Learn the English Phrases TO CHANGE YOUR TUNE and TO TUNE OUT

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In this English lesson,
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I wanted to help you learn the English phrase,
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to change your tune.
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When you change your tune about something,
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it means you change how you think about it.
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Here's a good example.
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Maybe when you were a student in school,
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you didn't like doing homework,
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but you noticed that students who did homework
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got really good grades.
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You might then change your tune about homework.
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You might start to think that homework
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is actually a good thing to do.
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Here's another example.
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Maybe you don't think exercise is important.
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And then you go to the doctor and the doctor says,
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"You need to lose 20 pounds
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and you need to start exercising," and you do.
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And you noticed it does make you feel better.
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You might change your tune.
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Instead of thinking that exercise is silly,
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you might start to think that exercise
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is good and important.
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The second phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase,
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to tune out.
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When you tune out,
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it means you ignore everything around you.
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Maybe when you read a book, you tune out.
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Maybe the book is so interesting,
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the story is so interesting,
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you don't notice anything else that is happening around you.
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You tune out.
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You can also tune somebody out.
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Sometimes I think when I was a teenager,
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I would tune out my mum.
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My mum would talk to me so much
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and tell me what to do so often
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that eventually I kinda stopped listening to her.
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I would tune out my mum.
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That's not very nice, is it?
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But I think a lot of teenagers do that for sure.
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Anyways, to review, when you change your tune,
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it means that you start to think differently
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about something, usually in a positive way.
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And if you tune out the world around you,
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it means you don't hear or see anything
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because of what you're doing,
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or if you tune out a person, it means that you ignore them.
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But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.
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This comment is from Snazzy, and Snazzy says,
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"Air quality is low,
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but the education quality is definitely high.
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I am sure the air quality will also become
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as high as the education soon.
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Nice lesson, Bob."
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And my response was this,
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"Yes, the air quality is much better today.
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It rained overnight
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and that really made things a lot better.
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It's also a lot cooler."
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So yes, we were happy to get rain
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because it was quite hazy and smoggy,
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and there was smoke from the forest fires,
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but we weren't happy to get rain (chuckling)
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because we didn't need rain, actually.
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In fact, I was making this little video by the lawnmower.
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Our lawnmower has been used more during this month of July
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than any other month in the past.
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Usually in the summer, the grass stops growing.
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Well, it doesn't stop growing,
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but you don't need to mow it as much.
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But now, everything is growing.
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The pumpkins that I showed you I think a couple of weeks ago
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are much bigger.
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I did weed this, but I left some of the weeds here
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because they're actually good to put in bouquets.
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And if you look over here, you'll see that the lawn
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just keeps growing like crazy.
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We have been mowing far more
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than we ever mow during this month.
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It's a little bit out of hand.
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But we wanna keep the property very nice and tidy
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because when people come to buy flowers,
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we want them to appreciate the property as well.
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When they come here to buy flowers,
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we want them to appreciate the trees
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and everything else that is around us.
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Sorry, I'm a little distracted
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because there's a lot of traffic today
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and it's somewhat loud.
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So anyways, yes, it rained.
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The air quality is better.
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I'm very, very happy about that,
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but I certainly hope it stops raining now.
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We need good air quality and less rain
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for the next little while.
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Anyways, Bob the Canadian here,
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I hope you're enjoying these little lessons.
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I'll see you in a couple of days with another one, bye.
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