Learn the English Phrases "out of reach" and "out of touch"

In this English lesson, I wanted to help

you learn the English phrase out of reach.

When something is out of reach, it simply means when you

try to grab it, it's a little too far away.

Sometimes in the kitchen, there are things on the

top shelf and they are out of reach.

You can't reach them, but it can also

mean that something you want to do is

something you'll never be able to do.

I will never be prime minister of Canada.

That is out of reach for me.

I would have had to have started my political career years

ago in order to get to that point in my life.

So becoming prime minister is out of reach.

So something can physically be out of reach, but something you

want to do can also be out of reach for you.

The other phrase I wanted to teach you

today is the phrase out of touch.

When someone is out of touch, it means that.

Oh, sorry, this is one of the

first times I forgot to teach something.

You can also say you're out of reach

when someone can't get a hold of you.

If I was to go on vacation really far up

north, I would be out of reach for a few

days because phones don't work that far north.

Now, let's move on.

The other phrase I wanted to teach you

today is the phrase out of touch.

When someone is out of touch, it means that they don't

really know what the current way of doing something is.

So you could say that old people

are a little bit out of touch.

They don't use their phones to

watch things on social media.

They still watch things on a computer.

Maybe instead of, I'm trying to think.

Maybe instead of taking an Uber, they still take

a taxi because they're out of touch and they

don't realize there's a new way to do it.

So to review when something is out of

reach, it means it's hard to actually grab.

When something is out of reach, it means

it's something you won't be able to do.

And if you go on vacation, you might

be out of reach for a while.

And when you're out of touch, it simply means

that you don't know what's hip and cool anymore.

You've just gotten too old and you don't know.

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

This comment is from Denis.

Thanks a lot for the lesson, Bob.

As you get older, you get stuck in your ways.

Just as you become stiffer physically, you also become

stiffer mentally and more narrow minded, unless you make

a conscious effort to keep yourself flexible.

That's from Viggo Mortensen, a quote from

a famous actor. And my response:

I'll try to stay flexible on all fronts.

You know, there's some truth to that.

Like, you become physically quite

stiff as you get older.

Like, it's hard to bend and touch

your toes and do things like that.

And mentally you kind of get stiff as you get older.

It's kind of unfortunate.

It would be nice if we could stay really open

minded and not become as stubborn as we get older.

And it would be nice if I go and run

5 km, if I could walk the next day instead

of sitting for the whole day waiting to feel better.

I did that a couple weeks ago, by the way, with

my son, and I was very stiff the next day.

I'm not sure it was a good idea.

I was able to run the whole race.

I got one of my worst times ever,

but still I was able to do it.

But yeah, it would be nice if we weren't.

But there is always some advantage.

I think we need people who want things to change

and people who want things to stay the same.

And then I think together we

actually get a nice balance.

We get something in the middle and I

think that's a bit of an advantage.

We don't want the new idea people to always get their

way, and we don't want the stubborn stuck in their ways.

People who don't want to change

to always get their way.

We want them to talk to each other and

we want to come up with a compromise.

A compromise is when people with two different opinions find

something in the middle that they can agree on.

Anyways, thanks for watching this lesson.

It's about to get a little bit busy here, but

I will try to keep kicking out lessons and I'll

see you with another one in a couple of days. Bye.