Bob's Short English Lessons

In this English lesson, I wanted help you learn the English phrase, to horse around. This is a phrase we use usually when we're talking about children who are just acting all crazy. In fact, I remember as a kid, my parents often saying to me, stop horsing around. So when you horse around, it means as a kid, you jump around, you make lots of noise. Maybe you scream a little bit. And usually parents don't want their kids to horse around when they're somewhere out in public. So sometimes at the grocery store, my brother and I would be horsing around. We'd be grabbing boxes off the shelf or jumping around and making lots of noise. And my mom would be upset because she didn't like it when we horsed around at the grocery store. So, to horse around simply means to act like how kids probably should act just in a way that parents don't appreciate when they're in public.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, hold your horses. An oldie, but a goodie. We would say in English. You probably know this phrase when you tell someone in English to hold their horses. If you say, whoa, hold your horses. What you're basically saying is please wait. It's a very simple way. Wait is actually a simpler way to tell people to wait, but we do actually say this quite a bit. It surprised me because one week at school, I kept track and I actually heard the phrase I think seven times in one week from teachers, from students as well. They would say to someone else, "Hey, hold your horses. No running in the hallway", or "Hey don't go past me in line, hold your horses. Get in line and just wait for your turn." So hold your horses means to wait. So to review, to horse around means to jump around. Usually children do this, scream, yell, giggle, laugh. Everything that kids do, horsing around is probably one of the most common things that kids do. And if you say to someone hold your horses, it means that you want them to wait. But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. Sorry, there's always bugs out here right now. In fact, the video I made the other day, there's actually a bug crawling around on my forehead. I don't know if you notice that on my other channel, the video I made about my childhood. In the first few seconds, there's actually a black fly climbing around on my head.Anyways, this is from Qiu Park. How cute the baby Bob is. When I was a kid I spent a lot of time horsing around. My parents made me buy groceries and I hated it a lot. My response was I spent a lot of time horsing around as well. Sometimes it drove my parents up the wall.So this is the first time I've done this. I actually took Qiu Park's comment from my other video about my childhood, because I loved it that they use the phrase horsing around correctly. And I thought I would respond and also use the phrase to drive someone up the wall. So yes, definitely kids, sometimes horse around and they do sometimes drive their parents up the wall. By the way, if you didn't watch that video, maybe I'll put a link up here to it. I'm sure most of you did. I showed some pictures of my childhood. It was a lot of fun to me. But I was gonna mention this. If you look way over there, it's the goat pasture. It's not a horse pasture. We have never had horses on this farm. I do know though that my grandfather, who had a farm down the road had horses when he first moved here from Holland and he loved horses. He was a horse person, for sure. I think he had horses on his farm in Holland. And when they immigrated to Canada, one of the first things he did was I think he bought, well, he worked for a bit, but when he eventually boSupport the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn about the Canadian Holiday VICTORIA DAY and the English phrase LONG WEEKENDIn this English lesson, I wanted to talk about today. Today is Victoria Day. This is a holiday in Canada. I have a holiday today. It's kind of nice, which is why I'm making this lesson this morning instead of yesterday because yesterday we had a little bit of a party here to celebrate Victoria Day. By a little bit of a party, I mean, my mom and sister came over. We invited two people over. We are still under pretty strong restrictions here in Ontario, but you're allowed to have just a couple people over, and the good thing is all of us are vaccinated as well. So it was a safe party, but it is Victoria Day. We sometimes call this the May Two-Four weekend, not the May 24th weekend. We actually say Two-Four. We say this because Victoria Day normally happens right around the 24th of May. Today it happens to be exactly on the 24th, but other years, sometimes it's a bit earlier, so it is a holiday today. It is the May Two-Four weekend.