Channel Title: Bob's Short English Lessons Channel Description: Every weekday morning I make a short video to help you learn English. You can read along to practice your English as what I am saying in the video is always in the description. As well the subtitles (CC) are included and can be turned on to assist with your English lesson. Here is a suggestion: 1) Watch the video twice on the first day with the subtitles on. 2) Watch the video again the next day with the subtitles off. I am very happy to help you learn English, and if you have any questions please post them in the comments of the videos. I always respond within a few days. Happy English learning! -Bob the Canadian If you want longer English video lessons with subtitles just search, "Bob the Canadian" on Youtube. That's me! <video> Learn the English Phrases "the calm before the storm" and "to storm off" Description: Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM and TO STORM OFF In this English lesson, I wanted to teach you the phrase the calm before the storm. Now, you can use this literally to talk about the fact that there's going to be a storm later today. But it's actually quite calm and peaceful out here right now. And that's actually true. It's really warm outside. I'm just wearing a hoodie and a baseball cap. It's like 5 degrees or something and raining a little bit. But this is the calm before the storm. Later today, it's supposed to drop to -9. And for the next week it's going to be like minus 8 or minus 10 every day. So it's going to be super cold. So this is kind of the calm before the storm. We use this in real life as well, though. Let's say you're a student and you have exams coming up in a week. Right now it's the calm before the storm. It's peaceful now, but it's going to be really, really busy in just a little while. Maybe you have this at work. You're working and it's just a nice day at work. But you know, it's just the calm before the storm because a big project is due soon. WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN" ✅If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me by joining the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmW5tmKIBrryNf5n-_A6Fmw/join ✅If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadian The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is to storm off. By the way, this is a repeat of a lesson from 2020. I think it's the first time I'm doing the same two phrases in the same lesson. I haven't done that before, but I really wanted to talk about to storm off. When you storm off, it means you're angry and you leave. So maybe you're in a store and you're like, you charged me too much for this. I'm annoyed. And then you leave. That's probably not exactly how you would say it, but when you're angry and you're so angry, you leave the situation. We say that you storm off. So he was so angry that he stormed off. So to review, the calm before the storm is any time of peace and calm before something bad happens or something more intense happens. And to storm off means to leave a situation because you are not happy. But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Pedro. It looks like you guys are getting more snow than last year. Bob, Love to see it. My response. We have a bit. I hope we get more. So we'll see. Thanks for the comment, Pedro. We have had more snow than last year. I think at this time last year, it was... I think it was kind of warm out last year, but. But we'll have to see what actually happens the next few days. It's supposed to get really cold, like I said, but I don't know if we're going to get a lot of snow. I really hope we do. I don't enjoy this. I like seeing everything white in the winter. I don't like it when my... I can see my lens is getting raindrops on it. There should be snowflakes falling out of the sky, but hey, it's just the way it goes. You can see down here on the driveway, we have a little bit of ice underneath water, and that's actually quite slippery. But I think this will all probably melt today before the temperature starts to drop. We'll have to see. Who knows? The other thing I don't like about this is when it goes from wet to really cold, it can be quite dangerous to drive on the roads because the rain hits the road and then when it freezes, it forms a layer of ice. And that's just not nice. I'd rather drive in snow than in ice. I'm not sure if all of you are aware of the difference. When you drive in snow, you slip and slide a little bit. When you drive on ice, it's really, really slippery. Like, I'd rather drive on a road that's packed down with snow then drive on a road that is icy. Ice is just super, super dangerous. So we'll see how it goes. Right now, as you see this car go by, they're just driving in the rain. Pretty safe to drive in the rain, but in a few hours, I think around midnight tonight, it's really going to start to drop. So anyways, thanks for watching on a Saturday. I'll see you in a few days with another short English lesson. Bye. #englishlesson #englishvocabulary #speakenglish #bobthecanadian ✅ Please consider supporting my channel by clicking here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmW5tmKIBrryNf5n-_A6Fmw/join ⌛ Be sure to watch the video TWICE today and ONCE tomorrow! ✅ SUBSCRIBE RIGHT HERE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmW5tmKIBrryNf5n-_A6Fmw?sub_confirmation=1 ✅If you enjoy these lessons please visit my Patreon page: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadian ✅Find longer English lessons right here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZJJTxA36ZPNTJ1WFIByaeA </video> <video> Learn the English Phrase "Happy New Year!" and the word "gingerly" Description: Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrase HAPPY NEW YEAR and the word GINGERLY Well, in this English lesson I just want to say Happy New Year. I do have another phrase or word here to teach you. There's a couple couple geese flying over. They're probably excited because of the water behind me, but Happy New Year. This is not what it normally looks like on January 1st in my part of the world. Normally there's snow everywhere. Right now it is 3 degrees outside and the river is flooded. I'll show you that in a moment. But anyways, Happy New Year. I hope that 2025 is a great year for you. 2025? Wow. That's incredible. It feels like time is really flying, but it's already 2025, so happy new Year. WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN" ✅If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me by joining the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmW5tmKIBrryNf5n-_A6Fmw/join ✅If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadian The other word I wanted to teach you is the word gingerly, which I mentioned in my last non English lesson. Gingerly means to simply do something carefully. If you injure yourself, let's say you hurt your foot or your ankle. When you start to walk again, you're going to walk gingerly. You're going to walk kind of like very carefully because you don't want to re injure yourself. The other day I was on some ice and so I was walking quite gingerly. I was walking carefully because I didn't want to fall. So to review, Happy New Year. I hope you're having a great day. January 1st for me is usually quite a relaxing day. Nothing is open in my part of the world on January 1st, so you can't go anywhere. So you just stay home and play games and hang out with your family and do things that are fun. And gingerly, hopefully you aren't doing things gingerly. Hopefully you are healthy and excited for the day and able to do things well. But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This is from Ünsal. Ünsal says it may sound cliche, but since the next video will be on the first day of the year, I'll ask. I'll ask just for the sake of formality. How was 2024 and what are your expectations from 2025? Happy New Year to you and your family. And my response. I really enjoyed 2024. It was a busy year. But alas, that is my current era in life, the dad era. It's fun for Jen and I to see our kids growing up. I'm still enjoying work and YouTube and I'm still quite excited about archery, which I started in August. My plans for 2025 are quite boring, simply more of the same. So thanks for asking, Ünsal. Yes, those are my plans for 2025. I am not an exciting person. Year to year I'm pretty much doing the same things. So my plans for 2025 are to keep working. My plan for 2025 is to keep doing YouTube. So I'm going to keep teaching at the school where I'm at. I'm going to keep making YouTube English lessons. I think I'm going to try and be a little more consistent this year. When I looked back on 2024 and looked at my... my output, I was a little lacking, I think, in my own estimation. So I'm going to try and be a little more consistent. And we'll see, I think it'll be a fun year. I'm looking forward to already making the next video for my next for my bigger channel and doing a live stream. So anyways, if you look behind me, you can see this is not typical for this time of year. There are geese all over the place because the river is flooded. As I mentioned