Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrase TO FREAK OUT and CONTROL FREAK

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to freak out. When you say that someone is freaking out, or sometimes when you say an animal is freaking out, it means they're going crazy and doing all kinds of abnormal things. Let me explain a little bit. When someone drives in our driveway, sometimes our dogs will freak out. That means they'll bark and jump around and they'll be all excited because someone has arrived at our place and maybe they don't know who it is so they freak out. Sometimes when a person finds out some exciting news, they might freak out. They might jump for joy or scream or they might be really excited. They might freak out because they're really, really happy about something that's happening. It can also mean a negative emotion. Like sometimes when I'm walking at night and Jen will say something from a dark room or something like that, by the way that doesn't happen very often, but you get my point. If someone was to jump out and scare me, I would freak out. I would scream a little bit and I would maybe run away a little bit. I would freak out. So it's any time you express a lot of emotion, positive or negative, in a way that's a little bit uncontrolled.

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The second phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase control freak. This is something that we call someone who always wants to be in control of a situation. I have a certain relative where when I make food at their house, they kind of watch me and tell me what to do because I don't think they trust me when I make food. They're kind of a control freak. They wanna make sure I measure everything correctly and I fry everything for the right amount of time. They're a bit of a control freak. Sometimes you might have a boss who's a bit of a control freak. They kinda watch you all the time and they're always telling you what to do and telling you when you do something wrong.

Anyways, to review, when you freak out, when you say, "Oh, if I win the lottery tomorrow, I'm going to freak out," it means you are going to have an outburst of emotion, either positive or negative. If you won the lottery, it would be positive. And when you say someone is a control freak, it means they want to be in control of any kind of situation.

Hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Jalal. "You are so kind, Bob "I assume when you are angry, you don't shout. "I think making lessons on YouTube calms you down. "Thank you." And my response, "Oh, I shout sometimes. "I'm mostly calm, but I'm human, just like everyone else."

In fact, the other night, my son was mowing lawn really late just outside the window of our house. And I do appreciate when he mows our lawn, but it was really loud and I was trying to work and I got a little bit angry, a tiny bit angry. Sorry, there was a tree there I had to duck under. And I shouted a little bit. I didn't say anything mean. I said something like, "Hey, stop making so much noise. "I'm trying to work. I'm trying to think."

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