Learn the English Terms GAME CHANGER and FAIR GAME

In this English lesson,

I wanted to help you learn the English phrase,

a game changer.

Game changer is a term we use,

sorry, it looks like the garbage truck is here,

picking up the garbage.

I'll try to continue the lesson.

Something is called a game changer

when it makes the situation way better.

Years ago, we didn't actually have garbage pickup

on the farm.

When I was a kid, we had to take our garbage to the dump.

But when they started to do garbage pickup with the truck,

it was a game changer for my parents.

It meant that they had more time to work on the farm.

They didn't have to drive to the dump once a week

to drop off the garbage, so it was a game changer.

The other phrase I wanted to teach you today

is the phrase fair game.

When something or someone is fair game,

it means it's okay to criticize or joke about them.

Politicians are fair game.

A lot of times comedians will make fun of politicians,

because we consider them fair game,

that it's okay to make jokes about them.

Well, I guess that depends on what country you live in,

but I'm not gonna get into that.

For my English lessons, pretty much everything is fair game.

Although, I usually don't do lessons

on politics or religion.

I avoid those.

So I guess not everything is fair game

when it comes to my lessons.

Anyways, to review, when something is a game changer,

it means that it changes the situation,

or changes your life in some way,

that makes it a lot better.

And when something is fair game,

it means that it is okay to make fun of that person,

or that thing, or to criticize them.

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

This comment is from Mahmood.

And I actually ran out here quickly to do this, Mahmood.

"Hi, teacher, Bob.

Thank you for the useful lesson.

Why don't you take us near the road?

Thank you, Mr. Bob."

And my response, "I'll go out near the road today,

when I make Friday's lesson, maybe."

So I am out here, and I ran out,

because I really wanted to catch the garbage truck.

As coincidence, as, sorry.

The coincidence was that as I came out to make this lesson,

I'm having trouble speaking English today,

did you notice that?

I saw the garbage truck down the road.

So I ran to the end of my driveway,

because I wanted to catch the garbage truck on the video.

But yes, I'll do a video out here by the road, for sure.

We look this way, we can see there's a truck going by.

If you look here,

you can see all of our recycle bins on the ground.

And the green bin is actually for compost.

So in Ontario, Canada, you can put your compost at the road,

your kitchen scraps and all those kinds of things, as well.

The road is a little bit busy today.

You can see there's a couple cars coming behind me,

and there's a couple cars coming towards me as well.

It's usually not this busy,

but I guess people have a lot of stuff to do today.

So they're out and about.

We also have, if we walk down here,

you'll see that there is a construction sign.

So down the road,

there is quite a bit of construction right now.

They have been in the process of repaving the road,

and once they finished repaving it,

they had a lot of other work that they needed to do as well.

So anyways, that's the road.

Let me check the time here.

Oh, I can talk for 30 more seconds.

What should I talk about?

We should talk about this.

When we were able to put our recycling at the road,

that was also a game changer,

because we used to have to bring our recycling

to a recycling center.

And when we were able to put our compost at the road,

that was a bit of a game changer too,

because we do compost all of our fruits and vegetables,

and use them on the farm.

We actually feed them to the chickens,

but we couldn't put things like meat and stuff in there.

Anyways, time to go, thanks for watching.

See you in a couple days, bye.