Learn the English Phrases THE PRICE YOU PAY and PAY THE PRICE

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn

the English phrase "the price you pay."

When we talk about price,

we're not always talking about money.

Sometimes we say things like this,

"When you are a rock star and you go out,

there are usually lots of people at the end of your driveway

who want to take your picture.

That's the price you pay for being famous."

Sometimes we say things like this,

"When you are in government,

when you are a government official,

maybe you are a prime minister or a president,

people will often complain about the things that you do

but that's just the price you pay when you are a leader."

So we're not talking about money

but when you describe something as the price you pay,

it's a different kind of cost for that sort of thing.

One of the prices you pay as a parent

is that you often do many things for your children

and they don't always say, "Thank you."

That's just the price you pay for being a parent.

The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is similar

but a little bit different,

and it's the phrase "pay the price."

The best example I can think of for this phrase is this,

"When I exercise really hard,

I usually pay the price the next day."

What I mean by that is this.

If I exercise really hard, the next day I'm really sore.

All of my muscles are really sore

and I have a lot of aches and pains.

So you would say that when you exercise hard one day,

you pay the price the next day.

So again, we're not talking about paying with money.

There's other kinds of costs in the world.

So when you exercise hard,

usually you pay the price the next day.

In fact, if I was to go and play hockey

or go skating right now,

I would definitely pay the price tomorrow.

I would feel really sore tomorrow

if I went skating today.

I should do that soon though, shouldn't I?

To summarize the two phrases again,

"the price you pay" is usually when you describe something

that has a cost other than money.

Again, the price you pay for being a parent

is sometimes your children don't say,

"Thank you," for things.

And then the second phrase, "to pay the price."

Sometimes when you do something,

you pay the price the next day.

So another way to say this would be,

if you're just mean to people your whole life,

eventually you pay the price

because people start being mean to you.

So let's look at a comment though from a previous video.

This comment is from Om, and Om says,

"It's a very nice view behind you with the snow falling

during the lesson."

So this was from yesterday's lesson where it was snowing.

And my response was, "Sometimes the background

is more interesting than the lesson LOL."

And then I put a little snowman and a snowflake

and my little emoji of me wearing sunglasses.

Thanks Om for that comment.

Yeah, so it was snowing yesterday.

You can still see some snow behind me on the ground.

I like it when it snows and the snow stays.

I don't like it when it all melts right away.

But yes, I decided long ago

that if I was going to make English lessons on YouTube,

two things were going to be true.

Either the lesson was interesting

or what was behind me would be interesting.

So at least people would like watching the video.

I think usually I'm fairly interesting.

The lesson is usually fairly interesting.

And what happens behind me or what is behind me

is also a little bit interesting.

But a while ago someone said I should stop

doing my English lessons outside.

Someone left a comment and said,

"Stop doing your English lessons outside.

The audio isn't very good. It's distracting.

There's too many things to look at."

And I just responded by saying,

"I kind of like doing the English lessons outside

so I'm just going to keep doing that."

Besides, you all know why I do them outside, right?

Because my house is full of children

and it's very loud all the time and it's really hard for me

to get them to be quiet for a long period of time.

They're good when I'm doing my live streams.

That's no problem, but I wouldn't want to ask them every day

to be quiet so I can make an English lesson.