Learn the English Phrases WITH IT and I'M WITH YOU

In this English lesson

I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, with it.

When you are talking about a person

and you say that person is with it,

you mean that their brain is working really good

and they are mentally competent.

Here are some example sentences of the phrase, with it.

I could say, I'm not really with it this morning

because I haven't had my coffee yet

and I really need caffeine so my brain works.

You could say something like, my grandfather is 97 years old

and he's still really with it.

So when you use the phrase, with it to talk about a person,

you're basically talking about

how well their brain is working.

So for me, I just know that

if I don't get a good night's sleep,

I'm not very with it the next day.

I'm kind of off my game a little bit.

The second phrase I wanted to teach you today

is the phrase, I'm with you.

So when you say I'm with you

it means that you agree with that person.

If you were to say to me,

the sun is a beautiful thing to see every day,

I would say, I'm with you on that.

I really think that a sunny day is a beautiful day,

except if it's over 30 degrees then I don't really enjoy it.

But when you say to someone I'm with you

it means that you agree with them.

If someone was to say, football is the best sport

in the world, you might reply and say, ah, I'm with you.

I keep wanting to say soccer,

that's why I'm making an S sound.

Football is amazing.

It is the best sport, I'm with you.

So to repeat, if you say that someone is with it

it means they're alert, their brain is working really well

and they are just energetic and thinking clearly.

If you say I'm with you, it means you agree with someone.

I feel like I was making a few

or almost making mistakes as I'm recording this

because for some reason I'm not really with it today.

I was really with it

but I came outside and it's extra windy

and it was hard to find a place to record a video.

So if you'll just excuse me, I'm a little out of sorts.

I'm not totally with it right now.

I will a moment though.

Let me just refocus.

Let's look at a comment from a previous video.

And this comment is from Xavier.

And Xavier says, "in Spain the electric bill

"has risen by 28% so far in January.

"They may think we are made of money.

"That's not a good way to make our day."

And my response was, "ouch, that's a pretty steep increase

"to make matters worse, you're probably at home

"using a lot of electricity."

So Xavier, thank you so much for that comment.

This is from the video yesterday,

where I looked at the phrase, to be made of money

and I looked at the phrase, it made my day.

So yes, costs of electricity.

So in Ontario, Canada, the government has actually

frozen the cost of electricity for this month

and they actually lowered it to a lower rate.

Now, I like that, that's really nice because we're all home

it's nice to have a little bit cheap electricity.

I'm sorry Xavier, if in Spain it's getting more expensive.

I don't mean to brag but in Canada

they've lowered the rate

but I'm worried that over the next five or 10 years

in Canada we'll all have to pay a lot more taxes

to the government because the Canadian government

is borrowing lots of money

in order to get the country through this epidemic,

through this COVID pandemic.

And so I feel like the more money we borrow

the more taxes we're all going to have to pay

over the next 10 years but I'll take it.

I don't mind having electricity a little bit cheaper

especially in the winter.

We heat our house with oil, our furnace burns oil

but we also use electricity to run the fan and the furnace

and other things around the house.

And so having electricity a little cheaper

during the winter isn't actually a bad thing for me.

I actually think I kind of appreciate it.

Anyways, I hope you're having a good day.

I hope you're all really with it right now

and learning a lot of English in this lesson.

I'll see you tomorrow with another short English lesson.