Bob's Short English Lessons

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrase YOU GOT MEIn this English lesson I wanted to help you understand the English phrase, "You got me". When you see this phrase and it is a question, it basically means "Do you understand me?" If I saw some students running in the hallway, I could say, "Hey, if I see you running again, "you'll need to go to the principal's office, "you got me?" I'm basically saying, "Do you understand me?" So, when it is in its question form, when you say, "You got me," you're basically saying to the person, "Do you understand me?"WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"✅If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadianThe other phrase I wanted to help you understand today is the same phrase, but it ends with an exclamation mark or a period. When you say, "You got me" in this form, it has a lot of different meanings. The first one might be, if someone tricks you, if someone plays a trick or practical joke on you. When you realize what they've done, you could say, "Oh, you got me," like, "You tricked me, you got me." Maybe you're playing a game with someone.Maybe you're playing a board game, and you're playing a game like chess, and they finally get you into checkmate. You could say, "You got me!" Basically meaning you did an action in the game that allowed you to win, "You got me." So those are two meanings it has.I have to check my list because there's so many meanings. Let's see here. Oh, it can also mean you don't know the answer to something. So if I said, "What's the capital of Russia," and if you didn't know, you could say, "I don't know, you got me," like, "You got me, I don't know."So basically, "You got me" has a whole bunch of different meanings, and there's one last meaning which is just a fast way of saying "You've got me," and it's when you're talking to someone who maybe loves you and you love them, and you could say, "Hey, you got me," which basically means, "I'm in your life," which is just a shortened form of the phrase, "You've got me." Notice I added the verb "to have" in there. But we do say that sometimes, "Hey, you got me." I think that's even a line in a song or a movie. "You've got me, you got me, babe." I dunno, anyways, now I'm just not making any sense. To review, if you ask this as a question, if you say, "You got me," it means, "Do you understand?" And if you say, "You got me" with an exclamation mark or a period, it just means a whole bunch of different things.You heard my teacher voice in this lesson a little bit. Did you hear that? When I said, "Hey, no running in the hallway. "If you do it again, you'll have to go "to the principal's office, you got me?" That's my teacher voice. I don't use that very often, but it has a little bit more of an air of authority to it.Anyways, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Aleksey, and Aleksey says, "It was worse, it was worth," referring to my last video where I was having trouble saying English words. "What a crazy language. "I'm still struggling with this couple of words. "They look and sound so close together. "Now, one thing calms me down. "I'm not the only one struggling with this. "Even Bob has a problem sometimes. "Thank you, Teacher, for the lesson, "and your slip of the tongue. "Is the phrase slip of the tongue, correct in this case." And my response is this. "Yes, that is totally the correct phrase, "and yes, words that ended th can be hard, even for native speakers.Support the show

Read along to learn the English phrases TOO LITTLE TOO LATE and BETTER LATE THAN NEVERIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase too little too late. When we say that somebody does something and that it's too little too late, it means that they're not doing enough, and they're starting to do it later than they should have. Many people in Ontario, Canada right now believe that the current lockdown that we're in is too little too late. That means that they don't think the government has closed enough things, and they don't think that the lockdown started early enough. There's many things in life where people believe that it is too little too late. So not enough is being done, and the time when that has been started is too late in people's opinions. So I think it's fine, but some people think it's too little too 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 the phrase better late than never. Now, I did teach this phrase a couple of years ago but I thought it was worse... It was worse. I thought it was worth reviewing. Better late than never applies to this video in particular. Sometimes it's better to do something late than to not do it at all. You'll probably notice that this English lesson is a few hours late. It's actually early Monday morning right now. I usually do these the day before, and they come out in the night when I'm sleeping, but I thought it's better late than never. I thought I should get up, get outside, and do this English lesson, so you at least have a Monday English lesson to watch. So definitely this is a situation where it's better late than never. It's better to do it than to not do it at all.So let's review. When you say too little too late, you're referring to someone or some organization that does something, and what they're doing isn't enough, in your opinion, and you also think they're doing it later than they should have. And when you say better late than never, you're basically saying sometimes it's better to do something than to not do it at all. Sometimes when people show up somewhere