Bob's Short English Lessons

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases THAT'S THAT! and THAT'S MORE LIKE IT!In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, “That's that!” This is a funny little phrase we say when something is over or when something is done. When the workday is done, you might say, “Well, that's that! Time to go home!” When you're done having a conversation with someone, you might say, “Well, that's that! See you again tomorrow.” So it's just a way to kind of sum up that something is over. It's kind of a way to end something. I could do this when I'm done my videos as well. I could say, “Well, that's that. The lesson is over.” It's not over, though. Stick around. There's a little bit more to go.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, “That's more like it!” This is something we say when someone starts doing something in a better way or when something turns out to be better. Let me think of a good example. If I was doing something wrong, let's say I was watering the plants wrong and then Jen said, “No, no, turn the hose this way and go slower,” She might then say, “That's more like it!” to tell me that I'm now doing it correctly. So if someone's doing something wrong and then you show them how to do it right and when they do it right, you might say, “Hey, that's more like it!” You might get this when you're learning to pronounce an English word. When you do say it right, your tutor might say to you or your English coach might say, “That's more like it!”So to review, if someone says, “That's that!”, it's just a way, kind of a funny little phrase to say when something is over or ending. And if someone says, “That's more like it!”, it must mean whatever you're doing, you're doing it right.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. It's in my back pocket. Oh, my wallet's in this back pocket, this is my wallet and this is my phone in my front pocket. And these are my keys because I just got home. I don't know why I'm showing you all that, but that's what's in my pockets today. Where's the actual comment? Here it is. This is from Revolution. Thanks for this valuable information. I don't know how to pay you. And my response? You do not need to worry about how to pay me. YouTube is a win-win situation. You watch my videos, I get advertising revenue. You learn English. It's a great system.So I often mention... Sorry I dropped the comment. I often mention this to people. Some people want to thank me somehow or they want to pay me somehow for my lessons. If you want to be a member, you can, but it's not required.There are some things you can do though, that help me here on YouTube, and those would be good things to do if you did want to thank me. Number one. Watch my video from start to end, especially on my other channel. If you do that, then YouTube knows it's a good video and they're more likely to show other people the thumbnail. The other thing you can do is watch the video twice. By the way, watching my entire video helps you and me. The second thing you can do is watch the video two or three times. This also helps you a lot because the repetition helps you to remember. And it also tells YouTube that my video is a good video.By the way, don't do these two things if the video isn't a good video. If it's a boring video, just stop watching it. But if you did want to thank me, that would be a good way to do it.What else could you do? You could tell other people about this channel or my other channel. That also helps me a lot because the more people that watch, and the more ofSupport the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases A SLIP OF THE TONGUE and A SLIP UPIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase: a slip of the tongue. A slip of the tongue is when you say the wrong word by accident, or you use the wrong name when you're talking to someone. If I was talking to my brother John, and I called him Dave by accident, that's my other brother's name, I would say it's a slip of the tongue. I've made a mistake and I might not even realize it. Sometimes when you have a slip of the tongue, someone else will tell you that you made a mistake. So if you're ever talking and you use the wrong word in English or even in your own language, we would simply call it a slip of the tongue.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/bobthecanadianAnd we also have something called a slip up. A slip up is just a small mistake that someone might make. Let's say my van needed to go to the garage and they said bring it in on a Tuesday and I brought it in on a Monday. That would just be a slip up. I got the dates wrong. That would be a little mistake that I made. This actually happened a couple weeks ago where I brought my vehicle somewhere on the wrong day, but it was just a little slip up.So to review a slip of the tongue refers to when you use the wrong word or the wrong name, when you're saying something out loud, you have a little slip of the tongue. Sometimes when I'm talking to students, I'll call a student by the name of another student, and it's just a slip of the tongue. And when you make a small mistake, we simply call it a slip up. And we usually use the word little in front to we say, Oh, it's just a little slip up. It was just a small mistake.