Bob's Short English Lessons

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English expressions TO GIVE SOMEBODY THE SLIP and TO SLIP THROUGH YOUR FINGERSIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to give somebody the slip. If you give somebody the slip, it means you escape. It means for some reason, they were trying to catch you and you managed to get away. You will most likely hear this phrase, to give somebody the slip if you're watching a TV show and the police officers on the TV show are trying to catch a criminal, and sometimes that criminal will give them the slip, the criminal will simply disappear. They'll run down an alley, or they'll go a certain direction, or maybe they'll drive away really fast in their car and they'll give the police the slip. They'll just evade being captured, and they will escape.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 to slip through your fingers. When something slips through your fingers, it means it was going to be something you would have, and now you don't have it anymore. It means something got away from you a little bit. And this can be something as simple as a job. Maybe you are looking to get a job somewhere, and it kind of slipped through your fingers. You applied for the job, and maybe they called you back to offer it to you and left a message, and you didn't get the message, and you forgot to call them back, and then it just kind of slipped through your fingers and it never happened. Maybe you were going to buy a car for really cheap from a relative, and then for some reason, you didn't communicate properly, and the whole deal just didn't happen. It kind of slipped through your fingers. So it means that something good that could have happened didn't happen. It just sort of went away. It's always a sad time when something like that happens.But, hey, to review, to give somebody the slip means to escape from them. And to have something slip through your fingers means that you could have had it. But somehow it just. I'm putting my hand up because it's like when you have sand and the sand goes through your fingers, it's like that thing you wanted is the sand, and it just kind of went away. That would be sad.Anyways, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Ruslan. Thank you for the nice, sunny lesson, Teacher Bob. Such a beautiful landscape. It looks like the Shire from the Lord of the Rings. And my response... My response? Yeah, a little bit. No hobbits or wizards around here, though.No. At least I haven't seen any hobbits or wizards. By the way, if you don't know what the Lord of the Rings is, the Lord of the Rings is a fantasy novel series by J. R. R. Tolkien, and it also was made into some movies. But, yeah, it's certainly beautiful out here today. There's things like this. I'm sure if I was a hobbit, if I was a tiny person who lived under the earth in a little house, I would probably have plants like this outside. I would probably have big trees like this, full of leaves or like this one over here.It's just gorgeous out here tonight, by the way. I'm out here in the evening. Normally I do these videos during the day, but I was out and about today. One of my kids is on the track and field team. So track and field is where you do the 100 meters dash or you do the long jump or triple jump where you throw the shot put. Actually, you don't throw the shot put. You put the shot put. But I think you know what I mean.So Jen and I, after I was done work today, we went and watched my son participate. He did okay. He just was one place too low, though, to go on to the nexSupport the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO KEEP SOMETHING UNDER WRAPS and IT'S HUSH-HUSH!In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to keep something under wraps. Now, if you're told to keep something under wraps, it means you're supposed to keep it a secret. You're not supposed to tell anyone about it. Maybe at work there's a new project that three people are working on and someone tells you about it, but they say, hey, you need to keep this under wraps for now. We're not telling anyone else at work. We're not telling any of our customers. It's a secret project. You need to keep it under wraps. So that would mean that you need to keep it a secret.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, it's hush hush. Now, I did teach this phrase about three or four years ago. Maybe some of you saw that lesson, maybe some of you haven't heard about this phrase yet, but it means the same thing. It means that something's a secret. Let's say I'm planning a party for my mom and I tell my sister, but I just say, hey, it's hush hush. Don't tell any of mum's brothers and sisters yet because we think it might be a secret party. It's hush hush. Don't tell anyone about it at this point in time.So to review. To keep something under wraps means to keep it a secret. And if you say that something is hush hush, if you say it's hush hush, it means the same thing. It means that you need to keep that thing a secret.But, hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from a viewer. There's no name on this comment. And the comment is this. Thank you very much, Bob. Is it always cloudy like this where you live? And by response, no, but it has been quite cloudy lately.Hopefully we get some sunnier weather soon and we certainly have that today. It is a beautiful day out here today. It's nice and warm. It's about 20 degrees celsius right now. I don't know what that is in fahrenheit. 