Learn the English Phrases IT'S MY TREAT and TO TREAT SOMEONE TO SOMETHING

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In this English lesson, I wanted to help you
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learn the English phrase "it's my treat."
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A couple of days ago we looked at the English phrase
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"it's on me"
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and "it's my treat" means the same thing.
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If you say to someone, "It's my treat,"
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it means you're going to pay for it.
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I could say to a friend of mine,
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"Hey, let's go to Niagara Falls for the day
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and let's do all of the attractions.
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Let's go on the zip line.
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Let's go on the,"
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I was gonna say Maid of the Mist
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but I think the boat has a different name now.
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And then I could say, "It's my treat."
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That means that I'm going to take my friend to Niagara Falls
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and I'm gonna pay for everything.
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So if you say, "It's on me," or if you say, "It's my treat,"
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it means that you're planning to pay
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for whatever activity you're going to do.
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By the way, these videos, they're my treat to you, okay?
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It's on me this time.
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The second phrase I wanted to teach you today
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is the phrase "to treat someone to something."
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When you treat someone to something
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it means you are buying something for them.
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A great example of this would be sometimes
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when we visit Jen's parents,
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Jen's dad will actually treat us to ice cream
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or he'll treat us to a meal
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or he'll treat us,
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a long time ago, he used to treat us to a round of golf.
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I'm not an avid golfer, but a long time ago,
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every once in a while, Jen's dad would treat us
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to a round of golf with him.
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He would take us to the golf course
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and he would pay for everything.
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We didn't have to pay for anything.
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It was really nice.
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So to review, if I say, "It's on me,"
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like we did a couple of days ago,
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or if I say, "It's my treat,"
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it means that I'm going to pay for something.
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And if you say that you are going
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to treat someone to something, it means the same thing.
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It means that you are planning to pay for it.
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So, often, as a parent, I do this.
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I often treat my children to different things.
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In fact, we bought something the other day,
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it's a bit of a surprise.
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I can't tell you what it is right now
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but we are treating our kids
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to something in the next few days.
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I'll let you know what it is when it arrives.
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It's not a big thing, it's just a small thing.
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Anyways, let's look at a comment from a previous video.
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This comment is from the Qiu Park
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and Qiu Park wrote a little two-part conversation here.
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The conversation is this:
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Person A says, "Hey I know a wonderful restaurant.
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Let's go out to eat there.
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It's on me."
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And person B says, "Oh, that's news to me.
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You've never treated me, have you?"
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And my response was this:
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"Nice, I liked that you used the phrase to treat someone.
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I should teach that phrase."
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I just did.
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"Sometimes, after a long day of work on the farm,
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Jen and I will take the kids
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and treat them to an ice cream cone
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at the local ice cream shop."
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We used to do that more.
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There used to be an ice cream shop closer to us
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but that one closed down.
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Now we have to go quite a ways to find ice cream
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but anyways, Qiu Park, thank you very much for that comment.
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And for kind of introducing me
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or reminding me of another phrase,
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to treat someone to something, that I could teach.
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That was a lot of fun,
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but I talk a lot about going out to eat,
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and I want to say a couple of things about that.
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One, Jen and I don't actually go out to eat a lot.
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We don't actually treat our kids
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to a meal in a restaurant very often
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because it does cost quite a bit of money.
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And also right now, you can't actually do that.
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There aren't really any restaurants open.
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What I will say is this, though.
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I do regularly go out and get pizza for the family.
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In fact, we just did that yesterday.
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There's a small pizza place in the town close to us
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which I like to buy pizza from
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because number one, it's delicious.
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Number two, they let me videotape in there once
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for the video on my other channel
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called Let's Learn English at the Restaurant.
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They were very kind and very gracious.
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And so I feel like I owe them a bit of a thank you.
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And so I, sounds kind of funny, right?
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The thank you I give them as I buy more pizza from them.
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It's not really a true gift
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but we do regularly buy pizza from that restaurant
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as a thank you because they were very gracious
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and let me make a video there.
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Anyways, bye, see you in a couple of days
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with another short English lesson.
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