Bob's Short English Lessons

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TIME TO and TO FIND THE TIMEIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase time to. This is actually a short form of the phrase it's time to, or it is time to, and we use this whenever something needs to be done, or when we're telling people to do something. A lot of times in the morning, I yell to my children, time to get up. I could say, it is time to get up, but that just takes too long. So I say, time to get up. If you look closely at the words on my paper, they're not as dark as they used to be. So I think it's time to order some new toner. It's time to order some new toner so that my printer prints in dark black again. My printers actually said order toner, 0% toner for about three weeks, and I just keep holding off because it just keeps printing. So, hopefully you can still see it. So when you say time to, it means that it is time to do something, that the moment has come for that thing to be done.WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadianThe other phrase I wanted to teach you today is to find the time. When you talk about finding the time, it means you need to do something, you're already busy, and somehow you need to find the time to do something. Sometimes at work, I have a lot of stuff to do all day and my boss asks me to do something extra. And I will say, I don't know if I can find the time to do that. I don't know if I have a moment in my day where I can do something extra. I'm going to have to find the time, maybe after work. I might have to stay longer than I normally do. So it simply means that you're busy and you need to find some time to do something.So to review, when you start a phrase by saying time to, it means you're saying that at that moment, you need to do something. So, a few minutes ago, I finished replying to the comments from yesterday's video, and I thought, time to go outside and make the next lesson. And to find the time simply means to set aside some time to do it. I'm not busy today, but if I was, I would have to find the time to make this English lesson. Luckily, I had time to do it.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from, I can't remember, from Noriko. The comment is, "Wow, that's surprising and makes sense. In North Japan, doors of downstairs are covered with snow in the winter, so they have a second, they have a second entrance upstairs, sorry, a little fixed there. It it a common thing in the world? Thanks a lot, Mr. Bob." And my response, we do not have doors like that here, but I imagine in Northern Canada, they do.So I'm not familiar with what they do in Northern Canada where there is a lot more snow than there is where I am. But I'm going to guess, there's a few things that we do here in Southern Canada. For one, we put snow tires on our vehicles. So later this month, I need to have these tires taken off, and snow tires will be put on. But what we don't do, one thing I know they do do in Northern Canada is they have an electrical cord on the front of their vehicles so they can plug them in in the winter when they're not driving them. I have cords like that on my tractors, I think because my tractors are diesel engines and diesel engines are harder to start. But I do not have a plug on the front of my van to plug in at night so that it can stay just a little bit warm. But that is definitely something that they do in Northern Canada.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases BEATS ME and BEAT-UPIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase beats me. This is actually a really simple phrase. It simply means I don't know. I remember once I was at a school event, and there was a car in the parking lot, and the alarm was going off, the car was going beep, beep, beep. And my boss came to me, and said, do you know whose car that is? And I said, beats me. Basically, all I was saying is, I don't know. Sometimes I have this in class as well. I'll say to a student, what's the answer to this question? And the student might shrug, and say, I don't know, beats me. So they might say, I don't know, and beats me, basically, those things mean the same, those phrases mean the same thing, but they might say both just to make sure that I really know that they don't know what I'm talking about. They'll just say beats me.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 other phrase I wanted to teach you today is kind of more of a way of describing something. It's beat up. So you might be familiar with the phrasal verb to beat up, which means to like beat someone up with your fists, or to hit them, not a nice thing to do. But when we say that something is beat up, it means that it's not in good shape. You can say this, my brother bought a car. It's not a brand new car. It's a used car, and it's a little bit beat up. He bought a car that's a little bit beat up. That would mean it has some dents in it. It has some rust on it. It's just not in perfect condition. It's a little bit beat up. A lot of the farm equipment that I buy is older farm equipment. And sometimes it's a little bit beat up, and then I have to do a few repairs on it.So to review, if someone says to you beats me, it simply means they don't know the answer to whatever question you are asking them. And if you describe something as being beat up, it means that it's getting old. If it's a piece of equipment that can rust, it might be a little rusty. If it's a car, I could even use it to describe my first camera, the first camera I bought used, and the camera was a little bit beat up. It had some scuffs around the edges, and it was definitely not in perfect condition.