Learn the English term PEP TALK and the phrase PEPS ME UP

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In this English lesson,
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I wanted to help you learn the English term, pep talk.
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A pep talk is a talk that someone gives you
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that makes you more excited about something.
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As the new school year approaches,
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we find that we are giving each of our children
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a little pep talk.
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We're just kind of encouraging them
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that we think they'll do well
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when they get back to school
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because we want them to be excited.
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So again, when you give someone a pep talk,
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it's a conversation that you have with them
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where you are trying to make sure
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that they are excited about something that they are doing
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or that they are going to do.
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Often, coaches of sports teams
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will give their team a pep talk before they play a game.
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If you watch my video from earlier last week,
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where I was encouraging you to keep working hard
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as you continue to learn English,
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you could say that that video was a pep talk.
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In that video, I was giving you a pep talk
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encouraging you to do well
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as you continue to learn English.
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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today
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is the phrase peps me up.
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So we have this word pep,
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and when we say that something peps me up
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or when I say that something peps me up,
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it means it gives me energy or it makes me excited.
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When I drink coffee in the morning, it peps me up.
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It literally gives me energy.
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I think the caffeine in coffee
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is known to do that in people.
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So if I say that something peps me up,
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it means that it gives me energy
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and makes me more energetic,
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makes me more excited to do what I'm doing.
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If I was talking about another person,
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I could say, "When he drinks a can of Coke, it peps him up."
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So notice I changed it from peps me up to peps him up.
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So again, if you give someone a pep talk,
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it's a conversation or a talk that you give
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to get them excited for something they are doing
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or going to do.
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And if you say that something peps you up
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or if I was to say that something peps me up,
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it means that it is something that gives me energy
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or gives me excitement
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or it makes me just super energetic
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to do what I'm going to do.
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Let's look at a comment from a previous video.
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This comment is from Lolly Lolly,
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and it's from the video I did on bear a grudge,
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and Lolly Lolly says, "Hello from France.
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"Bear a grudge and hold a grudge equals the same meaning?
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"Thanks, Bob."
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And my response was, "Yes, I should have mentioned that.
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"Oops, it didn't occur to me at the time."
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So yes, it's weird in English.
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Sometimes we have two phrases
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that mean exactly the same thing.
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If you bear a grudge or if you hold a grudge,
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it means you are annoyed with somebody
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because of something that they did.
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I think I might bear a grudge or hold a grudge
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against the bird that keeps chirping over there
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while I'm trying to make my video.
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In my area of Ontario, Canada,
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I think we use the phrase bear a grudge more often,
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so I didn't think of the phrase to hold a grudge
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at the time.
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It might be more American.
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I know I've heard it many, many times on television shows
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where somebody does something to someone
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and then the other person will hold a grudge
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or bear a grudge against them.
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So, yeah, I think I said that, right?
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I think say bear a grudge,
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but I think hold a grudge might actually be more common.
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So anyways, just a little bit of,
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I'm just gonna talk a little bit
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about the river behind me.
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It's a beautiful day here.
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And I have to say,
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I feel very lucky to live beside a river.
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I think that all of the people in the world
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that live beside a body of water,
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like the ocean or a lake or a river or even a stream,
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there's something really special about water.
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Water's just really cool.
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There's something peaceful about this for me.
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When I come out here and I see the river,
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it's easy to calm down.
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It's easy to just feel better about life.
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It says if the river just quietly gives me a pep talk
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every time I'm out here looking at it.
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So that's my little poetic image for the day for you.
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Anyways, thanks for watching.
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See you tomorrow in another little English lesson.
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