52, double it and add 40. I don't know, 70. You'll have to use an online converter. I used to be able to do that in my head, but for some reason it's slipped my mind right now. But, yeah, it's a gorgeous day today. I can actually hear my neighbor mowing his lawn. If you hear kind of a lawnmower in the background, you might have heard that or you might hear that.So you might be noticing I'm wearing something new today. I don't often spend money, but I bought a Blue Jays hat. The Toronto Blue Jays are the local baseball team here. Canada just happens to have a team in the American baseball League. I guess it's the North American League. Major League Baseball, it's called, and the Toronto Blue Jays are the team that is in Toronto.Jen and I went to see a few games last year. It was a lot of fun. Baseball is kind of a unique sport. It's not like anything else in the world because it moves a little more slowly than other sports. It's kind of fun to watch a baseball game because you can think for a bit, you can eat a hot dog, you can kind of just enjoy the weather. The times we went last year, we went twice. The roof of the stadium was open, so we could actually enjoy the weather and the sunshine as well. So that was really nice. Yep. I got a hat. I have to wear it in my video so I can write it off as a business expense. Sorry, I'm just kidding about that. But I probably will actually write it off as a business expense now that I think about it.So anyways, yes, beautiful weather here. It's the third week of May. It feels like summer today. What a great feeling. It's just so nice to be outside anSupport the show

Here is the link to Jen's Youtube channel about the flower farm: http://www.youtube.com/@myflowerfarmRead along to practice your English and to learn the English expressions TO CRY WOLF and TO WOLF DOWNIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to cry wolf. Now, this phrase comes from a fable, a story from long ago, about a boy who kept yelling that there was a wolf attacking his sheep. And then the villagers would come and help him and there would be no wolf. And he did it two or three times. And then eventually when he yelled wolf, nobody came because no one believed him. So we now use this phrase in English to talk about someone who says something bad is happening when it's not happening. If someone ran up to your house and said, there's a fire in my house, and you went to help them, and then when you got there, there was no fire, and for some reason they just laughed about it because they tricked you, you would say that they were crying wolf. So it's simply a phrase that means someone for some reason, is saying something bad is happening and it's not actually happening.WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadianThe second phrase I wanted to teach you is to wolf down. Now, I might have taught this phrase before, but to wolf down means to eat really, really quickly. Teenagers tend to wolf down their food. When I was a teenager, if I sat down to eat some hot dogs, I would eat three or four hot dogs really quickly. I would wolf down my food. Basically, it means I would eat as if I was a wolf. I guess if you were to watch a wolf eat, they eat really, really quickly.So to review, to cry wolf means to say something is happening when it's not actually happening. I can't think of other good examples, but definitely the story of the boy with his sheep and him yelling wolf and the villagers coming to help and then there's no wolf. That would be a great example. And that is where the phrase comes from. And to wolf down simply means to eat your food really, really quickly. Sometimes when I'm hungry, I still wolf down my food, but it's always best to, to chew everything carefully before you swallow it. Wolfing down your food isn't very healthy.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Aerosmith77. Thanks for the phrases. Will you ever appear in Jen's videos longer than a few seconds? And my response? Yes, for sure. But at this point it's mostly her because I'm still at work. I'm sure I'll be in here and there throughout the summer.So, yeah, that was a comment related to, there was a video the other day on Jen's YouTube channel where I briefly appeared driving my tractor and dumping some compost. So yeah, when the summer comes I'll have a little more time to help Jen on the farm, of course, and to do more work with her. And then I'll show up in her videos just a little bit more. And for those of you that don't know, Jen has a YouTube channel. I'll put a link in the description below and you