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Feb 11, 2022 • 4min

Learn the English Terms UNDERHANDED and HANDS DOWN

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases THAT'S UNDERHANDED and HANDS DOWNIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English term that's underhanded. This is a phrase we would use to describe something that's kind of sneaky, maybe even a little bit illegal. When something is underhanded, it means someone's doing something they're not supposed to do, in order to achieve something. Here's a great example. If a politician is in an election, if they are running for office, and if they were to pay people to vote for them, you would probably say that's underhanded. Basically, when you have an election, people are supposed to freely go out and vote for who they think is the best person for the job. And if someone pays everyone they know $5 to vote for them, we would say that's underhanded, meaning that it's deceitful, they're deceiving people, and it's also illegal.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 hands down. When you say something is, well, here's the example. If I was to say, "These are the best cookies I've ever eaten, hands down," it means like decisively. It means like for sure. If you are a fan of a sports team, and they beat the other team hands down, the score, if it was football or something, was probably like 5 to 1, or 10 to 8. If it was basketball, it might be like 105 to 80. You would then say that that team won hands down. So it means like decisively, that there's a clear winner. It means that they for sure accomplished what they were trying to do.Anyways, let's review. When you describe something by saying "that's underhanded," you're basically saying that's illegal or that's wrong, or someone isn't playing by the rules. I should do that phrase, shouldn't I? To play by the rules. I'll do that in a future video. And if you win something hands down, or if you say something is the best, hands down, it means decisively, it means for sure, it means absolutely.But, hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. It's always a mystery to me where these comments are, it almost fell out of my pocket. This comment is from Helinä. The comment is, "By the way, your hair looks awesome." And my reply, "Thanks, I feel like it's getting a bit long. I might get a haircut this weekend. I like it short."So I don't talk about my appearance very much, but I have mentioned to many of you in previous videos, that I do like my hair short. That when I was much younger, I had a motorcycle, and when I wore my helmet, when my hair was longer, it would look funny when I took my helmet off. So I ended up getting a really short haircut and I liked it, and I've just kept it that way ever since.Support the show
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Feb 9, 2022 • 4min

Learn the English Phrases BACKHANDED COMPLIMENT and TO FISH FOR COMPLIMENTS

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases BACKHANDED COMPLIMENT and TO FISH FOR COMPLIMENTSIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English term backhanded compliment. A compliment is something you say to someone that's kind of nice. Like if you said, "Your haircut looks good. Your new haircut looks good." Or, "Wow, you look really good in that shirt." But a backhanded compliment is when you give a compliment, but it's actually an insult. Here's a really good example. I use a lot of technology when I make these videos, but I'm also old. So a younger person could give me a backhanded compliment if they said, "Wow, you make really good videos for an old man." So basically they're saying something that sounds nice. "You make really good videos," but then they add the little phrase, "for an old man," which is kind of a little bit of an insult. By the way, no one's ever given me that backhanded compliment, but that would be a good example of what one would sound like.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 fish for compliments. When you fish for compliments, it means you're trying to get someone else to compliment you. You might say something like, "How's my hair look?" Or, "Hey, do you notice anything different about me today?" Both of those phrases would be considered someone fishing for compliments. So when you fish, you go to a river or lake and you try to catch a fish. When you fish for compliments, you say things to try and encourage the other person to say something nice to you. So you could say something like, I could say, "Hey, this is a pretty good video today, isn't it? Let me know in the comments." But you don't have to do that. That would just be me fishing for compliments.Anyways, to review, a backhanded compliment is a compliment that sounds nice, but is actually an insult or kind of a little bit of an insult. And when you fish for of compliments, it means that you try to get someone else to give you compliments. Yeah, I do it sometimes. Sometimes when I get my haircut, I'll do it. Hey, I'm just putting my gloves on for a sec. It's a little colder than I thought out here.Hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Noriko. "Wow. Those phrases are really funny. Your camera decided to just go upside down, but the wheels didn't fall off. It kept recording the nice view. Keep yourself warm, sir." In my response I said, "A long time ago, I used to cut out segments like that, but now I feel like it makes the video more authentic."Yeah, when I first started doing these short videos, I would actually, if I made a little mistake like that or if the camera did something weird, I would edit that out because I thought, "Oh, I want my videos to be really, really good." Here, just a sec here. Oscar, hey, puppy. How you doing? There a little bit of a look at Oscar. Anyways, I used to cut those segments out, but now when something goes wrong while I'm videotaping these little lessons, I just keep the camera running because I feel like it's more authentic.Support the show
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Feb 4, 2022 • 4min

