Bob's Short English Lessons

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases YOU'RE MORE THAN WELCOME and WELCOME ABOARDIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase you're more than welcome. Now, this phrase might already be familiar to you because when someone says thank you in English, you often respond by saying you're welcome, or you're more than welcome. But we can also use this phrase to tell people what they can do. Here's a great example. If you were having a snack at my house, and I had a plate with a bunch of cookies on it and you ate one cookie, I could say to you, "Hey, you're more than welcome to have another one." So it's kind of this polite, nice way in English to introduce an idea. It's not quite a command, but it's a suggestion, maybe. So I could suggest to you, "Oh, if you had one cup of coffee, you're more than welcome to have another cup." Or if you had one cookie, "You're more than welcome to have one or two more."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 welcome aboard. Now, this might sound like it's a phrase you would use when someone comes on a boat, and you probably would. But I don't have a boat, and that's not how I use this phrase. I use this phrase to welcome a new coworker at my work. And it's a very common phrase at English-speaking businesses. If someone is hired, they'll say welcome aboard. And it basically means welcome to the company, welcome to the school. In my case, you are welcome here. So when you say welcome aboard, you're not necessarily on a boat. You could just be at a place of work.So to review, when you say you're more than welcome, you can use this to introduce a suggestion to people. You're more than welcome to watch a few more videos when you're done watching this one. They don't have to be on my channel, but you're more than welcome to stick around and watch a few more. And if I say welcome aboard, it could be that I'm welcoming a coworker. I would even say this when a student joins my class. I might say, "Hey, welcome aboard." The semester's kind of started already. Maybe a student joins a few days late. I might say when they walk in, "Hey, you're new to the class, welcome aboard. Here's the course outline for you."But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Valéria. "Hi, Teacher Bob. Thanks for this lesson. Our Mother Earth is a sleeping giant. We play a dangerous game with it." And my response was, that's a great example of the phrase sleeping giant. "The earth seems to be getting a bit angry lately. I think it was a sleeping giant, but it's waking up."So I was actually wondering about this myself. It's kind of an interesting time we live in. The weather seems to be getting more extreme. I watch the French news quite often at night, and on the French news, they were showing forest fires all over different parts of Europe this summer. In Canada, there were really bad forest fires out in Western Canada and also in Northern Ontario. The coronavirus, I know it's not something that everyone likes to talk about, the pandemic. It kind of makes it feel like the earth is angry with us. And I have to wonder if are we somehow as human beings contributing to all this? I mean, we certainly are having some kind of effect on the planet. So thanks for that comment, Valéria. It does seem like maybe the earth was a sleeping giant, and we're kind of poking it a lot, and it starting to wake up.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English terms GENTLE GIANT and SLEEPING GIANTIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English term gentle giant. A gentle giant is someone who's really tall and really big, but actually very, very kind. Sometimes when you see a really large man, someone who maybe works out at the gym, someone who's over six feet tall, not like me, I'm under six feet tall, but someone who works out, over six feet tall, and you might think they're very, very mean. Maybe they have big tattoos on their arms and they just look like they're someone who's just not very nice, but if you get to know them, they're actually very kind. We would call that person a gentle giant. I actually have an uncle who I would say is a gentle giant. If you didn't know him, if you just looked at him, he looks big and mean, but if you get to know him, he's a very, very kind person. He's definitely a gentle giant.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 term I wanted to teach you today is the term sleeping giant. We use the term sleeping giant to talk about an organization, or usually a country, that's very quiet and doesn't seem very powerful until someone provokes them. And we would say that then they kind of wake up. So a sleeping giant is a country that has a lot of resources, they have a lot of hidden power and no one really knows until they tick them off, until they make them angry. We would say that they are a sleeping giant. And then when someone does tick them off, you realize that they're actually quite powerful.So to review, a gentle giant is a very, very big person, usually a man, it's almost always a man, who's like over six feet tall, works out at the gym, maybe drives a big motorcycle and has tattoos, and you think they are mean, but when you actually get to know them, they are super, super nice. And a sleeping giant, usually used to refer to a country that doesn't seem very powerful until someone provokes them, and then you realize they're actually quite a powerful