Bob's Short English Lessons

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English terms BINGE-WORTHY and PAGE-TURNERIn this rainy day English lesson I'd like to help you learn the English term binge-worthy. This is a term we use to describe a TV show that's so amazing, you watch episode after episode until you've watched a whole season, maybe in one night or one weekend, maybe there's eight episodes in a season and you watch them all on one night. One Saturday night you sit down and watch all of them. We would certainly say that that show is binge-worthy. It's worth binging. Binging is when you, when you binge on food you eat a whole bunch of food at once. When you binge on a TV show, you watch a whole bunch of it at the same time, or one after another. So if there is a TV show that you love and you have it on a streaming service where you can watch one episode after another, we would say it is binge-worthy. And you might even tell a friend, "Oh you should watch this show, it's binge-worthy."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/bobthecanadianThe other term I wanted to teach you today is the term page-turner. We use this to refer to a book that's really, really good. If you are reading a book and it's so good, you're just turning pages one after the other as quickly as possible and reading as fast as you can, we say that it is a page-turner.So to review, if you're watching a TV show and when you're done watching one episode you click play to watch the next one right away, we would probably say that that show is binge-worthy. And if you're reading a book and you can't put it down, you are just reading it as fast as you can, we say that it is a page-turner.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. Oh, it's stuck in my pocket. The papers are a little wet 'cause it is raining a bit right now. This comment is from Daniel. "I really like to shop online because oftentimes prices hit rock bottom and I'm able to buy many things I need. Thanks for the lesson teacher Bob." And my response, "I like getting an email alert when something is on sale."So yes, it is fun to shop online. You can often get really, really low prices, and sometimes I will sign up on a website, on a shopping website and say "Hey, send me an email when this particular item goes on sale." So thanks for the comment, Daniel.I want to show you that I've been sitting in the house waiting for the rain to stop. Once again, I have on my rubber boots. So you can see here that the driveway has a lot of puddles. You can probably also see maybe a little bit that it's wet out here. Probably better if we look over here. You can hear me splashing through the puddles but you can actually see the water running down the driveway a little bit here, it is awesome. We have had a few days of rain here. We've actually had enough at this point. If it was to stop raining, I would be fine with that, but we weren't expecting this little extra bonus rain. We had already received some rain yesterday. We received some rain this past Saturday. And so this is, I would just call this bonus rain, the soil still had the ability to absorb this rain so it's not like we've had too much.And if the sun wanted to come out now that would be awesome and fine with me. But once again, as a farmer, you can't really predict these. I think the sun's coming out right now. Oh, well look at that. I can't really shine my camera up there but there's just a small hole in the cloud and the sun came out. I guess maybe I can command the weather now. No, I'm just kidding, I can't do that. Anyways, nice big puddles. Everything is very, very happy. Flowers and crops are going to grow well over thSupport the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases ROCK BOTTOM and SOLID AS A ROCKIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, rock bottom. Now, when we talk about someone's life, and if we say that they've hit rock bottom, it's kind of a sad thing. It usually means they're out of money and maybe they've lost their job and they don't know what to do next. They don't have anything to use to buy food and they don't know how to earn a living. Sometimes we'll say that they've hit rock bottom. Sometimes when we talk about someone whose life has gone kind of off the rails, we would say maybe they're doing drugs or something that's just ruining their life and at a certain point they might hit rock bottom. That would be the point in their life where they just aren't doing anything healthy anymore. They've hit rock bottom. This does have a bit of a positive meaning as well. You can talk about prices when they hit rock bottom, that's good for you at a store. If you could say, this store has rock bottom prices, that means you can buy things there really, really cheap.