Learn the English Phrase TO THROW SOMEONE UNDER THE BUS and THE WHEELS CAME OFF THE BUS

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO THROW SOMEONE UNDER THE BUS and THE WHEELS FELL OFF THE BUSIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, to throw someone under the bus. Now, this sounds horrible, but it's not something you actually do. You would not actually throw a person under a bus, but if you and someone else do something, and the other person blames you for it, they would be throwing you under the bus. Sometimes this happens in workplaces. Sometimes people work on something, and something goes wrong. And the boss says, who did this? Whose fault was it? And maybe it's two people that did it, and the one person says he did it. They throw that person under the bus. They pretend that they didn't do anything wrong, and they basically say that the other person did it. It's not nice to throw someone under the bus, but it definitely does happen at some workplaces. And it sometimes happens with students too. They'll blame another student for something, they'll throw them under the bus.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 wheels fell off the bus. We use this to describe any situation where things start to go wrong. We sometimes use this to talk about a sports team when they're losing. You could say they were playing really great in the first half, and then the wheels fell off the bus. And in the second half the other team got way more points than they did. So anytime you describe a situation where something's going badly, you could say the wheels fell off the bus, or the wheels are falling off the bus as it happens.So to review, to throw someone on the bus means to, sorry to throw someone under the bus means to blame them for something that went wrong, maybe at work, or maybe if you're a student doing a group project. And when you say the wheels fell off the bus, it means that something went wrong, and now things aren't going well. Sometimes we just say the wheels fell off too. You could say, oh, in the second half, the wheels fell off.Let me get the comment out of my pocket here. Let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from IOT. Hello, dear teacher, wear a tuque, please. It seems it is cold there, and my response, I will make sure to wear one in the next video. I will make sure to wear one in the next video. Let me make sure I read that right.Yes, I'm wearing one in this video, because it is severe winter out here right now. You can see that my van is covered in snow. Look how deep this is if I put my hand in here. I could even write on here if I wanted to. I could write hello. Okay, that's not the greatest, but you can see what I'm saying. If we walk along here, let me just do the little spinny thing.Support the show
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Feb 2, 2022 • 4min

