Bob's Short English Lessons Learn the English Phrases I CAVED and MAN CAVE
Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases I CAVED and MAN CAVE
In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, I caved. When we say I caved in English, it means that you didn't wanna do something, but then you changed your mind. Here's a good example. You can see that the letters are very nice and dark and black on here because I caved. I didn't wanna put a new toner cartridge in my printer. I was wanting to use it until all of the toner was completely gone. But the other day, my daughter had to print something for school and she wanted it to look nice, so I caved. So it means I changed my mind. It means I gave in. So I took the new toner out of the box, put it in the printer, and now the printer prints with nice black ink again, or toner, sorry, it's not really ink, against a white sheet of paper. By the way, I do recycle all of these, so just so you know. So when you say I caved, it means you didn't wanna do something, but you changed your mind.
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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase man cave. Now I don't have one of these, but some men, in their houses, will have a man cave. This is a room where a man might have a huge television for watching football. In my mind, when I think about a man cave, I usually think about an American man, I don't know why, who has a room in his house and he has all football, like football jerseys and a football on the wall and posters and a big TV, and then on Sundays, he goes and watches football in his man cave. I think that's the image I have from watching too much American television. But a man cave would be a room in a house that a man has all to himself where maybe his wife and kids aren't allowed to go. I don't have a man cave. I have an office. It's not really my man cave.
Anyways, to review. When you say I caved, it means you give in. Here's another good example. Last night, my kids said, "Dad, the Raptors basketball team is playing." We're watching the game and my kids didn't have school today. So last night they said, "Can we have ice cream?" And I said, "No." But then they asked me a couple more times, and finally I caved and I said they could have ice cream. And to review this term, a man cave is a room in a house that a man uses usually to watch sports, maybe drink beer. I don't really know a lot about man caves, but you will hear that phrase on TV and in movies every once in a while.
Anyways, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Elena. Sometimes it seems to me that I know you personally. Your lessons aren't artificial. It's all about everyday life. It's amazing. And my response, I'm pretty much the same person on camera as I am in real life. I could never be an actor unless they needed someone to play a character just like me.
So yeah, I think I could do a really good job as an actor if they needed someone to act like Bob, the Canadian. If they had a show where they needed a 50 year old guy with slightly gray hair, actually maybe more than slightly gray, to just do normal things. Maybe if they had a show about a teacher and the teacher's name was Bob, I think I could do a really good job acting in that show. I think that's really the only kind of show that I would be good at.