Learn the English Phrases "to get around to" and "to run around"

In this English lesson

I wanted to help you learn the English phrase,

to get around to.

When you get around to something

it means that you do it

usually after doing a bunch of other things.

Sometimes I have a lot of things to do during the day

and it takes a while before I get around to doing

the last thing on my list.

Sometimes we use this in the negative and we'll say,

I didn't get around to it.

If you noticed last Friday, there was no lesson for you,

I didn't get around to it.

There were too many things on my plate last week,

it was an extremely busy week for some reason

and I didn't get around to it.

So once again, when you get around to something,

it means that eventually you do it

and when you don't get around to something

it means you didn't do it

or you didn't get a chance to do it.

So sorry about that, but I think that was okay.

There's lots of videos for you to watch, isn't there?

And I did do my videos on my other channel.

Anyways,

the other phrase I wanted to teach you today

is the phrase, to run around.

Now, sometimes little kids will run around,

it means they're excited and instead of walking,

they run everywhere.

When I was a little kid, I would run around a lot.

But we also use this to describe a busy day.

You could say,

oh, I got a lot of running around to do today.

I need to run around and do some errands this afternoon.

I'll be home late because I need to run around

and get a few things done in town before I come home.

So you can use it as an adult as well

or you can just use it to describe children who run around,

who run all over the place.

So to review,

when you,

to get around to means to eventually do something.

And if you use it in the negative,

it means that you were going to do it

but you didn't, you didn't get around to it.

And when you run around,

it means you do a whole bunch of things.

So, usually on a Saturday I run around a lot.

I go to the feed mill, I go to the grocery store,

I run around a lot and I do a lot of errands.

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

This comment is from Vítor.

Hi Bob.

I'm not that busy now

so I thought I'd watch and check out some of your videos.

I think I missed one or two short lessons.

A bit of free time is always good,

and spending that time watching your content

is really enjoyable.

Thank you.

And my response is,

good to hear you're taking the time to catch up.

It's probably good that I took a day off

from making lessons on this channel.

So hopefully for Vítor that worked out

that I didn't do an extra video last week

or a video last Friday, it's easier for him to catch up.

So thanks for that comment, Vítor,

and I'm glad to hear that you have some free time

and that you're able to catch up.

So I wanted to show you

how much of a difference a week makes.

So I think it's been about a week

since I made a video right here

and you'll see that the tree behind me

has no leaves left on it.

And on the ground, that beautiful carpet of leaves

they've all kind of dried out and you can hardly see them.

In fact, it's gonna be a little bright,

but I'll show you across the river,

you'll see that almost all of the leaves in this area

have disappeared.

What's that sound?

Oh, it looks like my neighbor.

I'm not sure if you'll be able to see this

but it looks like my neighbor is out with his tractor

and chainsaw,

and it looks like he has a four-wheeler

with a little cart behind it.

Hopefully I can zoom in and show that to you.

It looks like a tree either fell over or died,

and it looks like they're taking some time

to chop it up for firewood,

so a common occurrence in Ontario, Canada

around this time of year.

But yes, the leaves are gone.

We had our first evening last night

where it went below zero,

it was quite cold, it was minus one.

So winter will be upon us soon.

So, they'll get really good use

out of that firewood, I would assume.

Although usually you let firewood sit for a year,

you cut it the year before you need it.

It warms you up three times, right?

The time you cut it,

the time you stack it

and the time you burn it.

Anyways, have a good week.

I'll see you in a couple days with another short lesson, bye.