Bob's Short English Lessons

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrase TO END UP and UNTIL THE BITTER ENDIn this English lesson. I wanted to help you learn the English phrase "to end up." This is a phrase we use to talk about the thing that eventually happens. I think the best way for me to explain it is to give you a few examples. Today my son was playing basketball after school and Jen was going to pick him up, but she got really busy, so I ended up picking him up. So past tense there. So instead of Jen, it was me. So it can be used to talk about a situation where something happens that maybe you weren't expecting or not the way you thought and it's kind of the conclusion. Another way to use it is in a sentence with if. I could say, if you don't work, you're going to end up with no money. So the situation that results from not working is that you don't have any money, so you end up with no money.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 "until the bitter end." Sometimes people go and watch a basketball game and they leave early because their team is losing, but sometimes people will stay until the bitter end. Sometimes we even just say til. They stay til the bitter end. Jen and I, when we go to see something, we always stay until the bitter end. We are not the kind of people to leave early from something, usually because we want to get our money's worth so we usually stay until the bitter end. Even when we go to market to sell flowers, sometimes other vendors will leave early but we always stay til the bitter end because we wanna sell as many flowers as we can. We'll go have a look at them in a bit.Anyways, to review. When you end up doing something, it means it's the end result. If you watch this video, you might end up learning some English. And when you do something until the bitter end, it means you do it until the very end. It means you don't quit early. It means you keep doing it.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Noriko. "Welcome back, sir. Seems like you're better now. Shadowing what you speak does the trick for practicing my speaking muscle, thanks." And my response, shadowing is a great technique. I'm glad it does the trick for you.So great use of the phrase, Noriko. And yes, shadowing, which is when you watch a video or listen to audio and then you pause it and you repeat what the speaker has said, so if you watch my videos, if you were to practice doing shadowing, you would hit pause right now and then you would say "practice doing shadowing" and then you would hit play again. Something like that.Hey, I promised that I would show you these when they were blooming, and they are definitely blooming. So the peonies have definitely started to bloom. You can see that we have some pink, or we might call this fuchsia. Over here, you can see one that's about to pop open. It's about to burst into flower, I guess. Sorry, I lost the train of thought there. And over here, you'll see a big row. Normally we would have harvested all of these. We've harvested quite a few, but we're a little behind and it has been raining a bit here.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO DO THE TRICK and TO PLAY A TRICKIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to do the trick. When we say that something will do the trick, we mean that it will work in a certain situation. Here's a good example. Sometimes when I'm eating a bag of chips, I don't eat all of them and I want to close the bag, so I just put a clothespin on it because a clothespin will do the trick. A clothespin will keep the bag of chips closed, and then I don't have to worry about the chips going stale. So when you say that something will do the trick, it simply means that it will work. It will do something in a certain situation to help you out.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 play a trick. When you play a trick on someone, it means that you do something to trick them. Here's a little trick we play on people at school. Sometimes teachers will accidentally leave their keys somewhere, so if I find another teacher's keys, I put them in the freezer in the staff room. I like to play a trick on my colleagues. So it's just something silly and funny that I do. And there's other things like that that people sometimes do at work. Sometimes we call them practical jokes as well. But when you put someone's keys in the freezer just for fun, and then on the board, we write, "Cool keys." There's a little whiteboard in the staff room. We write, "Cool keys," to give them a hint that someone is playing a trick on them.So to review, when something will do the trick, it means it will work in a certain situation. I could put the words on the screen, but having a piece of paper does the trick for me. And when you play a trick on someone, it means you just do something funny, something to make maybe yourself laugh, and hopefully them laugh a little bit as well.Hey, let's look at a comment, though, from a previous video. This comment is from Olivia. "Hi, Bob," or, "Hi, Teacher Bob. Drink more water and take care of yourself. I hope you feel better soon." And my response is, "I drank lots of water and lots of tea with honey. That seemed to do the trick."See how I used the