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/bobthecanadianThe other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase solid as a rock. When something is solid as a rock it's just that, it's immovable. If I was to lift weights all summer my muscles would get really big and they'd be very firm and you could say, Bob is solid as a rock. Maybe you are, let me see, maybe you're buying something like a wheelbarrow for your garden and the wheelbarrow is made out of metal. You still might say, yep, this thing is solid as a rock. That means it's well built and it will last a very long time.So to review, when someone hits rock bottom it means they're at the worst part of their life, not a nice time for them. And when you say something is solid as a rock, it means that it's built well or that it's just, well here's an example, this tree right here is solid as a rock. It's a very solid tree, solid as a rock.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Abdula. Now they changed how names work on YouTube, so it gives me a very long name with numbers at the end. So hopefully from this point on, I say names right. Thanks Bob, it's really useful. What is the meaning of off-white? And my response, it means that something is white but has a tiny shade of another color in it.We often use the term off-white. Thanks for the comment by the way, Abdula, we often use the term off-white to talk about paint in a house. When Jen and I paint a room, sometimes we'll paint it off white and it'll have a little shade of blue in it, a little tint of blue, or we'll paint something off-white and it has a little bit of gray in it. So it's very difficult to have pure white in the flower world. Sorry, I've switched subjects here slightly. Jen and I grow a number of white flowers, but most of them are off-white. So when someone calls and says can I have a bunch of white flowers? We usually say we have some off-white, towards green. We have some off-white with a tinge of pink in it or a tinge or a shade of pink in it. We have off-white that has just a little bit of purple in it, so it's very difficult to find pure white in the natural world. I think almost everything is off-white to some degree.Anyways, I'm just walking out here in the shade, trying to get outta the wind again. I feel like I'm always trying to get outta the wind. It's a very nice day. It's a Thursday right now. I'm just wrapping up this lesson and I'm going to be heading off to market. Jen is already there with one of my kids selling flowers and I had a feSupport the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English terms TLC and ITIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the acronym TLC. In English, if you say something needs some TLC, it means it needs some tender loving care. Tender loving care. We never actually say tender loving care, though. We use this to talk about, maybe, if you buy something old that just needs some rust removed, you might say, "Oh, it just needs some TLC." Maybe you buy something at a thrift store or at a garage sale. You buy something used, and you just need to fix a few little things on it. You would say, "Oh, it just needs some TLC." It just needs some tender loving care, and then it will be just like new again, and ready to make me happy.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/bobthecanadianThe other short acronym I wanted to teach you today is IT. In English, when we say IT, we mean information technology. It means computers, and networks, and all of that digital stuff. If you say, "Oh, my cousin works in IT." You know, I really should have put, like a period after the I and the T, that would've been a good thing to do, 'cause we normally do that, and it means information technology. "My cousin works in IT," that means that your cousin works with computers. Maybe they set up computers, or they write programs for computers, or they connect computers together with networking. They work in IT, information technology.So to review, TLC means some tender loving care. When you give something some tender loving care it's ready to use again. I'm trying to think. I bought an old piece of farm equipment once, and it just needed some TLC. It needed a new tire, I needed to fix where it connects to the tractor a little bit, and I sanded it, I sanded the metal and put some new paint on, I gave it a little bit of TLC, and it was as good as new. And IT, remember, there should actually be a period after the I and T, simply means information technology, the world of computers, and all the stuff that goes with it.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This is from Aleksey. "Film an English lesson first thing in the morning and..." I think that's a Mark Twain quote about a frog. "Do you know that quote from Mark Twain?" Yes, I do. "Seriously though, sir, it looks like you've got too much on your plate again. Take care of yourself, please. Enjoy your morning walk and run." And then, "PS in the Dark Kahn version you are a good kickboxer. Punch! kick, kick, kick, kick, kick. Punch! Bump elbow! Punch! That's the soundtrack stuck in my head. And that 'Slap ah' at the end. And your face!" Yeah, I'll put a link to that music video below for this, underneath this video as well. My response, "There is a certain amount of energy that comes with the end of the school year. I'm harnessing it well. I'll be able to relax quite a bit over the next couple of months, so no worries, but I will for sure take care of myself. PS, that song is still making me laugh."So a couple of things there. One, I appreciate the concern. Many of you who watch most of my lessons know more about