Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrase TO COVER FOR and COVER TO COVERIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase "to cover for". Now this phrase has two meanings. It can mean that you lie for someone when they do something bad. Maybe my brother, when I was younger, would like to steal cookies and I would cover for my brother by telling my parents that the cat was eating the cookies. That didn't actually happen. That was just an example. But we also use the phrase "to cover for" to talk about doing someone else's work for them if they're missing. At work, sometimes another teacher is sick, and then I will cover for that teacher. My boss will come and say, "Hey, can you cover "for Joe today because he's out sick? "Can you spend half an hour in his class?" We when cover for each other at school, as teachers, we each take turns doing a little bit of someone else's class in our spare time, 'cause we don't teach for the full eight hours. We only teach for about six.WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadianThe second phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase "cover to cover". When you read a book cover to cover, it means that you really, really liked it. If you've just recently read a book and you really liked it, you could say, "Ah, the book was amazing. "I read it cover to cover." Now when you read a book cover to cover, it means you read the whole thing, but when you read a book, you usually do read the whole thing. So it's, I guess, just a way to emphasize that you're reading the whole thing. The last book I read, I definitely read it cover to cover. It was an excellent book. It was called "Ringworld" by Larry Niven, I think was author, a really old science fiction book, but definitely a good one. So I reread it just recently, just last week.Anyways, to review, when you cover for someone, it means you lie for them so that someone doesn't know what they're doing, or it means that you do their work for them at work. Oftentimes when, let's say there's ten people at work and one person is sick, the other nine people will cover for the other person. And when you read a book cover to cover, it means that you just like the book so much, you read it from the very, very beginning, all the way to the very, very end.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Arya. "How are you doing, sir? "Are you all right?" And my response was this, "Yes. "Sorry, the week got busy and I missed Wednesday. "There will be a new lesson tomorrow, though." "Thank you, sir, for letting me know," was Arya's reply.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadian)