Bob's Short English Lessons

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO GET CARRIED AWAY and TO GET RILED UPIn this English lesson, I wanted to teach you the English phrase to get carried away. When you get carried away with something, it means you get so excited about it, you don't actually think straight. You start to do things you normally wouldn't do. Probably the best example of the phrase to get carried away, for me, would be when I go to the grocery store when I'm hungry. When I go to the grocery store when I'm hungry, I sometimes get carried away and I buy too many cookies and I buy too many candies and I buy too many chocolates. I kind of lose control of what I would normally do. Because I'm so hungry, everything I see looks really yummy and I get a bit carried away. Sometimes when I'm watching a sports game and my team does really well, I jump up and cheer and maybe I'll knock something over by accident because I get carried away. So when you get carried away, it means you get super excited about something to the point where you do things you normally wouldn't do.WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH FOR, "BOB THE CANADIAN"✅The full video for this lesson is right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikuR4vXV6po✅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 riled up. Now this is similar to getting carried away, but in a bad way, in an angry way. Sometimes people get riled up. That means that they are really, really angry about something. Right now, and I won't mention why, there are a lot of people in the world really, really angry about different things. It's really easy to get riled up when you are upset about something in life. Maybe things aren't going well for you. Maybe things in your life just aren't as nice as they should be, and you're just getting riled up. You're getting very, very angry about something. This also happens with sports fans. Sometimes when there is a championship game and the team that you love loses, sometimes you might get riled up. In fact, in some cities, people get really riled up when their team loses. They get really angry because their team has lost. They get riled up.So to review, when you get carried away, to get carried away means to be very excited about something, where you kind of let the emotion of being excited take over what you're doing. And to get riled up would be similar, but it would mean that you're letting anger take over your life. You're so angry about something that you're starting to do things you normally wouldn't do. Anyways, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comic, comment, it's not a comic. That'd be cool if it was a comic, but this is a comment. This comment, comment, is from Alex. I love the birds singing in the background. I do love the farm. Bob, is it cloudy all day long like that in the video? And my response was that day it was. Today is a much nicer day. I think we're in for some nice weather coming up.Yeah, we're definitely in for a nice stretch of weather, it looks like. And thanks, Alex, for leaving that comment. Not comic, comment. That was very nice of you. Yeah. It looks like we're into a good stretch of really nice weather, which I'm happy about because it's just nice to be outside when you're in a lockdown like this.I'll tell you this. Jen and I went out today to get some groceries, and the world has a very different feel now than it did a few months ago. As you know, COVID cases in Ontario, Canada are pretty high. So we went to the grocery store. We had to wait in line before we could get into the store. Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases IT'S MY TREAT or TO TREAT SOMEONE TO SOMETHINGIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase "it's my treat." A couple of days ago we looked at the English phrase "it's on me" and "it's my treat" means the same thing. If you say to someone, "It's my treat," it means you're going to pay for it. I could say to a friend of mine, "Hey, let's go to Niagara Falls for the day and let's do all of the attractions. Let's go on the zip line. Let's go on the," I was gonna say Maid of the Mist but I think the boat has a different name now. And then I could say, "It's my treat." That means that I'm going to take my friend to Niagara Falls and I'm gonna pay for everything. So if you say, "It's on me," or if you say, "It's my treat," it means that you're planning to pay for whatever activity you're going to do. By the way, these videos, they're my treat to you, okay? It's on me this time.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 treat someone to something." When you treat someone to something it means you are buying something for them. A great example of this would be sometimes when we visit Jen's parents, Jen's dad will actually treat us to ice cream or he'll treat us to a meal or he'll treat us, a long time ago, he used to treat us to a round of golf. I'm not an avid golfer, but a long time ago, every once in a while, Jen's dad would treat us to a round of golf with him. He would take us to the golf course and he would pay for everything. We didn't have to pay for anything. It was really nice.So to review, if I say, "It's on me," like we did a couple of days ago, or if I say, "It's my treat," it means that I'm going to pay for something. And if you say that you are going to treat someone to something, it means the same thing. It means that you are planning to pay for it. So, often, as a parent, I do this. I often treat my children to different things. In fact, we bought