Learn the English Phrases "to put together" and "to pull yourself together"

In this English lesson, I wanted

to help you learn the English phrase

to put together.

When you put something together,

it means there are pieces.

And then you attach all the pieces

together with glue or screws

or nails or something like that.

If you're wondering what the noise

is, Jen's driving by in her gator,

which kind of cracks me up because

one of the last comments was that

there was too much noise when I make

these videos in town and some,

someone wanted me to do them on the

peaceful farm.

And I thought I should do that.

But, then there was still

some traffic, wasn't there?

Anyways, when you go to Ikea

and you buy a bed, it comes

in a box and then you

need to put it together.

When you get home, you need

to use the tools and the screws

that they give you.

Or maybe you need to get

your own screwdriver

and you take all the pieces.

And when you're done, after you put

the bed together, you have a, bed.

So when you put something together,

it's in pieces and then

when it's done, it's whole.

The other phrase I wanted

to teach you today is

to pull yourself together.

I might have taught this one before.

All of a sudden I just thought, maybe

I have, but I'll teach it again.

Anyways, if you are emotional,

if you are sad or upset

or crying, you might need

to pull yourself together.

Let's say you're at a wedding

and it's beautiful and maybe

someone you know is getting

married and you're,

you're just crying a little bit,

but they're tears of joy.

And then you have to go

up and give a speech.

You need to pull yourself

together before you go

up and give the speech.

You need to get control

of your emotions.

You need to calm down.

So to review, to put together,

to put something together means,

oh, here's another good example.

If you ever played with

Lego, you get a Lego set.

And then you need to put

together all the pieces

to build what you are building.

And to pull yourself together simply

means to calm yourself down

when you're in an emotional state.

When you're in a heightened

emotional state.

But hey, let's look at a comment

from a previous video.

This comment is from ksenom.

I never get up

on the wrong side of the bed.

There's a concrete wall.

What's the difference between make

the bed and assemble the bed?

Dandelions grow here in Finland too.

However, this spring,

the night temperatures have been

unusually low,

so the flowers haven't appeared.

Yet. And my response, when you buy a bed

from a store, you assemble it.

You do this once,

you put it together.

When you make the bed,

you tidy up the blankets.

So thanks ksenom.

for that comment.

And hopefully you

understood the difference.

When you use the verb

to make the bed, it's to put

all the blankets flat.

But if you were to get wood

and cut the wood and like, not

assemble it, like you are literally

going to build it, we could

use the verb make as well.

But generally, 99% of the time when

you make the bed, it means you're

putting the blankets on nicely.

Today I wanted to talk about shade.

The shade has returned

on my farm, on my property.

One of the problems with making

videos in town is that you don't get

to see all of the changes

here on the farm property.

So you can see that hopefully I'm

not rotating you too quickly.

You can see that shade has returned.

I'm standing in the shade

of this tree and it is beautiful.

And hopefully, cross my fingers,

the weather is beautiful

on the first Saturday of June.

And I can sit here.

You'll recognize

the view in a moment.

I can sit here and do my live stream.

We'll see.

Hopefully the weather's

good that day.

It's, too far away to read

the forecast right now, but,

hopefully it is.

Anyways, thanks for watching

these short English lessons.

I'll see you in a couple

days with another one.

Bye.