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. The comments actually laying in my van by here, I'm standing under or I have the camera under the back of my van because it's raining just a little bit here. But this comment is from Nutshell Collecttor. Thank you for the lesson. There is a gas tank behind you. Can you explain a bit about that? What is that for? And my response, it is full of propane and is used to heat our house. There is a line buried underground from the tank to our house and connected inside to a furnace. The furnace burns the propane.And that makes heat for our house. So if you go back and watch the last lesson, you'll see that there is a green tank behind me in that lesson. And that tank is full of propane. It's not natural gas, but it's like natural gas. I think propane is a little bit of a different chemical makeup, and that's what we use to heat our house. It comes in a big truck and they pump it full and it's just full of propane. And then that goes through this little line underground to our house and it makes our furnace go.So, hey, I'm walking outside here in town. I just popped over to another small park. I did make a video in this park once, a long time ago, a couple years ago. But I thought I would come here quick because it is spitting just a little bit. In English when we say that it's spitting, it means it's raining just a little bit. And I was going to show you some of the signs at the park. It says, Welcome to the township of West Lincoln's community park. So that means the town owns this park.And then there are some rules. You must throw your garbage away. You must have your dog on a leash. You must pick up your dog's poop. No drinking, no driving, four wheelers or other ATVs and no smoking. Those are the park rules. And then what does it say down here? The township of West Lincoln is not responsible for damage or theft to vehicle or contents.So Support the show

 In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase "a walk in the park". When we describe something as a walk in a park, we mean that it's going to be very, very easy. If I say that tomorrow I'm going to go for a 20-minute walk, that's a walk in the park for me. Oh, it's a bad example. I'm using the literal example of walking to talk about this. I usually go for a 45 to 60-minute walk. If I have to walk somewhere and it's only 10 minutes, it's a walk in the park. It's really easy. Let me think of a better example. If I had to write an English test, it would be a walk in the park for me because I speak English. It would be something that's really, really easy.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 "a cakewalk", and this means exactly the same thing. If you needed to take an English test, it might be hard for you, but I'm not trying to brag here. If I needed to take an English test, it would be a cakewalk. Well, hopefully if it was advanced grammar, I might have some difficulty, but especially if they were asking for the actual names and terms. I'm not a a super expert on grammar if you haven't noticed, but a cakewalk would be how we refer to anything that's really, really easy. If Jen needs to grow something, it's a cakewalk for her. She's really good at doing that.So to review "a walk in the park" and "a cakewalk", both these terms are used to refer to something that's really, really easy for someone to do. When a team that's really good plays a team that isn't so good, usually you expect it to be a walk in the park when they play that game, you expect them to win easily or you expect it to be a cakewalk.Anyways, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Vítor, I believe. "I think it's good for Bob to be a teacher. The students learned a lot from the teacher and vice versa. And I say for sure, I learn so much from all of you."There's some truth to that. A teacher teaches students, and students learn from the teacher, but I would say vice versa makes sense here because often, I learn things from my students as well. As I talk to students, they teach me things. In fact, one of the things that's true about being a teacher is that you learn your subject better than you would if you were a student. Let me explain this a little bit. As I teach you the English language, I actually learn more and more about the English language myself. I become more of an expert, because in order to teach what I want to teach, I have to really know what I'm teaching. Hopefully that made some sense. Anyways, thanks Vítor for the comment.I wanted to give you a look here. I usually like to show you things that are in bloom so we have not only the dandelions down here in the lawn, but we also have these beautiful daffodils. We'll probably be harvesting some of these, although it's a little late to sell daffodils, and here we have some where they haven't quite bloomed yet. That's really it for right now. There's not a lot of other stuff blooming here on the farm.It will be a few months, probably about a month and a half before the peonies start popping up and probably a good two months before we're in the full swing of things here on the farm. When you're in the full swing of things, it means that you're working from sunup to sundown. That's what I would say. On a farm, when we're in the full swing of things, we work sunup till sundown. And I'm looking forward to a bit of shade. I use shade a lot in the summer to make my English lessons. There's always a nice shady spot to stand. Right now, I don't have any shade. Hopefully, iSupport the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases VICE VERSA and ON THE OTHER HANDIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, vice versa. I think this is actually a Latin phrase and it means the opposite, or the other way around. Let me explain. If I was to say I don't like my sister and vice versa that would mean my sister also doesn't like me. By the way, my sister and I get along really well. We like each other a lot. That was just an example. Sometimes I say, you should watch my English lessons with the subtitles on and then watch them with the subtitles off, or vice versa. That means the opposite. You could watch the video with the subtitles off and then watch it with them on. So when you say vice versa, it means you can do it the other way around and it's just as good as the first way it was mentioned. Or it can change the meaning to mean in both directions like the first example.