Learn the English Phrases BACK AT IT and BACK IN THE DAY

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn

the English phrase back at it.

You can see here I have the entire sentence, I'm back at it.

When you say you're back at something

it means that you were doing it

and then you stopped doing it

and now you're doing it again.

I was definitely making short videos on this channel.

I was making short English lessons

and then a couple of weeks ago I took a break

and now I'm back at it.

So my plan, this video, you're watching it on a Wednesday.

There'll be another one on Friday

and next week there'll be one on Monday,

Wednesday, and Friday.

I'm back at it.

You'll get short English lessons three times a week again

for the rest of 2022.

There might be the odd week here and there

where I take a day off,

but for sure you'll be getting three a week,

but don't I take one day a month off?

I think I do.

I'm back at it, but I'm a little rusty.

It's hard to remember how to do this.

The second phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase

back in the day.

When we say back in the day in English,

we're talking about a time a long time ago.

So I could say back in the day I used to smoke cigarettes.

When I was in my early twenties, I was a cigarette smoker.

So I could say back in the day when I talk about that.

I can say back in the day I was a really good student

when I was in school.

So the phrase back in the day is used to talk about a time

that was a long time ago.

And usually you're remembering things fondly,

but it doesn't have to be I guess.

You could say back in the day I used to drive

without my seatbelt on.

Can you believe that?

That was when I was a teenager, I don't do that anymore.

I always have my seatbelt on when I drive now.

Anyways, to review, when you say I'm back at it,

it means that you were doing something, you've,

you stopped doing it for a little while

and now you've started to do it again.

So I'm back at it when it comes to English lessons

here on this channel and on my other channel too by the way.

And when you say back in the day,

you're simply talking about a time long ago

when you're remembering something that you used to do.

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

This comment is from Ekaterina.

I am sorry, but where is the snow?

And my response, you'll see in the next video.

So I know it's been a couple of weeks

and things have changed a little bit around here.

As you can see behind me,

we have certainly moved into the winter season.

It's January, there is snow everywhere.

In fact, you might like this.

Let me spin you around.

On this tree here you can see there's beautiful

little layers of snow on the branches.

We certainly are now in full winter mode.

It's minus seven right now.

I know I'm outside with no gloves and no winter hat,

but I'm hey, I'm Canadian.

We're kind of used to this.

And I'm not going to be outside for too long.

You can see behind me that the river is a little bit frozen.

I don't want to walk too far out because it's quite windy.

So I'll try to stay where I'm sheltered from the wind

and still give you a little bit of a view of that.

So the wind, the river has frozen,

but the ice is nowhere near safe to go on right now.

The ice is very, very thin.

In fact in some spots you can still see

a little bit of water.

But anyways, we are very happy that it is winter.

I know that might sound crazy to some of you.

When I came out just now, I had just had a shower.

And when I walked outside my hair froze a little bit.

For those of you who live in places where you have winter,

you might be familiar with that phenomenon.

When you go outside with wet hair when it's this cold,

sometimes your hair gets a little bit crunchy

because it freezes when you walk outside.

It's kind of a funny Canadian thing, maybe a Russian thing.

And for those of you that live in countries

where it's really really cold.

Anyways, I'm back at it.

I'm happy to be back at it, happy new year by the way.

And I'll see you in a couple of days

with another short English lesson, bye.