Meaning of CAUGHT OFF GUARD - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles

So in English when you are caught off guard,

it means that you weren't ready for something.

I was a little bit caught off guard this week

because this tractor is supposed to be connected

to that snow blower.

I wasn't expecting all of the snow

that you see behind me so I was caught off guard.

I wasn't ready for this much snow.

This sometimes happens to my students as well.

Sometimes they forget or they don't remember

that there is a test and they come

into the classroom and they are caught off guard

because all of the sudden they realize

that we are having a test that day.

So it's not nice to be caught off guard,

it's nice to always be prepared for things.

But I was certainly caught off guard

for all of this snow.

I'll walk over here and I'll show you just

a little bit more of it so you can see

how much I was caught off guard.

If you look behind me, you can see

that we got several centimeters of it.

So I was definitely caught off guard.

But you guys know that I am Bob the Canadian,

I live in Canada and I love snow

so it really isn't that bad to have this much snow

in the background.

By the way, there's a whole new video

on YouTube right now if you search "Bob the Canadian Snow"

you'll find it.

I'll go over a whole bunch of words

and phrases associated with snow.

And I made that video during the snowstorm

that gave us all this snow.

So why don't you head over there

and give it a watch?