Bob's Short English Lessons

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases IN YOUR DREAMS and DREAM ONI think maybe we should start today's lesson by going for a walk, because there are people driving their boat in the river. So I'm just going to walk over here for the beginning of the lesson and hopefully we can catch them driving by. Let me flip the camera around, so that you can have a look. So they're driving their boat. They're having a fun time. Maybe they'll do some fishing later, who knows.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/bobthecanadianIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, "In your Dreams." This is a phrase that we say to people when they say they're going to do something really, really amazing. And we don't think they're able to do it. We would say, "In your dreams." A good example would be this, Maybe a friend of yours bought a guitar and they're going to learn to play it. And they say to you, "I'm going to be the most famous rock star in the world in one year." You might reply by saying to them, "In your dreams." Basically what you're saying is you doubt that, that's going to happen. Even though maybe your friend will learn to play guitar. It's probably going to be really hard to become the most famous rock star in the whole world. So it would be a good time to skeptically say, "In your dreams."The other phrase I wanted to teach you today means the same thing. And that's the phrase, "Dream on!" Let's say a friend of yours bought a car and they're going to turn it into a race car. And they say to you, "I am going to be the best race car driver in the world in about five years." you might say to them, "You know what, dream on." You might even say, "Dream on buddy." That's kind of a derisive. Is that the word? It's kind of a little bit of an insult, but you could say to them, "Dream on." This means that you highly doubt that they're going to succeed at what they say they're going to do.Sorry, I'm a little distracted because the people in the river are talking. I don't know if you can hear them.Let's review though. If you say, "In your dreams" to someone, or if you say, "Dream on" to someone, you're basically saying you doubt that they're going to be able to do what they say that they were going to do. It's not a nice thing to say, but sometimes with friends, you can say things like in your dreams or dream on. And they understand that you're just kind of bugging them a little bit.Anyways, let's look at a comment from a previous video. That's not it, that's something I'm going to talk about in a moment. This comment is from Vito. And Vito says, "I totally agree that it is important to have a day off just to recharge our batteries. You work with your voice, even though you already had the experience teaching for a long time now, for a long time, and know how to preserve your voice, a day talking a little bit less is really important. By the way, thanks for the lesson and have a nice day Bob." And my response is this. My plan is to talk to my friend who is a music teacher and get some advice. he has been helpful in the past. He is a semi-professional singer and knows a lot about how to take care of one's voice.Thanks Vito for the comment, by the way. I want to talk a little bit more about my voice. I don't exactly have a sore throat, but I feel like I'm using my voice too much. Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO COME OUT OF THE WOODWORK and TO COME ALIVEIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, come out of the woodwork. This is what people do after you win the lottery. They come out of the woodwork. This is a phrase that means that people show up, or it could be animals, or something else, but things show up, people show up after something good has happened to you. Here's a good example, we'll talk about the lottery. If you won the lottery, I'm sure that people would come out of the woodwork. Friends that you haven't seen for years, relatives that you didn't even know you had, they would come out of the woodwork because they would want money from you. I think this phrase is similar to when you drop some food on the floor and insects, ants and stuff, come out of the walls of your house to eat it. They come out of the woodwork, literally, and people come out of the woodwork if you win a lot of money.WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadianThe second phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase, to come alive. People come alive when, if they normally don't do a lot of things where there's a lot of activity and then suddenly do them. A good example would be this, when I was a kid, I had a little fish, so it can be more than just people, I had a fish in a fish bowl, and it would kinda swim around slowly until I fed it, and then it would certainly come alive. It would swim up to the top of the bowl and eat all the food. Sometimes, I've noticed at wedding receptions, after the wedding ceremony there's a reception, and sometimes they play music, and older people might come alive when they hear a song that they knew or that they used to listen to when they were younger. They come alive, they might even dance a little bit.So anyways, to review, when people come out of the woodwork, it means they show up, usually after something good has happened to you. I think if you were to become the mayor of your town, old friends and relatives that you didn't even know you had, might come out of the woodwork and try to get you to do favors for them. And then the phrase to come alive simply means to act in a lively fashion, usually after not acting very lively. So you come alive. I usually come alive as soon as I hit the start button on the camera.