Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases IT'S MY TREAT or TO TREAT SOMEONE TO SOMETHING

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase "it's my treat." A couple of days ago we looked at the English phrase "it's on me" and "it's my treat" means the same thing. If you say to someone, "It's my treat," it means you're going to pay for it. I could say to a friend of mine, "Hey, let's go to Niagara Falls for the day and let's do all of the attractions. Let's go on the zip line. Let's go on the," I was gonna say Maid of the Mist but I think the boat has a different name now. And then I could say, "It's my treat." That means that I'm going to take my friend to Niagara Falls and I'm gonna pay for everything. So if you say, "It's on me," or if you say, "It's my treat," it means that you're planning to pay for whatever activity you're going to do. By the way, these videos, they're my treat to you, okay? It's on me this time.

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The second phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase "to treat someone to something." When you treat someone to something it means you are buying something for them. A great example of this would be sometimes when we visit Jen's parents, Jen's dad will actually treat us to ice cream or he'll treat us to a meal or he'll treat us, a long time ago, he used to treat us to a round of golf. I'm not an avid golfer, but a long time ago, every once in a while, Jen's dad would treat us to a round of golf with him. He would take us to the golf course and he would pay for everything. We didn't have to pay for anything. It was really nice.

So to review, if I say, "It's on me," like we did a couple of days ago, or if I say, "It's my treat," it means that I'm going to pay for something. And if you say that you are going to treat someone to something, it means the same thing. It means that you are planning to pay for it. So, often, as a parent, I do this. I often treat my children to different things. In fact, we bought something the other day, it's a bit of a surprise. I can't tell you what it is right now but we are treating our kids to something in the next few days. I'll let you know what it is when it arrives. It's not a big thing, it's just a small thing.

Anyways, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from the Qiu Park and Qiu Park wrote a little two-part conversation here. The conversation is this: Person A says, "Hey I know a wonderful restaurant. Let's go out to eat there. It's on me." And person B says, "Oh, that's news to me. You've never treated me, have you?" And my response was this: "Nice, I liked that you used the phrase to treat someone. I should teach that phrase." I just did. "Sometimes, after a long day of work on the farm, Jen and I will take the kids and treat them to an ice cream cone at the local ice cream shop."

We used to do that more. There used to be an ice cream shop closer to us but that one closed down. Now we have to go quite a ways to find ice cream but anyways, Qiu Park, thank you very much for that comment. And for kind of introducing me or reminding me of another phrase, to treat someone to something, that I could teach. That was a lot of fun, but I talk a lot about going out to eat, and I want to say a couple of things about that.

One, Jen and I don't actually go out to eat a lot. We don't actually treat our kids to a meal in a restaurant very often because it does cost quite a bit of money. And also right now, you can't actually do that. There aren't really any restaurants open.

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