Learn the English Phrases TO COVER FOR and COVER TO COVER

In this English lesson, I wanted

to help you learn the English phrase "to cover for".

Now this phrase has two meanings.

It can mean that you lie for someone

when they do something bad.

Maybe my brother, when I was younger,

would like to steal cookies

and I would cover for my brother

by telling my parents that the cat was eating the cookies.

That didn't actually happen.

That was just an example.

But we also use the phrase "to cover for"

to talk about doing someone else's work

for them if they're missing.

At work, sometimes another teacher is sick,

and then I will cover for that teacher.

My boss will come and say, "Hey, can you cover

"for Joe today because he's out sick?

"Can you spend half an hour in his class?"

We when cover for each other at school,

as teachers, we each take turns doing

a little bit of someone else's class in our spare time,

'cause we don't teach for the full eight hours.

We only teach for about six.

The second phrase I wanted to teach

you today is the phrase "cover to cover".

When you read a book cover to cover,

it means that you really, really liked it.

If you've just recently read a book

and you really liked it, you could say,

"Ah, the book was amazing.

"I read it cover to cover."

Now when you read a book cover to cover,

it means you read the whole thing,

but when you read a book,

you usually do read the whole thing.

So it's, I guess, just a way to emphasize

that you're reading the whole thing.

The last book I read, I definitely read

it cover to cover.

It was an excellent book.

It was called "Ringworld" by Larry Niven,

I think was author, a really old science fiction book,

but definitely a good one.

So I reread it just recently, just last week.

Anyways, to review, when you cover for someone,

it means you lie for them so that someone doesn't know

what they're doing, or it means

that you do their work for them at work.

Oftentimes when, let's say there's ten people at work

and one person is sick, the other nine people will cover

for the other person.

And when you read a book cover to cover,

it means that you just like the book so much,

you read it from the very, very beginning,

all the way to the very, very end.

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

This comment is from Ayra.

"How are you doing, sir?

"Are you all right?"

And my response was this, "Yes.

"Sorry, the week got busy and I missed Wednesday.

"There will be a new lesson tomorrow, though."

"Thank you, sir, for letting me know," was Arya's reply.

So yeah, honestly this week got away from me.

We could do a number of things.

By the way, Aria, thanks for checking in.

Everything is good.

I am all right.

But I did forget to do a video on Wednesday,

or didn't have time to do a video would probably be a

better way of describing it.

This week has been a zoo, and to top things off,

this past Tuesday, I was actually sick for a day.

I haven't had a cold for a very long time,

like a cough and a stuffed-up nose.

I mean, I had COVID a few months ago,

but over the last two years, I really haven't been sick.

So on Tuesday, Monday night, and then Tuesday morning,

I wasn't feeling well.

It was the strangest feeling in the world.

So I took a sick day Tuesday,

and that ended up with me not really taking the time

to make a short lesson for you guys.

So sorry about that.

I missed Tuesday.

But that's the way it goes, sometimes.

And then the rest of the week just got

a little bit crazy and busy,

so I wasn't able to finish one.

But you're watching this one now

and things are back on track.

What else did I wanna say?

Why am I inside?

You might be asking, why am I not outside?

Well, right now it's actually four o'clock on a Thursday.

It's the day before when you're probably watching this.

We are experience 90 kilometer an hour winds

and it's gusting to 100 or 110.

So it's just not nice outside.

It's just not a good day to make the video outside,

so this is one of the rare occurrences

when I do a video inside.

Probably looks a lot like when I do my live streams

on my other channel.

Anyways, thanks for watching.

I'll see you in a few days

with another short English lesson.

Bye.