Learn the English Terms GAME CHANGER and FAIR GAME

4,659 views ・ 2022-07-29

Bob's Short English Lessons


Please double-click on the English subtitles below to play the video.

00:00
In this English lesson,
0
120
833
00:00
I wanted to help you learn the English phrase,
1
953
2104
00:03
a game changer.
2
3057
1953
00:05
Game changer is a term we use,
3
5010
2393
00:07
sorry, it looks like the garbage truck is here,
4
7403
2527
00:09
picking up the garbage.
5
9930
1560
00:11
I'll try to continue the lesson.
6
11490
2160
00:13
Something is called a game changer
7
13650
1706
00:15
when it makes the situation way better.
8
15356
3784
00:19
Years ago, we didn't actually have garbage pickup
9
19140
3180
00:22
on the farm.
10
22320
1050
00:23
When I was a kid, we had to take our garbage to the dump.
11
23370
2940
00:26
But when they started to do garbage pickup with the truck,
12
26310
3000
00:29
it was a game changer for my parents.
13
29310
2850
00:32
It meant that they had more time to work on the farm.
14
32160
2683
00:34
They didn't have to drive to the dump once a week
15
34843
2472
00:37
to drop off the garbage, so it was a game changer.
16
37315
3635
00:40
The other phrase I wanted to teach you today
17
40950
1710
00:42
is the phrase fair game.
18
42660
1539
00:44
When something or someone is fair game,
19
44199
2451
00:46
it means it's okay to criticize or joke about them.
20
46650
3690
00:50
Politicians are fair game.
21
50340
1950
00:52
A lot of times comedians will make fun of politicians,
22
52290
3360
00:55
because we consider them fair game,
23
55650
2130
00:57
that it's okay to make jokes about them.
24
57780
2340
01:00
Well, I guess that depends on what country you live in,
25
60120
2070
01:02
but I'm not gonna get into that.
26
62190
1600
01:04
For my English lessons, pretty much everything is fair game.
27
64830
4740
01:09
Although, I usually don't do lessons
28
69570
1393
01:10
on politics or religion.
29
70963
1907
01:12
I avoid those.
30
72870
833
01:13
So I guess not everything is fair game
31
73703
2317
01:16
when it comes to my lessons.
32
76020
1461
01:17
Anyways, to review, when something is a game changer,
33
77481
3351
01:20
it means that it changes the situation,
34
80832
2658
01:23
or changes your life in some way,
35
83490
1711
01:25
that makes it a lot better.
36
85201
2099
01:27
And when something is fair game,
37
87300
2250
01:29
it means that it is okay to make fun of that person,
38
89550
3510
01:33
or that thing, or to criticize them.
39
93060
3330
01:36
But, hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.
40
96390
3090
01:39
This comment is from Mahmood.
41
99480
1680
01:41
And I actually ran out here quickly to do this, Mahmood.
42
101160
2917
01:44
"Hi, teacher, Bob.
43
104077
1133
01:45
Thank you for the useful lesson.
44
105210
1380
01:46
Why don't you take us near the road?
45
106590
1530
01:48
Thank you, Mr. Bob."
46
108120
1440
01:49
And my response, "I'll go out near the road today,
47
109560
2049
01:51
when I make Friday's lesson, maybe."
48
111609
2241
01:53
So I am out here, and I ran out,
49
113850
2400
01:56
because I really wanted to catch the garbage truck.
50
116250
4470
02:00
As coincidence, as, sorry.
51
120720
5000
02:05
The coincidence was that as I came out to make this lesson,
52
125760
3690
02:09
I'm having trouble speaking English today,
53
129450
1500
02:10
did you notice that?
54
130950
1350
02:12
I saw the garbage truck down the road.
55
132300
1670
02:13
So I ran to the end of my driveway,
56
133970
3370
02:17
because I wanted to catch the garbage truck on the video.
57
137340
3030
02:20
But yes, I'll do a video out here by the road, for sure.
58
140370
4170
02:24
We look this way, we can see there's a truck going by.
59
144540
4560
02:29
If you look here,
60
149100
1410
02:30
you can see all of our recycle bins on the ground.
61
150510
2730
02:33
And the green bin is actually for compost.
62
153240
2610
02:35
So in Ontario, Canada, you can put your compost at the road,
63
155850
3330
02:39
your kitchen scraps and all those kinds of things, as well.
64
159180
2940
02:42
The road is a little bit busy today.
65
162120
1747
02:43
You can see there's a couple cars coming behind me,
66
163867
2661
02:46
and there's a couple cars coming towards me as well.
67
166528
3125
02:50
It's usually not this busy,
68
170520
1196
02:51
but I guess people have a lot of stuff to do today.
69
171716
5000
02:56
So they're out and about.
70
176850
2130
02:58
We also have, if we walk down here,
71
178980
2493
03:02
you'll see that there is a construction sign.
72
182520
3510
03:06
So down the road,
73
186030
990
03:07
there is quite a bit of construction right now.
74
187020
2400
03:09
They have been in the process of repaving the road,
75
189420
3420
03:12
and once they finished repaving it,
76
192840
1394
03:14
they had a lot of other work that they needed to do as well.
77
194234
3916
03:18
So anyways, that's the road.
78
198150
2880
03:21
Let me check the time here.
79
201030
1410
03:22
Oh, I can talk for 30 more seconds.
80
202440
1980
03:24
What should I talk about?
81
204420
1980
03:26
We should talk about this.
82
206400
1710
03:28
When we were able to put our recycling at the road,
83
208110
3120
03:31
that was also a game changer,
84
211230
1950
03:33
because we used to have to bring our recycling
85
213180
2160
03:35
to a recycling center.
86
215340
2160
03:37
And when we were able to put our compost at the road,
87
217500
3453
03:40
that was a bit of a game changer too,
88
220953
2127
03:43
because we do compost all of our fruits and vegetables,
89
223080
3600
03:46
and use them on the farm.
90
226680
1290
03:47
We actually feed them to the chickens,
91
227970
1710
03:49
but we couldn't put things like meat and stuff in there.
92
229680
2880
03:52
Anyways, time to go, thanks for watching.
93
232560
2190
03:54
See you in a couple days, bye.
94
234750
1500
About this website

This site will introduce you to YouTube videos that are useful for learning English. You will see English lessons taught by top-notch teachers from around the world. Double-click on the English subtitles displayed on each video page to play the video from there. The subtitles scroll in sync with the video playback. If you have any comments or requests, please contact us using this contact form.

https://forms.gle/WvT1wiN1qDtmnspy7