late, they'll say, "Well, I'm here, but better late than never." Basically what they mean, "It's better that I came instead of just staying home and not coming at all."But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Reder. I'm hoping I'm pronouncing your name correct. I'm hoping I'm pronouncing your name correctly. And Reder says this. "I'm wondering why the way you pronounce Niagara is so different from online English dictionaries." And my response was this. "I have a bit of a regional accent. People in my area, when speaking quickly..." Hello, cat. "Say it that way. It is the same with Toronto. When we say it quickly, we forget a few letters."So I have, thanks Reder, by the way, for that comment. I have a Southern Ontario accent, probably an Ontario accent. That's the province I live in, and it comes out a lot when I say the names of local areas. So a lot of you are familiar with Niagara Falls. Niagara Falls is close to my house, but when I speak quickly and when I speak normally, I say Nagra Falls. I hardly... I hardly. I hardly pronounce the N-I-A. It sounds more like an A, Niagara Falls. So I go to Niagara Falls a lot. When people visit me from far away, I take them to see Niagara Falls.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases SELF ISOLATE and CONTACT TRACINGIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase self-isolate. When you self-isolate, it means you stay home, you do not go out, and you do not see other people. You are in self isolation. When you are told to self-isolate, you go into self-isolation. I am currently in self isolation. Before you get too worried, I don't have COVID, I don't feel sick, but I am currently self isolating. I need to self isolate because there was a student in one of my classes that has now tested positive for COVID. So I was sent home a couple of days ago and told to self-isolate. I'll tell you a little bit more about that in a moment.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/bobthecanadianBecause the other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase contact tracing. Contact tracing is what they do, what medical people do after they identify someone who has COVID. They try to figure out all of the people that have been in contact with that person. They do contact tracing. So when they found out that a student in one of my classes had COVID, they did what's called contact tracing, and a couple of days ago, I got a phone call saying, you need to self isolate because through contact tracing, we have identified that you were in the same room as this person for an extended period of time.So, to review, I think you get the point. When you self-isolate, it means you stay home and you don't go out, because they are worried you might have COVID. I don't have COVID, at least I'm pretty sure I don't. And they tell you to self-isolate after they do some contact tracing. So, like I said, I am self-isolating right now because due to contact tracing, I have to stay home.Hey, I don't have a comment from a previous video today. I thought I would read you part of a letter that I got two days ago, and you'll see that these terms are actually used in official documents. This letter was from the Niagara Region Public Health, and it says this.Dear staff member, this letter is to inform you that Niagara Region Public Health was notified of a COVID-19 confirmed case at your school. You have been identified as a high risk contact and will have to self-isolate for 14 days from the exposure date indicated below. Date of exposure, March 26th. So it's been a week already. And then it continues, sorry if this is boring, but it continues. The projected last date for the self-isolation period is April 9th, 2021, household members are advised to stay home while you are isolating, except for essential reasons, i.e. attend work or school, medical appointments, groceries, et cetera. You and your household members may return to regular activities on April 10, 2021.So, I'm home for a week, I am self-isolating. I have actually separated myself from the rest of the family. The room where I do my live streams is now the room where I live for a few days. I have been living there for about three days now, two or three days, yeah two and a half days. I have my own bathroom, so I am not using the same bathroom as Jen and the kids.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases FEELING DRAINED and BRAIN DRAINIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase "feeling drained." When you are feeling drained, it means you have no energy. It's the opposite of saying that you're feeling energetic. I was feeling drained when I came home from work today but then I had supper and I feel a lot better. I'm not feeling drained anymore, but that is why I picked this phrase because I was feeling drained. It comes from the word drain. The drain is where the water goes down at the bottom of the sink. So when you take the little plug out at the bottom of the sink, the water gets drained out. So it's kind of related to that. When you're feeling drained, it's like all of your energy was drained out of your body and you just don't have any anymore. But yeah, I'm not feeling drained anymore. I'm actually feeling really energetic. I think it's 'cause I had a really nice supper. I had a really nice meal and that just pepped me up a little 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/bobthecanadianAnyways, the next phrase I wanted to teach you is the phrase "brain drain." A brain drain is when smart people from one country move to another country. It's