Bob's Short English Lessons

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO SECOND-GUESS YOURSELF and GUESS WHAT?In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to second-guess yourself. When you second-guess yourself, it means you've made a decision, but now you're doubting whether that was a good decision. Right now, I'm wearing a jacket, and it's a little colder than I expected. So I'm starting to second-guess myself. I'm starting to think about the decision I made to put on a jacket, and wonder if that was a good decision. It would have been a better decision, I think, to put on a winter coat. It's a little chillier than I thought. So when you second-guess yourself, it means you made a decision to do something in life, and now you're kind of wondering if that was a good decision, if it was a good idea that you made.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 guess what? This is a phrase we use when we're talking to someone when we have news to share, but we want the person to try and guess what that news is. I could walk into my sister's house, and say, guess what? And she could say, I don't know, you're going on a vacation? And I would say, nope. And she might say, ah, you're buying a new van? And I would say, nope. And she might say, ah, let me see. I'm trying to think of something that I am doing. She might say, oh, you're going to go visit mom today? And I would say, yes, that's exactly what I'm doing. So when you say guess what, you're being kind of playful with someone. You want to tell them about something you're going to do, but you don't want to tell them right away. You want them to try and guess, to try and maybe take a few guesses at what you're going to do. Hopefully that made some sense. I was having trouble explaining it there at the end.But let's review. When you second-guess yourself, it means that you've made a decision, and now you're having doubts. You're wondering if it was a good decision that you made. And when you say guess what to someone, you're basically saying to them, I have news to share, but I don't want to tell you exactly what it is. So I want you to try and guess. So let me know what you think the news is. And then I'll tell you if you're right or wrong.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Mohsen. Hey, Bob, thanks for the lesson. Why don't you make a video while driving to school, or central city for a change? And my response, it's a little long. I'm hoping to get out more once the pandemic slows down, cases were dropping in my area, but now they are on the rise again. Our school was in outbreak for two weeks, because we had four cases. But now, thankfully there are no more. Once the cases are much lower in my area, I'll start to do more videos in other places.So if you go way back in time, you'll realize that I've made a lot of English lessons before the pandemic in a lot of different places. I went to a grocery store. I went to a bunch of different restaurants, and I have plans. I have ideas for videos where I go to more places, but then this, I was gonna say this stupid pandemic. It's not nice to say it that way, but then this pandemic happened, and now it's not easy to go places. So I've been doing a lot of videos here on the farm. By the way, I probably, Mohsen, won't do a video driving to school, because you can get a ticket for distracted driving if you're videotaping yourself. But I guess I could have one of my kids holding the camera, that might be allowed, I'll see.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases ON PURPOSE and BY ACCIDENTIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase "on purpose." When you do something on purpose, it means that you meant to do it. It means that you planned to do it. You might have noticed that there was no short English lesson a couple of days ago. This past Monday, there was no lesson and you might have thought I forgot, but I did it on purpose. I've actually decided that the same weekend where I don't do a live stream on Saturday on my bigger channel, I'm going to also not do a video for that Monday. Instead of taking part of the weekend off, I'm taking the whole weekend off. So there was no video yet a couple of days ago, and I did it on purpose. I hope you don't mind. You'll still get one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, about 11 videos a month, sometimes 12, but once a month on a Monday, there'll be no video. I did it on purpose.WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIANIf you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadianThe opposite of on purpose is a phrase that we use "by accident." When something happens by accident, it means that something occurred, something happened, and you didn't plan for that to happen. It was just an accident. Like you could say this. "I went to the store the other day and I ran into my sister by accident." That doesn't mean you drove your car into your sister's car. It could just simply mean you didn't plan to run into your sister. You didn't plan to see her, but you met her by accident. It was just a happy coincidence.So to review, when something happens on purpose, when you do something on purpose, it means that you planned to do it. You were like, you know what? In a few days, I'm gonna take a day off and not do a short English lesson. That's something I did on purpose. And when something happens by accident, it means that you didn't plan for it to happen. It just kind of happened. It just happened out of the blue. It happened by accident. It wasn't something that you were planning to do.