Bob's Short English Lessons

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO WIPE OUT and I'M WIPED!In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to wipe out. Now I used this phrase in my last lesson to talk about slipping on the ice and falling down. When you wipe out, this is the verb we use to describe slipping and falling. If you've ever gone skating, usually you stay on your skates and you don't fall down, but if you slip and fall, we would say that you have wiped out (in the past tense). When you wipe out, you slip and you fall. You can wipe out walking on ice. You can wipe out walking on anything that's slippery. So be careful. You don't want to wipe out too often because if you land wrong, it can really hurt.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'm wiped. This is a phrase we use simply to talk about being very tired or exhausted. After a long day of work. I might come home and say to Jen, Oh, I'm wiped. I'm so tired. My students were so much work today. That would be how we would describe it. I'm wiped. So I'm really, really tired. I'm just not very energetic at all.So to review, when you use the verb to wipe out, it means that you slip and you fall down. Both actions must happen, you must slip and you must fall in order to wipe out. That truck’s a little bit loud. And when you say I'm wiped, it simply means that you are really, really tired. It means that you are exhausted.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Nikie. The older you get, the faster time whips by. And my response? This is very true. When I was a kid, summer seemed to last forever. Now it whips by.Yes, I noticed that when I was a kid summer lasted a really long time. If you're wondering why I'm in my van, you'll see in a moment when I get out. It's raining here, but I'm going to brave the weather. When I was a kid, I definitely felt like summer lasted forever. I felt like school would end when I was ten or 11, and I would have basically two months, but it seemed like forever. It seemed like summer just went on and on and on. So, yes, now time just whips by. It goes by too quickly.Anyways, I'm just out walking. I came here today because there's lots of people, there's been people in my videos lately, but I came here today not expecting it to be this rainy. I knew it was going to rain, but this is a little more rain than I expected. So I'm walking towards.... there's an overhang here that I can stand under while I walk and talk. What's sad for me is that it's raining, but it's February. It should be like minus five degrees right now, and then this would all be coming down as snow. And it might have even been a snow day possibly.Ah, I got to get away from this music or I'll get a copyright strike on my video. Sorry, outside that restaurant, there was some music playing to attract people to come in. Anyways, I'm just walking here. I'm under the overhang now. Let me give you a look. So now it's a little nicer because I am out of the rain. That's how we would describe that in English. So I'm out of the rain. I'm going, Oh, a big drop just hit me. I walked outside of the overhang just for a split second there.Anyways, you guys like to see people? Maybe I'll spin this way. I'm in front of the Tim Hortons restaurant. There are people in the drive thru, there are people walking in. It's just a very busy and vibrant town, much different than it was a few years ago when we were still locked down. That was no fun. I think I have repressed those memories. That means that I'm trying not to remembeSupport the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO WHIP BY and TO WHIP SOMETHING UPIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to whip by. This is a phrase we usually use to talk about something that happens quickly. I usually use it to talk about time. I feel like the days in January just whipped by using it in the past tense there. I find that at this point in the winter, time seems to whip by. It tends to go very, very quickly. I can't believe it's already almost the middle of February. Okay, it's not quite the middle of February. I think it's February 7th, the day you're watching this. But time does seem to whip by at this time of year, I think because I've started a new semester and I'm a little bit busy. I really feel like time is whipping by. You can also say that a car whips by, like, you can use it for things as well, but I usually use it to talk about 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 to whip something up. We usually use this to talk about making food quickly. This past weekend, Jen's sister and brother-in-law came over, so I whipped up some pizza. I made some dough in the bread machine, and I quickly made some pizza for them. I whipped it up. So we use this to talk about doing something quickly, usually preparing food. We almost always use it to talk about making food. Like I'm going to whip up some snacks for later tonight so that Jen and the kids and I can have a fun evening while we watch the Raptors play basketball.So to review, when you say that something is going to whip by you mean that it's going to go quickly. When you say that you are going to whip something up, it means you are going to make it quickly. By the way, do you know what a whip is? It's like a leather thing that I think they used to use when they were chasing cows or something like that. I'm not sure exactly all the details.