Learn the English Phrases "to make do" and "to make a living"

In this English lesson, I wanted to help

you learn the English phrase to make do.

Sorry, I forgot to put the to here.

When you make do, it means you do

the best you can with what you have.

This shirt doesn't have a pocket and I

like to put my microphone on the pocket.

So I just had to make do and I stuck

the microphone up here on the brim of my hat.

Sometimes in the morning, if you are a

coffee drinker, maybe you like cream in your

coffee and all you have is milk.

So you might have to make do and put a

little bit of sugar and a little bit of milk

in your coffee instead of putting in some yummy cream.

So when you make do, it means you

do the best with what you have.

The other phrase I wanted to teach you

today is the phrase to make a living.

I forgot the to here as well.

I'm getting a little sloppy, aren't I?

When you make a good living or when

you make a living, it means you earn

enough money to live to pay your bills.

When I go to work every day, I do

that because I need to make a living.

I need to earn money so that I can

pay my mortgage and pay my for gas and

groceries and all of those other things.

So to review, when you need to make do, you

do the best you can with what you have.

Maybe you can't afford to take an English class.

So you make do by watching a lot of YouTube

videos which are free, by the way, which is awesome.

I love it that YouTube videos are free.

And when you make a living, it means you have

a job, you get a paycheck, you get paid for

doing that job, and you can use that money to

pay for all the things around you.

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

This is from Will.

So in the last video, Will is referring to this.

At 1 minute, 13 seconds, a cute squirrel

is crossing the street against the backdrop and

my response, look at him go.

So if you go to the last video at that

point in the video, you will see that.

Thanks Will for that comment.

So uh, yes, squirrel.

Sometimes squirrels are in the video because

they want to help you pronounce squirrel.

Um, I wanted to show you the dogs right now.

Jen has left for market.

I will be leaving for market shortly.

I have to wait for, uh, one of my

kids to get home with the other van.

But this is what the dogs do when

Jen goes to market, they are sad.

They simply sit by the house and

they wait for her to come home.

They will go with me to do certain chores.

If I have to go feed the chickens or

something before I leave or do something out in

the field, they will come with me.

But as I've mentioned before, they

are very much Jen's dogs.

In fact, someone asked, I think Lolly

Lolly asked in a live stream a

couple weeks ago, where are the dogs?

And I responded by saying, well, if you watch

Jen's YouTube channel, I'll put a link up here.

Most of you know about it.

You'll see the dogs a lot.

You'll see that they do indeed

stick with her all the time.

I'm like, oh, here's a good use of make do.

When Jen's not here, they, they make

do by hanging out with me.

I'm not the alpha dog.

I'm like, second in command, I

guess, of in the dog kingdom.

So anyways, it's a Thursday.

It is Thursday afternoon.

I'm done work for the day and I'm home.

I just helped Jen load the van.

Now I have to wait for my

kids to finish their school day.

And then when they come home, I will

take some more flowers in the second van

and go to market and join Jen there.

It's not ideal, but we have to make do.

We don't want to buy a third

vehicle because we don't really need three.

You know, two works at this time of

the year, things are a little crazy.

So it's not ideal.

So we just make do.

So Jen will have to sell flowers by herself

for a bit, and then when I arrive, I

can help her and get that done.

Yeah, that's still there.

I haven't gotten to that job yet.

I had, I had a number

of other things that took precedence.

So, anyways, thanks for watching.

I hope you enjoyed this short English lesson.

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