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Yaroslaw, and the comment is this, "I miss your Geoguessr lesson, teacher Bob." And my response was, yeah, sorry about that. I've had to make a decision about that, and I probably won't be doing them again anytime soon. It was just one thing too many.So I think all of you are familiar with the fact that in life you decide to do certain things, and sometimes you decide to do one thing too many. So when I was doing the Geoguessr lessons, I was noticing that I was talking a lot every week. I was doing a lot of live streams, a lot of videos, and so I thought to myself, I need one day a week where I don't do a lot of talking, maybe two. So I've decided that on Sundays and Tuesdays, those would kinda be my days off from doing anything where I needed to talk. So, sorry about that. There will probably be no Geoguessr for the foreseeable future. Maybe in the fall if I have a bit more time and my throat, my throat's just a little bit sore all the time, and I don't know why. Hopefully that gets better soon.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English Phrases TO THROW SOMETHING TOGETHER and TO THROW OUTIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, to throw something together. When you throw something together, it means you do it really quickly, maybe you don't do it as carefully as you normally would. You just do it as fast and as quickly as possible. This morning, I realized that it was Monday morning and I had a really busy weekend, and I didn't put a video out on this channel yet. So I thought I should throw something together. I thought I should still quickly make a video for all of you so that you could learn at least one or two English phrases this morning. And I did it a lot more quickly and not quite as carefully as I normally do. I just was able to throw something together so that you could watch it. Sorry, it's late.WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH FOR, "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 not really a phrase, but it's the difference between throw away and throw out. I've had this question quite a bit lately, and because I have the word throw in my first phrase, this popped up in my little English phrase spreadsheet as something I should teach. When you throw something away or when you throw something out, it means the same thing. I don't know why we have two verbs for throwing something away. By the way, when I've done these videos, I do not throw away the paper. I do not throw out the paper. I put it in the recycle bin and it gets recycled. So, throw out and throw away mean exactly the same thing. Sometimes when we're done using something, we will throw it out. Usually though, we try to recycle everything that we possibly can.Anyways, to review, to throw something together means to do it quickly. Maybe you were asked to do a speech at your brother's wedding, and he asked you on the very day of his wedding. You would then throw something together quickly. You would quickly write a speech so you could read it at the wedding. And when you throw away something or throw out something, it means that you're just getting rid of it. Sorry, there's flies biting me this morning. It's the weirdest feeling.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Paul. I'm moving my feet around. I'm wearing shorts and they're biting my ankles. Paul says, "Thank you, Bob. Is it a bother for you to tell us more about your business classes?" And then my reply was, "It's not a bother. I'll do that in my next video."So Paul is using the phrase, is it a bother? In the last lesson I talked about the phrase, whether something is a bother or not a bother. So I responded by saying it's not a bother. It means that it's not a problem for me to do that. So yes, I teach a variety of classes. I teach computer classes. I teach business classes. Mostly though I teach French classes. I teach a business class because I ran a computer tech support business for 20 years while I was teaching. I was a part-time teacher and I also ran a business where I provided tech support for different schools. So because of that business experience, I was asked to teach a business class years ago. As many of you know, Jen and I also have a flower farm. I should walk out and show you some of it. As you know, we also have a flower farm, and because of that, the principal at my school also thought I would be a good choice to teach a business class.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases I CAN'T BE BOTHERED and IT'S NOT A BOTHERIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase I can't be bothered. This is a phrase that we use when we don't feel like doing something, we don't want to do something, or we don't think something is important. Here are a couple of examples. I exercise because I think it's important. If I didn't, I might say, you know what? I can't be bothered. I can't be bothered to exercise. It just seems like a waste of time to me. Another good example applies to me right now. I don't wash my car. I don't wash my van right now. I can't be bothered because it rains every day so there's no reason to do it. So in English, when you can't be bothered to do something, it means you don't feel like doing something or you don't see why it would be important to do that.WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me by joining the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmW5tmKIBrryNf5n-_A6Fmw/joinIf you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadianThe second phrase I wanted to teach you today is it's not a bother. We use this phrase the same way we use the phrase it's not a problem. So if someone said to me, Bob, thank you so much for making these videos. I