can have a look at it.So. But anyways, yeah. How are things going here on the farm? Pretty good. It's been a little bit wet. We're mostly planting flowers. We aren't harvesting a lot of flowers yet, but you can see things like where there were daffodils. There are no longer daffodils because we harvested some of the blooms and sold them. There are some really pretty flowers over here, though. I'll show you. I'm not sure what these are called. These are really nice. I know, we'll be picking a few of these. We have some of these out in the bigger field as well. So we'll be harvesting some of tSupport the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO PULL OUT and TO PULL THROUGHIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to pull out. Now, this has a number of different meanings, but the meaning I wanted to focus on today means to withdraw from something. So let's say you signed up to play in a badminton tournament and the tournament is in two weeks, but at the last minute, you might decide to pull out. You might decide to withdraw your registration for that tournament, you might decide not to do it. So in that sense, to pull out can mean to decide not to do something. This also is used to describe things like when a country invades another country, eventually that country might decide to pull out. So if one country sends soldiers into another country, they might decide to withdraw, they might decide to pull out of that country. So it has a couple of different meanings, but that's the meaning I wanted to focus on today. To withdraw or to decide not to do something.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 to pull through. Now, this is a very serious phrase. We use it to talk about when someone gets injured. And when we say they're going to pull through, it means that they're going to survive. So it's something you talk about after someone has a really bad car accident. You might say, oh, Joe had a really bad car accident. He's very badly injured, but he will pull through. That means that the doctors think that he will heal the, they'll probably do some surgeries or something to help him feel better. But when you say someone is going to pull through, it's used to describe a serious situation where someone was hurt and they're not going to die, they're going to get better, they're going to pull through.So to review, to pull out means to withdraw or decide, or to decide not to do something. And to pull through means that you were hurt very, very badly, but, but you're going to get better. So if you were in a car accident and someone said, oh, he was injured badly, but he's going to pull through, it means you're going to get better.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from know that. Hello, Bob. So do you have special clothes for working on your farm, like overalls or something like that? Or do you just use some of your old shirts and pants? By the way, that reminds me of something you mentioned once, that you don't like it when your dogs jump on you in the morning because you don't want your school clothes to get dirty and then you have to change again. Thanks for the new lesson. Bob. Have a great day. And my response? That is correct. I have different clothes for the farm. They are a collection of older clothes and specific farm clothes. Sometimes I wear older jeans that aren't good to wear in public anymore on the farm.So, yeah, that's a good question. I talk about school clothes and farm clothes, like, without really explaining it. I've just used those terms before. But yes, I do have different clothes. So on a day like this, when I come home, I just come outside in my school clothes. I call these my school clothes to make a quick video for you. But then I will change into my farm clothes later because I have to, I have to help Jen do a few things out here in the flower field. So, yes, my farm clothes, I have a few specific things. Like, I have really good work boots that I use on the farm. I have, most of my t shirts are just old t shirts that I don't wear out in public anymore. And most of my pants are just old jeans that I don't wear. Maybe they have a little Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English expressions SOUNDS GOOD! and SOUNDS BAD!In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English expression sounds good. Now this is something we say to people when we are agreeing with them. If a friend of mine said, hey Bob, do you want to meet at the restaurant tomorrow at 08:00 in the morning for some breakfast, I might say, sounds good, I'll see you then. Sometimes Jen needs help with some work when I get home from school. And if Jen says, hey, when you get home tomorrow, can you come out and help me with something? I might say, sounds good. As soon as I get home I'll put my farm clothes on and I'll come out and help you with that. I usually don't wear my school clothes when I'm working on the farm. They would get muddy and my shirts wouldn't last as long. I'll talk about that more 