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 long weekend. We would call this a long weekend in English. A long weekend is when you either have the Friday or the Monday off work, so instead of just Saturday and Sunday off, you also have an extra day. So it is a long weekend here in Canada. I have to be honest though, it doesn't really feel like a long weekend because I'm home all the time, so when you're home all the time, it doesn't seem that different, but it's definitely a long weekend here in Canada because we have the extra day off today on Monday.So to review. Just something interesting about Canada for you. Today is Victoria Day, also called the May Two-Four weekend. Usually this, the other reason we call it the May Two-Four weekend is because in Canada if you buy a case of beer, it has 24 bottles or cans in it, and we refer to it as a two-four. So people will often say, I'm going to go to the beer store. We have special stores to buy beer in Ontario to get a two-four of beer. So it's kind of like a funny name for the weekend but it also refers to the size of a case of beer in Canada. And then, also, it's a weekend where a lot of people go to open up their cottage if they have a cottage up north. And as I mentioned, this is a long weekend. It is a little bit longer by one day than a normal weekend.But, hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Brent, and Brent says, "Ah, poor tree."And my response was, "Don't worry. "We usually plant a few more every fall."So Brent was talking about, in the last video, I talked about a tree that we are planning to chop down, but don't worry. I know it sounds kind of, yeah, extreme to chop a tree down. Many of you in the comments were saying "just leave the tree, don't chop it down. "It's not harming anyone." But Jen and I do live on a big property and we do plant trees regularly. In fact, this is one of the first trees that Jen and I planted. We planted this here when we moved here. Why don't I turn this way, and as I walk, you'll see how big this tree is now. It's quite a large tree. We're pretty happy that we planted it many, many years ago. I think you can see it in the background there. It's one of the trees that I sometimes sit under when I do my live streams. So don't worry. When we chop down a tree, we usually do plant one or two or three more in the fall.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases I HAVE TO HAND IT TO YOU and TO HAND INIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, I have to hand it to you. We also sometimes say, "I gotta hand it to you," or "I've gotta hand it to you," or "I have to hand it to you." There's a couple of different variations, but they all mean the same thing. It's something you say after someone does something really well. So when a student does really well on a test, I might say to them, "I have to hand it to you. You did a really good job on your test." Or maybe someone has an old car and they fix it up all by themselves. You might say, "Hey, I have to hand it to you. You did a great job fixing up that car." Or, "I gotta hand it to you. You did a great job fixing up that car." So when you say I have to hand it to you or I've gotta hand it to you, or I gotta hand it to you, it simply means you're recognizing that someone did something and they did a great job on 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/bobthecanadianIs there a bug on my head? Sometimes there is.The second phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase, to hand in. This is a phrase we normally use in schools almost all the time. And it means when a student gives their work to the teacher. So I will say to my students, you need to work on this project. You need to hand it in. You need to hand in the project next week, Tuesday. So we're going to start on it today. It's due next Tuesday. That is the day when you need to hand it in. When you hand something in, it's usually paper but now we do it electronically as well. Students on Google Classroom, is what we use at our school, they can click a button that allows them to hand in the work that they've done.So to review, when you say, I have to hand it to you or I gotta hand it to you, you're simply saying, Hey you did something and you did a really good job on it and I recognize that you did a good job. And when you hand something in, it usually happens at school. And it usually means when you give the teacher the work that you've done. If any of you are taking night classes, there's probably times where you need to hand in some of the work that you've done.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Dmitry. Haha, we wanna see more acrobatic tricks in Mr. Bob's performance. Have a great flexible day. And my response is this, Haha, I'm not so sure about that. It would certainly be a lot of physical comedy.So thanks Dmitry for that. That's in the last video where I tried to show my ankle, like kicking my leg up in the air. I almost fell over by the way, when I did that. I'm not as flexible as I used to be. But when I was younger, I say that a lot too, when I was younger, I really liked playing something called Hacky Sack. I'm not sure if any of you are familiar with what Hacky Sack is. Hacky- I'll put a little picture up here, actually. Hacky Sack is this fun game that I used to play with my roommates at university where you kick a little beanbag around. And believe it or not, I was really, really good at it. So anyways, Dmitry, thank you for that comment. It kind of reminded me of the fact that yes, maybe I used to be a little more acrobatic, a little more flexible than I am now.Hey, I wanted to show you something that makes me a little bit sad today.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO DIG UP SOME DIRT and TO DIG IN YOUR HEELSIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to dig up some dirt. When you dig up some dirt on someone, it means you look for things that they've done in the past that weren't good things to do. A lot of times, people who are running for office, if they wanna be mayor or prime minister, the people who don't want them to be will dig up some dirt on them, or they'll try to dig up some dirt on them. So they'll try to find out if they did anything when they were younger that people would frown upon. When you frown upon something, it means it's something that you shouldn't have done. And they might even try to dig up some dirt on them in the sense that they are trying to find out if they did something illegal. That would be bad. It's really hard to get into office. It's really hard to become mayor, or prime minister, or president if you did something illegal in the past. So sometimes they'll try to dig up some dirt on people who are trying to be in a position of power.