can say, ah, hey, it's not a bother at all. It's not a problem at all, I have lots of time to do this kind of stuff. It's not a bother. So in English, when you reply to someone by saying it's not a bother, it can sometimes be after they thank you for doing something. Like if someone said, hey, thanks for making that beautiful meal for us the other night. You can say, oh, it was no bother. Or it's not a bother, I had lots of time and I like cooking for people.So to review, when you say I can't be bothered, it simply means you don't feel like doing something or you don't want to do something because you don't think it's important. And when you say it's not a bother, it's very similar to saying, ah, it was no problem or it's no problem. But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Michael. And Michael says, "Bob's pronunciation is very nice. Can anyone tell me if he has a Canadian accent or an American accent?" And I thought I'll answer this one. And my response was I have a Canadian accent. It is very similar to an American accent. Well, at least it sounds a lot more American than British or Australian English.So yes, I very much have a Canadian accent. As I've mentioned before, Canadian accents are very similar to American accents. I do say words like sorry and about a little differently than my American cousins, but certainly my accent is a lot more American than British. It definitely sounds a lot more American. I think it's because we live so close to the United States and I think I watch a lot of American television, as most Canadians do, so our accents are very similar.Hey, I wanted to talk a little bit today about going back to school. It's crazy, by the way, if you are going to watch my live stream on my other channel later, or if you're gonna watch it later today, it's about school. It's the middle of summer, but something funny happens to me in the middle of the summer. When the month of June ends, I start to think about school. When the month of June ends, I know I still have another whole month of summer vacation, but I start to think about school. I start to check my school email a little bit more, I start to think about the classes that I'm going to be teaching.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases HERE'S THE DEAL and BIG DEALIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, here's the deal. This is a phrase that we often say in English right before we explain something to someone or right before we tell someone something. I could say to Jen, "Hey, here's the deal. Later today, I'm going to go to the grocery store, I'm going to go to the library, and I'm going to take the kids to the pool to go swimming." So basically, any time you're going to explain something to someone, you can start by saying, "Here's the deal." In my classroom, I do the same thing with my students. I might say to them, "Okay, here's the deal. We're gonna start with a little quiz today. Then we're going to do some reading and then we're going to do some listening activities." So then they know what we're going to do that day.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 more of a term, but it's the term, big deal. When something is a big deal, it means it's really important to someone. When you graduate from school, it's a big deal. When you get married, it's a big deal. When you get your first job, it's a really big deal. So we'll use this phrase in English to talk about something that's really important and really cool that's happening to you in your life. We can also use it to describe a person. Sometimes you describe a famous person by saying they're a big deal. Matt Damon is kind of a big deal in Hollywood. He's a very famous actor.So to review, when you say to someone, "Here's the deal," it's just a little sentence you use before you're going to explain something or tell them something. And when something is a big deal, it means it's important. It was a big deal to me when I bought my first car when I was younger. It was a big deal because I was then driving a car that belonged to me and not my parents. It was a pretty big deal for me.Anyways, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Andres, I believe. And Andres says, "Good explanation, Mr. Bob. Just to get the picture about wheat harvesting, if the quality of the wheat was low, that means that you have lost money or the wheat for animals is also profitable. Thank you." And my response was this. "It means I got a bit less money, but still profitable."So yes, I was talking about my wheat harvest the other day, and I had promised all of you that I would show you. Oh, by the way, thank you, Andres, for the comment. I promised I would show all of you the baler when it came, but I missed that too, so you don't get to see that. But things around here have been a little wet. Many of you asked questions about the quality of the wheat. Why was the quality of the wheat so low? And the reason it was low is because it has been too wet here. The wheat had a lot of mold on it, it had a lot of fungus on it, and it just didn't have enough protein for them to use it, to make things like flour and bread.You can see there's a puddle right there. If a car goes by in a moment, you'll hear that it's very wet out here. I think there's a truck coming right now that you'll get to see. So you can kinda see that it is wet out here. It rained today. I think I've mentioned this a number of times in my videos lately. It just seems to be raining all the time lately. It's really good for the crops. If you look in the distance, the crops across the field are doing really, really well.