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, on the other hand. This is when you add other information that might contradict what you've just said. I could say this, I'm a little worried that it might rain today, but on the other hand, if I look that way I see the sky is clear, so it might not. So you're introducing a new fact that might slightly contradict what you just said. If I said to you, you should watch these videos with the subtitles on in order to understand more what I'm saying. On the other hand, if you listen to them or watch them with the subtitles off,it's better for your listening skills so maybe you should do both.Anyways, to review, vice versa simply means the other way around at the end of a sentence. And when you say, on the other hand, you're introducing new information to the discussion that might actually contradict what you've just said.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Iryna, I believe. "Your video is cool. "It is very good that you are helping your wife to grow flowers." And my response, many hands make light work.Thanks Iryna, for that comment. Yes, I try to help Jen out as much as I possibly can. I just think it's nice for her to have help on the farm. The more help I give, the easier it is for everyone. And I always laugh at the English phrase, "Many hands make light work." It makes me laugh because we have another phrase, "Too many cooks spoil the broth." I think I've explained both before. The first phrase, many hands make light work, means if lots of people work on something, it's easier. The second phrase, too many cooks spoil the broth, means if too many people work on something, it can actually ruin the thing you're working on because too many people are doing things different ways or the wrong way.Anyways, where am I today? I am out. Hopefully the wind's not blowing too much on the microphone. I am out here on our local soccer fields. I'll try to hold the the camera here so the mic's outta the wind a bit. Soccer has started. We do have to wait until the fields are dry a little bit. They are drained really well. But yeah, soccer starts. You can actually, I'm not sure if you guys can see this, but in the distance, the city workers are actually here mowing the lawns, trimming the edges. I'm sure they'll probably put the lines down for soccer. They were down last week, but I think it rained because the soccer lines are just made out of chalk. Oh, and the sun's coming out now as well.So anyways, soccer will begin. I think when I drove by yesterday there were actually little kids having a practice here so I think it has begun. MaySupport the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO KEEP COUNT and TO LOSE COUNTIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase "to keep count". This simply means to count something while you're doing it. When I put flowers in a bucket for Jen, sometimes Jen says, "Put 100 flowers in each bucket." So as I do it, I need to keep count. I put in one flower and then two flowers and three. And as I do it in my mind, I try to keep track. I try to keep count of the number of flowers that I put in so that I don't put in too many. Because if I put 105 flowers in a bucket and Jen sells it, then we gave three, or sorry, five flowers away for free, I'm having trouble doing math today. So when you keep count, it simply means to count something while you're doing it.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/bobthecanadianNow to lose count, this is something that happens to me when I am putting flowers in a bucket. Sometimes I put in 50, 51, 52, and I get distracted and then I lose count and I forget how many flowers I've put in the bucket. I think that was 52, maybe 53. And then I have to count again so I know how many are in there. So when you lose count, it simply means that you got distracted, which often happens to me. And even though you were trying to keep count, you lost count because you were thinking of something else.So to review, to keep count means to simply count something. There's an airplane going by today. If I was to keep count during the day, I would say about seven or eight airplanes fly by. And when you lose count, it means you were counting something and then you forgot how many you did. Sometimes I walk up and down the driveway when the weather's bad and I try to keep count how many times I've done it, but often I lose count. So I will make little marks on the van to help me keep count. Well, I think I just use both phrases a bunch of times there.Hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from UIF. To miss out, yes, FOMO, fear of missing out. You are correct is my response. That is exactly what FOMO means. This is a newer phrase or a newer term in English. FOMO, fear of missing out. I think it started a few years ago, but I've been hearing it a lot more lately.By the way, I was gonna show you how I keep count on the van. Do you keep count this way? I think it's dirty enough for me to do this. I'm not sure if you'll be able to see that. It's probably out of focus, but this is a method of counting that we quite often use. Maybe I'll do it down here and spin you around. That way I can see it as well. I should really wash my van. I'm not sure, do you keep count that way? Like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. It's a very simple way of keeping count. The other day I was bringing compost to the flower beds for Jen and she wanted 10 in each flower bed so I had to keep count. I didn't wanna lose count, so I used that method on the tractor. I would make little markings to keep count.Anyways, I think I've just lost my train. Good thing I'm not trying to count something today, because I just lost my train of thought and I'm not