Bob's Short English Lessons

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English term PEP TALK and the phrase PEPS ME UP: In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English term, pep talk. A pep talk is a talk that someone gives you that makes you more excited about something. As the new school year approaches, we find that we are giving each of our children a little pep talk. We're just kind of enco...

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases BEAR WITH ME and BEAR A GRUDGE:  In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase bear with me. When you say to someone, bear with me, you are asking them to be patient with you. Here's a great example. You'll notice that on this YouTube channel, I often reply to all the comments, but yesterday I did...

Read long to learn the English Phrases TALK THE TALK, WALK THE WALK, and ALL WALKS OF LIFE: So in this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, he talks the talk, but does not walk the walk. When we say this about someone, when we say someone talks the talk, it means that when they're talking, they say they're going to behave a certain way, they say they're goi...

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases YOU'RE NUTS and TO BE NUTS ABOUT: In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase "You're nuts." When you say to someone, "You're nuts," it means you think that they are crazy. Maybe they have told you that they are going to do something that you think is dangerous. Maybe y...

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases SPOILED BRAT and ROTTEN APPLE: In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English term, spoiled brat. A spoiled brat is a child who gets everything they want all the time. So you probably know families like this, where the parents have lots of money and whenever the child wants something, they get it. Maybe the child h...

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrase LONG STORY SHORT and A LIKELY STORY: So in this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, long story short. This is a phrase we use when we're telling a story and when it's taking us way too long to tell the story. Sometimes when I'm telling Jen about something happened at work, sometimes she sta...

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases SHAPE UP OR SHIP OUT and JUMP SHIP: So in this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase shape up or ship out. If someone ever tells you that you need to shape up or ship out, it's not a good thing. It means that you need to improve your performance, or you need to work harder, or you need to play harder...

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English sayings TOO MANY COOKS SPOIL THE BROTH and MANY HANDS MAKE LIGHT WORK: In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase too many cooks spoil the broth. Now, a cook is someone who cooks food in a kitchen and broth is like a very thin soup with not a lot of stuff in it. And basically, what the phrase means is if too ma...

Read long to learn the English Phrases MAKE SHORT WORK OF and DETECTIVE WORK: In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase make short work of. If you want to make short work of something, if you say that in English, it means you want to get a job done quickly and efficiently. Sometimes Jen and I have jobs to do on the farm, and in order to make short work of them, in order...

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases THE GRAND TOUR and TOURIST TRAP: In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, the grand tour. This is something we say kind of jokingly. I think it's we just say for fun when we are showing someone our house for the first time. If my sister bought a new house and I went over to visit her and I had n...