Learn the English Phrases "can't be bothered" and "not a bother"

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn

the English phrase can't be bothered.

When you can't be bothered to do something

it means you don't want to do it.

It means you don't see the point in doing it.

So you don't do it.

It means you have no desire to do it.

When it snows here a lot and if the weather forecast says

that it's going to be above zero the next day

I can't be bothered with cleaning the driveway.

I don't want to do it.

I don't see the point.

Sometimes students when they are preparing for exams

they can't be bothered to study.

That means they don't want to study

and they have no desire to study, but they should study.

They should definitely study

when they have an exam coming up.

If you have an English test coming up in the future

and you can't be bothered to practice your reading, writing,

listing and speaking, you should make sure you do that.

It's always good to study.

The second phrase I wanted to teach you today

is the phrase not a bother.

When you tell someone

that something's not a bother, oh, that's not a bother.

Nope, it's not a bother.

It means that you are willing to do it

and it's not annoying to you.

If one of my kids said I need to stay

after school late tomorrow

because I have a practice, is that okay?

I would say, yeah, it's not a bother.

I'll pick you up at five or 5:30 whenever you're done.

So when you say to someone, not a bother, nope

it's not a bother.

It simply means that you're okay with it,

you're happy about it, you're not annoyed about it.

So to review, when you say you can't be bothered

it means you don't want to do something.

You can't be bothered to do it.

And if you say something is not a bother, it means

that it doesn't annoy you and you're quite happy to do it.

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

This comment is from Mohd.

Mohd Ags says when you said this is

from the last video, when you said

I don't have a lot to talk about, I was like, no way.

That doesn't sound like Bob the Canadian Babbler.

By the way, a babbler is someone who talks a lot.

Haha, but it makes me happy to see you relaxed like this

and in a good mood, all the best to you and your students.

And I like the emojis, happy face pizza bird

'cause we were kind of joking about birds, banana and donut.

I do like donuts too.

My response, the day I run out of stuff to talk

about will be the day I stop doing YouTube.

So like probably never.

I, interestingly enough, am a very quiet person.

Thanks for the comment Mohd.

I'm actually a very quiet person, but for some reason when

I'm teaching and I do consider making these videos teaching

I do talk a lot.

I do like talking to my students at school

and I do like talking to the camera.

I do like talking to all of you.

In my mind, I can kind of picture some of your names.

The live streams help a bit on my bigger channel because

in some ways in the chat get to know some

of you a little bit.

But yeah, I said I like talking to the camera

but I very much like talking to you.

I feel like I'm looking in a lens, but I'm actually talking

to all of you.

So anyways, yes, I'll keep talking.

So I'll keep making YouTube English lessons for you.

Hey, with the continuing saga of the internet

I'll just show you now.

They came again yesterday

and yesterday they put another antenna

on my silo and now my internet is way better, way better.

I can't tell you how many letter A's I put

in the word way when I say way better.

In fact, it was so good

that yesterday I tried a new piece of software.

I did a little live stream on Facebook, sorry,

I do have a Facebook page too.

And I used some software where I could invent, and invent,

invite Brent from Speak English With this Guy.

He joined me for a little test live stream.

It was kind of cool.

Not sure how I'll use that software, but it was fun.

Brent and I chatted for a bit live

and then we stopped the live stream

and we chatted for a lot longer.

Just the two of us talking

about teaching and all that kind of stuff.

But anyways, really good fast internet now.

So see you in the next video.

Bye.