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment, if Google Translate serves me correctly, this comment is from Roman. The soil has already frozen to a depth of one shovel in our location in Russia. And my response, we're not quite there yet. We'll probably have another month or so before that happens. So for those of you that aren't aware what the world is like in the winter. I know some of you live in countries where there is no winter. When we have winter, eventually the ground freezes. Here in Ontario, Canada, the ground freezes to a depth of two or three feet, almost a meter deep, the ground will freeze in the winter.And that's why we put things like fence posts, this fence post here. If you can see it, hopefully that's in the frame. I think it is.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases BACK-BREAKING WORK and TO BREAK OUTIn this English lesson, I wanted to teach you the English term back-breaking work. Now, this is your back, and it's something that gets really sore when you do back-breaking work. Back-breaking work is any kind of physical labor. If you see behind me here, we have the dahlia patch, and it is pretty much done for the season. Now, what makes dahlias different than other flowers is that there is a root that we have to dig out in the fall. We have to start digging out the roots, and that is back-breaking work. We have to go in, and we have to dig out every single root with a shovel. So I know it looks like there's lots of flowers here. They aren't actually in that good a shape if I zoomed in. These flowers are almost done for the season, and there's going to be a lot of back-breaking work in the next few weeks as we dig them all 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 break out. Now, this has a lot of different meanings, but I'm gonna use it in this way. In order to dig up these dahlias, we are going to have to break out the shovel. In English, when you say you're going to break something out, it means you're going to get it out, okay? It's just a funny phrase we use. Maybe you are going to go to someone's house for a party, and they're celebrating something, you might want to break out the champagne if you drink champagne, but definitely, in order for us to dig up all of these dahlia roots, we're going to have to break out the shovel. We're gonna have to get in here and just dig them up by hand. There's no nice machine... Oh, the shovel just fell. There's no nice machine to do this in a nice, easy way. Actually, there is one, but it's really expensive, and this patch isn't big enough for us to afford that.So to review, any kind of work where you might hurt your back is work that we would say is back-breaking work. So this is definitely going to be back-breaking work, and to break out means to get something out, to use it or, if it's something like champagne, to drink it.Hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Reza. The comment is the phrase that I learned from this video was swatting a mosquito, and then my reply is the secret is that you have to swat them before they bite you.Thanks, Reza. That was from the previous video where I was being attacked by mosquitoes as I was making the video. Thankfully, it has really cooled off here, particularly at night. The days are still quite warm. You can see I'm still wearing a short-sleeve shirt, but it has really cooled off at night, and it seems like most of the mosquitoes are gone for the season. I was out last night, and it was very, very nice. There were not very many mosquitoes at all. It was very pleasant.Wow, that sun is really bright, though, isn't it? Let me turn a little bit. So anyways, yes, let me give you a better view of all of these dahlias. They are beautiful, but at the same time, it's hard for you to see, maybe. I'm not sure if this will focus, but they're all slightly imperfect. We had some frost last night.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases I'M GAME and GAME PLANIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, I'm game. This is a phrase that we use when we are willing to do something, when we agree to do something. It could be a game, but it could be almost anything else. If my brother says to me, "Hey, do you want to go to the shopping mall this afternoon?" I could say I'm game. That sounds like fun. If a friend of mine said, "Hey, do you wanna go on a hike later today?" I could say you know what, I'm game. That sounds like something I would really enjoy doing. So when you say I'm game, it simply means that you're willing to do it. Now, of course, it can be used for a sport. If someone said, "Hey, do you want to play badminton this afternoon?" I could say I'm game. And it would simply mean that I do want to do it, that I'm excited to do it and that it would be something I think would be fun.