Learn the English Phrases "on good terms" and "on bad terms"

In this English lesson, I wanted to help

you learn the English phrase on good terms.

When you're on good terms with someone, it means that

when you talk to them, they're happy to see you.

It means that if you see them in the street

and they see you, they'll wave or they'll come and

talk to you instead of walking the other way.

When you're on good terms with someone,

it means you have a good relationship.

Sometimes people are married and then they get divorced,

but they are still on good terms with their

spouse or their ex spouse, I guess ex wife. Ex husband.

I don't think we say ex spouse, but

they might still be on good terms.

This means that maybe they have children and

the husband has the children on the weekends

and the wife has them during the week,

and they talk amicably to each other.

They're nice to each other.

When they talk, they're on good terms.

The other phrase I wanted to teach

you today is on bad terms.

Sometimes when a marriage splits up, they

can then be on bad terms.

They can leave on bad terms.

This is the opposite.

This means that they don't like each other, they don't talk

to each other, they are not nice to each other.

It's just kind of a mess.

Maybe if you are on bad terms with someone and

they see you from across the street, they just kind

of pretend that they don't see you because they don't

want to talk to you because you're on bad terms.

So when you're on good terms with someone, it means you're

able to talk to them and have a nice conversation.

And when you're on bad terms, it means that

you just don't really talk to each other.

There's probably something bigger wrong than we actually

realize if people are on bad terms.

But, hey, let's look at a

comment from a previous video.

This comment is from Meng.

I wonder what time you get off work.

The sun is still so bright by the time you get home.

And my response right now, I

work about 70% of full time.

I work from about.

I work from about 7:30 until about 2:30. But sometimes

I pop out and make a video while

I'm at work just to get it done.

That's what I'm doing right now. And that's okay.

I'm allowed to do that.

Also on Thursdays, I'm allowed to leave

a bit earlier during the market season.

So, yeah, it's kind of hard to describe.

Thanks, Meng, for that comment.

It's kind of hard to describe all the ins and

outs of how my job works as a teacher.

I'm a salaried employee.

I'm not paid by the hour.

I am allowed to come and go as I please as

long as I'm getting my work done and doing things properly

and spending a good amount of time at school.

About 70% of a normal workday.

So yes, and on Thursday, when I made

that video last week, I was home a

bit earlier, so it was nice and bright.

But I did want to show you these.

This, us, Know That asked about these in a previous

video and a few of you have commented on them.

These are hanging baskets.

So my town has hanging baskets.

They look better from far away.

Actually, if you get close up, they're kind

of starting to look a bit brown inside.

But if you walk through my

town, you will see hanging baskets.

There's one there, obviously, and then way

over there, there's one as well.

You will see these hanging baskets.

The town puts them up and then someone comes and

waters them, probably every other day or something like that.

In Canada and in most parts of the world,

we want our town to look kind of nice.

So we have things like hanging baskets.

We have things like this flower bed here.

Now this doesn't look amazing, but

there is some wood chips.

You can see that the leaves are

starting to fall off the trees.

I'm sure this is a newer flower bed.

I'm sure in a year or two it will look a lot nicer.

But generally.

Yeah, I was just going to show you.

It's definitely starting to look like fall, isn't it?

Generally we try to have as many

things as possible possible in our towns.

You can see across the street there, there's a

few hanging baskets by that clock as well.

We try to have a few living things, a few

plants around to make things just look a bit nicer.

Anyways, thanks for watching. I'll see you in a couple

days with another short English lesson. Bye.