sure what I was counting. What I was counting, what I was doing. Boy, this is turning into Bob making mistakes while he speaks English.Anyways, here are many of our small flowers. I think these are actually weeds, but these are Lisianthus. I will definitely show you all of these out in the field in a couple of months. If we go over here as well. And some of you sometimes ask why we have this wagon. So if you see the little door, that door folds up and this door folds up so light can get in through the ceiling. It's a little bit dSupport the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO MISS OUT and TO MISS THE POINTIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you understand the English phrase, to miss out. When you miss out on something, it means you don't go to that thing or do that thing. Here's a good example. If I knew that tomorrow if I stayed after work, I would get free supper, I would say, I can't go. I'm going to miss out, because I have other things that I have to do. If someone said to me, hey, we're going to go see a Toronto Raptors game next week, Thursday night, this is fictional by the way, the Raptors aren't actually playing anymore, but I might say, oh, I'm going to have to miss out because I have other things that I need to do. So when you miss out, it simply means that you can't do something because you have to do something else, and then you miss out. You don't get to do it.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, to miss the point. When you miss the point, it means you don't understand something. Sorry, there was a loud truck there. You don't understand something or you misunderstand it. When you miss the point. If I said to my students, let me think of a good example here. If I said to my students, you should study chapter one, just in case, they might miss the point, and think that they're studying chapter one just because it's fun, when the point was there might be a quiz or test on it. Don't think I'm explaining this one really good. But when you miss the point, it means you don't understand something or you understand it wrong. If you watch this lesson, thinking that you are just going to learn two phrases, you've kind of missed the point. 'Cause the point of this lesson is to learn two phrases and to practice your listening skills and to watch me walk around and show you the town and to get to know me a bit better. So hopefully you don't miss the point.So to review, to miss out means you don't do something because you can't go or you have other obligations. And to miss the point is to simply misunderstand something or to understand it wrong. Hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Aline. "Hi Bob! Thanks a lot for another really nice video! And yeah, it's amazing to see and hear nature around you during the lessons." And my response, "Today's lesson will be in town, so no nature to speak of!"But certainly, loud pickup trucks. I think that might have been in your field of view. I'm not 100% sure, there was a loud pickup truck there. Hey, today, by the way, thank you for the comment, Aline.So today, I'm in front of an old building. This is actually an old feed mill. In fact, I think it says that somewhere way up there. I'm not sure if you can see it. It says Niagara Grain and Feed. This was a place that made feed for chickens and cows and pigs. But it has been abandoned for a long time. In fact, you can tell it's abandoned by looking at the flower beds in front of it. You can see they're a little bit overgrown. There's not very many nature sounds here. There's a lot of truck sounds. You can see it's overgrown. You can't even use the stairs.There are signs here like no smoking and no dumping. So they don't want people to dump their garbage here. That's why there's a no dumping sign. But anyways, we used to get feed from here when my parents were dairy farmers. This was one of the places. You can see a big green grain bin, as well. This is one of the places where we got our feed, and it's right in town, by the way. It's smack dab in the middle of town, because it's located, on the other side ofSupport the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO DIE FOR and TO DIE OF BOREDOMIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, to die for. When you describe something as being to die for, it just means it's really, really good. I know it has the word die in it, which is a sad word, but if you were to go to a restaurant and order a chocolate dessert and it was amazing, you might tell your friend, "You need to order the chocolate dessert, it is to die for." It just means that it's really, really good, it's like the best chocolate dessert you've ever had in your life, it's to die for.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 English phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase, to die of boredom. We sometimes use the word die, and I'm not sure why, because obviously death and dying is a very serious thing, but sometimes people will describe something as it was so bad that they were going to die of boredom. Sometimes I think my students might describe my classes this way. I hope you don't find my English video lessons this way, where you're thinking, "Oh, I'm gonna die of boredom, if I sit and watch this whole lesson." But I know there have been times in my life, where maybe I've gone to see a movie, that someone said was to die for and I actually find it extremely boring and I would say, "You know what? I almost died of boredom while I was watching that movie."Anyways, to review, when you say something is to die for, you are saying that it is amazing, when you say that you're going to die of boredom, it means you're at something or watching something and it's just not interesting, you feel like you're so bored that you're going to die, not