phrase there? Anyways, thanks Olivia for that comment. And that was a comment from my last video, where I basically just said, "Hey, I'm gonna be making lessons again starting on Friday," and that's hopefully when you're watching this.So it's an election day in Ontario, Canada. Today, there is an election. If we walk over here, you'll see that this person supports the NDP party. It looks like Dave Augustyn is running for the NDP party. And if we go way over here, in just a moment, we'll see another sign. People in Ontario sometimes will put signs on their yard, kind of letting people know who they're voting for. The candidates have all done, there's been debates. The candidates have all visited various towns and cities in Ontario to kind of get their message out and to ask people to vote for them, and today is the day where we need to vote. I'll be voting later today. It's cool to be able to go and vote.There's another guy right here. So this is the Progressive Conservative Party, and this is the person who's running there. He doesn't live here. This is just a house where someone who supports that party is going to vote for that person, so they've simply put a little sign on their lawn so that their friends and neighbors can see that that's the person they're going to vote for. It's kind of just a way to give them some support.Support the show

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase picture this. This is a phrase we say before we're going to describe something to someone. And when we want them to picture it in their minds, we want them to imagine they can see what we're describing to them. So I could say to you picture this, you're in Canada, you're walking along the shore of a lake. There's beautiful sand under your feet as you walk along the beach. Because I said picture this, it means I want you to try, and see all of the things that I'm describing in your mind as I'm saying them. By the way, you should come to Canada, and you should walk along a beach somewhere on one of our shores, I think you'd really, really enjoy it. So, but if I was telling you about it, I would start by saying picture this before I described 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 out of the picture. This is a phrase that we use to describe, sometimes a person who is no longer around. Here's a good example. Let's say that my cousin was dating someone, and then they broke up. If someone said, where's your girlfriend? He might say, oh, she's out of the picture. Or if I said to my uncle and aunt, hey, where's Joe's girlfriend, I haven't seen her lately. They could say, oh, she's out of the picture. That simply means that they're no longer dating, and you probably won't see her around anymore.Anyways, to review, when you say picture this, you say this before you describe something, so that people know they should try and picture it in their minds. And when you say someone is out of the picture, it means that they're no longer around, that you won't be seeing them. We often use this in a situation where people are dating, and then they break up. We say, oh no, he's out of the picture. You won't see him at family reunions anymore.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Suun, I saw you wore a T-shirt, but another YouTuber wore a down jacket in Canada. And my response, it's a big country. If you go far enough north, it's still pretty cold.And it also depends on the time of day. When I'm out in the middle of the day like right now, it is 9:15 in the morning. It's a little bit chilly still. I'm actually a little bit cold, even though I'm wearing a short sleeve shirt. But if you were in Ottawa, or if you were in one of our Northern cities like Edmonton, Alberta, it's probably even colder, and you would probably be wearing a jacket. So it depends what part of the country you're in at this time of year.Hey, I'm out here at one of our local soccer fields. Wow, the sun is really bright today. I was going to make this video here. I was a little worried, because they're mowing the lawn right now. So it's a little bit loud. I'm not sure if you can see them or hear them. But this is where I used to play soccer a long time ago when I was younger, when I was in my early 20s, I was a soccer player for a few years.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO DUMB DOWN and DUMB LUCKIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to dumb down. Now I think you know what the word dumb means. It's kind of an insult for someone who's not very smart. If you say he's dumb, you're saying that that person isn't intelligent. So it's not a nice thing to say. But we do use the phrase to dumb down to talk about making something simpler, and easier to understand. Think about it this way. Sometimes you read a book, and it's a really good book, and it's very complex, and a little bit hard to understand, and then they make it into a movie, and then they dumb down the story a little bit, so it's easier for people to understand. Sometimes too they'll make instructions for something, and the instructions might be really hard to understand. So they might say to someone at that company, hey, before we ship that product, someone needs to dumb down the instructions. You need to make them simpler, and easier to understand.