Bob's Short English Lessons Learn the English Phrases "to have something to offer" and "to make an offer"
Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO HAVE SOMETHING TO OFFER and TO MAKE AN OFFER
In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase "to have something to offer." When you have something to offer, it means you have a skill or you know how to do something that's a benefit to someone else or to an organization. I like to think that at work, I have something to offer. I know how to speak French, I know how to use computers. I think one of the reasons they have me there, one of the reasons they hired me, is because I have something to offer. When I was in college, I often got chosen to be in groups that were doing group work, that were going to do a presentation, because I had something to offer back then. I knew how to make PowerPoint presentations, so I definitely had something to offer, and people usually wanted me in their group.
WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"
If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadian
The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase "to make an offer." When you make an offer, it means that someone is selling something, and let's say they're selling it for a thousand dollars and you decide to offer them 800. We would say that you're going to make an offer. Maybe my friend is selling a car and he wants $5,000 for it. I might go and I might make an offer. I might say, "Hey, will you take $4,000 for your car?" So I might make an offer.
So to review, when you have something to offer, it means you know how to do something, you have a unique trait, or you're able to do something that other people maybe can't do, and you are a benefit to someone else or to a group. And when you say that you're going to make an offer, it means that someone is selling something and you're going to offer them some money.
But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Judit. "Repetition is the road to learning, "even though it is very monotonous." And my response is, "Monotonous is a very good word to describe it." So yes, Judit, repetition is awesome, but it is monotonous.
And I was reading that off my phone, and you might have noticed that I hand wrote the words today. Well, something weird happened over the weekend. The power went out very briefly, and I didn't think anything of it. It was a fairly normal thing. Sometimes the power goes out. But then today when I went to print, my printer didn't work. I think it's shot, which was a phrase I taught you a few weeks ago. The two green lights come on and they don't blink, they don't do anything. I can't access the printer on the network. I think it's shot. I don't think my printer is going to work anymore. So I'm going to troubleshoot it over the next couple of days. I'm gonna try and figure out what was happening.