Learn the English Phrases WIDE OPEN and WIDE AWAKE

In this English lesson,

I wanted to help you learn the English phrase wide open.

We use this to describe something that is open,

but that's all the way open.

Once I came home from work

and the front door to my house was wide open.

Someone had left the house

and they forgot to close the door,

so the door was wide open.

In my classroom, sometimes it gets really warm

and students will have the window wide open

when I walk in the classroom,

and I'll say, "Close the window.

You're wasting all of the heat."

So when you say something is wide open,

it means it's all the way open.

We also use this phrase in a sport.

So maybe you're playing a game like soccer

and your team mate has the ball

and you have none of the other team players around you,

you could yell, "Pass to me, I'm wide open."

In a sport, when you say you're wide open,

it means no one is around you from the other team.

The second phrase I wanted to teach you today

is the phrase wide awake.

When you are wide awake, you are really, really awake.

You know sometimes when you're sleeping

and you have a bad dream and you wake up all of the sudden,

usually at that point in the night, you are wide awake.

You are more than just awake,

you are really, really awake.

I remember once I was driving, when I was younger,

I was driving at night and I was on a really long trip,

and while I was driving I got a little bit drowsy.

When you're drowsy, it means you're almost falling asleep.

And while I was driving, my head went like this,

and it popped back up, and my eyes were wide open

and I was wide awake.

Did I just use wide open there? I did, didn't I?

Well, that was really good.

Anyways, after that, I was so scared,

I was wide awake for hours.

So to review, once again, when something is wide open,

like your eye, it means it's really, really open,

or a door or a window, or if you're playing a sport

and there's no one of the other team around you,

you could yell to teammate, "Pass the puck to me."

Yeah, see? If you're playing hokey.

"Pass the puck to me, I'm wide open."

And of course, wide awake means to simply be really,

really, really awake.

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

This comment is from Reniel.

And Reniel says, "Hi, Bob, amazing English lesson.

Thanks for sharing with us.

I'm a Canadian like you, but French Canadian.

Greetings from Montreal, Quebec, Canada (indistinct)."

And my response was, "You're welcome.

Cool to hear from a fellow Canadian.

I hope you're having a good day over there in Quebec."

So thank you, Reniel, for that.

I hope I'm saying your name correctly.

Very cool to hear from a fellow Canadian.

By the way, that's how you refer, in English,

to someone who is from the same country as you.

If you were from the United States,

you would refer to someone from the same country as you

as a fellow American.

When I talk about other Canadians,

I talk about fellow Canadians.

So it means they're from the same country as me.

Cool that Reniel is from the French-speaking part of Canada.

There are two different official languages in Canada,

French and English.

I speak both. English is my native language.

French is a learned language.

But it's really cool, we have La Belle Province,

which is the Beautiful Province,

which is the province of Quebec.

And the vast majority of people

in the province of Quebec speak French.

It's a cool place to go.

I actually lived in Quebec City a long time ago

for almost a year, probably,

I think about nine or 10 months.

I should check some time.

I worked in a restaurant.

I perfected my French a little bit.

I probably could have done a little better job on that,

but a long time ago, I lived in Quebec City

in the province of Quebec, it was awesome.

I wish I could go live there again some day.

But I'll just stay here for now.

Anyways, Bob the Canadian here.

I'll see you in a couple of days

with another short English lesson.

Have a great weekend.