Learn the English Phrases "My heart skipped a beat!" and "a hop, skip, and a jump"

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you

learn the English expression my heart skipped a beat.

Now this can be used in a couple of ways.

It can be used in a romantic way.

Like I could say, the first time I met Jen,

my heart skipped a beat, meaning that I found her

attractive and I was excited to see her.

So my heart skipped a beat.

Like ba bump, buh bump, buh bump, buh bump.

It can also be used for something

that's a little bit scary, though.

As a parent, if the phone rings in the

middle of the night, my heart skips a beat

because it makes me think that maybe one of

my children, maybe something bad has happened to them.

If you are my age and if you have teenage

children and if they are supposed to come home at

midnight and it's one in the morning and the phone

rings, usually my heart skips a beat.

So when you say my heart skipped

a beat, it's the past tense.

It means that something exciting happened

or something a little bit scary happened.

The other phrase I wanted to teach you

today is a hop, skip and a jump.

I think this comes from triple jump in the... the Olympic

sport where you hop, skip and jump, but we use

this to refer to something being not far away.

I could say my brother just lives a

hop, skip and a jump from here.

That's not true, actually.

My sister lives a hop, skip and a jump from here.

My brother lives a little bit further away.

So it's used to talk about distance

and it means not very far.

So to review, if you say my heart skipped

a beat, it could mean that something exciting happened

or it could mean that something scary happened.

And if you say something is a hop, skip and

a jump from here or a hop, skip and a

jump away, it means it's really, really close.

If you hopped and then did a little

skip and a jump, you would be there.

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

This comment is from Judit.

Let me get it open here.

Or Aerosmith77 as she also goes by.

Thanks for this short video, Bob.

I hope it doesn't mean that

you skip tomorrow's video though.

I was happy to hear that you are getting

ready to make a live stream on Friday.

I am looking forward to it and my

response I'm getting ready to go out and

shoot the lesson now, so no skipping.

I guess I'm in the middle of shooting the lesson.

Thanks Judit for that comment.

Yeah, I am definitely out here making a lesson

and putting this lesson up for Wednesday morning.

So this will be ready to go.

I'll do a little bit of editing on it as

when I go back in the house and it will

be ready for all of you to watch.

So a little update.

I have switched from a winter coat to a spring jacket.

I might have referred to this

as my fall jacket last year.

It's kind of funny how the same jacket, when

worn in a different season, gets a different name.

So I put my fall jacket away, wore my winter coat

for the entire winter season, and now I have my spring

jacket on, which looks exactly like my fall jacket.

It's beautiful out here.

Jen and I are really excited to get

started on doing little things on the farm.

Now, I do say it's beautiful,

but it's very brown, isn't it?

Like no leaves on the trees. The.

I should really pick that gate up, shouldn't I?

At some point. Yeah.

I am looking forward to the return of green.

But this is nice.

It's 12 degrees right now, Celsius,

so I'm really, really enjoying it.

I have a list of little chores

I have to do later today.

It's spring break and I have a few things to do.

I'll show you one of them.

I don't know if I'll get to this today, but

this handle on this door has been broken for a

very long time and this lock doesn't work anymore.

So I need to go to the hardware store. I.

Again, I don't know if I'll get this done today, but I

need to go to the hardware store and get a new.

At least a new handle for the door and install that.

So anyways, thanks for watching

this short English lesson.

I'll see you in a little.

In a couple days with another one. Bye.