something the other day, it's a bit of a surprise. I can't tell you what it is right now but we are treating our kids to something in the next few days. I'll let you know what it is when it arrives. It's not a big thing, it's just a small thing.Anyways, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from the Qiu Park and Qiu Park wrote a little two-part conversation here. The conversation is this: Person A says, "Hey I know a wonderful restaurant. Let's go out to eat there. It's on me." And person B says, "Oh, that's news to me. You've never treated me, have you?" And my response was this: "Nice, I liked that you used the phrase to treat someone. I should teach that phrase." I just did. "Sometimes, after a long day of work on the farm, Jen and I will take the kids and treat them to an ice cream cone at the local ice cream shop."We used to do that more. There used to be an ice cream shop closer to us but that one closed down. Now we have to go quite a ways to find ice cream but anyways, Qiu Park, thank you very much for that comment. And for kind of introducing me or reminding me of another phrase, to treat someone to something, that I could teach. That was a lot of fun, but I talk a lot about going out to eat, and I want to say a couple of things about that.One, Jen and I don't actually go out to eat a lot. We don't actually treat our kids to a meal in a restaurant very often because it does cost quite a bit of money. And also right now, you can't actually do that. There aren't really any restaurants open.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrase IT'S ON ME and THAT'S NEWS TO MEIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, it's on me. If someone says to you, it's on me, it means they're going to pay for something. Sometimes this happens when you go out to eat with someone and as you're getting out your wallet at the end of the meal, the other person might say, "No, no, don't worry about it. It's on me." When they say that, what they're mean, what they mean is that they're going to pay for your meal. It's awesome. People might even say this before you go out to eat or before you go do something I can say to my brother, "Hey, do you want to go see a movie tonight?" And if my brother was like, "I'm not sure." I could say, "Come on. It's on me." That means if we go to a movie, if I say, "It's on me," it means I'm going to pay for him. I don't usually ever do that, though. If my brother and I go see a movie, he pays for his own movie. I don't usually say, "It's on me." Sometimes when I go out to eat, I do though.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/bobthecanadianHey, the other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase that's news to me. When you say, "That's news to me," to someone it's usually after they've told you something that you didn't know about. If someone said to me, "Hey the hardware store in our local town is closing." I could say, "Oh really? That's news to me." What I mean when I say that is that I had not heard that before. If someone said, "Hey, did you hear," if my sister said to me, "Hey, did you hear mum sold her house?" I would be like, "What? That's news to me. I didn't even know she was planning to sell it." My mom hasn't sold her house, by the way. It's just an example.So to review, if someone invites you to go out to do something and it costs money and they say, "It's on me," it means they plan to pay for it. And if you are already out doing something and when you go to pay for it with your wallet, someone says, "No, no, it's on me." It means they're going to pay for you. That's kind of cool. And if someone says to you, "That's news to me," they're basically saying that whatever you just told them, they hadn't heard before. It's something new for them. It's news to them.Hey, let's look at a comment, though, from a previous video. This comment is from Sutopa and Sutopa says this, "Sir, can you explain last fall, late last fall. So in the previous lesson I referred to the season of fall by saying last fall and then I corrected myself to say late last fall. Here's my response Sutopa to explain that. Sure, last fall for us in Canada refers to the time from about mid September to mid December, the entire season of last year. So if I say last fall, I'm talking about the season of fall that we just experienced a few months ago. Late last fall would mean sometime in November or December of last year or the last part of the fall last year.So when I'm referring to the season of fall, I'm not just referring, when I say last fall, I'm referring to the entire season that occurred last year. When I say late last fall, I'm talking about the last few weeks of the season of fall. If I said early last fall, I would be referring to at the time of this video, September, October of 2020. But if say late last fall, I'm talking about the last part of the fall so end of November, beginning of December. I hope that made some sense.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO RAMP UP and TO SCALE BACKIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, to ramp up. This is actually a phrasal verb that means to increase production. Probably the best example of this in the world right now would be the companies that are making vaccines. They are trying to ramp up their production. They are trying to increase their production. They're trying to make as many vaccines as they possibly can each and every day. A long time ago, they were producing a certain number every day, but because they've been able to ramp up their production, they can now produce more vaccines every day than they could last fall or late last fall, or that they could just a few months ago. So they have definitely been able to ramp up their production.