my life as I go through each week, and you know and can sense when I'm busy, and when I'm less busy. And yes, I am pretty busy right now. It's the last two weeks of the school year, this is exam week. So my students wrote an exam today, and we're having a bunch of retirement parties at night as well, so there is a busyness, but I am taking really good care of myself right now. I am exercising almost daily. I am walking. I'm eating very, very healthy. And although I am busy, none of it is like, stressful busyness. I hope you know the difference. Like, I'm not so busy thatSupport the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO SCRAPE BY and TO SCRAPE UPIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, to scrape by. Now, when you scrape by it can mean you're talking about money or succeeding at something, but just succeeding by a little bit. Here's a good example. You might say, my cousin doesn't make a lot of money at work, but he has enough money to scrape by. That means he can pay all his bills, but he doesn't have a lot of money left over to do anything fun. That would be kind of disappointing, wouldn't it? It's always nice to have a little extra money. When you just have enough money to scrape by, life isn't as enjoyable. You could also say this, he passed his exam, but he just scraped by. I'm using the past tense now, he just scraped by, that means the person probably got 51% on their exam, so they just did good enough to pass.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/bobthecanadianThe second phrase I want to teach you today is the phrase to scrape up. When you scrape up, it means you kind of gather stuff. If I was to go to work today and if I didn't bring a lunch, and instead I wanted to bring money, I might have to scrape up some money in the house. I might have to look for some change or look for some bills. I might need to scrape up some money so I have enough. If Jen gets a call from someone and they say, do you have any peonies? And if Jen doesn't have a lot, maybe she has three peonies flowers, but she knows she can go out to the field and scrape up a few more. It means there's hardly anything left. There's hardly any peonies left, but she knows if she goes around and cuts a few, and gets a few out of the cooler, she can scrape up enough to make a bouquet.So let's review, to scrape by means to just have enough money to live or it means to just succeed at something by a little bit. And to scrape up means to kind of gather together money or some other things.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. If you wonder why I'm laughing, it's because it's really early in the morning here, I just crawled out of bed to make this video. It's early Thursday morning, one of my busiest days of the week, and I got up at 6:00 AM, and it's 6:10 right now. So I probably look, Do I have bags under my eyes? and my hair's a little bit messy. I should have shaved today too, but oh well, I needed to get an English lesson done, so that's the way it goes.This comment is from Know That. "Hello, Mr. Bob, I noticed that you have switched the side you wear your fitness tracker on. if I'm right, you usually wear it on your left wrist", yes, "But as far as I can remember, you said that you always do this in the summer so that you can get an even tan to avoid a brighter part. Thank you for the new phrases, sir, I wish you a nice day." And my response, that is, correct, I switch it each day so that I don't end up with a white band on my arm, very perceptive of you.So yes, I do tan a little bit in the summer, and if I wear my fit... I don't know, I probably don't have a white band here now, but I do switch it from arm to arm. Let's see how quickly I can get this put back on. I do switch it from arm to arm, because otherwise I end up with my arm being tanned. And then there's this white area where my Fitbit would be. Now it's not telling me the time. So yes, thank you, Know That, that was very perceptive of you. I do still switch it every day in the summer when I go for my walk in the morning.And by the way, I have been walking a lot lately. I don't know what's gotten into me, I have started walking and even running a little bit. I'm not a ruSupport the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases OH WELL! and WELL, WELL, WELL!In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, "Oh well!" This is a phrase we use when something happens, but it's not something that we're upset about or angry about. It's something that just happened. I could say this, "I came outside today and it rained and my camera got a little bit wet, but oh well, it's not a big deal." This camera's a little bit waterproof. Maybe I'm doing a job at work and I drop something on the floor, and even if it breaks or something, I could just say, "Oh well," if it's not a big deal. Maybe I dropped something that's old and it was kind of junk anyways. I might say, "Oh well, I dropped that. It's not a big deal." So notice I'm also using the phrase, "It's not a big deal." That's probably a phrase that means the same thing. "Oh well, it rained. It's not a big deal." "Oh, well, my camera got a little bit wet."