Learn the English Phrases "the great outdoors" and "to go to great lengths"

In this English lesson.

I wanted to help you learn the English

phrase "the great outdoors". Well we're in it.

We're in the great outdoors.

This is simply a fun way to

refer to being outside in nature.

When I made my video on my other channel

the other day, I was in the great outdoors.

I went for a hike. It was a lot of fun.

It's fun to be in the great outdoors.

And we use this phrase a lot.

We'll say things like, oh, it's nice

to be out in the great outdoors.

I love to go camping in the great outdoors.

I love to go hiking in the great outdoors.

I love to go fishing in the great outdoors.

All very common ways to talk

about being outside in nature.

And why do we say it? I don't know.

Because it's great.

I think that's my simple explanation.

It's great to be outside.

It's great to be in the great outdoors.

The other phrase I wanted to teach you

today is to go to great lengths.

Now, when you go to great lengths to do something,

it means you work extra hard and extra long and

you focus on it really, really precisely and strongly.

When I plan my lessons, I go to great

lengths to make sure the lessons are good.

I come up with the idea.

I usually make a whole list of notes.

I highlight all the words that I want to teach in the

lesson, and then I take my paper with me because I like

to go to great lengths to make sure that the lesson is

done well and that all of you benefit from it.

So to review, the great outdoors is simply this. I'm

in the great outdoors right now and it's really nice.

And to go to great lengths means

that you just work really hard.

You put a lot of effort into

something to make sure it is good.

I go to great lengths to make lessons that

I can do outside or in other places.

I go to great lengths to make sure that happens.

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

I know I seem distracted.

There's sounds around me, but you can't hear them

probably. I'm not sure what they are.

Like a clunking sound.

I should do that lesson on

sounds at some point, shouldn't I?

This is from Ricardo.

The good mood is directly related to the brightness.

It is a kind of chain reaction.

The blue sky implies the sun.

The sun implies vitamin D in our body,

and the vitamin D contributes to generating endorphins.

And eventually these give us a feeling of happiness.

Closed circle.

And my response, I guess there is an explanation for it.

And I think Ricardo is referring to how

when you are outside, it is nice and

beautiful and awesome and you just feel better.

And a lot of that is because of things

like the blue sky, the fresh air just being

away from the sounds of traffic, although I can

hear a large dump truck going by right now.

So thanks, Ricardo, for that comment.

It is nice to come outside and get some

sunshine, to get some fresh air and to allow

my body to make some vitamin D.

It's one thing that here in Canada, people

often take vitamin D supplements in the winter.

We're close to the time of year

where the days are the shortest.

We're about a month and a half away

from the shortest day of the year.

Not my favorite day.

It will start to get dark at like 4:30 in the afternoon.

Something that I guess for me is normal,

but I guess in some parts of the

world that would seem really, really strange.

But I guess on the flip side, in the summer

it's light out till 10:00 at night in June.

So, yeah, you get, what is it, six

of one, half a dozen of the other.

I think that might be the English phrase.

You get a little bit of both.

So I don't enjoy the shorter days,

but they come and go quickly.

By the end of January into

February, it's usually a lot better.

Anyways, thanks for watching this short English lesson.

Here's a couple dogs coming to bark at me and

now they realized it's me, so they just ran away.

Anyways, thanks for watching.

I'll see you in a couple

days with another short English lesson. Bye.