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 dig in your heels, when you dig in your heels, so your heel is like, I don't know if I can get my leg up that high, I can't. Your heel is at the back of your foot. When you dig in your heels, it means that you stubbornly refuse to agree with someone, or you stubbornly refuse to do what someone is asking you to do. Our children, at least one or two of our kids, often dig in their heels. One of my kids will definitely dig in their heels quite easily. If I say, "You need to clean your room," sometimes they say no, which, kids shouldn't do that, should they? They shouldn't disagree with their parents. But when I think back to when I was a young Bob the Canadian, I would often dig in my heels when I was arguing with my mom and dad. I was a good kid. I was definitely pretty stubborn.So to review, when you dig up some dirt on someone, when you go to dig up some dirt on someone, you're trying to discover things they did in the past that were either illegal, or just not very nice. And when you dig in your heels, it means that you stubbornly refuse to do what someone is trying to get you to do.Anyways, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Mohammad, and Mohammad says, "Thanks, dear Bob, useful lesson. By the way, I really enjoyed playing 'GeoGuessr.' My mom watched it. It was 3:30 AM here. So we were at our wit's end." My response was this, "Wow. That is really early in the morning. I'm impressed that you stayed up so late, or maybe you got up early. I'm glad you liked it. Thanks for watching."So, yes, I've been playing "GeoGuessr." By the way, thanks, Mohammad, for that comment. I've been playing "GeoGuessr" on Sunday evenings. It is a pretty fun thing to play. I have been enjoying it. It's a game where you travel using Google Maps and you try to guess what country you're in. And so I've been playing it most Sunday nights. We just played last Sunday night. There's about 90 people or so that show up and it's a lot of fun. I've enjoyed it. We had a streak of 19 correct answers a while ago. So that was a lot of fun. So anyways, if you're interested, "GeoGuessr." It's hard to hold this camera. Sorry if I'm making you a little seasick. "GeoGuessr" Sunday nights.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO HAVE A TASTE FOR and TO DO SOMETHING TASTEFULLYIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to have a taste for. When you have a taste for something, it means that you like it. And it can mean food. It can be used when talking about food, let's say that I used to only eat standard North American food, like hamburgers and hot dogs and pizza, but I'm starting to have a taste for Indian food. Maybe I've started eating Indian food. And I really like it. I'm starting to have a taste for it. You can also use this about other things besides food. Maybe you've been in charge of something. Maybe you were elected mayor of your town and now you have a taste for power. You liked being in charge of other people and now you have a taste for it. So when you have a taste for something it means that you've experienced it. You like it. And you want more of it. Whether it's food or something like power.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 want it to teach you today is the phrase to do something tastefully. When you do something tastefully, you do it in a way that is very pleasing for people, in a way that doesn't offend people. Sometimes when people decorate for, let's say a wedding, they want to decorate tastefully. They want to decorate tastefully, so that people enjoy the decorations. They enjoy what everything looks like. You don't want to decorate a place in a way that offends people or annoys people. You want to do it tastefully. You want to do it in a way when, so that when people look at it, they're like, this looks really cool. This looks really nice. There's nothing offensive about how this has been done. Hopefully I explained that well. I tried to do my videos tastefully. I don't know if you've noticed that. I try to make sure I don't say things or do things that annoy people. I try to make the videos as tasteful as possible. I try to do them tastefully.So to review, when you have a taste for something it means you like it. You like doing it. It's enjoyable for you. You have experienced it and you want more of it. And when you do something tastefully it means you do it in a way that pleases people. When they look at it, when they hear it, when they see it they just enjoy what you have done.But Hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video, I thought for a second there it fell out of my pocket. Did you see me go like this? It's in my back pocket. It was in my right pocket, not my left one.This is from Ðhin. And the comment is this. While I was watching your video my mum gave me a heads up that the water was going to boil. I often do something else when cooking. So, and then thanks for the lesson, Bob. And my response is this a watched pot, never boils. This is an old English phrase that my mum used to say when I was waiting for something.So thanks Ðhin for that comment. And yes, that is a phrase. When I was a kid, sometimes I would be waiting for something. Sometimes I would be waiting for a delivery truck to come or waiting for something to arrive that I wanted. And my mom would always say, Hey, Bob a watched pot, never boils. And what she meant by that was that when you're waiting for something, it takes longer for it to actually happen. We, we say this to our kids now, jokingly we say a watched toaster never pops up because sometimes our kids are waiting for the toaster to pop up and it can take a very long time.