Learn the English Phrases TO GO OFF THE RADAR and TO BE ON SOMEONE'S RADAR

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In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn
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the English phrase, to go off the radar.
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When someone goes off the radar,
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it means they kind of disappear for a little bit.
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And I kind of just did that.
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So I do want to apologize to all of you.
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On my bigger channel normally
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there's a new English lesson every Tuesday
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and yesterday I didn't put a new video out.
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And then on this channel,
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there should have been a new video lesson
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for you a few hours ago already
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but there wasn't one because I kind of went off the radar.
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When you go off the radar,
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it simply means that you kind of disappear for a little bit.
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And I kind of disappeared for a day
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and I did explain on my other channel what happened
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and I'll explain on this channel a little bit as well.
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It's nothing serious by the way.
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But when you go off the radar,
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it means that a person kind of disappears
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for a day or two or maybe longer.
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So sorry, I was kind of off the radar for a bit.
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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase,
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to be on my radar or to be on someone's radar.
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This means that you are aware of someone or something.
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This happens a lot when you're a teacher.
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Another teacher might say to me,
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hey, watch out for Johnny,
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he's been acting a little suspiciously lately,
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keep them on your radar.
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I'm going to keep him on my radar as well.
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So you can be on someone's radar or you can keep someone
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on your radar or you can keep something on your radar.
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That just simply means that you are aware of it
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and you are watching carefully
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just in case something happens.
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So what is radar?
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Well, radar is something they use in the military
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and it kind of helps them see things from far away.
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So to review, if you say that someone has gone off the radar
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or the phrase to go off the radar it means to disappear
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for a little bit without telling people where you're going.
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And then when someone is on your radar or if you say
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that someone is you're going to keep someone on your radar,
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it means you're going to kind of keep an eye out for them.
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But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video
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and this comment will lead into the rest of this lesson.
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Natalia Illusion says, does anyone know where Bob is?
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And Julia Olis says, same question.
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And my reply was I'm right here,
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sorry to go off the radar for a day.
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Just getting back on track now.
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So yes, I do want to apologize to all of you.
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It wasn't very nice of me to just kind of skip a day
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without mentioning where I was.
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There's no problem with me not making a video for a day
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but I know a lot of you just, well,
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you kind of liked me and I like you too
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so it's not nice to disappear for a day
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without at least putting a message on my community page
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or on Facebook letting you know what was up.
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So what was up?
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I explained this in my other video on my bigger channel.
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I just felt blah, is that a good description?
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I felt blah, I felt under the weather.
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I said to Jen, I felt kind of meh.
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That's not a real English phrase by the way
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but I didn't feel energetic
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and I thought maybe even that I was getting sick.
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So Jen actually said, if you don't make a video for Tuesday,
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you should tell people so they don't worry about you.
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And I was like, ah, it's not a big deal, they'll understand.
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And then when I got up this morning,
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I thought, you know what?
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I probably should have told people
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that there's nothing seriously wrong.
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Everything is well, it's not wonderful.
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Life's just what life is right now.
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I'm still stuck at home,
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there's still COVID in the world.
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But no, I'm not sick, I feel great.
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I just had a day or two where yeah,
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I just, it's really hard to explain.
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In my other video I said, I didn't have a lot of gumption.
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I didn't really feel like getting a lot done
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and when you don't have energy to do something
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and you try to talk on camera,
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words just don't come out very good.
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So and then I had a small glitch I said with my computer
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on the other channel but it was more with my internet,
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I was having trouble uploading.
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Uploads would go and then fail, that's really annoying.
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Anyways, I'm fine, I'll see you in a couple
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of days with another short English lesson.
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