Learn the English Phrase FEEL FREE and the English term FREE-FOR-ALL

In this English lesson I wanted

to help you learn the English phrase feel free.

If we say to someone feel free,

we're basically saying go ahead or sure or yes.

If my brother said to me, hey, can I use your van tonight?

I could respond and say feel free.

I'm basically saying, go ahead, it's no problem.

If you want to borrow my van, feel free to borrow my van.

We also sometimes start sentences like this.

I could bring pizza into the staff room at school,

if I brought in a huge pizza

and I didn't need to eat all of it myself,

I could say, hey, feel free to take a slice of pizza

if you want one.

So feel free simply means go ahead

or if you want to do something you can do it.

Feel free.

You can feel free to watch these videos whenever you want.

You don't have to ask permission, you can just do it.

Hey, the second phrase I wanted to look at today is more

of a term than a phrase but it's free-for-all.

When something is a free-for-all it means that a bunch

of people are doing something and there's no rules involved.

I'm trying to think of a really good example.

If I brought a bag of candy to my classroom

and if I started throwing the candy onto the floor,

it would become a free-for-all.

That would mean that students would be jumping

out of their desks trying

to get the candy off of the ground.

They would probably push each other out of the way.

It would definitely be a free-for-all.

So a free-for-all is any situation where there are a number

of people and they're just behaving based

on what they want to do right away in that moment

instead of according to rules

or any kind of guidelines that I would give.

Does happen sometimes.

I once had a grandparent visit one of my classrooms

and start throwing candy around

and it turned into a free-for-all.

Yes, students were jumping under their desks

to get the candy.

Anyways, let's review.

If you say to someone in English feel free

you're basically saying go ahead

or it's fine with me or yes.

The example I gave was if my brother wanted

to borrow a vehicle, I would say, hey, feel free.

Anytime you need to borrow a vehicle feel free

and just come and get one.

And a free-for-all is any situation where a group

of people behaves in a way basically doing

what they want right in the moment

instead of maybe obeying laws or rules.

So free-for-alls can get a little bit dangerous.

I don't recommend throwing candy

to large groups of teenagers.

They go a little bit crazy.

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

This is from Natalia if I did the translation right.

Hi Natalia, thanks for the comment.

"See you on Monday", question mark.

So this is actually a question from Natalia

because in the last video,

the one that you watched Wednesday morning,

I said see you on Monday.

I don't know why.

For some reason I got my days mixed up.

And Julia actually responded

and says "it seems Friday got the boot this week"

which was one of the phrases I taught in that lesson.

Aleksey says "maybe Bob is right.

It's time to stop working and have a nice rest until Monday.

Hope my boss will not give me the boot."

And then my response was this, "oops, my bad,

I'm still adjusting to the time change I guess.

There will be a lesson on Friday as well as Monday."

So you're actually watching that Friday lesson right now

but yes, we had a time change a week and a half ago

so we lost an hour of sleep because we moved our clocks

and it's still affecting me a little bit.

It always feels like it's not the right time of the day.

I know it's been a week and a half,

you're watching this video on a Friday

so it's been like almost two weeks for me,

but I'm still getting my days mixed up

and my times mixed up and I'm waking up at weird times

and it felt really, really early

when I did the Friday AM live stream a week ago.

I think eventually I will adjust to the new time.

I wish we didn't have daylight savings time.

I wish we just didn't have it

because it's really mixes people up.

Maybe someday we'll change it.

We'll see, who knows?