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Valéria. "Hi, teacher Bob. Thanks for the lesson. Have you ever tried to eat pancakes with jelly made of fruit like plum cherry or apricot? It tastes really good." And my response, "Yes, I have. In fact, I like eating leftover pancakes the next day, cold with butter and jam on them. Delicious."So yes, Valéria, I definitely like eating pancakes with fruit and those types of things on it, jam and everything else, jelly, but I do like them cold when I do that. So I like hot pancakes with butter and syrup and I like cold pancakes the next day with butter and jam of some kind, usually quite yummy.Hey, so we are finally starting. I know the bikes aren't put away yet. A few of you have commented that winter is coming. I should be cleaning up. We have started to slowly clean up this past week. We started putting bikes away. There's a couple out here yet, but we put about three or four bikes away in the barn. I'll spin around here so you can see. We put a lot of things in the barn in the winter. It's not a spot that doesn't freeze. It does freeze in the barn, but it is a good place to store a lot of things.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases FLAT AS A PANCAKE and FLAT BROKEIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, flat as a pancake. Do you know what a pancake is? A pancake is something that we fry in a frying pan. It's made out of flour, and water, and butter, and I'm sure there's sugar in it too. And it's very, very flat. In North America, we eat them with butter and syrup on top. They're really, really yummy, but because a pancake is flat, we also have this phrase, flat as a pancake. If you look behind me, there is a soccer field, and the soccer field is flat as a pancake. We like to have our soccer fields really, really flat. The other day, I drove over a pop can in my driveway, a soda can, and I crushed it. And after I drove over it, it was flat as a pancake. It no longer looked like a can. It was flat, it looked a lot more like a pancake. Of course, there's no way I would mistake it for a pancake, but it certainly was flat as a pancake.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 flat broke. This is actually a repeat phrase, but you know how I like to match the phrases, right? When you are flat broke, it means you have no money in your wallet. You have no money in the bank. You do not have any money at all. Sometimes when people get paid on Fridays, by Thursday, they are flat broke. On Thursday, they've spent all their money, and they have nothing left, and they are flat broke. That's probably not a very nice feeling. I do remember when I was younger, at one time I was flat broke, and I remember putting $5 into the bank machine. No, I put $2 into the bank machine, so I could take out $5. 'Cause I had a little over $3 in the bank, and I thought that would be a good way to have a little bit of money for the evening.Anyways, to review, when you say something is flat as a pancake, it means that it is really flat, okay? And when you are flat broke, it means that you have no money in your wallet. You have no money in the bank, you have no money at all, but hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Aleksey. It would be more acceptable to lose an hour in the spring, if time change happened at like 4:00 PM on Friday. And my response was that is the best idea I've ever heard.So Aleksey is referring to time change from the previous lesson. The idea that in the fall, we put the clocks back an hour, in the spring, we put 'em ahead, and I would 100% agree, Aleksey. If we could, in the spring, move the clock ahead while we're all still at work, we would all get to go home an hour early. Could you imagine if in the spring, I'll have to watch it here, it's a little wet, if in the spring, your boss came in at four o'clock, and you normally work 'til five, and your boss said, hey, we are going to move the clocks ahead. It's now five o'clock, you can all go home. That would be very, very, very cool.Sorry, there's kind of a weird light on, not sure what this means. Oh, I know what that means. It means my SD card is almost full. Hopefully I get this whole video done before it is full.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English terms TIME CHANGE and INTERNAL CLOCKIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English term time change. We just had time change this past weekend. Time change happens in countries that observe Daylight Savings Time. We have one time during the summer months, and then mid fall, we shift our clocks, and then we have a one-hour difference, and time change happens usually in the middle of the night between Saturday and Sunday. So this past weekend, we put our clocks back an hour. We ended up getting an extra hour's sleep. So time change is something that happens every fall and every spring. In the fall, we move our clocks back an hour. In the spring, we move them ahead an hour. That's actually worse because you kind of lose an hour. So this time change this past weekend was the lesser of two evils. That's how I would describe it because my internal clock is messed up.