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 dumb luck. So luck, when you're lucky, it's just means that something goes your way for no reason. And dumb luck is the same thing basically. A good example would be this. Normally I take a certain road to go to work, but the other day I took a different road, and then I ended up finding out the road I normally take, there was an accident there, and I would've been stuck. So it was just dumb luck that I took the right road. There was no reason when I got to the end of my driveway, I decided to go one way and not the other. It ended up being dumb luck that I just ended up going the way where there was no traffic, and no accident that would have held me up.So to review, when you dumb down something, when you are going to dumb something down, it means you're going to make it simpler, and easier to understand. And when you have dumb luck, it just means that things went your way for some reason, usually just 'cause you got a little bit lucky.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Gill. Thanks, Bob, I like lilac. In Russian, we call it a bush, not a tree. Could you tell me what you call the color of that cat of yours in Canadian English, ginger or red? My response, we also sometimes call it a bush, lilac tree, lilac bush. I think it depends on how tall it is. Also, we would say it is an orange cat. So yeah, technically the lilac trees that I showed you in the last video, technically I think they would be a lilac bush. They look more like a bush than a tree, but we've always called them lilac trees, I think because they are taller than me.And the cat, yeah, we don't usually call a cat like that a ginger cat. We would usually just say it's an orange cat. And the other name we have for it is Tabby. I think Tabby refers to the pattern of the fur on the cat. So I would've called that an orange Tabby cat.Hey, an interesting thing is happening at work. For some reason, we are trying to figure out how we used to do all kinds of things in May and in June. Last year in May and June, we were learning from home. Two years ago in May and June, we were learning from home. So there's all these little activities, and things that we can do now that we can do in person. And as a staff, as teachers, we're trying to figure out how we used to do certain things. I was in a meeting this morning where a lot of people were saying, well, how did we do it three years ago the last time we did it? Or how did we do it three years ago? Who was in charge back tSupport the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrase SUCH A and NO SUCH THINGIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase such a. This is a little phrase we sometimes add to a sentence when we want to emphasize something. I could say to you, "It's a nice day today," but it's actually a really nice day, so I could say, "It's such a nice day today. It's such a nice day." If I was insulting someone, and you shouldn't do that, but here's an example anyways. If I was insulting someone, I could say, "He's a jerk," but if I wanted to emphasize that, I could say, "He's such a jerk." And you can even use this for experiences. You could say, "Oh, I went to the Ed Sheeran concert, and I had such a good time. It was amazing."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 no such thing. When we think something doesn't exist, we'll say, "Ah, there's no such thing." If someone was to say, "Last night I was walking in my house and I saw a door open by itself. I think there's a ghost in my house," you could say, "There's no such thing. Ghosts don't exist." If someone said, "Oh, I was driving last night, and I saw strange lights in the sky. I think it was a UFO, an unidentified flying object," you could say, "There's no such thing as aliens, and there's no such thing as UFOs."So to review, when you use the phrase such a, it means that you're emphasizing something. It's such a nice day today. He's such a jerk. By the way, don't use the insult. I think I already told you not to do that, but you do need to know insults, don't you, in case you hear them on TV. And when you say there's no such thing, you're simply saying that you don't think something exists.Hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Sidd. "We didn't get enough time to observe that beautiful tree in the back. Thanks a ton for these short and simple episodes." And my response. "You're welcome, Sidd. Good to know you watched until the end."If you don't know what Sidd's talking about, it means you didn't watch 'til the end of the last video. In the last video, I was running out of time, but I was standing by a beautiful tree, so I quickly just said, "Here's a beautiful tree," or, "Here's a really nice tree." It was such a nice tree, by the way. You should go back and maybe watch it. But it's just a little thing I noticed. If I do something funny at the end of the video, sometimes I look for a comment so that I know people watched all the way to the end.By the way, if you wanna see nice trees, oh, let's do it this way. Let me flip you around. These are our lilac trees. We have three lilac trees. This is a white lilac tree, and it smells beautiful, and then we have my favorite lilac, which is this light purple lilac tree. I really enjoy the lilacs. I know we live on a flower farm, but you might be interested to know, we don't actually sell lilac. Kind of stuck out in the trees here. We started to a long time ago, but they don't last very long when you put them in water. Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO TAKE A CRACK AT and TO CRACK OPENIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase "To take a crack at." When you want to take a crack at something, it means you want to try it. Let's say you have a jar and you can't get the lid off. Your friend might say to you, "Hey let me take a crack at it. Let me try. Maybe I'm stronger than you." Maybe you are trying to change the tire on your car and you have the wrench on the lug nut and you can't turn it. Your friend might say, "Hey, let me take a crack at it. "Step aside, let me take a crack at it. I've been working out lately and I think I have the strength to actually get that lug nut off." So when you want to take a crack at something, it means you want to try 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 crack open." This is an example, again, of sometimes in English, we use an extra word and we don't need it. This simply means to open, but you might be driving and it's hot. And you might say, "Hey I think I might crack open a window." Maybe you are teaching in your classroom and you just want some airflow, you might crack open the door. Maybe you've just done something amazing in your life and you want to have some champagne. You might crack open a bottle of champagne. In all those examples, I could have just used the word open, but at least with window and door, when I think about crack open, it usually means to open a little bit, okay. But when you crack open a bottle of champagne, you usually open it completely 'cause there's no way to kind of do that partially. I hope I'm making sense today. I feel like my thoughts are not connecting well but let's continue the lesson.To review, when you take a crack at something, it means you want to try it. Maybe you've never ridden a horse before and you say to your friend, "Hey, get off that horse. Let me climb on and take a crack at it." Hopefully that ends well. And then to crack something open, when you crack open a door or crack open a window. For me it means to open the door a little bit or the window a little bit. But it can also mean just to open.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Dimitri. And Dimitri says, "So your neighbor plants the crop for you and you do what for him? I don't think he just does that for free and for fun." And my response, "You are correct in your assumption. He does it as a business and I pay him. I'm a little worried this year because of the price of diesel fuel. I think it's going to be an expensive year to grow crops."Yes, I think it's definitely going to be an expensive year to grow crops. So yes, my neighbor has a chicken farm, but he also has a business where he plants his, well he plants his own crops, but he also plants crops for other people. So he does that as a service and as a business. He will just take care of all of the planting for me. I don't even need to buy the seed anymore. Years ago, I needed to buy the seed, but he also sells seed. So that's really handy.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrase A MOMENT IN THE SUN and I'LL BE WITH YOU IN A MOMENTIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, a moment in the sun. When we talk about a moment in the sun, we're talking about a time when you were maybe a little bit famous for a day, a good example would be this. A few years ago, someone came to market from the newspaper and took a picture of Jen in her booth, selling flowers. And then the following week, Jen was on the front page of the town newspaper, not a big newspaper, just a small newspaper, but that was Jen's moment in the sun. It was her moment for a few days to be just a little bit famous. It was her moment for just a little while for people to know who she was. Maybe you'll have the same thing someday. Maybe someone will take a picture of you somewhere and you'll be in the newspaper for a day, and you'll have your moment in the sun.WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me by joining the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmW5tmKIBrryNf5n-_A6Fmw/joinIf you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me by clicking the "Support Now" button below.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'll be with you in a moment. Did I spell this right? I'll be with you in a moment. Yes. This is a phrase you often hear when you're waiting in line somewhere. Let's say I had to renew my driver's license, I would go to the renewal office. And when I walked in the person at the desk might say, I'll be with you in a moment. What that means is that they're busy doing something else. And if you just wait a little while they'll start to help you in just a little while. So it's a very common thing to hear, especially when you go somewhere like a license renewal bureau. You might hear it in a restaurant as well, if the server is really busy, they might say just have a seat over here, I'll be with you in a moment.So to review, when you have your moment in the sun when you have a moment in the sun, it means that you're famous just for a little while. And when someone says to you, I'll be with you in a moment it means that they will help you or assist you in just a little while.