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/bobthecanadianBy the way, it rained here. I'm pretty happy about that.The next phrase I wanted to teach you is the phrase, "Well, well, well." And this is a phrase we sometimes say a little sarcastically when we discover something or when we catch someone doing something. I might walk into a classroom and a student is trying to eat at the back of the room when they're not supposed to be eating. I might say, "Well, well, well. What's going on here? Why are you eating during class?" So it's kind of a way of saying you've just seen something or discovered something. I'm trying to think of another example. When you come home, if you have a dog, when you come home and the dog has eaten your shoe. You might say, "Well, well, well. What's happened here? Who ate my shoe?" So it's kind of a way of just saying that something happened. I think detectives must say this a lot. When they find a clue, they might go, "Well, well, well. What's this on the floor? It looks like the criminal left behind their tools," or, I don't know. I'm not very familiar with how criminals work. I think they have tools, but I'm not sure.Anyways, to review. When you say, "Oh well," it means something's happened and it's not a big deal. You're not upset or concerned. And when you say, "Well, well, well," it means you've discovered something or you've seen something, and you kind of, before you talk about it, you just say that to indicate that maybe you're surprised a little bit.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Maritza. "So cute, Walter! But I wonder, where is Oscar? I haven't seen him for a long time. I hope he is well. Thank you for another valuable lesson." And my response, "Oscar's doing well, but as always, he is mostly with Jen. He sticks to her all day." You could also say he sticks with her all day. "Walter tends to wander. Oscar is Jen's friend. Walter is everyone's friend."And that is very true. Walter does bark when people come over, but he's very quickly their friend. He's supposed to be a bit of a guard dog. He's supposed to bark when people come over and protect the property and protect Jen. But very quickly, he just likes to lick people. If people are wearing shorts, he likes to lick their legs, which is kind of strange. But dogs do strange things, right? Oscar, on the other hand, loves being with Jen and is most often just found with Jen.So I will get some video of the two of them, and I'll overlay it. As I'm talking right now, you can see the peonies, but I'll also just talk a little bit and put a video in here of the two dogs. They are both doing well. Oscar has actually lostSupport the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases YOUR GUESS IS AS GOOD AS MINE and I NEVER WOULD HAVE GUESSEDIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase: Your guess is as good as mine. This is something you say when you don't know the answer to something, and the person you're talking to maybe knows the answer maybe doesn't either. We ordered some stuff from Amazon yesterday and it said that the delivery is supposed to come today, but honestly, your guess is as good as mine whether that happens or not, I mean, it might come today. Often when I order something from Amazon, it comes the next day because we live relatively close to Toronto. But whether it actually comes or not, your guess is as good as mine. So when I use that phrase, I'm basically saying I don't really know if it will come today. If you think it's going to come today, you might be right. If you don't think it will come today, you might be right as well. So anyways, your guess is as good as mine.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/bobthecanadianThe second phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase I never would have guessed. This is something you say when someone tells you something and you didn't know that that was true. If I said to you, I'm only 40 years old, you might look at me and say, Well, I never would have guessed because you look much older. Or if I said to you, I am 60 years old and you think I look a lot younger, you might say, Oh, I never would have guessed. You look so much younger than 60 years old. So it's something you say when someone tells you something and you didn't realize that that was true or that that was a fact.So to review, Your guess is as good as mine!, is something you say when you don't know whether something will happen and the person you're talking to probably doesn't either. Whether or not it will rain this weekend. Your guess is as good as mine. I hope it does, though. And if you say I never would have guessed, it means that there's a situation that you're: Oh, you didn't actually know that something was true. If I was to say to you something like this, this is Walter right down here. He's huge now. And you might say, Oh, I never would have guessed that he would have grown so fast.