by the high gas price because when I had driven by the day before, it was much lower.

So to review, when you take something or someone for granted, it means you don't notice how awesome that thing is or that person is. And to be taken aback means to be surprised or shocked at something that you see.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Know that and Know that says I would say that you are always well framed in your videos, Bob, even without adjusting anything on your camera. But I think after so many years and experiences making videos, you have developed a natural feeling when you are not. And by the way, the background at the end of the video is breathtaking. The landscape, especially the sky with the clouds and the sun looks really amazing. Thank you for the new lesson. It's always a pleasure to watch. I wish you a wonderful day Bob.

And my response? It's... It really is a time of year when the sky looks amazing. Well, not today, I take it for granted usually because I see it every day. Sometimes our international students at school will comment on how blue the sky is in Canada. I'm sure it's the same way in most rural locations around the world. But in the big cities, maybe not so much.

So thanks Know that for that comment. Yes, I think the sky does look amazing behind me most days, and I think I do take it for granted quite often. And honestly, I didn't realize it until I started making these videos and until we started getting international students at our school.

Some of our international students, they come from really, really big cities in other countries, and they come from some cities where there's lots of pollution and the sky doesn't look as nice as it looks out in the countryside. For those of you that live out in the countryside, you probably enjoy the same clear blue skies that I do.

They're quite nice, but today, as I mentioned, it's a little different. It's just a little bit overcast. It's kind of a gray, dull day. It's spitting a little bit out here. Let me see if I can get to a puddle and I will show you. And someti

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO DILLY-DALLY AROUND and TO ASK AROUND

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase "to dilly-dally around." Now, this is an older phrase, and you won't hear it very much anymore, but my mom said it the other day. My mom said that when she goes down for lunch, she lives in an old age home, she doesn't dilly-dally around. She just goes down as quickly as possible, because if she dilly-dallies around, she doesn't get there in time, and she doesn't get the good food, or something like that. So hopefully you can understand that to dilly-dally around means to not move quickly. It means to just kind of be lazy for a bit or not in a hurry. Jen and I don't often dilly-dally around when it's market day. We usually load the van and Jen gets there as quickly as possible. When my workday ends, I don't dilly-dally around on market day. I usually get there as quickly as I can to help Jen sell flowers.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase "to ask around." When you ask around it means you need to know something, and you ask a whole bunch of different people about it. So you go and maybe you ask your neighbor, maybe you ask your other neighbor. Maybe you ask a relative. If I was at market again and if someone said, "Is someone here selling garlic?" I might say, "I don't know, "but if you ask around, maybe you'll find someone who is." So it just means to ask a whole bunch of different people.

So to review, "to dilly-dally around" means to be lazy, to not be in a hurry, to be in no rush to do something or get somewhere, and "to ask around" simply means you have a question and you just ask a whole bunch of different people.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. I'm not sure if I'm framed the way I normally am. Maybe that's a little bit more normal. It's taking some getting used to here. This comment is from Patrick. "I enjoy lessons like this, where phrases like 'back up to speed' pop out naturally. "My students enjoy them too." And my response, "That's why I like the last two minutes of each lesson, because even I don't know "what I'm going to say. "It's very natural."

Yeah, I haven't at any point sworn in a video though, have I, so that's pretty good. But hey, I wanted to show you something interesting about this time of year. If you look down here, you'll see the grass is turning yellow, and these flowers over here definitely are saying that it is fall. They're definitely saying that it's not summer anymore.

But if we go over here, it's kind of interesting, these dahlias, let's spin you around again, these dahlias are going strong we would say. In fact, they're doing so well that we aren't even harvesting all of them anymore to sell them. By the way, we usually don't harvest them when they're this big. We usually harvest them when they're like this, or like this, or like these over here. But definitely, the dahlias are going strong and doing well. There's another phrase that just popped out, and Jen and I are still harvesting and selling. It's kind of odd. It's almost the middle of October and we are still harvesting flowers and selling them, so that's nice, 'cause the year was a little weird earlier.

We also have things like this that were ready a little bit too late. This is a variety of broom corn, and you can see it's a little bit green. We like it when it is more, let me see if I can find one, more like this. And we didn't have a lot of this ready for the last market last week. By the way, in this lesson, I mentioned the farme

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO BE ALL OVER SOMETHING and ALL OVER THE PLACE

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase “to be all over something”. Now, in English, when you say that you're all over something, it means you know a lot about it. Or it means at work that you're doing the job you're supposed to be doing. If my boss said to me, Hey, we need someone who knows a lot about computers, I could say, Oh, Dan is all over that. He knows a lot about computers. I could also, if my boss said to me, Is someone organizing the field trip, I could say, Oh, I'm all over that. Meaning that I'm the person who's responsible for doing it. So it kind of has two different meanings.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase "all over the place". When something is all over the place, it's everywhere. Sometimes Walter gets into our recycling bin, and then the next morning there is recycling all over the place. He has taken the recycling out during the night and chewed it up and spread it around our lawn. And then I have to clean it up because there's just recycling all over the place. That is never a fun situation.

So to review, to be all over something means either to know a lot about something, to be an expert in that field, or it can mean that you're on top of it. You're directing a project or doing a project, and you have everything going the way it's supposed to go. If I had to organize a field trip, I would be all over it. I would phone the company where I have to rent busses. I would make sure that I sent a letter home to parents. I would be all over organizing that trip.

Anyways, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Dulio, I believe. Let me check here. Yes, Dulio. Hello, teacher Bob. How have you been? Good. I wanted to know if Canada is also facing the same scorching heat wave that we have that we do now here in South America. Have a great weekend. And my response? We did have some pretty hot weather a couple of weeks ago, but lately it has been really nice. Highs around 20 degrees Celsius during the day and about ten or 15 at night. I hope your heat wave has passed.

Heat waves are not fun like we had a heat wave the first week of school and that was not enjoyable at all. The heat wave was it was 32 degrees Celsius every day, which doesn't sound very high. It's probably much warmer where you guys are. And then at night the temperature didn't drop. That sometimes makes it worse when the temperature doesn't drop at night, it can be a little more challenging.

Well, hey, I'm using my new camera today. I know I was going to be using my phone, but I kind of decided after playing around with an action camera that the new DJI Action 4 might be a better camera for what I want to do. It has a wider field of view. Things in the background should be much crisper than when I was using my DJI Pocket 2. That's what I normally use to make videos on this channel.

The screen's bigger on the front, so I can see it a lot better. You won't see me like, squinting and trying to see how many minutes I have left. I know that I've been recording for exactly 3 minutes and 16 seconds and that I can record for a bit more. It also allows me to do this, to walk towards the camera. I was never really able to do this. Now you might be wondering, what if I want to turn you around and show you the driveway while I can still do that. I don't think that was that much different than what I used to do with my other camera. Just a little bit more of a manual turn.

Anyway

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In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase. “Spread the word!” Now, this is something we tell people when we want them to tell other people about something. Every year the farmer's market opens at the beginning of June and we tell people, Spread the word. The first day of the market is June 2nd or something like that. Spread the word. This means that we want people to tell other people that the market is starting. I recently started uploading English lessons to a website called Bilibili in China, and in the comments I keep telling people to spread the word so that everyone in China will know that they can watch my videos on my channel instead of all the other channels where my videos happened to be... it’s always ah... an interesting thing when I see that.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase “spread out”. When you tell someone, a group of people, to spread out. It means they're all standing really close together and you want them to stand further apart. I do remember my physed teacher, my physical education teacher, saying this a lot in physed class. At the beginning he would say, Spread out, and then we would all stand, I think, arm length apart for our warmup exercises. I don't really remember what those exercises were.

Anyways, when you tell someone or a group of people to spread the word, you want them to tell everyone they know about something important. When you tell a bunch of people to spread out, it means you want them to stand far from the people around them. By the way, you can also use this verb for other things. You can spread things out on your table when you get home from grocery shopping to see what you've bought. And there's other uses as well.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Claudia. And the comment says, You can tell I printed this at school again, It's on a gigantic piece of paper. Every morning we have the most beautiful class where we can better ourselves learning English and enjoying amazing landscapes. Thank you a lot. Teacher Bob, it makes my day and my response. You're very welcome, Claudia.

So, yes, amazing landscapes sometimes, but sometimes I'm just standing in front of a place like this where I'll show you in a sec what they do here. I have to look both ways before I cross the railroad tracks, though there's usually never any trains coming. Railroad tracks in this town aren't used very often anymore, but you can see behind me that they have lots of wood and lumber here. But it's all put together into what are called trusses. When they build houses in Canada, when they build the roof, they put trusses on. So a truss is an engineered product that they stand every 24 inches apart or every 16 inches apart. And then it makes a really, really strong roof.

So this is actually a place where they make trusses. My uncle actually used to work there. He was really good. He ran the whole truss making division. He was really good at getting people to be very efficient. I'm not sure if he was a good boss. He was certainly an effective boss, but he could get people to make trusses really fast and he could get them to do a really, really good job as well. I think usually what he did is to have each area that was making trusses compete with each other to see who could build the best trusses and who could build those trusses the fastest.

Anyway, once again, I'm on the train tracks. I'll just show you again that I'm not in danger here. You can see

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO BETTER YOURSELF and BETTER OFF

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase “to better yourself”. When you better yourself, it means you do something that makes you a better person. Sorry, I'm defining the phrase by using a word in the phrase. That's not a good way to do it. Let's say you don't have a very good job. You might decide to go to school at night to better yourself so that you can get a better job. You might go to school so that you know more so that you have a better chance of getting a better job. I'm using the word better a lot aren’t I... to describe this. Let me think of another example. You're actually doing this right now. You've decided to better yourself by learning the English language. Learning a language is not an easy thing to do, but as you become more and more fluent, you have better job opportunities. You might be able to visit another country and speak the English language. You're definitely doing something that will better yourself.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase “better off”. So this is when you're just... I keep using the word better, but let's say you were dating someone and that person wasn't a very nice person. And eventually you broke up. A friend of yours might say, Hey, you're better off without that person. It simply means that your life is going to be happier. Your life is going to be a lot more fun if you aren't dating that person. I'm better off when I don't eat a lot of food on the weekend. I find that as the weekend goes by, I eat a lot of cake and I... I go to places where there's lots of food, but I'm better off not eating a lot of food. I'm better off just standing and saying, You know what? I'm just going to have a small stack to... snack today, not a big one, because I'm better off not eating a whole bunch of food.

So to review “to better yourself” simply means to do something so that you are more educated or you know more or you're kinder. You do something to make yourself a better person. And when you're better off, it simply means that the situation you are in is more pleasing than the situation you were in. It's hard to define this without using the word better. I should probably do a whole English lesson on that word.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from fellow teacher Konstantin. Nice spacey classroom you have. Not all of ours are so vast and echoey. Pretty handy, by the way, as you don't have to repeat some words and phrases to your students. Echo does it for you. Cheers, teacher. And my response? Yeah, it is quite echoey. It's much better when the students are there. 30 students with their backpacks helps deaden the echo quite a bit.

So thanks Konstantin, for that comment. We have a variety of classrooms I just happened to have, I think one of the nicer classrooms, the building I'm in or the part of the building I'm in doesn’t look great from the outside... kind of looks like a barn, actually
from the outside. It doesn't look like a school, but the classrooms are actually the biggest classrooms in the school. So I'm kind of lucky because I get one of the bigger classrooms and yeah, and there's no one above me. It's a single floor. So I don't hear like students above me. In the other part of the school, there's two stories and then if you have a class above you, sometimes it's really, really loud.

Well, hey, we're uh... we're not winding down the flower farm. We're not wrapping things up for the season yet, but we're getting close. All

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO RACK YOUR BRAIN and TO PICK SOMEONE'S BRAIN

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase “to rack your brain”. When you rack your brain, it means you're trying to remember something. Sometimes, when summer ends and school starts again, I run into students on the first day or during the first week of school, and I have to rack my brain a bit to remember their name. Sometimes this happens at market as well. Customers who we get to know over time and whose names we know. Sometimes when the market season starts, we have to rack our brains to remember who they are. So when you rack your brain, it simply means you're trying to remember something. You know that you know it, but you just can't quite remember it. When you're speaking English, sometimes you might need to rack your brain to remember a word that isn't coming to you when you're having a conversation.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase “to pick someone's brain”. This is when you ask someone for advice about something or ask someone what they think about something. Maybe I want to buy a new car and my friend is an expert on cars. I might want to pick his brain. I might say, Hey, can I pick your brain for a bit? Give him a phone call and say, Can I pick your brain? I'm thinking of buying a new car. What do you think of this one? And then he might tell me. So when you pick someone's brain, it means you ask them for advice. You ask them for information, or you ask them what they think about something.

So to review, to rack your brain simply means to try and remember something. You probably have this every once in a while, and to pick someone's brain means to ask them... again... ask them for advice, ask them what they think, ask them for their opinion on something.

But let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from nucleonord. When the COVID 19 outbreak started, buckwheat, sugar and toilet paper were flying off the shelves. In addition, protective masks were selling like hotcakes, at least in Russia. And my response, we had the same thing here with toilet paper. It was a bit of a panic. Thankfully, it slowed down. The strange thing is that Canada produces a huge amount of toilet paper and so I'm not sure why people were so worried.

So thank you for that comment. And by the way, excellent use of both phrases “to fly off the shelves” and “to sell like hotcakes”. So yeah, I did find it a little confusing. Canada, I looked it up. We are the sixth biggest producer and exporter of toilet paper in the world. So when the pandemic started, I'm not sure why people were so worried about running out of paper. We literally produce it in mass quantities, like we produce a lot of it.

Hey, I'm in my classroom. It's a little echoey. I'll try to fix the audio for you. It's early morning, so students have not arrived yet. And I just thought I would show you again what my classroom looks like. Some of you have seen this before, especially if way back when you used to watch the livestreams that I used to do in this room. But yeah, I'm set up for one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. So I have enough room here for 28 students. My largest class is close to that. I think I have 27 in my largest class. And then my other class is quite small. I only have nine students right now, which is a little abnormal. Generally, our classes are anywhere between 15 and 30 students. I know next semester I have a class with, I think 30 students in it.

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In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase “to fly off the shelves”. If you are in a store and they are selling something, maybe it's on sale and people are just grabbing it and buying it as fast as they can, we would say that that product is flying off the shelves. Sometimes at market we bring a certain kind of flower that people really like and it will just fly off the shelves. So the phrase to fly off the shelves simply means when something sells really, really quickly at a market or in a store or in a shop. We're really happy when our flowers fly off the shelves. It's a nice feeling when there's people lined up to buy them.

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The other phrase I want to teach you today is the phrase “to sell like hotcakes”. Now, you should go and watch Brent's video. I'll put a link up here or here. I don't know where it goes. Brent talked about this the other day in one of his short lessons. He went to buy air conditioners and they were selling like hotcakes. In English when we say that something is selling like hotcakes, it means the same thing. It means something is selling really, really quickly. And by the way, you'll have to go listen to Brent's lesson to find out what a hotcake is. It might not be what you're expecting. I'm not going to tell you here. Anyways so there's a link somewhere, or there will be in the description as well.

So to review when something flies off the shelves, it means it's selling really, really quickly. And when something sells like hotcakes, it means the same thing. It means that it is selling really, really quickly.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. I have the comment right here. I'm at school... when I print the comments at school... or I'm at school today... they come out really big and in color. So here we go. From Write Winter: Is the meaning of “to take a load off” the same as “to let my hair down”? And my response? They are related, but slightly different. “to take a load off” makes me think of someone sitting on a couch and relaxing. “to let your hair down” makes me think of someone dancing and having fun.

So yeah, they both mean to not work, to do something that's not work. But one has an element of relaxing to it. One means, you know, you're just going to take a nap or sit on the couch and watch some sports. And the other one means that you're going to do something fun, something that's not work.

Anyways, I'm out here today going for a little walk. I thought I would come back to this bridge. This is kind of a fun place to make a video. And I usually come here at the beginning of the school year to make a video. I think I did it last year as well. Hello? You're not in the video. I'm videotaping myself. But it's a nice place, as you remember, because sometimes the water is running, sometimes it's dry. But today you can see that there is water and it has this beautiful sound. I like the sound of water. You can see as well, you can see some water running down there. It's just a beautiful place to come. So I thought I would show it to you again. I might make my Wednesdays with Bob video here as well. In just a few minutes.

There are a lot of people out and about today, but for some reason, when I started recording, they all disappeared. I thought you were going to be able to watch people walk behind me. There's people out walking their dogs. There's people just out for a stroll. I saw a few people with strollers, strollers, a small little thing you push with whee

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO TAKE A LOAD OFF and TO TAKE A BREATHER

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase “to take a load off”. When you tell someone to take a load off or when you decide to take a load off. It means you're going to relax usually after working. The last few days, I've come home and I just need to take a load off. I take off my shoes when I walk in the house and I just sit on the couch for about half an hour. I usually have a cold drink. Teaching is going great, but we're in a heat wave here. It's 32 degrees Celsius right now in September. So my classroom is just stiflingly hot. So when I come home, I just need to take a load off. I just need to sit and relax a little bit in the air conditioned house before I get back to work. By the way, my classroom is not air conditioned. It would be nice if it was.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is to take a breather. Now this means to relax as well, but it usually means to stop doing something for a bit because you're out of breath or because you're exhausted. So if you're playing a sport, you might need to take a breather halfway through the game. If you're playing a game where you have to run a lot, you might need to take a breather. Let's say you're out hiking with someone and they're really fast and you're out of breath. It's hard for you to keep up. You might say, Hey, stop for a minute. I need to take a breather.

So to review, to take a load off means to relax a little bit. Usually after working hard for a... for a period of time and to take a breather means that you're actually physically exhausted, usually you're out of breath a little bit and you just need to sit for a bit or stop doing what you're doing so that your breath, your ability to breathe, returns.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Ünsal. So there's people I think paddling in the river will go look in a sec. Hi. Have you ever had rose jam? If you like peanut butter and jam sandwiches and you think this sandwich needs a little something to make it taste better, I suggest you try it with rose jam. In my opinion, it tastes much better this way. Thank you so much for this wonderful video. My response? I'll have to find some and try it. I do like peanut butter and jam sandwiches, so I'll probably like it.

So yes, I probably should see if I can find that somewhere. It doesn't seem to me like it's a common type of jam that I know of. Um, I'm not familiar with rose jam. I'm sure that I'll be able to find it somewhere. I... maybe I'll look at market tomorrow. That might be a good place to start.

So there's someone yelling over here. Oh, I see. There's someone going by on a paddleboard in the river way down there. And there's a man in a kayak as well. Oh, there's two people on paddleboards. So I guess they're enjoying the hot fall day. It's... it's not really fall yet, but it certainly feels like fall. And they're just out having an enjoyable time on the river. Soon, though, it'll be cold and those types of activities will definitely stop.

I’m just checking my time here. It's a little bit hard to see. I think I need my reading glasses to check the time. Oh, it says only 3 minutes. Well, hey, let's have a closer look at the people on the river. They volunteered to come down here, so they get to be in the video now. So that's a stand up paddleboard on the left. I think the girl in the middle is on a stand up paddle board as well, but not standing. And the man is in a kayak, a red kayak. So I think stand up paddle

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases A LITTLE SOMETHING and A LITTLE OFF

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase “a little something”. This is a phrase we use to describe something when we don't quite know how to describe it. If you watch this English lesson to the end, I added a little bit of music. I thought that my videos needed just a little something. I didn't know quite what it was, but I thought, you know, I need a little something at the end. And then I finally decided the answer was to put a little bit of music there. It's music that I used earlier this summer, I think, with the video... I forget... When Brent was here I think I used that music in one of those videos, but I thought, you know what? It just needed a little something. Sometimes when you eat something, that's how you might describe it as well. You might say, Mmm, this cookie tastes good, but it needs a little something and maybe that something is salt or sugar. I don't know.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is “a little off”. When you describe someone or something as being a little off, it means that they're not behaving normally, if it's a person, or it's different or strange if you're talking about a thing. A few weeks ago I visited a friend and my friend seemed a little off. And so I said to him, You know, what's wrong? And he shared with me something that was happening in his life. So if a person seems a little off, it means they're not as happy as they normally are or they're not behaving the way they normally do. The other day I ate a cookie. I bought a cookie from Tim Hortons and something was a little off. It didn't taste very good at all. The cookie tasted old and stale. There was definitely something a little off.

So to review a little something, this is how we describe when we know that something needs something or... or we want to put something somewhere, but we don't know quite what it is. We just say, Oh, it needs a little something or I'm going to put a little something there. And when you say something is a little off or a person is a little off, it just means that it's different than normal or the person is acting different than normal.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. Here is a comment from Know-that: Your lawn looks nice, tidy and freshly cut Bob, just like your new haircut. It's back to school time, so I had to get it cut. By the way, as always, it looks great on you. And I believe you. I can imagine that it's not that easy or possible to have a big channel and on the other hand, respond to all the comments you get even if you wanted to, because YouTube is not the only thing in your life you have to take care of. You have your job, your farm and your family, and they all need the same care and attention. On that note, thank you for spending some of this time with and for us. I appreciate that you always try to reply to all our comments... all of our comments. I wish you a wonderful day, sir. You know, you're awesome. So I did read the whole thing. Wow. And then my response: I firmly believe that YouTube is meant to be just that YOUTube. I capitalized you. If you want success here, you have to put a little bit of yourself into it. I do that in the comments. It's fun to connect, and I think it makes the experience much more real for me and the viewers.

And I do firmly believe that. I believe that sometimes people try to be successful on YouTube, but they forget that part of this whole thing is you have to share a little bit of yourself. I mean, you have to be personable. You have to be f

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases COULD BE WORSE and TO GO FROM BAD TO WORSE

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase “could be worse”. Now, this is a phrase that we use in two different situations. If you said to me, Hey, Bob, how's it going? I might answer. Could be worse. This is a response to that greeting that means nothing's really bad in my life, but nothing's really good. It's a very neutral answer and kind of a funny one. So you might say, Hey, Bob, how's it going? And I could say, Ah you know it could be worse. The other way we use this or the other situation we use this in is when someone's talking about something bad that's happened and you want to kind of reassure them that it wasn't as bad as it could have been. Here's a good example. The other day it rained a lot and there was... there was a lot of water on our property. And Jen said, you know, it could be worse. The roof of the house could have started leaking. That would have been way worse than what was happening. So it's used to just introduce a thought about how the situation could have been worse.

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The other phrase I want to teach you today is “to go from bad to worse”. This is used to describe maybe your day starting out badly, and then as the day goes by, it just gets worse and worse. You could say, Oh, my day went from bad to worse. On the way to school there was a traffic jam and I was late for work or on the way to work there was a traffic jam, but I was late for work. I know you don't all work at a school. And then when I got to school, I had to fill in for Joe because he was sick that day. So my day went from bad to worse.