Learn the English Phrases IN CHARGE and TO GET A CHARGE OUT OF

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases IN CHARGE and TO GET A CHARGE OUT OFIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, in charge of. When you are in charge of something, it means you're the boss, it means you're the person who has authority. As a teacher, I am in charge of my classroom. I am in charge of the students who are in that room. I have the authority. In some ways, I'm the boss. When you go to work, your boss is in charge of you. Your boss has authority. Your boss can tell you what to do. Your boss is definitely in charge when you are at work.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 get a charge out of. Sorry, I'm a little distracted. There's cats meowing here. I'll show you in a moment. They're waiting for Jen to come home and feed them. Anyways, when you get a charge out of something, it means it's exciting for you. When I go skating, I get a charge out of skating. It reminds me of my youth. It's exciting for me. I do really love to go to the arena and do some skating. I definitely get a charge out of it. So when you get a charge out of something, it means it's exciting for you. It's something you'd like to do. It's something that you enjoy.So to review, when you are in charge of something, it means you're the boss. You're the person who has the authority. You're the person who can tell other people what to do. You are in charge. And when you get a charge out of something, it means that you're doing something that's exciting for you. Some people get a charge out of maybe driving fast on the road, maybe that's exciting for them. You should never do that. But did I just wave my finger at you? That's a real teacher move. Don't do that. When you get a charge out of something, it's exciting for you, and you enjoy doing it.Let's look at a comment from a previous video. Sorry, I'm laughing at my, don't do that. That's definitely a real teacher move to use your finger like this, to say, don't do that, that's wrong. But let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Mohd Ags. Judging by your energy in this video, I'd say you're feeling 100% now, maybe even 110%. I mean, you were walking into a headwind through some snow while holding the camera and talking. Thank you, strong, Mr. Bob. And my response, I am definitely feeling 100% now, although I still have a short nap in the afternoon.Yeah, I definitely feel 100%. I feel great. I have to say that I don't feel even the least bit sick anymore. I'm gonna show you some of the cats that we have here as I walk. There's a cat here, there's a cat here. There's a couple of cats here. What has happened, Jen has left to get some groceries. She'll be back probably in about 15 or 20 minutes. But right now is the time when she normally goes to the barn and she feeds the chickens and she feeds the cats. And she usually feeds Oscar around the same time.Support the show
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Jan 28, 2022 • 4min

Learn the English Phrases TO LEND A HAND and A SHOW OF HANDS

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO LEND A HAND and A SHOW OF HANDSIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, to lend a hand. Sometimes you see someone trying to do something. Maybe they're trying to get their groceries into their car in the grocery store parking lot, and they maybe look like they need some help, and then you could lend a hand. When you lend a hand to someone, it means you help them do something. Before I was able to clean my driveway myself, many, many years ago, when we moved here, my neighbor would sometimes come and lend a hand. I just had a small tractor, he had a big tractor, and he would lend a hand, he would help me clean my driveway. I really appreciated that. Good neighbors are awesome, by the 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 second phrase I wanted to teach you today is a show of hands. Sometimes when I'm in a meeting, when we're trying to decide something, the person leading the meeting will say, well, let's have a show of hands, who thinks we should do this? And then if you think you should do whatever you're talking about, you put your hand up, and that's called a show of hands. So it's quite often when I'm in a meeting with other teachers, when we're trying to decide something, the person leading the meeting might say, you know what, let's vote on this. Could I see a show of hands for all the people who are in favor of doing whatever we're trying to decide to do.Anyways, to review, to lend a hand means to give someone help, to help someone out. When you can see that they need someone to help them, you can lend a hand, you can give them a hand as well, by the way. And when you vote on something in a meeting, we sometimes call that a show of hands. I actually hope the audio is working okay. I see my microphone fluttering in the wind here. So I hope that everything is working okay. We'll see when I go back in, and edit this.Anyways, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Eduardo, cool snow view. By the way, is it possible that it snows, even though the sun is so bright? I saw that in the last seconds. And my response, I think the snow was blowing off the roof of my shed.So no, it doesn't usually snow when it's sunny, although sometimes there's clouds above, and then you can see the sun in the distance. But what I think was happening the other day, Eduardo, I'm not sure if you can see it, maybe I should walk out further, but sometimes the snow ends up on the roof of my shed. And then when it's really, really windy, that snow blows off the roof onto the driveway, and onto people who are just kind of standing there.It's a little windy today. I have to go out here, and grab my recycle bins. By the way, in Canada, we have our recycling, and our garbage gets picked up by a big truck, the recycling truck or the garbage truck comes. And you can see out at the road there, my recycle bins and my compost bin are laying there. We also have truck that picks up our compost. So as soon as I'm done this video, in about a minute, I will grab those, and I will bring them back into the house. It's actually, I might have to clean the driveway actually today.Support the show
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Jan 25, 2022 • 4min