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 that we're looking at today or the second term is the term internal clock. We all use watches to tell time, but we also have an internal clock. We can kind of sense around what time it is, and right now, my internal clock is messed up. I'm making this video at around 3:30 in the afternoon on a Tuesday, and it feels like 4:30 to me. In a little while, it's going to get dark at about five o'clock, and that just seems way too early to me. So my internal clock is a little bit messed up, my sense of time that I naturally have in my head. I mean, I can't tell you exactly what time it is, but right now, it doesn't feel like 3:30 to me. It feels like around 4:30 or quarter to five. Anyways, my internal clock is messed up.To review, this past weekend, we had what we call time change. There was time change this past weekend. So we switched our clocks, and now my internal clock is a little bit messed up. It takes about a week or two for my internal clock to adjust to the new time.Anyways, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Maria. I look forward to seeing your Christmas tree. It's so big, but be careful getting the ladder, Bob. You know accidents always happen close to home, and my response is I might have to buy a couple more strings of lights.So yes, climbing up on a ladder can be a little bit dangerous, can't it? Whenever I work at heights, whenever I climb up a ladder, I'm usually extra careful. In fact, when I go really high on a ladder, I usually ask Jen to hold the ladder for me and vice versa. If Jen goes up on a ladder, usually, I will hold the ladder for her. Sometimes, we go up on the ladder to clean the eavestroughs on our house, the eavestroughs. I think they're called gutters in other countries. We call 'em eavestroughs. They get full of leaves, so sometimes I have to go up on a ladder to clean the eavestrough, and then Jen will hold the ladder so that the ladder doesn't slip while I'm at the very top of it.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO MAKE LIGHT OF and TO FEEL LIGHT-HEADEDIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to make light of. When you make light of a situation, it means you are less serious than you should be in that situation. You might say things that you even think are funny when something serious has just happened, you make light of the situation. Again, it's not always a good thing to make light of a situation. Here's an example of a bad situation. My dad, when I was young, my dad backed into my uncle's car in the driveway and put a big dent in it. So we all got in the car, my dad put the car in reverse and he didn't know my uncle's car was behind us. So he backed into it and he put a big dent in it. And I tried to make light of the situation. I said, at that point in time, I said, "You know what they say, accidents always happen close to home." Let's just say that my dad didn't think that was funny. It wasn't a good time to make light of the situation. He thought it was pretty serious. For some reason, I thought it was funny.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 to feel light-headed. This is something that happens sometimes when you stand up really quickly, you feel a little bit dizzy. I had this once when I didn't eat for most of the day because I was really busy, and then when I stood up really quickly, because I hadn't eaten, and because I stood up quickly, I felt a little bit dizzy, I felt a little bit light-headed. So it's not a nice feeling to feel light-headed. You can also feel light-headed just before you pass out or before you faint. I've only fainted once in my life, I fainted when I was a teenager once, I still don't know why. I got out of the shower and I fainted, and I woke up or I came back to, that's what we say after you faint, you come to, and I was laying on the bathroom floor. It was a weird experience. I still don't know why that happened.Anyways, to review, when you make light of something, it means you tell jokes or you are less serious than you should be in a serious situation. And when you feel light-headed, it means that you feel a little bit dizzy and it can happen just before you faint or pass out.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Padma. "Waste not, want not. What a wonderful saying. I think very much needed in today's use-and-throw era." And my response was, "It seems like we live in a world where everything is disposable, it's kind of sad."Yeah, you know, I do sometimes worry that we live in a world where we buy things and we use them for a few months or a year, and then we throw them away. In particular, right now I'm a little bit sad because there are so many masks in the ditch when I go for a walk. So the ditch is the area along the road. When I go for a walk, you know, before the pandemic, there were no masks in the ditch, but now there are a lot of masks in the ditch when I go for a walk. It's really, really sad. Yeah, I wish we didn't live in a world where things were so disposable. I think sometimes even I'm at fault. You know, sometimes I buy a new phone and then very quickly, within two years, I feel like I need a new phone. I don't always buy one though. Usually I hold onto my phones for quite a while, but when I get a new phone, it's not because the old phone is broken, which is kind of sad.