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Andres Padrón. There is a utility pole that has an electric transformer in front of your house. Is that the only one... Is that only for your property? It was my first impression because I did not see many cables connected to the transformer. My response? That is correct. The high voltage comes in from the road and is converted for our house, shed and barn.So, yes, very observant of you. Andres, thanks for that comment. If we look over here, first of all, we'll see this fun dog down here. Say hi, Walter. That's Walter kind of saying hi.But if we keep walking, you'll see this pole over here. Also, I don't know if you can tell, but it's quite hazy in the distance. The forest fires way up in northern Ontario are actually causing it to smell like smoke here, even though they're hundreds of kilometers away. So right up there, there is a transformer. I think a bird is building a nest in it.And those cables there, those wires there go to the road. That's where the hydro or electricity comes from. And then this one goes to our barn and it's also connected to our house. So once again, very observant of you, Andres.But yeah, I'm not sure. I wasn't going to talk about this too much today because it went away earlier this afternoon. But it's back. But it smells like smoke. And you can kind ofSupport the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English term FIRST IMPRESSION and the phrase UNDER THE IMPRESSIONIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English term first impression. Your first impression is what you think of someone or something the first time you see them or see it. A good example would be this if you were to introduce me to someone in your family. My first impression would probably be that they are a nice person just like you. So however, I think about the person in the first few moments that I meet them would be my first impression. Maybe you want to buy a house and when you walk into a house that you might buy, maybe you're looking at a house, your first impression might be it seems really nice. So a first impression is simply that first, that very first thought that you have about a person or about someone.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/bobthecanadianThe second phrase I wanted to teach you today is under the impression. And this means that you think something about someone, but you're not sure if it's true or not, but you kind of thought it was. I could say this to you. I was under the impression that you are the oldest in your family. I was under the impression that that guy had worked here for ten years, but he just started last week. I was under the impression that this house was only going to be $250,000, but this house is $400,000. I'm just imagining that I'm looking at a house. My first impression was that the house was really nice, and then I was under the impression that it would be a lot cheaper than it actually is. So I think under the impression you think something, but you might actually be wrong as well.So to review your first impression is the first thing you think when you first watched one of my videos, I would assume if you're still here, that your first impression was, I think this guy's a pretty nice English teacher. And when you are under the impression it means maybe without facts, you think something about someone or something. So I could say something like, I was under the impression that these videos would be 5 minutes long, but they're only 4 minutes long.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. Let me get it out of my pockets. And this is from Aleksey. I also like to have a free hand. Even if things get out of hand, I can always say that my hands were tied. Pun intended! And my response haha. Great series of phrases there. Aleksey, nice work. So that's from Aleksey Thank you very much.Good use of a number of different phrases with the word hand in it.So I can't walk too far today because it's quite windy out. Actually, it's kind of settled down a bit, but what I wanted to show you is we're a little concerned right now. If you look here, you can see that some of the grass in our driveway is starting to turn brown.The reason this is happening is because it has not rained here for about two and a half weeks. And this is the time of year where we really need rain. Let me show you over here as well. This is very minor, but you can see that the grass in the middle of the driveway and along the edges is starting to turn brown. The grass in those areas is usually the first to go.That's the first area to turn brown when we're going into what feels a little bit like a drought. I hope we're not entering a drought, but Jen and I have been watering flowers far more than we normally do this time of year. Usually in May and early June we have timely rains. It usually rains every week, but this year looks like it might be a dry year. I don't know for sure how long it will last. There's no rain in theSupport the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO HAVE A FREE HAND and TO HAVE FREE REINIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, to have a free hand. Now, when you have a free hand, it means you have the freedom to do what you want in a certain situation. My job's really nice, because I have a boss, but when I'm in the classroom, I have a free hand to do pretty much anything I want to, within reason of course. So when you have a free hand, you can do what you want. When you're your own boss, you have a free hand to do whatever you want all the time. Jen is her own boss here on the flower farm, so she has a free hand, she can decide to do things or not do things or do things anyway she wants to.