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 phrasal verb, to scale back. Which actually means exactly the opposite. Eventually, I'm going to assume that these companies will need to scale back their production. When you scale back your production or when you scale something back, it means you reduce the amount that you are producing.For Jen and I here on the farm, just to review, in the spring and summer we ramp up our production of flowers. We grow more and more flowers all the time. And as fall approaches, and the cold weather approaches, we tend to scale back. We tend to reduce the number of flowers that we are producing. Actually, we don't choose to scale back. The weather just sort of causes that to happen.So again, to review quickly. To ramp up means to increase the production of something, and to scale back means to reduce the production of something. Now, this doesn't always have to do with producing things. You could ramp up the amount of exercise you're doing every week. You could scale back the amount of exercise you're doing every week. So, both phrases do apply in other situations as well.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Mohd Ags. And it's from the lesson where I talked about cracking a joke, and his response or his comment is this. "He cracked a smile. Then cracked a joke thinking it'd crack the audience up. Unfortunately, nobody laughed, and he instantly realized his joke is not all it's cracked up to be." And my response was, "Nice work, Mohd. That's perfect." So, Mohd Ags, that is a great example of using a whole bunch of different phrases with the word cracked in it: cracked up, not all it's cracked up to be. You obviously learned a lot in the last lesson or it was at least a good review for you. So thanks for that comment.Hey, so, I was just gonna mention a couple of things. Winter went away again. So, I know last week I was making videos and it was quite cold. Last Friday, I didn't even go outside to make a video because it was so cold. Now I'm outside again. And the world has returned to its beautiful green color. So, the snow melted. It's actually 14 degrees Celsius right now. So, a little warmer than I was expecting. So, a little bit of an update on the weather.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases NOT ALL IT'S CRACKED UP TO BE and TO CRACK A JOKEIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, "not all it's cracked up to be." When we say that something is not all it's cracked up to be, it means that it's not as fun, it's not as good, it just isn't what you thought it was going to be, or what people told you it was going to be. Sometimes people have this with things like the job they do. Sometimes they become a teacher and then they find out it's not all it's cracked up to be. That means someone told them it was a great job, but when they actually started doing it, it wasn't that great for them. And sometimes this happens, too, when you go to see a movie that someone told you is amazing, and then you go to see it and then it's not all it's cracked up to be. It's not as good as you thought it was going to be.WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"✅The video of this lesson can be watched right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYfGxM561P8✅If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadianThe other phrase I wanted to teach you today is a simpler phrase, "to crack a joke." When you crack a joke, it simply means that you tell a joke. Sometimes people get in trouble when they're in school because they're always cracking jokes. I have a one , I have one or two students right now that crack jokes regularly in class. They just really like to crack a joke every once in a while to make everyone laugh, and I'll be honest, sometimes it makes me laugh, too.So to review, when something is not all it's cracked up to be, it means that you were kind of told something was going to be good or awesome or cool, but when you did it, it actually wasn't as good as how the person explained it to you. So, it's not all it's cracked up to be. And when you crack a joke, it simply means that you are telling a joke, so you tell a joke.Sorry, you're probably gonna hear my children right now, because they don't know that I'm recording a video inside today, but why am I recording inside today? Because the weather is not very nice. As much as I often say how much I like cold weather, it is windy, it is cold, it is wet outside. There's water and snow everywhere. It's just not a good day to make a video outside. So sometimes making a video outside isn't all it's cracked up to be.Anyways, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from American English with this guy otherwise known as Brent. And he says this. "Getting snow this time of year is just wrong. "I've never wanted to be top dog at school. "This year has only solidified that notion. "I like flying under the radar at school." And my response is this. "I agree, this year has really made me realize "that being in charge isn't all it's cracked up to be."So I kind of use the phrase that I just taught you today in my response there. That's actually when I thought of it. So thanks, Brent, for that comment. Brent's talking about the lesson on being top dog and the response from Padma, I think yesterday, on how sometimes being top dog isn't all it's cracked up to be, right? Sometimes it's nice not to be in charge. And I would agree with Brent. This year in particular with people who are leaders, either government leaders or people who are bosses at different businesses or in charge of people, it hasn't been an easy year being top dog.