Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO CLUE IN and TO NOT HAVE A CLUE

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to clue in. When you clue into something, it means you've heard some small facts about something and then suddenly you realize something has happened. Jen's at market right now and I'm home today. I think Oscar has finally clued in that Jen has gone. He's checked outside a few times today. He's gone to look in the flower field and he can't find her. But I think now, because he looks really sad, I think he's finally clued in that Jen is at market. She'll be home in a little bit. So to clue in means you realize something after you find a few clues. Maybe there's a few things that let you come to the conclusion that something is a certain way. You've clued in to that fact.

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The other phrase I want to teach you today is to not have a clue. We use this to talk about someone in a very mean spirited, negative way when they are just not understanding something. So you might have a boss like this. A boss who keeps giving you instructions that don't make sense and you can't help but do the job poorly because your boss just doesn't have a clue. When you say your boss does not have a clue, it means that maybe your boss doesn't really understand the job you do. Sometimes you might have a co worker who does not have a clue and they just don't understand how things work.

So to review, to clue in means to figure something out. After getting a few little clues, you know what clues are like when the police investigate a crime, they look for clues, little hints as to what had happened. So when you clue in, you finally understand something. And then if you say that someone does not have a clue, it means they don't understand what's going on.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from MohdAgs at minute 3:26. Yeah, that's a cool little spot indeed. If only you could hang a hammock there. Oops, I said it. Hehe. Sorry Mister Bob. I guess I've been watching far too many Canadians lately and I might have started to pick up some of their passive aggressiveness. And my response? Hint taken. I clued in to what Mohd was talking about. Let's see what I can come up with in August for a video / hammock holder.

So Mohd sent me a gift last year. It was a hammock and I never got around to actually setting it up. I didn't hang it from a couple of trees. There are some nice trees on my property. I was going to build like a little frame to hold it, and I never got around to that as well. But I think I'm going to try that in a couple weeks. I want to do a lesson on tools and woodworking, and I have an idea for something to build. I had this idea last year, and I promised this last year already, but it will happen after this project's done.

You might be wondering, Bob, what are you doing to your house? Well, we had some drainage problems here, and so what I've done is I've dug a ditch all the way out to there. Let me give you a little bit better view of this. So I've dug a ditch, I'm not quite done yet, but I've dug a ditch all the way out to here where the ground is lower. And my plan is actually to dig that ditch even a little bit deeper yet, and then that will have all the water drain back this way.

And then if you look behind me, I've also been kind of clearing out the stone and I'm trying to get it to slope ever so slightly away from the house. It used to do that, but I think over time, the concrete in front of my house kind of settled and the driveway kind of

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Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases THE SHORT TERM and THE LONG TERM

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase the short term. When we say the short term, we're talking about for the next day or the next few hours or the next week, like a short amount of time between now and a future situation. Sometimes we fix things for the short term. We know that for the short term the fix will last. Maybe you put some tape on a piece of clothing. No one does that, do they? If I had a little tear here, I could put some tape on there so that for the short term it is wearable. That's a bad example. But anyways, I think you get the point when you do something for the short term, or when you refer to the short term, you're referring to a short amount of time. Sometimes your vehicle is broken and there's like a short term fix. So in the short term you might just put a little bit of air in a tire that's actually slowly going flat. Flat. That's a better example.

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Anyways, the other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the long term. The long term means for a long time. So let's use the tire example again. If your tire is leaking air, you can put some air in for the short term. But for the long term you want to replace the tire or get the tire patched and repaired. So the short term would be like a quick fix, something that works but isn't the best fixed. And then a long term fix would be something that is more permanent.