yesterday on my other channel, I did a live stream. The power was out yesterday because we had a wind storm. And that wind storm also brought with it a lot of rain. And right now the ground is actually a little bit frozen. Even though it's nice and warm out here, the ground is a little bit frozen, so the water can't penetrate into the ground. And so what it does is it just flows into ditches and creeks and streams and eventually into the river. Anyways, Happy New Year. I hope you're having a good day. I'll see you in a few days with another short English lesson in 2025. Very cool. Bye. It's actually 2024 right now while I'm filming this. If that sounded a little strange, it's December 31st, but you're... you'll be watching this on January 1st. So anyways, happy New Year. Bye. #englishlesson #englishvocabulary #speakenglish #bobthecanadian ✅ Please consider supporting my channel by clicking here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmW5tmKIBrryNf5n-_A6Fmw/join ⌛ Be sure to watch the video TWICE today and ONCE tomorrow! ✅ SUBSCRIBE RIGHT HERE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmW5tmKIBrryNf5n-_A6Fmw?sub_confirmation=1 ✅If you enjoy these lessons please visit my Patreon page: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadian ✅Find longer English lessons right here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZJJTxA36ZPNTJ1WFIByaeA </video> <video> Learn the English Phrases "You're seeing things!" and "Seeing is believing!" Description: Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases YOU'RE SEEING THINGS and SEEING IS BELIEVING In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase you're seeing things. We say this to someone when they describe something and you find it really hard to believe. If we were driving along and Jen said, I just saw 50 airplanes in the sky, I'd probably say, ah you're seeing things. It's all in your imagination. I don't believe what you are saying. If Jen phoned me and said, hey, come to Tim Hortons right now, donuts are free, I would say, oh, you're seeing things. Basically what I'm saying is, I don't believe you. WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN" ✅If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me by joining the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmW5tmKIBrryNf5n-_A6Fmw/join ✅If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadian The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase seeing is believing. If I said to you that the A W is the best place to eat hamburgers and you said, no, I don't believe it, and you actually came there, you might say that you now believe me because seeing is believing. Sorry, that's a bad example. Because probably when you taste it that you will believe me. Let me think of a better example. Let's say if I said the A and W has the best window decorations in the entire town. By the way, I'm standing in front of the A W restaurant. If I said they have the best window decorations, you might say, nah. And then if you actually came there, I would say, seeing is believing. So when you actually see it, then you believe what I said. So to review, if you tell someone you're seeing things, it means you're telling them you don't believe what they say they are seeing. And if you say seeing is believing, it means that when you actually see something for yourself, then you believe that it is true. But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Denis. Thanks a lot for the lesson, Bob. The Great Lakes region is an incredible place. Have you had a chance to visit them all? And my response, I have not visited Lake Superior, but I have visited the other four. Someday Jen and I will make a trip way up north to see it. So thanks, Denis, for that comment. Yeah, Lake Superior is pretty far away. I have not seen Lake Superior. Let me just move this camera a little bit so it's in the center. It's a little bit of a drive. I know that other teachers from my school have been that far north, either for a camping trip or if we have student athletes or if we have a team that does really, really well. Sometimes we have to go way up north to play other schools in the provincial championships. So I know some teachers have been that far north and they have experienced that. It is a busy day here in town. I'm not sure if you can tell. The other thing is it's extremely bright out today. I'm always surprised at how bright the winter sun can be. I think it has a little bit to do with the fact that the air is thinner in the winter. That would be my guess, that in the winter the air in the sky is thinner. And so you get this. I'll just put it in the camera for a sec. This extremely bright sunshine in the winter, but I'll take it. We went for weeks and weeks with hardly any sunshine at all. So it's quite nice to have a little bit of sunshine now. I'm moving into the shade again. See, it's nice to have evergreen trees in the winter because they allow for a little bit of shade for me to stand in. But, yeah, I'll take it. What was I saying? Yeah, we had days and days on end where it was just kind of gray, like cloudy every day and not very bright. Your ability to create vitamin D is related to being out in the sunshine. So I do enjoy being out here for a bit. I know I probably need to be out here for 20 minutes to start making vitamin D, but it's nice to be outside and to catch a few rays at this time of year. Anyways, thanks for watching. I hope you're having a good day and I'll see you in a couple days with another short English lesson. Bye. #englishlesson #englishvocabulary #speakenglish #bobthecanadian ✅ Please consider supporting my channel by clicking here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmW5tmKIBrryNf5n-_A6Fmw/join ⌛ Be sure to watch the video TWICE today and ONCE tomorrow! ✅ SUBSCRIBE RIGHT HERE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmW5tmKIBrryNf5n-_A6Fmw?sub_confirmation=1 ✅If you enjoy these lessons please visit my Patreon page: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadian ✅Find longer English lessons right here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZJJTxA36ZPNTJ1WFIByaeA </video> <video> Learn the English Ending "-wise" and Term "wise guy" Description: Read along to practice your English and to learn the English ending -WISE and the term WISE GUY In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn how to use the suffix wise. A suffix is something that comes at the end of a word and when we use wise it means in relation to something. So if I was to say this, temperature- wise, it's a really nice day today. If I look in my wallet though, money- wise, my wallet's a little bit empty. Or if my boss said, is that project on time? I might say, ooh, time-wise, that project isn't going very well. So it's a little word or suffix we put at the end of a word that means that you are talking about that thing or in relation to. In relation to. So once again, temperature-wise, it's really nice out here today. I'm wearing a short sleeve shirt. Time-wise, I have a lot of time today. I'm done work for the day and I'm just home making this English lesson. WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN" ✅If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me by joining the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmW5tmKIBrryNf5n-_A6Fmw/join ✅If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadian The other phrase I wanted to teach you today or term is wise guy. A wise guy is someone who makes a lot of jokes and a lot of sarcastic comments. You could say, ah, Uncle Joe is such a wise guy. He's always cracking jokes and making sarcastic or funny comments. So to review, when you put wise on the end of a word, it means you are talking about something in relation to that word. Again, time-wise, I'm having a nice day. I went to work on time, got all my work done, I got home on time. So time-wise, the day is going well. And a wise guy is someone who tells a lot of jokes. Also, a wise guy can be a criminal in a criminal organization. Sometimes we call them wise guys. If you watch a movie, you might see that. But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Mohd. How come Mr. Bob never showed us the little area in front of the barn extension? I briefly saw it in a members video before. There's definitely some decoration going on there with all those rotary blades mounted on sticks. But he never talked about it. Which begs the question, is Bob trying to hide something from us? My response? Hmm, it's our secret art installation. Maybe I'll talk about it in the next video. We'll see. So here's the plan. We got some of these things from Jen's dad, actually. Actually, I'll turn you around. That's maybe a better way to see this. Hold on, I'm going to spin you. Okay, so these are parts from a cultivation machine. Cultivation machine called a rotary hoe. So this is actually something that normally you would see a whole bunch of these on a machine in a row, and they would spin and they would weed the soil. That's kind of the idea. It's called a rotary cultivator or a rotary hoe. But we thought they kind of look like flowers. And because we live on a flower farm, we thought we would put some in front of the barn as decoration. So we put them there. We're not done yet. We have to get a little piece of steel for that one as well. And there's one over there. And this whole area, just in general, is going to be a flower bed. But if you watch Jen's videos on her channel, the goats got out once and they kind of chewed and ate the leaves. So those plants aren't dead, but they certainly will grow back. But overall, though, this is just an area in front of where we have the floral coolers and stuff. We might actually turn that window into a door someday and make it maybe into a small shop. We've talked about that from time to time. Whether that actually happens or not, we'll see. I mean, there's always plans for the future, and sometimes they get done and sometimes they don't. If you look behind me, there's still a big pile of stone that I have to distribute around the driveway as well. So, like anyone, I think you are all very similar to me. You have projects for the future and you get done the ones you want to get done. And some don't always get done right away. Anyways, thanks for watching. I hope you're having a good day. I hope you had a good week, and I'll see you next week with another short English lesson. Bye. #englishlesson #englishvocabulary #speakenglish #bobthecanadian ✅ Please consider supporting my channel by clicking here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmW5tmKIBrryNf5n-_A6Fmw/join ⌛ Be sure to watch the video TWICE today and ONCE tomorrow! ✅ SUBSCRIBE RIGHT HERE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmW5tmKIBrryNf5n-_A6Fmw?sub_confirmation=1 ✅If you enjoy these lessons please visit my Patreon page: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadian ✅Find longer English lessons right here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZJJTxA36ZPNTJ1WFIByaeA </video> <video> Learn the English Phrases "to sink in" and "sink or swim" Description: Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO SINK IN and SINK OR SWIM In this English lesson, I want to try and not freeze my butt off and also teach you the English phrase to sink in. When something is allowed to sink in, it means that you hear it and eventually you will understand it. Sometimes when you're in school, the teacher will teach a lesson and it might take a while for what the teacher taught you to sink in. Sometimes you hear the teacher say it, you go home and you do your homework, and then eventually you understand it. You've given it some time and it was able to sink in. I hope that when you watch my lessons, eventually what I'm teaching you will sink in. Eventually you will understand it. WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN" ✅If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me by joining the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmW5tmKIBrryNf5n-_A6Fmw/join ✅If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadian The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase sink or swim. This means to either succeed or fail. So sometimes students are doing badly in a class and they have one more assignment to do and then it's a time where they will either sink or swim. So if you imagine this, when you sink, it means you go underwater. And when you swim you are above the water and you can still breathe. So we use this phrase to talk about somebody or something that will either succeed or fail. Sorry, I should say fail or succeed, shouldn't I? When you sink, you fail. When you succeed, you are swimming. So sink or swim. So to review, when you allow something to sink in, it means you allow yourself to think about it for a bit and then understand it. And if you say a situation is sink or swim, it means you are either going to sink, fail, or swim and succeed. But anyways, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment I think is from Vino. Hey Bob, could you please teach me the meaning of the phrase let that sink in? And my reply, sure, and I kind of just did. The let that sink in phrase though is more. It means the same thing, but it's more of a saying you would say to someone. So you would say to them, let me think. Let's say I got stopped for speeding and the police officer said if you get one more ticket you're going to lose your license. Let that sink in. Basically what the police officer is saying is think about that for a bit and make sure you understand completely why you shouldn't speed anymore. But hey, I don't really speed a lot. I did get a ticket almost exactly a year ago, so I was bringing my son back to university and of all places, I got a ticket in my local town, which was a little bit disappointing. It was the beginning of a four hour trip and I got a ticket right at the beginning of the trip. That was rather disappointing. Needless to say, I was in a bad mood for the entire trip. You might be wondering why I'm sticking close to the shed. I'm gonna turn around here because it's quite windy today. I always think it's funny when there are no leaves on the trees. You really can't tell that it's a windy day, but it's a little bit cold. It's minus three and I don't know if you've watched Jen's videos on her channel, but she was just videotaping me videotaping this lesson. I'm not sure why. I think she wants to put a clip in her next video. You'll have to go check that out. Her channel is called @myflowerfarm. If you put an @ sign and then type myflowerfarm with no spaces in the search bar of YouTube, you'll find it. Anyways, I was just telling Jen when you go outside to make a video in the winter, it's always best to dress warmer than you need to because you might be out there for longer than you were expecting. And that's certainly the case today. I'm only wearing a T shirt under my winter coat. I probably should have worn a sweatshirt as well. Anyways, I hope you enjoy these little lessons. I know most of you do because lots of you watch them. So I'll see you in a few days with another one. Have a good weekend. Bye. #englishlesson #englishvocabulary #speakenglish #bobthecanadian ✅ Please consider supporting my channel by clicking here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmW5tmKIBrryNf5n-_A6Fmw/join ⌛ Be sure to watch the video TWICE today and ONCE tomorrow! ✅ SUBSCRIBE RIGHT HERE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmW5tmKIBrryNf5n-_A6Fmw?sub_confirmation=1 ✅If you enjoy these lessons please visit my Patreon page: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadian ✅Find longer English lessons right here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZJJTxA36ZPNTJ1WFIByaeA </video> <video> Learn the English Term "no-show" and the phrase "to show up" Description: Read along to practice your English and to learn the English term NO-SHOW and the phrase TO SHOW UP In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English term no show. When you say someone is a no show, it means you planned to meet with them somewhere and they didn't come. Maybe you and a friend are going out for coffee and you go to the coffee shop at the time that you said you were going to meet at 7pm and then that person doesn't show up. You would say they are a no show. They decided not to go to the coffee shop and probably didn't tell you either because usually if someone tells you they're not coming, then you know why they're not. So if someone is a no show, it means that you planned to meet them somewhere and for some reason they never arrived. WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN" ✅If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me by joining the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmW5tmKIBrryNf5n-_A6Fmw/join ✅If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadian The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase to show up. If someone is a no show, it means that they didn't show up. When you show up somewhere, it means you arrive. I show up at work every day at around quarter to eight right now and some of my colleagues show up around 7:30. They get there earlier than me. But to show up means to arrive. So if you planned to meet with someone for coffee tonight at a coffee shop at 7pm, hopefully they would show up at 7pm and you would have a cup of coffee with them. Hopefully they wouldn't be a no show. So to review a no show is a person, a term we use for a person who doesn't arrive. If I flew somewhere on an airplane and someone was supposed to pick me up at the airport and they didn't come, I would say they were a no show. My ride was a no show, they didn't come to pick me up. And to show up means to arrive somewhere. So hopefully if I go somewhere on a plane someday my ride will show up and pick me up and not be a no show. But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Axel. Black T shirt on Bob. Something new. And my response, yes, many of you noticed this. It's actually an official school shirt that I wear when I take students somewhere. Today we went on a walk to town to study local businesses. So I wear my black school shirt. I actually should have put so I wore my black school shirt. I kind of switched tenses on you there. That was a little bit of a mistake. So scratch that out. And instead it should say so I wore my black school shirt. Yes, we're encouraged as teachers when we go somewhere with students outside of the school day, that we wear school gear or school, it's not really a uniform. It's just a shirt with the school logo on it so that if people see us in town with a whole bunch of students, they know who we are. I'm just trying to stand with my back to the wind. You can see that winter has arrived. Should I pan around? Yeah, let's give you a good view of this. So, yeah, I was wearing a black shirt the other day. Not by choice. It's kind of required, I guess. It's not really required, but I think it is good when you take a whole bunch of teenagers out in public, especially if you're the teacher in charge that you wear something so it's easy to identify who is in charge of that, that trip and who's in charge of those students. Yeah, it's not actually that cold. My ear's a little bit cold right now, but it's definitely windy, so I'm trying to stand as much as I can with my back to the wind. You'll see there's a nice little bit of snow on the ground. It was almost a snow day today. Yesterday, there's a website called this called the Snow Day Predictor, and if you punch in your address, it tells you what they think the chance is of you having a snow day. And it said 99% yesterday. It said that today there was a 99% chance. But I didn't believe it because they were only calling for 2cm of snow. That's not enough snow to have a snow day. Anyways, I'm gonna go warm up. Thanks for watching. I hope you learned a couple more phrases, if not a little bit more, and I'll see you next week with another short English lesson. Bye. #englishlesson #englishvocabulary #speakenglish #bobthecanadian ✅ Please consider supporting my channel by clicking here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmW5tmKIBrryNf5n-_A6Fmw/join ⌛ Be sure to watch the video TWICE today and ONCE tomorrow! ✅ SUBSCRIBE RIGHT HERE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmW5tmKIBrryNf5n-_A6Fmw?sub_confirmation=1 ✅If you enjoy these lessons please visit my Patreon page: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadian ✅Find longer English lessons right here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZJJTxA36ZPNTJ1WFIByaeA </video> <video> Learn the English Acronyms ETA and FOMO Description: Read along to practice your English and to learn the English acronyms ETA and FOMO In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English acronym or abbreviation eta. This means estimated time of arrival. When someone is coming to your house, and you don't know exactly when they're going to arrive, you could say, what's your ETA? And they will then say, I'll be there in 20 minutes, or I'll be there in an hour. Sometimes when Jen and I are driving to her parents, they'll text us and say, what's your eta? And then we'll say, oh, we'll be there in about 10 minutes, or we'll be there in an hour. So estimated time of arrival. That's what this acronym or abbreviation stands for. WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN" ✅If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me by joining the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmW5tmKIBrryNf5n-_A6Fmw/join ✅If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadian The other acronym or abbreviation I wanted to teach you is fomo, and this stands for Fear of Missing Out. Fear of Missing Out. This is a situation where you know something is happening and you don't want to miss that thing. Maybe everyone's investing in a certain stock on the stock market, and you don't have any money, and you have this fear of missing out, so you borrow some money to invest. That's one example. Maybe everyone's going to a really cool event, and you really don't want to be the one who doesn't go. Maybe you want to go to a Taylor Swift concert. So you spend $2,000 to go because you have a fear of missing out. You don't want all of your friends to go and do something fun, and you're just sitting at home doing nothing. So, to review, ETA stands for estimated time of arrival. I'm actually waiting for a truck to arrive right now. I texted the person who's coming, and I said, what's your ETA? Actually, I just typed the letters ETA with a question mark, and he said 20 minutes. ETA, 20 minutes. And then FOMO stands for fear of Missing Out. Anytime there is something happening and you want to be there, you do everything you can because you have a fear of missing out. But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Ruslan. Thank you for another cool lesson. Dear Teacher Bob, have you already put on your winter tires? Winter is coming, my Lord. And by the way, the my Lord is a reference to Game of Thrones. There is a... There's lords and ladies. And so Ruslan is referencing that. That's how you can... You can tell because of the little wolf there. And then Yep, all the vehicles have their winter tires installed. Now we wait. So, yes, a few weeks ago already. Actually, a few weeks, two weeks ago, each vehicle went to the garage and had winter tires installed. Let me give you a closer look here. And if you're wondering, yes, this is... well, it's a used vehicle, but it's new for us. A few weeks ago I found a nice 2015 Ford Escape. I don't know if all of you are fans of Ford vehicles. I like to buy every kind of vehicle. I've owned Nissans, I've owned, Dodge vehicles I've owned, Chrysler, I've owned. I think that's a Chev. I think that van is a Chev. But as you know, I have a lot of kids. Those kids need to drive places. And we were getting to the point where that van. Trying to point to it, that van is not as reliable as it needs to be when we go on long distance trips. That van is not very reliable. So I drive that van to work now. And we bought a third vehicle. So my insurance is a bit expensive. But I found a 2015. So it's nine years old. Nine years old with 100,000 kilometers on it. So not as low as I like, but low enough that I thought it was a reasonably good deal for Bob the Canadian. So, yep. So we're driving three vehicles now. We'll probably do that for a while because we just have kids that need to drive places. Eventually they'll be adults and they can buy their own vehicles, but for now it's mom and dad that help them get around. And yeah, there's snow tires on everything. All three vehicles. That was a bit of money. Anyways, thanks for watching. Enough of my talking about money woes. Everyone has expenses. That's just how life is. I hope you're having a good day and I'll see you in a couple days with another English lesson. Bye. #englishlesson #englishvocabulary #speakenglish #bobthecanadian ✅ Please consider supporting my channel by clicking here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmW5tmKIBrryNf5n-_A6Fmw/join ⌛ Be sure to watch the video TWICE today and ONCE tomorrow! ✅ SUBSCRIBE RIGHT HERE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmW5tmKIBrryNf5n-_A6Fmw?sub_confirmation=1 ✅Find longer English lessons right here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZJJTxA36ZPNTJ1WFIByaeA </video> <video> Learn the English Phrases "to hit the spot" and "in a tight spot" Description: Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO HIT THE SPOT and IN A TIGHT SPOT In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to hit the spot. Sometimes you are craving something. Sometimes you really want something to eat or to drink. And then after you eat or drink it, you say, oh, that hit the spot. When something hits the spot, it means it satisfies you. For me, right now, this is kind of a bad thing. I've become a little bit addicted to diet soda. I know it's not good for me, and I know it has strange ingredients in it instead of soda or instead of sugar, but I find when I drink a diet ginger ale or a diet root beer, it tends to hit the spot. I feel very satisfied. Jen doesn't like it, though. She doesn't like artificial sweeteners. So I only have one a week. But right now it's really seeming to hit the spot for me. I really, really enjoy it. WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN" ✅If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me by joining the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmW5tmKIBrryNf5n-_A6Fmw/join ✅If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadian The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is a tight spot. When you are in a tight spot, I should have put the word in there because you're often in a tight spot. It means you're in a difficult situation. Let's say that I'm trying to think of an example here. You borrowed someone's car and you put a dent in it. You're kind of in a tight spot because now you have to tell them that you did something to their car. Let's say that you owe someone a thousand dollars and you also have to pay all of your bills and you're not going to have enough money. You are then in a tight spot. So you're in a difficult situation. So to review to hit the spot means something is very satisfying. When I have a chocolate bar, it really