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO GIVE SOMEONE A HEADS UP and TO FILL SOMEONE IN ONIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase "to give someone a heads up." When you give someone a heads up, it means that you tell them something that maybe they weren't aware of. A good example would be this, a couple of weeks ago, someone made a website and was asking people to give them money and then they said they would give the money to me and then Brent, thankfully, Brent sent me an email because he wanted to give me a heads up that someone was doing this, and a couple other people did as well. So they wanted to let me know that something was happening that maybe I didn't know about it. It was really nice that they were able to give me a heads up. It was really nice that they were able to let me know so that I could kind of take care of that. So when you give someone a heads up, it means you tell them something that maybe they weren't aware of. It's always a good thing to do. It's nice when you can give someone a heads up about something. Thanks, Brent, by the way.WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"✅If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadianThe other phrase I wanted to tell you today is the phrase "to fill someone in on." I don't know why we have two prepositions at the end of this sentence, but when you fill someone in on something, it means you tell them about it. But it's more of like a formal thing that happens maybe at work or when you're talking about an event. If someone said, "Hey, I don't know anything about this Friday. We're supposed to be having a meeting. Can someone fill me in on the details? Can someone tell me about what's happening?" Or you could say this. Maybe my mom's having a birthday party and I don't know what day it's on. I should know what day my mom's birthday is. I don't know what day it's on and I don't know what time to arrive and I don't know what I'm supposed to bring. I could say to my brothers and sisters, "Could someone fill me in on all the details about mom's birthday party?" By the way, my mom's birthday is coming up in a month and a half but we're probably not having a party. Things won't be open yet here in Ontario, Canada.Anyways, to review, and hopefully I make some sense. When you give someone a heads up, it means you tell them about something, usually one thing, that maybe they didn't know about. And when you fill someone in on something, it means you give them all the details about something because maybe they were wondering what exactly was going on or what was happening. I hope those explanations made sense. Sometimes when I listen to these lessons later, I think, oh, I did actually make sense. So hopefully that made some sense to you.Hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This is from Voiretvisite and Voiretvisite says, "Hello. It is a nice and beautiful landscape." Usually is. It's kind of nice. "Who takes care of the goats during the day? See you soon." And my response was this. "Jen lets them out in the morning and we bring them back in at night."So the goats go out in the morning, they go out on the pasture. I did mention, I was going to try and walk and talk more. Let's see if this will work. I'm going to take my camera and walk and point. So way over there is the pasture. We let the goats out in the morning. We let them back in at night. Isn't it weird that we say in the morning and then we say at night? Why do we use different prepositions there? I don't really know. Anyways, they're out there somewhere. I'm not sure if you can see them.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO STRIKE ME THAT or TO STRIKE ME AS and TO STRIKE A BALANCEIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, it strikes me that. This is a phrase that I used yesterday a couple of times when I was talking about the emojis that I like to choose, I said, well, I just choose emojis that strike me as cool. When something strikes you when you describe something as striking you in English, it literally means something hitting you, a ball can strike me in the face, hopefully that doesn't happen. But when something strikes you in the way that I used it, it means that you notice it or you've decided that it's cool. So I pick the emojis based on ones that strike me as cool, ones that I notice are cool or ones that I just think are cool when I see them. So they strike me as being cool.