Learn the English Phrases "You're seeing things!" and "Seeing is believing!"

In this English lesson, I wanted to help

you learn the English phrase you're seeing things.

We say this to someone when they describe something

and you find it really hard to believe.

If we were driving along and Jen said,

I just saw 50 airplanes in the sky,

I'd probably say, ah you're seeing things.

It's all in your imagination.

I don't believe what you are saying.

If Jen phoned me and said, hey, come

to Tim Hortons right now, donuts are free,

I would say, oh, you're seeing things.

Basically what I'm saying is, I don't believe you.

The other phrase I wanted to teach you

today is the phrase seeing is believing.

If I said to you that the A W is the

best place to eat hamburgers and you said, no, I don't

believe it, and you actually came there, you might say that

you now believe me because seeing is believing.

Sorry, that's a bad example.

Because probably when you taste it

that you will believe me.

Let me think of a better example.

Let's say if I said the A and W

has the best window decorations in the entire town.

By the way, I'm standing in

front of the A W restaurant.

If I said they have the best

window decorations, you might say, nah.

And then if you actually came there,

I would say, seeing is believing.

So when you actually see it,

then you believe what I said.

So to review, if you tell someone you're

seeing things, it means you're telling them you

don't believe what they say they are seeing.

And if you say seeing is believing, it

means that when you actually see something for

yourself, then you believe that it is true.

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

This comment is from Denis.

Thanks a lot for the lesson, Bob.

The Great Lakes region is an incredible place.

Have you had a chance to visit them all?

And my response, I have not visited Lake

Superior, but I have visited the other four.

Someday Jen and I will make a

trip way up north to see it.

So thanks, Denis, for that comment.

Yeah, Lake Superior is pretty far away.

I have not seen Lake Superior.

Let me just move this camera a

little bit so it's in the center.

It's a little bit of a drive.

I know that other teachers from my school have

been that far north, either for a camping trip

or if we have student athletes or if we

have a team that does really, really well.

Sometimes we have to go way up north

to play other schools in the provincial championships.

So I know some teachers have been that far north and they

have experienced that. It is a busy day here in town.

I'm not sure if you can tell.

The other thing is it's extremely bright out today.

I'm always surprised at how bright

the winter sun can be.

I think it has a little bit to do with

the fact that the air is thinner in the winter.

That would be my guess, that in the

winter the air in the sky is thinner.

And so you get this.

I'll just put it in the camera for a sec.

This extremely bright sunshine in the

winter, but I'll take it.

We went for weeks and weeks

with hardly any sunshine at all.

So it's quite nice to have a little bit of sunshine

now. I'm moving into the shade again.

See, it's nice to have evergreen trees in

the winter because they allow for a little

bit of shade for me to stand in.

But, yeah, I'll take it. What was I saying?

Yeah, we had days and days on end where it was just

kind of gray, like cloudy every day and not very bright.

Your ability to create vitamin D is

related to being out in the sunshine.

So I do enjoy being out here for a bit.

I know I probably need to be out here for 20 minutes

to start making vitamin D, but it's nice to be outside and

to catch a few rays at this time of year.

Anyways, thanks for watching.

I hope you're having a good day and I'll see

you in a couple days with another short English lesson. Bye.