when people get college degrees or university degrees and then they move from their country to another country. Canada actually has a brain drain all the time. Many of Canada's finest and smartest people go to university in Canada and they get a degree and then they move to the United States. We have constantly had a brain drain in Canada. In fact, many years ago, Canada had a really good aerospace industry, actually aeronautical industry. I'm not sure if I'm using the right words. We had really smart people who designed airplanes and then a program was canceled and they all moved to the United States to work for NASA in the space program, so we had a massive brain drain. That was a long time ago but it happens to other countries as well. People get an education and then they move away. It's kind of sad. I didn't do that though. I'm still in Canada. I think I'm pretty smart. I hope so. So my brain did not end up going to another country and working there.Anyways, to review, when you are feeling drained, it means you are not energetic, it means you are very, very tired. And when there is a brain drain, it means that people move from one country to another country. So yes, I'm not feeling drained anymore but I think I'm feeling a bit silly and I hope I'm making sense.Let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Eduardo. "Hi Bob, because of this pandemic, we need to stay at home. We can't visit family, friends, or someone else. We are in the same boat. Thanks, Bob, for the phrases." And my response was this. "That's probably the best example. The whole world is in the same boat right now," because of this pandemic, of course.So there's a lot of bad with a pandemic. It's a horrible thing. But if there's one small thing that is maybe good about it if you could say that, it's that the whole world is in the same boat right now. So Eduardo, thanks for the comment. Great use of the phrase from the last lesson, to be in the same boat. The world is definitely in the same boat right now. We are all experiencing the same things. We are all trying to get through this pandemic together and I hope that it goes well. I hope we can be out of this in a few more months. I don't know how many times I've said that in a video now. I seem to say that quite regularly.Support the show

 Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO MISS THE BOAT and TO BE IN THE SAME BOATIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to miss the boat. In English if we say that someone has missed the boat it means that there was an opportunity for them in life and somehow they missed out on it. Here's a great example. When I was younger, a friend of mine applied for a job. And while he was waiting to hear back as to whether he got the job or not, he decided to go on vacation. While he was on vacation, they couldn't get ahold of him and so they gave the job to someone else. That is a perfect situation where I would say that someone missed the boat. There was an opportunity in his life and he totally missed out on it. It would have been a really good job too. I always felt bad for him but he ended up getting a better one later.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 second phrase I want to teach you today is the phrase to be in the same boat. When you are in the same boat as someone else it means that you're experiencing the same thing. You're in the same situation. And it's usually not a good situation. We usually use this term to describe a negative situation. Here's a good example. If I didn't take care of my car eventually it would break down. It would just not run anymore because you need to take care of vehicles. If you don't take care of your vehicles you'll be in the same boat. You'll be in the same boat as me because your vehicles eventually will break as well. It's always a good idea to take care of your vehicles because if you don't, eventually they break down. But it does cost a lot of money, doesn't it?Anyways, to review. When you say that someone has missed the boat, when you use the English phrase to miss the boat, it means that there was an opportunity in life and somehow that person missed out on it. And when you say that you are in the same boat as someone else, it simply means that you're in the same situation, maybe for the same reasons and it's usually not a good situation.Anyways, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Padma and Padma says this, the environment in this community is so cordial and relaxed that you always feel free to leave any comment without any hesitation. I love this community. My response was this. I really appreciate the community surrounding the lessons on both my channels. It's really nice to have regulars that aren't only here to learn but also to contribute and help others. Thanks for being awesome people.Thanks for the comment Padma. And that thanks is to Padma as well as everyone else who makes these YouTube videos even better by being part of the community, by leaving comments below, by joining in the live lessons on Fridays and Saturdays on my other channel, all of you are just awesome. I never dreamt that I would have lessons on YouTube that would create a community of people who just enjoy learning and enjoy interacting with each other and with me. So it's really nice. So Padma, it's cool that you recognize that , it certainly is an awesome thing. And I thank all of you for that, it's not me that made this. I just make the silly lessons that you watch, your the people who actually join in and make the community a lot more fun by leaving comments and by joining in, on the live lessons on the other channel. So thanks for that.