Learn the English Phrases "to have a ways to go" and "Way to go!"

In this English lesson,

I wanted to help you learn the English phrase

to have a ways to go.

When you say someone has a ways to go,

it means it's going to be a long time

before they get somewhere or before they finish something.

Maybe you're on a long trip,

and someone says, "How much further before we get there?"

You can say, "Oh, we have a ways to go.

It's going to be another three or four hours."

Maybe you're working on a big project at work,

and your boss says,

"Will you have that project done soon,"

you could say, "No, sorry, boss.

We have a ways to go.

It will still be another two or three days

before we done it."

Before we done it?

Before we're done it.

Please ignore that mistake there.

That was not proper English.

So anyways, to have a ways to go

means you have a long ways to travel.

You have to go a long way before you get somewhere,

or you need more time to get something done.

But this phrase, way to go, looks very similar,

but it means something completely different.

This is something I would yell

when someone does something really well.

If I was watching a sports game and my team scored,

I would be like, "Yeah, way to go!

Way to go!"

because I would be happy that they did something good.

Maybe you're watching someone from your family run a race

or do something athletic,

and they win or they do really well.

You would yell, "Way to go!"

So to review, to have a ways to go

means you need to travel for a while or you need more time

to either get somewhere or finish something,

and if you yell, "Way to go!" to someone,

it means that they've done something

and you think it's really cool

that they've done something well.

Way to go.

I could say this about all of you

with your English learning.

Every time you have a little bit of success,

I could say, "Way to go.

Good job."

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

This comment is from Maria.

"I hope you and Jen have good luck harvesting

and selling the flowers,

and that everything goes well.

We'll miss you, but that's okay.

We'll wait until October 12th.

Greetings from Venezuela."

And my response is a simple, "See you soon."

Yeah, it is good to see all of you again.

It's good to be out here making videos.

We did have a very nice end to our flower season.

It's still going a little bit,

but the main thing is that the farmer's market is done

and we did get quite a bit of frost.

So we are doing things like this.

This used to all be flowers.

The frost killed the flowers,

so we tilled this up

so that those flowers are in the ground now.

They can decompose and this bed can rest for the winter,

and we can grow something else there next year.

The farmer's market is done,

but we still have a few sales here and there.

There were a couple of things

that actually survived the frost.

Some of the dahlias,

we put irrigation on them in the night,

so that they would stay a little warmer

than the ambient temperature outside.

We also covered some things, but market's done.

But we do save a few things,

and we sell 'em to people here and there.

But as you can tell,

I think I'm just quite excited that the season,

the growing season is mostly over.

We don't have to work crazy hours.

I once again have lots of time to make YouTube videos,

which is obviously something I like doing,

because I keep coming back to this.

So once again, thank you for watching.

Thank you above all for being patient,

for allowing me to take a couple weeks off.

I know all of you posted really nice, positive comments

about me taking a break,

but once again, just thank you.

Thank you for being understanding.

I think part of what makes me enjoy life

is being able to do a variety of things for work.

Some YouTubers just do YouTube,

some flower farmers just grow flowers,

some teachers just teach,

but I do all three,

because I think the variety makes my life more enjoyable,

but it also gives me more ideas to make cool lessons

for all of you.

Anyways, thanks for watching.

I'm back on track.

You'll see a new video in a couple days as well.

Have a good day. Bye.