tends to hit the spot. And then when you are in a tight spot, you are in a very, very difficult situation. But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Rosario and the comment is: Great Bob. Sometimes I like to push it too far and I eventually get in trouble. And my response, it happens to us all. I think we all, at some point in our lives, push it a little bit too far. We work a little too hard, we stay up a little bit too late. We maybe should rest and we don't. Maybe we work over the weekend. We push it too far and then you get into a little bit of trouble. Maybe you get sick, maybe you're just exhausted. For me, when I push it too far, it often results in me taking a sick day. So it's like, it's kind of counterproductive. But hey, someone asked, I think in a previous video whether my town had Christmas decorations up yet. There's some in this window. You can see there. That's not the town though. And if you look across the street. Let's walk this way. I think you'll get a better look if I go this way. I think they look much better at night. I think there are these really tiny, small snowflakes. If you look up on this pole up by the green light there. And then if you look at the other side of the road, I bet you you guys can hardly see them. Let me flip around. I bet you you guys can hardly see them. But I'll get as close as I can and then you'll be able to get a better sense. Again, I think they look much better at night. You can see right here there is a bit of a snowflake. There's a little chicken below it too. Because this town is known for having a of poultry farms around. In fact, we used to have... I'll walk backwards here. We used to have a festival called Poultry Fest in this town. We don't anymore. It used to happen every year in June. It was pretty fun, but I think they were having trouble getting organizers and so eventually we didn't have it anymore. So yes, there are some Christmas decorations up. Not a lot, but enough for it to feel festive at least at night. Hey, thanks for watching this English lesson. I'll see you in a couple days with another one. Bye. #englishlesson #englishvocabulary #speakenglish #bobthecanadian ✅ Please consider supporting my channel by clicking here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmW5tmKIBrryNf5n-_A6Fmw/join ⌛ Be sure to watch the video TWICE today and ONCE tomorrow! ✅ SUBSCRIBE RIGHT HERE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmW5tmKIBrryNf5n-_A6Fmw?sub_confirmation=1 ✅If you enjoy these lessons please visit my Patreon page: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadian ✅Find longer English lessons right here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZJJTxA36ZPNTJ1WFIByaeA </video> <video> Learn the English Phrases "in a little bit" and "it's going to be a while" Description: Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases IN A LITTLE BIT and IT'S GOING TO BE A WHILE In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase in a little bit. Now, when we say in a little bit, we mean a small amount. And we can be talking about time or an actual thing. Here's a good example. Let's say that my mom is coming over to visit and one of my kids says, when will Grandma be here? I could say, she'll be here in a little bit. If we're having a nice meal and someone says, oh, there's a really nice pie for dessert and I'm feeling really full, I could say, oh, I'll just have a little bit, meaning that I just want a small piece of it. So I don't know why we use this phrase. It is used quite commonly. I heard it a few times this week. But when we're referring to a small amount of time or a small amount of something, we sometimes just say a little bit. WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN" ✅If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me by joining the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmW5tmKIBrryNf5n-_A6Fmw/join And then something that's kind of the opposite in terms of time would be the phrase it's going to be a while. If one of my kids said, when is Grandma coming? I could say, oh, it's going to be a while. And if I said it quickly, I would say, oh, it's gonna be a while, meaning that she's not coming in the next five or 10 minutes. It will probably be a bit longer. This is a common response that parents give to children when driving in a car going a long ways. If the kids say, are we there yet? We often say, oh, it's going to be a while. It's going to be another hour or two before we're there. So to review, if you say in a little bit, you mean a small amount of time or a small amount of something. And if you say it's going to be a while, it means that it's going to be probably like an hour or two hours. But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from MRfisheri. MRfisheri, I'm not sure how to say it. And the comment is this hair wise and beard wise someone needs a bit of a trim and then a smiley face and just the word joke. So I think MRfisheri is joking. My response soon, although I might grow it out a bit more. So I'm assuming you're talking about the scruffy beard I have and the hair is getting a bit long for me. But thanks for that comment. Yeah, I think I'll get a haircut soon. I'm not 100% sure when. I was thinking about growing it out a bit more, I haven't done that for a long time, like letting my hair grow longer. And then I was wondering, do I need to start to part it in the middle or on the side? Because when you have longer hair, you have to start to comb the hair. And I don't actually comb my hair. I just get up, have a shower and dry my hair with a towel and off I go. So we'll see. The beard, though, I think I need to trim. There's some stray hairs sticking out here and there. But hey, anyways, I'm back where I was last Tuesday night. I thought it would be fun to come back here and shoot a video in the daytime. I did a lesson last week, Tuesday night, I think I did by day and by night, and I did that at night. And my camera was actually struggling to stay nice and crisp. The image was a little bit fuzzy because of the low light conditions. But today it's the opposite. I'm actually having trouble seeing because it's so bright. But the other thing I can show you, though is that Tim Hortons definitely has people going through the drive through. If you remember from the video from last week, it was quite empty. I think there were just some parents and kids selling things as a fundraiser at the front door. But other than that, it was pretty full. I bet you some of these cars have my students in them because it's lunchtime at school right now and some of them will come out this way. Usually they go get pizza, but sometimes they'll go to Tim Hortons, although it's kind of rare. But, yeah, certainly this parking lot is a lot fuller than it was last week. And again, there's a pet store, a drugstore, a dance school, a laundromat, a dollar store, the post office, and a bunch of other things in what we would call a strip mall. So anyways, thanks for watching. I hope you learned a couple new phrases and I'll see you in a couple days with another short English lesson. Bye. #englishlesson #englishvocabulary #speakenglish #bobthecanadian ✅Please consider supporting my channel by clicking here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmW5tmKIBrryNf5n-_A6Fmw/join ⌛ Be sure to watch the video TWICE today and ONCE tomorrow! ✅ SUBSCRIBE RIGHT HERE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmW5tmKIBrryNf5n-_A6Fmw?sub_confirmation=1 ✅If you enjoy these lessons please visit my Patreon page: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadian ✅Find longer English lessons right here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZJJTxA36ZPNTJ1WFIByaeA </video> <video> Learn the English Phrases "by day", "by night", and "night owl" Description: Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases BY DAY, BY NIGHT, and NIGHT OWL In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrases by day and by night. I'm a teacher by day and a YouTuber by night. So when you use by day and by night, you're describing when something happens. You often hear this in a superhero movie, Superman is Clark Kent by day and Superman by night. Or is that Batman? Batman is Bruce Wayne by day and Batman by night. Yeah, that makes more sense. Batman does more work at night than Superman. But when you say by day and by night, you're talking about when it happens. I hope you can see this. I'm testing out the low light capabilities of my camera. The other phrase or term I wanted to teach you is night owl. A night owl is a person who enjoys being out at night or working at night. I'm not a night owl, by the way. So to review, when you do something by day and by night, it means that's when you do it. Maybe you're. You're a hard worker by day and a party animal by night. I don't know what you're like, but maybe that's you. Or to review as well, night owl would be a person who enjoys doing things at night. But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Lidepla. I've noticed two more interesting expressions in this lesson. I felt a little bit off and on top of things. Thanks. And my response? Yes, I'm glad you picked up on those. There are often extra phrases that just come out naturally. So sorry if I'm not speaking smoothly and fluently tonight. Maybe because it's late in the day, but thanks. Lidepla. I think I said that right for that comment. Yes. Quite often in my videos there's a couple extra little phrases that are kind of a bonus that you can learn. Yeah, I'm here in front of the grocery store. It's nighttime. There's definitely people out who are night owls and I'm not. By the way, if you're wondering why I'm out here making a video, it's not because I'm a super dedicated YouTuber. It's because I'm on my way back to work for parent teacher interviews. So it's actually only like quarter to six. But it's dark here already. Or wait, let me check my watch. Sorry, it's quarter to seven and it's dark here already. So yeah, I'm not a night owl. I enjoy doing things by day. I enjoy. Like I would rather get up early and go do things than stay up late to do things. That's just my personality. There's no way you'll catch me joining volunteer activities or committees that meet at night. That just does not interest me at all. I would rather go to a meeting at 7 in the morning than at 7 at night. So things like parent teacher interviews are a little bit not annoying for me. Like, I don't mind them. I think they're good and they're practical and they help parents and students know what they can choose to do to do better. But certainly it's not my favorite thing. In fact, I'll probably. I'll probably not sleep very well tonight because when I go home, I'll still be kind of heightened. Like I'll have some adrenaline going and I'll still have lots of energy. Normally by this time of night, I'm just watching some YouTube videos or possibly reading a book or doing something that's just a little bit more relaxing. So anyways, let me check my time here. Oh, we're good. I'm trying to walk far enough so that you can see the Tim Hortons. Sometimes people enjoy seeing the Tim Hortons. There's definitely a Tim Hortons over here. There's a bunch of people in front of it. Not sure what they're doing. I think it might be like Girl Guides selling cookies or something like that. I'm not 100% sure. I'm not sure why it's green behind me either. In real life it's not green behind me. In real life, it's actually just a normal color. So anyways, there's the Tim Hortons. There's no one in the drive through. People must not be trying to get coffee late at night. So anyways, I think my time is up. Thanks for watching. Oh, you probably want to see the other side. So this is the mall. I think there's a dance studio and a dollar store and a post office and a bunch of other things here. So anyways, thanks for watching. I'll see you in a couple days with another short English lesson. And hopefully it's less green looking than this one. Bye. #englishlesson #englishvocabulary #speakenglish #bobthecanadian ✅ Please consider supporting my channel by clicking here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmW5tmKIBrryNf5n-_A6Fmw/join ⌛ Be sure to watch the video TWICE today and ONCE tomorrow! ✅ SUBSCRIBE RIGHT HERE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmW5tmKIBrryNf5n-_A6Fmw?sub_confirmation=1 ✅If you enjoy these lessons please visit my Patreon page: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadian ✅Find longer English lessons right here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZJJTxA36ZPNTJ1WFIByaeA </video> <video> Learn the English Phrases "to takes sides" and "from all sides" Description: Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO TAKE SIDES and FROM ALL SIDES In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to take sides. Now I'll tell you this. It's actually better to not take sides. When you take sides, it means you agree with one person when two people are arguing. So let's say two of my kids are arguing, I usually try to not take sides. I don't try to say she's right and he's wrong. Instead, I try to resolve the situation without taking sides. So when you take sides, it means you agree with one person in a situation where two people are arguing or more people. Like there might be a hundred people that think one way and 100 people that think another way and you say, I'm going to take sides. I'm going to agree with these 100 people over here. But in my opinion, it's usually best not to take sides. WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN" ✅If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me by joining the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmW5tmKIBrryNf5n-_A6Fmw/join ✅If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadian The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is from all sides. Sometimes you get in trouble from all sides. If we had leftover pizza in the house and I came home from work and no one was home and I ate all the pizza, I would get in trouble from all sides. Jen would be annoyed with me. My kids would be annoyed with me. Because in our house, leftover pizza is kind of considered super yummy. People usually like it when they come home and there's some pizza leftover in the fridge. But if I ate it, I would probably get in trouble from all sides. Everyone would be annoyed with me. So to review. To take sides means to agree with one side of an argument. At school, when I see students arguing, I don't take sides. I usually try to help resolve the situation without taking sides. And from all sides means that everyone is annoyed with you. Sometimes the government does something and then they get in trouble from all sides. Everyone is annoyed with them. But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from... I printed this at school, so it's hard to get this completely open. From Yulia. Bob, good morning. Thank you for this lesson. Please tell me which province you are from and my response? I am from Ontario, Canada. I live north of Lake Erie and south of Lake Ontario, outside the city of Hamilton, Ontario. So thanks, Yulia, for that comment for that question. Hey, we're going to walk out for a bit but it's windy so I hope the audio stays okay. Yeah, I live north of Lake Erie. It's one of the Great Lakes. I've actually featured Lake Erie in some of my English lessons and I live south of Lake Ontario. So Lake Ontario is to the north of me, I live south of it. Lake Erie is to the south of me, I live north of it. I actually live almost exactly in the middle of the two. So it's about a 45 minute drive to Lake Erie and it's about a 45 minute drive To Lake Ontario. And I do like living between the two lakes. It's pretty cool. If you drive to Lake Erie, there are nice sandy beaches and you can go swimming. If you drive to Lake Ontario, there's usually a cool northern wind in the summer that kind of cools off as it comes across the lake and it makes for a really nice visit. It's a nice place to... There's a few nice restaurants along Lake Ontario. So yeah, that's where I live, right in the middle of what's called the Niagara Peninsula. Actually, If I drive 45 minutes east, I end up at the border, the border with New York State. The city of Buffalo is that way to the east of me. So it's a pretty cool place to live. I think I mentioned in another video that as I was growing up I could watch Canadian TV and I could watch American TV as well because the antenna that we had on our house when I was a kid would pick up stations from Canada and from the United States. Anyways, it's getting a little too cold, so I'm going to wrap this lesson up. Thanks for watching. I'll see you with another short English lesson in a couple days. Bye. #englishlesson #englishvocabulary #speakenglish #bobthecanadian ✅ Please consider supporting my channel by clicking here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmW5tmKIBrryNf5n-_A6Fmw/join ⌛ Be sure to watch the video TWICE today and ONCE tomorrow! ✅ SUBSCRIBE RIGHT HERE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmW5tmKIBrryNf5n-_A6Fmw?sub_confirmation=1 ✅If you enjoy these lessons please visit my Patreon page: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadian ✅Find longer English lessons right here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZJJTxA36ZPNTJ1WFIByaeA </video> <video> Merry Christmas! Description: So this is not an English lesson. This is simply me saying Merry Christmas. It's a couple days late. Sorry about that, but Merry Christmas to all of you. I know Christmas isn't celebrated in every country in the world, but at this time of year, I just wanted to say Merry Christmas and kind of communicate to you what I think saying Merry Christmas means. I think it means that we should be extra kind to each other. I think people should be kind all the time. And a few people were mentioning this in my live stream last week, that at Christmas, Bob always says, be kind. And I'm gonna continue to communicate that. So when you hear Merry Christmas, if it's something you do celebrate, or even if it's something you not... just... something you don't, just think about this. It's a great time of year to be kind to each other and to do nice things. So