Learn the English Phrases "in the dark" and "a shot in the dark"

In this English lesson, I wanted to help

you learn the English phrase in the dark.

When you are in the dark, it

means you don't know about something.

I use this example a lot, but if someone

was planning a surprise party for me, they would

want to keep me in the dark.

They would want to make sure that

I don't know about the party.

If they were planning like a surprise birthday party,

they would all talk amongst themselves, but they would

try to keep me in the dark.

Sometimes governments do this as well.

They do things that they know the citizens won't like,

but they try to keep them in the dark.

They don't let the press or the newspapers know, and they

try to make sure people don't know what's going on.

They keep them in the dark.

Not a very good thing.

The other phrase I wanted to teach you

today is a shot in the dark.

Now, a shot in the dark is simply a guess.

If you were to say to me what's 10 times 11 and I

didn't know the answer, I might say, it's shot in the dark.

It's probably around 110 or something like that.

Anyways, a shot in the dark, that's a bad example.

A shot in the dark is a guess.

If you were to ask me how many English lessons have I

made, I would say, and it's just a shot in the dark.

At least over a thousand.

Maybe close to 2000 if you combine the two channels.

But that's just a shot in the dark.

That's just a guess because I

don't know the actual answer.

So to review, when you are in the

dark, it means you don't know about something.

It means other people know, but you don't know.

And a shot in the dark

is simply a guess about something.

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

This comment is from Klopcyna.

Dear Bob, do your students know

you are a successful YouTuber?

Do they watch your videos?

This question's come up before my response.

Most do know, but few watch them.

I think when they find out, it's cool and unique.

But after a while it's just a normal thing.

Yeah, once.

Thanks, Klopcyna, for that comment.

Once I'm their teacher and I start assigning homework

and I start checking their homework and doing all

the things that teachers normally do, like telling them

to stop running in the hallway.

I think they forget that I'm a YouTuber

and that I'm doing quite well on YouTube.

So yes, most of them know I think

most of them think it's pretty cool.

But the other thing I would say is this

YouTube isn't as big a deal for them as

some of the other social media apps they use.

I don't consider YouTube necessarily a

pure social media app or platform.

I mostly use YouTube to learn new

things and obviously to teach things.

But for my students, I think it's a

little more of the like TikTok, Snapchat, BeReal.

All of those kinds of things

are more important in their lives.

So yeah. Do they know? Yes.

Do they care?

Maybe a little bit.

I don't know.

It doesn't really matter to me.

I just hope that they learn something from

me in the classes that I teach. So hey.

Yep, it continues.

Once again, I was not going to talk about

the weather, but yeah, it's a little warmer

as you can see, I'm able to be outside without a

winter hat or gloves, but it's still definitely winter.

I haven't had to clean the driveway again.

I think what I miss the most is the sun.

Like you can kind of see it up there behind the clouds.

But I'm looking forward to

not necessarily warmer weather.

I don't mind if it stays a little bit cold.

I think I'm looking forward to

just a little more sunshine.

I've been taking my vitamin D pill every day because I'm

not sure I'm getting enough vitamin D from the sun.

So anyways, still winter here,

still February, still living life.

Anyways, thanks for watching.

I'll see you in a few

days with another short English lesson. Bye.