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from let me get it out of my pocket here. This comment is from Francisco. Out of sight, out of mind. I always wanted to be out of the line of sight of the teacher in order not to be asked L.O.L. And then my response. When you're in a big class, it's nice to sit at the back if you're going to have a snooze.Now... Thanks, Francisco, for that comment. Good use of out of sight. You shouldn't do that, though. You shouldn't sleep in classrooms. I'm not recommending that. I'm not advocating that as a teacher. I recommend that you sit at the front and that you pay attention and you do all the work. But yes, sometimes if you are in a class that's boring, you want to sit at the back so the teacher can't see you, so you're not in their line of sight.Hey, I'm out here just for a little walk on this path in town, you can see. Let me show you it. It's actually a little bit dangerous walking out here right now because it's melting a bit, but there is ice on the ground. And what that does, I think I've explained it before, is it makes things very slippery. Whenever ice is a little bit wet on the top, it's extra slippery and it's a lot easier to slip and fall. Now, as a Canadian, I'm used to walking on ice, but I still need to be careful. But I'm sure if you're from a country that doesn't have winter and if you were walking on that ice, you would have a little bit of trouble.Yeah, I'm pretty good at walking on ice. I've been walking on ice my whole life, but there are still times where it's a little too slippery and sometimes I almost wipe out. That's the phrase we use to describe that. Hey, you've seen this creek before. Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases OUT OF SIGHT and LINE OF SIGHTIn this English lesson. I wanted to help you learn the English phrase out of sight. You can see this right now, but now it's out of sight. It literally means what it says when you can't see something. It is out of sight. Often people who are doing something illegal, they try to do it out of sight or if they're carrying something illegal and they see the cops, they'll put it out of sight. They'll put it in their pocket, in their back pocket, or they'll stick it in a bag. They'll put it out of sight. So that the police officers can't see it. So it's a very simple phrase. It simply means to put something where someone can't see it or to put yourself where someone can't see you. I can even be out of sight if I want. When I duck down, I'm out of sight.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 line of sight. So line of sight is an imaginary line between my eyes and what I'm looking at. So between myself and the camera, this is my current line of sight. When I'm sitting in my classroom at the back and a student’s doing a presentation. If another student sits in front of me, they're in my line of sight. I'm not able to see the person at the front. So it's simply an invisible line. If I look at that car driving by. It's in my line of sight. I'm able to see them.So to review when something is out of sight, it means you simply can't see it. And when you talk about your line of sight, it's the imaginary line between you and the thing that you're looking at.But, hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Shuvra. Thanks, sir. Yes, you should have brought your sunglasses. And then my response next time! You can see I'm wearing them right now. So thanks for that comment. I did remember them. I did find them back they were actually in my van. They were kind of between the seats. Sorry it's really windy out here. They were between the seats and they were kind of covered with some stuff. Hey, I'm not going to walk around today because it is extremely windy. You saw just there.I got blown a little bit. If we turn this way, you can see the tree moving in the wind. So I'm going to just stand and talk in one spot. It's very gusty. I don't know if you know what the word gusty means. When it's gusty outside, it means the wind is blowing and it speeds up every once in a while.So as I was sitting in the house, I thought I could make this English lesson inside or I could just go outside with my good camera, with my really big wind protected microphone. I've never shown you that have I? I'll take a picture of this tripod when I go back inside so that you can see it. But it is windy today.Let's turn this way and then maybe you can see a little bit. I can't help but show you things. That tree is moving. But even though there are no leaves on it, that tree is still moving quite a bit in the wind. So anyways, too windy to make a video, but I'm out here anyways. By the way, speaking of weather it's supposed to get super cold here, wait for it.I'm going to tell you what the temperature is going to be tonight. Drum roll, please. -22 degrees Celsius tonight, Friday night, the same -20, -25. Extremely cold weather. It's actually dangerous to go outside when it's that cold. So I don't go outside at night anyways. I sleep in my nice cozy bed inside my house, but it's going to get super cold here.I’m kind of looking forward to it. That's kind of cool. Anyways, 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 words WHATSOEVER and SOMEWHATIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English word whatsoever. This is kind of an interesting word, and Konstantin asked if I could explain it. When you use the word whatsoever, it means at all. If I was to say, "There isn't any traffic behind me whatsoever," it would mean that there are no cars or trucks behind me. By the way, sorry if I'm squinting a lot. It's very bright out here. I tried to stand in the shade, but it's still hard to keep my eyes open. I should have brought my sunglasses because there aren't any clouds in the sky whatsoever right now. It's a clear blue sky, and it makes it hard to see.