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrase GET ON TOP OF THINGS and STAY ON TOP OF THINGSIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, "Get on top of things." When you are busy in life sometimes you get behind. You know you have a lot of things to do and you don't have enough time to do them, and then you get behind. And that's not a good feeling. And then you need to get on top of things. The last couple of weeks, I was really, really busy and I kind of got a little bit behind on the farm, at school, with YouTube. But now as of today, I was able to get back on top of things. I spent a lot of time over the last few days getting back on top of things. So, when you get on top of things, it means you get caught up. It means you finish a whole bunch of work that you needed to get done so that you could just feel good 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/bobthecanadianHey, there's two other phrases I wanted to teach you as well. "To be on top of things" or "To stay on top of things." So there's kind of two phrases here, right? Let me cover this one up. "To be on top of things" or "To stay on top of things." When you are able to stay on top of things, when you are on top of things, for me, at least, life feels really good. It means that I have everything done that I need to get done. By the end of each day, it's really nice for me to be on top of things, okay? As I go through my week, it's really nice to stay on top of things. I don't like being behind. I don't like knowing that there is a pile of work that I need to do in order to get back on top of things. So anyways, let's review these two phrases. When you need to get on top of things, it means you're a little bit behind in your work and you need to do extra work so that you can be on top of things. And it's always really nice to just stay on top of things. I can't even express how nice of a feeling that is when you finish your week, when it's Saturday afternoon and you were able to stay on top of things all week and you're just totally on top of everything in your life. It's a really good feeling.Hey, but let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Padma, and Padma says this, "To be top dog in life is everyone's dream "but sometimes it becomes a burden "or you are overwhelmed with that responsibility. "So being second banana sometimes may give you "some breathing room." And my response was this. "Exactly. I agree 100%. "Sometimes being in charge is very stressful."So thanks Padma for that comment. And I do agree with you 100%. In fact, I used to run a computer tech support company, as well as teach. So for a number of years, I was a part-time teacher and I also did tech support for a couple of schools. And I was really, really busy. But what I'm trying to say is this. When I was in charge of my own company, when I was top dog, it had a lot of responsibility. Now that I just teach full time and someone else is top dog, it's a lot easier. It's a lot easier in life to not be the top dog. I have less responsibilities. My boss, especially over this past year, has had far more responsibilities than just regular teachers, making decisions about COVID protocols at school, making decisions about how to communicate to all of the parents and students what we're doing as a school. Being top dog for the last year and a bit has not been easy for a lot of people. They've had to make some really tough and hard decisions. So Padma again, once again, I totally agree.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TOP DOG and SECOND BANANA / FIDDLEIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase top dog. If you are the top dog somewhere, it means you have the most power or you are the best. If you think about a sports team, for example, the person on the team who scores the most points every game and all season, we would call that person the top dog. If you look at something like the place where you work, your boss is the top dog, they are the person that has the most power in that organization. So when you refer to someone as the top dog, it means that they are the most powerful person, the person who has the most power, or the person who performs the best in some sort of situation, like a sports team or at a place where you work.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/bobthecanadianWhich is a little different than second banana. If you are second banana, it means there's one person who's a little bit better than you. We also sometimes use the phrase second fiddle. So maybe you have a sports team that you like to watch, and your favorite player was the top dog for many, many years, but now they've hired a new younger player who's much better, and now your favorite player has become second banana. They're not top dog anymore, now they're second banana or they're second fiddle, which probably isn't a good feeling. I think when you're really good at something, when you're the best on a team for a long time, when you're top dog for a very long time, it probably doesn't feel very good when some new younger person comes in and suddenly you are second banana or second fiddle, not the greatest feeling in the world.So to review, if you refer to someone as top dog, it means they are the best