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/bobthecanadianThe other phrase I wanted to teach you today, or term or expression actually is sounds bad. And we also sometimes just say, that doesn't sound good. And this is something we say when something isn't good. So if I knew someone who went to the hospital and they needed to get x rays, I might say, oh, sounds bad. Do you think they broke a bone? If someone says to me, I wrote an English test a couple weeks ago, I haven't got my results back yet, but I don't think I did very well, I might say, oh, that sounds bad. Notice sometimes we put that in front that that sounds bad. Hopefully you did okay.So to review, when you say sounds good, it means you're happy about something, you're looking forward to something, you think it's good. Hey Bob, can you make a video next week for us? Sounds good. I'll get right on it. And if someone says, sounds bad, it usually means you think a situation isn't good. If someone says, there was a windstorm the other day and lots of trees fell over, you might say, oh, sounds bad there. I hope things will be okay. Sometimes the electricity goes out too and it sounds worse than it is, so. But you still might say, ooh, sounds bad. I hope the electricity comes back on soon.So to review... Oh, did I review already? I think I did, didn't I? Oh, I'm losing track of what I'm doing. Let's look at a comment from a previous video. Let's do that instead. And if I did forget to review, then, oh well, I didn't do it this time. I think I did though. Anyways, it's been a long week. This is how my brain works. This is from Ünsal and Ünsal, I shortened your comment a bit. I hope that's okay with you. It was a great comment. I just didn't have time to read all of it.Ünsal says hi teacher Bob, all your shirts look brand new. How do you manage to preserve to preserve your shirts for many years? I'm saying the word wrong. How do you manage to preserve your shirts for many years without fading or wearing out? If you don't have several of the same ones, can you share the secret? And my response? I have slowly cycled through some of them, but I do have shirts that are 20 years old. This one is in fact that old. They are good enough to wear underneath a sweater, but not quite good enough to wear by themselves because I usually wear blue plaid, many of them might look similar in my videos. So thanks Ünsal for that.Yeah, my blue shirts. So one of the things I've noticed is that because I work inside and I'm not in the sun, and because as a teacher, I don't do any physical labor. Like, I'm not lifting things or moving things throughout the day, I think my shirts just last longer. My clothes that I wear on the farm do not last as long as the clothes I wear for work at school. And also, I'm not in Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English terms SPACED OUT and SPACE CADETIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English term spaced out. Now you can have things spaced out. You can see these trees here are spaced out. When Jen and I planted those willow trees years ago, I think they're about three paces apart. We spaced them out. You can also see along my driveway here the little markers so people don't drive in the snow are spaced out. But when you say someone is spaced out, it means that they're not paying attention. It means that things are happening in the world and they are not aware of what's happening. They're kind of thinking about other things. They're a little bit spaced out. So two meanings. One meaning that things are set out in an orderly fashion the same distance from each other. When we put plates on the table, they're spaced out. And then it can also mean kind of daydreaming a lot and not really knowing what's going on.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 term space cadet. This isn't used a lot anymore, but you might hear it in an older tv show or movie. When you say someone is a space cadet, it means that they again aren't really aware of what's happening around them. A student who's sitting at the back of class and doesn't know there's a test or quiz that day could be called a space cadet. Oh, that person's such a space cadet they never know what's going on.So to review, when things are spaced out, they're orderly. When a person is spaced out, they are not orderly. They're kind of disoriented and unaware of what's going on. And if you call someone a space cadet, it simply means that they don't... they're not really aware of what's happening around them.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from MRfisheri. Nice sunglasses, coach Bob. And then my reply. Thanks, I like them too. So these sunglasses have lasted a while. I'm quite happy that I haven't lost them. I haven't sat on them. Sometimes I leave sunglasses on the seat in my van. Again, as all of you know, I buy cheap sunglasses from the dollar store. So I'm just very happy that these have lasted so long and they work well on days like this.This would have been a great day for an eclipse. Unfortunately it was a little cloudy yesterday. Today it's just bright sun. It's a beautiful day. You can see I'm outside in my short sleeved shirt. So that is a big change from a few weeks ago. It's definitely... feels like we're jumping ahead to summer instead of having spring. So hopefully it cools off a bit now, but it is nice to feel the sun on my skin. It's nice to be outside and just enjoy the day. Jen is loving it because she's getting lots of work done on the flower farm and I will be helping her as well a little bit. Anyways, as I was mentioning in my other video, my busy time was last week and a little bit of this week. It's slowly coming to an end and hopefully life just goes back to normal.I did notice this though. One of my kids must have put extra weights on the basketball net. The basketball net fell over a few weeks ago, in the wind and it's not quite a circle anymore. I'll have to straighten that out when summer comes and it looks like in order to prevent that from happening, this bottom is filled with sand so it should be heavy enough to prevent it from falling over. But perhaps.... Well, it was really windy. I don't see any damage other than the bend like nothing's broken. So that's good. Yep. So I'll just have to straighten that out in the summer when I'm more in farm work mode. The basketball net counSupport the show

So today's English lesson is going to be a little different. I'm going to tell you a joke, and the joke is this, how does the moon cut his hair? I'll let you think about that for a bit. You'll understand why I'm asking this joke in about 3 seconds. How does the moon cut his hair? Eclipse it. And this is kind of a little bit of a play on words. An eclipse is when the moon goes across the sun, which is happening in a few days here. But it sounds like, he clips it. So when you say eclipse it or he clips it, it almost sounds the same. So the joke is just a little play on words. How does the moon cut his hair? Eclipse it.Hey, I don't have a comment to respond to today. Sorry about that or a second phrase. I just thought I'd pop out and talk to you for a bit about things that are happening. So yes, I am going to try and do a live stream on my other channel on Monday, April 8 about the eclipse. So hopefully you can make it to that. It's not the best time of day for most of you. It's at three. I'll probably livestream from about 03:00 until 04:00 the eclipse will have already started, but I think we have total darkness from 3:20 until 3:24, something like that. So I'll try to start at a good time. I might start a little earlier than 02:00 but it's happening right here. So I'm really looking forward to that. Why don't I have a comment to reply to?And why don't I have two phrases today? Well, because if you ever listen to my... when I describe my year, this is another busy time. If you want to guess. Why is Bob busy right now? It's midterms. So midterms would be the middle of the semester. That means that I just spent this week making sure all my students had everything graded. I put grades in for midterm grades. I had to write a little comment for every student. That's done as well. So it makes my week a little busy. It's not overwhelming, but it was busy enough that when I got to this point in the day, I thought, you know what, I'll just go outside and tell a joke and kind of explain my busyness.I used to apologize when I'm busy. I don't do that anymore because many of you have said, don't apologize, Bob, you make lots of really good lessons for us. And sometimes having one or two lessons late or sometimes skipping a lesson isn't a big deal. I don't really like skipping them. But anyways, I hope you're having a good week. I hope you have a good Friday. I hope that you understood the joke and hopefully you can tell it to someone else. And I hope to see you on Monday in the chat. I'll have my eclipse glasses on so I'm not sure if I'll be able to read the chat, but hopefully I see you there. I'll probably schedule the live stream sometime... I'll schedule it Sunday with the exact time that I'm going to start on Monday and be prepared that I might start a bit early. I don't know a lot about eclipses so I'll have to kind of play it by ear. There's a good phrase for you maybe look that one up. I have to play it by ear.Anyways, thanks for watching. See you in a couple days with another short English lesson. Bye.Support the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases FAIR SHARE and NO FAIR!In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase fair share. When you get your fair share, it means something has been divided up and everyone got an equal amount. Let's say I'm sitting in my kitchen and I'm about to eat a piece of pie, and all of my children come into the kitchen. I might cut the pie up into exactly eight pieces so that everyone gets a fair share. But that wouldn't actually be a fair share because that would mean I still get a piece tomorrow because there's only seven people in my family. But when you divide something up so everyone gets a fair share, it means they all get an equal amount. If I had a class of 30 students and I brought 90 candies to class, I would give every student three candies and everyone would get their fair share.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 no fair. And we sometimes say, not fair. This is a complaint you make when people don't get their fair share. So if I brought 90 candies to class and gave all 90 candies to one student, the rest of the students would probably yell, hey, no fair. Or they might say, hey, that's not fair. Notice we sometimes use no or not. It does mean the same thing. If I was to bake a pie and sit down and eat half of it, my kids might say, no fair. We wanted some pie, too. Why did you eat half of it? Hmm. That'd be yummy. Apple pie is good, by the way. I don't think I would eat an entire apple pie or half an apple pie. Sorry, I'm getting a little distracted here. Let me get back to the phrases.To review, when you get your fair share, you get an amount that you think is good and equal to the other people who are getting an amount. And when you say no fair or when you say not fair, it means you don't think people were given what they should have been given. Things weren't equal. Things weren't fair.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Judit, also known as Aerosmith77. Thank you for the small lesson. It was a nice walk. And my response, it's not the safest area to walk. Lots of big trucks and no sidewalk. But it's pretty quiet, so I wasn't too worried. And I was referring. Thanks, Judit.I was referring to the industrial park that I was in when I made my last video. And another viewer made a comment, too that I found interesting. They said in their country there would be sidewalks and bike paths in an industrial area. In my industrial area, there are none, which is kind of too bad. It would actually be kind of nice if there were bike paths and sidewalks in that area.It looks like a goose flew over, and the goose seems to have lost its feather. So I'm not sure when that happened. I'm sure. Oh, maybe this is the goose. Oh, you know what this is actually, you probably can't see it. I think that's actually a bald eagle flying there. It's just a tiny dot in the sky. I'm supposed to report that we have a bald eagle living close to our farm because they're... they're kind of rare. I think they're endangered. I'd have to look that up. Maybe they're not, but I'm supposed to let people know so that they can record that on a map that there's a bald eagle living close to us. But that's pretty cool.Anyways, goose feathers, bald eagles flying by. There's also some smaller birds flying by, but that's not a big deal. I was going to show you this. You saw this in the video on my bigger channel. My son cleaned up someone's yard for them, and they had all of this wood, by the way... like, this is giant. Like, it's up toSupport the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English terms TO TAG ALONG and TO PLAY PHONE TAGIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to tag along. When you tag along with someone, it means you go with them. If Jen said that her and her brother were going to see a movie, I might say, hey, can I tag along? I'd like to see that movie as well. So it does have a positive sound to it. When you tag along, it can be a positive thing, but we sometimes use it to talk about a little more of a negative situation when we talk about kids. Sometimes your little brother or sister wants to tag along every time you go somewhere. And that's a situation where you might not like that. If you think back to when you were 16 and if you said to your mom and dad, when you were 16, I'm going to go see a movie with my friends, they might say, hey, can your little brother tag along? Can you take him with. And you might think, no, I don't want my little brother to tag along. I just want to go out with my friends. Maybe that was your situation. Maybe you let your younger siblings tag along. I don't know.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 play phone tag. So I think I might have taught this. Sorry, did I just say lesson? The other phrase I want to teach you today is to play phone tag. I probably said it correctly. Who knows? It means to call someone and leave a message, and then they listen to the message, and then they call you and leave a message because you didn't answer the phone. And then you listen to their message and then you call them and leave a message. So when you play phone tag with someone, when you have a little bit of phone tag going on, it means that you're calling, leaving messages, calling the other person, leaving message, and it just goes back and forth because you never quite connect.So to review, to tag along means to go with someone. A couple of weeks ago, I made a video at the mall and you were able to tag along virtually. You were able to come with me. And to play phone tag means to phone someone and then leave a message. And then they phone you and leave a message. And then you phone them and leave a message. I think you get the