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/bobthecanadianThe second phrase I wanna teach you today is to have free rein, and this actually means the same thing as to have a free hand, but notice there's no a. So when you have free rein, you can do things any way you want, when you have a free hand, you can do things anyway you want. But the one phrase has this word in it, the letter A, a, and this phrase does not, so you have free rein. I love doing YouTube, because I have free rein to do whatever I want, I don't have a boss telling me what to do. And again, I do like my job, because I pretty much have free rein to do what I want creatively in the classroom.So to review, to have a free hand or to have free rein, they mean the same thing, it means to have freedom in any kind of situation. But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video, this comment is from Qiu Park, and the comment is, "Jen is awesome, she did a great job, it's fascinating to be a flower grower, she grows beauty." And my response, "Jen always says she grows beautiful things and they make people happy. I make English lessons and they make people happy, it makes us happy when we help people be happy."So I guess Jen and I kind of are in the happiness business. Thanks Qiu Park for that comment, that was great. Yes, in the last video, I'm going to walk out here to the peonies again. I know it gets a little repetitive, but the cool thing is, is they are really close right now to blooming. In fact, some of them have been harvested already, so you'll be seeing some plants that don't have any flowers on them. And I know it might look like they're not blooming yet, but we do cut the peonies before they actually bloom. And there are mosquitoes out here, which reminds me of Mohd Ags made a comment in the last video about wanting to be a fly on the wall on the farm.See, this one is already gone, Jen has harvested it. We usually pick them when they feel a little bit like a marshmallow, so that one's almost ready to go. This one is not quite ready to go, but we pick them, yeah, at what we call the marshmallow stage. When they're at the marshmallow stage, when you squeeze them, they feel a little bit like a marshmallow. You know what a marshmallow is? It's one of those white things, they come in a bag, if you roast them over a fire, they end up tasting really, really yummy, you can make something out of them called s'mores, but we haven't done that yet this year, we'll do that in a few weeks. There's definitely something flying around here, but I don't think they are mosquitoes, they must be something else.So yeah, actually, let's go to the end, and then I'll flip you around and we'll walk back, so you can see me walking through the peony row. Let's do that, let me flip you around. There we go. So we'll just kinda fly through here. Hopefully, it doesn't shake or move around too much for you. I had to stop there fSupport the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO HIT A WALL and I'D LIKE TO BE A FLY ON THE WALLIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to hit a wall. When we say in English that you hit a wall, it means you've hit an obstacle or even a feeling that makes you stop doing something. If I'm working really hard on a video and I can't think of other ideas to finish the video, I could say that I hit a wall. If I'm running a long distance, if I run for more than two or 3 minutes, eventually I hit a wall. Basically, I can't breathe fast enough to actually keep running. So I would say that I hit a wall. We often describe runners who run long distances when they get to a point where they can't run anymore, we say that they hit a wall.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/bobthecanadianThe other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase, I'd like to be a fly on the wall. This is a phrase we use when we know people are talking about something in a room, maybe at work or maybe in your house and you're not in the room, but you would like to be in the room. You would say, Oh, I'd love to be a fly on the wall in that room, or I'd like to be a fly on the wall. This happens mostly at work when the boss is meeting with someone else. A lot of the teachers are like, I wonder what they're talking about. I'd like to be a fly on the wall in that room, or I'd love to be a fly on the wall so I could just kind of hear what they're saying and see what they're doing.So to review to hit a wall means to hit an obstacle that stops you from being able to do something. Here's something that happened to me. In university I took one year of math. I took calculus. But during my second year of calculus, I hit a wall. I wasn't able to understand it or do it well. That's about the limit of my math knowledge. Calc II in university is where I hit a wall. And I'd like to be a fly on the wall simply means that people are meeting somewhere and you would just really love to hear what they're saying.But anyways, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Know