Bob's Short English Lessons

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO TAKE A STAND and TO HAVE A STANCE In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to take a stand. When you take a stand on something, it means you say your opinion out loud and publicly. Maybe in your town, they're going to build a new bridge, and you don't like where they're going to put...

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases NONE OTHER THAN and NONE OF THE ABOVE In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, none other than. This is a phrase we use when we introduce someone somewhere where it might be a surprise to people but you do know who the person is. Let me explain a bit better. If I was doing a live stream and I said, &...

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases GO YOUR OWN WAY and MAKE YOUR OWN WAY In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to go your own way. When you go your own way, it means you do something the way you want to do it. A lot of teachers will create lessons, and they'll make handouts, and they'll give 'em to their students, but...

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases CAN'T BE BOTHERED and NOT A BOTHER In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase can't be bothered. When you can't be bothered to do something it means you don't want to do it. It means you don't see the point in doing it. So you don't do it. It means you have no desire to do i...

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English terms HIGH POINT and LOW POINT In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English term, "high point." When you talk about something you've done and you mention the high point, you're talking about the best thing that happened while you were doing it. Let's say you went on a trip to France. You could s...

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO STOP AT NOTHING and STOP-AND-GO In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase "to stop at nothing." When you say that you will stop at nothing to do something it means you'll do anything you have to to get that thing done. It's raining right now, but I will stop at nothing to get a v...

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases A PIECE OF MY MIND and IN ONE PIECE In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase "a piece of my mind." Now, we usually use this phrase with the verb to give and I could say, "I'm going to give someone a piece of my mind." That means I'm angry with them and I'm going to t...

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO PARK IT and TO HIT IT OUT OF THE PARK In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, to park it. When you park it somewhere, it can mean that you're parking your vehicle, but it can also mean that you're going to sit somewhere. I could say to Jen, "I'm gonna drop the kids off at the m...

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO WORK AWAY and ASK AWAY In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, to work away. When you work away at something, it means you're working on something that will take a long time to finish and you're doing it little by little. A great example of this would be if you are doing a jigsaw puzzle...

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases A ROOKIE MISTAKE and AN HONEST MISTAKE In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase a rookie mistake. Now, this is a term we use when we're talking about someone who's new at something and then they make a mistake. At school, oh, by the way, a rookie is someone who's new at something. When...

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO BACK OFF and TO GO BACK ON In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to back off. Now, when you back off, it means you stop arguing with someone. It means you stop trying to convince them that you are right. Let's say that Jen and I are having an argument. At a certain point, I might back off b...

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO TAKE SOMETHING FOR A SPIN and TO SPIN YOUR WHEELS In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, "To take something for a spin." Now, usually, this refers to a vehicle. Maybe a friend of yours has a new car. You could say, "Hey, could I take your car for a spin?" That means you want...

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases ON THE FAST TRACK and FAST-FORWARD In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, on the fast track. Now, there's two ways to learn English. You can study at home on your own time or if you wanna be on the fast track, you can move to an English speaking country and live with an English speaking family...

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases C'EST LA VIE and DÉJÁ VU In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase c'est la vie or is this actually a French phrase? By the way, there are French phrases that we use in everyday English and c'est la vie is one of them, and it means, that's life. Sometimes you have a situation where...

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrase I OWE YOU ONE and the French Phrase Merci beaucoup! In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase I owe you one. This means the same thing as saying thank you, and I want to say to all of you, I owe you one. I had a lot of fun reading all of the comments on the last video, where I asked you for ideas. Sorry...

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Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO BOOK IT and TO CLOSE THE BOOK ON In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, to book it. Now, this has nothing to do with books. It's kind of an informal slang phrase that we use to talk about driving quickly or running quickly. Sometimes when I'm late for work, I have to book it in order t...

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO GET AROUND TO and TO RUN AROUND In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, to get around to. When you get around to something it means that you do it usually after doing a bunch of other things. Sometimes I have a lot of things to do during the day and it takes a while before I get around to doing th...

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases ON A MISSION and MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! In this English lesson I wanted to teach you the English phrase, on a mission. When you say someone is on a mission it means they're working hard at something, they're diligent, they're getting a lot of stuff done, they are on a mission. It kind of comes from like in the Army,...

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO STICK OUT LIKE A SORE THUMB and STICK WITH In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase stick out like a sore thumb. Now, this is my thumb, and to stick out like a sore thumb doesn't really have anything to do with thumbs. It has to do with things like this orange vest I'm wearing, or dressin...

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases BOTH FEET ON THE GROUND and TO COVER A LOT OF GROUND In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase both feet on the ground. Now we usually use this phrase with the verb to have or to keep. We say it's good to have both feet on the ground or it's good to keep both feet on the ground, and this mean...

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English term A BREEZE and the phrase TAKE THE EASY WAY OUT In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English term "a breeze." When we say something is a breeze, or something we did in the past was a breeze, we mean it was really, really easy. A few days ago, I did some work around the farm, and it was a breeze because I us...

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO FALL INTO YOUR LAP and A FALLING OUT In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, "To fall into your lap." When something falls into your lab it means you get it or it happens to you suddenly, and it's usually a good thing. Someone might say something like this to you, "Oh, I hear...

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT... and COME TO THINK OF IT In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase who would've thought. In English, we use this phrase when we're about to mention something that surprised us. Maybe you went to school with someone named Jim and they didn't do a very good job in s...

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases "to have a ways to go" and "Way to go!" In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to have a ways to go. When you say someone has a ways to go, it means it's going to be a long time before they get somewhere or before they finish something. Maybe you're on a long trip, and...