So to review, let me try to explain these again. When you do something for the short term or in the short term, it means for a short amount of time. And when you do it for the long term or in the long term, you do it for a longer amount of time. Let me use that in and for phrase a bit. So in the short term, putting air in will fix the problem. In the long term though, you should get it replaced or fixed. So putting air in the tire will last for the short term. Notice I used for there. But getting the tire replaced or fixed is better for the long term. Hopefully I explained that well.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comet is from Vitor. That reminded me of when one of the windows in my parent's house was broken. I had the brilliant idea of removing the last pieces of glass and using adhesive tape to fill the empty space. The other day the window was full of insects. Haha. We didn't have money to replace glass, so I thought I was going to save us some money using adhesive tape. It was certainly not a good idea. And then my response, sometimes things work in the short term, but not in the long term.

So now you know the source of the topic for this lesson. I was answering that comment. Thanks, Vitor for that comment, by the way. And I used those two phrases and I thought, I don't know if I've taught those two phrases before. I think I just stepped in some mud. I hope it was mud.

Anyways, I hope you are all doing well. I'm having a rare day off, so I've been walking a lot and exercising a lot and doing a lot of physical labor on the farm. And today I'm trying to do nothing. And as things go for me, I haven't succeeded. I've actually done a number of things this morning. I responded to all the comments on the new lesson on my main channel about buying large purchases. I responded to all the comments from the previous video on this channel. I made my Wednesdays with Bob video. I went out and made that, hey, this is a cool little spot here, isn't it? And then now I'm outside making this short lesson.

So I'm trying, though, not to

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Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO GO OFF ON SOMEONE and TO GO OFF

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to go off on someone. When you go off on someone, it means you get angry. It means you're annoyed with them. They've done something that has really, really annoyed you, and then you are angry. You might even be yelling. Sometimes people have a really mean boss and they're afraid to talk to their boss because their boss might go off on them. That's not a nice thing to do, and you shouldn't ever do that. I know when I was a kid, there was a teacher at my school where students were afraid to talk to that teacher because that teacher might go off on them. That teacher had a tendency to go off on people. That teacher would get really angry and yell for the silliest reason. So I don't do that. I don't go off on people very often. It's pretty rare for that to happen.

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The second phrase I wanted to teach you today is just to go off. I didn't want you to be too confused. An alarm clock can go off. A timer can go off. Maybe you're making something in the kitchen and you set the timer for ten minutes. When ten minutes is up, the timer will go off. It simply means that it will start beeping. When an alarm clock goes off, it starts beeping. And then when a timer goes off, it starts beeping to tell you that time is up.

So to review to go off on someone means to get mad at them, to yell at them, to be angry and to not be very nice to them. And then to go off simply means for a device like an alarm clock or a timer to start making a beeping sound.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Know that. And it says here, it's great that despite the constant rain, you were able to complete the installation of the new windows as planned and without any major problems or delays and hopefully without any injuries, Bob. How many windows did you replace? All in one area, floor, or in different parts of your house? Thank you, sir. Have a wonderful day. And my response, we replaced five windows and a door. I'll show the door in the lesson today.

So, yes, we got some windows replaced. The windows were 41 years old. So thanks Know that for that comment. Let me show you at least one window here, down in our basement. Maybe you can see this. There is a brand new window, all nicely installed and ready to kind of help us feel good during the coming winter months. It will certainly be nice to have a window that keeps the cold out, and then that window was replaced a few years ago.

But we also have a new door, so I'm very happy to have a new door. This door was quite drafty. I'm not sure if you know what drafty means, but when something's drafty, it means it lets the cold air in when you don't want cold air to come in.

So we have a new door here, and then we also had several windows replaced in other parts of the house. I bought this house from my parents, and the windows we replaced were the original windows from when the house was built in the early eighties. They were quite rotten and they were kind of falling apart.

So it's nice to see something new. It was nice to have a little bit of money to be able to afford to replace some of those windows. We do have one window left to replace, but yes, if you look down here again, you'll see a really nice brand new basement window. And over here, a second one. And then a few other windows replaced in other parts of the house. So I'm just super happy. Hopefully we save some money on heat this winter as well. Our hous

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