Learn the English Phrases "at a snail's pace" and "to pace yourself"

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you

learn the English phrase at a snail's pace.

Now, I'm not going to tell

you what this means right away.

I'm going to give you a

few seconds to think about this.

If you know what a snail is, there's a

good chance you know what a snail's pace is.

So let me just go one, two, three.

Let you think about it for 3 seconds.

It means to go very, very slowly.

If you're driving your car in an 80 kilometer an hour

zone and the person in front of you is doing 60 kilometers an hour,

would say that they're going at a snail's pace.

Do you know what a snail is?

It kind of looks like a slug, but it has a shell

on the back and it goes really, really slowly when it moves.

I hope my mom's not watching this, but sometimes when I

ride with my mom, she goes at a snail's pace.

She's a very slow and cautious driver,

so that's probably a good thing.

But when I'm in a hurry, if someone in front

of me is going really slow, especially if they're below

the speed limit and they're going at a snail's pace,

it gets me a little bit agitated.

I'm like, just get going, man.

It's time to go.

I need to get to where I'm going.

The second phrase I wanted to teach

you today is to pace yourself.

You can pace yourself in a number of different things.

If you're running a race and you normally take

a certain amount of time to run a kilometer,

you want to make sure that you pace yourself

and you run each kilometer about the same speed,

maybe the last kilometer a little faster. But you

can pace yourself doing other things as well.

If you're going to eat a big

meal, maybe you should pace yourself.

Instead of eating really fast, maybe eat slowly,

have some conversation, eat a little bit more.

You might need to pace yourself to get it done.

If you have a lot of work to do in a certain

day or week, it's nice to pace yourself instead of working really

quickly, just kind of lay out the work for the week in

a logical way and get it done one little bit at a

time until the end of the week comes and you're done.

It's nice to pace yourself.

So to review at a snail's pace

means to go very, very slowly.

And to pace yourself means to kind of

do something in an organized, logical, timely fashion.

I had a lot of work to do this week,

but I paced myself and I got it all done.

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

This comment is from Silvia.

Seven years ago, you took your

camera and started to make lessons.

You have succeeded.

You have a special natural style.

When I see your videos, I feel like a

Canadian friend is sharing with me his daily life.

Double dipping is not polite and is

considered gross here in Argentina, too.

That's from the last lesson. Yesterday's. Yeah.

Seven good years.

Here's to seven more.

You think I can do it?

Seven more years.

Can you guys watch for seven more years?

Seven more years of me showing

you the river whenever it floods.

This is a rare occasion.

If you look way in the distance, there's actually

a lake over there at the provincial park.

But the river has almost risen so much

that it might actually connect to the lake.

Not sure how well you can see

this behind me, but it's definitely flooded.

If we look over here, you'll see that

these trees are actually in the water.

So the river has really come up.

It's almost touching that big,

round, concrete thing down there.

That's one of the things we look at to kind

of measure how much the river has come up.

So definitely flooding.

I'm laughing because Walter was just

doing his business over there.

I'm not sure if you saw

that as the video swooped around.

I'll have to make sure I don't step

over there when I'm finished making this lesson,

but, yeah, seven more years, Ah we'll see.

I think I got it in me.

If I do this for 14 straight years, I think

you'll all be speaking English fluently, and we'll be done.

And then we'll just have, like, little live streams to

chat once in a while or something like that.

Anyways, thanks for watching.

I'm Bob the Canadian.

I teach English here on YouTube.

Thank you so much for watching.

I think I just thanked you

twice, but I'm extra thankful today.

See you in a couple of days with another short lesson.

Bye.