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 game plan. A game plan is a plan you have for any situation. It can be a plan that you have for a game. Maybe you are playing a sport and you have a plan to try and win the game, but it can be used for anything. When I go into my classroom every day, I have a game plan, I have a lesson plan, I could also call it a game plan though. When I run my clubs after school, I'm involved in a couple of different clubs, I usually have a game plan. Maybe when you go on vacation, you talk to your spouse or you talk to the friends you're going on vacation with and you come up with a game plan for the trip, you come up with a plan. I don't know why we put the word game in front of it, the more I think about it I think you could just say plan and it would mean the same thing, wouldn't it? But it's quite common, sorry there's mosquitoes out here I'm just swatting one. It's quite common in my work when we start something together as a team of teachers, for someone to say, "Okay, what's the game plan?"So to review, when you say I'm game, it simply means that you are agreeing to do something, you're willing to do something. "Hey Bob, can you make three videos a week on this channel?" And I could say I'm game if somebody asked me that question. And if you have a game plan, it means that you have a plan before you do something. I have a game plan for this channel, my game plan is to make three videos a week.But hey , let's look at a comment from a previous video as I get eaten by mosquitoes out here. Snazzy says sometimes your farm seems like a jungle, lots and lots of trees and grass, really nice and calm, thanks for the lesson. My reply said it is a bit like a jungle . Some of the trees I showed you have thorns on them so it's really hard to walk there. And I'm going to actually take you to have a look at some of those trees. We're gonna go, I guess you could call it, bushwhacking is the old fashioned word for it. We're gonna walk out here and I'm going to show you that there are trees, hopefully I can find some, there are a lot of trees in here that have thorns on them. This area, interestingly enough, it used to be a lot easier to walk here because the cows, when my parents were on this farm, I'm not sure if this will focus, but you can see there's a really sharp thorn right there. Let me get it in camera.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO BUMP INTO SOMEONE and TO BUMP HEADS WITH SOMEONEIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, "To bump into someone." Now, this can mean to literally bump into someone. When you're standing in line and you're standing really close, if you step forward without looking, you might bump into the person in front of you. But we also use this to mean to run into someone, or to meet someone randomly when you go somewhere. I could say something like this, "Jen, I went to the grocery store and I bumped into my brother while I was there." This simply means that I wasn't expecting my brother to be there, but while I was at the grocery store, I saw him and I had a conversation. It doesn't mean that we actually walked into each other. It simply means that we bumped into each other. We met each other randomly without expecting to see each other there.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 bump heads with someone. Now, this has quite a bit of a different meaning. This means to get into an argument, or into a fight with someone. When you bump heads with someone, it means you don't agree with them. You might have someone that you work with and you just never agree with them, and you're always bumping heads with them. You would say, "Oh, the other day I was talking to Joe at work and we were bumping heads again. I bumped heads with him, because we just could not agree on the same thing." So when you bump heads with someone, it means that you disagree with them.So to review, when you bump into someone, it means that you meet them randomly, or unexpectedly, and when you bump heads with someone, it means that you get into an argument with them, that you get into a disagreement with them.So let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Andrew, and Andrew says, "Hi, Teacher Bob, happy Thanksgiving." It was a nice day, by the way, a couple of days ago. "I got a question. A year ago, you told us your family was about to buy another puppy, but the prices were through the roof. Two to $3,000 for a pup. Has the dog market changed after all this crazy quarantine stuff?" And my response is this. "We're thinking that we might get one this coming spring. Prices have come down a bit, but not enough yet."So, yeah, it was kind of weird, during the middle of the pandemic, dogs or puppies were very, very expensive, so we didn't get one. We might still get one later this fall, but I doubt it, because it's easier to train a dog once the winter is over. So we're thinking now we might get a puppy later this spring.I'm looking up because I'm walking this way, so you can see that the leaves have started to change color. Let me do that thing once again, where I spin you guys around and let you have a look here. You can see that we have some reds, and we have some yellows, maybe even a few tinges of orange starting to come. It's really nice at this time of year, when the leaves start to turn color. Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases I'VE HAD IT and TO HAVE IT OUT WITH SOMEONEIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, I've had it! Now simply used, this simply means that you have had something. If someone says, have you had pizza? You could say I've had it and I liked it. But we also use this phrase to describe a situation, when you want something to stop. It's been raining a lot here lately, you can maybe see some puddles on the ground there and I've had it. I've had it with all the rain we've been having. That means that I wish it would stop. Sometimes I use this phrase in the classroom too. When students are talking too much, I can say, hey, I've had it with all of the talking there in the back of the room, please stop. So, in English when you say I've had it, it means you want something to stop. I've certainly had it with all this rain. It's just way too wet out here, it's gotta stop soon or it's not going to be a very nice rest of the fall.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 have it out with someone. When you have it out with someone, it means that you're annoyed with someone about something and maybe they're annoyed with you about something, and eventually you argue about it or you discuss it strongly would be a good word. When you have it out with someone, it usually means that there's a little bit of arguing, maybe some yelling involved as well. Maybe my sister is doing something regularly that annoys me and I don't want to say anything, but eventually I want to have it out with her. I'm going to tell her what she's doing that's annoying me, and we're going to have a conversation about it. And hopefully after we argue and fight a little bit, we come to a resolution. By the way, I don't really actually fight with my sisters they're very nice people, and that was just an example.Anyways, to review when you say I've had it, it simply means that you are done with something, you want something to stop. My example was that I've had it with all this rain I hope it stops soon. And then when you have it out with someone, it means that you argue with them, you fight with them. You talk about whatever the two of you have been disagreeing about, you just have it out with them and then hopefully you resolve it.Hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Mat, and the comment is this. Oscar thinking, I can't be bothered to say hello to everyone. This is from the video a couple of days ago, where Oscar was kind of grouchy and sitting on the picnic table. My response, he's like that sometimes when I'm out with the camera. He does the same thing whenever someone has a camera and tries to take a picture of him. He does not like the camera at all.So Oscar is a unique dog. He, well, maybe there's other dogs like this as well, but he certainly does not enjoy the camera. The camera when I bring out my video camera, when any of my kids try to take a picture of him, he usually tries to hide or he goes away or he acts a little bit grouchy. Now, the other day he was acting that way because Jen was on her way to market. And he knows when Jen is leaving, and that makes him really really sad.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO FIT IN and TO BE FIT FORIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase: to fit in. When you fit in, it means that you are compatible with another group of people. It means that you have some of the same interests. When I meet people who I don't know, I don't know if I'm going to fit in until I start talking to them. And then if I find out they like teaching, or they like science fiction movies, or they like reading, then I start to feel like I fit in a bit more. When students start at a new school, they really hope to find friends and they hope that they will fit in. So when you fit in, it means that you just get along with other people.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, sorry, I'm laughing 'cause Oscar's just sitting here. He's very sad today because it's market day and he knows that Jen is leaving, but let me get back to the lesson.The second phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase: to be fit for. When something is fit for something, it means it's good for that. A good example would be this. If you had some food that was still good, you would say it's fit for human consumption. It's okay for people to eat it. And let's look at the opposite. If you had some fruit that had become rotten, you would say that it's no longer fit for human consumption. It's not fit for humans. It's not good for them to eat it.So to review, in order to fit in, you want to be able to get along and have conversations with other people and enjoy some of the same things. I think that if all of you got together in one place, you would probably fit in because you all are learning English and that's something you have in common. And when you say something is fit for something or not fit for something, it means that it can be used for that purpose. The best example is the fruit one. When fruit goes bad, it's not fit to eat. It's not fit for human consumption. Notice I used fit to eat and fit for. There must be two uses of it.Let's look at a comment though from a previous video. Oscar, do you wanna read the comment? Oh, he's come alert because he heard a vehicle start. This comment is from