Learn the English Phrases "wishful thinking" and "to think big"

In this English lesson, I wanted to help

you learn the English phrase wishful thinking.

Wishful thinking is when you think positively about

something, but it probably isn't going to go

the way you think it will.

Here's a great example.

If you don't study and you have an English

test in a few months and you just think,

ah, I'll just watch YouTube videos and I'll pass

that English test, that's probably wishful thinking.

You probably aren't doing enough.

You're thinking that you're going to pass the test

by just watching YouTube videos, but you should really

be practicing your speaking and your writing and your

reading and all of that stuff as well.

So it might be wishful thinking.

So hopefully you understand.

It means you think a positive thought

about something, but you're probably wrong.

The other phrase I wanted to teach

you today is to think big.

So sometimes at work someone will have an

idea for a small change and then someone

will say, why don't we think big?

Instead of doing the small change, why

don't we do something even bigger?

So an example would be maybe a teacher

says, my classroom isn't big enough so I'm

going to remove a couple desks.

And someone else might say, hey,

why don't we think big?

Why don't we instead spend millions of

dollars and build you a bigger classroom?

That's something that doesn't usually

happen, but it could.

Anyways to review.

Wishful thinking is when you hope for

something positive, but it probably won't happen.

You're just being really, really optimistic.

And to think big is to dream bigger than

you would to solve maybe a small problem.

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

I wasn't going to talk about the weather today, but it's

minus 15 right now, minus 21 with the wind chill.

It's about, it's about as cold as it gets.

This comment is from.

Let's see here.

Let me get my glove back on.

Paper and gloves are a bit of a challenge.

This comment is from Tolik.

Thank you for the lesson, Bob.

You have really nice boots. I like them.

Have a nice day and I said I love my boots.

I hope they last forever.

But alas, I think that is wishful thinking.

So yeah, I've had these boots for a while.

I really, really like them.

They are really, really nice boots.

But to think that they might last

forever I think would be wishful thinking.

So a positive thought for something

that most likely won't happen.

So Tolik thank you for that comment, let me

see If I can get this off here.

Yeah, I wasn't going to talk

about the weather, so I'll try...

I'll try not to do that at all.

So, anyways, I had a beautiful family day Monday.

Yesterday for me.

Two days ago for you.

I think that is just the best holiday.

My kids and I and Jen, we actually went

and we played some badminton at the school.

We went out to a little cafe

afterwards and had a little treat.

Uh, we spent some time as a family.

We watched the TV show Jeopardy.

I'm not sure if you know

what that show is, but Jeopardy

is a trivia show, a quiz show where they ask questions

and then the contestants have to try and answer them.

By the way, Jeopardy

is probably a great way to learn English if

you could find a way to watch that show.

Uh, so we had supper together.

Uh, we watched Jeopardy together.

It was a fun evening, and it's fun just to have a

day where you decide to spend the day with your family.

So I really enjoyed it.

Right now, though, I'm going to go back inside.

It's a little too cold this morning for me,

and I think I need to go warm up. Thanks for watching.

See you in a couple days

with another short English lesson. Bye.