Learn the English Phrases "to hang out" and "to hang back"

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn

the English phrase, to hang out.

When you hang out with someone,

it just means that you are with them.

You can go to someone's house and you can hang out.

Jen and I are really good friends with our siblings.

Sometimes we go to my sister's house

and we just hang out for a bit.

Sometimes we go to visit her sister

and we just hang out for the afternoon.

So when you hang out with someone,

when you use that verb in English,

you simply mean that you're going to

be with the person.

Maybe you'll sit and have a cup of tea.

Maybe you'll sit and chat about things.

You'll just spend the afternoon or the evening hanging out.

You'll just spend the time together.

The second phrasal verb I wanted to teach you

today is to hang back.

And this is a little different.

When you hang back, it means other people leave

and you don't.

So let's say a bunch of people are going on a trip

and everyone's leaving at 9:00 AM you might say,

hey, I'm just gonna hang back for a bit and make sure

that everything is turned off in the house.

So when you hang back, it means other people are

leaving for something, but you are going to go,

but you're not going right away.

You're just going to stay behind for a little bit.

You're going to hang back.

So to review, to hang out simply means to be with someone.

By the way, you don't have to just hang out in person.

When you talk to a bunch of people on Zoom or on FaceTime,

you could also say that you are hanging out.

That's a legitimate use of it as well.

And to hang back simply means to

stay behind for a little while.

Maybe everyone's going to go hiking

and you are having trouble getting your shoes tied.

You might say, hey, I'm just gonna hang back for a bit.

You guys go on without me, I'm just going to tie my shoe

and then I'll catch up.

There's another verb for you.

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

This comment is from Misael.

Hi Bob, do you have a video about the verb to hang out?

Thank you very much.

My response, I think so.

If not, I'll make one.

Let me look for a sec.

I can't seem to find one.

I'll make one next week.

And then Misael says, thank you so much.

And then Bob promptly forgot to make the video.

But I did reply and say, oops, sorry I forgot

about this one but it's done now.

If you look at the time difference on my replies,

one is from six days ago and one is from one second ago.

So there you go.

I did just do a lesson on to hangout.

Hey, you might be wondering where I am.

I'm in my classroom.

I'm getting ready for the next semester.

You can see behind me that all the chairs

are up on the tables.

Some of you don't like that you've said in the past that

that's unsanitary, but it makes it easier for the janitor

to vacuum and to deep clean the carpets before

the next semester starts.

A little tour of my room.

You can see my TV.

This is the main screen that I use to put things up

for students, but I also have a projector up there

that projects onto that wall.

That's very handy as well.

And I usually have things on both screens when I'm teaching.

And if you wonder what subject I teach,

well normally I teach French.

(speaker laughing)

You can see the flag there.

But this coming semester I'm going to be teaching

a business class, just a little bit different

than what I just did this semester,

which was to teach French.

And I taught some computer studies.

So anyways, yes this is a typical Canadian classroom,

a door, a TV screen.

Not every teacher has a projector as well.

I think maybe I'm special.

I'm a special teacher I get two.

And then if you look behind me you can even see

it's bright because it's very, very snowy outside

Anyways, I'm having trouble reading the time.

Oh, it says 3:42.

I have 10 more seconds to talk.

Yeah, this is where I teach from.

It's a standing desk.

I do like to use a standing desk.

I don't like to sit down when I teach.

Anyways, thanks for watching.

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

Bye.