Aleksey. "To understand a teacher, you have to walk a mile in their shoes. I know this is impossible for me. I always shake even in my own boots when I visit school as a parent and imagine myself working there. Happy Teacher's Day." My response, that comment made me smile and you'll know why because of my response. The pandemic has really changed the minds of parents about how much work teaching is. Having their own kids at home for certain stretches of time and trying to help them learn remotely has opened their eyes a bit. Thanks, Aleksey, for the comment.An interesting thing happened during the pandemic. We had a lot of different stretches of remote learning and during those stretches of remote learning, parents either had to teach their kids or help their kids learn, and some of them found out that teaching is actually quite challenging. I will never say that teaching, Oscar, you wanna say hi? I don't think he wants to say hi. I will never claim that teaching is the most difficult profession in the world. There are parts of the job that are hard and there are parts that are very enjoyable and easy. I think it's like any other job. Certain people are well suited to it.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases EVERYONE AND THEIR DOG and THE TAIL WAGGING THE DOGIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, everyone and their dog. Now, this is a funny phrase that we use to talk about a situation where there are a lot of people. Maybe there's a new store opening in town. And when I go there, it's really crowded. I could say, wow, everyone and their dog is here. It doesn't actually mean that people brought their dogs. It just means that there's a lot of people, that it's very, very crowded. I might come home, and Jen might say, how was the store opening? I could say it was so crowded, everyone and their dog was there. So it's just a funny way of saying that there are a lot of people.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 tail wagging the dog. Now, normally a dog wags its tail. The tail doesn't wag the dog. But if there is a situation in life where someone is controlling the situation who doesn't have the authority or power to do it, we say that the tail is wagging the dog. You'll sometimes see this with parents, with little kids, sometimes little kids actually control what their parents are doing. They make their parents buy them candy. They make their parents get them everything they want, or they have what we would call a fit. And so we would in that situation, say that the tail is wagging the dog. Sorry, mosquitoes are out in force. Even on October 5th, there are mosquitoes out here.So to review, when you say that everyone and their dog was somewhere, it simply means that there were a lot of people there. And when you say that the tail is wagging the dog, when you say the tail wagging the dog, it means that the person who shouldn't have power or authority is actually controlling the situation.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video, and I have to warn you. This is the longest comment I've ever read. And it's from Sabrina. We don't teach to get rich, but to enrich others. To all teachers, Happy Teacher's Day. Teaching is the most noble profession in the world. It serves as the pillar of our society, since it institutes other professions as well. Every fifth day of October, we celebrate World Teacher's Day, a day where the struggles and hardships of our teachers are appreciated and rewarded. Being a teacher will never be easy, because teaching will never be their sole task. Even the things that aren't listed in their job description, they do because of their love and passion. There are times when they will get tired, but after a little rest, they will continue to move on, and promote the future of their students. And my response was very simple. Thanks, Sabrina, for these words of understanding and support.Yeah, thank you for that. I think teachers, depending on what country you live in, I think teachers for the most part are appreciated. And I do thank you for that. I don't find the job to be too challenging, but I have been doing it for quite a while, but thank you for the appreciation. What I do have to say, and what makes me smile, is that one thing I didn't realize would happen when I became a teacher on YouTube is that people would wish me Happy Teacher's Day quite often, because if you look on Google, if you search for teacher's day, there's actually different teacher's days in different countries around the world.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO WEAR OUT YOUR WELCOME and WEAR AND TEARIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, to wear out your welcome. When you wear out your welcome, it means you're visiting someone and you've stayed longer than they wanted you to stay. Here's a good example. If I was to visit my sister, and if she said, "Hey, you can stay two nights." And if I stayed for a whole week or two, I would definitely be wearing out my welcome. So when you wear out your welcome, it means you go somewhere and you stay too long or you eat too much food or you do something that means that changes the situation and you're no longer welcome there. It's not good to wear out your welcome at someone's house. By the way, this phrase came from Aleksey Konkov. Thank you so much for talking about this phrase in the comments in a video a couple days ago. I realized that I hadn't taught it yet.