Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases FINALLY DONE and FINELY DONE

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase finally done. Now, I used this phrase, actually, in yesterday's video. I think I said something like, the school year is finally done. And this simply means that something that you want to be finished has actually finished. And maybe you've been waiting for that for a long time. Maybe you're studying English and you're finally done studying for an exam that you have coming up. Maybe you're working at a job on a big project and it's taken months, but you're finally done and you're happy because you can move on to something new. So when something is finally done, we often use that phrase. We just say, oh, it's finally done. Or I'm so happy that the school year is finally done. That would be another good example.

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The second phrase I want to teach you today is finely done. Now, that might sound the same to you, but it's not. Finally done. Finely done. There's one less syllable here. When something is finely done, it means it's done with a high degree of precision, and it's just done really well. The best thing I can think of is if you buy an expensive car and it has a leather steering wheel. The work on the steering wheel is very finely done. They've probably stitched it very precisely. It's probably done in a way where it looks really, really good. You would say that it's finely done.

So to review, when something is finally done, you're just happy that it's over. Sometimes I'm sad, though, when the school year is finally done. But mostly I'm happy. Actually, that's not true. I'm usually not ever sad when the school year is done. And when something is finely done, it means it's done well. Like, if you think about the stitching around the pockets of your pants, it's very finely done. It's done with precision and accuracy. So one more time, just so you can hear the difference. Finally done. Finally done. And finely done. Finely done. I know to your ear they might sound very similar, but they are definitely different in pronunciation and meaning.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Ünsal. Hello, teacher Bob. I'm so glad to see you. I will be looking forward to your trip to the USA, and I'm already curious about what you will do with teacher Brent. Have you made any plans for what you will do together, or will it be spontaneous? Have a great day. Bye. And my response, we haven't made any specific plans yet, but I'm sure we'll think of something.

So, no, we haven't really talked too much about this trip. Brent's actually been on a trip of his own and so it hasn't been like a good time. I've been busy. He's been away to Iceland and Poland and Turkey, I think were the three places that he went. I'm pretty sure he's on his way home now. I did text him a little bit yesterday and we finalized some little parts of the plan, but no, I'm not sure yet what exactly we will be doing. It should be fun. We'll have to see. I'm excited to go, though. I think it will be a lot of fun. But I have a few things to do around here before I head out next week and then I'll be on the road. I will hit the road and drive to Maine, so that will be fun.

A few things around here, though, that I wanted to show you, in particular, I love it when flowers really start to take off, when they start to bloom. In English, when you say something is taking off, it means it's doing well or growing well or things are just going well. So you can see here sunflowers, they grew like crazy. These aren'

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Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases MAKES SENSE and DOESN'T MAKE SENSE

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase makes sense. When something makes sense, it just means it's logical. If it's something that someone designed, they design it in a logical way. In a way that makes sense. There's a store in North America called Costco. It's a large store and everything there makes sense. The size of the shopping carts makes sense. They're larger than a normal store. The way the parking lot lines are put out makes sense. They leave extra room between vehicles, probably because the carts are wider. The way the store is laid out makes sense. Everything just makes sense when I go there. It's a really cool place to go. It's designed to be efficient and logical, and I'm usually happy when I'm shopping there.

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But you know what doesn't make sense? Government offices. I'm sure this is the same in every country around the world. I went to a government office today to renew one of my cards. You know how you have driver's license and health cards and all that kind of stuff? I went to renew a card and the way that that office was set up just doesn't make sense to me. There were numbers like I got a number, but my number was like PC 801. But then there were numbers that started with t and s and all different letters. And then for a while there, everyone with numbers with the same letters in front as me. We didn't get called up. I was there for, I think it was almost 3 hours. Sometimes stuff just doesn't make sense. I'm not sure how well that place was designed.

