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

In this English lesson,

I wanted to help you learn the English term, pep talk.

A pep talk is a talk that someone gives you

that makes you more excited about something.

As the new school year approaches,

we find that we are giving each of our children

a little pep talk.

We're just kind of encouraging them

that we think they'll do well

when they get back to school

because we want them to be excited.

So again, when you give someone a pep talk,

it's a conversation that you have with them

where you are trying to make sure

that they are excited about something that they are doing

or that they are going to do.

Often, coaches of sports teams

will give their team a pep talk before they play a game.

If you watch my video from earlier last week,

where I was encouraging you to keep working hard

as you continue to learn English,

you could say that that video was a pep talk.

In that video, I was giving you a pep talk

encouraging you to do well

as you continue to learn English.

The other phrase I wanted to teach you today

is the phrase peps me up.

So we have this word pep,

and when we say that something peps me up

or when I say that something peps me up,

it means it gives me energy or it makes me excited.

When I drink coffee in the morning, it peps me up.

It literally gives me energy.

I think the caffeine in coffee

is known to do that in people.

So if I say that something peps me up,

it means that it gives me energy

and makes me more energetic,

makes me more excited to do what I'm doing.

If I was talking about another person,

I could say, "When he drinks a can of Coke, it peps him up."

So notice I changed it from peps me up to peps him up.

So again, if you give someone a pep talk,

it's a conversation or a talk that you give

to get them excited for something they are doing

or going to do.

And if you say that something peps you up

or if I was to say that something peps me up,

it means that it is something that gives me energy

or gives me excitement

or it makes me just super energetic

to do what I'm going to do.

Let's look at a comment from a previous video.

This comment is from Lolly Lolly,

and it's from the video I did on bear a grudge,

and Lolly Lolly says, "Hello from France.

"Bear a grudge and hold a grudge equals the same meaning?

"Thanks, Bob."

And my response was, "Yes, I should have mentioned that.

"Oops, it didn't occur to me at the time."

So yes, it's weird in English.

Sometimes we have two phrases

that mean exactly the same thing.

If you bear a grudge or if you hold a grudge,

it means you are annoyed with somebody

because of something that they did.

I think I might bear a grudge or hold a grudge

against the bird that keeps chirping over there

while I'm trying to make my video.

In my area of Ontario, Canada,

I think we use the phrase bear a grudge more often,

so I didn't think of the phrase to hold a grudge

at the time.

It might be more American.

I know I've heard it many, many times on television shows

where somebody does something to someone

and then the other person will hold a grudge

or bear a grudge against them.

So, yeah, I think I said that, right?

I think say bear a grudge,

but I think hold a grudge might actually be more common.

So anyways, just a little bit of,

I'm just gonna talk a little bit

about the river behind me.

It's a beautiful day here.

And I have to say,

I feel very lucky to live beside a river.

I think that all of the people in the world

that live beside a body of water,

like the ocean or a lake or a river or even a stream,

there's something really special about water.

Water's just really cool.

There's something peaceful about this for me.

When I come out here and I see the river,

it's easy to calm down.

It's easy to just feel better about life.

It says if the river just quietly gives me a pep talk

every time I'm out here looking at it.

So that's my little poetic image for the day for you.

Anyways, thanks for watching.

See you tomorrow in another little English lesson.