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 word I wanted to teach you today is the word somewhat. This means the same as a little bit. You could say, "It's somewhat cold out here today." It's minus two degrees Celsius, so it's not super cold. It's just somewhat cold. It's a little bit cold. When I make my English lessons, I'm sometimes somewhat talkative, so I'm a little bit talkative. I talk a little bit too much.So to review, when you use the word whatsoever, it means at all. So there's not a cloud in the sky whatsoever. Today there weren't any students at school whatsoever, because we don't start teaching until tomorrow, which is actually today for you. Wednesday is the first day of second semester. I'm making this video on a Tuesday. And when you use the word somewhat, you mean a little bit, so I talk somewhat loud when I'm teaching my classes. I'm kind of a loud talking teacher. I'm somewhat loud, so it means I'm a little bit loud. I don't yell at my students, but I'm somewhat loud.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Padma, and Padma says... I can't get my paper open, 'cause I got my gloves on. It's somewhat difficult to get the paper unfolded. Padma says, "When I watch your video, I always have a feeling that I am hanging out with a good friend of mine." And my response. "That's a very nice way to describe it. Thanks for the kind words, and good use of the phrase from the last video as well."It is kind of like hanging out a bit. I try as best as I can to be myself when I'm making my videos. I don't try to put on some sort of fake personality. The Bob that you are seeing and hearing right now is the same Bob I am when I'm at home, and so I can understand that. It's fun for me to talk to you. It's fun to read comments from all of you and respond to them. It's fun to get to know you a little bit. So in a certain way, we are hanging out a little bit. We're somewhat hanging out. I guess you could use it that way.Anyways, I'm walking through my downtown right now. I just thought I would come out here on this bright, sunny day. I'm not sure where my sunglasses are. I thought they were in the van, but they're not. But I'm just taking a little stroll here, just having a look around. You can see the intersection behind me is somewhat busy, so that means it's a little bit busy. It's not crazy busy, but it's definitely somewhat busy. I'm gonna keep walking. I think you have seen parts of this town before. Behind me is what's called a credit union. Actually, no, this is an actual bank. Sorry, I got that wrong. A credit union and a bank are kind of the same thing. There's a bank behind me.This is the place you go if you have to renew your driver's license or your license plates. It's called a ServiceOntario. It's a little place where you go when you need to do that. I'm just gonna walk over here in the shade, so that I can see how much timSupport the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO HANG OUT and TO HANG BACKIn 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.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 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 specSupport the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO TAKE A STAND and TO HAVE A STANCEIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to take a stand. When you take a stand on something, it means you say your opinion out loud and publicly. Maybe in your town, they're going to build a new bridge, and you don't like where they're going to put the bridge, so you might take a stand. You might go to a city council meeting and read a list of reasons why they shouldn't build a bridge there. You're going to take a stand. You're going to express your opinion publicly so that people know what you think. When you take a stand, it usually has to do with something that's happening in the world, some sort of issue or some sort of something that's going on that you oppose or you agree with, and then you take a stand if you disagree with 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/bobthecanadianWhich is different than the phrase to have a stance, slightly. When you take a stand, you have a stance. Let me clarify. Someone could say to you, "What's your stance on this new bridge they're gonna build?" and you could say, "You know what? I don't like it, and I'm going to take a stand." So I'm kind of confusing you a bit here. You have a stance on something. What's your stance on the new bridge they want to build? You know what? I don't like it. That's my stance on the new bridge, and you know what? I think I'm going to go to a meeting and oppose the new bridge. I'm going to have a stance, and my stance is that I'm against it and I'm going to take a stand by expressing that. But hey, to review, when you take a stand, sorry, I got distracted, because there's a vehicle coming towards me. I'm not on the road.But to review, when you take a stand, it means