Learn the English Phrases TO EASE BACK INTO and TO BE AT EASE

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO EASE BACK INTO and TO BE AT EASEIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to ease back into. when you ease back into something, it means that you were doing it and you stopped doing it. And you're going to slowly start doing it again. You're not going to jump in with both feet and start doing it like a crazy person. You're going to slowly start doing it again. You're going to ease back into it. The example I'm sure you're expecting from me is this. I'm going to ease back into making videos on this channel. I'm planning to do a couple this week and I'll do a couple next week. I'm going to ease back into it. I'm not going to jump right in and start doing three a week. I'm just going to ease back in. I'm going to slowly, but surely start making videos again on this channel, so expect one today and I'll do another one for Friday. And then maybe next Wednesday again.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 to be at ease, when you are at ease, you are calm and you are relaxed. Sometimes when I come home from work, after a stressful day, I will have a cup of tea and I will sit on the couch and watch the news and then eventually I will be at ease. I will just feel calm, I will feel pleasant. I will feel like the day has been a nice day and that I had a good day and I will be at ease.So to review, when you ease back into something, it means that you were doing it, you stopped doing it. And then you're going to slowly start doing it again. You're going to ease back into it and to be at ease simply means to be calm and to be relaxed.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from actually, I don't think I remembered to bring the comment out let me check my time here a minute 46. Okay, I'm going to have to run to the house and grabbed the comment, I know it's from Snazzy, but I seem to have left it in the house. As I'm easing back into this, I seem to be forgetting some things. I'll be right back, okay, I'm back. And I have the comment it's from Snazzy and Snazzy says nice to see you back. And my response is, thanks Snazzy, it's good to be back.So yeah, my last video from two weeks ago was me declaring that I was back at it, me saying that I was making videos again and that I was back at it and I was going to make lots of videos for you. Here you wanna see where I'm walking? It's actually quite snowy out here, but yes, in the last video I proudly declared. I was back at it and then I promptly got sick and didn't make videos for two and a half, three weeks. So sorry about that but now again, I'm going to ease back into it.Support the show
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Jan 5, 2022 • 4min

Learn the English Phrases BACK AT IT and BACK IN THE DAY

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases BACK AT IT and BACK IN THE DAYIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase back at it. You can see here I have the entire sentence, I'm back at it. When you say you're back at something it means that you were doing it and then you stopped doing it and now you're doing it again. I was definitely making short videos on this channel. I was making short English lessons and then a couple of weeks ago I took a break and now I'm back at it. So my plan, this video, you're watching it on a Wednesday. There'll be another one on Friday and next week there'll be one on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. I'm back at it. You'll get short English lessons three times a week again for the rest of 2022. There might be the odd week here and there where I take a day off, but for sure you'll be getting three a week, but don't I take one day a month off? I think I do. I'm back at it, but I'm a little rusty. It's hard to remember how to do this.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 back in the day. When we say back in the day in English, we're talking about a time a long time ago. So I could say back in the day I used to smoke cigarettes. When I was in my early twenties, I was a cigarette smoker. So I could say back in the day when I talk about that. I can say back in the day I was a really good student when I was in school. So the phrase back in the day is used to talk about a time that was a long time ago. And usually you're remembering things fondly, but it doesn't have to be I guess. You could say back in the day I used to drive without my seatbelt on. Can you believe that? That was when I was a teenager, I don't do that anymore. I always have my seatbelt on when I drive now.Anyways, to review, when you say I'm back at it, it means that you were doing something, you've, you stopped doing it for a little while and now you've started to do it again. So I'm back at it when it comes to English lessons here on this channel and on my other channel too by the way. And when you say back in the day, you're simply talking about a time long ago when you're remembering something that you used to do.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Ekaterina. I am sorry, but where is the snow? And my response, you'll see in the next video.So I know it's been a couple of weeks and things have changed a little bit around here. As you can see behind me, we have certainly moved into the winter season. It's January, there is snow everywhere. In fact, you might like this. Let me spin you around. On this tree here you can see there's beautiful little layers of snow on the branches. We certainly are now in full winter mode. It's minus seven right now. I know I'm outside with no gloves and no winter hat, but I'm hey, I'm Canadian. We're kind of used to this. And I'm not going to be outside for too long.You can see behind me that the river is a little bit frozen. I don't want to walk too far out because it's quite windy. So I'll try to stay where I'm sheltered from the wind and still give you a little bit of a view of that. So the wind, the river has frozen, but the ice is nowhere near safe to go on right now. The ice is very, very thin. In fact in some spots you can still see a little bit of water.Support the show
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Dec 22, 2021 • 4min

