Learn the English Phrases "on a mission" and "Mission accomplished!"

In this English lesson

I wanted to teach you the English phrase, on a mission.

When you say someone is on a mission

it means they're working hard at something,

they're diligent, they're getting a lot of stuff done,

they are on a mission.

It kind of comes from like in the Army,

people go on missions

but we use it to talk about people in real life as well.

You could say this, my daughter wanted to get

her driver's license and she is on a mission.

She is studying for her test, she is getting ready

to go and do her driver's test, she is on a mission.

She studies like every minute of the day

to get ready for that, she's on a mission.

So when you wanna talk about someone who's very determined

and working very hard on something

you could say that they're on a mission.

The other phrase I wanted to teach you today

is the phrase, mission accomplished.

This is something we sometimes say in a joking way,

when we finish a large task.

Sometimes we'll say to someone, mission accomplished.

Someone might say, hey,

did you get that project done at work?

You could say, oh, mission accomplished,

it's all done and ready to go.

Maybe someone says to you, did you get all the groceries

and did you get all of your errands done?

You could then say, yep, mission accomplished,

all of that is done.

If you wonder why I'm laughing

there's a cat down here, I'll show you for a sec.

It's running away now, there's a cat down there

and it keeps kind of going around my feet.

Anyways, to review, when you are on a mission

you are bound and determined to get something done.

There's another phrase for you,

you're bound and determined to get it done.

And when you say mission accomplished

it means you've done something, it's all done,

and you're kind of celebrating a little bit

by saying, mission accomplished.

That's what I say, after I'm done,

all of my videos for the day, I say mission accomplished.

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

This comment is from Noriko, if I'm remembering correctly.

It's getting more common here

in Japan to wear reflective belts when people go

for a walk or jog at night.

Please keep wearing your reflective vest when you walk

so that you feel more safe and everyone

who visits Ontario can find you easily, thanks.

My response I might even buy a reflective toque,

that's a winter hat in Canadian English, and gloves.

Yeah, I'm trying to be as reflective as possible.

Thanks for the comment, Noriko.

I think it's becoming more and more important

to be as reflective as possible.

It's cool to hear that in Japan,

people have reflective belts, I should look into that.

In English, when you look into something,

it means you research it a little bit.

I just about tripped on a cat here,

let me let you have a look here.

This is the cat that has been following me around

while I make this video.

I'm not sure what it wants, there's also a cat over there

by the van, by the way and you might even be able

to hear one meowing.

I think the cats haven't been fed yet today.

But anyways, what was I saying?

I lost my train of thought there.

There's another phrase, but yes, reflective vest.

Maybe I should get one of those too.

Maybe that would make me highly recognizable

on the side of the road.

Well, hey, it is a nice Tuesday morning here.

I usually make these the day before

and I'm having a very pleasant day at home.

As I mentioned there was a little break from school

last week, there was a convention

and all kinds of fun stuff.

Yesterday we went back to work

and we're teaching full steam ahead, again.

I'm using a lot of phrases this morning, aren't I?

When you say you're doing something, full steam ahead,

it means you're doing it at full speed.

You're going the normal speed that you would go

when you're doing something.

But I do enjoy the fact that on Tuesdays I can stay home

a little bit to get these videos done.

As you know, I'm not full-time,

I'm no longer a full-time teacher.

I don't know the exact percentage

but less than full-time and more than half-time.

Does that make sense?

That's where I'm at right now, so it's nicer for me,

I can get these videos done,

I can get my work done for my YouTube channel

and I can also get all of my teaching done.

Anyways, hopefully you learned four or five phrases

today in this video.

It was fun to make, I'll see you in a couple days

with another short English lesson, bye.