in an organization or maybe they have the most power in an organization. And when you say that someone is second banana or second fiddle, it means that they are now outclassed by one person. Sometimes we even say that they play second fiddle, but sorry, I was looking for the comment from the last video in my inside pocket, but it's actually in my side pocket.So let's look at a comment from a previous video. And this comment is from Judit, who is a long-time viewer of my channel, I really appreciate Judit, she has been around for a very long time and leaves really, really good comments. And the comment that Judit left is this. "Great explanation and I'm happy you helped Jen." And my response was this, "It's nice to help Jen, and to get out and do physical work as well. There's a saying in English, you can take the boy off the farm, but you can't take the farm out of the boy. This means that kids who grow up on farms usually remember it fondly."So thank you, Judit, for that comment. Judit, I think it's good that you appreciate that I helped Jen. I think that this flower farm is kind of, it's a job for two people, and I need to help out as much as I can because there's just things where, you know, many hands make light work, when two people do certain jobs, it just goes a lot better. And the phrase, yeah, it means that, a lot of times, kids who grow up on farms, when they move to the city, they miss living on the farm, not all children who grow up on farms are that way, but I certainly can identify with this phrase, you can take the boy off the farm, but you can't take the farm out of the boy, because I know when I lived in the city when I was in university, I found the city very loud.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases DOWN TO A SCIENCE and IT'S NOT ROCKET SCIENCEIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase down to a science. When you have something down to a science, it means you have every step of a process figured out and you do it smoothly and efficiently. When you have something down to a science, it means you're really good at it. Jen has growing flowers down to a science. She knows how to start the seeds, she knows how to plant the tiny baby plants in the ground, she knows how to grow them so they look beautiful. She has the whole process down to a science. So when you have something down to a science, it means you're pretty good at it. It means you've learned every step and you know how to do it really well.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 it's not rocket science. Now, I taught this phrase actually in a previous lesson I think about a year ago, but it had the word science in it, so I thought I would throw it in here as well. We say this to someone if they're having trouble figuring out how to do something simple, we say, "Ah, come on, it's not rocket science." So let's say someone's trying to fill a glass of water from the tap and they can't get the water to go in the cup. It's such a simple process. In that situation, you might say to the person, "Come on, it's not rocket science, put the cup under the tap so the water goes in the cup." So it's not a nice thing to say, but when you say to someone, "It's not rocket science," what you're saying is, "Hey, that task you're doing or whatever you're doing, it's actually really simple."So to review, when you have something down to a science, it means there's a number of steps and you have every step working really well or you just know how to do each step really well and efficiently. And when you say to someone, "It's not rocket science," you're basically saying to them, "Whatever you're doing is really simple and it shouldn't cause you too many problems."Hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Cida, and Cida says, "Bob, I love your lessons, but with the cat, it became more than interesting. I love animals. By the way, where's Oscar?" So that's from a previous video from a few days ago where the cats were visiting me during the lesson. My reply was this: "I think the cats have finally figured out that I don't have treats on me. It will be hit or miss if they appear in the videos. PS: Oscar is always with Jen at this time of year."So yes, you've probably noticed a couple of things. One is that the cats seemed to be around me as they were in the last video, but they've, I think, figured out that it's not me that has the treats, it's actually my daughter, so now, today even, there are no cats here at all. I don't see a single cat.And at this time of year, Oscar is always with Jen. Jen is very busy out in the flower fields. In fact, one of the reasons I didn't do a short English lesson a couple of days ago is because I was helping Jen for a couple of days, just starting to get the farm ready to plant flowers and to grow flowers. So at this time of year, Oscar spends a lot of time with Jen. He loves being with Jen because he finds little mice, he chases other animals.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases ALL SET and TO BE SET ON SOMETHINGIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, all set. All set is something we say when we are totally ready to do something. Let's say that I'm heading out for work and I'm trying to make sure I have everything, Jen can say to me, hey, are you all set? And I can say, yep, I just need to find my keys and then I'm all set. So when you say that you are all set it means that you are totally ready to do something. You will hear this phrase a lot in English. Sometimes teachers will say to each other, hey, are you all set to teach this afternoon? And that teacher who is answering the question will say, yep, I'm all set, meaning that they are totally ready to do what they need to do. When I come out to make a video I make sure I have my papers and then I know that I'm all set, get my papers, get my camera and then I'm all set to make a video.