that you have an opinion on something and you express it to people, and when you have a stance, it simply means that you have an opinion on something. So I picked this road because I thought it would be very quiet and different from my previous videos where I'm in town, but yep, there's still people out here.Hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This is from Dhiraj. "Teacher Bob, recently I came across this phrase, take a stance, but there is also another phrase, take a stand. They both sound alike to me. Would you mind making a video on this, too? I'm eagerly looking forward to it." So yes, and my reply, "I'll do it in the next video."So you can see there's a slight correction there, Dhiraj. You would have a stance on something, but you would take a stand on something. That would be the difference between the two. So yes, slight difference. And by the way, for those of you that sometimes submit comments asking me to do lessons, you can do that, and I will usually try to make a lesson about it if it's a good suggestion. So Dhiraj, that was a great suggestion.So yes, I'm out here in the middle of nowhere. I'm out here by the woods. We might call this a forest, but I would just call it the woods. We might actually just call it the bush in Canadian English. I thought I would come out here so that there would be a bit of a juxtaposition between my previous video and this one. A juxtaposition is when something is completely different. So the last few videos I made in town, and I do plan to do more of those, and this video I'm making out here in the middle of nowhere. In fact, it's kind of funny, because even though I'm in the middle of nowhere, one of my neighbors is way there in the distance, walking towards me.I was trying to make a video where no one would see me, where I could say, look at this wilderness that I live cloSupport the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases NONE OTHER THAN and NONE OF THE ABOVEIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, none other than. This is a phrase we use when we introduce someone somewhere where it might be a surprise to people but you do know who the person is. Let me explain a bit better. If I was doing a live stream and I said, "I have a surprise guest, and it's none other than, none other than Brent from Speak English With This Guy," it would be a surprise, but you do know who he is. Maybe you're watching a show and there are police officers. I think there's a police officer behind me again, There seem to be cops following me around. On the show, they might say, "We've captured the thief, and it's none other than the mayor of the town." That would be a surprise, but you do kind of know who it is.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 none of the above. This is a phrase you'll see when taking a test that has multiple choice questions, a question and then A, B, C, D, and maybe the answer is actually D, none of the above. But we use this in conversation as well. I could say to you, "Are you having a good day or a bad day or an okay day or none of the above?" I could actually say that in a conversation. You could say, "Yeah, it's kind of none of the above."So to review, when you use the phrase none other than, it's something you use to introduce someone where it's a surprise, but the people do know who it is. By the way, it's none other than the local police officer. And when you say none of the above, you mean that there are a number of possible responses, but none of them are actually what you're talking about.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. I printed this one really big today. It's huge, but this comment is from Roman, "Thank you for the tour of new places. The building is so huge that I thought it was a shopping or business center," and my response was this, 'Our old arena was just that, an arena, one skating rink.' This new one is more of a multipurpose building. I like it a lot because it has a walking track around the ice rink for people to exercise, a place to walk that's nice and cool."So yeah, when you walk around the top part, it's awesome because... If you're wondering what I'm doing, I'm throwing the papers in my van. When you walk around the top part, you're actually in the arena. And when you're in the arena, it's nice and cool because there's ice, but it's fun to walk. By the way, I just happen to come here because it's the fire station. I didn't realize there would be another police officer in one of my videos. I don't think they're following me around. Anyways, it is a beautiful building. I'm very happy that our town built that building. It's kind of cool to be able to see, to have a building where you can go to the library, you can play some basketball, you can go to the arena, you can go for a walk, et cetera, et cetera.But yeah, this is our local fire station. So it's kind of cool because in our local town, we have what are called volunteer firefighters. So they are people who have normal jobs, but when there is a car accident or a fire... Let me turn around here so you can see one of the fire engines. When there is a fire or when, I'm not sure if you can see through the glass, or a car accident, they will leave their jobs and they will drive very quickly to the fire station and then they'll jump in the fire trucks and they'll head out. So our firefighters in our town, they.. They're volunteer