So to review “could be worse” could be used as a response to a greeting. Like, How's it going? Ah, could be worse. Or to describe how a situation could actually be worse. And to go from bad to worse is used to describe usually a day that starts out badly and then just keeps getting worse as the day goes on. Those are not fun days.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Denis. There are so many comments under this video. That is cool. And my response, I'm happy that it never gets to be too many, that I can't answer them all. Someday, though, it might. So thanks, Denis, for that comment.

Yes. A little secret here. I really enjoy answering the comments on this channel. And one of the things that makes that possible is that there's usually only 30 or 40 of them. And I. I do want this channel to grow. That would be exciting for me. It would be exciting to get a silver play button someday for this channel. But at the same time, I do really enjoy the fact that I can respond to all the comments. Like it's... it's not a lot of work.

One of you once asked how fast I type, so I'll tell you a little story. Years ago in university, I decided, this is way back in the late eighties, early nineties, I decided that typing on a keyboard might be important. So I sat down at a computer and I taught myself to type and eventually I could type over 80 words per minute. And to this day, I can still type that fast. That really helps me reply to comments. Sometimes, too, I use an app or an extension in my browser that lets me use voice, but sometimes typing is just faster. So yes, my typing speed is really high and that certainly helps me answer a lot of comments.

And it's fun because I actually kind of get to know some of you on this channel. Whereas on my bigger channel, I try to respond to all the comments that I can on a Tuesday morning when the video comes out. But eventually the

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases IN HINDSIGHT and HINDSIGHT IS 20/20

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase “with hindsight”, or sometimes we say “in hindsight”. And this simply means when looking back in time. So I could say this, “With hindsight we know that dumping garbage into the ocean is a bad idea.” If we look back 50 or 100 years, we know that some of the things we did were bad. So with hindsight, when we look back in time, we realize that those are bad things. You can use the phrase, too, to talk about your own personal life. You could say, in hindsight, I should have taken the job at the factory. Maybe everyone at the factory just got a $50 a day raise and you're still at your old job because you decided not to work there. But you could say, “In hindsight, I should have taken the job.” So when you look back in time, you think, Oh, I should have made a different decision.

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And then we also have this phrase in English. Hindsight is 20/20. So this is interesting because hindsight refers to looking back in time and 20/20 refers to how good your eyesight is. If you have 20/20 vision, it means that you don't need to wear glasses to read or just to see things. So when you say, “Hindsight is 2020.”, you're basically saying that when you look at a situation in the past from the future, it's pretty easy to see clearly if you made a good or bad decision.

So to review “with hindsight” or “in hindsight” simply refers to looking back in time from your current place in time and realizing that something was a good or bad decision, and saying that hindsight is 20/20 simply refers to the fact that it's much easier to see now if a decision you made a long time ago was good or bad.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. Sorry these shorts of weird pockets, it's hard to get things in and out, it’s all crumpled. Sorry, This comment is from DimbikeY. Such a poor little tree behind you. R.I.P. Mr. Tree. That means rest in peace. And my response? I'm sure it will come back strong next year.

So yeah, in the last video I showed you all of the beautiful trees, but one tree was kind of sad looking and I do think it will come back. I'm not too worried about that tree. I'm sure that it will look beautiful in the future. We just have to wait a year. Anyways, I'm out here. Thanks for the comment, by the way, I’m out here walking along, the flowerbeds are in full bloom.

Sorry. My battery went dead there. That's never happened before. I'm using my old trusty camera, but I haven't used it for a few weeks because I've been using my new gimbal and my phone. So sorry I've charged it up. I'm kind of holding a battery pack here while I use it. I'm sure it will last for another minute or so. So I'm just out here by the flowerbeds. They look beautiful. Jen has done a wonderful job this year. We have been harvesting flowers like crazy. We have been selling a lot. And I thought it was time for me to kind of give you a little bit of a look at what they look like. These are the zinnias. These are a very, very popular flower. People are always wanting zinnias.

Oh, What do we have here? Oh, Did it fly away? Oh, it's coming back. There is a butterfly. Oh, this is a rare treat. I hope that it's in focus and you guys can see. Oh, there it goes. Oh, this is kind of fun. Sorry if I'm getting distracted by this butterfly. It's not often that we have things come and join us when we're doing an English lesson, so that's pretty cool.

Anyways, flowers are doing well. We have about six or seven weeks left here to ha

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases A CLEAN SLATE and CLEAN AS A WHISTLE

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase “a clean slate”. When you start something with a clean slate, it means it's brand new and no one's aware of you or the mistakes you've made in the past. Let's say you have a job and you quit. When you start your new job, you would start with a clean slate. No one at the new job knows that you've made mistakes in the past. I know you guys haven't made mistakes, but you would start with a clean slate. No one would know any of the problems or things that you've done wrong in the past. I actually get to do this every semester. So twice a year I get to start my classes with a clean slate because our semesters are about four and a half months long, close to five months long. At the end, the students leave and I get new students and I start with a clean slate. So I'm looking forward to that in a couple of weeks to start with a clean slate.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase clean as a whistle. So at our school we have a janitor. We also call that person a custodian. And their job is to clean the school. Right now, my classroom is clean as a whistle. I walked by the other day and I noticed that they had cleaned the carpets. They had had a professional carpet cleaner come in. So my classroom is clean as a whistle. I don't have any video to show you. I'll be at school next week and I'll maybe do a lesson there. The carpets are clean, the walls are clean. There's actually not even any desks in the room. So it just looks very empty and definitely clean as a whistle. So this simply means that something is as clean as it possibly can be. I don't know why it's clean as a whistle. I don't know the origin of the phrase.

But to review when you start something with a clean slate, it means that you're starting new and no one knows anything about your past or things you've done before. And when you say something is clean as a whistle, well, you don't have to whistle when you say it. It just simply means that it's really, really clean.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from I'm just going to say KA, I am enjoying watching Bob struggle with technology and my response, Haha. Yep. It's the best way to learn. Dive in and figure things out.

So yeah, in my last video I was struggling a little bit with my new gimbal, new camera, new gimbal, and I think that is definitely the best way to learn new things. Just dive in. If you have never had an English conversation with someone, just schedule one, Go on Preply or one of those other sites and book one. Just dive in. I always think struggling with something new is the best way to figure it out. So I would say do that.

I do that with technology all the time. I see something that I think might be useful. I buy it and then I struggle for a few days to figure it out. But here's my secret. I learn as much new stuff as I can during the summer. I don't know for those of you that have been around a while, you might have recognized this. I learn a lot of new things in the summer, and then I get into a routine for about nine or ten months during the school year, school year here on YouTube. So I don't often try to learn new things when I'm when I'm busy teaching. Then it's just routine. I try to do the same thing every day.

Let me see my time here. Oh, I got like 30 seconds left.

Awesome. Hey, I have never seen it so lush here. I've talked a lot about the rain, and I've talked about it in a negati

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases FLAT OUT and FLAT BROKE

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase “flat out”. When you go flat out, it means you're going as fast as you can possibly go. When Usain Bolt runs the hundred meter, he runs flat out. He can't go any faster. We also use this phrase to talk about things like work. For the last few days, I've been working flat out. I've been working really, really hard. Jen and I have both been working flat out. There is no way I could have worked any faster. School’s starting soon, so I have a lot of work to get done, so I'm definitely working flat out so that when I go back to school, I don't have to worry too much about some of the YouTube things I want to get done.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase “flat broke”. I think I may have taught you this phrase before. It means that you have no money. When I was a university student, there were a few times when I was flat broke. There was even a time where I ate oatmeal for a few days because I didn't have enough money to buy other food. But I had a big bag of oatmeal. So I was flat broke, but I still had at least some food to eat. I think I ate bananas too at the time. I think even when I'm flat broke, I find a little bit of money to buy bananas.

So to review, when you go flat out, it means you're going as fast as you can possibly go, even in a car. If you were to drive your car 160 kilometers an hour, you would probably be going flat out. And then if you say that you are flat broke, it means that you don't have any money. It's not a nice situation to be in.

But, hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from let's see here.

I'll just say KS. I had to look up the word gimbal in the dictionary and encyclopedia. Thanks for teaching some technology not only phrases Teacher Bob. And my response. It certainly is an interesting device. I find that the world of technology is very fascinating.

So thank you KS for that comment. And yes, I'm not actually using that right now because I have it right here because I wanted to be able to show you guys a little bit about how this works. It's it's kind of wild. Like, I don't remember what all the buttons do, but I can spin it so that the camera’s sideways and what it does... here... let's let's actually turn this on and then maybe I'll show you the footage from this when it’s ah... let's see here. I have to go here. I shouldn't be using technology while I'm trying to make an English lesson. I might run overtime here, but let's see if we go to there and then it connects. There's a it's a little more complicated than you might expect. Let's see here. So we're going to flip the camera and we are going to flip it this way How do I do this now... there we go.

Are you enjoying watching Bob struggle with technology? So now you'll see, no matter how I tilt this, the phone is always pointing at me. It's pretty wild. I will see if I can get this clip and I'll mix it in or edit it in with this video. But yeah, it's been fun. I'm not sure 100% yet how I'm going to use this. I mentioned that in my last video, but I just have my phone on it. And which way does this go? There we go. Let me put this back. So there you go. A little bit of new technology. I don't think I actually hit the record button while I was doing that. So you won't see that footage.

But hey, I'm forgetting to walk around. I'm over here at the local what we call a strip mall because it's all in one long row. I'm back in town because I need to stop by at scho

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO KEEP UP and FOR KEEPS

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, “to keep up”. So you might notice that if I move over here, my camera follows me. And if I move over here, my camera follows me. I bought a gimbal because I feel like I need to keep up. I don't want to get behind. That would be the opposite. I want to keep up. When it comes to technology, I don't like to spend a lot of money on technology, but sometimes I feel like it's just a good idea. I did have something that did this before..., my last camera, but it was a little too. Yeah, it wasn't perfected. This gimbal with my phone, I think, works a little better, so it's nice to be able to buy it to keep up. I want to make sure I have some of the latest technology to make English lessons for you.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase, “for keeps”. When you give someone something, if you don't want it back, you've given it to them for keeps. Sometimes kids will lend stuff to each other that means you want it back. And one of the kids might think that the other kid gave it to him for keeps. That would mean that they thought the other kid gave it to them and they could keep it forever. Which is maybe not what the kid meant. We've had this happen when our kids were little before where one kid would give something to another and one the other one would think it was for keeps, but they were just hoping to get it back.

Anyways to review “to keep up” means to be current. If you're running, you try to keep up with the person in front of you. But in life, sometimes it's important to try and keep up as well. And “for keeps” means permanently. If I was to give you something for keeps, it means that you can keep it forever.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Denis. Bob, when you left your place to shoot the last part of the lesson, did you think about the safety of your breakfast? And I responded by saying I wasn't too worried. It's a pretty small town and I didn't think anyone would try to grab it. So yeah, in my last lesson, I was sitting in the outside portion of a restaurant. I was sitting kind of on the patio and I left my breakfast to walk way, way, way back and to kind of show you the front of the lesson.

So you'll notice I'm trying a couple of things out here. I have my wireless mic which lets me do things like this, like I can walk over here and point at this bike. Sorry, this is a bit of a technical lesson as well. And I can do things like this, like I can bend down and it will... and I can point that stuff on the ground. And I guess if I had something to climb up on, I could do that as well and it would follow me.

I could grab that chair over there and try that. Let me do that. So I ran away so fast it wasn't able to follow me. But here we go. Let's see if this camera works. Let's... ooh... this is not a very safe chair, but I'll try it anyways. Oh, yeah, that's pretty wild. So I'm standing here up on this chair and the camera was able to see me. Let me move this ugly chair out of the way.

So like I said, I don't know how I'm going to use this new technology yet or if I'm going to use it a lot. It's not something I normally do. It's like having a cameraman or a camera person. This is new for me. I could walk over here and say, Look at these beautiful leaves. So as I said, I'll have to think about this. I have to figure out how do I make a lesson with a camera that can follow me in a way that just makes better lessons for you? And t

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases CAN I...? and COULD I...?

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, “Can I...?” This is how you start a question when you're maybe at a restaurant ordering something or maybe asking if you can do something. This morning I went to this little bakery and I got a coffee and I said, “Can I have a decaf coffee with cream and sugar?” I also got this really yummy croissant here with egg, cheese and bacon. And when I ordered that I said, “Can I get a croissant with egg, cheese and bacon and just a little bit of butter?” Sometimes when my kids want to do something, they'll asks... a question, starting with these two words. They'll say, “Can I go to a friend's house today?” So it's another way to order food or a way to ask if you can do something.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase, “Could I...?” This is the same as “Can I...?” I forgot to mention this on my bigger channel when I did the lesson at the drive-thru. You can say, “Could I...?” But you can also say, “Can I...?” They are very much the same. So I could have said, “Could I have a decaf coffee?” or. “Could I have a croissant with egg, cheese and bacon?” And it would mean the same thing. And the same with my kids. If my kids wanted to go somewhere, they could say, “Could I go to a friend's house today?” Or “Could I buy a brand new car once I save up enough money?” And I'd be like, “No, that that's a bad idea.”

So to review “Can I...?” is a way to start a question when asking for permission to do something and “Could I...?” is exactly the same thing. They both mean exactly the same.

So anyways, so let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Aleksey, and Aleksey says, Let's see here, diversify or don't put all your eggs in one basket. I believe that you still use this proverb in English, just like we do in Russian. Personally, I have no reason to complain about the weather this year. I mainly grow tomatoes, not for profit, just for fun and family.
 As usual, I planted half of them in a greenhouse and the other half in open ground. Both ways have worked this season. Thanks for the video and have good weather. And my response? Yes, we still use that phrase and it is a good one. Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Sometimes it is tempting to just grow one or two flowers that are the most profitable. But in a year like this, we're glad we haven’t. That would have been a mistake. So thanks, Aleksey, for that comment.

I'm going to pop up here for a sec and give you a tour. Yes. It's always good to diversify. It's always good to make sure that you have a variety of things on the go. Sometimes it's even good to have more than one job. When I was younger, I had a few part-time jobs. Actually, one time I had three part-time jobs at the same time. That way, if things slowed down or if I didn't get a shift at my one job, at least I knew I had the other two jobs. By the way, that's the café / bakery where I bought the coffee and the croissant. I haven't started eating them yet. I want to finish this English lesson first before I get started on that. But yeah, thanks, Aleksey, for that comment. That is a good idea.

So I'm not driving as much anymore. My..., the kid I was bringing to work got their license so I don't have to drive as much. So I only drive a couple of times a week instead of five times a week. So I'm not going to be in this town very often anymore. So I thought I should make one last little English lesson here. I do have a few weeks left. There mig

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases LIKE CRAP and PIECE OF CRAP

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase like crap. Now, sometimes when you're learning English, you need to learn phrases, not to use them, but just so you recognize them if you read them or hear them somewhere. This is a very vulgar way of speaking, a kind of a informal, rude way of speaking, but we do use this phrase, I use this phrase, and it just means something like this. If I say I slept like crap, it means I did not sleep very well. If I said I feel like crap, it means I don't feel very well at all. By the way, you'll have to look up what crap means. It's similar to the S-H-I-T word that I don't like to use, but I think it's just become an informal way to say something wasn't very good, like, oh, that car runs like crap, or I slept like crap, or I feel like crap.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase piece of crap. This is used to describe something that isn't working well or that breaks all the time. You could say, "Joe bought a car, but it's a piece of crap. It's rusty. The engine doesn't run very well. It drips oil whenever he parks it somewhere. It's just a piece of crap." You could say that, "Fred bought a used guitar for $50, and it's a piece of crap. It's not very well made. He should have spent a bit more money for a better guitar."

So again, informal phrases not to be used, but you should recognize them. When something is described as being like crap, it just means it's not very good, and when you say something is a piece of crap, it means it is not very good at all. It's a very negative, negative phrase.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. Let me find the comment here. This comment is from Tara or Tara. There's two pronunciations of that name. "You messed up with this lesson because the sound was bad, but the lesson itself was as great as always. Thank you." And I responded by saying, "Yeah, sorry about that. The sound was very distracting."

So in both ways, and oh, thanks Tara, in the last video, the sound was distracting for a couple reasons. One is it was windy, so the mic didn't necessarily pick up the audio very good, and then it was, I just have to do this so Mohd can see the sunflowers and then also the car noise. The traffic noise was very, very distracting for me.

By the way, in the last video Mohd asked if the sunflowers were blooming and they indeed are. It is definitely that time of year here. But it's interesting in the field, there aren't very many sunflowers because we pick them and then all you see is little stems with the flower removed. But I'll show you that sometime as well, sometimes as well.

But yeah, the traffic noise was distracting. I'm back here on the farm making a video now. It's a lot more peaceful here as you can see. It has been though a strange year. I've complained about the rain too much, but it just won't stop. It's actually starting to damage crops a lot. We have certain flowers we just can't harvest because they're just dying from mildew or you know, fungus, all that kind of stuff loves the cold, wet weather. It's actually not that cold, but it's cold and damp at night and I just think it's not a good year, but we're getting through it.

I mean, we grow sometimes more than we need and we do have a wide variety. Sometimes when you diversify, when you have a wide variety of things, then it's easier to keep going and keep selling. So we do have some flowers that love wet weather, not very many, so that helps

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO MESS UP and TO MESS AROUND

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, "to mess up." When you mess up, it simply means that you've made a mistake. Sometimes I mess up when I'm driving. Just the other day, I was driving to see my brother-in-law and I messed up. I forgot to get off the highway at the proper exit. I messed up. I made a mistake. Sometimes people do this when they're at work. Sometimes the boss gives them a job and they do it wrong. They mess up and then the boss is really, really annoyed, especially if it made the company lose money. So when you mess up, it simply means to make a mistake.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today, is the phrase "to mess around." By the way, I hope you can hear me today. It's rather loud out here. When you mess around with something, now this has a number of different meanings, but when you mess around with something, it means you change the settings or you move things. Sometimes my kids mess around with the thermostat in my house. They think the house is too cold or too warm and so they mess around with the thermostat. I don't like it when they mess around with the thermostat. I like it when they just leave it where it is.

So to review, hello, to review, to mess up means to make a mistake. Sometimes when you're driving, you mess up, and hopefully you don't mess up too bad and cause an accident. And to mess around has a lot of meanings. The one I'm focusing on today, means to change something, touch something, like a camera. Sometimes my camera doesn't work right and I think, does someone mess around with this? It's not working the way it's supposed to.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from SG. "You two have taken the bored out of the learning journey with your wonderful teaching style." And my response, "That's the plan. Make lessons that are as entertaining as they are educational."

So SG is referring to the fact that Brent was down for a few days and that was a wonderful time. I did really enjoy making videos with another English teacher. So Brent, if you're watching, thanks again for coming. It was a lot of fun. And thanks for helping me make so much content, it's pretty cool.

Anyways, I'm out here by the highway. Hopefully the audio is okay today, because it's a little bit windy and that messes with the microphone. So sorry about that. I came out here because, I sometimes come here to remind myself that even though there are some things about living in the country that I don't like, like I don't like that I can't get pizza delivered to my house, there are things that make it wonderful. Like, my drive to work every day is about 11 minutes long. Whereas for some of these people, their drive to work might take forever, especially if there's a traffic jam or something else slowing them down.

That's the second person. I don't know if you heard that, that was the second person honking and there's now another person honking. I think people enjoy it when they see someone videotaping, and they like to, or maybe they're trying to mess up my video by honking. I'm not a hundred percent sure

 Anyways, it's always a good reminder that I live in a place where there is no traffic. So even though sometimes at night the power goes out, actually that doesn't happen very often. I'm having trouble thinking of good examples. There are down, oh, I'm trying, I can't even remember the right word. There are drawbacks to living in the country and when I co

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases IT'S BEEN A BLAST and I HAD A BLAST

- In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the phrase, it's been a blast. I am Bob the Canadian, and I call myself Bob the Canadian, because I'm Bob and I'm Can, and I'm, and I'm Canadian. I just wanted to pretend I was you for a second.

- Who am I then?

- You're just some little small YouTuber named Brent.

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- Oh yeah. I'm just, I'm Brent. So anyways, it's been a blast.

- Yeah, it's been a blast. And I would like to talk about my time here, as it's been a blast. That's another way to say you have had a lot of fun. We got a lot of work done.

- We did. We had fun.

- But when you're having fun, it doesn't feel like work.

- Exactly. Is there another phrase I should teach?

- Yes, but it's upside down.

- Or are you Bob? Let me see if I can do this. I also wanted to teach you the phrase, I had a blast! Which means the same thing as, it's been a blast, but we think it's used equally as much. So I would say the same thing. I had a blast or it's been a blast. Both work. It's been a fun two days. I think we maybe packed too much in to two days. Maybe we worked too much and we should have played more. Although, you know, if you only have two days to get stuff done, you might as well get stuff done. As I said to Brent earlier, you're going home at some point. Let's get as many things done for everyone out there as we possibly can, so.

- Can I teach a third phrase? This is the first time.

- Yeah, absolutely.

- Yeah, you go.

- This has never been done before. Okay. And it has nothing to do with blast, but I don't want to overstay my welcome.

- Ah, yes.

- So if you overstay your welcome, that means you've been invited somewhere, but you stay longer than the host wants you to stay.

- Yeah. I do that to people sometimes.

- I don't wanna overstay my welcome. I wanna still get out while Bob likes me.

- Yeah and I do still like him. It's no problem. Should we review?

- Sure.

- So you're gonna do, it's been a blast.

- All right. We just learned it's been a blast. It's another way to say that you've had a lot of fun.

- And I did the phrase, I had a blast, which is just a kind of a more personal way to say that you had a lot of fun. So we had a blast. I had a blast. It's been a blast. But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This is from two videos ago. So I'm gonna stand a little closer to Brent, 'cause the comment has to go on the screen somewhere, but he's gonna read it.

- Okay. Can I pretend I'm Bob the Canadian again?

- Yeah, go ahead.

- I'll say it with a Canadian accent, which is kind of like my accent. So this comment is from Mohd Ags, and he says, this lesson looked kind of familiar to me because Brent, my man, it's another way to say a good friend, Brent, my man, once did an English lesson at a used car lot. And I'm leaving this comment to thank him. But also I'm thinking ahead of time here, because I know you two are going to meet very soon.

- Yeah, so this is from a few days ago.

