Learn the English Phrases ME TIME and PEACE AND QUIET - A Short English Lesson with Subtitles

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In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn
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the English phrase me time.
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Me time is how we refer to time spent by yourself.
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I love my kids, I love Jen,
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but sometimes I need some me time.
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I'm actually feeling that quite a bit today.
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When you say me time,
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you mean time spent just sitting by yourself somewhere,
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maybe just sitting, watching television by yourself,
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maybe sitting outside, reading a book,
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although it's a little cool for that right now.
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But sometimes in your life, in spite of the fact
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that you love your family and you love your friends,
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you just really want some me time.
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I don't often have this.
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Probably every few months or so,
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I, I just really crave some me time.
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I just need a little bit of time away,
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maybe a little bit of time outside by myself,
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enjoying the beautiful nature around me
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or reading a good book or doing something else like that.
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The other phrase I wanted to teach you, it's kinda related.
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It's peace and quiet.
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So peace is when there is no war
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or when it's really calm out,
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and obviously quiet is when it's not noisy.
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And sometimes I crave me time
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but I also crave peace and quiet.
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In fact, jokingly, my kids one year said
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maybe that's what I wanted for my birthday.
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They said, "Dad, what do you want for your birthday?"
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And I said, "I don't know."
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And one of my kids said, "He wants peace and quiet."
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(laughs)
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I think a lot of dads feel that sometimes.
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When you have a bunch of kids,
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your house can get loud every once in a while.
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It was especially hard for me last spring
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when I was working from home,
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I often really wanted peace and quiet
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so that I could do my work.
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But at the same time, kids will be kids.
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My kids had every right to be loud
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and play around me at certain times.
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So maybe I just need to build a little shed outside
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and use that as my office.
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So to review, sometimes I need a little bit of me time.
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I might just go for a drive today
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and think about life and reflect on that.
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So me time is when you crave time by yourself.
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And I also really like peace and quiet
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every once in a while.
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Sometimes it just gets too loud and too crazy
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and noisy around me.
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But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.
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This comment is from Francisco.
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Francisco says, "I hate lesson plans.
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"I prefer to follow the syllabus and improvise an activity
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"or a game in relation with the topic.
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"My students love it.
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"It's never boring, even for me."
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And my response is this.
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"For me, lesson plans aren't the worst.
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"The worst part of teaching for me
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"is when I have to grade a pile of student work.
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"Sometimes I get behind.
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"I don't mind grading when I'm on top of things,
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"but I do not enjoy it when I get behind."
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So thank you, Francisco, for that comment.
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I would somewhat agree with you.
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I do like having a bit of a plan when I go into class.
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It's not extensive.
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I don't write paragraphs in my planner before I go in,
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but I usually make a list of the things I wanna get done today.
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For those of you that aren't teachers,
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before you teach a lesson, you usually create a lesson plan.
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But I do agree, improvising,
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coming up with little games and things on the spot
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can be a lot of fun as well.
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And it keeps things exciting for you and for your students.
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I use the phrase, "I don't mind grading
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"when I'm on top of things."
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In English, when you're on top of things,
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it means that you're not behind.
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I give my students assignments and quizzes and tests.
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And when they hand them in, I try to grade them right away.
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We sometimes say, I try to mark them right away,
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because I don't like to get behind,
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I like to stay on top of things.
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So another English phrase for you today,
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when you try to stay on top of things,
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it means that you do things regularly
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so you don't get behind.
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We try to stay on top of the dishes. (laughs)
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We do dishes after every meal in the house
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because you don't want to get behind doing the dishes.
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That's just a big mess and a huge pile of dishes
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that no one feels like doing.
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