but they do get paid a little biSupport the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases GO YOUR OWN WAY and MAKE YOUR OWN WAYIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to go your own way. When you go your own way, it means you do something the way you want to do it. A lot of teachers will create lessons, and they'll make handouts, and they'll give 'em to their students, but sometimes I decide to go my own way. I think of a creative way to teach that's a little different than the normal way to do it. So when you go your own way, it means you do something in a way that is unique to how you do it. Maybe there's a traditional way of learning English where you take a night class, but you've decided to go your own way. You've decided to learn English by using YouTube videos and by using an app. So you've decided to go your own way.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 make your own way. Now ,this looks very similar, but it's not. When you make your own way, it means that you have a job, and you earn money, and you can pay for the things in life by yourself. We often hope that as our children get older they will eventually decide to make their own way in life. I would say to one of my sons, as they get older, "It's time for you to make your own way in life. It's time for you to get a job, pay your rent, it's time to stop living at home and eating my food, It's time for you to make your own way."So to review. When you go your own way, it means you do something in a way that you thought of. So you've decided you're gonna go your own way and you're going to walk to work, instead of driving like everyone else. And when you make your own way, it means that you have a job, you earn a living, you can pay for all the things you need to pay for in life yourself.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from, I believe, Vladimir. "You reply to the comments of the same people." And my response, "Yes, sometimes, but I do try to pick at random as well. There are a few people who are regular commenters, so I do like to pick those a bit more often. Either way, I do try to reply, in writing of course, to all the comments. I just might not feature it in the video."So yes, people have mentioned this before. They've said, "Hey, Bob, you always pick the same comments when you're making the video. You always choose the same people." And it might seem like that sometimes, but there are a few people that I do pick more often than others, possibly because they comment more often than others. If you were to keep track, there are what I call regulars. People who come to this channel, watch these videos, and leave comments almost every time I make a video. And I really like people who do that because I get to know them a little bit, as they ask questions and as they share a little bit about their own life, I share a little bit about mine and we become more of a community. So thank you to all of you who do that, who comment regularly. I do appreciate it. It makes this a little more fun for me.So I'm here at what's called the Community Center, but it's also the arena and the library, and there's a basketball court if you want to do that as well. You can come here and hang out. Jen and I were actually here last night. We came to the library to get a few books. So that was kind of fun. And if you look over there, I think a couple of the police officers in my town are having a little meeting. They're parked over there, I guess, just briefly to talk about what's happening in the town possibly. Maybe there's something going downSupport the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases CAN'T BE BOTHERED and NOT A BOTHERIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase can't be bothered. When you can't be bothered to do something it means you don't want to do it. It means you don't see the point in doing it. So you don't do it. It means you have no desire to do it. When it snows here a lot and if the weather forecast says that it's going to be above zero the next day I can't be bothered with cleaning the driveway. I don't want to do it. I don't see the point. Sometimes students when they are preparing for exams they can't be bothered to study. That means they don't want to study and they have no desire to study, but they should study. They should definitely study when they have an exam coming up. If you have an English test coming up in the future and you can't be bothered to practice your reading, writing, listing and speaking, you should make sure you do that. It's always good to study.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 not a bother. When you tell someone that something's not a bother, oh, that's not a bother. Nope, it's not a bother. It means that you are willing to do it and it's not annoying to you. If one of my kids said I need to stay after school late tomorrow because I have a practice, is that okay? I would say, yeah, it's not a bother. I'll pick you up at five or 5:30 whenever you're done. So when you say to someone, not a bother, nope it's not a bother. It simply means that you're okay with it, you're happy about it, you're not annoyed about it.So to review, when you say you can't be bothered it means you don't want to do something. You can't be bothered to do it. And if you say something is not a bother, it means that it doesn't annoy you and you're quite happy to do it.