- So if you're planning on doing a short l

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases UP AND AROUND and TO GO AROUND IN CIRCLES

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase up and around. This is a phrase that we use after someone has maybe been sick or in the hospital, maybe they've had surgery, and when they are starting to feel better, eventually, they will be up and around. So you might say to someone, "Oh, so Uncle Joe was in the hospital. How long before he'll be up and around?" It's similar to saying, "When will he be back on his feet?" That's another English phrase. So if you know someone who was in the hospital or someone who was just sick for a while, you could inquire and say, "When will they be up and around?" When will they be feeling better enough to walk around and start to do things?

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase to go around in circles. Now, there's many variations on this. You can run around in circles, you can go around in circles but it basically means that you're talking about something and you're never reaching a conclusion. You're just going around in circles. So maybe someone at work suggests that you do something a different way and someone else disagrees and everyone talks about it for an hour. Eventually you might say, "Hey, we need to stop going around in circles. We're not solving anything here. We need to come up with a solution as soon as possible."

So to review, up and around means to be feeling better. It's similar to being back on your feet. If you're sick, then eventually, you will be up and around and feeling better. And to go around in circles means to discuss something meaninglessly for a long time and to get a little bit frustrated.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is in my pocket. By the way, I'm using a different microphone so I can back way up here and you should be able to still hear me as easily as if I was standing right up here by my phone. We'll see when I go back in whether that worked. This comment is from Ünsal. "Hi, in one part of the video, you say, 'Jen and I hope that our van lasts a long time.' What other verb or verbs can be used instead of the verb last in this sentence? Thank you so much. You're welcome." My reply, that's the only way I can think of saying it. Often when you buy something, you hope it lasts a long time.

So yeah, I bought a new microphone. Part of it is here. The other part is stuck to my phone. I can't show you that part but I hope this microphone lasts a long time. Thanks Ünsal for the comment by the way. I hope that this microphone lasts a long time.

I hope that my van lasts a long time. This is a 2008 Uplander, I think it is. I hope it lasts a long time, but we'll see. It's not on its last legs yet. It still seems to be working quite well. And then my red van over there, it's a 2012 Dodge Caravan. I hope it lasts a long time too. We'll see though. You can see I lost another hubcap. I'm a little annoyed by that, that I lost that hubcap.

Sorry, I'm not sure where I was going there. Oh, I was going to walk this way. It rained last night. It rained a lot. So we've gotten, let's see, 10 centimeters of rain, four inches of rain over the last two days. That's a lot of rain. That's way too much rain. There's water everywhere but I wanted to show you the problem we have because of this guy. Walter decided that the rain gauge would be a great thing to chew on. So our rain gauge only goes up to 2.5 inches or six centimeters now. So we had to ask the neighbor how much rain they got so that

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases A NICE SET OF WHEELS and ALL SET

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase “a nice set of wheels”. Sometimes we even say “a new set of wheels”, and this simply means a car or another type of vehicle. Sometimes you drive a car and eventually you need to buy a new one, and so you might say to someone, I need a new set of wheels. You can see I'm in front of a car dealership. I thought this would be a great place to teach this phrase. You might say to someone, I need a new set of wheels, and then you might go buy that new car. And then when your friend sees it, they might say, Oh, that is a nice set of wheels. So again, we often almost always use the word nice or new with this phrase. Either you need to get a new set of wheels or someone sees the car you bought and says, Wow, nice set of wheels.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase “all set”. When you're all set, it simply means you're ready. This morning, I was getting ready to bring one of my kids to work, and so I got my camera and I got my phrases and I got my comment. And then when my kids said, Are you ready to go? I said, I'm all set. This simply means that I was ready. I had everything I needed in order to leave the house and be able to do an English lesson out here in front of this car dealership.

So to review, here we go. “A nice set of wheels” or “a new set of wheels” refers to a car or other vehicle, a van or truck that's really nice. Jen And I hope that our van lasts a long time. We hope that both our vans last a long time because we're not ready to buy another set of wheels anytime soon. And the phrase “all set” simply means to be ready. It's important in the morning that you are all set before you leave for school or before you leave for work. It's a nice feeling when you're all set and you're prepared and ready to do something.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Mohamed. You have a good yard to start beekeeping. Why don't you do that? It is just a suggestion. And my response? There are only so many things that we have time for in a day. Maybe someday if one of our kids wants to help farm with us when they are older, they can take up beekeeping.

So yeah, we do have a nice property for beekeeping. If you think about it, there are lots of flowers on our property, so that's one cool thing. The other thing is there's lots of room for the bees to roam, so they would certainly have a great home. But again, there's only so much you can do in a day. There's only so much time in the day and at the end of the day we don't have enough time to have bees. So beekeeping is something that maybe one of our kids will do in the future.

So let me give you a better view here. This is what we call a car dealership in Canada. I usually don't buy my cars from a car dealership. Usually you come to a car dealership if you want to buy a brand new car. And as you know, I usually buy used cars. I usually buy cars used from one of my local mechanics. They usually have a few cars for sale in front of the garage where they fix cars. But I was driving by this the other day and I thought this would be a great place to make an English lesson about the phrase a nice set of wheels. So there's definitely a lot of really nice cars in this parking lot.

I think this car here oh, this is actually a used car. It's a 2016. I think this car here would be a little small for Jen and I. I think we always we always buy vehicles that will hold all of our kids. It's important, I think, t

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases ON TOP OF THAT and TO TOP IT ALL OFF

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, "On top of that". This is a phrase we use when we're talking about something that's in addition to something else. I could say this, "That I have to renew my license, and on top of that, I have to renew my license plates." So I've mentioned one thing and then I've mentioned another thing that I have to do. I could say this as well, "I have to go to market today, and on top of that, I have to go and pick up one of my kids later." So it's when you're talking about one thing and then there's another thing that also needs to happen. So, I have to make this video, and on top of that, I have to go in and edit the video.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase, "To top it all off." This is similar but this is the phrase we use just before mentioning the last thing, usually a bad thing. Here's a really good example. I could say this, "I was driving home with my car and I got a flat tire, and then after I got it fixed, to top it all off, I ended up running out of gas." So, I mentioned one thing, and then a really bad final thing. You could say this, you could say, "I'm scheduled to take an English test. And when I went to take the English test, I failed the test. And to top it all off, I'm not allowed to take the test again for three months." I don't know why that would be but maybe there's some sort of restriction. So, it's when you mention something that's kind of bad after mentioning something else that's a little bit bad.

So to review, when you say, "On top of that" you're adding to a list of things that you're doing. You know, I have to make this video, and on top of that, I have to go to market today. So I'm mentioning two things I need to do, neither positive or negative. But when we use the phrase "To top it all off" we're usually talking about one negative thing that happened at the end of some other bad things. You know, I went to work today and students were really mean to me, and to top it all off, my family was mean to me when I came home. By the way, neither of those things actually happened.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. I do have my comment today, not like the other day when I was doing the lesson at the spur of the moment. Here we go from Dmitry. "Hey Mr. Bob, thanks for the lesson. By the way, can we use squeeze in, in terms of taking a seat between two people that sit really tight? I hope you understand what I meant. Have a great day." And my response, yes, you can. That is another way to use it. Sometimes on the bus you have to squeeze in between two people. Great example, Dmitry . So, this is from the previous lesson where I talked about squeeze in and squeeze out, and those are both... Sorry, and that was another good additional meaning of squeeze in.

So, as you can see, I'm back at home and I'm making a video at home for a change. I have been making videos out and about. I will do more of those as I am out and about a lot right now, but today is, kind of, a little bit of a crazy day. I make this video on a Thursday, it's also market day. So it feels... It's also the day where I speak with my French speaking partner. So, I feel like I'm squeezing in a lot of stuff today. If I could use the phrase again. So, it's kind of silly that I make this video today. It does fit. I mean, I'm not rushed or anything like that, but I think maybe I should make this video late in the day on Wednesday, because on Wednesdays I have lots of time right now.

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO SQUEEZE IN and TO SQUEEZE OUT

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase “to squeeze in”. Right now I am squeezing in an English lesson. I have just finished bringing one of my kids to work and I finished going for a walk. I actually ran a little bit too. And I have just a minute or two before I have to be somewhere else, so I thought I would squeeze in an English lesson. When you say “squeeze in”, it means you do something in that little bit of time between when one thing ends and something else begins. Sometimes you just have a little bit of time and you can squeeze in an English lesson. Maybe you can squeeze in a level on Duolingo. Sometimes I do that because I'm trying to redo the French tree on Duolingo, so I try to squeeze it in. So to squeeze in to kind of do something between two other things.

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And the other phrase I wanted to teach you is the phrase “to squeeze out” when you squeeze something out. It's the same as squeezing something, but obviously something comes out. If you have an orange, you can squeeze out the juice. When you have a tube of toothpaste, you can squeeze out the toothpaste. So “to squeeze out”, to have stuff come out of something.

So to review when you squeeze something in, it means you do it between one thing and another. And it usually implies that you don't have a lot of time to do it. I have just enough time to squeeze in an English lesson. And to squeeze out means to, you know, press on something so whatever is inside comes out.

So anyways, I don't have my papers with me. You might have noticed that. And I don't have a comment with me either, because I'm squeezing this lesson in kind of spur of the moment. I was here, I had a little bit of time. I didn't bring my paper with and I didn't bring a comment with. So let me say a few things. Number one, I love it when you guys leave comments. I'm happy that now I have time to respond to most, if not all of them. That is something I like to do, but as the school year was busy last spring, that was getting harder and harder to do. So I'm happy that I can do that again.

So what am I doing? I'm at my local park. As I said, I brought one of my kids to work. I went for a walk / run. Sometimes I run a little bit now. It's hard on this 52 year old body, but I do do it.

Oh, did I just reveal something? Maybe I did.

Anyways, I was here going for a walk / run and I had my new phone with me. So my old phone died. My old phone, the battery started to grow and the case started to get bigger. Not very nice at all. Very dangerous as well. My son said, “Dad, that could start a fire! Make sure that it's not heating up. Don't charge it any more. And you need to get a new phone.” So I got a new phone. I thought I could get my phone fixed, but they could fix it at the repair shop, but they can't get the battery for it. So I bought a new phone. So this is me trying out my new phone as well to see how well it works.

It's not windy out here, but it's very, very sunny. So I'm curious to see how well this phone does recording a video with me just walking around at my local park. I hope it does a good job. I hope when I get home I'm happy. I don't have like something to hold the phone on. That's why you... when I switch, you see my hand kind of come in on the camera lens there a little bit. So if I do use this phone for making the videos on this channel, I might actually go home. I do have a little like phone holder with a handle that I could use, so maybe I'll do that.

Anyways. What time i

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases JUST HAPPEN TO and IT HAPPENS TO THE BEST OF US

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase “just happen to”. This is something you say if you just happen to have something. I'm having trouble thinking about how to describe this term without using this term. Let me give you some examples and that might help. Let's say you said, hey, I need to open this box. Do you have a knife? I could say, hey, I just happen to have one, reach into my pocket and pull out a small jackknife. Let's say that you were walking and it started to rain and you said, Oh, no, we're going to get wet. I could say, Oh, don't worry, I just happen to have an umbrella. So anyways, when you use this phrase, it's like kind of you need something and it's a surprise that you have it or someone else happens to have it. You just happen to have what somebody needs.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is: “It happens to the best of us.” So when something bad happens to someone, let's say someone twists their ankle and they feel dumb because it was their own fault, they they turned really fast while walking. In order to make them feel better about it you might say, Hey, it happens to the best of us. Basically saying, you're not silly. It's not a dumb thing that happened to you. It could have happened to anybody. It happens to the best of us.

So to review, when you just happen to have something or you just happen to... Yeah. When you just happen to have something, it's like someone needed something and you're like, Hey, I just happen to have one right here. And when you say, “It happens to the best of us”, you're simply saying that if something silly or bad or dumb happens to you, don't don't worry about it. Don't feel bad. It happens to everybody. It's just something that's normal when you're a human being.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Tara or Tara. I have never thought that grapes can be grown in Canada. I thought the climate is too cold out there. Beautiful scenery. It reminds me of Crimea with all the vineyards. Thanks for the lesson. And my response: There are three places in Canada where you can grow grapes. I just happen to live close to one of them. So thank you, Tara, for that comment.

Yeah, there's another grape growing area out in the province of British Columbia, and there is a grape growing area in eastern Canada, I think in the province of Nova Scotia. And there's one in Ontario, and I just happen to live close to it.

Anyways, I'm in a small Ontario town right now. I'm actually parked in the parking lot of what's the grocery store in this town. It's called No Frills. It's the kind of grocery store where the food is really cheap. When you say no frills in English, it means that there's nothing extra, there's nothing special. They don't have. I think you even have to, like, put a quarter into the handle of the shopping cart in order to use a shopping cart so that you make sure you remember to bring it back.

What else is here? Just a couple of small stores, a little cafe. Across the road, though. There's a small bakery and those... that bakery makes really good donuts. Sorry, I was already starting the sentence. Those donuts from that bakery are amazing. They're very, very tasty. They make them in an old, traditional Dutch way. I think the people who started the bakery were originally from Holland, so it is a really nice place to get donuts. In fact, I think I might get donuts there to celebrate my birthday. Or maybe I already did get d

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO NOT SIT WELL WITH and SIT BACK AND ENJOY!

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase “to not sit well with”. And we almost always use this... I think we always use this in the negative. When something doesn't sit well with you, it means you don't like it. Maybe your boss says that you have to work Saturday and that just doesn't sit well with you. That means that you're not excited about working on Saturday. You're kind of a little bit annoyed even. Sometimes the government will make a new law, and the law does not sit well with people. People get angry and they protest because they don't like the new law. So when something does not sit well with you, it means you don't like it. You're not happy about it and you're kind of annoyed about it.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase “to sit back and enjoy”, or this is actually the imperative form, “Sit back and enjoy!” I guess I'm telling you what to do when I say it this way. Sometimes when you're at an event, people will say, Hey, sit back and enjoy. When you sit, you relax. When you sit back, you relax even more. So if there was a nice chair, I could sit in that chair and I could sit back and enjoy a TV show. I could sit back and enjoy a YouTube video, I could put some headphones on and just sit back and enjoy some music.

So to review, “to not sit well with” when something doesn't sit well with you, it means you don't like it. You don't like it at all. And if someone says sit back and enjoy, they mean that it's time for you to relax and just enjoy life a little bit or enjoy whatever's happening in that moment.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Denis. Bob, do you pay your friends from France for speaking practice? And my response, I have a friend who is learning and practicing English. We spend 30 minutes speaking French and then 30 minutes speaking English. It is a great exchange. We've been doing it for over three years.

So no, I do not pay for my French practice lessons, my speaking practice lessons, and it is wonderful - probably the best way to get some experience, to get some practice speaking a language is to find someone who wants to learn your language. I have an advantage because many people in the world want to learn English and many people in the world want to learn French. So I kind of trade. I trade my English speaking skills for my friend's French speaking skills, and we help each other. It also helps a lot because we're both teachers and specifically we're both teachers of languages, so we know how to teach each other well. And we started talking during the pandemic and we've continued since then.

So where am I today? I'm in a vineyard. I don't know if I've ever shown you this, but in the area where I live. So if you look behind me, there is a big what's called an escarpment. And then on the other side of me, sorry, there was a fly on me there, a deer fly, far in the distance is the lake. And what happens in this area is that it's a certain temperature. It's always a little warmer than the rest of the area I live in. So they can grow grapes in this area.

If we look over here, let spin you around, you'll see that there are vines in the vineyard and they are growing lots and lots of grapes. I think these grapes are for wine. I don't know if I ever told you that. Close to my house. There's something called wine country. And so here I am out in wine country. Why am I here? One of my kids has a job near here, so I thought this would be a fu

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases NO NEED TO and TO NEED TO GO

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, No need to. This is just a quick way to start a sentence that we would normally start by saying, “There is no need to.” But often in English, in spoken English, we'll say “No need to...” instead. Maybe you're going to a party and you say, Hey, should I bring some food? The person might respond and say, No need to bring food. There will be lots. Maybe... Let me think of another example. Let's say my brother was coming over to help me do some weeding. The weeds are growing really fast here on the farm. If it rained or if it's raining, I might text him and say, No need to come over today. It's too wet to work outside. So again, it's just a short form of the phrase, “There is no need to... ” or “There's no need to...” but often in spoken English or when we text, Sorry, the geese are honking. We say, “No need to...” just to shorten things up a bit.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase Sorry, there's something crawling on me. There's lots of bugs too, is the phrase, “to need to go”. Now, this can simply mean that you have to do something. You can say, I need to go to the store. But the meaning I wanted to teach you today is the meaning that refers to having to go to the bathroom. Let's say you really need to go pee. You might say to someone, Can we stop the car at the next rest stop because I need to go. When we were driving, when we were younger and our kids were younger, sometimes one of our kids in the back of the van would say, Can we stop? I need to go. And what they meant is that they needed to go to the bathroom. So it's a very nice way of saying that you need to use the washroom or you need to go to the bathroom.

So to review, “No need to...” simply means, “There is no need to... ” No need to watch this video twice, if you understand it the first time. And the phrase, “to need to go” can simply mean that you have to go somewhere. But we also use it to mean that you need to go to the bathroom.

Hey, let's look at a comment from I'm not sure why I did that little dance. I think that's what little kids do when they need to go, anyways. Let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Brenno. Hi, Bob. Thanks as usual. We always have more than enough knowledge with you to go around. Enough said. Have a good weekend. My response? Thanks. You too. Yes, Brenno, I hope you have a good week. And that was an excellent use of both phrases from the previous video. Good job.

Well, hey, I don't have a lot to talk about today. I am out here. It's a nice sunny day. You'll see that in a moment as I walk into the sun. I got up really early. I went for a walk. The only thing I would say is I have actually started to be a little bit bored. This is the fourth day of my summer vacation. And I mentioned to Jen the other day that somewhere around four or 5:00, all of a sudden, I was a little bit bored.

It's rare for me to be bored. So that was something new and it's a good thing. When I'm bored then new ideas come to me. When I'm bored, I start to think of new ways to teach English in particular. And I have some ideas that I've been mulling over in my head for ways that I can make new videos or little posts I can do on my community tab and those kinds of things. So yes. Bob, the Canadian, after months of being a little bit too busy, was actually bored for just a little bit.

But I won't be bored later today because it is actually market day. We're loading the red van, we’ll b

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases ENOUGH SAID! and ENOUGH TO GO AROUND

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, Enough said. This is a phrase we use when we're done talking about something, and it's time to actually do the work or do something. When Jen and I talk about what we're going to work on, on the farm each day in the morning. Eventually one of us might say, okay, enough said. Let's get to work. It can also be something you say towards the end of an argument. Maybe you're having an argument with someone and you finally just say, Look, enough said. I don't think we're going to agree on this. So it simply means that the time for talking is over in that situation. And it's time to either do the work or maybe just stop talking about what you're talking about. Enough said.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase enough to go around. So this simply means that you have as much as you need so everyone gets something. When I go to a party, sometimes I bring food and when I get there, they might say, Oh, you didn't need to bring food. We had enough to go around. So it means the same as enough, but it also implies that you are sharing. My sister's having a birthday in a few weeks and she said she's having a party and we should come over. And I said, Should we bring some food with us? And she said, No, no, I'll have enough to go around. This simply means that she's going to buy all the food. She's going to prepare it. We do not need to bring anything because there will be enough to go around. Again, it just means the same as enough. But it also means that you are sharing with more than one person.

Anyways, to review when you say enough said, it means that the discussion is over or it's time to get to work. And when you say there is enough to go around, it means that you have enough so everyone gets something. If you buy 12 donuts and there are 12 people, you have enough to go around.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Irina. Thank you dear teacher, Bob, for your amazing lessons. Have a great day. And my response? Thank you. I hope you have a great day, too.

So I wanted to use that comment because I do pick all different types of comments and sometimes I do like to just pick the one that says thank you and have a good day and I like to focus on the “Have a good day!” part of it. It's nice when people say, Have a good day. It's nice when people are positive. So thank you Irina for that comment. Thank you for being a positive person. I appreciate that. That is what teaching English for me is all about, me being positive and people who are watching the lessons also being very positive about life. There's no reason to be annoyed about anything. It's good to just be happy.

Having said that, I was going to do the lesson today on the phrase Enough already! and Enough is enough! because it's been raining here a lot and I'm at the point where I want to say enough is enough. We have received since Let me see, the last video you watched was last Friday. Since last Friday, we have received three and a half inches of rain. That's a lot of rain. That's too much rain. I was outside saying enough is enough. I was yelling at the sky this morning. Not really, but kind of in a joking way. But it has just been raining and raining and raining. I think now the sun might come out in a little bit.

Let me check my time here. Oh, I have 30 seconds. The sun might come out in a little bit and that would be really nice. We like the soil can't take this much rain. It

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO SEE FOR YOURSELF and TO BE FULL OF YOURSELF

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, "to see for yourself". When you need to see for yourself it means someone has told you something and you might believe them or you might doubt them, but you want to try or experience what they've told you for your yourself. You want to do it. If someone said to me, "Hey, skydiving is the most exciting thing you could do in life." I would say, "You know, I'm going to have to see for myself." Of course, I have to change yourself to myself because I'm talking about me. I would say I'm going to have to see for myself. That means that I want to do it. I want to go and do that activity so I can form my own opinion of it. Maybe someone says to you, "Hey, you should go see the latest "Spider-Man" movie. It's the best Spider-Man" movie ever!" You might say, "Hey, you know what? I'll go, but I'm going to have to see for myself." I want to experience the movie and then I'll decide if it's the best one.

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The second phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase, "to be full of yourself". When we say that you are full of yourself we mean that the person we are talking to is arrogant. If I was to say, and I'm gonna switch from your self to myself and himself, but if I was to say "I am the best YouTuber in the whole world," you would say, "You know, Bob's really full of himself." So yes, I have to change the yourself to himself, basically meaning Bob's really arrogant. He's not the best YouTuber in the whole world. By the way, I don't think that at all. I am not full of myself. Yeah, I had to change the yourself to myself. Sorry, I do have to flip these phrases around so they make sense.

So to review, to see for yourself means that you want to do something yourself in order to determine whether you think it is a certain way or not. And to be full of yourself simply means to think you're the most amazing person. It means to be really, really arrogant.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from, I believe it just says user. I liked it better when I could see the names, but the comment is, "You can check the weather forecast on your phone, although sometimes it may not be accurate." In my response, "Yes, you have to look at your phone and the horizon and then you'll get a better sense of what is coming."

So we do rely on weather forecasts here, and you're right often they are wrong, but usually they're somewhat accurate. Accurate enough for us to prepare if we think it's going to rain. But sometimes it's simply better to look at the horizon. Now, interestingly enough, if you look at the horizon here I'm not sure how well you can see it, but we are now under a smoke alert again, a smoke advisory. So it is smokey here again, there are fires to the north of us and the wind is coming from the north, so you can smell a campfire smell in the air. And we're told not to do vigorous activity outside right now. So I'll be at market later today. I'll just try not to sell flowers vigorously. But we do have to sell the flowers, so hopefully the smoke is not too bad.