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO PICTURE SOMETHING and TO GET THE PICTUREIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to picture something. We also sometimes say to picture someone. When you picture something, or when you picture someone, it means you close your eyes, well you don't have to close your eyes, but it means you can see them in your mind. Or you can see the thing that's being talked about in your mind. If I was to describe to you what Niagara Falls looks like, that there's thousands of liters of water going over a waterfall. You might be able to picture that in your mind. If I described my brother to you, if I said, my brother looks a lot like me, but he has a bigger beard, and he's a lot taller. You might be able to picture him in your mind. So when you picture something in your mind, or when you picture someone in your mind, it means you can kind of see it in your mind's eye. You can see the image in 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 second phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase to get the picture. To get the picture simply means to understand something. When you describe something to someone, or when you're explaining something to someone, and if at the end of the explanation, you say, okay, do you get the picture now? Do you get the picture? It basically means, do you understand? So if I was to tell someone to do a job on the farm, if I said, you need to dig a hole, it needs to be this deep. It needs to be big enough for us to plant a tree. Do you get the picture? Basically what I'm saying to them is do you understand the instructions that I've given to you?So to review, when you picture something, or when you picture someone, it means you can kind of see that thing in your mind, or you can see that person in your mind. And when you get the picture, it means you understand something. Sometimes people don't get the picture. And that means that they don't understand something, but hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Stella. And Stella says this. My husband needs to lose weight for his health, but he doesn't like exercise. I want him to change his tune. I talked to him so much, and tell him what to do so often, he tunes me out. And my response was this, that's the way it goes sometimes. I know I talk to Jen a lot about my YouTube channel. And sometimes I talk so much that she tunes me out, and just nods her head. I think she nods her head, and it makes me feel like she's listening to me, but I know sometimes she has tuned me out.And I think that's what happens sometimes. I agree, Stella. Sometimes when you talk to someone for a lot, for a long time about one thing, sometimes they will tune you out, because maybe you've just mentioned it too many times.Hey, I have to apologize to you. The combine came and combined all my wheat a few days ago, my neighbor came, and this entire field was harvested. That's what I mean when I say combine, you can see that I'm stepping through these large wind rows of what's called straw, and another neighbor will come in a few days, and will bale all the straw. I'll try to catch that on camera. Although it did rain yesterday, so it's a little bit wet out here, but yeah, I feel bad, because I know I mentioned that when the combine came, when the wheat was going, when the wheat was harvested, I'm pretty sure I said, I would run out with my camera, and make a small video, but it ended up being combined while I was out doing something else. By the time I got home, it was almost dark, and my neighbor was almost finished doing the job, Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO CHANGE YOUR TUNE and TO TUNE OUTIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, to change your tune. When you change your tune about something, it means you change how you think about it. Here's a good example. Maybe when you were a student in school, you didn't like doing homework, but you noticed that students who did homework got really good grades. You might then change your tune about homework. You might start to think that homework is actually a good thing to do. Here's another example. Maybe you don't think exercise is important. And then you go to the doctor and the doctor says, "You need to lose 20 pounds and you need to start exercising," and you do. And you noticed it does make you feel better. You might change your tune. Instead of thinking that exercise is silly, you might start to think that exercise is good and important.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 tune out. When you tune out, it means you ignore everything around you. Maybe when you read a book, you tune out. Maybe the book is so interesting, the story is so interesting, you don't notice anything else that is happening around you. You tune out. You can also tune somebody out. Sometimes I think when I was a teenager, I would tune out my mum. My mum would talk to me so much and tell me what to do so often that eventually I kinda stopped listening to her. I would tune out my mum. That's not very nice, is it? But I think a lot of teenagers do that for sure.Anyways, to review, when you change your tune, it means that you start to think differently about something, usually in a positive way. And if you tune out the world around you, it means you don't hear or see anything because of what you're doing, or if you tune out a person, it means that you ignore them.