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrase FEEL FREE and the English term FREE-FOR-ALLIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase feel free. If we say to someone feel free, we're basically saying go ahead or sure or yes. If my brother said to me, hey, can I use your van tonight? I could respond and say feel free. I'm basically saying, go ahead, it's no problem. If you want to borrow my van, feel free to borrow my van. We also sometimes start sentences like this. I could bring pizza into the staff room at school, if I brought in a huge pizza and I didn't need to eat all of it myself, I could say, hey, feel free to take a slice of pizza if you want one. So feel free simply means go ahead or if you want to do something you can do it. Feel free. You can feel free to watch these videos whenever you want. You don't have to ask permission, you can just do 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/bobthecanadianHey, the second phrase I wanted to look at today is more of a term than a phrase but it's free-for-all. When something is a free-for-all it means that a bunch of people are doing something and there's no rules involved. I'm trying to think of a really good example. If I brought a bag of candy to my classroom and if I started throwing the candy onto the floor, it would become a free-for-all. That would mean that students would be jumping out of their desks trying to get the candy off of the ground. They would probably push each other out of the way. It would definitely be a free-for-all. So a free-for-all is any situation where there are a number of people and they're just behaving based on what they want to do right away in that moment instead of according to rules or any kind of guidelines that I would give. Does happen sometimes. I once had a grandparent visit one of my classrooms and start throwing candy around and it turned into a free-for-all. Yes, students were jumping under their desks to get the candy.Anyways, let's review. If you say to someone in English feel free you're basically saying go ahead or it's fine with me or yes. The example I gave was if my brother wanted to borrow a vehicle, I would say, hey, feel free. Anytime you need to borrow a vehicle feel free and just come and get one. And a free-for-all is any situation where a group of people behaves in a way basically doing what they want right in the moment instead of maybe obeying laws or rules. So free-for-alls can get a little bit dangerous. I don't recommend throwing candy to large groups of teenagers. They go a little bit crazy.But, hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This is from Natalia if I did the translation right. Hi Natalia, thanks for the comment. "See you on Monday", question mark. So this is actually a question from Natalia because in the last video, the one that you watched Wednesday morning, I said see you on Monday. I don't know why. For some reason I got my days mixed up. And Julia actually responded and says "it seems Friday got the boot this week" which was one of the phrases I taught in that lesson. Aleksey says "maybe Bob is right. It's time to stop working and have a nice rest until Monday. Hope my boss will not give me the boot." And then my response was this, "oops, my bad, I'm still adjusting to the time change I guess. There will be a lesson on Friday as well as Monday."Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases SHAKING IN YOUR BOOTS and TO GIVE SOMEONE THE BOOTIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, to shake in your boots. If you say that someone is shaking in their boots or if you are shaking in your boots, it means that you are scared. There are two things that make me shake in my boots. The first is heights. I don't like going up to the top of tall buildings. I am afraid of heights. I don't like going to the top of towers in big cities, it makes me afraid. It makes me shake in my boots a little bit. I don't know where this phrase comes from though. But I can imagine someone standing and they're so scared that they're shaking and maybe they were wearing boots. And someone started using this phrase that when you're afraid you shake in your boots. The other thing that makes me shake in my boots, snakes. I do not like snakes. They are my least favorite animal in the entire world. Snakes make me shake in my boots. They make me afraid. I don't like them, I don't like them at all.WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"✅If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadianThe next phrase I wanted to teach you is the phrase, to give someone the boot. Sometimes people don't do a good job at work and eventually the boss will give them the boot. That means that they are fired. It means they've lost their job. I know in my life, a few people that I've worked with have gotten the boot. Not from my current job, but from jobs when I was younger. I worked with someone who instead of doing the work we were supposed to do, he would just sleep all the time. And eventually that person got the boot, okay? So notice I flipped the phrase there. The boss would give someone the boot. The person who is losing their job we would say that they got the boot, okay? There's no boot involved at all. But if you give someone the boot, I think it's like you're kicking them out the door. That's probably where the phrase came from. And if you got fired from somewhere, maybe it's like you got kicked in the butt and you lost your job, so you got the boot. So two different versions of the phrase.Anyways, to review, to shake in your boots means to be scared or to be afraid. And if you give someone the boot it means that you are firing them, that they are no longer working for you. And if you get the boot, it means that you have been fired by your boss and you no longer work at the place where you worked.Hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Alexei. And Alexei says this, "I love your term, bite-sized lesson. A bite-sized lesson that anyone can chew," thanks again. And my response was, "It's a great phrase. We often refer to smaller things as bite-size or bite-sized."You could probably use both terms, I think. Yeah, we refer to a lot of things in English as if they are food. When you refer to smaller things you can say that they're bite-size. Maybe you have a few bite-sized tasks to do before you go to work tomorrow, maybe you have a few little chores to do. We say things like food for thought. We say things like, "Oh, I need to chew on that for a bit." Alexei kind of mentioned that phrase here as well. When you're thinking about something you can say that you need to chew on it before you make a decision. So yeah, we use a lot of verbs and words referring to food when we talk about other things.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases RUFFLE A FEW FEATHERS and LIGHT AS A FEATHERIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase ruffle a few feathers. We also sometimes say, "Ruffle some feathers." When you ruffle a few feathers, it means you're going to do something or say something that's probably going to upset some people or bother them. If my boss at work said that everyone was getting a pay cut, that we were all going to get paid less, that would definitely ruffle a few feathers. A lot of my coworkers, and myself included, would be very upset if my boss suddenly said that everyone was getting a pay cut, everyone's getting paid less after today, that would certainly ruffle a few feathers, it would certainly upset quite a few people. It would probably upset everyone, I think everyone would be upset if my boss said that.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 second phrase I wanted to teach you today is just the phrase light as a feather. I thought I'd use the word feather again for the second phrase. This is the most common way to describe something or someone that's really light, we say they're light as a feather. Maybe there's a big bag of groceries in your car, and you go to pick it up and it actually isn't very heavy at all, you would describe it as saying, "Wow, that's actually light as a feather," because feathers, of course, I should've explained this, feathers come from birds, like birds and chickens and those kinds of animals have feathers, and they're very, very light, so we often use the word feather when we're talking about something that is very, very light. Usually when it's unexpected, when you think something's heavy and you pick it up, you could say, "Oh, wow, it's light as a feather." And we do describe people sometimes like this, we could say, "Wow," you could pick up a small child, right, maybe your nephew or one of your kids, and you're like, "Wow, you're light as a feather," basically saying they don't weigh very much.Hey, to review, when you ruffle a few feathers, it means you say or do something that upsets a lot of people, and I think the example I gave was a really good one. If your boss said that everyone is getting paid less starting next week, that would ruffle a few feathers. And when you describe something or someone as being light as a feather, it means that they don't weigh very much, it means they're very, very light, and we often describe a person or thing then as being light as a feather.But, hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. Let me get the comment out here. This comment, ah, I don't know how to pronounce the name, I should've looked this up, but I didn't. I will do this later and I will put it on the screen, but thank you for the comment anyways. The question, or the comment is this, "I have one question for you today, "do you especially make your videos' durations four minute?" Sorry, "Do you especially make "your videos' duration four minute and seven seconds? "Vast majority of your last videos have such a duration." And my response was, "Yes, "I actually make them exactly four minutes long "and then add the ending slides. "I do this because I want the lesson "to be just the right size for quick viewing, "but also giving a good amount of English learning."Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases QUIT WHILE YOU'RE AHEAD and DOESN'T KNOW WHEN TO QUITIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, quit while you're ahead. When we say to someone, "You should quit while you're ahead," we're basically saying things are going good for you right now, but they might start to go badly. So you should quit while the thing that you're doing is going good. Probably the best example of this is someone who is gambling, someone who is betting money, maybe at a casino. Maybe they've won some money, but you would go up to them and say, "Hey, you know what? Maybe you should quit while you're ahead." Because we all know with gambling, if you win some money eventually, you're probably going to lose it. Generally, the casino has the odds in their favor. That's why I don't go to casinos. So when you tell someone to quit if you say, "You should quit while you're ahead," basically you're saying things are going good now, maybe it's time