And by the way, I used the word alert and Noriko and Aleksey were talking about the word alert in the comments from the last video. You can get an alert on your phone and it can mean the same as a notification. But right now there is a smoke alert right now. They're sometimes are weather alerts and those are a little more serious. There's a fly on the lens. Okay, Mr. Fly, don't land on the lens. I'm trying to teach

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English terms BINGE-WORTHY and PAGE-TURNER

In this rainy day English lesson I'd like to help you learn the English term binge-worthy. This is a term we use to describe a TV show that's so amazing, you watch episode after episode until you've watched a whole season, maybe in one night or one weekend, maybe there's eight episodes in a season and you watch them all on one night. One Saturday night you sit down and watch all of them. We would certainly say that that show is binge-worthy. It's worth binging. Binging is when you, when you binge on food you eat a whole bunch of food at once. When you binge on a TV show, you watch a whole bunch of it at the same time, or one after another. So if there is a TV show that you love and you have it on a streaming service where you can watch one episode after another, we would say it is binge-worthy. And you might even tell a friend, "Oh you should watch this show, it's binge-worthy."

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The other term I wanted to teach you today is the term page-turner. We use this to refer to a book that's really, really good. If you are reading a book and it's so good, you're just turning pages one after the other as quickly as possible and reading as fast as you can, we say that it is a page-turner.

So to review, if you're watching a TV show and when you're done watching one episode you click play to watch the next one right away, we would probably say that that show is binge-worthy. And if you're reading a book and you can't put it down, you are just reading it as fast as you can, we say that it is a page-turner.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. Oh, it's stuck in my pocket. The papers are a little wet 'cause it is raining a bit right now. This comment is from Daniel. "I really like to shop online because oftentimes prices hit rock bottom and I'm able to buy many things I need. Thanks for the lesson teacher Bob." And my response, "I like getting an email alert when something is on sale."

So yes, it is fun to shop online. You can often get really, really low prices, and sometimes I will sign up on a website, on a shopping website and say "Hey, send me an email when this particular item goes on sale." So thanks for the comment, Daniel.

I want to show you that I've been sitting in the house waiting for the rain to stop. Once again, I have on my rubber boots. So you can see here that the driveway has a lot of puddles. You can probably also see maybe a little bit that it's wet out here. Probably better if we look over here. You can hear me splashing through the puddles but you can actually see the water running down the driveway a little bit here, it is awesome. We have had a few days of rain here. We've actually had enough at this point. If it was to stop raining, I would be fine with that, but we weren't expecting this little extra bonus rain. We had already received some rain yesterday. We received some rain this past Saturday. And so this is, I would just call this bonus rain, the soil still had the ability to absorb this rain so it's not like we've had too much.

And if the sun wanted to come out now that would be awesome and fine with me. But once again, as a farmer, you can't really predict these. I think the sun's coming out right now. Oh, well look at that. I can't really shine my camera up there but there's just a small hole in the cloud and the sun came out. I guess maybe I can command the weather now. No, I'm just kidding, I can't do that. Anyways, nice big puddles. Everything is very, very happy. Flowers and crops are going to grow well over the next

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases ROCK BOTTOM and SOLID AS A ROCK

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, rock bottom. Now, when we talk about someone's life, and if we say that they've hit rock bottom, it's kind of a sad thing. It usually means they're out of money and maybe they've lost their job and they don't know what to do next. They don't have anything to use to buy food and they don't know how to earn a living. Sometimes we'll say that they've hit rock bottom. Sometimes when we talk about someone whose life has gone kind of off the rails, we would say maybe they're doing drugs or something that's just ruining their life and at a certain point they might hit rock bottom. That would be the point in their life where they just aren't doing anything healthy anymore. They've hit rock bottom. This does have a bit of a positive meaning as well. You can talk about prices when they hit rock bottom, that's good for you at a store. If you could say, this store has rock bottom prices, that means you can buy things there really, really cheap.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase solid as a rock. When something is solid as a rock it's just that, it's immovable. If I was to lift weights all summer my muscles would get really big and they'd be very firm and you could say, Bob is solid as a rock. Maybe you are, let me see, maybe you're buying something like a wheelbarrow for your garden and the wheelbarrow is made out of metal. You still might say, yep, this thing is solid as a rock. That means it's well built and it will last a very long time.

So to review, when someone hits rock bottom it means they're at the worst part of their life, not a nice time for them. And when you say something is solid as a rock, it means that it's built well or that it's just, well here's an example, this tree right here is solid as a rock. It's a very solid tree, solid as a rock.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Abdula. Now they changed how names work on YouTube, so it gives me a very long name with numbers at the end. So hopefully from this point on, I say names right. Thanks Bob, it's really useful. What is the meaning of off-white? And my response, it means that something is white but has a tiny shade of another color in it.

We often use the term off-white. Thanks for the comment by the way, Abdula, we often use the term off-white to talk about paint in a house. When Jen and I paint a room, sometimes we'll paint it off white and it'll have a little shade of blue in it, a little tint of blue, or we'll paint something off-white and it has a little bit of gray in it. So it's very difficult to have pure white in the flower world. Sorry, I've switched subjects here slightly. Jen and I grow a number of white flowers, but most of them are off-white. So when someone calls and says can I have a bunch of white flowers? We usually say we have some off-white, towards green. We have some off-white with a tinge of pink in it or a tinge or a shade of pink in it. We have off-white that has just a little bit of purple in it, so it's very difficult to find pure white in the natural world. I think almost everything is off-white to some degree.

Anyways, I'm just walking out here in the shade, trying to get outta the wind again. I feel like I'm always trying to get outta the wind. It's a very nice day. It's a Thursday right now. I'm just wrapping up this lesson and I'm going to be heading off to market. Jen is already there with one of my kids selling flowers and I had a few thing

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English terms TLC and IT

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the acronym TLC. In English, if you say something needs some TLC, it means it needs some tender loving care. Tender loving care. We never actually say tender loving care, though. We use this to talk about, maybe, if you buy something old that just needs some rust removed, you might say, "Oh, it just needs some TLC." Maybe you buy something at a thrift store or at a garage sale. You buy something used, and you just need to fix a few little things on it. You would say, "Oh, it just needs some TLC." It just needs some tender loving care, and then it will be just like new again, and ready to make me happy.

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The other short acronym I wanted to teach you today is IT. In English, when we say IT, we mean information technology. It means computers, and networks, and all of that digital stuff. If you say, "Oh, my cousin works in IT." You know, I really should have put, like a period after the I and the T, that would've been a good thing to do, 'cause we normally do that, and it means information technology. "My cousin works in IT," that means that your cousin works with computers. Maybe they set up computers, or they write programs for computers, or they connect computers together with networking. They work in IT, information technology.

So to review, TLC means some tender loving care. When you give something some tender loving care it's ready to use again. I'm trying to think. I bought an old piece of farm equipment once, and it just needed some TLC. It needed a new tire, I needed to fix where it connects to the tractor a little bit, and I sanded it, I sanded the metal and put some new paint on, I gave it a little bit of TLC, and it was as good as new. And IT, remember, there should actually be a period after the I and T, simply means information technology, the world of computers, and all the stuff that goes with it.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This is from Aleksey. "Film an English lesson first thing in the morning and..." I think that's a Mark Twain quote about a frog. "Do you know that quote from Mark Twain?" Yes, I do. "Seriously though, sir, it looks like you've got too much on your plate again. Take care of yourself, please. Enjoy your morning walk and run." And then, "PS in the Dark Kahn version you are a good kickboxer. Punch! kick, kick, kick, kick, kick. Punch! Bump elbow! Punch! That's the soundtrack stuck in my head. And that 'Slap ah' at the end. And your face!" Yeah, I'll put a link to that music video below for this, underneath this video as well. My response, "There is a certain amount of energy that comes with the end of the school year. I'm harnessing it well. I'll be able to relax quite a bit over the next couple of months, so no worries, but I will for sure take care of myself. PS, that song is still making me laugh."

So a couple of things there. One, I appreciate the concern. Many of you who watch most of my lessons know more about my life as I go through each week, and you know and can sense when I'm busy, and when I'm less busy. And yes, I am pretty busy right now. It's the last two weeks of the school year, this is exam week. So my students wrote an exam today, and we're having a bunch of retirement parties at night as well, so there is a busyness, but I am taking really good care of myself right now. I am exercising almost daily. I am walking. I'm eating very, very healthy. And although I am busy, none of it is like, stressful busyness. I hope you know the difference. Like, I'm not so busy that I'm up

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO SCRAPE BY and TO SCRAPE UP

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, to scrape by. Now, when you scrape by it can mean you're talking about money or succeeding at something, but just succeeding by a little bit. Here's a good example. You might say, my cousin doesn't make a lot of money at work, but he has enough money to scrape by. That means he can pay all his bills, but he doesn't have a lot of money left over to do anything fun. That would be kind of disappointing, wouldn't it? It's always nice to have a little extra money. When you just have enough money to scrape by, life isn't as enjoyable. You could also say this, he passed his exam, but he just scraped by. I'm using the past tense now, he just scraped by, that means the person probably got 51% on their exam, so they just did good enough to pass.

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The second phrase I want to teach you today is the phrase to scrape up. When you scrape up, it means you kind of gather stuff. If I was to go to work today and if I didn't bring a lunch, and instead I wanted to bring money, I might have to scrape up some money in the house. I might have to look for some change or look for some bills. I might need to scrape up some money so I have enough. If Jen gets a call from someone and they say, do you have any peonies? And if Jen doesn't have a lot, maybe she has three peonies flowers, but she knows she can go out to the field and scrape up a few more. It means there's hardly anything left. There's hardly any peonies left, but she knows if she goes around and cuts a few, and gets a few out of the cooler, she can scrape up enough to make a bouquet.

So let's review, to scrape by means to just have enough money to live or it means to just succeed at something by a little bit. And to scrape up means to kind of gather together money or some other things.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. If you wonder why I'm laughing, it's because it's really early in the morning here, I just crawled out of bed to make this video. It's early Thursday morning, one of my busiest days of the week, and I got up at 6:00 AM, and it's 6:10 right now. So I probably look, Do I have bags under my eyes? and my hair's a little bit messy. I should have shaved today too, but oh well, I needed to get an English lesson done, so that's the way it goes.

This comment is from Know That. "Hello, Mr. Bob, I noticed that you have switched the side you wear your fitness tracker on. if I'm right, you usually wear it on your left wrist", yes, "But as far as I can remember, you said that you always do this in the summer so that you can get an even tan to avoid a brighter part. Thank you for the new phrases, sir, I wish you a nice day." And my response, that is, correct, I switch it each day so that I don't end up with a white band on my arm, very perceptive of you.

So yes, I do tan a little bit in the summer, and if I wear my fit... I don't know, I probably don't have a white band here now, but I do switch it from arm to arm. Let's see how quickly I can get this put back on. I do switch it from arm to arm, because otherwise I end up with my arm being tanned. And then there's this white area where my Fitbit would be. Now it's not telling me the time. So yes, thank you, Know That, that was very perceptive of you. I do still switch it every day in the summer when I go for my walk in the morning.

And by the way, I have been walking a lot lately. I don't know what's gotten into me, I have started walking and even running a little bit. I'm not a runner. Y

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases OH WELL! and WELL, WELL, WELL!

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, "Oh well!" This is a phrase we use when something happens, but it's not something that we're upset about or angry about. It's something that just happened. I could say this, "I came outside today and it rained and my camera got a little bit wet, but oh well, it's not a big deal." This camera's a little bit waterproof. Maybe I'm doing a job at work and I drop something on the floor, and even if it breaks or something, I could just say, "Oh well," if it's not a big deal. Maybe I dropped something that's old and it was kind of junk anyways. I might say, "Oh well, I dropped that. It's not a big deal." So notice I'm also using the phrase, "It's not a big deal." That's probably a phrase that means the same thing. "Oh well, it rained. It's not a big deal." "Oh, well, my camera got a little bit wet."

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By the way, it rained here. I'm pretty happy about that.

The next phrase I wanted to teach you is the phrase, "Well, well, well." And this is a phrase we sometimes say a little sarcastically when we discover something or when we catch someone doing something. I might walk into a classroom and a student is trying to eat at the back of the room when they're not supposed to be eating. I might say, "Well, well, well. What's going on here? Why are you eating during class?" So it's kind of a way of saying you've just seen something or discovered something. I'm trying to think of another example. When you come home, if you have a dog, when you come home and the dog has eaten your shoe. You might say, "Well, well, well. What's happened here? Who ate my shoe?" So it's kind of a way of just saying that something happened. I think detectives must say this a lot. When they find a clue, they might go, "Well, well, well. What's this on the floor? It looks like the criminal left behind their tools," or, I don't know. I'm not very familiar with how criminals work. I think they have tools, but I'm not sure.

Anyways, to review. When you say, "Oh well," it means something's happened and it's not a big deal. You're not upset or concerned. And when you say, "Well, well, well," it means you've discovered something or you've seen something, and you kind of, before you talk about it, you just say that to indicate that maybe you're surprised a little bit.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Maritza. "So cute, Walter! But I wonder, where is Oscar? I haven't seen him for a long time. I hope he is well. Thank you for another valuable lesson." And my response, "Oscar's doing well, but as always, he is mostly with Jen. He sticks to her all day." You could also say he sticks with her all day. "Walter tends to wander. Oscar is Jen's friend. Walter is everyone's friend."

And that is very true. Walter does bark when people come over, but he's very quickly their friend. He's supposed to be a bit of a guard dog. He's supposed to bark when people come over and protect the property and protect Jen. But very quickly, he just likes to lick people. If people are wearing shorts, he likes to lick their legs, which is kind of strange. But dogs do strange things, right? Oscar, on the other hand, loves being with Jen and is most often just found with Jen.

So I will get some video of the two of them, and I'll overlay it. As I'm talking right now, you can see the peonies, but I'll also just talk a little bit and put a video in here of the two dogs. They are both doing well. Oscar has actually lost a bit

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases YOUR GUESS IS AS GOOD AS MINE and I NEVER WOULD HAVE GUESSED

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase: Your guess is as good as mine. This is something you say when you don't know the answer to something, and the person you're talking to maybe knows the answer maybe doesn't either. We ordered some stuff from Amazon yesterday and it said that the delivery is supposed to come today, but honestly, your guess is as good as mine whether that happens or not, I mean, it might come today. Often when I order something from Amazon, it comes the next day because we live relatively close to Toronto. But whether it actually comes or not, your guess is as good as mine. So when I use that phrase, I'm basically saying I don't really know if it will come today. If you think it's going to come today, you might be right. If you don't think it will come today, you might be right as well. So anyways, your guess is as good as mine.

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The second phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase I never would have guessed. This is something you say when someone tells you something and you didn't know that that was true. If I said to you, I'm only 40 years old, you might look at me and say, Well, I never would have guessed because you look much older. Or if I said to you, I am 60 years old and you think I look a lot younger, you might say, Oh, I never would have guessed. You look so much younger than 60 years old. So it's something you say when someone tells you something and you didn't realize that that was true or that that was a fact.

So to review, Your guess is as good as mine!, is something you say when you don't know whether something will happen and the person you're talking to probably doesn't either. Whether or not it will rain this weekend. Your guess is as good as mine. I hope it does, though. And if you say I never would have guessed, it means that there's a situation that you're: Oh, you didn't actually know that something was true. If I was to say to you something like this, this is Walter right down here. He's huge now. And you might say, Oh, I never would have guessed that he would have grown so fast.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Andres Padrón. There is a utility pole that has an electric transformer in front of your house. Is that the only one... Is that only for your property? It was my first impression because I did not see many cables connected to the transformer. My response? That is correct. The high voltage comes in from the road and is converted for our house, shed and barn.

So, yes, very observant of you. Andres, thanks for that comment. If we look over here, first of all, we'll see this fun dog down here. Say hi, Walter. That's Walter kind of saying hi.

But if we keep walking, you'll see this pole over here. Also, I don't know if you can tell, but it's quite hazy in the distance. The forest fires way up in northern Ontario are actually causing it to smell like smoke here, even though they're hundreds of kilometers away. So right up there, there is a transformer. I think a bird is building a nest in it.

And those cables there, those wires there go to the road. That's where the hydro or electricity comes from. And then this one goes to our barn and it's also connected to our house. So once again, very observant of you, Andres.

But yeah, I'm not sure. I wasn't going to talk about this too much today because it went away earlier this afternoon. But it's back. But it smells like smoke. And you can kind of see sm

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English term FIRST IMPRESSION and the phrase UNDER THE IMPRESSION

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English term first impression. Your first impression is what you think of someone or something the first time you see them or see it. A good example would be this if you were to introduce me to someone in your family. My first impression would probably be that they are a nice person just like you. So however, I think about the person in the first few moments that I meet them would be my first impression. Maybe you want to buy a house and when you walk into a house that you might buy, maybe you're looking at a house, your first impression might be it seems really nice. So a first impression is simply that first, that very first thought that you have about a person or about someone.

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The second phrase I wanted to teach you today is under the impression. And this means that you think something about someone, but you're not sure if it's true or not, but you kind of thought it was. I could say this to you. I was under the impression that you are the oldest in your family. I was under the impression that that guy had worked here for ten years, but he just started last week. I was under the impression that this house was only going to be $250,000, but this house is $400,000. I'm just imagining that I'm looking at a house. My first impression was that the house was really nice, and then I was under the impression that it would be a lot cheaper than it actually is. So I think under the impression you think something, but you might actually be wrong as well.

So to review your first impression is the first thing you think when you first watched one of my videos, I would assume if you're still here, that your first impression was, I think this guy's a pretty nice English teacher. And when you are under the impression it means maybe without facts, you think something about someone or something. So I could say something like, I was under the impression that these videos would be 5 minutes long, but they're only 4 minutes long.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. Let me get it out of my pockets. And this is from Aleksey. I also like to have a free hand. Even if things get out of hand, I can always say that my hands were tied. Pun intended! And my response haha. Great series of phrases there. Aleksey, nice work. So that's from Aleksey Thank you very much.
Good use of a number of different phrases with the word hand in it.

So I can't walk too far today because it's quite windy out. Actually, it's kind of settled down a bit, but what I wanted to show you is we're a little concerned right now. If you look here, you can see that some of the grass in our driveway is starting to turn brown.

The reason this is happening is because it has not rained here for about two and a half weeks. And this is the time of year where we really need rain. Let me show you over here as well. This is very minor, but you can see that the grass in the middle of the driveway and along the edges is starting to turn brown. The grass in those areas is usually the first to go.

That's the first area to turn brown when we're going into what feels a little bit like a drought. I hope we're not entering a drought, but Jen and I have been watering flowers far more than we normally do this time of year. Usually in May and early June we have timely rains. It usually rains every week, but this year looks like it might be a dry year. I don't know for sure how long it will last. There's no rain in the foreca

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO HAVE A FREE HAND and TO HAVE FREE REIN

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, to have a free hand. Now, when you have a free hand, it means you have the freedom to do what you want in a certain situation. My job's really nice, because I have a boss, but when I'm in the classroom, I have a free hand to do pretty much anything I want to, within reason of course. So when you have a free hand, you can do what you want. When you're your own boss, you have a free hand to do whatever you want all the time. Jen is her own boss here on the flower farm, so she has a free hand, she can decide to do things or not do things or do things anyway she wants to.

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The second phrase I wanna teach you today is to have free rein, and this actually means the same thing as to have a free hand, but notice there's no a. So when you have free rein, you can do things any way you want, when you have a free hand, you can do things anyway you want. But the one phrase has this word in it, the letter A, a, and this phrase does not, so you have free rein. I love doing YouTube, because I have free rein to do whatever I want, I don't have a boss telling me what to do. And again, I do like my job, because I pretty much have free rein to do what I want creatively in the classroom.

So to review, to have a free hand or to have free rein, they mean the same thing, it means to have freedom in any kind of situation. But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video, this comment is from Qiu Park, and the comment is, "Jen is awesome, she did a great job, it's fascinating to be a flower grower, she grows beauty." And my response, "Jen always says she grows beautiful things and they make people happy. I make English lessons and they make people happy, it makes us happy when we help people be happy."

So I guess Jen and I kind of are in the happiness business. Thanks Qiu Park for that comment, that was great. Yes, in the last video, I'm going to walk out here to the peonies again. I know it gets a little repetitive, but the cool thing is, is they are really close right now to blooming. In fact, some of them have been harvested already, so you'll be seeing some plants that don't have any flowers on them. And I know it might look like they're not blooming yet, but we do cut the peonies before they actually bloom. And there are mosquitoes out here, which reminds me of Mohd Ags made a comment in the last video about wanting to be a fly on the wall on the farm.

See, this one is already gone, Jen has harvested it. We usually pick them when they feel a little bit like a marshmallow, so that one's almost ready to go. This one is not quite ready to go, but we pick them, yeah, at what we call the marshmallow stage. When they're at the marshmallow stage, when you squeeze them, they feel a little bit like a marshmallow. You know what a marshmallow is? It's one of those white things, they come in a bag, if you roast them over a fire, they end up tasting really, really yummy, you can make something out of them called s'mores, but we haven't done that yet this year, we'll do that in a few weeks. There's definitely something flying around here, but I don't think they are mosquitoes, they must be something else.

So yeah, actually, let's go to the end, and then I'll flip you around and we'll walk back, so you can see me walking through the peony row. Let's do that, let me flip you around. There we go. So we'll just kinda fly through here. Hopefully, it doesn't shake or move around too much for you. I had to stop there for a se

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO HIT A WALL and I'D LIKE TO BE A FLY ON THE WALL

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to hit a wall. When we say in English that you hit a wall, it means you've hit an obstacle or even a feeling that makes you stop doing something. If I'm working really hard on a video and I can't think of other ideas to finish the video, I could say that I hit a wall. If I'm running a long distance, if I run for more than two or 3 minutes, eventually I hit a wall. Basically, I can't breathe fast enough to actually keep running. So I would say that I hit a wall. We often describe runners who run long distances when they get to a point where they can't run anymore, we say that they hit a wall.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase, I'd like to be a fly on the wall. This is a phrase we use when we know people are talking about something in a room, maybe at work or maybe in your house and you're not in the room, but you would like to be in the room. You would say, Oh, I'd love to be a fly on the wall in that room, or I'd like to be a fly on the wall. This happens mostly at work when the boss is meeting with someone else. A lot of the teachers are like, I wonder what they're talking about. I'd like to be a fly on the wall in that room, or I'd love to be a fly on the wall so I could just kind of hear what they're saying and see what they're doing.