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/bobthecanadianHey, the second phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase to be set on something. When somebody is set on something it means that they are committed to doing it. It means that they have decided to do it. Let's say, let me give you an example. When I was a teenager, I decided I was going to buy a motorcycle. I was set on buying a motorcycle. My mum and dad did not want me to buy a motorcycle but I was set on it. When you are set on something it means that you are absolutely planning to do that thing that you are thinking of doing. I didn't ask the cats to come out today, they just happened to be here. I know in the last video people were happy 'cause there was a wasp I think, yeah, wasp or hornet. But yes, the cats just appeared. I don't make them be in the video. If I did I might have to pay them I think.Anyways, to review when you are all set it means that you are ready to do something. If you are buying a new vehicle, you'd want to make sure that you have enough money and you'd wanna pick out a video, a video, a vehicle and then you would be all set to buy that vehicle. And if you to be set on something means that you have decided to do something and you're not going to change your mind, you are absolutely 100% going to do it.Hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video and this comment is from Daniel. And Daniel says this, what's the difference between a wasp and a hornet. And my response was we regularly use either word for the same insect although scientifically they are different, I think hornets are bigger.So thanks Daniel for that comment referring once again to the hornet that flew by or the wasp that flew by a few videos ago. I think it was a wasp, I think hornets are bigger but I have to confess I don't know a lot about the insects that are around us. I know enough to say that it wasn't a bee, it was definitely a wasp or a hornet. I'm pretty sure it was a wasp because I think hornets have a lot more color to them. I think they have rings of black and yellow on the back of their body but I'm pretty sure, I'm pretty sure that a wasp. I've almost said hornet. I'm pretty sure it was a wasp.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO BREAK IT DOWN and TO BREAK UPIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, "To break it down." If you say to someone that you're going to break something down for them, or if you're going to break it down for them, it means you're going to explain how to do something in smaller steps. Let's say you wanted to get your driver's license. I could break it down for you in the following way. The first thing you need to do is get the booklet that tells you how to be a good driver. Then you need to take a written test, in Ontario we call it your Beginners, and once you've passed your written test, you're allowed to drive with someone else in the car for awhile. And then eventually you go and take your road test. So if you wanted to get your driver's license in Canada that's how I would break it down. That's how I would explain to you how to do it in a bunch of smaller steps.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/bobthecanadianHey, the second phrase I wanted to teach you today also has the word break in it, and it is the phrase, "To break up." This has a completely different meaning. This means that you and someone that you like are romantically involved, you are dating and you've decided to go your separate ways. You've decided to break up. You've decided to end the relationship. So a completely different meaning compared to our first one, but also a phrase that has the word break in it. So if you break up with someone, it means that you are dating, it means that you are seeing each other, but you've decided to end the relationship. You have broken up. Sometimes it's sad. Sometimes it's a good thing.Anyways, let's review. When I use the English phrase, "To break it down," it means that I'm going to explain something in a series of smaller steps so it's easier for you to understand. And when I use the English phrase, "To break up," if I say that I think that couple is going to break up it means that I think they're going to stop dating. They're going to stop seeing each other some time in the future.Hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Alex. And Alex says, "At the timestamp 3 minutes and 27 seconds, "that was a wasp." And my response was, "I think so. "At first I thought it was a bee, "but now that you mentioned it, it was probably a wasp."So I will put the video up here in the corner, or maybe I already did. In my last video, Alex is talking about a part in the video where something flew past me and I thought it was a bee but when I watched the video again, I think it was probably a wasp. I think when I look around the farm there are a lot of wasps nests. There's a lot of geese still, too. There's a lot of wasp nest. And I think that the wasps are starting to come out of their little nests after a long winter, and I think that's what it was. I couldn't zoom in far enough to see exactly what it was. But I think Alex, that you are probably right. I think it is a wasp.Support the show