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Snazzy, and Snazzy says, "Air quality is low, but the education quality is definitely high. I am sure the air quality will also become as high as the education soon. Nice lesson, Bob." And my response was this, "Yes, the air quality is much better today. It rained overnight and that really made things a lot better. It's also a lot cooler." So yes, we were happy to get rain because it was quite hazy and smoggy, and there was smoke from the forest fires, but we weren't happy to get rain because we didn't need rain, actually.In fact, I was making this little video by the lawnmower. Our lawnmower has been used more during this month of July than any other month in the past. Usually in the summer, the grass stops growing. Well, it doesn't stop growing, but you don't need to mow it as much. But now, everything is growing. The pumpkins that I showed you I think a couple of weeks ago are much bigger. I did weed this, but I left some of the weeds here because they're actually good to put in bouquets. And if you look over here, you'll see that the lawn just keeps growing like crazy.We have been mowing far more than we ever mow during this month. It's a little bit out of hand. But we wanna keep the property very nice and tidy because when people come to buy flowers, we want them to appreciate the property as well. When they come here to buy flowers, we want them to appreciate the trees and everything else that is around us.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases WITH FLYING COLOURS and WHEN PIGS FLY!In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, "To pass with flying colors." When you take a test and if you get almost every single answer right, if you get almost every single answer correct, we would say that you were able to pass the test with flying colors. So maybe you went to take a driver's test and you did everything right. You made all of the correct turns. You did everything that the tester asked you to do. We would say that you were able to pass that test with flying colors. Maybe you've just taken an English test and you got almost every answer right, if not all of them, we would then say that you were able to pass with flying colors. So it simply means to do really, really well on a test.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, "When pigs fly." This is a phrase that we sometimes say in English. It's a little bit of an older phrase. I haven't heard it a lot recently, but I did hear it on the news the other day. When you say, "When pigs fly," you're saying that something will not happen, okay. If you said to me, "Bob, do you think that someday you'll jump out of a plane with a parachute?" I would say, "When pigs fly." That basically means that that will never happen. I have no plan to ever jump out of a plane with a parachute. I'm afraid of heights. It just does not interest me at all. If you said to me, "Bob, are you gonna go parachuting tomorrow?" I would say, "Well, that's not gonna happen tomorrow." And I would say, "When pigs fly, that's the day when I'll go parachuting."So to review, when you pass something with flying colors, it means you do a really good job on a test, and you get a really good mark or grade. And if someone says to you, "When pigs fly," they're basically saying that something is never going to happen.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from my buddy, Brent from "American English With This Guy." "I totally agree about the short days in the winter. I always dread that time of year. Why can't summer last forever?" And my response was this, "Yeah, it's weird when you're coming home from work at four o'clock in December and it's already getting dark."Yeah, I think I forget what it's like to live in the place I live in terms of the seasons and the length of the days. I really enjoy the fact that the days are super long in the summer. We can get up early in the morning. We can enjoy a full day of rest or work or whatever we're doing, and it doesn't get dark till nine or 10 at night. The third week of June, it's still light out at 10:00 p.m. here, light enough to be able to be outside and do stuff. So I think, I just think that's normal.I forget that many of you live closer to the equator, and you probably have day lengths that are very similar all the time. But for us here, yeah, it's kind of cool. But as Brent said, Brent from "American English With This Guy," that's his YouTube channel, by the way, in the winter, in the dead of winter, it's not as enjoyable. You end up coming home from work at four o'clock or 4:30, and by the time you get home, it's already dark out and you can't do anything outside. So that's the drawback, okay? The advantage is we have really long days in the summer. The disadvantage is that we don't have very long days in the winter.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English Phrases TO LOSE YOUR SHIRT and TO LOSE TOUCHIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to lose your shirt. Now, this can mean that you've actually lost your shirt. Maybe you went to the beach and you took your shirt off and then you lost it and you don't know where it is anymore. But we also use the phrase to lose your shirt to talk about losing money. If someone invests in a company and the company's not very good at doing business, there's a chance that that person might lose their shirt. You might lose your shirt if you invest in a company that's not trustworthy. Another example would be this, I could say, "Oh, my brother's going to the casino next week. "He's not a very good gambler, "he's going to lose his shirt." So when you lose your shirt, it simply means that you've lost a bunch of money. It can mean that you've lost your actual shirt, but we generally use the phrase to talk about a situation where someone loses some money.WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH FOR, "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 lose touch. Now, this happens when you know someone and then maybe you move to different cities and slowly you just stop communicating with each other, you lose touch with them. It