So to review to hit a wall means to hit an obstacle that stops you from being able to do something. Here's something that happened to me. In university I took one year of math. I took calculus. But during my second year of calculus, I hit a wall. I wasn't able to understand it or do it well. That's about the limit of my math knowledge. Calc II in university is where I hit a wall. And I'd like to be a fly on the wall simply means that people are meeting somewhere and you would just really love to hear what they're saying.

But anyways, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Know that. Hello Mr. Bob. A warm welcome back from my side too. You really are a hard working man, but we know that. It's very nice of you that you lend a hand and take care of the grade nine French class. Your school is very fortunate to have someone like you, just like we do here. Anyway, I'm glad that you're at good health and back on track. Thanks for the lesson, sir. And my response: I'm happy to be back on track too. I'm looking forward looking forward to making today's lesson. Thank you. Know that for that comment. For some reason, I'm having trouble talking today. I don't know why.

Hey, we are out here having a look at the wagon. So this is the wagon that, as I've explained before, is a little bit like a greenhouse. And you can see that there are still a lot of seedlings in here that need to be planted. There are some down here getting full sun on the ground and more over here as well. And I'll show you where I'll leave you guys walking this way. You don't need to see me when I go for a walk, do you? We'll walk over here and I'll show you where some of them are getting planted.

So over here we have what is actually our first flower bed. When we started farming, this was the first flower bed that we created. You have some flowers growing here. We sometimes put down black fabric to kill all the weeds or plastic. This is actually plastic. So the heat of the sun and then the lack of sunlight will kill the weeds. And you can see here Jen's getting ready to plant. She has drip line here to water. And over here there aren't

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases SIGN UP and SIGN IN

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the phrase sign up. When you sign up for something, it means that you want to do it and the person organizing it is asking for people to write their names down on a piece of paper, or maybe to send their name in via the computer, maybe an email or an online form. At school, sometimes there are sports at lunchtime and students and teachers can play if they want to, but you need to sign up. The day before or the week before they start playing basketball or volleyball or whatever the sport is they usually have a sign up sheet and you can sign up to play that sport. I don't normally do this, although last year I did play a little bit of baseball. I signed up (Past Tense) to play baseball. It was quite enjoyable. I hadn't played baseball for a very long time.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase sign in. Now, this is similar to log in if you're talking about a computer or something like your email. I have to sign in to check my email. When I turn my computer on, I need to sign in. I can also say log in. I need to log in to check my email. I need to log in once I turn my computer on. And it simply means to enter your username and your password. But we also use this for paper and pen things as well. My mom now lives in a retirement home. When I go to visit my mom, I need to sign in when I get there. They actually have a book at the entrance and I need to write my name and the time that I arrive and here's a bonus I need to sign out as well when I leave. I need to kind of write down what time I leave.

So to review, when you sign up for something, it means you put your name on a piece of paper or you give your name to someone who's organizing something. You sign up because you want to do that thing, and when you sign in, you can either sign in to a computer or a piece of software or a website or your email, or you can sign in like I described at an old age home or another place like that where they need to see your name when you get there.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. Hopefully I remember how to do this still. This is from Berevilson. Thank you so much, Teacher Bob. How I like that landscape, it’s starting to look pretty nice here. Really amazing. Or as you like to say, awesome. Thanks a lot and my response. You're welcome. I'm replying to this 14 seconds after you typed it. I'm speeding to speed today

So that was actually two weeks ago. I was speedy that day, but then I wasn't very speedy or responsive after that, was I? So I do want to thank Berevilson, thank you so much for that comment. That is awesome.

And, you know, I always like to explain when I take a little bit of time off what I've been doing, not that you guys need to know, but a few things. One, I had some stuff I had to take care of normal things, like I had to file, finish filing my taxes. And then there was some additional paperwork afterwards that I had to take care of. We didn't get audited, but something similar to that. We had to provide some additional receipts.

And then a couple of things to somehow I agreed to teach an extra class at school just for the last few weeks of the school year. I can't give you all the details about why that happened, but there was a French class and I'm now the teacher. So instead of teaching part time, I'm a little closer to full time again, but just for a few weeks. And don't worry, it's pretty manageable. It's a grade nine French class, something I've taught many times befor

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases THAT'S THAT! and THAT'S MORE LIKE IT!

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, “That's that!” This is a funny little phrase we say when something is over or when something is done. When the workday is done, you might say, “Well, that's that! Time to go home!” When you're done having a conversation with someone, you might say, “Well, that's that! See you again tomorrow.” So it's just a way to kind of sum up that something is over. It's kind of a way to end something. I could do this when I'm done my videos as well. I could say, “Well, that's that. The lesson is over.” It's not over, though. Stick around. There's a little bit more to go.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase, “That's more like it!” This is something we say when someone starts doing something in a better way or when something turns out to be better. Let me think of a good example. If I was doing something wrong, let's say I was watering the plants wrong and then Jen said, “No, no, turn the hose this way and go slower,” She might then say, “That's more like it!” to tell me that I'm now doing it correctly. So if someone's doing something wrong and then you show them how to do it right and when they do it right, you might say, “Hey, that's more like it!” You might get this when you're learning to pronounce an English word. When you do say it right, your tutor might say to you or your English coach might say, “That's more like it!”

So to review, if someone says, “That's that!”, it's just a way, kind of a funny little phrase to say when something is over or ending. And if someone says, “That's more like it!”, it must mean whatever you're doing, you're doing it right.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. It's in my back pocket. Oh, my wallet's in this back pocket, this is my wallet and this is my phone in my front pocket. And these are my keys because I just got home. I don't know why I'm showing you all that, but that's what's in my pockets today. Where's the actual comment? Here it is. This is from Revolution. Thanks for this valuable information. I don't know how to pay you. And my response? You do not need to worry about how to pay me. YouTube is a win-win situation. You watch my videos, I get advertising revenue. You learn English. It's a great system.

So I often mention... Sorry I dropped the comment. I often mention this to people. Some people want to thank me somehow or they want to pay me somehow for my lessons. If you want to be a member, you can, but it's not required.

There are some things you can do though, that help me here on YouTube, and those would be good things to do if you did want to thank me. Number one. Watch my video from start to end, especially on my other channel. If you do that, then YouTube knows it's a good video and they're more likely to show other people the thumbnail. The other thing you can do is watch the video twice. By the way, watching my entire video helps you and me. The second thing you can do is watch the video two or three times. This also helps you a lot because the repetition helps you to remember. And it also tells YouTube that my video is a good video.

By the way, don't do these two things if the video isn't a good video. If it's a boring video, just stop watching it. But if you did want to thank me, that would be a good way to do it.

What else could you do? You could tell other people about this channel or my other channel. That also helps me a lot because the more people that watch, and the more of you th

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases A SLIP OF THE TONGUE and A SLIP UP

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase: a slip of the tongue. A slip of the tongue is when you say the wrong word by accident, or you use the wrong name when you're talking to someone. If I was talking to my brother John, and I called him Dave by accident, that's my other brother's name, I would say it's a slip of the tongue. I've made a mistake and I might not even realize it. Sometimes when you have a slip of the tongue, someone else will tell you that you made a mistake. So if you're ever talking and you use the wrong word in English or even in your own language, we would simply call it a slip of the tongue.

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And we also have something called a slip up. A slip up is just a small mistake that someone might make. Let's say my van needed to go to the garage and they said bring it in on a Tuesday and I brought it in on a Monday. That would just be a slip up. I got the dates wrong. That would be a little mistake that I made. This actually happened a couple weeks ago where I brought my vehicle somewhere on the wrong day, but it was just a little slip up.

So to review a slip of the tongue refers to when you use the wrong word or the wrong name, when you're saying something out loud, you have a little slip of the tongue. Sometimes when I'm talking to students, I'll call a student by the name of another student, and it's just a slip of the tongue. And when you make a small mistake, we simply call it a slip up. And we usually use the word little in front to we say, Oh, it's just a little slip up. It was just a small mistake.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. The comments actually laying in my van by here, I'm standing under or I have the camera under the back of my van because it's raining just a little bit here. But this comment is from Nutshell Collecttor. Thank you for the lesson. There is a gas tank behind you. Can you explain a bit about that? What is that for? And my response, it is full of propane and is used to heat our house. There is a line buried underground from the tank to our house and connected inside to a furnace. The furnace burns the propane.

And that makes heat for our house. So if you go back and watch the last lesson, you'll see that there is a green tank behind me in that lesson. And that tank is full of propane. It's not natural gas, but it's like natural gas. I think propane is a little bit of a different chemical makeup, and that's what we use to heat our house. It comes in a big truck and they pump it full and it's just full of propane. And then that goes through this little line underground to our house and it makes our furnace go.

So, hey, I'm walking outside here in town. I just popped over to another small park. I did make a video in this park once, a long time ago, a couple years ago. But I thought I would come here quick because it is spitting just a little bit. In English when we say that it's spitting, it means it's raining just a little bit. And I was going to show you some of the signs at the park. It says, Welcome to the township of West Lincoln's community park. So that means the town owns this park.

And then there are some rules. You must throw your garbage away. You must have your dog on a leash. You must pick up your dog's poop. No drinking, no driving, four wheelers or other ATVs and no smoking. Those are the park rules. And then what does it say down here? The township of West Lincoln is not responsible for damage or theft to vehicle or contents.

So if you

 In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase "a walk in the park". When we describe something as a walk in a park, we mean that it's going to be very, very easy. If I say that tomorrow I'm going to go for a 20-minute walk, that's a walk in the park for me. Oh, it's a bad example. I'm using the literal example of walking to talk about this. I usually go for a 45 to 60-minute walk. If I have to walk somewhere and it's only 10 minutes, it's a walk in the park. It's really easy. Let me think of a better example. If I had to write an English test, it would be a walk in the park for me because I speak English. It would be something that's really, really easy.

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The other term I wanted to teach you today is "a cakewalk", and this means exactly the same thing. If you needed to take an English test, it might be hard for you, but I'm not trying to brag here. If I needed to take an English test, it would be a cakewalk. Well, hopefully if it was advanced grammar, I might have some difficulty, but especially if they were asking for the actual names and terms. I'm not a a super expert on grammar if you haven't noticed, but a cakewalk would be how we refer to anything that's really, really easy. If Jen needs to grow something, it's a cakewalk for her. She's really good at doing that.

So to review "a walk in the park" and "a cakewalk", both these terms are used to refer to something that's really, really easy for someone to do. When a team that's really good plays a team that isn't so good, usually you expect it to be a walk in the park when they play that game, you expect them to win easily or you expect it to be a cakewalk.

Anyways, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Vítor, I believe. "I think it's good for Bob to be a teacher. The students learned a lot from the teacher and vice versa. And I say for sure, I learn so much from all of you."

There's some truth to that. A teacher teaches students, and students learn from the teacher, but I would say vice versa makes sense here because often, I learn things from my students as well. As I talk to students, they teach me things. In fact, one of the things that's true about being a teacher is that you learn your subject better than you would if you were a student. Let me explain this a little bit. As I teach you the English language, I actually learn more and more about the English language myself. I become more of an expert, because in order to teach what I want to teach, I have to really know what I'm teaching. Hopefully that made some sense. Anyways, thanks Vítor for the comment.

I wanted to give you a look here. I usually like to show you things that are in bloom so we have not only the dandelions down here in the lawn, but we also have these beautiful daffodils. We'll probably be harvesting some of these, although it's a little late to sell daffodils, and here we have some where they haven't quite bloomed yet. That's really it for right now. There's not a lot of other stuff blooming here on the farm.

It will be a few months, probably about a month and a half before the peonies start popping up and probably a good two months before we're in the full swing of things here on the farm. When you're in the full swing of things, it means that you're working from sunup to sundown. That's what I would say. On a farm, when we're in the full swing of things, we work sunup till sundown. And I'm looking forward to a bit of shade. I use shade a lot in the summer to make my English lessons. There's always a nice shady spot to stand. Right now, I don't have any shade. Hopefully, it's com

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases VICE VERSA and ON THE OTHER HAND

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, vice versa. I think this is actually a Latin phrase and it means the opposite, or the other way around. Let me explain. If I was to say I don't like my sister and vice versa that would mean my sister also doesn't like me. By the way, my sister and I get along really well. We like each other a lot. That was just an example. Sometimes I say, you should watch my English lessons with the subtitles on and then watch them with the subtitles off, or vice versa. That means the opposite. You could watch the video with the subtitles off and then watch it with them on. So when you say vice versa, it means you can do it the other way around and it's just as good as the first way it was mentioned. Or it can change the meaning to mean in both directions like the first example.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase, on the other hand. This is when you add other information that might contradict what you've just said. I could say this, I'm a little worried that it might rain today, but on the other hand, if I look that way I see the sky is clear, so it might not. So you're introducing a new fact that might slightly contradict what you just said. If I said to you, you should watch these videos with the subtitles on in order to understand more what I'm saying. On the other hand, if you listen to them or watch them with the subtitles off,it's better for your listening skills so maybe you should do both.

Anyways, to review, vice versa simply means the other way around at the end of a sentence. And when you say, on the other hand, you're introducing new information to the discussion that might actually contradict what you've just said.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Iryna, I believe. "Your video is cool. "It is very good that you are helping your wife to grow flowers." And my response, many hands make light work.

Thanks Iryna, for that comment. Yes, I try to help Jen out as much as I possibly can. I just think it's nice for her to have help on the farm. The more help I give, the easier it is for everyone. And I always laugh at the English phrase, "Many hands make light work." It makes me laugh because we have another phrase, "Too many cooks spoil the broth." I think I've explained both before. The first phrase, many hands make light work, means if lots of people work on something, it's easier. The second phrase, too many cooks spoil the broth, means if too many people work on something, it can actually ruin the thing you're working on because too many people are doing things different ways or the wrong way.

Anyways, where am I today? I am out. Hopefully the wind's not blowing too much on the microphone. I am out here on our local soccer fields. I'll try to hold the the camera here so the mic's outta the wind a bit. Soccer has started. We do have to wait until the fields are dry a little bit. They are drained really well. But yeah, soccer starts. You can actually, I'm not sure if you guys can see this, but in the distance, the city workers are actually here mowing the lawns, trimming the edges. I'm sure they'll probably put the lines down for soccer. They were down last week, but I think it rained because the soccer lines are just made out of chalk. Oh, and the sun's coming out now as well.

So anyways, soccer will begin. I think when I drove by yesterday there were actually little kids having a practice here so I think it has begun. Maybe I'm

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO KEEP COUNT and TO LOSE COUNT

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase "to keep count". This simply means to count something while you're doing it. When I put flowers in a bucket for Jen, sometimes Jen says, "Put 100 flowers in each bucket." So as I do it, I need to keep count. I put in one flower and then two flowers and three. And as I do it in my mind, I try to keep track. I try to keep count of the number of flowers that I put in so that I don't put in too many. Because if I put 105 flowers in a bucket and Jen sells it, then we gave three, or sorry, five flowers away for free, I'm having trouble doing math today. So when you keep count, it simply means to count something while you're doing it.

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Now to lose count, this is something that happens to me when I am putting flowers in a bucket. Sometimes I put in 50, 51, 52, and I get distracted and then I lose count and I forget how many flowers I've put in the bucket. I think that was 52, maybe 53. And then I have to count again so I know how many are in there. So when you lose count, it simply means that you got distracted, which often happens to me. And even though you were trying to keep count, you lost count because you were thinking of something else.

So to review, to keep count means to simply count something. There's an airplane going by today. If I was to keep count during the day, I would say about seven or eight airplanes fly by. And when you lose count, it means you were counting something and then you forgot how many you did. Sometimes I walk up and down the driveway when the weather's bad and I try to keep count how many times I've done it, but often I lose count. So I will make little marks on the van to help me keep count. Well, I think I just use both phrases a bunch of times there.

Hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from UIF. To miss out, yes, FOMO, fear of missing out. You are correct is my response. That is exactly what FOMO means. This is a newer phrase or a newer term in English. FOMO, fear of missing out. I think it started a few years ago, but I've been hearing it a lot more lately.

By the way, I was gonna show you how I keep count on the van. Do you keep count this way? I think it's dirty enough for me to do this. I'm not sure if you'll be able to see that. It's probably out of focus, but this is a method of counting that we quite often use. Maybe I'll do it down here and spin you around. That way I can see it as well. I should really wash my van. I'm not sure, do you keep count that way? Like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. It's a very simple way of keeping count. The other day I was bringing compost to the flower beds for Jen and she wanted 10 in each flower bed so I had to keep count. I didn't wanna lose count, so I used that method on the tractor. I would make little markings to keep count.

Anyways, I think I've just lost my train. Good thing I'm not trying to count something today, because I just lost my train of thought and I'm not sure what I was counting. What I was counting, what I was doing. Boy, this is turning into Bob making mistakes while he speaks English.

Anyways, here are many of our small flowers. I think these are actually weeds, but these are Lisianthus. I will definitely show you all of these out in the field in a couple of months. If we go over here as well. And some of you sometimes ask why we have this wagon. So if you see the little door, that door folds up and this door folds up so light can get in through the ceiling. It's a little bit dirty up

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO MISS OUT and TO MISS THE POINT

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you understand the English phrase, to miss out. When you miss out on something, it means you don't go to that thing or do that thing. Here's a good example. If I knew that tomorrow if I stayed after work, I would get free supper, I would say, I can't go. I'm going to miss out, because I have other things that I have to do. If someone said to me, hey, we're going to go see a Toronto Raptors game next week, Thursday night, this is fictional by the way, the Raptors aren't actually playing anymore, but I might say, oh, I'm going to have to miss out because I have other things that I need to do. So when you miss out, it simply means that you can't do something because you have to do something else, and then you miss out. You don't get to do it.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase, to miss the point. When you miss the point, it means you don't understand something. Sorry, there was a loud truck there. You don't understand something or you misunderstand it. When you miss the point. If I said to my students, let me think of a good example here. If I said to my students, you should study chapter one, just in case, they might miss the point, and think that they're studying chapter one just because it's fun, when the point was there might be a quiz or test on it. Don't think I'm explaining this one really good. But when you miss the point, it means you don't understand something or you understand it wrong. If you watch this lesson, thinking that you are just going to learn two phrases, you've kind of missed the point. 'Cause the point of this lesson is to learn two phrases and to practice your listening skills and to watch me walk around and show you the town and to get to know me a bit better. So hopefully you don't miss the point.

So to review, to miss out means you don't do something because you can't go or you have other obligations. And to miss the point is to simply misunderstand something or to understand it wrong. Hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Aline. "Hi Bob! Thanks a lot for another really nice video! And yeah, it's amazing to see and hear nature around you during the lessons." And my response, "Today's lesson will be in town, so no nature to speak of!"

But certainly, loud pickup trucks. I think that might have been in your field of view. I'm not 100% sure, there was a loud pickup truck there. Hey, today, by the way, thank you for the comment, Aline.

So today, I'm in front of an old building. This is actually an old feed mill. In fact, I think it says that somewhere way up there. I'm not sure if you can see it. It says Niagara Grain and Feed. This was a place that made feed for chickens and cows and pigs. But it has been abandoned for a long time. In fact, you can tell it's abandoned by looking at the flower beds in front of it. You can see they're a little bit overgrown. There's not very many nature sounds here. There's a lot of truck sounds. You can see it's overgrown. You can't even use the stairs.

There are signs here like no smoking and no dumping. So they don't want people to dump their garbage here. That's why there's a no dumping sign. But anyways, we used to get feed from here when my parents were dairy farmers. This was one of the places. You can see a big green grain bin, as well. This is one of the places where we got our feed, and it's right in town, by the way. It's smack dab in the middle of town, because it's located, on the other side of this,

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO DIE FOR and TO DIE OF BOREDOM

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, to die for. When you describe something as being to die for, it just means it's really, really good. I know it has the word die in it, which is a sad word, but if you were to go to a restaurant and order a chocolate dessert and it was amazing, you might tell your friend, "You need to order the chocolate dessert, it is to die for." It just means that it's really, really good, it's like the best chocolate dessert you've ever had in your life, it's to die for.

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The second English phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase, to die of boredom. We sometimes use the word die, and I'm not sure why, because obviously death and dying is a very serious thing, but sometimes people will describe something as it was so bad that they were going to die of boredom. Sometimes I think my students might describe my classes this way. I hope you don't find my English video lessons this way, where you're thinking, "Oh, I'm gonna die of boredom, if I sit and watch this whole lesson." But I know there have been times in my life, where maybe I've gone to see a movie, that someone said was to die for and I actually find it extremely boring and I would say, "You know what? I almost died of boredom while I was watching that movie."

Anyways, to review, when you say something is to die for, you are saying that it is amazing, when you say that you're going to die of boredom, it means you're at something or watching something and it's just not interesting, you feel like you're so bored that you're going to die, not literally.

Anyways, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Anaya. "Hi Bob, iconic place, love it so much. The greenery and daylight boosted my mood way too much. Thanks for that." And my response, "You're welcome, Anaya. I'm always happy to share the view." And I am, I'm always happy to share the view.

And some of you noted as well, that it has turned quite green here. It happens rather quickly, I'm always a little bit shocked at how quickly we go from winter and cold to things looking quite green. I'll spin you around in a sec to see the other side here. Yes, I still have to fix this picnic table, I'll get to it eventually, but if we walk over here, I'll spin you around and you'll see we do not have leaves on the trees yet, but we do have the grass turning nice and green.

You'll notice that the daffodils over here are starting to bloom and just all in all, it is a nice spring day. I really enjoy this, if I'm quiet once again, I just hear birds chirping. It is a nice time. I should show you this though. Last fall, Jen and I, our order for tulips didn't come in and so we only ended up with a small amount of tulips. Usually we have a lot more, you can see that they're in what we would call a raised bed here and they are starting to pop out of the ground and they will bloom in a bit, but usually this is much longer, it's usually about four or five times longer than this. But yeah, a little bit of a mix up last fall, that's okay. If we look here, you can see that on the maple trees, we are close to the leaves popping out.

So anyways, beautiful spring day, it's to die for this day. Anyways, thanks for watching. I'll see you in a couple days, sorry, this one's late. I'll get back on track eventually, hopefully, bye.

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Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases AS FAR AS I CAN SEE and TO SEE SOMETHING THROUGH

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase "as far as I can see." Now this doesn't have anything to do with seeing a long ways. It has nothing to do with me being able to see something that's far away. It basically means "as I understand something." So I could say this. As far as I can see, YouTube is a good way to learn English. As far as I can see, learning how to do something can only help make you a better person. So basically as I understand it, as far as I can see, those things are a good idea. So I guess I'm trying to think of another way to explain this. Like my understanding of the situation lets me say that I think this is a good idea. So as far as I can see, hiring someone to help you speak English once a week for 30 minutes? As far as I can see, that's a good idea. It has no drawbacks in my mind.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is to see something through. When you see something through, it means you work at it to make sure that it happens and that it is finally completed. At work, sometimes we're working on a project and other people might wanna quit, but I like to see it through. I like to make sure the project is finished. I want to make sure we take it to completion. So I like to see it through.

By the way, this is different than seeing through something. That's a little bit different. If I lie and you see through my lie, it means you knew that I wasn't telling the truth. Sorry, hopefully I'm not confusing you there. To see something through and to see through something have completely different meanings. Hopefully you understood them.

Anyways, to review. "As far as I can see" simply means "as I understand it." As far as I can see, planting more trees in the world will just make the world a better place. And to see something through means to make sure it gets done. If I said my neighborhood is going to plant 1000 trees and I'm going to see it through, that would mean I'm going to make sure it actually does happen. That would be cool if we did that. Maybe I should start that initiative. The Bob the Canadian Tree Planting Initiative. We'll see.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. from Setayesh. "Thanks. If you don't mind, can I ask, are you the owner of all that land?" And I replied by saying, "I'll show you in the next video what Jen and I own."

So when I say own, I always like to also say basically what Jen and I purchased by taking out a large loan from the bank and paying them back every month. So it's not like I bought all of this farmland from my mom because I had lots of money. We did go to the bank. We do pay a hefty amount every month for it. But let me show you what we do own. If you look across the river, we do not own that land. If you look this way where you can see the barn and then you look at the land on this side of the river, we do own that land. So we have a field where we grow crops in the distance. We usually grow soybeans or wheat or corn.

Down further, I think I'm pointing to the right spot, we have a place where our goats go out on pasture. If you squint, you can see Walter down there right now. He's on his way to the river, maybe to go for a swim. And way in the distance there is a piece of land where we have hay that the neighbors actually cut and bale that every year and they give us some hay for our animals as well. But yes, this is what we own. We do not own that. We just look at it and appreciate it. It's a beautiful piece of lan

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases A CLOSE CALL and TO CALL OFF

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, "a close call." When something is a close call, it means that something bad almost happened, but it didn't happen. Here's a little story. Once when I was younger, I was working, I was about 17. I was working on a building on scaffolding. You know, what they put along the side of the building? And lightning struck the ground about a kilometer from where I was. But me and my coworkers saw little bolts of static electricity go from the scaffolding to the building. So we quickly climbed down and ran inside. That was a close call. I didn't get hit by lightning but it was certainly a close call. I was happy that the lightning hit far away.

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So the second phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase "to call off." When you call something off, it means you cancel it. This happens sometimes when it snows a lot in Canada. They'll call off school, they'll cancel school for the day. Sometimes this happens when two people are planning to get married and then they start to not like each other. Sometimes they call off the wedding, they decide not to have it.

So to review a close call is whenever something almost happens that would be bad. Like if you almost hit someone with your car. If two cars are driving and almost hit each other, we would say that that is a close call and when you call something off, to call off means to cancel something.

So, hey, I don't have a comment today. I have to apologize. I've had a really busy week and I did not have a chance to respond to all the comments and it's close to raining out here. So I ran outside quickly. I'm not sure if you can see the storm approaching. There are actually some small raindrops hitting me right now. If you don't believe me, I'll show you the puddle. You might be able to hear the thunder as well.

Whoa, that's upside down. That's not how that's supposed to work. Here we go. You can see maybe some drops hitting that puddle there. Let's see if we can get this turned around. I'm not sure if you can hear the thunder. I probably should just go inside now instead of staying out here.

So just a short lesson today. Busy week, haven't had time to reply to comments. I'll get back at that as soon as possible. But I thought I should still jump outside and make a quick lesson for you. Hopefully you learned a couple phrases and I better get back inside now. I don't want to tell another version of the lightning story after this lesson. So, have a good couple days. I'll see you in a couple days with another short English lesson. Bye.

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases BY WEIGHT and DEAD WEIGHT

In this English lesson, I'd like to help you learn the English phrase "by weight." When you buy something, you can either buy it by weight. You pay a certain amount per pound or per kilogram, or I think the opposite is by volume. When I buy gas, I pay per liter. But when something is sold by weight, you pay for a certain number of pounds or kilograms or whatever other measure of weight they are using. When we sell bouquets, we sell by quantity. You buy 12, sorry, you buy 12 flowers in a bouquet, so you're buying I guess by volume but I would say by quantity. When I buy gas, it's by volume, and when I buy things like bulk food at the grocery store, where you scoop it yourself and put it in a bag, often you pay by weight. We actually have a store called Bulk Barn in Canada where you can buy everything by weight, candies, chocolate. I like buying chocolate by weight, although the scoop I make usually ends up costing more than I'm expecting.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase "dead weight." This refers to anyone who isn't doing their job. We also would say they're not pulling their weight. If you watch a sports game, if you watch a football game and one person isn't running very fast and they don't play very good defense and they never score a goal, you might say that they're dead weight. You would describe that person as being dead weight. Not a very nice way to be described, but if you're dead weight, it means you're not really doing anything.

So to review, when you buy something by weight, you're paying by the pound or by the kilogram depending on how you measure things in your country. And when someone is dead weight, it means that they're not contributing the way they should to a team or at work or someone else.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Axmed. "Hello teacher Bob the Canadian. "Is this phrase correct? "'I met the President, or I met with the President'?" My response, both are correct, but with slightly different meanings, so I'm glad you brought this up. "I met the President." This means you saw him or her once briefly, maybe shook his or her hand and maybe got your picture taken. "I met with the President," this means you probably sat down for a bit of time and talked with the President.

So thanks for that comment by the way, Axmed. Yes, you can see from my response, slightly different meanings. The first one simply means that maybe you were somewhere and the President was there and you said "hi" and got a selfie taken with the President, and then the second one would mean you actually had a meeting. You actually sat down and you talked about things. You probably must be a very important person if you had an actual meeting with the President, although everyday people sometimes can meet the President or Prime Minister.

Someone I work with actually met the Prime Minister and got his picture taken. I was surprised. He didn't meet with the Prime Minister. He met the Prime Minister at like a meet and greet in a park I think that's where it was. So I was a little bit jealous. I thought, Bob the Canadian should someday get a picture with the Prime Minister. That would be really, really cool, of Canada.

By the way, did you know that's one of my dreams, which will probably never happen? I would love it if the Canadian Tourism Board hired me as an ambassador for Canada promoting this beautiful country. I thought, wouldn't it be cool if when I retire from teaching, if the Canadian government sent me a

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases A SPLIT SECOND and TO SPLIT UP

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase a split second. When something happens in a split second, it means it happens in less than a second. It happens instantly. It takes hardly any time at all. The other night I had to hit my brakes in a split second because a deer ran out on the road in front of me. That happens sometimes in this part of Canada, so I hit my brakes in a split second. My foot went from the floor of the van to the brake pedal in a split second. It went immediately like no time passed at all. It was definitely less than a second. I don't usually move that fast, but in situations like that, you need to react in a split second.

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The second phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase to split up. Now you can use this to talk about dividing something up. If I had ten candies and I split up the candies among my children, I would give each of them two. I would put the ten candies on the table and make little piles of two, and I would give each kid two candies. You can also use this to talk about relationships. Sometimes people will split up. Sometimes Frank and Kim have a relationship where things aren't going well and they decide that they want to split up. This means that they are no longer together. They have gone their separate ways.

So again, to review when something happens in a split second, it happens immediately.It happens very, very quickly. And when somebody splits something up, it means they divide them up like candies. And if two people split up, it means they are no longer in a relationship.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Mohd Ags, and my response is pretty long, so this might take a while. I'll try to read clearly and quickly. Mohd says, I really like learning useful phrases like to make a day of it as simple as it might seem, you will most likely only hear native speakers use it because advanced English learners are busy learning some odd fancy words like obfuscate and elephantine. Thank you, Mr. Bob.

And my response again, kind of long sorry. Honestly, sometimes I don't know what to think about the advanced English lessons some of the other YouTube teachers create. I'm not one to speak badly of others, so I don't really talk about it much, but sometimes they teach words that simply aren't used very often at all. I think it might be time for me to statistically analyze what I hear every day in the English speaking world. Sometimes simple isn't just better. It's literally the most common and correct.

So again, I don't like, thanks Mohd for the comment, I don't like to speak negatively of what other teachers do. I think everyone does a great job. Everyone has their own approach. But sometimes I do think some of the advanced vocabulary being taught isn't very common at all.

I think you're better off learning the more common vocabulary and then focusing on vocabulary that has clearly been labeled as important for like an IELTS test or another English test. That can kind of be a really cool way to know if the advanced vocabulary you're learning is important.

But yeah, sometimes I'm not sure there are words like I can't even think of some. There are words. Sometimes people will ask me in a live stream and I'll say, You know, I don't think I've ever used that word. I might have read that word somewhere, but I don't know if I've ever used it. So learn to be fluent with all of the simple vocabulary and then slowly build from there by listening to what act

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In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase at the end of the day. Now, this can literally mean at the end of the day. At the end of the day, I go home. Well, at the end of my workday. But we also use this the same way we use the word ultimately. To kind of sum up a thought. When you're working hard at the end of the day, you can only do so much. When you are helping someone out. At the end of the day, you can only do so much to make their life better. So ultimately you can only help someone so much before they need to help themselves. So we use the phrase at the end of the day to kind of sum up to kind of clarify a thought that we're having. I don't think I'm explaining this very well. Let me try to think of another example. At the end of the day, all I can do is make the best video lessons I can and hopefully they help you. So ultimately, all I can really do is make the lessons as good as I can. So it's not exactly the end of the day, but it's kind of summarizing a thought.

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The second phrase I wanted to teach you is the phrase to make a day of it. When you make a day of something, it means something wasn't going to take the whole day. But you add one or two things to make a day of it. If we go to visit Jen's parents, sometimes we just go for a cup of tea. But sometimes we decide to make a day of it. We go for a cup of tea. We help Jen's dad on his farm a little bit. We help Jen's mom do some work in her garden, possibly, instead of just going for an hour or two, we decide to make a day of it.

So to review at the end of the day simply means ultimately, or to summarize or my final thoughts on something and to make a day of it means to plan to do something that will take most of the day instead of just a little part of it.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Marcio. How are you, Professor Bob? I'm Brazilian and here the autumn season has already started. I really like you and your videos. Thank you. I'm very happy with the new season in your country because you will be able to make video lessons for us without freezing. Hehehe. A hug for you and your whole family. And my response. My favorite type of day for making videos would be cloudy, mild and no wind. Hopefully there are lots of those coming up.

So thanks, Marcio, for that comment. Yes, this is literally my favorite type of day for making a video, although it is a little bit windy. I'm hiding by the shed so that the wind doesn't hit the microphone too badly. But my favorite kind of day for making an English lesson would be cloudy. When it's cloudy, the camera can focus really well and the video just looks nice. The cloud kind of diffuses the sunlight. That's how we would describe it in English. So clouds create really nice light for a video. When it's mild then I don't get hot or cold.

When we say that it's mild outside, we mean it's like ten degrees or 15 degrees Celsius, something kind of nice. And then what's the last one? No rain. I didn't mention that one. I don't like rain. Oh, no wind. Yeah, wind messes with the microphone. You can't see the microphone, but it's right here. When it's windy, you get that funny sound when I'm outside and it's not very, very pleasant.

So yep, that's my favorite kind of day. A day just like today. If we look at the sky, it's overcast or cloudy, we would say. It's a little bit windy, but I have the shed behind me to kind of block the wind and it's mild. I'm outside just wearing my sweat

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO BE IN THE WAY and TO GET OUT OF THE WAY

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to be in the way. When you are in the way, it means someone is trying to go somewhere and you’re blocking their path. Sometimes at the grocery store when I go down an aisle, there will be someone in the way and I'll have to ask them to move because I can't get my cart through the aisle. So when you are in the way, with... you think someone is going to be in the way it means they're going to be in your path when you're trying to get somewhere. I'm trying to think of another good example. Sometimes when I'm trying to get into my classroom, there will be students in the way. They'll be standing in the doorway and I'll have to ask them to move so that I can get into my classroom. So to be in the way simply means to block someone's path when they're trying to get somewhere.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase to get out of the way. I'm offering the solution to the problem from the first phrase. When you see someone in the way, sometimes it's nice to ask them to get out of the way. Sometimes we even say this directly. We'll say, Get out of the way! You might even yell it if your car was rolling along with no one driving it and there was someone walking, you might yell, Get out of the way! to them so that they will be safe, meaning that they need to get out of the way of the vehicle. They need to not be in the path that it is traveling down.

So to review, to be in the way means to yeah, be in the way. I can't define it by using the phrase. But if I was standing in my driveway and Jen wanted to leave, I would be in the way. And so I would need to get out of the way so that she could leave.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. Let me see which pocket I put it in. Here it is right here it is from Andrey or Andrey. Maybe I'm pronouncing it wrong. Such a comfy place on your farm where you're filming the video. And my response? It was a nice little corner. I might have to find another one. It's going to be really windy all this week.

So it's a little windy right now, but not too bad. But I found this little corner because I wanted to show you that yes, spring is definitely starting. One of the first signs of spring for me is when Jen starts to put the little baby plants outside. So you can see it's warm enough here today, you can see quite a few of them, that Jen has some of the plants out. So she's decided that it's warm enough today that the plants can be outside for a little bit. So what was I saying? Yes, I picked that comfy corner. I had a nice comfy corner over there the other day.

It's not as windy right now, though. This morning it was super windy, so I was worried that I wouldn't be able to find a good place to do this. Anyways, what was I going to talk about? Spring is starting. Here's another little look down here. You can see that the daffodils are just starting to pop out of the ground. Another sure sign that spring is coming. And I was going to show you all the geese in the river, but they all flew away. But there's definitely a lot of Canadian geese and there is either white geese or swans. I'm not sure which it is because I haven't been able to get close. I know they were flying overhead the other day, but I can just sense right now that spring is just around the corner.

Actually, it did start yesterday. Yesterday was the first day of spring. I guess I should have mentioned that one of the reasons I'm talking about spring is becaus

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO GIVE IN and TO GIVE OUT

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to give in. Now, this is kind of the opposite of the phrase to put your foot down. Sometimes you need to give in when someone asks you if they can do something. Sometimes when my kids ask for something, I put my foot down and I say no. But sometimes I give in and I say yes. This happened a few years ago when they wanted to buy a Nintendo Switch. I put my foot down and said, No, it's too expensive. But they said they would pay for part of it if I paid for part of it. So eventually I was able to give in. Eventually, I decided that it was okay and we went and bought a Nintendo Switch. And by the way, that was a good decision. It's a lot of fun to play games with them. I like Mario Party and Mario Kart the best.

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The second phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase to give out. This is a phrase we use to talk about something that's going to break or something that's going to break down. If I drive my van for another ten years, eventually it's going to give out. Eventually the engine is going to give out. Eventually the wheels are going to give out. Eventually the whole van is going to give out. It's going to stop working.

So to review, to give in means to finally say that someone's allowed to do something. Sometimes my classes ask me if they can, I don't know, walk the town for a field trip and eventually I give in and plan something like that instead of saying no. And to give out means to simply break down. Now, both of these phrases have other meanings. Those are just two of the meanings that I wanted to teach today.

Hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. I think I have it here in my pocket. Here we go. The comment is from Pristine Horizon. Dear teacher Bob, I wish I had wings to reach there to sit in the classroom there. How beautifully it's designed. And my response? I have to admit, the schools have been getting nicer here in Canada. My favorite thing is that the newer parts of the building have more windows to the outside and more natural light.

So that's actually thanks... for the comment for Pristine... that's been a common trend. I don't... Not just in Canada, I think in a lot of parts of the world, buildings have more windows to let more natural light in. Not this barn it’s quite old. There aren't very many windows at all. So in our school, the newer parts of the school are really nice because they have floor to ceiling windows in some spots. It's really, really cool.

Hey, you might be wondering, what am I doing standing here? What am I doing wearing a T-shirt? Well, it's spring break. It's really windy, and I had to find a place where I could stand to make this video. So I'm kind of hiding in this kind of gross corner by the barn.

I wanted to show you this, though, while I'm standing here. This is the sign that my dad put up when we had animals. It says Stop livestock at work, please obtain authorization before entering. And then this is the name of a feed company. Shur Gain. Back when my parents were farming, it was just starting to become a concern that you didn't want too many people visiting a farm. There are more and more diseases that spread between chicken farms and cow farms or cattle farms and pig farms, and it's just more of a concern. So I think back in that era, the feed companies decided they would start to give farmers signs like that one to put up to tell people, please don't go in this building without first asking if it's okay, without first asking

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In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to put your foot down. When you put your foot down, it means you're not going to agree with someone. Let's say that my kids said that they wanted to have ice cream and I said no. And then they asked again. And then I said no. Eventually I would just put my foot down and say, Stop asking. The answer will always be no. So when you put your foot down, it means you're in charge of something or you're the one that can make a decision and you're not going to change how you feel about it.

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The second phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase to put up a fight. When you put up a fight, it doesn't mean that you're actually, you know, punching and hitting. It means that you're not going to give up on something. When I tell my kids they can't have ice cream, they tend to put up a fight. They keep asking. They don't want to give up. They just keep asking me about it because they..., they want to put up a fight. They want to discuss it, they want to argue. They want to try and make me change my mind.

So to review, when you put your foot down, it means you're saying no to something. I guess it doesn't have to be “no”, it could be, yes. But normally it's no you're saying no and you're not going to change your mind. And when you put up a fight, it means you want to change someone's mind and you're not willing to take no for an answer. You're going to argue and want to discuss it until they change their mind.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Irina. Hello, Bob. Thank you so much for this video. Usually I am full of energy without coffee and sugar. The river and the fields in the background of the video always calm me down. Oop! I'm somewhere else today. And my response? Right now the river is full of geese. There are probably over a thousand.

Yes. It's interesting right now because the river is super, super full of geese. In fact, if you go to my other channel and look for my stories, I did a little video of them. Maybe I'll see if I can do that here as well in the next video if they're still visiting.

But hey, I'm at school. It's nighttime. One of my kids had a club that they had to go to, so they're playing basketball right now. So I thought I would show you lockers and combination locks and one of the entrances. And if you look behind me, you can even see a classroom. This isn't my classroom, by the way. My classroom is in a completely different part of the school that's closed right now.

But this is what a school looks like. You can see the recycling bins behind me. And if you look behind me, you can see the long, long hallway. This is a pretty traditional school in Canada. Our schools in Canada are usually hallways, lots of lockers. Students can have an upper locker or a lower locker. They prefer the upper locker. They're required to keep their lockers shut, but sometimes they leave them open. Hopefully there's nothing valuable in there.

Our newer classrooms have windows, so it's just more of an open concept. We've been building more and more. When we build onto schools in Ontario, Canada, we often build rooms that have more windows. So you can see what's going on. Not all the teachers and students like that. We've had windows in the doors to our classrooms for a very, very long time. That's been pretty normal. But in the last ten or 20 years, we've been adding more and more windows to the walls just to give it more of an open feel.

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO BE WIRED and TO HOT WIRE

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to be wired. When we say someone is wired, it means they're a little bit nervous or they're a little bit energetic. We usually use this when we talk about the effects of coffee on people or the effects of sugar on kids. You might hear someone say something like this, Oh, I have a lot of energy today. I'm really wired because I had three cups of coffee this morning. So to be wired means that you can feel the effect of the caffeine on you. Sometimes people have trouble sleeping at night because they're just too wired. They've had too much coffee that day. And sometimes little kids, when they have lots of sugar, they're just wired. They run around and they have lots of energy because they've just eaten way too much sugar. So to be wired simply means to have a higher level of energy and maybe even a little bit of nervousness or anxiety as well. There's a couple of different feelings you could be having when you're wired.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase to hot wire. I don't really know anything about this phrase. I don't know how to hot wire a vehicle, but I thought it was worth mentioning because you might hear it if you're watching a show about the police or something like that or a movie. When you hot wire a vehicle, it means you start it by just touching wires together instead of turning the key. I think it's harder on modern day vehicles to hot wire them, but I think on older vehicles, if you know what you're doing, you can pull the wires out of the dash and put the right two wires together or three and the car will start without keys.

So to review, to be wired, when you are wired, you are just feeling very energetic because you've had something that has stimulated you like caffeine or sugar. And when you hot wire a vehicle, it means you start it illegally without keys.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Janith. Hi, Bob. Sir, is there a difference between headlight and fog light? And my response? Headlights put a bright white light and are the main light on the front of a car. Fog lights are lower on the front of the car and put out an orange or yellow light.

So great question. It's too bad we don't have a vehicle to look at. Oh, wait, we do. So for me, I would call this the headlight. This is what puts out the very bright light that you need to see at night. And this would be what I would call a fog light. I think this is also the signal light on my vehicle. I think it does double duty. I think it does both things. Some people have special fog lights that they mount on the front of their vehicle after they buy it. We would call them aftermarket fog lights, but they're also lower down and they're usually orange or yellow.

So, hey, many of you have been commenting about how you've been enjoying the change of scenery with the videos - using the phrase from the last video. I've been doing many of these short lessons in town, and I've been really enjoying that. The reason I have been doing them in town is because my schedule changed. So I teach in the morning now and then when I'm done teaching, I'm in town and I usually bring my camera with me and I just go and find some place to shoot a video.

Today, though, I'm at home, a little bit of a different day today for me. I had a different sort of schedule this morning, so I'm home now. Let me check the time here. Oh, I have 30 seconds to talk, but that's why there's been a bit of a

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO CHANGE THINGS UP and A CHANGE OF SCENERY

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to change things up. Now this just means to change things. But we use this phrase a lot in English when we talk about something that we do a certain way, and then when we just do it a different way, one or two days, just to make it a little more exciting. Let me try to think of a good example. The last video, I changed things up a little bit. I just did a quick short video outside. I didn't follow my regular routine. Sometimes when I'm teaching a class, I like to change things up because I don't want students to get bored with what I'm doing. So the other day, in order to change things up a bit, I decided we were going to walk to town instead of staying in the classroom. I'm teaching a business class, so it's okay to walk to town and look at businesses and study how they do business. So anyways, I decided to change things up.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase a change of scenery. Did I spell that right? Yes, a change of scenery. We usually use this to talk about when someone moves. The reason for moving might be because they want a change of scenery. They might want to go somewhere where they live and can see other things around them. If you live in the city and you move to the country, you might do it because you want a change of scenery. Maybe you're tired of listening to traffic and hearing people yelling in the night. I don't really know what it's like to live in the ci..., in the city. Maybe you need a change of scenery so you move to the country where things are a little more pleasant, at least in my opinion.