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 strike a balance. When you try to strike a balance, you're trying to create a solution to something. Usually you're trying to get two people to agree on something in a way where they're both happy but they don't both get exactly what they want. Sometimes there's three cookies and I have five children that want the cookies so in order to strike a balance, I cut the cookies in pieces and everyone gets a half and then I get a couple cookie halves too. But anyways, I'm not sure my math is correct but I think you understand what I mean when you strike a balance. If I wanted to strike a balance, I create a situation where everyone gets some of what they want, but not exactly what they wanted and hopefully everybody's happy.So to review when something strikes you, it can be something that physically hits you like if my, one of my kids kicked a ball at me it could strike me in their head but it can also be used to talk about something that you've noticed. It might strike you as a little bit funny that there are goats behind me, I'm not sure you can see them today. Is that a goat right there? It might be. I know some of you noticed them yesterday. And of course the phrase to strike a balance means to create a situation where everyone gets a little bit of what they want but not exactly what they wanted but hopefully everyone's happy.Hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This is a comment from Judit. And Judit says, thanks a lot, cameraman. My response was you're welcome. My camera moving skills are great when I want to show something but not so great when I want to put the camera back in the exact spot I took it from, this time it went quite smoothly.So in my last video, I actually moved the camera while I was doing the lesson and I thought that maybe I should do that more. Maybe I should actually move the camera a little bit more so you can see more of the things that are happening right around me. I think maybe I scared the goats, maybe not. By the way, some of you thought they might be sheep, they do look a little bit like a type of sheep called a Dorper sheep but they are actually Boer goats.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO KEEP SOMETHING STRAIGHT and TO KEEP AT SOMETHINGIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, "To keep something straight," or, "To keep things straight." When you want to keep something straight or you want to keep things straight, it's the opposite of being confused. Sometimes when Jen plants a lot of small plants, she puts labels on things because she wants to be able to keep things straight. I know I'm using things instead of something here, sorry about that, there's kind of two phrases, but she doesn't want to be confused later. Sometimes my mom has trouble keeping things straight, she has trouble remembering which of her sons has which name. Sometimes she calls me John, and my name's not John, but sometimes my mom has a little trouble keeping our names straight between my older brother and my younger brother and I, sometimes my mom has trouble keeping our names straight. I hope my mom's not watching this, maybe she is, it's not a big deal.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, "To keep at something." When you keep at something, it simply means that you keep doing it. In fact, I'm not sure why we have the phrase, "To keep at something." If I say to you, "I go for a walk every day, and I'm going to keep walking every day," I could also say, "I go walking every day, and I'm going to keep at it," it means exactly the same thing, when you keep at something, it means that you keep doing it. Jen and I, as you know, grow flowers, and we're gonna keep at it. We like doing it, so every year we're going to grow more, and every year hopefully we sell all of them, we'll see.And so anyways, to review, "To keep something straight," means the opposite of being confused, it means to keep things in an orderly fashion in your mind, and, "To keep at something," simply means to keep doing it. So I like doing these little English lessons, I'm gonna keep at it.Anyways, let's look at a comment from a previous video, and this no comment is from Mohd Ags, and it is this, "If you don't mind me asking, why do you always use three emojis in your replies?" And my reply was this, "I like to pick one with a smiley face and two others that either relate to the lesson or strike me as cool. Today, I'm using four." So yes, for those of you that actually read the comments and ask and leave comments, you'll notice that I regularly end my comment with three emojis. Usually the first one is the smiley face of the guy with sunglasses, 'cause he kinda looks like me, a big round head with sunglasses on, and sometimes just a regular smiley face. And then I usually pick two that maybe relate to the lesson, maybe they relate to something I saw that day, maybe they relate to, I don't know, it's just something that strikes me as a cool one to choose. So thanks, Mohd Ags, for that comment.To talk about it a bit more, I don't know why I choose three, probably 99% of the time I choose three emojis, sometimes I choose four, sometimes I just put one, but most of the time it's three, so I don't know.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO KEEP AN EYE ON and TO KEEP AN EYE OUT FORIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to keep an eye on. In English, if you are going to keep an eye on someone or keep an eye on something, it means you're going to watch it. A good example is this. If you put a pan of water on the stove to boil the water, you want to keep an eye on that pot of water, because when it starts to boil, you wanna take it off the stove. Maybe you are in charge of some children. Maybe you've gone to the park with your kids or a niece or nephew, you want to keep an eye on them while they are playing, because you don't want them to accidentally get hurt or do something that they're not supposed to. So in English, when you keep an eye on someone, or when you keep an eye on something, it means you're going to watch