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 next phrase I want to teach you today is the phrase wear and tear. In English, when something has a lot of wear and tear, it means it's getting old. We usually use this to talk about something like a machine or an appliance or a device. So your phone can have a lot of wear and tear. If you drop your phone a lot and if you use it for two or three years, it starts to get scuffed on the corner. Maybe the glass on the front is cracked a little bit. It has a lot of wear and tear. When humans use machines or devices or appliances or any of those kinds of things, they usually have a lot of wear and tear on them. They start to wear out a little bit after awhile. There's a phrasal verb that kind of means the same thing. So it's not good, but it's just part of how the world works, isn't it?So to review. When you wear out your welcome, it means you go somewhere and you either stay too long or you eat too much food or you do something that makes it so you're not welcome there anymore. It's not a good thing. And when something has a lot of wear and tear, it means that it is starting to look old. Maybe it's scuffed. Maybe it's rusty. Maybe it's even a little bit broken. I know my one van is starting to show a lot of wear and tear because we've been using it for so long.Anyways, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Ricardo, and Ricardo says, "All us adventurers are used to running risks. "What would life be like without risks? "Honestly, I don't know, but for sure, pretty boring." And my response was this. "Sometimes you have to take a risk." So a few of you mentioned that in the last lesson, in the comments, a few of you mentioned that sometimes in life, it's good to take risks. Sometimes in life, taking a risk can be exciting. Maybe you want to start a business and you're not sure you want to take the risk. Sometimes it's good to take the risk. Sometimes it's good to try something brand new just to see if it will work, and I would agree. I took a risk a long time ago making a YouTube channel. I think it was a good idea.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO RUN THE RISK and AT RISKIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to run the risk. This is a phrase we use when we're talking about something that might happen if you don't do something else. Here's a good example. When you get in a vehicle, if you don't put your seatbelt on, you run the risk of getting a ticket, or even worse, you run the risk of getting injured if you're in an accident. So when we say, "To run the risk," it means that you are at risk. I know I'm using the same phrase I'm gonna teach later, but there is a danger or a possibility that something might happen because of a choice you're making.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/bobthecanadianI just used the second phrase. The second phrase is the phrase at risk. You could use this phrase in the same way. Let's say you go to a coffee shop and you buy a cup of coffee and you take a big gulp. You take a huge sip without determining if it's too hot or not. You are at risk, at that point, of burning your throat. You're at risk of burning your tongue because you didn't take a little sip at first.So to review when you run the risk, it means that you do something and there's a possibility that something else might happen if you do that. If I go to class without a lesson plan, I run the risk of the students being all crazy and not knowing what to do. Classes usually get out of hand really quickly if you don't have a plan. And the similar phrase at risk, to review, if I went to class without a lesson plan, I would be at risk of the principal getting annoyed with me because the class was not well run. So to run the risk and at risk, two very similar phrases that talk about something that might happen if you do something else. There's usually a relation between the two.But, hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video, sorry, I'm having trouble putting the papers in my pockets today. This comment is from Natalia, and I picked this one because I thought this would be funny. Natalia says, "Bob, You're more than welcome to pick my comment for the next video. It will be interesting to see how you politely refuse." And my response was ah-ha! I didn't actually say that, but ah-ha, "Natalia, maybe I won't refuse. Maybe I'll choose this one. Who knows."So that was just a little fun for me and hopefully for Natalia, thanks so much for leaving that comment. How do I pick the comments? Well, I just read through them and usually there's one that makes me laugh or smile, or it's just a great question or it relates to the past lesson. There's really no rhyme or reason to how I pick them. I just pick ones that strike me as being kind of cool or interesting. And I try not to pick the same person every day. I always try to pick someone new. There's kind of a bit of a rotation. I actually keep track. If I choose a comment from someone, I won't choose their comment again for a few days, because I feel like it's good to have some variety in the comments I choose.Support the show