Learn the English Phrases WAIT AND SEE and WAIT FOR IT!

In this English lesson,

I wanted to help you learn the English phrase

to wait and see.

Sometimes you don't know what's going to happen,

and so you want to wait and see what happens.

And we even call this the wait and see approach.

Maybe you're someone who likes to invest money

in the stock market,

but right now, you're going to hold onto your money,

because you just want to wait and see what will happen.

You don't feel like investing your money now,

because you're not sure if the market will go up or down.

So you might take a wait and see approach.

Sometimes when you're looking to buy something,

you think to yourself, you know what?

I might just wait and see if the price will go down,

or I'll wait and see if the price will go up.

So it just means to wait,

and to eventually see what happens,

to see what change takes place.

The second phrase I wanted to teach you today

is the phrase, wait for it, that's kind of how you say it.

Wait for it.

This is a common phrase.

When you're watching short video clips on TikTok

or Instagram, sometimes they'll show someone walking along,

and then they'll have the words on the screen, wait for it,

which means that something's going to happen.

Maybe that person is going to get caught in a rainstorm.

Maybe that person is going to slip and fall.

And when they say wait for it at the beginning of the video,

they're telling you that something's gonna happen,

and you should wait.

It's actually become a pretty common phrase

on those platforms.

Anyways, to review, when you wait and see,

it means you wait,

because you think something will change,

and you're not sure what that will be,

but you're going to wait and see what that change is.

And when someone says to you wait for it,

it means that something exciting is going to happen,

and they want you to be ready to see it.

Maybe someone's showing you a clip from a sporting game,

and they say, and you're like, this is kind of boring.

And they might say, wait and see, or wait for it.

Sorry, I used the wrong phrase.

Wait for it.

And then something exciting will happen in the game.

Anyways, let's look at a comment from a previous video.

This comment is from Lemon Cute.

Hi Bob, in my place, the roads are quite flat and long,

so it's very suitable for jogging.

It's pretty cool.

And my response is it probably also makes it easier

to see traffic coming.

So yes.

Thanks, Lemon Cute, for that comment.

I'm just laughing,

'cause a goat is actually yelling over here.

Maybe we'll go see it.

But yes, when roads are flat,

it probably makes it nice for walking and jogging

as you said, and that's probably really cool.

'Cause you can see if there are cars coming.

You're probably really curious now to see this goat,

so let me spin you around.

The goats are coming out.

They're on pasture.

You can see this goat here is actually,

that goat's actually pooping.

So you get an extra view of real farm life,

and there's a mom and its baby over there,

and now they're scared of me,

so they're going to run back into the barn.

We don't have a lot of goats by the way.

We only have I think about four or five goats now.

The other thing I wanted to show you today

is across the river.

The geese are back, and I'll have to zoom in for you,

but the geese have eaten a lot of my neighbor's crop

across the river.

He, probably almost two acres of his soybeans

have been eaten by the geese.

Not a very nice thing.

Anyways, we're walking here in the peonies,

they're all done for the year.

We have harvested all the flowers.

We have sold all of them, so that's kind of exciting,

and yeah, I'm actually just out here right now

in the heat of the day.

It's very, very warm here right now.

It's almost 36 degrees, which is abnormal for us.

So I'm running out of things to talk about,

because the heat is too much,

but I'll stop the video by showing you this.

We have a little tray here of sunflowers

that still need to go in the ground.

Actually some of these, yeah, I think they're sunflowers.

I think I've, in the heat of the day,

I've talked longer than I normally have.

So anyways, thanks for watching.

I hope you're having a good day,

and I'll see you in a couple days

with another short English lesson, bye.

I'm gonna go back in the air conditioned house now.

It really is too hot to be outside right now, bye.