I hope you had a good Christmas season. The other phrase, of course, is Happy New Year. And again, this isn't an English lesson. This is just me saying Happy New Year before it's actually New Year. We actually got a whole week to go before New Year's will be upon us. But I will say Happy New Year anyways. And those again, if you want this to be an English lesson. Those are the two phrases that we use in Canada at this time of year. We are often saying Happy New Year to people as December 31st comes to a close. And then we say Happy New Year at midnight. I think it starts earlier in most other parts of the world because of how time works. The earth does rotate, you know, so it's a different time in different places. So Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. So, as you can see, I have a fresh haircut. I'm looking all energetic and happy, and I'm good. I'm happy about that because, yeah, the last couple weeks has just been busy and I was sick, and then we had a kid who was sick and the rest of us didn't get sick. So that was good. Have you ever had that where someone in your house is sick and then you're just kind of waiting to see if you get it? Well, thankfully, Jen and I didn't get it. Just one of our kids got it. So maybe it was just a little bit of food poisoning. Maybe it wasn't actually a sickness. But anyways, it's good to be back in full form and healthy. I can't wait to get started again on both YouTube channels. I do love making English lessons for all of you. If you're wondering why I'm walking so gingerly. Is that a new word for you? Gingerly? Because the driveway is ice. I actually have my fancy super slippery walking running shoes on. I can't get my camera... So if you're wondering why you're hearing a crunching sound or why it seems like I'm walking quite slowly, it's because it's a little bit slippery out here. And for those of you that have never experienced that, I don't think I can set my camera up. It'll probably fall over if I do this. Will it? Yeah. Let's see if I can get my camera to just stay in one spot. This is where I should have brought the tripod. Maybe it will... So it's slippery. You can do this. You can slide around. Oh, there goes the camera. Yes. I knew it was gonna fall over. Anyways, just a little bit of fun. I hope you're having a good day. I hope you had a good break if you had some time off at this time of year. And I look forward to getting back into the full swing of things next week. So I'll see you at a live stream tomorrow or today. You'll be watching this Friday morning. Hopefully you can make it to the live stream later. And I'll see you next week with back on track, full videos every day that I normally make videos. Have a good day. Bye. ✅ Please consider supporting my channel by clicking here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmW5tmKIBrryNf5n-_A6Fmw/join ⌛ Be sure to watch the video TWICE today and ONCE tomorrow! ✅ SUBSCRIBE RIGHT HERE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmW5tmKIBrryNf5n-_A6Fmw?sub_confirmation=1 ✅If you enjoy these lessons please visit my Patreon page: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadian ✅Find longer English lessons right here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZJJTxA36ZPNTJ1WFIByaeA </video> <video> Learn the English Phrases "to push through" and "to push it too far" Description: Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO PUSH THROUGH and TO PUSH IT TOO FAR In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to push through. This past weekend, Jen was sick and I was a little bit sick, but I decided to push through. I took one day off work and I probably went back to work one day too early because I decided to push through. When you push through, it means you do something when you're not quite strong enough or have enough energy to do it. When you're training for a sport, when you're lifting weights the last 10 or 11 times you do the weight, you might have to push through. You have to give a little extra energy. And sometimes when you're sick, you just decide to go to work and push through. And sometimes that's a bad idea. It actually led to me not getting as much work done as I wanted to this week. So to push through simply means to kind of just dig deep, find the energy somewhere to do something maybe you don't have the energy for or you're just a little bit too sick to do. WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN" ✅If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me by joining the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmW5tmKIBrryNf5n-_A6Fmw/join ✅If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadian The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase to push it too far. This is what happens when you push through. Sometimes you push it too far. Let's say this past week, if I had done everything that I wanted to do, I probably would have lost my voice. I would have pushed it too far. When you push it too far, sometimes things go wrong or sometimes things break. Let's say your car is making a funny noise and you're like, I'll get that fixed in a week or two. Maybe you are going to push it too far and the whole car is just going to stop working. So to review, to push through means to find the energy somewhere to do something even though you don't have the energy for it. Or maybe you're a bit sick or you just don't have the enthusiasm. You just decide to push through. And to push it too far means to simply keep doing something or keep using something beyond when you should have stopped or gotten that thing fixed, or if it's like your throat looked at by a doctor. Anyways, I feel great now by the way. I took the hood off because can you hear the. I just thought it was probably making a funny sound with the microphone. But hey, let's look at a comment from from a previous video from Brent. From American English with this guy or with Brent. Oh, very cool. Your students are allowed to leave campus during lunch. Not true for my students. They are stuck bringing a lunch from home or eating school lunch. Thankfully, our school lunches are edible. And then Konstantin, who does the same job as Brent as I, as Brent and I. Same here, Brent. Our school students can leave school only if we have written or phone permission from their parents. And then my response, it's age related here. The lower grades must stay at school. The older grades, grade 11 and 12, are allowed to go to town. So my school is in a town, but it's on the edge of town and sometimes we refer to the center of town as the town. But thanks, Brent and Konstantin, for giving me a bit more insight into how your schools work. Yes, our older students are allowed to go. In Canada when you are in grade 11, or what the Americans would probably call junior year or the 11th grade, that's usually the year where you get your driver's license. At some point you get your learner's permit or beginners around grade 10 into grade 11. And some students in grade 11 right around now are starting to get their driver's license. So their age, I think age 16 and then 8 months. If you went to driver's education school at age 16 years and 8 months, you can get your driver's license. So that's when we usually start to see students in grade 11 starting to go to town for lunch. So but anyways, does it say almost four minutes already. Have I lost track of how to make these lessons and keep them contained into a certain amount of time? Possibly. Anyways, thanks for being here. Thanks for watching. I'll be back in a few days with another short English lesson and I'm feeling great. I'll see you at the live stream as well. If you're watching this before 7:30am Eastern Standard Time on a Friday, I'll see you in just a bit. Bye. #englishlesson #englishvocabulary #speakenglish #bobthecanadian ✅ Please consider supporting my channel by clicking here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmW5tmKIBrryNf5n-_A6Fmw/join ⌛ Be sure to watch the video TWICE today and ONCE tomorrow! ✅ SUBSCRIBE RIGHT HERE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmW5tmKIBrryNf5n-_A6Fmw?sub_confirmation=1 ✅Find longer English lessons right here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZJJTxA36ZPNTJ1WFIByaeA </video> <video> Learn the English Phrases "It's none of your business" and "Mind your own business" Description: Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases IT'S NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS and MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, it's none of your business. So I was walking out of class today, and there were two students in the hall. And the one student said, what did you get on your math test? And the other student said, it's none of your business. In English, when you say it's none of your business, it's very informal and it's a little bit rude, but you're basically telling the other person that they're asking a question you don't want to answer. They're asking for information that you don't think they need to know. A test is a great example. If I took a test and you said to me, if you were a friend of mine and said, hey, how