country.So, hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from, I think, Regina, Google Translate said, and the comment is this: "I created a manual with links to different resources. It is about my experience, how I learned English, and I would like to inform you that I included both your channels in the list of my favorite YouTube channels about English." Thank you so much. And my response, "Thank you, thank you so much for adding me to the list. I promise to continue working hard to provide English-learning content."So I do really appreciate that. Every once in a while, people will let me know that they've added me to a list of website links, or they've added me to a handout in their classroom, they've put links to my YouTube channel or channels somewhere so that other people can find me. And I just really, really appreciate that. I appreciate it when people let other people know about my English-learning content. I really like making it, and it seems, I don't know, a little bit, I don't know what the exact word is, I really like it when people watch my videos and I really like it when people share them. Not only does it help you, but it helps my channel as well.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases UNCHARTED WATERS and TO TEST THE WATERSIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, uncharted waters. We sometimes also say unfamiliar waters. The literal meaning of this is to be out in a boat somewhere where you don't know how deep the water is. It's an area that's uncharted. But we use this phrase a lot more to talk about a situation that is unfamiliar to us. When the pandemic started, all of us were in uncharted waters. We were all in a situation where we had no previous experience to help us. People were in that situation. Governments were certainly in uncharted waters. They were in unfamiliar waters when they were trying to decide how to make new laws and rules to handle the pandemic. So, uncharted waters or unfamiliar waters refers to any situation that's brand new to you and you don't know exactly what to do.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 test the waters. When you test the waters, you want to do something, but instead of doing all of it right away, you just do a little bit of it. I'm trying to think of a good example. Let's say, I thought it would be a good idea to have a huge family gathering at my farm, but I want to test the waters before I do that, so I kind of ask my sisters if they would be comfortable coming over because of the pandemic. I ask my brother, "Hey, if we have a little party, would you want to come over?" So I want to test the waters a little bit. I want to kind of, another phrase is to put feelers out. I wanna kind of get a sense if that's what people want to do. So, to test the waters is to kind of try something a little bit before you do the whole thing. I hope that explanation made sense.So to review, if you are in uncharted waters or unfamiliar waters, you're in a situation that you've never been in before. And when you test the waters, it means that you kind of try something a little bit just to see if people like the idea or if it will work. Sometimes the government will test the waters. They'll have like a partial new law and they'll see how people react before they do the real one.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Natalia Illusion. And Natalia says, "Living in a big city, I'm used to having a lot of people around, therefore very little elbow room on any plane or bus is not a problem for me." And my response. It's a bit of a long one. "I guess if I move to the city someday, I'll have to get used to that. Way back when I lived in the city, it was hard for me to get used to the crowds and the noise of traffic all night. Someday though, when I'm old, I'll end up there again and I'll have to adapt."So yeah, you know, you can't live on a farm forever. Now, obviously, Jen and I are a long ways away from moving to the city. But when we're old, we might have to. In fact, later today on my bigger channel, I'm doing a lesson on aging. That should be an interesting one.Hey, I'm gonna spin you all around though for a sec, because we are walking on a really nice bridge in my local town. I thought because the lesson had the word water in it I should come to this walking bridge and I should show you that it's been raining so much that the stream is quite swollen here. Let's look at the other side as well. You can see the water just flowing like crazy. It's actually quite a bit bigger than it normally is.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English terms ELBOW GREASE and ELBOW ROOMIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English term, elbow grease. Now, this is your elbow and grease is a lubricant that you put on machinery so that when metal moves against metal, it's nice and slippery. But elbow grease, the term elbow grease simply means hard work that you do by hand. Maybe you've bought an old car and it's a little bit rusty, and you wanna kind of sand all the rust out with sandpaper and paint it. You could say, oh, it just needs a little bit of elbow grease. Maybe you've bought something that needs to be fixed up. Maybe you bought an old machine from someone and it just needs a new belt or a new pulley or a little bit of electrical work. You could say, it just needs a little bit of elbow grease and it will be working again. So again, there's no such thing as grease that you put on your elbows. It's simply a term that means to work hard on something, usually with your hands.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 term I wanted to teach you today is the term elbow room. So elbow room is simply the amount of room. that you have around you. We almost always use this in the negative. We say things like, oh, I was on an airplane the other day, and it was really squishy, there wasn't very much elbow room. Or I went to the mall to do some shopping and there were so many people there. There wasn't hardly any elbow room. So elbow room is simply the room that you have around you. I guess because you can't move your elbows, you don't have a lot of elbow room.So to review, elbow grease is simply hard work. If you just work hard on some things, you can get them working again, or they can just do better than what they're doing before with just a little bit of elbow grease. We even use this for cleaning. If your dishes are really dirty, with a little bit of elbow grease, you can get them clean again. With a little bit of hard physical labor. And elbow room is simply the amount of room you have around you. Usually used in the negative.If you wonder why it seems like I'm speaking fast, it started raining, for some reason. So I will try to slow down. Hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. Is that too slow? This comment is from Andres Padrón. And the comment is, thank you, Mr. Bob. I like the introduction. That's upside down, isn't it? Yeah, in the previous lesson, I had my little paper upside down. I was wondering, what happens at the farm when the winter arrives? Does the winter stop the growing of all kinds of flowers and wheat? Or is there still something that the farm can produce in the heavy Canadian winter? And my response is winter is a time to relax and watch the snow fly on the farm. It is a nice change of pace.So yes. Yes or no, I don't know how to say this. No, we do not grow anything on the farm in the summer. I guess I could say, no, I'll stick with no. No, we don't grow anything on the farm in the summer. In the summer, in the winter. Now I'm speaking so quickly I'm not even answering the question properly. No, we don't grow anything on the farm in the winter. The winter is definitely a time where we take a little bit of time to relax.Now I still go to work, I still teach every day. I still make YouTube videos, but definitely winter is a time where the farm is at rest. And Jen gets to rest a little bit as well. Jen actually puts in really long hours right now.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases THERE ARE PLENTY OF FISH IN THE SEA and THAT SOUNDS FISHYIn this English lesson, I want it to help you learn the English phrase... That's upside down, isn't it? In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase there are plenty of fish in the sea. This is something that you can say to someone after they break up with their boyfriend or girlfriend. Sometimes people are together and sometimes they date for a while and sometimes they break up. Sometimes it doesn't work out and then one or both of them might be sad and if you know one of them, you could say, you know, hey, there are plenty of fish in the sea. This means that even though they are no longer with that one person, there are still lots of other men and women in the world that they could potentially date someday. So when someone breaks up, it's not always a nice thing to say. Sometimes they're really sad and they don't want to hear this, but you can say to them, hey, don't be so sad. There are plenty of fish in the sea. There's lots of other people that you could date.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 want to teach you today is the phrase that sounds fishy. We sometimes say that smells fishy or even that's fishy. It means that you don't believe something. If my brother said to me, hey, I know this guy and if we each give him $1,000, he will give us $3,000 in a week if we invest money with him, I would probably say, you know what, that sounds fishy. That doesn't sound like it could be true. That sounds like it might be something illegal. That sounds fishy. I might say that smells fishy or the whole thing seems fishy to me. It would mean that it's something, it's a situation where I don't really trust what's happening. Certainly if someone said to me, hey, Bob, give me $1,000 and if you invest it with me, in two weeks, I'll give you $5,000 back, I would probably say, no, I'm not gonna do that. That sounds fishy.So to review, when you say there are plenty of fish in the sea, you're telling someone that if they break up with a boyfriend or girlfriend, there are lots of other men or women in the world that they could date. And if I say to someone that sounds fishy, it means that whatever they're telling me doesn't sound truthful, it doesn't sound real, it doesn't sound possible. It sounds a little bit fishy.So I just realized I forgot to print out the comment for this video, so I'm just gonna run back to the house for a minute, so hang tight. I'll be back in just a few minutes. You won't notice the delay, but it's gonna take me a little while. I'm pretty far out in the flower field right now. So I'll be right back.Okay, I'm back. Let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Ruslan and the comment is this. "Thank you for the lesson, Teacher Bob. "It was nice to see the town. "I am very fond of small, cozy, and tranquil towns "where people are never in a hurry. "Please show us more of your town from time to time." My response, "our town is small and tranquil "until around 4:30 in the afternoon, "when everyone is coming home from work. "Even our little town has rush hour."So, yes, my plan would be to go to town at least once a week. I have time during my workday. Sometimes I step in little holes when I start to walk. I have time in my workday to pop over to the town and to make a little video. So I'll probably do that at least once a week, just so there's a little bit of variety.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases A TOUCH OF CLASS and WORLD CLASSIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, "a touch of class." When you do something with a touch of class, it means you do something in a way that makes it cooler than normal. Let's think about maybe you're making a dinner for someone special in your life. And you think to yourself, "If I put some candles on the table for this romantic dinner, it will add a touch of class." So when you add a touch of class to something, it means you add something that makes it a little more special than it normally would be. I thought when I bought these sunglasses that even though they were only a dollar, they add a touch of class to how I look in my videos. And it's nice to have them on a sunny day, but they also add a touch of class.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, "world class". When something is world class, it means it's super, super good, or if someone is world class, it means they're super, super good. Think about your favorite athlete, they are probably a world class athlete. There are hockey players in Canada that could play on any hockey team in the world because they are world class athletes. They're some of the best in the world. There's some restaurants in Toronto that are world class restaurants. They serve food that's just really, really good, and people really, really like it, and it's some of the best food in the world.So to review, when you do something with a touch of class, you do it in a way where it's just a little extra special, or when you add something to something, you can add a touch of class by adding things like nice candles for a romantic dinner. And if something is world class or if someone is world class, they are like the best in their field.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is in my pocket somewhere, and it is from Sherly. And Sherly says, "I always loved the last part of the video, where teacher Bob takes us on a tour of his well organized farm." And my response was, "You'll be surprised then in the next video, as I'll be walking around my town."So let's do that for a bit. Let's walk around my town. I thought that I should do some of these videos on location. In English, when you do something on location, it means you do it like out in the town or out somewhere. Normally, I do my videos on location on my farm, but I thought it would be fun to come downtown and shoot the video here. I should walk this way, actually. Sorry for spinning you around like that. I hope you didn't get too dizzy. Let's walk a little bit down the sidewalk here. This is a small town, so I'm not too worried about someone taking my tripod, although that could happen, but I doubt that it will.I like the little town that I live close to. I'll be honest, I haven't gotten out here much because of the pandemic, but it's a nice quaint little town. There aren't that many people here. In fact, we only have about two fast food restaurants and a few pharmacies. We don't have a hospital. The city or the town isn't big enough for that. But it has all of the things that you would need if you wanted to get things. There's a grocery store, like I said, there's a few fast food restaurants.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases IN THE GRAND SCHEME OF THINGS and IN THE LONG RUNIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, "in the grand scheme of things." This is usually used to talk about something negative that doesn't really affect you in your entire life or in the thing that you are doing. Maybe that didn't make a lot of sense. Let me give you a specific example. Let's say you usually get an A+ on every single test, but you get an F on one test. If you have 10 or 12 tests during the school year, in the grand scheme of things, that one failure doesn't really matter because everything will average out and you'll still get a really good grade. We also use this to talk about things like eating sweets. If you eat something sweet maybe once a week, in the grand scheme of things, it's not going to cause you to put on weight. It's when you start eating sweets every day where that starts to happen. So when you say "in the grand scheme of things," it means over a long period of time, or when you look at your whole life as a wholeWANT 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, "in the long run." We use this to talk about things where over time, something might happen. Here's a good example. If you used to go to a drive-through every morning and buy a coffee, if you do that, then in the long run, you're going to end up spending a lot of money. So basically over a period of time, that's going to end up costing you quite a bit. In the long run, it's actually quite expensive. Each day, it might not seem that way. Spending a dollar or $2 for a cup of coffee doesn't seem too expensive, but if you look at it in the long run, it's going to add up and be quite expensive.So to review, when you say that something is in the grand scheme of things, it kind of means over a large portion of time or in your life in general, and when you say in the long run, it's somewhat similar. It refers to a long period of time. I hope those definitions made sense. I'm a little tired from teaching today so hopefully there's no confusion.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Jacques and the comment is, "Hi, Bob. The next time your siblings want to be in control, you could remind them of the saying, 'Too many cooks spoil the broth.' Best regards." And my response was, "Or I could say, 'Many hands make light work.'" I always find it funny that we have two sayings and they mean the opposite of each other.Yes, we definitely have those two sayings in English and it is kind of funny, isn't it? One of the sayings is "Too many cooks spoil the broth," which means that if too many people try to cook a certain dish, it might not turn out very good. And the other saying is "Many hands make light work," which means if a whole bunch of people work on the same thing, it makes the job easier. So interestingly in English, we have both phrases and you can use whichever one you want, depending on the situation.Hey, surprisingly, I don't have a lot to talk about for the last minute of this video. I'm usually quite a talkative person. Usually, I talk about all kinds of things, but just today, it felt like a really long day. So maybe I'll talk about that for a bit. I taught all of my classes. One of my classes was maybe a little louder than normal, and I had to talk louder than normal to kind of keep control. But overall, the students worked hard and were learning things.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases OUT OF MY CONTROL and TO BE IN CONTROLIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, "Out of my control." There are things on this farm that are under my control. There are things that I am in control of, but there are also things that are out of my control. Things like how often it rains, that's out of my control. Sometimes we get too much rain. Sometimes we don't get enough rain, but I can't make it rain. Okay? It is out of my control. I wish sometimes that it was though. I wish sometimes we could just go on the internet and order rain. Like, "We would like one inch of rain tomorrow, preferably in the afternoon." But we can't because the rain is out of my control. This morning it's Saturday, today that I'm making this lesson early. This morning I did a live lesson, and the wind was out of my control. It was quite windy, but I think people could hear things just fine.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 is "To be in control." A lot of people want to be a leader. They want to be in charge of something. They want to be in control. We have this even in my own family. Sometimes when we organize an event, a few of us really like to be in control, even if it's something like a small party for my mum or a family gathering. Sometimes my brothers and sisters, and I argue a little bit because all of us like to be in control. We like to be the person in charge. We like to be the person doing the planning, and buying everything, which is kind of silly. It's actually far easier to not be in control of a situation. It's far easier to let someone else be in control. But hey. that's the way it goes sometimes.So to review. When something is out of my control, it means that I cannot make it happen. Okay? If I'm driving on the highway, and traffic is slow, it's out of my control. I can't make people in front of me go faster. And to be in control is the same as to be in charge, to be the person who is responsible for something that is happening.But hey. Let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from and the comment is this. "Hello, your grass is nice with a wonderful green color. You really know how to take care of it. The weather seems fine for mid September, have a nice day." And my response, "The only thing we do to make our grass look good is that we don't cut it too short. Cutting grass too short makes it unhappy. Rain helps, but that's outside of my control.Notice I use the phrase there that I just taught you. But yes. Let's have a look at the grass. Let me hold this as high as I can. Our grass right now is very nice and very green. We have been very happy here on the farm. It was dry for a while, and then it started raining again. But we don't fertilize our grass. Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED, TRY, TRY AGAIN and FIRST THINGS FIRSTIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. It's a bit of a long one, isn't it? We actually sometimes just say the beginning of this phrase, we say, if at first you don't succeed, and then people might respond by saying, try, try again. And it's a phrase we use to talk about how in life, sometimes you just need to try to do something more than once before you have success. You might have this with learning English, maybe your first English conversation didn't go very well. But the secret to success when learning a language is, if at first you don't succeed, try, try again. We also had this on our farm with some of the things that we grow. We've tried to grow certain things in the past, and maybe the fertility in the soil wasn't right. Or maybe that