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases HASTE MAKES WASTE and WASTE NOT WANT NOTIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, haste makes waste. This is an English saying, you could even call it an English proverb, that means that if you do something really quickly, it's not always the best way to do it. Sometimes haste makes waste. When I was younger, I worked for my uncle, and we built houses. And I know that sometimes we carefully cut the wood to build the house, because we knew if we went too fast, if there was a lot of haste, we also had a lot of waste. That means if we worked quickly, we wouldn't always cut things the right length, and then that piece of wood would be kind of useless for building the house. By the way, we always had a saying, measure twice, cut once, when we were building houses. I think that's another good saying. So anyways, when you say haste makes waste, it means that when you do something really fast, you're probably going to be inefficient, and maybe even create some waste while you're doing it.WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadianThe second phrase I wanted to teach you today is another old phrase, or saying, or proverb, and that is waste not, want not. My mum used to say this a lot when I was a kid. When I came home from school, if I hadn't eaten my lunch, and if the banana had gotten mushed, or the apple was no longer good to eat, because I had sat on my bookbag on the bus, she would say, hey, waste not, want not. And basically what this phrase means is if you don't waste anything in life, if you are good at using all of your groceries, and everything you buy, you will probably not want a lot of things in your life. Basically, that's not quite what I mean to say, when you don't waste things, you actually save money. That's basically what the phrase means. So when you don't waste, it's like you're saving money at the same time. Because if you do waste things, you end up spending more money. Hopefully that made some sense.Anyways, to review, haste makes waste simply means if you do something fast, you might do it inefficiently, and you might actually waste some things. And waste not, want not means that if you make sure you don't waste things, you will actually be better off financially, I guess, in terms of money.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Andrew. The comment is this. We have an absolutely identical phrase in Russian, to freeze your butt off. I can elaborate on the topic. As an expert at freezing, I can testify. Yes, in winter, if you sit in the snow or on ice, steel, et cetera, the first part that freezes off is your buttock. In the standing position, it can happen when your jacket is short, but often it is your hands and feet that suffer first. Walking can help warm your feet. Plus putting hands into your armpits, definitely, criss-crossed will save them. Men should consider another item. Also your face, especially your nose and cheekbone areas, gets a severe cold blow if uncovered, and exposed to cold windy conditions. My response, that's why I like having a longer winter coat that covers the small of my back and my butt. My current coat is a bit too short. It doesn't quite go down long enough. It really helps to stay warm when you have a longer one.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO GET DUMPED and DOWN IN THE DUMPSIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to get dumped, or to dump someone. When you get dumped, it means you were in a relationship, and the person you were in a relationship with told you they didn't want to be with you anymore. So we would say that you got dumped. So when you get dumped, it means you probably get a phone call, or a text, or you're out with your significant other. That's the phrase we use to refer to a boyfriend or girlfriend. And they say to you, I don't want to go out with you anymore. When you get dumped, when you're in a relationship, and someone ends it, it's not a very nice feeling. You usually feel very, very sad, so I'm sure this has happened to everyone at some point in their life. It's not always nice to get dumped, but sometimes you might be the one who dumped someone else, and maybe that's good for you. I dunno.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 down in the dumps. Now, I did teach this phrase a couple of years ago, but I thought, since I always like to use similar words in my phrases, I will teach it again. After you get dumped, you might feel down in the dumps. When you are down in the dumps, it simply means that you are sad. So you might be sad after your team loses a game. You might be down in the dumps if your team makes it to the championship. I think that's the example I gave in my last lesson two years ago. Your team goes to the championship, and they lose, you might be down in the dumps for a few days. You might be very, very sad for a few days after that happens.So to review, when you get dumped, it means that you were in a relationship, and someone ended it. They said they didn't want to be with you anymore, and then because of that, you might be sad. You might be feeling down in the dumps. When you're down in the dumps, you just aren't having a good day. You're not happy. It's not a good thing. I'm not down in the dumps very often, but it does happen sometimes.