did you do on your math test? I'd probably say, hey, it's none of your business. Basically, what I'm saying is, I don't want to tell you. Maybe I did really good. Maybe I didn't do very good at all. But in any case, it's none of your business. So remember, it is a. It's a little bit rude. It's very direct. It's not a kind way of answering someone. WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN" ✅If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me by joining the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmW5tmKIBrryNf5n-_A6Fmw/join ✅If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadian The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase mind your own business. This means exactly the same thing. And I think I taught this already about four years ago. If someone said to me, hey, Bob, when are you going to buy a new car? I would say, mind your own business. Again, a little bit rude, very informal, and very direct. Like, it's not a happy way of saying it. If someone said, hey, Bob, when are you going to buy a new car? And I said, oh, I don't know. I haven't really thought about it, But I actually had. That's kind of a nicer way to do it. So anyways, to review, it's none of your business and mind your own business, they mean the same thing. It's a way of telling someone that the questions they are asking are too direct. They're asking for more information than you're willing to give them. But, hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This is from Denis Pizza ut. It's a product placement in Bob's short. And my response, they should sponsor me. Yeah, I think in the last video, there was... I was walking around town, right? So you saw probably Pizza Hut and Gino's Pizza and... No, not Gino's Nino's. There's a Gino's pizza and a Nino's pizza in my town. But yeah, lots of pizza places. In fact, Smithville, the town of Smithville, has five pizza places. A little bit strange. Anyways, you can see here it's this time of year. It's the time of year when we put the little markers along the driveway and we bought some extra ones this year and there's some on this side as well. We put these along the driveway because eventually it's going to snow. And then eventually it gets very, very difficult to see where the driveway is both when driving in and out, when there's a bit of snow on the ground, but also when using the snowblower. I need to know where the driveway is so that I don't go off the driveway and into the lawn. So not sure if you can see them very clearly. We bought some bright orange ones and then this type here we have a few of these. I think we have four of these now. This one is actually a reflector. So the light coming from your headlights or from your reverse lights lights that up. And by the way, if you didn't know what headlights were, the headlights are on the front here. We call those fog lights. I don't really always use them in the fog. And then on the back you have these, which are your reverse lights. So when you drive backwards or when you drive in reverse, you can see a little bit, at least when you're... when you're going in reverse. Mine aren't as bright as they should be or my eyesight is starting to fade at night. I think it's getting a little harder for me to see at night one of those two things. Anyways, thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this little English lesson about reflectors and telling people that something's none of their business. And I'll see you in a few days with another one. Bye. #englishlesson #englishvocabulary #speakenglish #bobthecanadian ✅ Please consider supporting my channel by clicking here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmW5tmKIBrryNf5n-_A6Fmw/join ⌛ Be sure to watch the video TWICE today and ONCE tomorrow! ✅ SUBSCRIBE RIGHT HERE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmW5tmKIBrryNf5n-_A6Fmw?sub_confirmation=1 ✅If you enjoy these lessons please visit my Patreon page: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadian ✅Find longer English lessons right here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZJJTxA36ZPNTJ1WFIByaeA </video> <video> Learn the English Phrases "to lay low", "to lie low", and "a low blow" Description: Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO LIE LOW, TO LIE LOW, and A LOW BLOW. In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrases to lay low or to lie low. This is one of the situations where we use lie and lay in the same way, and it means to hide. Usually you will hear these phrases if you're watching a show where the police are chasing some criminals and the criminals might decide to lie low or to lay low. Sorry, lie low, lay low. I should say them in the right order. Lay low. Sounds kind of funny when you say it, though. It kind of rolls off the tongue in a funny way. Anyways, the criminals might decide to lay low or to lie low. That means they're going to hide somewhere where the police can't find them. WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN" ✅If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me by joining the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmW5tmKIBrryNf5n-_A6Fmw/join ✅If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadian The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is a low blow. So a low blow in boxing is if you punch below the waist. Like if you punch below the belt, it's considered a low blow. But we also use this phrase to talk about any behavior or action that's not really nice. So for instance, if I lent my brother $100 and told him, you can pay me back in a year, and then if I asked him for the $100 back tomorrow, that'd be a low blow. Like I'd be doing something that's not very nice and not very kind. So to review to lay low or lie low means to kind of hide out. Maybe you've stolen something and the police are after you, so you hide out at your cousin's place. You decide to lay low. You decide to lie low. And a low blow is anytime you do something to someone that's just not very nice and not something they were expecting. But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. I'm just going to read the beginning of this comment from Know that for the sake of time. It's a great comment, but I'll read the... we'll get the gist of it from Know that every now and then you squeeze the recording of your videos lessons for us into your lunch break. Bob, I was wondering if you plan these, let's say, trips or if you do them more spontaneously, depending on what's on your to do list for the day and then you can read the rest. But my response sometimes it is on a whim, sometimes it is intentional, sometimes it is just convenient. There isn't a rhyme or reason most of the time. Sometimes it just depends on the weather. So thanks Know that for that comment and that question. Yeah, sometimes it's just, you know, how I'm feeling that day. Or maybe I'm doing an errand. So I just jumped out of the van and do an English lesson as well. Today. I came out this way because it's just a nice area to do it. I know that some of you like seeing views of the farm and some of you like seeing little glimpses of Canadian life. You like seeing trucks drive by and you like seeing what's happening in my local town. So yeah, sometimes I do it intentionally. If you watch my Members Only video on my other channel today I did that intentionally. There's a new bakery in town, so I decided to walk past it. I didn't go in, but I do know that sometimes some of you like seeing just a little glimpse of Canadian life. There's a glimpse of Canadian life coming towards me right now. There's someone walking three dogs. So I think I might actually move into this driveway and let them go past. So I'm not afraid of dogs. But do you remember that one video where a dog almost bit me? That wasn't very enjoyable. Hi. How you doing? Good. There you can see the dogs going by. If I sounded extra cheerful with my hello, that's because I recognized that person. It's a former student of mine, so I didn't want to say her name, but she was a good student. Very, very smart. Anyways. Yes. Location. I try to get a little bit of variety in as well for my own sake. It's kind of fun to make videos in different locations. Me standing at home with a tree in the background is only exciting for so long, so sometimes it's nice to get out. Anyways, thanks for watching. Thanks for learning a bit of English. I'll see you in a couple days with another short English lesson. Bye. #englishlesson #englishvocabulary #speakenglish #bobthecanadian ✅ Please consider supporting my channel by clicking here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmW5tmKIBrryNf5n-_A6Fmw/join ⌛ Be sure to watch the video TWICE today and ONCE tomorrow! ✅ SUBSCRIBE RIGHT HERE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmW5tmKIBrryNf5n-_A6Fmw?sub_confirmation=1 ✅If you enjoy these lessons please visit my Patreon page: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadian ✅Find longer English lessons right here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZJJTxA36ZPNTJ1WFIByaeA </video>

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