Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO HANG OUT and TO HANG BACK

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, to hang out. When you hang out with someone, it just means that you are with them. You can go to someone's house and you can hang out. Jen and I are really good friends with our siblings. Sometimes we go to my sister's house and we just hang out for a bit. Sometimes we go to visit her sister and we just hang out for the afternoon. So when you hang out with someone, when you use that verb in English, you simply mean that you're going to be with the person. Maybe you'll sit and have a cup of tea. Maybe you'll sit and chat about things. You'll just spend the afternoon or the evening hanging out. You'll just spend the time together.

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The second phrasal verb I wanted to teach you today is to hang back. And this is a little different. When you hang back, it means other people leave and you don't. So let's say a bunch of people are going on a trip and everyone's leaving at 9:00 AM you might say, hey, I'm just gonna hang back for a bit and make sure that everything is turned off in the house. So when you hang back, it means other people are leaving for something, but you are going to go, but you're not going right away. You're just going to stay behind for a little bit. You're going to hang back.

So to review, to hang out simply means to be with someone. By the way, you don't have to just hang out in person. When you talk to a bunch of people on Zoom or on FaceTime, you could also say that you are hanging out. That's a legitimate use of it as well. And to hang back simply means to stay behind for a little while. Maybe everyone's going to go hiking and you are having trouble getting your shoes tied. You might say, hey, I'm just gonna hang back for a bit. You guys go on without me, I'm just going to tie my shoe and then I'll catch up. There's another verb for you.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Misael. Hi Bob, do you have a video about the verb to hang out? Thank you very much. My response, I think so. If not, I'll make one. Let me look for a sec. I can't seem to find one. I'll make one next week. And then Misael says, thank you so much. And then Bob promptly forgot to make the video. But I did reply and say, oops, sorry I forgot about this one but it's done now. If you look at the time difference on my replies, one is from six days ago and one is from one second ago. So there you go. I did just do a lesson on to hangout.

Hey, you might be wondering where I am. I'm in my classroom. I'm getting ready for the next semester. You can see behind me that all the chairs are up on the tables. Some of you don't like that you've said in the past that that's unsanitary, but it makes it easier for the janitor to vacuum and to deep clean the carpets before the next semester starts. A little tour of my room. You can see my TV. This is the main screen that I use to put things up for students, but I also have a projector up there that projects onto that wall. That's very handy as well. And I usually have things on both screens when I'm teaching.

And if you wonder what subject I teach, well normally I teach French. You can see the flag there. But this coming semester I'm going to be teaching a business class, just a little bit different than what I just did this semester, which was to teach French. And I taught some computer studies. So anyways, yes this is a typical Canadian classroom, a door, a TV screen. Not every teacher has a projector as well. I think maybe I'm spec

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