Learn the English Phrases I CAVED and MAN CAVE

In this English lesson,

I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, I caved.

When we say I caved in English,

it means that you didn't wanna do something,

but then you changed your mind.

Here's a good example.

You can see that the letters are very nice and dark

and black on here because I caved.

I didn't wanna put a new toner cartridge in my printer.

I was wanting to use it

until all of the toner was completely gone.

But the other day, my daughter had to print something

for school and she wanted it to look nice, so I caved.

So it means I changed my mind.

It means I gave in.

So I took the new toner out of the box,

put it in the printer,

and now the printer prints with nice black ink again,

or toner, sorry, it's not really ink,

against a white sheet of paper.

By the way, I do recycle all of these,

so just so you know.

So (chuckles) when you say I caved,

it means you didn't wanna do something,

but you changed your mind.

The other phrase I wanted to teach you today

is the phrase man cave.

Now I don't have one of these,

but some men, in their houses, will have a man cave.

This is a room where a man might have a huge television

for watching football.

In my mind, when I think about a man cave,

I usually think about an American man,

I don't know why, who has a room in his house

and he has all football, like football jerseys

and a football on the wall and posters and a big TV,

and then on Sundays, he goes and watches football

in his man cave.

I think that's the image I have

from watching too much American television. (chuckles)

But a man cave would be a room in a house

that a man has all to himself

where maybe his wife and kids aren't allowed to go.

I don't have a man cave.

I have an office.

It's not really my man cave.

Anyways, to review.

When you say I caved, it means you give in.

Here's another good example.

Last night, my kids said,

"Dad, the Raptors basketball team is playing."

We're watching the game

and my kids didn't have school today.

So last night they said, "Can we have ice cream?"

And I said, "No."

But then they asked me a couple more times,

and finally I caved and I said they could have ice cream.

And to review this term,

a man cave is a room in a house

that a man uses usually to watch sports, maybe drink beer.

I don't really know a lot about man caves,

but you will hear that phrase on TV and in movies

every once in a while.

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

This comment is from Elena.

Sometimes it seems to me that I know you personally.

Your lessons aren't artificial.

It's all about everyday life. It's amazing.

And my response, I'm pretty much the same person

on camera as I am in real life.

I could never be an actor

unless they needed someone to play a character just like me.

So yeah, I think I could do a really good job as an actor

if they needed someone

to act like Bob, the Canadian. (chuckles)

If they had a show where they needed a 50 year old guy

with slightly gray hair,

actually maybe more than slightly gray,

to just do normal things.

Maybe if they had a show about a teacher

and the teacher's name was Bob,

I think I could do a really good job acting

in that show. (laughs)

I think that's really the only kind of show

that I would be good at.

I don't know how to describe myself. I'm only me.

I don't really change that much when I'm on video

or when I'm on a Zoom call.

You could actually ask a few people

who've talked to me on Zoom, like Rod, the English teacher.

I think I'm too old to put on airs.

I'm too old to act differently.

I've been on this planet for 50 years. I'm just me.

I don't think there's any point in trying to pretend

that I'm anything else.

Anyways, I know I'm showing you the same scene as before.

I think from the last video.

The river is even higher now

and we seem to have some geese living down there.

So that's kind of what happens.

Let's spin this way as well.

It's a little bright for me,

but definitely a lot of flooding going on.

I'll see you in a couple of days

with another short English lesson, bye.