So to review, to change things up simply means to change something. If you have a routine and you do something different. On a certain date, we would say that you have decided to change things up and a change of scenery would be when you decide to move somewhere else. It's usually related to moving. Sometimes people use it in a slightly more minor way, but it usually means you've decided to live somewhere else because you just want to see different things around you.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Oksana. Sometimes it's better than a regular lesson, or at least definitely not worse. Take care. And my response? I think it's good to change things up every once in a while.

So Oksana was referring to my sliding down the hill lesson, which, by the way, I did actually end up falling. I don't know if you saw my short lesson on my other channel, but yes, I did actually end up falling. I just hurt my knee a little bit. Wow. Well, I did actually slip and fall, didn't I? Just a little bruise. Nothing major. Hey, anyways, Oksana, thank you for leaving that comment.

By the way, I just wanted to show you today. Let me spin you around. I've been trying to find a place in my local town where they're actually building new buildings. This is a multi dwelling house or a multi-unit house that would be a house where more than one person is going to live. At a certain point, you can see this house is almost done. They just need to put the siding on the outside.

I'll try to find a house that's earlier in the construction phase because I wanted to show you how primarily we build our houses in Ontario, Canada, out of wood. We have a lot of wood in Canada, so we build a lot of our houses out of wood. Let's do this. I'll keep talking while I give you a bit of a better look.

Trying to walk as fast as I can so tha

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases AN UNWRITTEN RULE and A HARD-AND-FAST RULE

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase an unwritten rule. Now, this is exactly what it sounds like. It's a rule, but it's not written down anywhere. There are a lot of unwritten rules when you are speaking English, because sometimes when you're in an English speaking country, not just the language is different, but the culture is a little bit different. And not everyone writes down those rules. A great example would be the questions that were in my lesson from yesterday on my bigger channel. There are certain questions that you just don't ask when you're having a conversation in English. But there's nowhere to go to find that rule, it's not written down any where. It's just an unwritten rule. It's a rule that we have all agreed to, but no one's actually written them down in a rule book. It's not actually the law. It's just an unwritten rule.

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The other phrase I want to teach you today is a hard-and-fast rule. Now, a hard-and-fast rule is a rule. It is written down. And if you break the rule, there are consequences. Consequences are what happens after you break a rule. Let's say at your job there is a hard and fast rule that you do not... Let me see... Trying to think of... That you do not. I'm drawing a blank here. Let me come up with a different example. Let's say at the movie theater, there's a hard-and-fast rule that you can't chew gum in the movie theater. That means because it's a hard-and-fast rule, if you're caught, they'll kick you out of the movie theater. Like, there are immediate consequences if you break that rule.

So to review an unwritten rule is a rule that everyone kind of knows about, but it's not written down anywhere, someone has to tell you about it. And a hard-and-fast rule is a rule where if you break that rule, you will.. you can expect consequences immediately.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Vítor and Vítor says, Hello, Bob. It is interesting how we can come up with new ideas nowadays. If one day you run out of ideas or topics for your lessons, you can try crowdsourcing or even A.I.. With crowdsourcing, you can ask your viewers for new ideas or topics they think are gripping for people. In another case, you can try something like ChatGPT or another AI. I do not know if that technology is able to do such a thing, but you can give it a try someday. In the future I think we are going to have a smorgasbord of technology doing things for us. By the way, thank you.

And my response? I will keep that in mind. Right now I am around so many people, I just listen for interesting words and phrases. Maybe when I'm older and around less people I'll need some other tools.

So yes, AI is becoming quite cool I think. I was playing around with it the other day in one of my classes and my students and I really enjoyed using it. It was kind of fun to play around with it. We even talked a little bit about what would be good jobs to do in the future, jobs that AI couldn't do. And we decided that teaching is probably one of those jobs, although I wasn't sure I agreed with them.

But they said that during the pandemic, online learning wasn't fun, and they think for the next ten or 20 years, people will actually prefer to have actual teachers, human teachers in their classrooms doing the teachings, doing the teaching, not teachings the teaching. And I think they might be right. I think the pandemic and remote learning gave us this little view of online learning or remote l

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO COME UP WITH and TO COME AND GO

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to come up with. But before I talk about it, sorry, I know you've been enjoying the lessons in my local town. Today I'm just out here in the countryside. Or am I? What if I was to turn the camera? You would then see that I'm actually on the edge of town. I kind of tricked you a bit. But anyways, back to the lesson. We'll walk in a bit.

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To come up with means to think of something. When you're talking with someone, sometimes you have to come up with topics. You have to think of things to talk about. Sometimes in school, the teacher will ask students to come up with new ideas or to come up with the answer. So the phrase to come up with simply means to think of something. I have to regularly come up with ideas for these English lessons. I sit. Usually if I'm sitting somewhere and I'm bored, I spend the time just thinking so that I can come up with some new ideas.

The second phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase to come and go. When you say that something is going to come and go, it means it's going to happen and then go away. Probably the best example I can give of this is pain. Sometimes when you have pain, it will come and go. I folded this up. I should show you. Sometimes when you have pain, it will come and go. Is that the right side? Yes, it is. I had this a lot a few years ago when I was having some medical problems. I had pain and it would just come and go. Sometimes I would have pain and then sometimes it would go away, and then it would come back. It would come and go.

So anyways, to review, now that I've crumpled up my paper, when you say that you are going to come up with something it means you're going to think of something. Maybe you're going to try and come up with a funny thing to say in your next conversation. And when we use the phrase to come and go, we're talking about something that happens and then doesn't happen and then happens again. Pain's a good example. I'm trying to think of another one. You can use it for people as well. Like, Oh, he just kind of comes and goes as he pleases. That would be one.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Judit. Thanks for the view of a Canadian town and my response? I'll try and find another good place to go today.

I am enjoying finding places to go. It's really no worry and no bother. I am enjoying finding different places in my town to just pop pop out from work for a bit and make a little video. So today we're once again in another what we would call subdivision. By the way, this is the playground in the small park. And you can see here some of the houses. These are somewhat big, actually. I thought they were smaller. Maybe I drove too far. My plan was to show you some more modest size houses today. Some houses that are more the size that Jen and I would be able to afford if we decided to live in town, which will probably never happen by the way. We're too happy living out in the country.

Oh, and here's a sign for you to read. I'm sure you can figure out what this means. It means if you drive down this road, there is no way to get out at the other end. You'll have to turn around. We would actually call this a cul-de-sac in English. So as you go to the end, there's just a circle. I'm not sure I'll get there fast enough to show you. But if you look at the end, there's just a few houses, and then you can kind of turn your vehicle around and come back out again. So technically, there

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In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English verb to double-check. When you double-check something, it means you check it and then you check it again. If you don't know what it means to check something, it means to make sure it's there or to make sure it's in a certain place. Here's a great example. When you pack to go on a trip, you put everything in a suitcase, and then when you're done packing, it's good to double-check. It's good to open the suitcase again and make sure that your toothbrush and your deodorant and your underwear is all in the suitcase. I don't know why I used that example, but you should make sure you bring all that stuff. So to double-check means to check again. It means to make sure that everything is where it needs to be before you go on a trip or before you do something else.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase a reality check. Now a reality check is when something happens and it makes you realize that maybe things are a certain way and you thought they were a different way. I better think of a good example. Think of a sports team that thinks they are the best. Maybe at the beginning of the season, your favorite sports team thinks they are the best and then they play a team that's really weak and they lose. That would be a reality check for them. It would make them realize that even though they thought they were the best, they're not. It's definitely a reality check. So whenever something happens that reminds you of reality, that is something we would call a reality check.

So to review, when you double-check something, it means you check again. I often, when I go on a long trip, I will check the oil in the van and then just to be sure, I'll check again. So I'll double-check the next day to make sure the oil in the van isn't low. And usually I'll make sure it's gassed up as well. And a reality check is whenever something happens that makes you realize again, that not everything is the way you think it is.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Aleksey. Hi, Bob. Thank you. Finally, it happened today. I did not make a single mistake while transcribing the first part of the lesson. The trickiest sentence was at the 52 second mark. My students were so much work today because, you know, it doesn't look grammatically correct. And this pause... because I paused when I said that... so I have a hunch you wanted to say something different about your students that day. And my response? You are correct about the pause. I changed what I was going to say mid-sentence because I was going to say something a bit more harsh. I was going to say something mean about my students. Congratulations on getting things right and for noticing my speech pattern change. Very advanced. Yeah. Good work, Aleksey. That's awesome.

Yeah. You know, as I make these videos, I talk, and sometimes as I'm talking, I have to think about what I'm going to say. And sometimes I have to change what I'm going to say while I'm talking. You just experienced that right there. I don't have a script. When I make these videos, I just come outside, I teach the two phrases, and then for the last bit I just talk. And so yeah, I'm not reading anything. I don't have it scripted. I just come up with it on the fly - off the top of my head.

There's another phrase for you. But hey, anyways, we are walking in a typical Canadian subdivision. These are houses that are actually much nicer than what Jen and I could afford. We're in a little bit of a pricier part of to

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO WIPE OUT and I'M WIPED!

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to wipe out. Now I used this phrase in my last lesson to talk about slipping on the ice and falling down. When you wipe out, this is the verb we use to describe slipping and falling. If you've ever gone skating, usually you stay on your skates and you don't fall down, but if you slip and fall, we would say that you have wiped out (in the past tense). When you wipe out, you slip and you fall. You can wipe out walking on ice. You can wipe out walking on anything that's slippery. So be careful. You don't want to wipe out too often because if you land wrong, it can really hurt.

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The second phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase I'm wiped. This is a phrase we use simply to talk about being very tired or exhausted. After a long day of work. I might come home and say to Jen, Oh, I'm wiped. I'm so tired. My students were so much work today. That would be how we would describe it. I'm wiped. So I'm really, really tired. I'm just not very energetic at all.

So to review, when you use the verb to wipe out, it means that you slip and you fall down. Both actions must happen, you must slip and you must fall in order to wipe out. That truck’s a little bit loud. And when you say I'm wiped, it simply means that you are really, really tired. It means that you are exhausted.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Nikie. The older you get, the faster time whips by. And my response? This is very true. When I was a kid, summer seemed to last forever. Now it whips by.

Yes, I noticed that when I was a kid summer lasted a really long time. If you're wondering why I'm in my van, you'll see in a moment when I get out. It's raining here, but I'm going to brave the weather. When I was a kid, I definitely felt like summer lasted forever. I felt like school would end when I was ten or 11, and I would have basically two months, but it seemed like forever. It seemed like summer just went on and on and on. So, yes, now time just whips by. It goes by too quickly.

Anyways, I'm just out walking. I came here today because there's lots of people, there's been people in my videos lately, but I came here today not expecting it to be this rainy. I knew it was going to rain, but this is a little more rain than I expected. So I'm walking towards.... there's an overhang here that I can stand under while I walk and talk. What's sad for me is that it's raining, but it's February. It should be like minus five degrees right now, and then this would all be coming down as snow. And it might have even been a snow day possibly.

Ah, I got to get away from this music or I'll get a copyright strike on my video. Sorry, outside that restaurant, there was some music playing to attract people to come in. Anyways, I'm just walking here. I'm under the overhang now. Let me give you a look. So now it's a little nicer because I am out of the rain. That's how we would describe that in English. So I'm out of the rain. I'm going, Oh, a big drop just hit me. I walked outside of the overhang just for a split second there.

Anyways, you guys like to see people? Maybe I'll spin this way. I'm in front of the Tim Hortons restaurant. There are people in the drive thru, there are people walking in. It's just a very busy and vibrant town, much different than it was a few years ago when we were still locked down. That was no fun. I think I have repressed those memories. That means that I'm trying not to remember them.

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In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to whip by. This is a phrase we usually use to talk about something that happens quickly. I usually use it to talk about time. I feel like the days in January just whipped by using it in the past tense there. I find that at this point in the winter, time seems to whip by. It tends to go very, very quickly. I can't believe it's already almost the middle of February. Okay, it's not quite the middle of February. I think it's February 7th, the day you're watching this. But time does seem to whip by at this time of year, I think because I've started a new semester and I'm a little bit busy. I really feel like time is whipping by. You can also say that a car whips by, like, you can use it for things as well, but I usually use it to talk about time.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is to whip something up. We usually use this to talk about making food quickly. This past weekend, Jen's sister and brother-in-law came over, so I whipped up some pizza. I made some dough in the bread machine, and I quickly made some pizza for them. I whipped it up. So we use this to talk about doing something quickly, usually preparing food. We almost always use it to talk about making food. Like I'm going to whip up some snacks for later tonight so that Jen and the kids and I can have a fun evening while we watch the Raptors play basketball.

So to review, when you say that something is going to whip by you mean that it's going to go quickly. When you say that you are going to whip something up, it means you are going to make it quickly. By the way, do you know what a whip is? It's like a leather thing that I think they used to use when they were chasing cows or something like that. I'm not sure exactly all the details.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from let me get it out of my pocket here. This comment is from Francisco. Out of sight, out of mind. I always wanted to be out of the line of sight of the teacher in order not to be asked L.O.L. And then my response. When you're in a big class, it's nice to sit at the back if you're going to have a snooze.

Now... Thanks, Francisco, for that comment. Good use of out of sight. You shouldn't do that, though. You shouldn't sleep in classrooms. I'm not recommending that. I'm not advocating that as a teacher. I recommend that you sit at the front and that you pay attention and you do all the work. But yes, sometimes if you are in a class that's boring, you want to sit at the back so the teacher can't see you, so you're not in their line of sight.

Hey, I'm out here just for a little walk on this path in town, you can see. Let me show you it. It's actually a little bit dangerous walking out here right now because it's melting a bit, but there is ice on the ground. And what that does, I think I've explained it before, is it makes things very slippery. Whenever ice is a little bit wet on the top, it's extra slippery and it's a lot easier to slip and fall. Now, as a Canadian, I'm used to walking on ice, but I still need to be careful. But I'm sure if you're from a country that doesn't have winter and if you were walking on that ice, you would have a little bit of trouble.

Yeah, I'm pretty good at walking on ice. I've been walking on ice my whole life, but there are still times where it's a little too slippery and sometimes I almost wipe out. That's the phrase we use to describe that. Hey, you've seen this creek before. I'm out

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases OUT OF SIGHT and LINE OF SIGHT

In this English lesson. I wanted to help you learn the English phrase out of sight. You can see this right now, but now it's out of sight. It literally means what it says when you can't see something. It is out of sight. Often people who are doing something illegal, they try to do it out of sight or if they're carrying something illegal and they see the cops, they'll put it out of sight. They'll put it in their pocket, in their back pocket, or they'll stick it in a bag. They'll put it out of sight. So that the police officers can't see it. So it's a very simple phrase. It simply means to put something where someone can't see it or to put yourself where someone can't see you. I can even be out of sight if I want. When I duck down, I'm out of sight.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase line of sight. So line of sight is an imaginary line between my eyes and what I'm looking at. So between myself and the camera, this is my current line of sight. When I'm sitting in my classroom at the back and a student’s doing a presentation. If another student sits in front of me, they're in my line of sight. I'm not able to see the person at the front. So it's simply an invisible line. If I look at that car driving by. It's in my line of sight. I'm able to see them.

So to review when something is out of sight, it means you simply can't see it. And when you talk about your line of sight, it's the imaginary line between you and the thing that you're looking at.

But, hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Shuvra. Thanks, sir. Yes, you should have brought your sunglasses. And then my response next time! You can see I'm wearing them right now. So thanks for that comment. I did remember them. I did find them back they were actually in my van. They were kind of between the seats. Sorry it's really windy out here. They were between the seats and they were kind of covered with some stuff. Hey, I'm not going to walk around today because it is extremely windy. You saw just there.

I got blown a little bit. If we turn this way, you can see the tree moving in the wind. So I'm going to just stand and talk in one spot. It's very gusty. I don't know if you know what the word gusty means. When it's gusty outside, it means the wind is blowing and it speeds up every once in a while.

So as I was sitting in the house, I thought I could make this English lesson inside or I could just go outside with my good camera, with my really big wind protected microphone. I've never shown you that have I? I'll take a picture of this tripod when I go back inside so that you can see it. But it is windy today.

Let's turn this way and then maybe you can see a little bit. I can't help but show you things. That tree is moving. But even though there are no leaves on it, that tree is still moving quite a bit in the wind. So anyways, too windy to make a video, but I'm out here anyways. By the way, speaking of weather it's supposed to get super cold here, wait for it.

I'm going to tell you what the temperature is going to be tonight. Drum roll, please. -22 degrees Celsius tonight, Friday night, the same -20, -25. Extremely cold weather. It's actually dangerous to go outside when it's that cold. So I don't go outside at night anyways. I sleep in my nice cozy bed inside my house, but it's going to get super cold here.

I’m kind of looking forward to it. That's kind of cool. Anyways, see you in a couple days with another short English lesson bye. Whoa!!

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English words WHATSOEVER and SOMEWHAT

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English word whatsoever. This is kind of an interesting word, and Konstantin asked if I could explain it. When you use the word whatsoever, it means at all. If I was to say, "There isn't any traffic behind me whatsoever," it would mean that there are no cars or trucks behind me. By the way, sorry if I'm squinting a lot. It's very bright out here. I tried to stand in the shade, but it's still hard to keep my eyes open. I should have brought my sunglasses because there aren't any clouds in the sky whatsoever right now. It's a clear blue sky, and it makes it hard to see.

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The second word I wanted to teach you today is the word somewhat. This means the same as a little bit. You could say, "It's somewhat cold out here today." It's minus two degrees Celsius, so it's not super cold. It's just somewhat cold. It's a little bit cold. When I make my English lessons, I'm sometimes somewhat talkative, so I'm a little bit talkative. I talk a little bit too much.

So to review, when you use the word whatsoever, it means at all. So there's not a cloud in the sky whatsoever. Today there weren't any students at school whatsoever, because we don't start teaching until tomorrow, which is actually today for you. Wednesday is the first day of second semester. I'm making this video on a Tuesday. And when you use the word somewhat, you mean a little bit, so I talk somewhat loud when I'm teaching my classes. I'm kind of a loud talking teacher. I'm somewhat loud, so it means I'm a little bit loud. I don't yell at my students, but I'm somewhat loud.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Padma, and Padma says... I can't get my paper open, 'cause I got my gloves on. It's somewhat difficult to get the paper unfolded. Padma says, "When I watch your video, I always have a feeling that I am hanging out with a good friend of mine." And my response. "That's a very nice way to describe it. Thanks for the kind words, and good use of the phrase from the last video as well."

It is kind of like hanging out a bit. I try as best as I can to be myself when I'm making my videos. I don't try to put on some sort of fake personality. The Bob that you are seeing and hearing right now is the same Bob I am when I'm at home, and so I can understand that. It's fun for me to talk to you. It's fun to read comments from all of you and respond to them. It's fun to get to know you a little bit. So in a certain way, we are hanging out a little bit. We're somewhat hanging out. I guess you could use it that way.

Anyways, I'm walking through my downtown right now. I just thought I would come out here on this bright, sunny day. I'm not sure where my sunglasses are. I thought they were in the van, but they're not. But I'm just taking a little stroll here, just having a look around. You can see the intersection behind me is somewhat busy, so that means it's a little bit busy. It's not crazy busy, but it's definitely somewhat busy. I'm gonna keep walking. I think you have seen parts of this town before. Behind me is what's called a credit union. Actually, no, this is an actual bank. Sorry, I got that wrong. A credit union and a bank are kind of the same thing. There's a bank behind me.

This is the place you go if you have to renew your driver's license or your license plates. It's called a ServiceOntario. It's a little place where you go when you need to do that. I'm just gonna walk over here in the shade, so that I can see how much time I hav

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO HANG OUT and TO HANG BACK

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, to hang out. When you hang out with someone, it just means that you are with them. You can go to someone's house and you can hang out. Jen and I are really good friends with our siblings. Sometimes we go to my sister's house and we just hang out for a bit. Sometimes we go to visit her sister and we just hang out for the afternoon. So when you hang out with someone, when you use that verb in English, you simply mean that you're going to be with the person. Maybe you'll sit and have a cup of tea. Maybe you'll sit and chat about things. You'll just spend the afternoon or the evening hanging out. You'll just spend the time together.

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The second phrasal verb I wanted to teach you today is to hang back. And this is a little different. When you hang back, it means other people leave and you don't. So let's say a bunch of people are going on a trip and everyone's leaving at 9:00 AM you might say, hey, I'm just gonna hang back for a bit and make sure that everything is turned off in the house. So when you hang back, it means other people are leaving for something, but you are going to go, but you're not going right away. You're just going to stay behind for a little bit. You're going to hang back.

So to review, to hang out simply means to be with someone. By the way, you don't have to just hang out in person. When you talk to a bunch of people on Zoom or on FaceTime, you could also say that you are hanging out. That's a legitimate use of it as well. And to hang back simply means to stay behind for a little while. Maybe everyone's going to go hiking and you are having trouble getting your shoes tied. You might say, hey, I'm just gonna hang back for a bit. You guys go on without me, I'm just going to tie my shoe and then I'll catch up. There's another verb for you.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Misael. Hi Bob, do you have a video about the verb to hang out? Thank you very much. My response, I think so. If not, I'll make one. Let me look for a sec. I can't seem to find one. I'll make one next week. And then Misael says, thank you so much. And then Bob promptly forgot to make the video. But I did reply and say, oops, sorry I forgot about this one but it's done now. If you look at the time difference on my replies, one is from six days ago and one is from one second ago. So there you go. I did just do a lesson on to hangout.

Hey, you might be wondering where I am. I'm in my classroom. I'm getting ready for the next semester. You can see behind me that all the chairs are up on the tables. Some of you don't like that you've said in the past that that's unsanitary, but it makes it easier for the janitor to vacuum and to deep clean the carpets before the next semester starts. A little tour of my room. You can see my TV. This is the main screen that I use to put things up for students, but I also have a projector up there that projects onto that wall. That's very handy as well. And I usually have things on both screens when I'm teaching.

And if you wonder what subject I teach, well normally I teach French. You can see the flag there. But this coming semester I'm going to be teaching a business class, just a little bit different than what I just did this semester, which was to teach French. And I taught some computer studies. So anyways, yes this is a typical Canadian classroom, a door, a TV screen. Not every teacher has a projector as well. I think maybe I'm special. I'

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO TAKE A STAND and TO HAVE A STANCE

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to take a stand. When you take a stand on something, it means you say your opinion out loud and publicly. Maybe in your town, they're going to build a new bridge, and you don't like where they're going to put the bridge, so you might take a stand. You might go to a city council meeting and read a list of reasons why they shouldn't build a bridge there. You're going to take a stand. You're going to express your opinion publicly so that people know what you think. When you take a stand, it usually has to do with something that's happening in the world, some sort of issue or some sort of something that's going on that you oppose or you agree with, and then you take a stand if you disagree with it.

