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Learn the English Phrases TO SORT SOMETHING OUT and OUT OF SORTS

Learn the English Phrases TO SORT SOMETHING OUT and OUT OF SORTS

FromBob's Short English Lessons


Learn the English Phrases TO SORT SOMETHING OUT and OUT OF SORTS

FromBob's Short English Lessons

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4 minutes
Released:
Jan 18, 2021
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Podcast episode

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Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases SORT SOMETHING OUT and OUT OF SORTSIn this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to sort something out. This usually means that you need to understand a problem and then solve it. If my brother said to me, Hey, can you come over today and help me with something, I could respond and say, yes but not right away because I need to sort something out. That might mean that I have a problem. Maybe there's a pipe leaking in my basement and I have to figure out why it's leaking. I have to understand why it's leaking and then I need to fix it. So when you say to someone that you need to sort something out, it means that you have some kind of problem you need to understand that problem and then you need to solve it. So hopefully you don't have a lot of things today that you have to sort out.WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"#englishlessons #english #englishphrase #speakingenglish #bobthecanadianThe second phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase out of sorts. If I say that I'm feeling out of sorts it means that I'm feeling not normal. I might be feeling grouchy or unhappy. I might be feeling just a little bit blah, that's another word we use in English. But when you're feeling out of sorts you're basically saying you aren't your normal happy self. The other day, I was trying to make a video and I was having trouble talking. And I said, Oh I'm just feeling a little bit out of sorts today. The wind was bothering me that day. I couldn't get my camera set up right. I was feeling frustrated. I was a little grouchy and annoyed. So I described it by saying that I was feeling out of sorts. So when you're feeling out of sorts, you're just not feeling your normal happy self.So to explain one more time, when you sort something out it means that you have a problem. You need to understand the problem, you need to figure out the problem and then you need to solve it. And when you are feeling out of sorts, it means you're just not feeling like your normal happy self. Hopefully your normal self is a very happy person.Anyways, let's look at a comment from another video. This comment is from Iryna, and Iryna says, "My English is as good as it gets but I hope it will be better in the future. I do realize that the vocabulary I've learned so far will not stay in my head for good, and I need to practice it all the time." So excellent use Iryna of the two phrases from that lesson. This is from the other day, the phrase as good as it gets, and the phrase for good, perfect use. My response was awesome use of both phrases Iryna, good work.So I like to see that, it's really cool when you guys in the comments sometimes try to use the phrases. It's really neat to see that you see the phrase or you've learned the phrase that I've taught, and you try to learn it. I was going to mention again too that when you practice the phrase right away, it's just a good idea. Practicing in the comments is good. But if you have an English tutor that you meet with once a week, it would be really good if you try to use these phrases with them. Because I'll be honest in the comments most of you use the phrases that I teach correctly, but sometimes some of you do make small mistakes and I don't have time to correct everybody. In fact, I'd usually don't correct people because it's just... I feel like you need to be comfortable speaking and not always having your sentences corrected. So I would say in the comments, 90% of the time everyone uses the phrases that I teach correctly, But sometimes there are a few small mistakes. So anyways, I think that's just a great thing to do when you learn a phrase.And in order to remember these phrases, I know some of you have saidSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadian)
Released:
Jan 18, 2021
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Podcast episode

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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 me and I hope your English learning is going well!