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Snazzy, and Snazzy says, my handwriting is quite good on paper but when I write on a whiteboard with a marker, it becomes horrible, interesting lesson, thanks. And my response, I think if I needed to do more handwriting it would be better. One of the problems is I'm just not used to it anymore.So that is one of the problems. Isn't it? When you're used to something it's easy to do but when you don't do it for a while you kind of aren't good at it anymore. I guess that's the best way to describe it.Hey, you can see behind me that I'm in town again but what I wanted to show you is that if I turn, across the road you'll actually see huge empty fields. And the reason I wanted to come and make a video out here is because we're really close in Canada to the time when tractors and farm equipment will be out in the fields starting to get ready to plant things. In fact, you'll see equipment go by like that. That might have been a whole bunch of seed.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrase I WASN'T BORN YESTERDAY and WERE YOU BORN IN A BARN?In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, "I wasn't born yesterday." This is a funny phrase we use when someone says something and it's like they think we don't know how to do something. If someone said to me, "Bob, can you send me an email? Um, you do know how to do that, right?" I could say, "Hey, I wasn't born yesterday. Of course I know how to send an email." If someone said to me, "Hey Bob, here's a new mouse for your computer." Maybe at work the tech guy gives me a new mouse. And if he says, "Do you know how to hook it up?" I could say, "Hey, I know how to plug in a mouse. I wasn't born yesterday." So it's just kind of a funny phrase we use when someone says something and it makes us think they don't think we know how to do something. You say, "Hey, I wasn't born yesterday." It's funny, but at the same time it's quite direct, so be careful when you use 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 second phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase, "Were you born in a barn?" Now, this phrase is old. No one uses this phrase anymore except maybe my mom. I hope my mom's not watching this video. It's a phrase that I heard often when I was a kid, and it would be something my mom would say if I left the door open to the house. If I came in the house really fast and left the door open, my mom would say, "Hey, were you born in a barn? Close the door." So basically it's kind of a slightly insulting phrase that means, "Hey, are you like kind of a messy person who doesn't know how to close doors or clean up after yourself? Were you born in a barn?" And again, a barn is that huge building back there. A barn is a place where you keep animals. So it's kind of like, "Hey, are you acting a little bit like an animal? Were you born in a barn?" Again, no one uses that phrase anymore. I'm just teaching it to you for fun.To review, if you say "I wasn't born yesterday," it's kind of a fun way to let someone know that yes, you do know how to do something that maybe they thought you didn't know how to do. And if you say, "Were you born in a barn?" to someone, if you ask this question, you're basically saying, "Close the door." That's what my mom meant whenever she said that to me. And again, don't use that phrase. That was just for fun because I like to have the same words sometimes in each phrase. When I saw the word born, or I saw the phrase born in a barn, I thought, "Ah, I should talk about that just for a sec."But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This is from Alaa. "Hello, Teacher Bob. Do you think it is possible to see Bob the Canadian giving a traditional English lesson using a whiteboard and a marker? Haha, I just want to see your handwriting. Is it good or as terrible as mine?" And then my response, my handwriting is horrible. My handwriting is horrible.In my classroom, I don't write on the board very often. If I do, I usually print. So we have cursive, where all your letters are connected together, and then we have printing, where you use straight lines and circles to do your writing. If I do write on the board I print because yeah, it's hard to read. It's barely legible, we would say. When I was younger and I was in penmanship class, in elementary school, we had penmanship classes, I would usually get a really low grade. I did okay in other subjects, but penmanship was not a good class for me. I am not a very neat or tidy person when it comes to handwriting. It's awful, it's atrocious. Do you know that word? It's terrible, it's horrible.