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Which is different than the phrase to have a stance, slightly. When you take a stand, you have a stance. Let me clarify. Someone could say to you, "What's your stance on this new bridge they're gonna build?" and you could say, "You know what? I don't like it, and I'm going to take a stand." So I'm kind of confusing you a bit here. You have a stance on something. What's your stance on the new bridge they want to build? You know what? I don't like it. That's my stance on the new bridge, and you know what? I think I'm going to go to a meeting and oppose the new bridge. I'm going to have a stance, and my stance is that I'm against it and I'm going to take a stand by expressing that. But hey, to review, when you take a stand, sorry, I got distracted, because there's a vehicle coming towards me. I'm not on the road.

But to review, when you take a stand, it means that you have an opinion on something and you express it to people, and when you have a stance, it simply means that you have an opinion on something. So I picked this road because I thought it would be very quiet and different from my previous videos where I'm in town, but yep, there's still people out here.

Hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This is from Dhiraj. "Teacher Bob, recently I came across this phrase, take a stance, but there is also another phrase, take a stand. They both sound alike to me. Would you mind making a video on this, too? I'm eagerly looking forward to it." So yes, and my reply, "I'll do it in the next video."

So you can see there's a slight correction there, Dhiraj. You would have a stance on something, but you would take a stand on something. That would be the difference between the two. So yes, slight difference. And by the way, for those of you that sometimes submit comments asking me to do lessons, you can do that, and I will usually try to make a lesson about it if it's a good suggestion. So Dhiraj, that was a great suggestion.

So yes, I'm out here in the middle of nowhere. I'm out here by the woods. We might call this a forest, but I would just call it the woods. We might actually just call it the bush in Canadian English. I thought I would come out here so that there would be a bit of a juxtaposition between my previous video and this one. A juxtaposition is when something is completely different. So the last few videos I made in town, and I do plan to do more of those, and this video I'm making out here in the middle of nowhere. In fact, it's kind of funny, because even though I'm in the middle of nowhere, one of my neighbors is way there in the distance, walking towards me.

I was trying to make a video where no one would see me, where I could say, look at this wilderness that I live close to.

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases NONE OTHER THAN and NONE OF THE ABOVE

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, none other than. This is a phrase we use when we introduce someone somewhere where it might be a surprise to people but you do know who the person is. Let me explain a bit better. If I was doing a live stream and I said, "I have a surprise guest, and it's none other than, none other than Brent from Speak English With This Guy," it would be a surprise, but you do know who he is. Maybe you're watching a show and there are police officers. I think there's a police officer behind me again, There seem to be cops following me around. On the show, they might say, "We've captured the thief, and it's none other than the mayor of the town." That would be a surprise, but you do kind of know who it is.

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The second phrase I want to teach you today is the phrase none of the above. This is a phrase you'll see when taking a test that has multiple choice questions, a question and then A, B, C, D, and maybe the answer is actually D, none of the above. But we use this in conversation as well. I could say to you, "Are you having a good day or a bad day or an okay day or none of the above?" I could actually say that in a conversation. You could say, "Yeah, it's kind of none of the above."

So to review, when you use the phrase none other than, it's something you use to introduce someone where it's a surprise, but the people do know who it is. By the way, it's none other than the local police officer. And when you say none of the above, you mean that there are a number of possible responses, but none of them are actually what you're talking about.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. I printed this one really big today. It's huge, but this comment is from Roman, "Thank you for the tour of new places. The building is so huge that I thought it was a shopping or business center," and my response was this, 'Our old arena was just that, an arena, one skating rink.' This new one is more of a multipurpose building. I like it a lot because it has a walking track around the ice rink for people to exercise, a place to walk that's nice and cool."

So yeah, when you walk around the top part, it's awesome because... If you're wondering what I'm doing, I'm throwing the papers in my van. When you walk around the top part, you're actually in the arena. And when you're in the arena, it's nice and cool because there's ice, but it's fun to walk. By the way, I just happen to come here because it's the fire station. I didn't realize there would be another police officer in one of my videos. I don't think they're following me around. Anyways, it is a beautiful building. I'm very happy that our town built that building. It's kind of cool to be able to see, to have a building where you can go to the library, you can play some basketball, you can go to the arena, you can go for a walk, et cetera, et cetera.

But yeah, this is our local fire station. So it's kind of cool because in our local town, we have what are called volunteer firefighters. So they are people who have normal jobs, but when there is a car accident or a fire... Let me turn around here so you can see one of the fire engines. When there is a fire or when, I'm not sure if you can see through the glass, or a car accident, they will leave their jobs and they will drive very quickly to the fire station and then they'll jump in the fire trucks and they'll head out. So our firefighters in our town, they.. They're volunteer but they do get paid a little bit. It's

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases GO YOUR OWN WAY and MAKE YOUR OWN WAY

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to go your own way. When you go your own way, it means you do something the way you want to do it. A lot of teachers will create lessons, and they'll make handouts, and they'll give 'em to their students, but sometimes I decide to go my own way. I think of a creative way to teach that's a little different than the normal way to do it. So when you go your own way, it means you do something in a way that is unique to how you do it. Maybe there's a traditional way of learning English where you take a night class, but you've decided to go your own way. You've decided to learn English by using YouTube videos and by using an app. So you've decided to go your own way.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase to make your own way. Now ,this looks very similar, but it's not. When you make your own way, it means that you have a job, and you earn money, and you can pay for the things in life by yourself. We often hope that as our children get older they will eventually decide to make their own way in life. I would say to one of my sons, as they get older, "It's time for you to make your own way in life. It's time for you to get a job, pay your rent, it's time to stop living at home and eating my food, It's time for you to make your own way."

So to review. When you go your own way, it means you do something in a way that you thought of. So you've decided you're gonna go your own way and you're going to walk to work, instead of driving like everyone else. And when you make your own way, it means that you have a job, you earn a living, you can pay for all the things you need to pay for in life yourself.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from, I believe, Vladimir. "You reply to the comments of the same people." And my response, "Yes, sometimes, but I do try to pick at random as well. There are a few people who are regular commenters, so I do like to pick those a bit more often. Either way, I do try to reply, in writing of course, to all the comments. I just might not feature it in the video."

So yes, people have mentioned this before. They've said, "Hey, Bob, you always pick the same comments when you're making the video. You always choose the same people." And it might seem like that sometimes, but there are a few people that I do pick more often than others, possibly because they comment more often than others. If you were to keep track, there are what I call regulars. People who come to this channel, watch these videos, and leave comments almost every time I make a video. And I really like people who do that because I get to know them a little bit, as they ask questions and as they share a little bit about their own life, I share a little bit about mine and we become more of a community. So thank you to all of you who do that, who comment regularly. I do appreciate it. It makes this a little more fun for me.

So I'm here at what's called the Community Center, but it's also the arena and the library, and there's a basketball court if you want to do that as well. You can come here and hang out. Jen and I were actually here last night. We came to the library to get a few books. So that was kind of fun. And if you look over there, I think a couple of the police officers in my town are having a little meeting. They're parked over there, I guess, just briefly to talk about what's happening in the town possibly. Maybe there's something going down that t

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases CAN'T BE BOTHERED and NOT A BOTHER

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase can't be bothered. When you can't be bothered to do something it means you don't want to do it. It means you don't see the point in doing it. So you don't do it. It means you have no desire to do it. When it snows here a lot and if the weather forecast says that it's going to be above zero the next day I can't be bothered with cleaning the driveway. I don't want to do it. I don't see the point. Sometimes students when they are preparing for exams they can't be bothered to study. That means they don't want to study and they have no desire to study, but they should study. They should definitely study when they have an exam coming up. If you have an English test coming up in the future and you can't be bothered to practice your reading, writing, listing and speaking, you should make sure you do that. It's always good to study.

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The second phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase not a bother. When you tell someone that something's not a bother, oh, that's not a bother. Nope, it's not a bother. It means that you are willing to do it and it's not annoying to you. If one of my kids said I need to stay after school late tomorrow because I have a practice, is that okay? I would say, yeah, it's not a bother. I'll pick you up at five or 5:30 whenever you're done. So when you say to someone, not a bother, nope it's not a bother. It simply means that you're okay with it, you're happy about it, you're not annoyed about it.

So to review, when you say you can't be bothered it means you don't want to do something. You can't be bothered to do it. And if you say something is not a bother, it means that it doesn't annoy you and you're quite happy to do it.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Mohd. Mohd Ags says when you said this is from the last video, when you said I don't have a lot to talk about, I was like, no way. That doesn't sound like Bob the Canadian Babbler. By the way, a babbler is someone who talks a lot. Haha, but it makes me happy to see you relaxed like this and in a good mood, all the best to you and your students. And I like the emojis, happy face pizza bird 'cause we were kind of joking about birds, banana and donut. I do like donuts too. My response, the day I run out of stuff to talk about will be the day I stop doing YouTube. So like probably never.

I, interestingly enough, am a very quiet person. Thanks for the comment Mohd. I'm actually a very quiet person, but for some reason when I'm teaching and I do consider making these videos teaching I do talk a lot. I do like talking to my students at school and I do like talking to the camera. I do like talking to all of you. In my mind, I can kind of picture some of your names. The live streams help a bit on my bigger channel because in some ways in the chat get to know some of you a little bit. But yeah, I said I like talking to the camera but I very much like talking to you. I feel like I'm looking in a lens, but I'm actually talking to all of you. So anyways, yes, I'll keep talking. So I'll keep making YouTube English lessons for you.

Hey, with the continuing saga of the internet I'll just show you now. They came again yesterday and yesterday they put another antenna on my silo and now my internet is way better, way better. I can't tell you how many letter A's I put in the word way when I say way better. In fact, it was so good that yesterday I tried a new piece of software. I did a little live st

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English terms HIGH POINT and LOW POINT

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English term, "high point." When you talk about something you've done and you mention the high point, you're talking about the best thing that happened while you were doing it. Let's say you went on a trip to France. You could say, "The high point of my trip was that I got to see the Eiffel Tower." Let's say you're talking about your career, you're talking about your job. You could say, "You know, the high point in my career so far was when I got that promotion five or six years ago." So, when you talk about the high point of something, you're talking about the best thing that happened while you were doing it. "One of the high points that Jen had while flower farming was that she got to be in the local newspaper. They came and took a picture of her, and they wrote an article. And that was certainly one of the high points of her time as a flower farmer."

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Now, the other phrase I wanna teach you today is the opposite, and it's "low point." And I think you can probably guess what this means. The low point would then be the worst thing that ever happened to you, or one of the worst things that happened to you. So if you were talking again about your job, you could say, "The low point in my career was when I got fired." Or "The low point of the trip was when Joe fell getting off the bus and twisted his ankle." So, low point is then the not nice thing that happened in an event or an experience that you had.

So to review, when you talk about the high point of an experience, it's the best thing that happened during that experience. And when you talk about the low point of that experience, you're talking about the worst thing that happened during that experience. High points are definitely better than low points.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. Let me see if I can dig it out here. This comment is from Janith. "Hi Bob, sir, how do you pronounce 'gauge'?" And my response, "I'll mention it in the next video." So I just did. I have to kinda gauge how much time I have left here. Oh, I have two minutes left, so that's good. But yes, that's how I pronounce the word gauge. I think that's the only pronunciation. I know there's a couple of different spellings. I think you can spell it without a "u" as well, but I spell it the way you just saw it on the screen in Janith's comment. So thanks for that comment, and that's how I would spell or say the word "gauge." Ha, and that's how I would spell it as well. And I did give you an example sentence. Every once in a while, I look at the time on my camera because I want to gauge how much time I have left. I wanna kinda get a sense of how much time I have left.

So I don't have a lot to talk about for the last minute of this video. That's not true. I always have lots to talk about. It is January, and what that means for me at work is that things are winding down for this semester. I think some of you know this but maybe not all of you. In Canada, sorry, in my part of Ontario, I should say, we have a semester system in our high schools. That means that we teach for about four and a half months, almost five months, and then the semester is over. Students take four classes a day. And then when the semester's over, they write exams at the end, and then they start the next semester, and they take four more classes.

So for me, I have about eight days left as of today. In eight days, regular classes are finished, and then we have a week of exams. And here's a little secret. Teache

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO STOP AT NOTHING and STOP-AND-GO

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase "to stop at nothing." When you say that you will stop at nothing to do something it means you'll do anything you have to to get that thing done. It's raining right now, but I will stop at nothing to get a video made for all of you. So even though it's raining and it's a little bit cold, I don't mind coming out to get this done because I like to get the English lesson done. It's just something I like to do so I will stop at nothing to get it done. You could use this to describe other things as well. Maybe someone really likes to visit people at Christmas and they will stop at nothing in order to make that visit happen. That means even if there's a snow storm or the electricity isn't working, they will still visit someone at Christmas.

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The second phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase "stop-and-go." Now, we usually use this to talk about traffic. If you're driving and you're on a highway and you stop and then you go and then you stop and then you go because there's a little bit of a traffic jam, we would call it stop-and-go traffic. But you can describe anything as stop-and-go. You could say the rain today has been kind of stop-and-go all day. It was raining this morning and then it stopped for a bit and then it started again. The rain has been stop-and-go.

So to review, when you will stop at nothing to get something done, it means no matter what obstacle is in your way you will get that thing finished. I hope that you stop at nothing when you keep when you are learning English. I hope nothing stops you from getting it done. And when you say something is stop-and-go, it means it starts at one point and then it stops for a bit and then it starts again. Sometimes my English lessons are like that, but not this one. This one isn't stop-and-go. I talk for the whole four minutes.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous lesson. This comment is from Stanislav and Stanislav says, "it is great weather in Canada. We have a lot of snow too today." And my response is we did have a lot, but unfortunately it's all melted now.

And you can probably see that behind me already. Let's go for a little tour. Things are very different than the last video. So the last video was actually shot a few days ago, but since then things have warmed up quite a bit here in Ontario, Canada. In fact, the other day, two days ago, it was 11 degrees. Everything melted. You can see that everything behind me, it kind of looks like spring again in some ways. And then today is four degrees. I was out earlier this morning shooting a video for my other channel, my "Wednesdays with Bob" video, and yeah, it certainly doesn't look like this. Here, I'll put a little clip in of what it looked like during the storm a week and a half ago. I'll start that right now.

It's like this outside right now. I'm not sure if you can see behind me. It is just coming down out here and it is windy out here.

And then I'll come back again. So you could see in that clip that we were getting hammered. That's how I would describe it. We were getting hammered with snow, but it certainly slowed down quite a bit. But yeah, it's just kind of weird. Like, I'm wearing a winter coat, but I don't really need a winter coat right now. I could probably come outside in just a light jacket. In fact, Jen and I went shopping the other day and I just wore a jacket. Yesterday, actually. So yes, kind of disappointing. You know Bob the Canadian loves sno

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases A PIECE OF MY MIND and IN ONE PIECE

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase "a piece of my mind." Now, we usually use this phrase with the verb to give and I could say, "I'm going to give someone a piece of my mind." That means I'm angry with them and I'm going to tell them exactly what I think. If you were angry with your boss at work, you could say, "Tomorrow I'm going to give my boss a piece of my mind." I'm going to tell him or her exactly what I don't like about my job or exactly what I don't like about how things are going. I'm going to give them a piece of my mind. So again, it means you're angry, it means you're upset and you're going to tell someone exactly how you feel.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase "in one piece." Now, this is kind of a weird phrase. "We just had a storm here, but we made it through in one piece." "The other day I heard on the news that someone had a car accident, but they made it through in one piece." So what I mean by it being a weird phrase is it kind of sounds weird if you think about the alternative. We don't think about that when we use it in English, though. We use it to mean when something bad has happened and we are still feeling good and no one was hurt. "So we had a bad snowstorm, but Jen and I made it through in one piece." The alternative, I'm not gonna talk about the alternative. We made it through in one piece. And again, when we use this in English we aren't thinking about something gruesome. We're just saying that everything is okay.

So to review, "a piece of my mind", if I was to give you a piece of my mind I would tell you exactly what I think about something and I might even be angry while I'm doing it. And when you make it through something in one piece, it means that everything went well and everyone is doing okay.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Judit. "Nowadays, I drink a cup of hot chocolate every day. I love it too. Snowstorm? Wow, I hope you and Brent will survive." And then I said, "We all made it through intact." And when I replied to this comment, Judit that's when I thought of the phrase in one piece. We all made it through intact. We all made it through in one piece.

Let's have a look around though. You might be surprised to know that we went through what they were calling a blizzard, but we don't actually have that much snow on the ground. The snow was everywhere. You couldn't see across the river, you couldn't even see across the road. I went out to check our mailbox that day and there was so much snow blowing I couldn't see in either direction. So I actually decided to just not cross the road. It was far too dangerous. But if you look, you'll see that you can still see little blades of grass sticking up. You can see that we did get snow, my camera, my camera doesn't like the cold. We did get snow, but not an outrageous amount.

Let's spin this way a bit so you can see the farm yard a bit better. So you can see my tracks, you can see the grass, you can see the peonies still sticking up, the little stubble from the peonies. If you look in the distance you can see an ominous sky, though, the sun above, but this very very dark cloud. It's not coming this way. When I looked on the radar this morning that storm is actually moving that way, so it's not coming here.

But yep, we had two days of really really bad weather the day before, so it was the 23rd and the 24th, yes. Our power went out. We ran the generator for a bit, so we were a

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO PARK IT and TO HIT IT OUT OF THE PARK

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, to park it. When you park it somewhere, it can mean that you're parking your vehicle, but it can also mean that you're going to sit somewhere. I could say to Jen, "I'm gonna drop the kids off at the mall and then I'm just gonna park it on a bench for a little bit." That means I'm going to sit on a bench. It doesn't mean I'm gonna drive my vehicle and try to put it on a bench. That doesn't even make sense, does it? But when you say that you're going to park it somewhere, it means you're going to sit somewhere. We also use this as a command. Sometimes parents will say to kids who are misbehaving, "Okay, just park it for a sec, and I'm going to talk to you about why your behavior is bad." That means you want the child to sit down if you tell them to park it, 'cause kids don't have cars, do they?

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Hey, the second phrase I wanted to teach you today is to hit it out of the park. Now, I may have taught this phrase in the past. I can't remember. It is a very popular one. When you say someone has hit it out of the park, it means they did something and they did a really, really good job. Maybe a friend of yours had to play a musical instrument in front of other people and they did an amazing job. You could say, "Oh, you should have seen Patrick play the violin. He hit it out of the park." This means that during the performance he played every note perfectly and he just did an amazing job. He hit it out of the park.

So to review, when you say you're going to park it, it can mean that you're just going to sit somewhere. When I go to the mall, sometimes my kids shop and I just park it. I sit on a bench and I wait for them to finish their shopping. And when you hit it out of the park, it means that you do a really, really good job. I hope that whatever you're doing next, whether it's a performance or a test or something like that, I hope that you hit it out of the park.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Denis, which in English we would say, Dennis, by the way. "Bob, when it's cold outside and it's snowing and you're sitting in your comfortable chair and look out the window, what kind of drink are you prefer to sip? Or what kind of drink do you prefer to sip? Hot cocoa, mulled wine, or maybe grog." And my response, I prefer hot chocolate. It's especially good when you come in from the cold and need to warm up. So yes, hot cocoa, hot chocolate, that would be my favorite drink. We more commonly call it hot chocolate here, although hot cocoa is also a correct term. So thank you, Denis, for that comment and for that question. I definitely like when I come in from the cold, I like to have a nice cup of hot chocolate. That's my favorite.

So, guess what is going to happen here. It is Thursday today and they're calling for a blizzard. They've actually updated the term that they're using. When I say they're calling for, it means the weather people are forecasting that we are going to get a lot of snow starting halfway through the day tomorrow. They originally said it was going to snow. Then they said lots of snow. And just this morning they have now said it's going to be a blizzard. If you don't know what a blizzard is, a blizzard is a gigantic snowstorm. This snowstorm is so big that I think Brent from Speak English With This Guy and myself will be getting the same storm, even though he lives hundreds of kilometers away from me. So it's supposed to last for a good 24

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO WORK AWAY and ASK AWAY

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, to work away. When you work away at something, it means you're working on something that will take a long time to finish and you're doing it little by little. A great example of this would be if you are doing a jigsaw puzzle. If you have 1,000 or 2,000 or 5,000-piece jigsaw puzzle, you need to work away at it. You're not going to finish it in 10 minutes or in 15 minutes. When you open the box and you dump the pieces out, you need to work away at it. You need to take some time to put every piece in slowly. At school, it's the week before Christmas and parents keep sending big boxes of chocolates to the staff, to the teachers to eat and we work away at each box of chocolates. We don't eat them all at once, but there's so many that we have to work away at it until the box is empty. I've eaten way too much chocolate lately, by the way. I need to slow down.

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But the second phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase, ask away. This is a phrase that we say sometimes as teachers when someone asks if they can ask us some questions. If a student says to me, "Can I ask you a few questions about my project?" I'll respond by saying, "Sure, ask away." This is simply giving the person permission to ask you lots of questions. Maybe a friend is visiting you and they say, "Hey, can I ask you a few questions "about what it's like at work for you, "what your job is like?" You could say, "Sure, ask away. "I'm happy to talk about work."

So to review, when you work away at something, it means you get it done slowly but surely. There's another English phrase for you. A jigsaw puzzle is a great example. You just need to work away at it, and eventually it's done. And the second phrase, ask away, is something you say when you're giving someone permission to ask you a lot of questions. A politician might be walking along and a journalist or reporter might say, "Can you stop and answer a few questions for me?" And they might say, "Sure, ask away." Or they might run because they don't wanna answer any questions. That could happen too.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This is from U Bean. Hi, Bob. I heard that Canadians don't like to use umbrellas when it rains. Is that true? And my response, it's an interesting thing and there might be some truth to it. I can only speak from my own experience, though. I don't use one. I own one, but I rarely use it.

So I know that umbrellas are these amazing things. They're really cool. When it rains, you open your umbrella and it keeps you dry. I own two umbrellas, actually, not just one. And we sometimes use them when we're at market. We sometimes use them when we go somewhere where we will be forced to be outside in the rain for a while. But we don't use umbrellas quite, we don't use umbrellas regularly to walk from our vehicle into a building. When I say we, I mean Jen and I. I think there are Canadians that do use umbrellas. But yeah, I don't take one with me every day. If I drive to school in the rain, when I get to work, I just run from my van to the front door. I don't use my umbrella. So, interesting. I might have to go to the city sometime and see how many Canadians actually use their umbrellas. We'll see.

Hey, it's not snowy here. It's a little disappointing. Christmas is only a few days away, and most people who live in Canada really like it when we get lots of snow. But it sounds like we might get some snow this weekend. It sounds like Friday and Saturday