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Andres. Mr. Bob, would you bank on the fact that there's no crocodile in the river? Julia Olis says, could this little fence be probably some sort of trap for crocodile. And my response, you can bank on it. It's far too cold here in Canada for them. In fact, there are no animals in the river that are dangerous to humans.What is dangerous on my farm for humans though, is the weather, it's getting rather cold out here. I'm actually hiding right now beside this wagon, because if you look behind me here, it's gonna get really bright. You can see the wind is blowing the trees quite a bit. If we look this way, maybe you can see it a little bit more. Let's go for a bit of a walk, and you can see some of the fall colors.So it's definitely fall here. It's definitely getting a little bit chillier. It's beautiful to see the leaves on my property on the trees are all starting to turn color. Let me flip this around again. And it's just a nice time, but I have to start thinking about what I'm going to wear each time I go outside, I'm gonna run over here by the wagon again, where I'm out of the wind. I'm wearing my jacket today, I didn't wear gloves. I'm just wearing one thin shirt underneath my jacket.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO BANK ON and TO BREAK THE BANKIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to bank on. When you can bank on something, it means you can be sure that it will happen. Let me think of an example. Maybe when your favorite athlete plays your favorite sport, you can bank on the fact that they will score a goal. You know that they almost score a goal every time they play, and you can be sure of it, you can bank on it. We also use this phrase in the negative. We'll say things like, "Don't bank on it." So if someone was to say, "I think that the Toronto Maple Leafs will win their next game, someone else might say, "Don't bank on it, I don't think they will." It's not something that you can be sure will happen. So you can kind of use it both ways. When you can bank on something, you can be sure it will happen, and when you say "Don't bank on it," or, "I wouldn't bank on it," it means you doubt that it 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 other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase to break the bank. There's a little bit of mud on my sign. I think when I walked out here today, I got a little bit of mud on it, but to break the bank means to buy something and to use up all the money that you have. If I bought a used van right now, I think I have enough money to buy one, but if I bought a brand-new van, I think that would break the bank. That would mean that I would have no money left in the bank if I bought a brand new van. In fact, I don't even have enough money to buy a brand new van. I think if I bought a used van that might actually break the bank as well. So when you break the bank, it means you buy something and it was so expensive, you use all the money that you had available.But let's review. To bank on means that you can count on something happening. You can reasonably be sure that something will happen. A lot of times when I watch basketball, I can't bank on whether the Raptors will win or not. I wish I could bank on it. I wish I could be sure of it. And, oop, there's a mosquito in my ear, one sec. I think it's out now, whew. There's still insects, and it's almost November. Actually, you're watching this on November 1st, aren't you? To break the bank means to buy something and to spend every last penny, every last dollar that you have when you buy it.But, hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This is a fun comment. It's from Alaa Ahmad. The comment is, "Hello, Bob, could you please go closer to the river, to the bank of it so that we can get a better view? Thanks a lot." And my response, for sure I'll do that today.Well, it doesn't really look like I did that today, does it? Oh, I'm sorry, everyone. I was supposed to make the comment match what I was doing in the video. I am actually by the river. Sorry, that was like a little bit of a trick there. Let me get the full view for you.So you can see the river is very flooded, and let's spin this way so you can see it in the other direction. You can see that the river is so big right now, it actually looks a little bit like a lake. When I walked out here, I was surprised how close to my fence.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases I CAVED and MAN CAVEIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, I caved. When we say I caved in English, it means that you didn't wanna do something, but then you changed your mind. Here's a good example. You can see that the letters are very nice and dark and black on here because I caved. I didn't wanna put a new toner cartridge in my printer. I was wanting to use it until all of the toner was completely gone. But the other day, my daughter had to print something for school and she wanted it to look nice, so I caved. So it means I changed my mind. It means I gave in. So I took the new toner out of the box, put it in the printer, and now the printer prints with nice black ink again, or toner, sorry, it's not really ink, against a white sheet of paper. By the way, I do recycle all of these, so just so you know. So when you say I caved, it means you didn't wanna do something, but you changed your mind.WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadianThe other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase man cave. Now I don't have one of these, but some men, in their houses, will have a man cave. This is a room where a man might have a huge television for watching football. In my mind, when I think about a man cave, I usually think about an American man, I don't know why, who has a room in his house and