Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases UP TO ME and UP IN ARMS In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, up to me. If something is up to me, it means that I get to decide it. If something is up to you, it means you get to decide it. Right now, if I wanted to go eat in a restaurant, it's not up to me. The government has said that we're not allowed to. Another thing about the phrase, up to me, is when our children have a birthday, it is up to them to decide what we have for supper. So my son is having a birthday this month, and he gets to decide what we eat for supper on his birthday. It is up to him. So, if something is up to me, it means I get to decide it. If something is up to you, it means that you get to decide it.WANT MORE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"#englishlessons #english #englishphrase #speakingenglish #bobthecanadianThe other phrase I wanted to look at today is the phrase, up in arms. When you are up in arms about something, sorry, I'm trying something new with my papers today. When you are up in arms about something, it means you are really, really upset about it. Right now, still in the United States, many people are up in arms about the results of the election. They are very upset about the results. I think if I told my son on his birthday that he wasn't allowed to decide what we have for supper, he would probably be up in arms about it, he would be very, very upset that he didn't get to decide what we got to eat.So, to review once again. If you say something is up to me, it means I get to decide. So, sometimes things aren't up to me though. But if something was up to me, it means I get to decide. If something was up to you, it means you get to decide, but sometimes it's up to the government to decide, or it's up to your boss to decide. That's not always the most enjoyable, but I think overall rules and laws are good. The other phrase, again, was the phrase, up in arms. When you are up in arms about something it means you are really, really upset about it. By the way, I'm not up in arms about the weather today. I'm actually kinda happy about it. It's one of the first little snow falls, here in Ontario, Canada.Let's look, though, at a comment from a previous video, this comment is from Alex, and Alex says, "Hello, teacher Bob. "I had noticed the kitten behind your back as I was watching the video. "It looked nice, is it yours?" And my reply was, "Yes, technically it is mine, "but it really is my daughter's. "She's the one who spends time with it. "I'm the one that buys the cat food." I think you probably understand what I'm saying there. Technically, I own the cat, but I'm not the one that plays with the cats every day. So, I'm the one who buys the food, I'm the one who buys things to take care of the cats, but it's really my daughter who plays with the cats. So in the cat's mind, my daughter is their owner because the cats don't really like me that much.By the way, that was from a previous video. Thanks Alex, for that comment. Yes, in the previous video at the beginning, there's a kitten that walks past, and then it walks past again just a little while later. And I think that kitten's name is Pumpkin. So there are actually two kittens that look exactly alike, they are both kind of that orange color. So my daughter, I asked her earlier, I said, "What are the names of those two little kittens?" Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadian)