Learn the English Phrases "hot commodity" and "on a hot streak"

In this English lesson, I wanted to help

you learn the English term hot commodity.

When we say something is a hot

commodity, it means everybody wants it.

If you have a favorite team and they

make the playoffs, tickets are a hot commodity.

Everybody wants a ticket to see the playoff games.

So that's one example.

The reason I thought of this was because

at our school, there are a lot of

flies right now, like flies buzzing around.

And so fly swatters are a hot commodity.

Someone used this term this morning.

They were like, where's the

fly swatter for your classroom?

And I said, I don't know.

And they said, wow, they're a hot commodity right now.

Everyone wants a flyswatter for their classroom.

So the second phrase I wanted to

teach you is on a hot streak.

So when you are on a hot streak,

it means you are having success at something.

If your favorite player scores a goal in

every game, they are on a hot streak.

If you let me see here, if you are taking an

English test every day on your app and you're getting ten

out of ten, you are on a hot streak.

So a hot streak is a prolonged

series of successful results on something.

Sorry, those are some big words there.

Anyways, to review.

A hot commodity is something that is in demand,

something that everybody wants, something that everyone wants to

have, like tickets for a really good sports game.

And if you are on a hot streak, you

are just having one success after another.

Sometimes my favorite player on the Toronto Blue Jays

will be on a hot streak and they will

hit in every game and get on base.

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

This comment is from Yasin.

It's always good to be capable of

doing some tweaking around the house.

Sometimes it just breaks the bank to call

someone in to fix something for you.

I think I'm a jack of all trades, but

I don't have a way with electronics though.

And my response it certainly is

cheaper to fix things yourself.

I'm the same way for certain things, but

plumbing is something where I always call someone.

I don't want to accidentally flood the house.

So thanks Yasin for that comment.

But yes, that is the one thing.

I will do some electrical work, but then I

usually have a friend come and check it.

But plumbing, I'm always worried I'm going to do

some plumbing and then wake up the next morning

and a room in the house will be flooded.

Maybe however I hooked it up will leak, but not good.

Anyways, two things that I wanted to show you.

Number one, there are leaves on the ground.

It's September 17 today.

It's the Tuesday before you're seeing this video,

and there are already leaves on the ground.

And I wanted to show you this building.

I showed this to my members in a

video on the other channel in some detail.

But if you look down here, you'll see that

they are starting to tear down this building.

Actually, earlier, both of those machines were going.

But you can see this old mill.

It's an old feed mill.

They're starting to tear it down.

I think they're going to

build apartment buildings here.

I'm not 100% sure what's going to be built, but

I think by the end of the week, I think

this building will be gone, which is kind of sad.

This building has been here my whole life.

I remember seeing this as a kid.

When I would visit my grandparents in this town.

I would see this mill.

A friend of mine actually worked there.

He worked the night shift.

He worked from, like, six at night till

six in the morning, four nights a week.

And he liked it.

It was really good money, but it wasn't good for him.

I don't think he could handle the... how

it disrupted his sleep pattern.

I wouldn't be very good at that either.

But anyways, some leaves on the ground,

an old building getting torn down.

And this lesson's done. Thanks for watching.

I'll see you in a couple

days with another short English lesson. Bye.