literally.Anyways, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Anaya. "Hi Bob, iconic place, love it so much. The greenery and daylight boosted my mood way too much. Thanks for that." And my response, "You're welcome, Anaya. I'm always happy to share the view." And I am, I'm always happy to share the view.And some of you noted as well, that it has turned quite green here. It happens rather quickly, I'm always a little bit shocked at how quickly we go from winter and cold to things looking quite green. I'll spin you around in a sec to see the other side here. Yes, I still have to fix this picnic table, I'll get to it eventually, but if we walk over here, I'll spin you around and you'll see we do not have leaves on the trees yet, but we do have the grass turning nice and green.You'll notice that the daffodils over here are starting to bloom and just all in all, it is a nice spring day. I really enjoy this, if I'm quiet once again, I just hear birds chirping. It is a nice time. I should show you this though. Last fall, Jen and I, our order for tulips didn't come in and so we only ended up with a small amount of tulips. Usually we have a lot more, you can see that they're in what we would call a raised bed here and they are starting to pop out of the ground and they will bloom in a bit, but usually this is much longer, it's usually about four or five times longer than this. But yeah, a little bit of a mix up last fall, that's okay. If we look here, you can see that on the maple trees, we are close to the leaves popping out.So anyways, beautiful spring day, it's to die for this day. Anyways, thanks for watching. I'll see you in a couple days, sorry, this one's late. I'll get back on track eventually, hopefully, bye.#englishlesson #englishvocabulary #speakenglish #bobthecanadianSupport the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases AS FAR AS I CAN SEE and TO SEE SOMETHING THROUGHIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase "as far as I can see." Now this doesn't have anything to do with seeing a long ways. It has nothing to do with me being able to see something that's far away. It basically means "as I understand something." So I could say this. As far as I can see, YouTube is a good way to learn English. As far as I can see, learning how to do something can only help make you a better person. So basically as I understand it, as far as I can see, those things are a good idea. So I guess I'm trying to think of another way to explain this. Like my understanding of the situation lets me say that I think this is a good idea. So as far as I can see, hiring someone to help you speak English once a week for 30 minutes? As far as I can see, that's a good idea. It has no drawbacks in my mind.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 to see something through. When you see something through, it means you work at it to make sure that it happens and that it is finally completed. At work, sometimes we're working on a project and other people might wanna quit, but I like to see it through. I like to make sure the project is finished. I want to make sure we take it to completion. So I like to see it through.By the way, this is different than seeing through something. That's a little bit different. If I lie and you see through my lie, it means you knew that I wasn't telling the truth. Sorry, hopefully I'm not confusing you there. To see something through and to see through something have completely different meanings. Hopefully you understood them.Anyways, to review. "As far as I can see" simply means "as I understand it." As far as I can see, planting more trees in the world will just make the world a better place. And to see something through means to make sure it gets done. If I said my neighborhood is going to plant 1000 trees and I'm going to see it through, that would mean I'm going to make sure it actually does happen. That would be cool if we did that. Maybe I should start that initiative. The Bob the Canadian Tree Planting Initiative. We'll see.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. from Setayesh. "Thanks. If you don't mind, can I ask, are you the owner of all that land?" And I replied by saying, "I'll show you in the next video what Jen and I own."So when I say own, I always like to also say basically what Jen and I purchased by taking out a large loan from the bank and paying them back every month. So it's not like I bought all of this farmland from my mom because I had lots of money. We did go to the bank. We do pay a hefty amount every month for it. But let me show you what we do own. If you look across the river, we do not own that land. If you look this way where you can see the barn and then you look at the land on this side of the river, we do own that land. So we have a field where we grow crops in the distance. We usually grow soybeans or wheat or corn.Down further, I think I'm pointing to the right spot, we have a place where our goats go out on pasture. If you squint, you can see Walter down there right now. He's on his way to the river, maybe to go for a swim. And way in the distance there is a piece of land where we have hay that the neighbors actually cut and bale that every year and they give us some hay for our animals as well. But yes, this is what we own. We do not own that. We just look at it and appreciate it. It's a beautiful pieceSupport the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases A CLOSE CALL and TO CALL OFFIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, "a close call." When something is a close call, it means that something bad almost happened, but it didn't happen. Here's a little story. Once when I was younger, I was working, I was about 17. I was working on a building on scaffolding. You know, what they put along the side of the building? And lightning struck the ground about a kilometer from where I was. But me and my coworkers saw little bolts of static electricity go from the scaffolding to the building. So we quickly climbed down and ran inside. That was a close call. I didn't get hit by lightning but it was certainly a close call. I was happy that the lightning hit far away.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/bobthecanadianSo the second phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase "to call off." When you call something off, it means you cancel it. This happens sometimes when it snows a lot in Canada. They'll call off school, they'll cancel school for the day. Sometimes this happens when two people are planning to get married and then they start to not like each other. Sometimes they call off the wedding, they decide not to have it.So to review a close call is whenever something almost happens that would be bad. Like if you almost hit someone with your car. If two cars are driving and almost hit each other, we would say that that is a close call and when you call something off, to call off means to cancel something.So, hey, I don't have a comment today. I have to apologize. I've had a really busy week and I did not have a chance to respond to all the comments and it's close to raining out here. So I ran outside quickly. I'm not sure if you can see the storm approaching. There are actually some small raindrops hitting me right now. If you don't believe me, I'll show you the puddle. You might be able to hear the thunder as well.Whoa, that's upside down. That's not how that's supposed to work. Here we go. You can see maybe some drops hitting that puddle there. Let's see if we can get this turned around. I'm not sure if you can hear the thunder. I probably should just go inside now instead of staying out here.So just a short lesson today. Busy week, haven't had time to reply to comments. I'll get back at that as soon as possible. But I thought I should still jump outside and make a quick lesson for you. Hopefully you learned a couple phrases and I better get back inside now. I don't want to tell another version of the lightning story after this lesson. So, have a good couple days. I'll see you in a couple days with another short English lesson. Bye.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases BY WEIGHT and DEAD WEIGHTIn this English lesson, I'd like to help you learn the English phrase "by weight." When you buy something, you can either buy it by weight. You pay a certain amount per pound or per kilogram, or I think the opposite is by volume. When I buy gas, I pay per liter. But when something is sold by weight, you pay for a certain number of pounds or kilograms or whatever other measure of weight they are using. When we sell bouquets, we sell by quantity. You buy 12, sorry, you buy 12 flowers in a bouquet, so you're buying I guess by volume but I would say by quantity. When I buy gas, it's by volume, and when I buy things like bulk food at the grocery store, where you scoop it yourself and put it in a bag, often you pay by weight. We actually have a store called Bulk Barn in Canada where you can buy everything by weight, candies, chocolate. I like buying chocolate by weight, although the scoop I make usually ends up costing more than I'm expecting.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 "dead weight." This refers to anyone who isn't doing their job. We also would say they're not pulling their weight. If you watch a sports game, if you watch a football game and one person isn't running very fast and they don't play very good defense and they never score a goal, you might say that they're dead weight. You would describe that person as being dead weight. Not a very nice way to be described, but if you're dead weight, it means you're not really doing anything.So to review, when you buy something by weight, you're paying by the pound or by the kilogram depending on how you measure things in your country. And when someone is dead weight, it means that they're not contributing the way they should to a team or at work or someone else.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Axmed. "Hello teacher Bob the Canadian. "Is this phrase correct? "'I met the President, or I met with the President'?" My response, both are correct, but with slightly different meanings, so I'm glad you brought this up. "I met the President." This means you saw him or her once briefly, maybe shook his or her hand and maybe got your picture taken. "I met with the President," this means you probably sat down for a bit of time and talked with the President.So thanks for that comment by the way, Axmed. Yes, you can see from my response, slightly different meanings. The first one simply means that maybe you were somewhere and the President was there and you said "hi" and got a selfie taken with the President, and then the second one would mean you actually had a meeting. You actually sat down and you talked about things. You probably must be a very important person if you had an actual meeting with the President, although everyday people sometimes can meet the President or Prime Minister.Someone I work with actually met the Prime Minister and got his picture taken. I was surprised. He didn't meet with the Prime Minister. He met the Prime Minister at like a meet and greet in a park I think that's where it was. So I was a little bit jealous. I thought, Bob the Canadian should someday get a picture with the Prime Minister. That would be really, really cool, of Canada.By the way, did you know that's one of my dreams, which will probably never happen? I would love it if the Canadian Tourism Board hired me as an ambassador for Canada promoting this beautiful country. I thought, wouldn't it be cool if when I retire from teaching, if the Canadian government seSupport the show