Learn the English Expressions "Sounds good!" and "Sounds bad!"

In this English lesson, I wanted to help

you learn the English expression sounds good.

Now this is something we say to

people when we are agreeing with them.

If a friend of mine said, hey Bob, do

you want to meet at the restaurant tomorrow at

08:00 in the morning for some breakfast, I might

say, sounds good, I'll see you then.

Sometimes Jen needs help with some work

when I get home from school.

And if Jen says, hey, when you get home tomorrow,

can you come out and help me with something?

I might say, sounds good.

As soon as I get home I'll put my farm clothes

on and I'll come out and help you with that.

I usually don't wear my school clothes

when I'm working on the farm.

They would get muddy and my

shirts wouldn't last as long.

I'll talk about that more in a moment.

The other phrase I wanted to teach you today,

or term or expression actually is sounds bad.

And we also sometimes just

say, that doesn't sound good.

And this is something we say when something isn't good.

So if I knew someone who went to the hospital and they

needed to get x rays, I might say, oh, sounds bad.

Do you think they broke a bone?

If someone says to me, I wrote an English

test a couple weeks ago, I haven't got my

results back yet, but I don't think I did

very well, I might say, oh, that sounds bad.

Notice sometimes we put that in

front that that sounds bad.

Hopefully you did okay.

So to review, when you say sounds good,

it means you're happy about something, you're looking

forward to something, you think it's good.

Hey Bob, can you make a video next week for us?

Sounds good.

I'll get right on it.

And if someone says, sounds bad, it usually

means you think a situation isn't good.

If someone says, there was a windstorm the

other day and lots of trees fell over,

you might say, oh, sounds bad there.

I hope things will be okay.

Sometimes the electricity goes out too and

it sounds worse than it is, so.

But you still might say, ooh, sounds bad.

I hope the electricity comes back on soon. So to review...

Oh, did I review already?

I think I did, didn't I?

Oh, I'm losing track of what I'm doing.

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

Let's do that instead.

And if I did forget to review, then,

oh well, I didn't do it this time.

I think I did though.

Anyways, it's been a long week.

This is how my brain works.

This is from Ünsal and Ünsal,

I shortened your comment a bit.

I hope that's okay with you.

It was a great comment.

I just didn't have time to read all of it.

Ünsal says hi teacher Bob, all

your shirts look brand new.

How do you manage to preserve to

preserve your shirts for many years?

I'm saying the word wrong.

How do you manage to preserve your shirts

for many years without fading or wearing out?

If you don't have several of the same ones,

can you share the secret? And my response?

I have slowly cycled through some of them, but

I do have shirts that are 20 years old.

This one is in fact that old.

They are good enough to wear underneath a

sweater, but not quite good enough to wear

by themselves because I usually wear blue plaid,

many of them might look similar in my videos.

So thanks Ünsal for that.

Yeah, my blue shirts.

So one of the things I've noticed is that because

I work inside and I'm not in the sun, and

because as a teacher, I don't do any physical labor.

Like, I'm not lifting things or moving things throughout

the day, I think my shirts just last longer.

My clothes that I wear on the farm do not last

as long as the clothes I wear for work at school.

And also, I'm not in the sun, right.

I'm inside all day, so maybe there's

less wear on the shirts as well.

So what am I doing out here?

I'm walking along what I think are forsythia bushes.

I just love this yellow color.

I should have checked with Jen before

I start saying the name out loud.

I'm out here for a walk, trying

not to trip over the plants.

They're trying to grab me.

I'll show you what just about grabbed me there.

So this is quite thorny.

That's why.

Sorry.

That was a good example.

That's why farm clothes don't last

as long as school clothes.

I don't walk by thorny bushes when I'm at school

Anyways, so I hope you're having a good day.

I hope this rather scatterbrained English lesson

actually helps you a little bit.

I'll see you next week with another one. Bye.