So to review when something makes sense, it's very logical and easy to understand. When something doesn't make sense, it's just very confusing and you don't understand why it was designed that way. Anyways, I got everything done I needed to, but I was a little frustrated.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Aerosmith77 also known as Judit. I loved when I could take the long way home, but not nowadays. Thanks for the lesson. I gotta go. And my response, from my understanding, you have quite the commute now. I hope it's going well. So Judit, thank you for that comment and for using the phrase long way home from the previous lesson. Very cool. But yeah, I understood from another comment you made. I think you changed jobs and I think you drive for over an hour each way now to work. That's a long ways to drive, so hopefully you have lots to listen to, some good music. Maybe you listen to a few podcasts on your way there. I just hope it's going well because that's, that's a pretty long drive to, to go every day.

But hey, what was I going to talk about today? Well, I can talk about my commute. It's exactly eleven minutes every day. My commute, because I live out in the country and I work in a town, not a city. There's just not a lot of traffic out this way, there was just a big tractor that went by. Those sometimes slow down my commute a little bit. But I have appreciated the fact that there's no real commute where I live. It's just awesome. So I feel bad.

I did, though, a few years ago. A few years ago, like over 20 years ago, I worked at a school. Okay, that's exaggerating. About 18 years ago, I worked at a school in a nearby city just for a couple of years. And it was a 45 minutes drive and the road that you drove down, you couldn't pass anybody. It was just like one lane each way and you couldn't pass. And so you would drive the speed limit all the way to work and all the way home from work. And that didn't make se

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Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases WHY THE LONG FACE? and THE LONG WAY HOME

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, why the long face? This is a question you might ask someone if they look sad. Like if their face looks sad, if they look sad, you might say, hey, why the long face? Now, I haven't actually used this question a lot lately, but I did hear an older person use it the other day. So it might be an older phrase. If you see someone who is the opposite of happy instead of smiling, they have a really long face. Trying to... my acting skills aren't the best. I tried to make a dirty look the other day and I don't know if I pulled that off, but this is a long face. So when you're very, very sad, we say you have a long face. And if you see someone, you can say, why the long face?

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the long way home. Sometimes when you go somewhere, you take the shortest path possible, or you take the shortest way possible. But sometimes you take the long way home. So think about this. If you're going to see a movie, you drive there quickly. You get there on time. But when the movie's done, you might take the long way home because there's other things to see and you're not in a hurry anymore. So when you go somewhere, you go as quickly as possible. But when you're done, you might take the long way home. You might take the scenic route. That's another way to say it.

So to review, if you were to say to someone, why the long face? You're asking them why they look sad. And if you take the long way home, it means you go a direction or you go a way that isn't the shortest, but maybe it's more enjoyable.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Ruslan. Cool baseball cap and sweatshirt teacher Bob light gray suits you very well. Your style is beyond compare. Well, great example phrase as well. By the way, beyond compare, my response, the shirt is a sunshirt. I like wearing those instead of putting lots of sunscreen on. The hood and long sleeves really help block the sun. So thanks, Ruslan. Yes, beyond compare was the last phrase and great use of it. But yeah, these shirts. Jen and I both wear these shirts. In fact, you can see Jen over here way in the distance. She's planting dahlias, she's wearing her shirt, and I'm wearing mine. By the way, these shirts are nice. You don't have to put sunscreen on when you wear these. And it does have a hood that you can put up to cover your ears as well. So if we're going to work outside a lot, we often wear these shirts.

Um, yeah, there's some chickens behind me. Should I give you a better look? A few weeks ago, we got some fencing. This isn't electric fence. It can be electrified, but we don't have it electrified. And we put our chickens outside. They're in this, which is called a chicken tractor. You might want to call it a chicken coop, but because it has wheels and you're able to move it. For some reason in English, we call this a chicken tractor. So we've been moving this along. We've been using the chickens to kind of combat some of the problems we have. They are loud, aren't they? Um, so they go out and eat something called a cut worm. Jen's very happy about that because the cut worms like to eat the plants and that's not very nice.

So we have this chicken tractor. The chickens, I think, like being outside more than they like being inside anyways. I think they're really enjoying their time outside. They're a little... I hope you guys aren't scared of chickens. They're a little timid right n

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