Learning English Phrases and Discussing Weather

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.

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