Learn the English Phrases "to be wired for" and "to be prone to"

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you

learn the English phrase to be wired for.

We sometimes say to be wired to,

but I actually use for more often.

When you're wired for something, it

means you're naturally good at it.

If you think about a professional hockey player,

they're wired for skating on the ice.

It just seems like their brain

already knew how to do that.

Like, if you can picture wiring in your brain that tells

you how to do certain things, they're wired for it.

They're just very, very natural at it.

I think Jen is wired for growing flowers.

She really likes caring for things that

are living, like plants and animals.

She's just wired for it.

So it means that you're good at

something in a very natural way.

Like you didn't necessarily just learn how to do it.

You already had a natural ability to do that thing.

The other phrase I wanted to teach you

today is the phrase to be prone to.

Now, to me, this phrase sounds similar, but I

usually use it to talk about negative things.

So to be wired for is about positive things.

To be prone to can be negative.

Like he's prone to falling off his bicycle.

He's prone to eating too much food.

When you're prone to something, it

means you're likely to do it.

And it's sometimes a mistake.

Like he's likely to come to class with

no pen or pencil to write with.

So he's prone to.

He's likely to.

It's something that will probably happen.

So to review to be wired for something means

to have a natural ability to do that.

Hopefully you're wired for learning English.

That will help you a lot.

And to be prone to means to regularly make mistakes.

I'm prone to making mistakes when I speak French.

Quand je parle français, je fais des fautes.

Hopefully I said that right?

But I am prone to making mistakes.

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

It's a little colder out here than I expected,

and I didn't wear my gloves or coat.

This is from Dhiraj, I think.

Dhirajlama.

Very useful phrases. Thank you, teacher.

Actually, I have a request for you

to make the next video on.

Somebody is wired to and somebody is prone to.

I hear them a lot, but slightly confused with them.

Sometimes they seem similar to me, or maybe

I don't have any idea about these two.

I would be very delighted if you

could work on this request, please.

And my response?

I'll do that today.

Wait, I'll do it today.

Not that I'll do it today.

See, I'm prone to making mistakes

when I speak English as well.

Well, thanks for that comment, Dhirajlama.

Yes, I did it. I'm done.

I made that lesson and hopefully my

explanation made some sense to you.

Well, hey, like I mentioned, I'm out

here today without my coat on.

I probably should have worn it.

I think I've just gotten used to mild weather and

I just leave the house now with no coat on.

But I should have worn it.

Anyways, some of you have seen this place before.

This is my local community center.

I'm sure in your country you have

things that are similar to this.

Our community center has a walking track.

It has an ice rink.

It has a basketball court that you

can also play volleyball or pickleball on.

I don't know if you know what pickleball is.

It's a new sport that people

are starting to play in Canada.

It has... this section here is actually the library.

I'm not sure if I've ever shown you the inside

of that, but it is a very nice place.

It took a while for them to get

all the money together to build it.

And they did have to take down

the old arena, which is back.

It was back there behind me where that band shell is.

That's where the old arena used to be.

But now we have this nice new arena with lots

of extra things that you can do there as well.

My hand is too cold to click the

button three times to make the camera spin around.

Anyways, just a little glimpse of my town in Canada.

Hope you're having a good day.

I'll do another short English lesson

for you in a few days. Bye.