that. Hello Mr. Bob. A warm welcome back from my side too. You really are a hard working man, but we know that. It's very nice of you that you lend a hand and take care of the grade nine French class. Your school is very fortunate to have someone like you, just like we do here. Anyway, I'm glad that you're at good health and back on track. Thanks for the lesson, sir. And my response: I'm happy to be back on track too. I'm looking forward looking forward to making today's lesson. Thank you. Know that for that comment. For some reason, I'm having trouble talking today. I don't know why.Hey, we are out here having a look at the wagon. So this is the wagon that, as I've explained before, is a little bit like a greenhouse. And you can see that there are still a lot of seedlings in here that need to be planted. There are some down here getting full sun on the ground and more over here as well. And I'll show you where I'll leave you guys walking this way. You don't need to see me when I go for a walk, do you? We'll walk over here and I'll show you where some of them are getting planted.So over here we have what is actually our first flower bed. When we started farming, this was the first flower bed that we created. You have some flowers growing here. We sometimes put down black fabric to kill all the weeds or plastic. This is actually plastic. So the heat of the sun and then the lack of sunlight will kill the weeds. And you can see here Jen's getting ready to plant. She has drip line here to water. And over here there Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases SIGN UP and SIGN INIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the phrase sign up. When you sign up for something, it means that you want to do it and the person organizing it is asking for people to write their names down on a piece of paper, or maybe to send their name in via the computer, maybe an email or an online form. At school, sometimes there are sports at lunchtime and students and teachers can play if they want to, but you need to sign up. The day before or the week before they start playing basketball or volleyball or whatever the sport is they usually have a sign up sheet and you can sign up to play that sport. I don't normally do this, although last year I did play a little bit of baseball. I signed up (Past Tense) to play baseball. It was quite enjoyable. I hadn't played baseball for a very long time.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/bobthecanadianThe other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase sign in. Now, this is similar to log in if you're talking about a computer or something like your email. I have to sign in to check my email. When I turn my computer on, I need to sign in. I can also say log in. I need to log in to check my email. I need to log in once I turn my computer on. And it simply means to enter your username and your password. But we also use this for paper and pen things as well. My mom now lives in a retirement home. When I go to visit my mom, I need to sign in when I get there. They actually have a book at the entrance and I need to write my name and the time that I arrive and here's a bonus I need to sign out as well when I leave. I need to kind of write down what time I leave.So to review, when you sign up for something, it means you put your name on a piece of paper or you give your name to someone who's organizing something. You sign up because you want to do that thing, and when you sign in, you can either sign in to a computer or a piece of software or a website or your email, or you can sign in like I described at an old age home or another place like that where they need to see your name when you get there.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. Hopefully I remember how to do this still. This is from Berevilson. Thank you so much, Teacher Bob. How I like that landscape, it’s starting to look pretty nice here. Really amazing. Or as you like to say, awesome. Thanks a lot and my response. You're welcome. I'm replying to this 14 seconds after you typed it. I'm speeding to speed todaySo that was actually two weeks ago. I was speedy that day, but then I wasn't very speedy or responsive after that, was I? So I do want to thank Berevilson, thank you so much for that comment. That is awesome.And, you know, I always like to explain when I take a little bit of time off what I've been doing, not that you guys need to know, but a few things. One, I had some stuff I had to take care of normal things, like I had to file, finish filing my taxes. And then there was some additional paperwork afterwards that I had to take care of. We didn't get audited, but something similar to that. We had to provide some additional receipts.And then a couple of things to somehow I agreed to teach an extra class at school just for the last few weeks of the school year. I can't give you all the details about why that happened, but there was a French class and I'm now the teacher. So instead of teaching part time, I'm a little closer to full time again, but just for a few weeks. And don't worry, it's pretty manageable. It's a grade nine French class, something I've taught many timeSupport the show