to stop.WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"✅If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadianThe other phrase I want it to teach you is the phrase, doesn't know when to quit. When someone doesn't know when to quit, it means maybe they're doing something that's bothering someone and the person they're bothering is eventually going to get angry. Or maybe they're just telling little jokes about someone or making fun of someone and that person is starting to get a little bit angrier and angrier. We would say the person who is telling the jokes, the person who is bugging them, maybe doesn't know when to quit. And the risk here is that the person they are bugging might get angry, might get really angry. I see this sometimes with students. I see it sometimes with my own children, where one person is bothering another person or bugging another person and then, they don't know when to quit. If someone doesn't know when to quit, they push it too far and then eventually the other person gets really, really angry. That's not very nice.So to review, when we say that you should quit while you're ahead, it means things are going good, but you should probably stop before they start going badly. And if you know someone who doesn't know when to quit they do kind of little things to bother people or to make fun of people. But they go a little bit too far. They go too far and they make someone really upset. So those are those two phrases.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Yaroslaw. and the comment is this. "Hi teacher, Bob. Does this phrase up to also mean that something, often, some decision depends on somebody's choice? For example, I could call for help, but it's up to you." And my response is this. Yes, that is another meaning. If someone said, "Which movie do you want to go see?" I could say, "It's up to you." This means the other person can decide.So thanks Yaroslaw for that comment. That was from yesterday's lesson or the lesson from two days ago, with the phrase up to, where I talked about a different meaning of it. But it also can certainly mean that. Sometimes when Jen and I go to buy groceries, I'll say to Jen, "Which store do you wanna go to?" And she'll say, "Oh, it's up to you," and that means it doesn't matter to her. And I can simply decide to go to whichever store I want to go to. So sometimes it's up to me, sometimes it's up to Jen. We often make decisions like that.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases SOMETHING'S UP and UP TOIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase something's up. If two or three police cars went by my place with their lights on, I would probably think something's up down the road. It means that I think something's going on. It means that I think something is happening. It means that I think something's up. You can also use this when you're talking about a person. Maybe your sister has been behaving strangely lately and you're talking to your brother. You might say, "Hey, I think something's up with our sister. I think something is happening in her life that's making her behave just a little bit differently." Sometimes I see students standing and talking to each other, and I wonder if something's up. I wonder if they're planning to do something bad. Usually they're not, but sometimes you wonder.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 up to. This has a couple meanings. The one I want to focus on mostly today is when you think someone is doing something. Usually we have the word no good with this as well. We'll say we think someone is up to no good. But you can use it just as up to as well. You can say, "What are you up to tonight?" and someone could say, "Oh, nothing. Do you wanna go out and have a coffee?" You can say, "I want to know..." You could say, "What are you up to this weekend?" and the person can say, "Oh, I'm really busy this weekend. I have a lot going on." So when you use up to, it simply means what the person is doing or what they have planned or what they're going to do.So to review, when you use the phrase something's up, basically, you're talking about the fact that something is happening or something is going on, and when you use the phrase up to, you're talking about what someone is doing. Like right now, what am I up to right now? I'm making an English lesson.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. That's usually what I'm up to after work. What do I do after work? What am I up to? I'm usually making an English lesson. Today I could sit nicely at the picnic table.Hey, this comment is from Ivan, and Ivan says, "Dear Bob, would you consider making a channel about flowers? With kind regards." And my response was, "Jen and I have talked about this, but aren't sure if there is enough time in our week to do this. It certainly would be very nice."So as many of you know, I live on a flower farm. Jen grows flowers. I help grow the flowers. Jen does more of the work that I do, but it is a beautiful place to live, and especially in the summer, the colors are amazing. It's just a really cool place to be, and Jen and I have talked about whether we should make another YouTube channel where we make videos about the farm and show everyone lots of flowers. We might do that, but I doubt it. It's a lot of work making videos. Maybe we'll make one or two videos this summer to kind of show what's happening on the farm, but for now I would say, yeah, thanks for the comment, Ivan, and thanks for the suggestion, but I think for now, we probably won't be doing that.Support the show