Learn the English Phrases "homeward bound" and "a straight shot"

Hey, it's been a lot of fun hanging out with Brent.

Today's the day where I might be leaving later today.

I might be leaving tomorrow morning.

I'm gonna be homeward bound.

So homeward bound means that you are

on your way home. Right, now,

so do you think that you're

going to stop along the way?

It's a twelve hour drive.

Maybe you'll get tired and stop halfway.

I might stop halfway, or I might

do it in a straight shot.

So that would mean that I'm going

to drive for 11 hours straight.

I don't think that's going to happen, but

you probably should know that word anyway.

So later today or tomorrow I will be homeward bound.

I think there's a song homeward bound. There is.

It's by Simon and Garfunkel. It's a great song.

Is it the name of the song?

It is, yes.

I think there's a book or

a movie that involves animals.

Oh, there might be a dog that runs away

from home and then eventually is home but,

anyways, there's definitely a song.

There might be a movie with that little phrase in it.

And then this one's a little more obscure, maybe.

I don't think a lot of people use this,

but I might do it in a straight shot.

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

You can talk if you want, Brent,

while I look for the comment.

Yeah, I'll talk about straight shot.

I think we almost just use that with

travel and a lot of times with driving. Yes.

Like with a plane, you would use like layover.

You would use different terminology. Definitely. Yeah.

Because often you'll be like, it's a three hour drive.

I'm going to leave at six and do it in a straight shot.

I'm just going to go straight there.

From Maxim Dear Bob, I hope you are doing well.

I want to thank you for

your amazing English lessons on YouTube.

I watched all of your episodes

when I was living in Ukraine.

Your lessons helped me learn English

and prepare for that ielts exam.

Now I live and work in London, Ontario, Canada.

And I think you might have been

on a live stream recently mentioning that.

Thank you so much for your help and teaching.

It made a big difference in my life.

Best regards, Maxim and my response.

So cool that you're living in London. Welcome to Canada.

I'm actually out that way every once in a while.

Congrats on passing your ielts.

So two things there. Ielts. That's a pretty good

accomplishment. Absolutely. Sounds like a dream

come true. Very cool.

Congratulations on that.

And then London, Ontario.

Have you ever been there? I've not.

When I hear London, I automatically think England. Yes.

There's a lot of places in Canada and the

United States that kind of harken back to England.

So it's kind of a funny thing.

Let's walk this way.

I'm supposed to walk and talk

during this part of the lesson. I almost forgot.

Love it.

London, Ontario.

There's also a Stratford, Ontario.

There's a Stratford in England as well.

The Stratford in Ontario also has a theater.

And you can go watch Shakespeare there and,

yeah, definitely you can see

the origins of those countries. Brent. Yep.

Where are... what are we standing in front of? What is all this?

So my brother loves wood and he has

a lot of wood that he chops up.

Some he sells to other people, some he actually

uses to heat his house in the winter.

Oh, yeah, we're in Maine.

And if you look over here, this makes sense to me.

Lots of firewood back there and then back over there.

Lots of trees. Definitely. Pretty cool.

Um, I noticed though that this.

So Brent lives in a city?

Yeah... Town? City? ...small city.

Yeah, large town.

So in a real city, there's lots

of pavement and lots of concrete.

But it looks like here, if you wanted

to skateboard, you build your own little...

It's not a half pipe, is it?

I think it might be a half pipe. Yeah.

I think your brother minds we're just wandering around in

his yard, not at all randomly talking about stuff.

There's a snowmobile over there. Oh, yes.

Traffic cone.

Anything... a trampoline.

Anything you could possibly want.

So as I was mentioning, we're in Maine.

It doesn't surprise me that firewood

is being used to heat houses.

We still do that in Canada.

Jen and I have a wood stove,

but we actually recently removed it.

But still very common.

Jen's parents heat their house with wood.

Pretty, pretty common thing to do.

Anyways, Brent, thanks again for having me.

It's been fun.

It's the 4th of July.

There's going to be some celebrations in a little bit.

I'm going to stay for those.

Might leave later tonight and be homeward bound.

Might leave tomorrow morning. We'll see.

Do you think you'll get a skateboard out

and show us some of the tricks you used to do?

That will not be happening.

We didn't do anything death defying and we're

not going to do anything death defying.

At least I don't think so.

Anyways, thanks, Brent, and see you everybody in

a few days with another English lesson. See you later.