certain type of plant got too much water, or not enough water. And our motto has always been, if at first you don't succeed, try, try again. I, as a teacher, would insert in there, if at first you don't succeed, do some research, and then try, try 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 the phrase first things first. This is a bit of a repeat. For those of you that have been around for more than two years, I did teach this phrase a couple of years ago. It means when you're going to do something, there are a number of things you probably have to do. Do the most important things first. A good example of this would be if you're going on a trip, first things first, you should make sure the car has gas in it. You should make sure the car has had a recent oil change. You should make sure that if it's winter, you have snow tires on your car. First things first means that you do the most important things first. Once all that's done, then you pack your things in the car, and you get in the car, and you start driving. But first things first, you might want to make sure the car is ready to go.So to review, if at first you don't succeed, try, try again is a funny little phrase we say, and we do say this. I think my mom just said it the other day. It just means that when you try something, it doesn't always go well the first time. So you should make sure you don't quit. You should make sure you try again. And when we say first things first, it simply means that if you're doing something, and there are five things to do, do the most important one or two things first.But, hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Turong, and the comment is my English learning goals for this week are to watch at least one short video in English, and write a short comment on it every day. I hope to be able to make it. My response was make it happen, you can do it.I used to watch a show called Star Trek, and Jean-Luc Picard was the captain, and he would say make it so, and that basically means do it, get it done. You can do it.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases I MADE IT and TO HAVE IT MADEIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase "I made it". Now you can use this literally. If you made a cake and someone said, "Who made that cake?" You could say, "I made it." But we also use this to say that we've gotten to the end of something difficult, or we've gotten to the end of a journey. So I could say this, "I made it. I made it to the end of the school day today. I taught my first day. School started today, and I made it." I think this is really a short form of saying "I made it to the end of the day", or "I made it through my day." But "I made it." It was a good day. I really, really enjoyed it. I had a good time and it was a lot easier than I was expecting. I think that sometimes I feel like I'm a little rusty, but when I get back in the classroom, everything just comes back to me. So it was a long day. It was an enjoyable day. I made it.WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadianThe other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase "to have it made." "To have it made", this looks like some of the same words, but when we put them in this order, it means that someone has a really easy and good life. Let's say you have a friend and their job is to count cars going past their house, and they get paid $100 an hour to do it. No one has a job like that, but you would definitely in that case say, that person has it made. You would say, "Oh, you know what? If you wanna have it made, you should get the same job as this guy. He gets paid $100 an hour to count cars." You would really have it made if you had that job. It would be really easy. You would just sit in a chair. Again, I don't think that job exists.But to review, when you say "I made it", it means you've gotten through your day or to the end of a journey. I don't think I explained this, but you can also use this phrase when you get somewhere. So when I went on a trip last week, when I got there, I could text Jen and say, "I made it." I'm in the town that I was driving to. And when you have it made, it simply means that you have a really easy and good life. Your job isn't very hard. You have a really nice spouse and really happy children. You have it made. It's always a nice feeling probably. I don't have it made. I have a nice life, but I wouldn't describe it at that level. It's a good life, but I don't have it made. I still work hard every day.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Mohd Ags, and the comment is this. Have to laugh a bit because the subtitle person always makes Mohd Ags' name into "mode eggs", like the egg. So anyways, Mohd Ags. "It's interesting how you will soon change from free as a bird to busy as a bee. Don't worry, Bob, you're a great teacher. You got this. Everything will be hunky dory." And my response is "Thanks for the encouragement. It goes a long ways." I do really appreciate it, by the way. By the way, as I respond to this, I've actually finished my first day back. It went great.So Mohd Ags used the phrase "hunky dory". I love that phrase. When everything's hunky dory, it means everything's really good. It means everything's going well. And certainly today went really well. I know I've talked about this a little bit already, but it was just really nice. It was nice to get back in the groove, to do some lesson planning.Support the show