happens a lot with university friends. When you go to university, and then, after you graduate, you tend to move to different cities in the world, and then eventually you lose touch with them. Maybe you send the odd email. Maybe you're still friends with them on Facebook, but because you live far away, you start to lose touch with them. This can also happen with families, and then that's kind of sad. You can lose touch with your brothers and sisters or even lose touch with your parents, which means you just don't spend a lot of time talking anymore. You're not sure what they're up to in their life. That would be sad. It's okay, I think, to lose touch with friends from university or college, I think that's only natural, especially if you live in different countries, it's hard to keep in touch then.But hey, to review, when you lose your shirt, it means that you've lost a lot of money, or all your money, doing something like a bad investment or gambling. And when you lose touch with someone, it means that you slowly just communicate less and less, almost to the point where you don't communicate at all anymore.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Liu and the comment is this. "Having dinner with family outdoors is awesome. "May I ask, is that picnic table "big enough for your whole family? "Also, do you use camping lanterns at night "when you have dinner in the yard?" So yes, it is big enough for all of us, but we have to squeeze in. So we fit three on a side and then sometimes someone will sit in a lawn chair. We don't use a camping lantern because it's actually light out here until almost 9:30 p.m. right now. One of the benefits of living in a northern country in the summer. So yes, it is big enough. Sometimes four people sit on one side, three on the other. Sometimes someone just stands and eats their pizza or grabs a lawn chair. But the table is definitely big enough for all of us. We certainly fit and we enjoy sitting there and we enjoy eating.And then the other part of the comment, it is really cool to live in a northern country in the summer. Right now, the sun will go down tonight at 9:00 p.m., I think at 8:54 p.m., the sun will go down. So it's light out here very late in the day.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO BE IN HOT WATER and TO MUDDY THE WATERIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to be in hot water. We sometimes also say to get in hot water. When you are in hot water, you are in trouble. When you lie to someone and then they find out that you lied to them, you might be in hot water. If I was to say to Jen that I was going out to visit a friend, and instead I went to the casino and started gambling, if Jen found out, I would definitely be in hot water. By the way, I would never do that. I would never lie to Jen. That's just a bad thing to do when you're in a relationship. But certainly, when you do something that someone doesn't want you to do, that person could certainly be annoyed with you and you would then be in hot water. Not a good situation to be in.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 muddy the water. When you muddy the water, it's when there's a conversation and you introduce new information that makes everyone a little bit confused. Here's a good example. Let's say we were trying to figure out who stole something from the kitchen cupboard. Well, stole is a strong word. Who took something from the kitchen cupboard. My example is usually the last cookie. We're trying to figure out who took the last cookie. Well, if I said to my son, "Did you eat a cookie last night?" and then I said to my daughter, "Did you eat a cookie last night?" and then if my other son started to talk about how much he likes brownies and whether we should be buying brownies, and if we had brownies instead of cookies, then this wouldn't be a problem, I would say that he is starting to muddy the waters. He's starting to introduce information that has nothing to do with the current conversation, and it's making everyone a little bit confused. So he's starting to muddy the water. We also sometimes say, and I just said it, to muddy the waters.Anyways, to review. When you are in hot water, if you are in hot water, or if you get in hot water, it means that you are in trouble of some kind, usually because of something you did, maybe a lie or maybe just something that you did to someone. And when you muddy the water, it means that you introduce information that kind of confuses all the people who are having a conversation or a discussion.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Athanasios, and the comment is this. "Thanks for these useful phrases, Teacher Bob. I have a funny feeling that Teacher Bob is going to buy a pizza for the whole family tomorrow at night. LOL! Bon appetit, sir." And my response is this. "Your guess is very close, although it might actually be tonight," which today is Friday, if you're watching this on Friday. "We usually buy pizza on Friday nights, about two times per month. It's the most reasonably priced food from a restaurant."So thanks, Athanasios. That was a great use of the phrase a funny feeling or the term a funny feeling, but that was excellent. Yes, good job. I was gonna talk a little bit about the pizza that we get every once in a while. I've talked about from time to time, that sometimes, about twice per month, we'll go and we'll buy pizza. I get it from the restaurant that I went into when I made my video of how to speak English at a restaurant on my other channel, because I feel like it's a good idea to support them. They helped me make a video that was quite successful, so I like to go there and buy pizza at least twice a month, sometimes longer.Support the show