point about what phone tag is.Anyways, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from ksenom. I... I just wave to people. I don't know who that was, but I thought it would be nice to wave. The phrase a regular haunt was new to me. It sounds like a place where ghosts go frequently. These words I had to look up in the dictionary, toboggan is a sled, finicky, demanding divot, a torn up piece of turf, like from golf and then some life events in my past have also come back to haunt me in the present. But that's another story. And my response, this is a great example of making your own homework after watching a lesson. Great work.So thank you. ksenom, sorry I didn't read the whole comment. I don't want to take up the whole video. But it was a great comment, and that is a great example of making your own homework. What I mean by that is, when you're done watching a lesson, it's a good idea to do other things to help you practice what you learned. So you made a comment, you made some notes, you looked up some other words. That's all awesome, and I hope a lot of you do that. Anyways, thanks for that comment.Where am I? I'm in the industrial park. So in our towns, we have different areas. We have residential areas where there are houses. We have commercial areas where you find stores, and then we have what we would call industrial parks. So this is an industrial park. TSupport the show

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases A REGULAR HAUNT and TO COME BACK TO HAUNTIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase a regular haunt. So, haunt is a word we use to talk about ghosts. Like, ghosts can haunt a building, but when you say something was your regular haunt, it means it's a place you used to go to a lot. So this used to be my regular haunt. 25 years ago, I played soccer. I didn't play a lot of soccer, but I played on a soccer team, and this was one of my regular haunts. That simply means it was a place where a couple of nights a week, you could find me here, either, practicing my soccer skills. I played defense when I played soccer. I'm making it sound like I played all these sports when I was younger. I didn't play a lot, but I did certainly play on a soccer team when I was.... I think I was 30. It's when I started to feel old. But this soccer field here was one of my regular haunts, a place where I could be found.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/bobthecanadianWhen you say to come back to haunt, we use this phrase to talk about something you did in the past that might bother you in the future. A good example would be this. When I played soccer, I ran really hard, I played defense, and I was always trying to stop the person. And I think now it's come back to haunt me a bit because my knees and ankles get sore sometimes. So things that I may have injured in the past have now come back to haunt me a little bit. Not in a major way. I do know, though, that I used to go tobogganing a lot, and I think from jumping over little snow ramps with my toboggan, it hurt my back a bit. And I think that's going to come back to haunt me someday. It's basically something that you did in the past that might negatively affect you in the future.So a regular haunt is a place where you go a lot. Maybe there's a restaurant that you go to every Friday, and it's one of your regular haunts. And when something comes back to haunt you, it means that it's something you did in the past that may affect you negatively in the future.I'm just going to move a little bit before we look at a comment. I'm going to try and get out of the wind. I hope the microphone's working pretty good. I'm going to stand by this sign. I don't know if that will help. We'll see. It might be worse. Who knows? Anyways, this comment is from an anonymous user. I hope you don't forget your tripod. After this short lesson. And I replied, thankfully, it was still there when I got back. Someday I think someone will swipe it. That's another word for steal, by the way. But little do they know it's a bit broken, and only I know the little tricks to make it work right.So, yeah, that's from the last video. I was in town and I just kind of walked away, right? And as I'm doing right now, I just randomly leave my tripod somewhere as I walk away and talk a little bit to you. So maybe someday someone will swipe it, but it is a little bit finicky. That's a word we use for it. Oh, I'm going the wrong way. I was going to show you something else. Well, we'll go this way and I'll show you. It's like a $30 tripod. It was a super cheap tripod, and if you don't quite know how to use it, it doesn't work properly. But I kind of know how to turn certain things so they click right and stuff like that.Anyways, I was going to show you this. This is the lock that keeps the park. That's a nice sound, I guess... that keeps the park closed in the winter. So our parks, especially our parks that have a lot of grass and soccer fields, they're usually locked in the winter because you can damage the soccer fieSupport the show