Learn the English Phrases TO GET AN EARFUL and TO GIVE AN EARFUL

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO GET AN EARFUL and TO GIVE AN EARFULIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, "to get an earful". When you get an earful, it means that you've done something wrong. and someone in authority over you, someone like your parents or someone who's in charge of you, tells you that you did something wrong, you get an earful. So you were maybe told not to do something and you do it anyways, and then you get an earful. When I was a kid, let me turn this around. When there were puddles like this in our driveway, I remember there was a time where I stomped through the puddles and then I went in the house and I got the floors all muddy. I didn't take my boots off when I came in and did I ever get an earful from my mum? My mum was quite angry with me and I definitely got an earful from her. So when you get an earful, it means you do something that you're not supposed to do, and someone tells you that you did it. I think you get to see Jen in the background today.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 "to give an earful". And I kind of find myself on the other side of the coin now. I am now the parent. So the other night, one of my kids went out and they came home at two in the morning, and so I gave them an earful. I didn't actually do that. I mean, when you say, give an earful, it means you're kind of being a little bit mean. I think I'm actually a fairly nice dad. I just kind of said, Hey, that was pretty late. Try to be home on time next time. So it didn't really give that, my kid an earful. I think when you give someone an earful, you speak loudly and you're maybe a little bit angry, even.So to repeat, when you get an earful, it means you've done something wrong and someone tells you about it, usually a parent or maybe a teacher. And when you give someone an earful, you're the person telling someone else that they did something they weren't supposed to do.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Padma. "Of course, spending time with family has to take center stage during Christmas vacation. By the way, a blue sky and a snowy white backdrop looks wonderful. Wish you and your family, a Merry Christmas in advance." And my response, "Thanks Padma. I agree visiting with family should take center stage." You know, especially during holidays.Like the holiday season is a great time to, oh, that's bright. Is a great time to spend with family and friends. Here, gatherings will be quite small because of that pandemic thing that I don't really enjoy talking about anymore. But we are still going to have some gatherings. And I think it'll be good to spend a little bit of time with family and friends. There will be nowhere near the normal size parties that we normally have like two years ago. Most gatherings will be only about five or 10 people, and most people will do things safely, but I am looking forward to spending a little bit of time with my mom and with my siblings. That should be a lot of fun.Support the show
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Dec 20, 2021 • 4min