them or 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 keep an eye out for. This is a little bit different. And I actually used this phrase in yesterday's lesson. And I think I used the wrong one. I think I should've said, "Keep an eye on." And instead I said, "Keep an eye out for." When you keep an eye out for someone or something, it means you're waiting for them or you're waiting for that thing. Here's a good example. When I order something online, sometimes I will keep an eye out for the delivery truck. So that means while I'm working on my computer, I look outside every once in a while, I keep an eye out for the delivery truck, because I'm waiting for the delivery truck to come. Maybe, another good example would be this. Maybe in your neighborhood, bad things have been happening. And the police have said, "Please keep an eye out "for suspicious activity." What they're saying is that they want you to kind of look outside every once in a while to see if anything bad is happening.So to review, the phrase to keep an eye on someone or to keep an eye on something means to watch. You know, usually like you're in charge or you're doing something and you want to watch it to make sure nothing goes wrong, to make sure that, again, the example with the water boiling, you want to keep an eye on it, because you want to take it off the stove when it's done. But when you want to keep an eye out for someone or something, it means that you're waiting for them to arrive, or you're waiting for that thing to happen. So you want to keep an eye out for it. Hopefully that made some sense. That was, I think, a pretty good explanation, but maybe when I get inside to edit this, I'll think differently, but I think it was pretty good.Hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video, and I love this comment. It's from Snazzy. And the comment is this, "Keep smiling, stay safe." And my response is you too.So thank you, Snazzy, for that comment. I wanted to use this comment, 'cause I wanted to make sure that people knew that I don't always choose the longest comments or the comments that are the best example of English writing. I don't look for comments that where I'm like, "Wow, this person is awesome and amazing at English. "I'll use their comment." I like all comments. So this comment from Snazzy is short and sweet. It's to the point. It's probably one of my favorite comments this week. Keep smiling and stay safe.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO GO OFF THE RADAR and TO BE ON SOMEONE'S RADARIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, to go off the radar. When someone goes off the radar, it means they kind of disappear for a little bit. And I kind of just did that. So I do want to apologize to all of you. On my bigger channel normally there's a new English lesson every Tuesday and yesterday I didn't put a new video out. And then on this channel, there should have been a new video lesson for you a few hours ago already but there wasn't one because I kind of went off the radar. When you go off the radar, it simply means that you kind of disappear for a little bit. And I kind of disappeared for a day and I did explain on my other channel what happened and I'll explain on this channel a little bit as well. It's nothing serious by the way. But when you go off the radar, it means that a person kind of disappears for a day or two or maybe longer. So sorry, I was kind of off the radar for a bit.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 be on my radar or to be on someone's radar. This means that you are aware of someone or something. This happens a lot when you're a teacher. Another teacher might say to me, hey, watch out for Johnny, he's been acting a little suspiciously lately, keep them on your radar. I'm going to keep him on my radar as well. So you can be on someone's radar or you can keep someone on your radar or you can keep something on your radar. That just simply means that you are aware of it and you are watching carefully just in case something happens. So what is radar? Well, radar is something they use in the military and it kind of helps them see things from far away.So to review, if you say that someone has gone off the radar or the phrase to go off the radar it means to disappear for a little bit without telling people where you're going. And then when someone is on your radar or if you say that someone is you're going to keep someone on your radar, it means you're going to kind of keep an eye out for them.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video and this comment will lead into the rest of this lesson. Natalia Illusion says, does anyone know where Bob is? And Julia Olis says, same question. And my reply was I'm right here, sorry to go off the radar for a day. Just getting back on track now.So yes, I do want to apologize to all of you. It wasn't very nice of me to just kind of skip a day without mentioning where I was. There's no problem with me not making a video for a day but I know a lot of you just, well, you kind of liked me and I like you too so it's not nice to disappear for a day without at least putting a message on my community page or on Facebook letting you know what was up. So what was up? I explained this in my other video on my bigger channel. I just felt blah, is that a good description? I felt blah, I felt under the weather. I said to Jen, I felt kind of meh. That's not a real English phrase by the way but I didn't feel energetic and I thought maybe even that I was getting sick.Support the show