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Bob"s Short English Lessons

Bob the Canadian

If you want to learn English with short easy-to-understand lessons then you"ve come to the right place. I"m Bob the Canadian and I make videos on Youtube (Just search for "Bob"s Short English Lessons" on Youtube!) as well as podcasts right here to help you learn English. Four times each week I upload a short English lesson with a complete transcript in the description. During these lessons I teach one or two curious phrases from the English language and answer a listener question. Thanks for joining

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4:21

Learn the English Phrases "to give somebody the slip"...

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2024/05/17

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

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4:11

Learn the English Phrases "to keep something under...

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2024/05/15

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,

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4:32

Learn the English Phrases "to cry wolf" and "to wolf...

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2024/05/10

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

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4:38

Learn the English Phrases "to pull out" and "to pull...

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2024/05/08

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

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4:28

Learn the English Expressions "Sounds good!" and...

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2024/04/12

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

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4:20

Learn the English Terms "spaced out" and "space cadet"

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2024/04/10

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

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3:16

Learn the English Joke, "How does the moon cut his...

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2024/04/05

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4:21

Learn the English Phrases "fair share" and "no fair"

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2024/04/03

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

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4:29

Learn the English Phrases "to tag along" and "to play...

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2024/03/27

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

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4:30

Learn the English Phrases "a regular haunt" and "to...

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2024/03/22

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

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4:23

Learn the English Phrases "You're one to talk!" and...

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2024/03/20

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English terms YOU'RE ONE TO TALK! and LOOK WHO'S TALKING!In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, you're one to talk. This is kind of a sarcastic phrase that we use to kind of make fun of someone when they're being critical of other people, but they are doing the thing, they're being critical of themselves. That sounded a little confusing. Let me explain. If I was eating a doughnut and if I

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4:22

Learn the English Phrases "to do lunch" and "There's...

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2024/03/15

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO DO LUNCH and THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A FREE LUNCHIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to do lunch. If you say to someone, hey, do you want to do lunch tomorrow? It simply means you want to have lunch with them. You want to go to a restaurant and order some food and sit and eat it together. You could also say, hey, do you want to go have lunch tomorrow? It means the same thing. But do lunch

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4:37

Learn the English Terms "a no-brainer" and "brainiac"

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2024/03/13

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English terms A NO-BRAINER and A BRAINIACIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English term a no-brainer. When we say something is a no-brainer, it means it's very obvious, it's very easy. There's not a lot of thought that needs to go into the decision to do it. Here are a couple of examples. Jen loves growing things. Jen loves flowers. So it was a no-brainer for her to decide to start a business where she grows and

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4:22

Learn the English Phrases "to eye something" and "to...

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2024/03/08

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO EYE SOMETHING and TO HAVE AN EYE FOR SOMETHINGIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to eye something. When you eye something, it means you look at it usually because you want it. It can have other meanings as well, but usually when I eye something, it means I want it. If I'm sitting in a room and there are cookies on a plate, I will eye the cookies while I'm talking to people because

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4:24

Learn the English Phrases "to make eye contact" and...

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2024/02/28

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO MAKE EYE CONTACT and TO MAKE CONTACTIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to make eye contact. When you talk to someone, you can look directly into their eyes. You can make eye contact when you talk to them. But often when you're having conversations, you do look away occasionally as well. There's a little bit of lightning there. I hope I can get this video done safely. Anyways, when you

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4:39

Learn the English Phrases "to bugger off" and "to do...

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2024/02/23

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO BUGGER OFF and TO DO BUGGER ALLIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to bugger off. Now, this is definitely an informal phrase. You wouldn't use this in a formal situation, but when you say someone is going to bugger off, it means that they are going to leave, and it usually means that you probably didn't want them to leave. A good example would be this. If I had a car accident, if

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4:24

Learn the English Phrases "to be off" and "to back off"

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2024/02/21

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO BE OFF and TO BACK OFFIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the phrase to be off. Now, this has a few meanings. The one I'm going to focus on today simply means to leave. If I said to Jen, I'm off. I'm going to go to town and buy some gas. It means that I have my keys in my hand. It means that I'm about to go out the door and I'm going to drive to town. So when you say that you are off, it

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4:22

Learn the English Phrases "to blow off steam" and...

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2024/02/16

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO BLOW OFF STEAM and DON'T BLOW IT!So I thought we'd start this video by watching the sander truck go by backwards. We're getting a little bit of snow here, so that's a little bit of fun. So I'll start the lesson in just a sec. Let me get set up. I wasn't quite ready.Well, there's a little bit of snow on my lens, but hopefully you can see this. In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn

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4:23

Learn the English Phrases "to be wired for" and "to...

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2024/02/14

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO BE WIRED FOR and TO BE PRONE TOIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to be wired for. We sometimes say to be wired to, but I actually use for more often. When you're wired for something, it means you're naturally good at it. If you think about a professional hockey player, they're wired for skating on the ice. It just seems like their brain already knew how to do that. Like, if you

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4:33

Learn the English Phrases "Gimme a break!" and "Gimme...

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2024/02/09

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases GIMME A BREAK! and GIMME A SEC!In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase give me a break. Which is the short, informal way of saying give me a break. This is a sentence or phrase we use in a couple situations. One is when you really need a break. Let's say Jen and I are putting flowers in the van and Jen is trying to get me to work faster. I might say to her, give me a break. I'm working as

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