Learn the English Phrases LEFT, RIGHT, and CENTRE and TAKE CENTRE STAGE

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases LEFT, RIGHT, and CENTRE and TAKE CENTRE STAGEIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase left, right and center. We use these three words, you know, you have your left hand, your right hand, and then there's obviously the center of something, but we use these three words, we use this phrase to talk about something that's happening a lot or something that's happening quickly. Sometimes when we go to market the bouquets are really beautiful and people buy them left, right, and center. Basically, what we're saying is people are coming from every direction and they're buying them. Lately in Canada they're handing out rapid test kits for people to test for COVID before Christmas break, before they get together with their families, and people are grabbing them left, right, and center. When you go to the places where they're handing them out, people are grabbing them left, right and center. Everyone's grabbing them from every direction.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 take, the second phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase take center stage. When something or someone takes center stage they are the main thing or the thing that you focus on. Let's say I go to a party and I've gotten a promotion at work, and someone at the party announces that they just got engaged to be married. I would let that take center stage. Instead of mentioning my promotion I would just think, "Oh, I'll just be quiet for a bit and let them enjoy this moment. Because announcing that you're engaged to be married should take center stage in a situation like that. I'll tell everyone about my promotion later."So to review, when something is happening left, right, and center it means it's happening a lot. It's happening quickly, and in a way it's happening in every direction. And when you let something take center stage, you let it take priority. You let it be the main focus of that situation.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from write Winter. "When I was young I saw the phrase late John Smith, and believe that Mr. Smith was being late all the time. Thanks for your teaching." And my response. English speakers choose their words carefully so as to avoid confusion. When we say the late John Smith, it means he has passed away or he's died. The John Smith who is always late refers to the person with that name who is late a lot.So kind of a reference, write Winter, back to the last lesson when I talked about the phrase of late. And yes, you have to be careful as an English speaker which phrase you use, because if you say the late Joe Namath, is that a football player, he hasn't died. I shouldn't even mention real names. The late Joe Smith would refer to someone who has passed away. And the Joe Smith who is always late would refer to a Joe Smith who just can't be on time ever.Hey, I'm just walking around out here. It's a nice afternoon here in Ontario, Canada. There's a beautiful layer of snow. For those of you that watched my live lesson on Saturday, you'll know that there was a little bit of snow coming down. It did actually all melt and now it did come again in the night. So that's been kind of nice.Support the show
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Dec 17, 2021 • 4min

Learn the English Phrases OF LATE and MY LATE

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases OF LATE and MY LATEIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, of late. Now, this is just another way in English of saying lately. It's another way to talk about something that's been happening in the recent past. I could say something like this, I've really been enjoying teaching of late. That simply means that in the last few weeks, I've really enjoyed teaching. I could say something like this, I haven't been feeling well of late. So that simply means that I've been feeling a little bit sick for the last few days or the last few weeks. By the way, I'm not feeling sick. I actually feel really, really good. So when you say of late, it's just simply another way of saying lately or something that's been happening recently. The geese have been back of late, by the way. I can't show them to you because it's too windy to record over there. But the geese of late have been back and they're getting really loud again.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/bobthecanadianAnyways, the second phrase I wanted to teach you today is a sad phrase. And it's the phrase my late uncle or my late father or my late brother. It's a way to talk about someone who has died. When you use the word late in English and then you mention a person, you're talking about someone who's passed away. You're talking about someone who's died. So you might hear people say things like this. My late father used to really enjoy Christmas, or my late uncle was really, really funny when we would sit around the campfire in the summer. So when you use the word late and you talk about a person, you're referring to someone who has passed away. You're referring to someone who has died.So to review, when you say of late, you simply mean recently. Like it's been really windy of late here. I'll show you that in a minute. And when you use the word late to talk about a person, you're talking about someone who is no longer with us on this planet. So kind of a sad way to use the word late.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Julia. Hi, dear teacher. Didn't you ever think of installing a portable generator to keep your home running when the power goes out? It probably couldn't keep the whole house, but at least the most important items like fridge and light so your lifestyle won't be disrupted that much. And my response was this, we usually only think about that when the power is out, then the power comes back on and we go for a year or two with no power outages and forget.So, yes, Julia, I think that's kind of a funny thing about buying a generator. They're not incredibly expensive. I only think about buying one when the power goes out and then when the power comes back on, I just kind of forget, and I don't actually go buy one.So anyways, if you're wondering why I'm just walking along my shed here, it's because it's incredibly windy out today. It has been really windy of late. I'm not sure why. It's supposed to be winter like I've mentioned in my other videos. But lately, we've been having these wind storms. You can even see, I have to fix this door on the shed. It's kind of pushed out a little bit. The wind is pushing it out. So I'm just kind of walking along my shed and talking today.Support the show

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