Learn the English Phrases "to book it" and "to close the book on"

In this English lesson,

I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, to book it.

Now, this has nothing to do with books.

It's kind of an informal slang phrase

that we use to talk about driving quickly

or running quickly.

Sometimes when I'm late for work,

I have to book it in order to make it to work on time.

Sometimes when I'm late for class,

I have to book it from my work area to my classroom

because I want to get to class on time.

So anytime you drive fast

or anytime you run fast,

because you're a little bit late,

we sometimes use the English phrase, to book it.

It's not good when you're late for work to book it,

because there's a good chance

you're going to get a speeding ticket.

But sometimes I do have to book it to get to work on time.

The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is

the phrase, to close the book on.

When you close the book on something,

it means you're no longer talking about it,

you're no longer discussing it.

Let's say you're having a fight with a friend

and you've decided to kind of come to an agreement.

You decide that you're going to close the book

on your disagreement.

When the government is talking to another government,

when a country talks to another country,

if they disagree,

eventually they might come to an agreement,

and then they'll close the book on their disagreement.

That means they won't talk about the things

that they disagree on anymore.

So to review, when you have to book it,

it means you have to go really fast.

Sometimes I do need to book it.

There's just no choice.

If you're late for work,

you gotta drive a little bit faster,

not too much over the speed limit though.

Just a little bit, a tiny bit.

And when you close the book on something,

it means you no longer talk about it.

It means that everyone has come to an agreement

and the discussion is over.

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

This comment is from Konstantin.

Warming up three times,

right you are,

winter has hit us a couple times here but has withdrawn now.

And my response is it will probably hit you hard

in a few weeks.

So thanks, Konstantin, for that comment.

At the end of the last video, I said,

when you get firewood, it warms you up three times.

And what I meant by that is...

Good morning.

What I meant by that is

when you cut firewood,

because it's physical activity,

it warms you up.

The act of actually cutting it warms you up,

because when you work hard, it warms you up.

And then when you stack it, it warms you up again.

And then when you burn it in your stove,

it warms you up one more time.

By the way, I came out here in the middle of nowhere

to make a video,

and still somebody walked by.

I didn't expect that.

Anyways, so when you use firewood to heat your home,

it warms you up three times.

I brought you out here to show you this field

where the crop is harvested.

This was a field of soybeans,

and then to show you this field

where the soybeans were harvested,

and then they actually planted winter wheat.

We have a crop here in Canada called winter wheat.

Instead of planting wheat in the spring,

we most often...

Let me turn so you can see it again.

We most often plant our wheat in the fall.

It germinates. It grows a little bit.

And when winter comes, it goes dormant.

When you say something goes dormant,

it means that it stops growing.

It goes into a state of rest for a little while.

So quite often in Canada,

you'll see fields like this

where the farmer harvested soybeans

and decided not to grow wheat.

And then you'll see fields like this

where the farmer decided to harvest soybeans early

and then they decided to plant wheat.

Maybe I should show you a little bit what it looks like.

Just little rows of wheat out here in the field,

just starting to grow

and probably just getting ready to go to sleep

when it gets cold in a bit.

Anyways, thanks for watching this little English lesson.

I hope you enjoyed the lady and her dog that walked by.

And I'll see you in a couple days with another one. Bye.