Learn the English Phrases HERE'S THE DEAL and A BIG DEAL

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In this English lesson, I wanted to help you
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learn the English phrase, here's the deal.
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This is a phrase that we often say in English
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right before we explain something to someone
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or right before we tell someone something.
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I could say to Jen, "Hey, here's the deal.
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Later today, I'm going to go to the grocery store,
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I'm going to go to the library,
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and I'm going to take the kids to the pool to go swimming."
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So basically, any time you're going to explain something
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to someone, you can start by saying, "Here's the deal."
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In my classroom, I do the same thing with my students.
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I might say to them, "Okay, here's the deal.
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We're gonna start with a little quiz today.
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Then we're going to do some reading
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and then we're going to do some listening activities."
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So then they know what we're going to do that day.
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The second phrase I wanted to teach you today
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is more of a term, but it's the term, big deal.
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When something is a big deal,
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it means it's really important to someone.
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When you graduate from school, it's a big deal.
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When you get married, it's a big deal.
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When you get your first job, it's a really big deal.
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So we'll use this phrase in English
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to talk about something that's really important
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and really cool that's happening to you in your life.
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We can also use it to describe a person.
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Sometimes you describe a famous person
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by saying they're a big deal.
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Matt Damon is kind of a big deal in Hollywood.
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He's a very famous actor.
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So to review, when you say to someone, "Here's the deal,"
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it's just a little sentence you use
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before you're going to explain something
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or tell them something.
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And when something is a big deal, it means it's important.
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It was a big deal to me when I bought my first car
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when I was younger.
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It was a big deal because I was then driving a car
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that belonged to me and not my parents.
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It was a pretty big deal for me.
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Anyways, let's look at a comment from a previous video.
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This comment is from Andres, I believe.
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And Andres says, "Good explanation, Mr. Bob.
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Just to get the picture about wheat harvesting,
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if the quality of the wheat was low,
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that means that you have lost money
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or the wheat for animals is also profitable.
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Thank you."
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And my response was this.
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"It means I got a bit less money, but still profitable."
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So yes, I was talking about my wheat harvest the other day,
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and I had promised all of you that I would show you.
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Oh, by the way, thank you, Andres, for the comment.
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I promised I would show all of you the baler when it came,
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but I missed that too, so you don't get to see that.
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But things around here have been a little wet.
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Many of you asked questions about the quality of the wheat.
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Why was the quality of the wheat so low?
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And the reason it was low
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is because it has been too wet here.
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The wheat had a lot of mold on it,
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it had a lot of fungus on it,
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and it just didn't have enough protein for them to use it,
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to make things like flour and bread.
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You can see there's a puddle right there.
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If a car goes by in a moment,
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you'll hear that it's very wet out here.
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I think there's a truck coming right now
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that you'll get to see.
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So you can kinda see that it is wet out here.
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It rained today.
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I think I've mentioned this a number of times
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in my videos lately.
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It just seems to be raining all the time lately.
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It's really good for the crops.
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If you look in the distance,
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the crops across the field are doing really, really well.
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But certainly at some point, it needs to stop raining.
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Even if you look behind me,
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you can see that the sky is a little darker over there
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than it is over there.
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So it's quite possible that we'll get another
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little rain shower later today.
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I hope not.
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I really hope that it stops raining soon.
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I'm just gonna walk back this way
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because there's another large vehicle coming past,
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so I thought maybe you guys might want to see that.
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Let's have a look.
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Let's watch this one come by as well.
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