Learn the English Phrases HAVE IN MIND and DO YOU MIND

6,775 views ・ 2020-11-03

Bob's Short English Lessons


Please double-click on the English subtitles below to play the video.

00:00
In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn
0
490
2310
00:02
the English phrase "have in mind."
1
2800
2010
00:04
We usually use this phrase in two questions.
2
4810
3200
00:08
You might hear the question, what do you have in mind?
3
8010
2810
00:10
And you might hear the question, who do you have in mind?
4
10820
2740
00:13
Here's an example.
5
13560
1140
00:14
Let's say Jen says,
6
14700
1387
00:16
"Hey, I think we should go out this Saturday night."
7
16087
2713
00:18
I can say to her, "What do you have in mind?"
8
18800
2620
00:21
What I'm asking is, what are you thinking we should do?
9
21420
3680
00:25
Or what are you planning?
10
25100
1870
00:26
What do you think would be fun for us to do?
11
26970
2130
00:29
So I would say to her, "What do you have in mind?"
12
29100
3300
00:32
Let's imagine another situation.
13
32400
1840
00:34
Maybe Jen wants to hire someone to work on our flower farm.
14
34240
3710
00:37
I could say, "Who do you have in mind?"
15
37950
1970
00:39
And basically what I'm asking her is,
16
39920
2140
00:42
who is the person you are thinking of hiring?
17
42060
2460
00:44
So when you say to someone, "What do you have in mind?"
18
44520
3070
00:47
It means, what are you thinking?
19
47590
1730
00:49
And when you say to someone, "Who do you have in mind?"
20
49320
2320
00:51
We're asking, who are you thinking about?
21
51640
2630
00:54
The second phrase I wanted to teach you today
22
54270
2160
00:56
is the phrase "Do you mind?"
23
56430
1600
00:58
This is a polite way to ask someone
24
58030
3010
01:01
if they can do something.
25
61040
1710
01:02
Sometimes in my classroom, I'll say to a students,
26
62750
2690
01:05
I'll say to a student, sorry,
27
65440
1687
01:07
"Do you mind closing the window?"
28
67127
1663
01:08
Or, "Do you mind opening the window?"
29
68790
2360
01:11
It's just a polite way to ask someone to do something.
30
71150
3310
01:14
Sometimes in the kitchen, Jen will say,
31
74460
1707
01:16
"Hey Bob, do you mind handing me a fork?"
32
76167
2273
01:18
Or, "While you're up, do you mind getting cups
33
78440
2970
01:21
for all of the children?"
34
81410
960
01:22
So when you say to someone, "Do you mind?"
35
82370
2670
01:25
and then you ask them to do something,
36
85040
1740
01:26
it's just a polite way to ask them to do it.
37
86780
2140
01:28
So to review, when you use the phrase,
38
88920
2557
01:31
"Who do you have in mind?" or "What do you have in mind?"
39
91477
2733
01:34
you're asking basically what the person is thinking about
40
94210
2740
01:36
or who they are thinking about.
41
96950
1620
01:38
And when you say to someone, "Do you mind?"
42
98570
2340
01:40
and then you ask them to do something,
43
100910
1780
01:42
it's just a really polite way to ask them
44
102690
1950
01:44
to do something for you.
45
104640
880
01:45
So I always say things like this,
46
105520
2811
01:48
"Do you mind clicking the thumbs up on this video?"
47
108331
3669
01:52
Or actually I usually say, "Would you mind?"
48
112000
2060
01:54
in that case, don't I?
49
114060
1300
01:55
Yeah, interesting, 'cause you can use both.
50
115360
2190
01:57
I could say to a student,
51
117550
917
01:58
"Would you mind opening the window?"
52
118467
1583
02:00
And I could say, "Do you mind opening the window?"
53
120050
1970
02:02
Both work.
54
122020
1090
02:03
Hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.
55
123110
2840
02:05
This comment is from Aleksey and Aleksey says,
56
125950
3597
02:09
"Thumbs up and only then watching the video over again.
57
129547
3143
02:12
Listening to Bob's voice, reading the subtitles,
58
132690
2290
02:14
and speaking aloud at the same time
59
134980
2280
02:17
'cause there's no time for farting around."
60
137260
1970
02:19
Great use of the phrase, by the way.
61
139230
1587
02:20
"Finally writing the comment.
62
140817
1653
02:22
This is my simple plan for learning English
63
142470
2220
02:24
which I follow step by step with my favorite teacher.
64
144690
2750
02:27
Thank you very much."
65
147440
1160
02:28
And my response to Aleksey is this,
66
148600
1867
02:30
"This is an awesome plan.
67
150467
1763
02:32
I'm glad you recognize the importance
68
152230
2060
02:34
of combining different modes of learning.
69
154290
2410
02:36
You've got reading, writing, listening, and speaking
70
156700
2120
02:38
all happening from one video.
71
158820
1770
02:40
Great job Aleksey."
72
160590
1190
02:41
So I do wanna talk about that for a bit.
73
161780
2060
02:43
Thanks for the comment, by the way, Aleksey.
74
163840
1840
02:45
Aleksey, you've kinda keyed into what I think
75
165680
2750
02:48
is a very important aspect of learning the English language
76
168430
3370
02:52
and I'm going to sound a bit like a broken record here
77
172650
2470
02:55
because I say this all the time,
78
175120
1850
02:56
you really need to work on all the areas.
79
176970
2160
02:59
You need to be reading. You need to be listening.
80
179130
2050
03:01
You need to be speaking. You need to be writing.
81
181180
2270
03:03
I hope I didn't forget one.
82
183450
1270
03:04
And then I always add at the end,
83
184720
1390
03:06
you need to be learning new vocabulary
84
186110
2130
03:08
which kind of happens when you're doing the first four
85
188240
2450
03:10
and lately I've been saying as well that you need to do,
86
190690
3320
03:14
you need to learn a little bit of grammar along the way.
87
194010
1880
03:15
I think it's important to learn just a tiny bit of grammar.
88
195890
2400
03:18
So anyways, Aleksey, great comment.
89
198290
2510
03:20
I'm glad you're taking a little four minute English lesson
90
200800
3040
03:23
that I'm creating and turning it into something more.
91
203840
2710
03:26
That's kind of the hallmark of a good learner.
92
206550
3320
03:29
A hallmark is like a sign of someone that's doing,
93
209870
3100
03:32
a sign of something someone is doing well.
94
212970
2310
03:35
So I'm really glad to see that
95
215280
1870
03:37
and I hope some of you can take that as a challenge.
96
217150
3320
03:40
Certainly, these videos can seem
97
220470
2240
03:42
like just a simple four minute video
98
222710
1960
03:44
of some English guy talking, teaching two phrases,
99
224670
3490
03:48
but they're also great for listening practice.
100
228160
2070
03:50
You can listen to them twice.
101
230230
1180
03:51
You can read the subtitles while you listen.
102
231410
2120
03:53
There's a transcript below if you need it.
103
233530
2200
03:55
This is more than just some crazy guy speaking English
104
235730
3060
03:58
for four minutes, see ya.
105
238790
1600
About this website

This site will introduce you to YouTube videos that are useful for learning English. You will see English lessons taught by top-notch teachers from around the world. Double-click on the English subtitles displayed on each video page to play the video from there. The subtitles scroll in sync with the video playback. If you have any comments or requests, please contact us using this contact form.

https://forms.gle/WvT1wiN1qDtmnspy7