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Mohd. Mohd Ags says when you said this is from the last video, when you said I don't have a lot to talk about, I was like, no way. That doesn't sound like Bob the Canadian Babbler. By the way, a babbler is someone who talks a lot. Haha, but it makes me happy to see you relaxed like this and in a good mood, all the best to you and your students. And I like the emojis, happy face pizza bird 'cause we were kind of joking about birds, banana and donut. I do like donuts too. My response, the day I run out of stuff to talk about will be the day I stop doing YouTube. So like probably never.I, interestingly enough, am a very quiet person. Thanks for the comment Mohd. I'm actually a very quiet person, but for some reason when I'm teaching and I do consider making these videos teaching I do talk a lot. I do like talking to my students at school and I do like talking to the camera. I do like talking to all of you. In my mind, I can kind of picture some of your names. The live streams help a bit on my bigger channel because in some ways in the chat get to know some of you a little bit. But yeah, I said I like talking to the camera but I very much like talking to you. I feel like I'm looking in a lens, but I'm actually talking to all of you. So anyways, yes, I'll keep talking. So I'll keep making YouTube English lessons for you.Hey, with the continuing saga of the internet I'll just show you now. They came again yesterday and yesterday they put another antenna on my silo and now my internet is way better, way better. I can't tell you how many letter A's I put in the word way when I say way better. In fact, it was so good that yesterday I tried a new piece of software. I did a little Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English terms HIGH POINT and LOW POINTIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English term, "high point." When you talk about something you've done and you mention the high point, you're talking about the best thing that happened while you were doing it. Let's say you went on a trip to France. You could say, "The high point of my trip was that I got to see the Eiffel Tower." Let's say you're talking about your career, you're talking about your job. You could say, "You know, the high point in my career so far was when I got that promotion five or six years ago." So, when you talk about the high point of something, you're talking about the best thing that happened while you were doing it. "One of the high points that Jen had while flower farming was that she got to be in the local newspaper. They came and took a picture of her, and they wrote an article. And that was certainly one of the high points of her time as a flower farmer."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, the other phrase I wanna teach you today is the opposite, and it's "low point." And I think you can probably guess what this means. The low point would then be the worst thing that ever happened to you, or one of the worst things that happened to you. So if you were talking again about your job, you could say, "The low point in my career was when I got fired." Or "The low point of the trip was when Joe fell getting off the bus and twisted his ankle." So, low point is then the not nice thing that happened in an event or an experience that you had.So to review, when you talk about the high point of an experience, it's the best thing that happened during that experience. And when you talk about the low point of that experience, you're talking about the worst thing that happened during that experience. High points are definitely better than low points.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. Let me see if I can dig it out here. This comment is from Janith. "Hi Bob, sir, how do you pronounce 'gauge'?" And my response, "I'll mention it in the next video." So I just did. I have to kinda gauge how much time I have left here. Oh, I have two minutes left, so that's good. But yes, that's how I pronounce the word gauge. I think that's the only pronunciation. I know there's a couple of different spellings. I think you can spell it without a "u" as well, but I spell it the way you just saw it on the screen in Janith's comment. So thanks for that comment, and that's how I would spell or say the word "gauge." Ha, and that's how I would spell it as well. And I did give you an example sentence. Every once in a while, I look at the time on my camera because I want to gauge how much time I have left. I wanna kinda get a sense of how much time I have left.So I don't have a lot to talk about for the last minute of this video. That's not true. I always have lots to talk about. It is January, and what that means for me at work is that things are winding down for this semester. I think some of you know this but maybe not all of you. In Canada, sorry, in my part of Ontario, I should say, we have a semester system in our high schools. That means that we teach for about four and a half months, almost five months, and then the semester is over. Students take four classes a day. And then when the semester's over, they write exams at the end, and then they start the next semester, and they take four more classes.So for me, I have about eight days left as of today. In eight days, regular classes are finished, and then we have a week of exams. And here's a little secret.Support the show