he has all football, like football jerseys and a football on the wall and posters and a big TV, and then on Sundays, he goes and watches football in his man cave. I think that's the image I have from watching too much American television. But a man cave would be a room in a house that a man has all to himself where maybe his wife and kids aren't allowed to go. I don't have a man cave. I have an office. It's not really my man cave.Anyways, to review. When you say I caved, it means you give in. Here's another good example. Last night, my kids said, "Dad, the Raptors basketball team is playing." We're watching the game and my kids didn't have school today. So last night they said, "Can we have ice cream?" And I said, "No." But then they asked me a couple more times, and finally I caved and I said they could have ice cream. And to review this term, a man cave is a room in a house that a man uses usually to watch sports, maybe drink beer. I don't really know a lot about man caves, but you will hear that phrase on TV and in movies every once in a while.Anyways, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Elena. Sometimes it seems to me that I know you personally. Your lessons aren't artificial. It's all about everyday life. It's amazing. And my response, I'm pretty much the same person on camera as I am in real life. I could never be an actor unless they needed someone to play a character just like me.So yeah, I think I could do a really good job as an actor if they needed someone to act like Bob, the Canadian. If they had a show where they needed a 50 year old guy with slightly gray hair, actually maybe more than slightly gray, to just do normal things. Maybe if they had a show about a teacher and the teacher's name was Bob, I think I could do a really good job acting in that show. I think that's really the only kind of show that I would be good at.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases THE WORKS and IN THE WORKSIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase the works. When you ask for the works when you're ordering something, it means you want every possible option that's possible. If you go to a restaurant and you order a hamburger and they say, "What would you like on it?" If you say you would like the works, it means you want ketchup and relish and mustard and lettuce and tomato and onions, and maybe bacon and cheese. When you order the works, it means you want everything. I actually saw this phrase the other day because I drove by a car wash and it said "Basic wash, Wash with Wax," and then it said "The Works," and the works had all kinds of really cool things they would do to your car if you got a car wash there. So the works simply means that you want every option possible when ordering 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 the phrase in the works. When you have something in the works, it means that you are planning to do it. Sometimes at school, I say to my students, "I have a few things in the works. I'm thinking about what we're going to do this next week, and I have a few things in the works." That means I might be planning a class trip or a field trip. It means I might be planning to bring in some food. Actually, we can't bring food in 'cause of COVID, but we definitely can go on little field trips. So that's something I might have in the works for my class.So to review, when you ask for the works when you order something, it means you want every possible option that is possible. If you were buying a brand-new car, I certainly wouldn't say "I'll take, give me the works," because that means you're gonna pay thousands of dollars extra for a whole bunch of things that maybe you don't need. And then when you have something in the works, it means that you are planning to do something. Sometimes for my YouTube channel, I have a few things in the works. I think about what should I do in a month or two that's a little bit different or more exciting. Sometimes I have some things in the works.But let's look at a comment from a previous video. Sorry if I'm talking fast today, it's misting out, like it's drizzling a little bit, and it's really cold, actually. This comment is from Khalil. "Hi, Teacher Bob, what is the difference between it is time and it's about time?" And my response is this. It is time simply means the time has arrived to do something. It's about time means you are frustrated that something took so long to happen.So let me maybe explain that a little bit better. When you say it is time, like right now, it's time for me to walk and talk for a little bit. It's time for me to do that. But if I was to say it's about time that I start walking and talking, that would mean that you were waiting for that a long time, and it wasn't happening. And you're like, "Come on, Bob, it's about time you take the camera off the tripod and walk for a little bit." Anyways, hopefully that made some sense. Thank you so much for that comment.What should I show you today? Well, you know what? Banged my camera a little bit. Let me spin you around and show you what life is like here. It has been raining. You'll see that I have my rubber boots on. It has been raining here for days. It just keeps raining. The puddles in my driveway are gigantic. If we go and try to have a look in the distance at the river, you'll notice that the river has flooded. I know I talk a little bit too much sometimes, let me get down a little bit so you can seeSupport the show