What's this?
What is this?
All right, we just got a little bit of variety on this video.
Some vocabulary, fun and casual English practice.
Let's look at our first little phrase here.
I'll leave you to it.
Have you ever heard that phrase?
I'll leave you to it.
This suggests you're stepping back and letting the other person manage the situation.
I'll leave you to it.
So it's like saying, I'll let you do it.
Let them do it.
Essentially saying, it's your call.
You handle it.
You do it.
You handle it.
You are capable of doing it yourself.
I'll leave you to it.
I'll leave you to it.
It's a way to delegate or defer.
I'll let you handle this task. or you're in charge now.
I'll leave you to it.
Okay, you got the feeling for that?
Now we're going to look at something funny, a joke.
Here is social media.
Social media says hey, we can use AI to write your posts for you and generate the pics.
Generate the pictures.
We can write your post and we can make the pictures for you.
We can do it all.
We can use AI to write your posts for you and generate the pics.
So you don't really need us anymore.
I guess not.
We'll leave you to it then.
We'll leave you to it.
There's our phrase, right?
We'll leave you to it.
We'll let you do it all.
Then.
Then is like, in that case, in that case, we'll leave you to it.
We'll leave you to it then.
We're free!
Yay!
No more social media!
It's doing it for us.
Thank you, AI, for freeing us.
Okay, here's a joke.
How does Moses make coffee?
He brews it.
Get it?
He brews it.
He brews it.
If you get it, you get it.
All right.
Take a hard look at it.
So this is a vocabulary word.
Our vocabulary word is a hard look.
And we often say take a good hard look.
Right there is good.
Take a good hard look at it.
Or instead of good, we'll say long.
Take a long, hard look at it.
And that means to examine something very closely, carefully and critically, often to understand it better, to find flaws.
Oh, there's a flaw.
I found a flaw.
Make important decisions, implying a deep, honest assessment rather than a casual glance.
You're not casually glancing at it.
You're looking at it deeply.
It's like considering a major life choice.
It suggests you need to stop Think deeply and scrutinize the situation.
What is scrutinize?
That means examine carefully.
So you examine the situation carefully or the object, the thing for improvement.
How could we improve this or truth?
Complicated, long definition.
I just wanted to have fun with it.
Here's an example sentence need to take a good hard look at our budget and see where we can cut costs.
All right, you got that.
Take a good hard look that's our phrase.
Don't forget take a good hard look.
We need to take a good hard look at our budget and see where we can cut costs.
Say it okay one more, one more.
Before accepting the job, she decided to take a long hard look at the company culture.
Company culture.
That's how the company operates.
What it feels like to be at the job.
What do they do?
Are they friendly with each other or not?
It's the culture of a company.
She took a She took a long, hard look at the company culture before she accepted the job.
She wanted to make sure she was a good fit.
Alright, here's our joke.
This might be the ugliest pot I've ever made.
This might be the ugliest pot I've ever made.
Whatever.
It's just a pot.
No one looks that hard.
All right, no one looks that hard.
He says, whatever, it doesn't matter, right?
No one really cares.
No one is going to give it a hard look.
No one is going to examine it closely.
No one looks that hard.
4,000 years later.
People are taking a good hard look at it.
He didn't expect that.
Okay, that's funny.
Go on and on about it.
Here's our next little phrase, go on and on about it.
That means to talk or complain about something for a very long time.
Like a dull meeting or someone's endless story.
Oh, he's going on and on about it.
It can also mean someone is knowledgeable and could talk endlessly.
They can go on and on about it.
They know a lot about it.
They can go on and on about that subject.
It implies tedious talking, which is to talk without stopping about a specific subject, often in a boring way.
Here's our example.
He went on and on about his old car.
He went on and on about his old car.
Excessive length.
So something, an event, a film, a process that lasts for a long time.
For example, the presentation went on and on and on.
All right, long setup for this joke.
Never discuss infinity with a mathematician.
They can go on and on about it forever.
You get it?
Never discuss infinity.
Infinity means forever.
It goes on and on and on.
With a mathematician, they know a lot about infinity, so they can go on and on about it forever.
They will talk about it and they know a lot about it, and they can go on and on about it forever.
All right, I know, when you explain a joke, it's not funny anymore.
Okay, here's another one.
Crows always remember a face.
Did you know that about crows?
Crows remember human faces.
They know, oh, that's that person.
They're smart.
They remember, oh, let's go back.
Crows always remember a face of someone who wronged them.
So, oops, if someone wrongs you, they do something bad, they're mean to you.
So a crow will remember the face of someone who has done something bad to them, who was mean to them, who wronged them, or someone who helped them, but mostly of someone who wronged them.
I like the expression.
Let's go back.
Let's do a fast.
Crows always remember a face of someone who wronged them or someone who helped them, but mostly of someone who wronged them.
Boom.
Good workout.
Having some fun with some English practice.
Keep moving forward one step at a time.
I'll see you in the next English speaking practice video.