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrase I HOPE SO! and I HOPE NOT!In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, I hope so. The English phrase, I hope so, is a phrase we use when we really want something to happen. Let's say you're watching a game and your favorite team is playing. If someone asked you this question, "Do you think your team will win?" You would probably respond by saying, "I hope so." Let's say you're taking an English test and someone asks you this question. "Do you think you'll pass the test?" You would most likely respond by saying, "I hope so." So it's another way of saying, yes, but you're emphasizing it a little bit. You're saying that you really, really hope that whatever is going to happen will happen.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, I hope not. And this is completely the opposite. This is when you don't want something to happen. Let's say you're watching a game and someone says, "Do you think your team will lose?" You'll say, "I hope not." Let's say you're taking an English test. And someone says, "Do you think you'll fail?" You would say, "I hope not." So when you don't want something to happen and you want to emphasize it, you would use the phrase, I hope not.So to review, when you really, really want something to happen, you say, "I hope so." And when you really don't want something to happen, you say, "I hope not."Anyways, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from DK. Cool glasses. And my response was, I found out later they were my daughter's sunglasses. I thought they were mine.These are mine. I felt kind of silly after the last video, because I was wearing those sunglasses. And I kept thinking I was wearing my nice, cheap, Dollar Store sunglasses. By the way, the Dollar Store is way up there, where you can buy sunglasses for $1, or $2, or maybe $3 at the most. So I was wearing these really cool sunglasses in the last video. And I was basically, in my mind, thinking that they were mine, but they weren't. These are actually mine. These are not my daughters.What ended up happening was my daughter borrowed my camera bag last fall. And she left her sunglasses in a pocket in the side. And when I found her sunglasses in my camera bag, they kind of looked like mine. And so, I just assumed they were, but they weren't.So anyways, enough about my sunglasses. I'm once again out here in town. I don't have to show you. I was pointing out earlier that we have a Dollar Store. The interesting thing about Dollar Stores in Canada is that eventually they won't be Dollar Stores. They used to charge $1 for everything. And then eventually, they had some things that were $2. And now, I think they're going to charge as high as $5 for some items. Everything seems to be getting more expensive here in Canada. I'm sure it's true around the world as well. I'm not sure where it's all going to end.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrase IN RETROSPECT and HINDSIGHT IS 20/20In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, in retrospect. When we use the phrase, in retrospect, it means we're talking about the past or thinking about the past. For me, it's usually a phrase I use when I'm thinking about a decision I made in the past that was bad. Here's an example sentence. I'm out here today wearing my spring jacket, but it's a little cold, in retrospect, I should've grabbed my gloves before I came outside. So I'm talking about a decision I made in the past that was probably a bad decision. So in retrospect, I should've grabbed my gloves. I'm actually home today, because a lot of teachers at my school have COVID right now. So in retrospect, it was probably a bad idea to have a staff meeting last Friday. I think that's maybe where it spread around, but who knows? So, in retrospect means to think about the past or to look back to the past when you're talking about something.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 hindsight is 20/20. This is kind of a funny phrase we say when we're talking about how when something goes wrong, if we had thought about it earlier, we probably could have prevented it. But hindsight is 20/20. When you look back, it's easier to see that you made a bad decision, than it might have been in the moment when you made it. When you can see without glasses, we say you have 20/20 vision, and hindsight is the act of looking back in the past. So we often say, hindsight is 20/20. It's very clear when you look backwards in time, where you made bad decisions in your life, but at the time, it might not have been.So to review, in retrospect is a phrase we use when we're talking about the past. I actually just used it when I replied to Mohd Ag's comment the other day on the last video, and that's when I thought of this phrase. And hindsight is 20/20 is kind of a funny phrase we use to laugh about how, when you're talking about the past, and bad decisions you've made, when you look at it from where you are in time right now, you know that it was a bad decision, but at the time, you really didn't.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Denis. When I hear the phrase, let's look at a comment from a previous video, my heart starts beating faster. Qiu Park says, maybe your turn? And my response was, are you hoping that it's yours?So yeah, I wonder sometimes what it's like to watch these videos. I don't really know, because I'm the one making them, but I'm sure for some of you, you're wondering, did Bob pick my comment? So this time, Denis, I picked your comment, so hopefully you enjoyed thatSupport the show