Learn the English Phrases "Why the long face?" and "the long way home"

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you

learn the English phrase, why the long face?

This is a question you might

ask someone if they look sad.

Like if their face looks sad, if they look

sad, you might say, hey, why the long face?

Now, I haven't actually used this question a lot lately, but

I did hear an older person use it the other day.

So it might be an older phrase.

If you see someone who is the opposite of happy

instead of smiling, they have a really long face.

Trying to... my acting skills aren't the best.

I tried to make a dirty look the other day and I don't

know if I pulled that off, but this is a long face.

So when you're very, very sad, we

say you have a long face.

And if you see someone, you can say, why the long face?

The other phrase I wanted to teach

you today is the long way home.

Sometimes when you go somewhere, you take the shortest

path possible, or you take the shortest way possible.

But sometimes you take the long way home.

So think about this.

If you're going to see a

movie, you drive there quickly.

You get there on time.

But when the movie's done, you might take the

long way home because there's other things to see

and you're not in a hurry anymore.

So when you go somewhere, you

go as quickly as possible.

But when you're done, you might take the long way home.

You might take the scenic route.

That's another way to say it.

So to review, if you were to

say to someone, why the long face?

You're asking them why they look sad.

And if you take the long way home, it means

you go a direction or you go a way that

isn't the shortest, but maybe it's more enjoyable.

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

This comment is from Ruslan.

Cool baseball cap and sweatshirt teacher Bob

light gray suits you very well.

Your style is beyond compare.

Well, great example phrase as well.

By the way, beyond compare, my

response, the shirt is a sunshirt.

I like wearing those instead of putting

lots of sunscreen on. The hood

and long sleeves really help block the sun.

So thanks, Ruslan.

Yes, beyond compare was the last

phrase and great use of it.

But yeah, these shirts.

Jen and I both wear these shirts.

In fact, you can see Jen over here way in the distance.

She's planting dahlias, she's wearing her

shirt, and I'm wearing mine.

By the way, these shirts are nice.

You don't have to put sunscreen on when you wear these.

And it does have a hood that you can

put up to cover your ears as well.

So if we're going to work outside

a lot, we often wear these shirts.

Um, yeah, there's some chickens behind me.

Should I give you a better look?

A few weeks ago, we got some fencing.

This isn't electric fence.

It can be electrified, but

we don't have it electrified.

And we put our chickens outside.

They're in this, which is called a chicken tractor.

You might want to call it a chicken

coop, but because it has wheels and you're

able to move it. For some reason

in English, we call this a chicken tractor.

So we've been moving this along.

We've been using the chickens to kind of

combat some of the problems we have.

They are loud, aren't they?

Um, so they go out and eat something called a cut worm.

Jen's very happy about that because the cut worms like

to eat the plants and that's not very nice.

So we have this chicken tractor.

The chickens, I think, like being outside

more than they like being inside anyways.

I think they're really

enjoying their time outside. They're a little...

I hope you guys aren't scared of chickens.

They're a little timid right now because it's raining

slightly out here and I think they're, they don't

want to get too far from their home with

the rain, so they're just kind of staying here.

But normally they would be out here eating bugs and

grass and all the other things that chickens eat.

I don't know what chickens all eat, but it's also going

to save us a bit of money on chicken feed.

So anyways, I hope you're having a good day.

Thanks for watching this short English lesson.

It's the first time ever that I've made

two lessons for this channel in one day.

The one that you just watched on Wednesday, I

made early Wednesday morning, and I'm making this one

late Wednesday afternoon because I have market tomorrow and

I don't have time to make the lesson.

So first time, same clothes,

same day, two different lessons.

Anyways, have a good day. I'll see you in a few

days with another short English lesson. Bye.