Learn the English Phrases DON'T COUNT YOUR CHICKENS BEFORE THEY HATCH & EARLY TO BED, EARLY TO RISE

8,540 views ・ 2020-09-28

Bob's Short English Lessons


Please double-click on the English subtitles below to play the video.

00:00
In this English lesson,
0
230
1170
00:01
I wanted to help you learn the English phrase
1
1400
2620
00:04
don't count your chickens before they hatch.
2
4020
2780
00:06
When we say in English
3
6800
1370
00:08
that you should not count your chickens before they hatch,
4
8170
3410
00:11
we mean that you shouldn't expect something to happen
5
11580
3290
00:14
before it actually happens.
6
14870
1690
00:16
You shouldn't hope that something happens
7
16560
2360
00:18
before it actually happens.
8
18920
1680
00:20
Here's a good example.
9
20600
1300
00:21
Maybe you went to three different job interviews
10
21900
3160
00:25
and you're hoping that you get a job at the company
11
25060
2890
00:27
that you really want to work at.
12
27950
1770
00:29
You shouldn't then go and buy a car
13
29720
2600
00:32
and rent a really expensive apartment
14
32320
2370
00:34
and spend all kinds of money,
15
34690
1830
00:36
thinking that you will get the job.
16
36520
2190
00:38
If you went to the job interview,
17
38710
1870
00:40
you should wait patiently to hear back
18
40580
3170
00:43
as to whether you did get the job
19
43750
1870
00:45
or not before you spend too much money.
20
45620
1940
00:47
Because you don't want to count your chickens
21
47560
2180
00:49
before they hatch.
22
49740
1140
00:50
This literally means if you have six eggs,
23
50880
2390
00:53
don't think in a few weeks you're gonna have six chickens.
24
53270
2670
00:55
Who knows?
25
55940
1340
00:57
The next phrase I wanted to teach you is the phrase
26
57280
2680
00:59
early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy,
27
59960
3910
01:03
wealthy, and wise.
28
63870
1040
01:04
I almost forgot the whole phrase,
29
64910
1460
01:06
but we do say this sometimes in English by the way,
30
66370
3480
01:09
the don't count your chickens before they hatch phrase.
31
69850
2740
01:12
I did just hear the other day,
32
72590
2060
01:14
but it's kinda rare now,
33
74650
1320
01:15
it's kind of an old-fashioned phrase.
34
75970
1750
01:17
And the phrase early to bed,
35
77720
1830
01:19
early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise
36
79550
3200
01:22
is kind of an older phrase too,
37
82750
1340
01:24
but I thought I should teach them to you.
38
84090
2510
01:26
I'm not sure if this phrase is true.
39
86600
2440
01:29
I have gone to bed early my whole life
40
89040
2070
01:31
and I do get up really early and I'm fairly healthy now.
41
91110
4020
01:35
I'm not wealthy.
42
95130
1393
01:37
I don't know if wise would be a good word to describe me.
43
97660
4000
01:41
I think I'm fairly intelligent,
44
101660
1980
01:43
but I wouldn't say that I'm wise.
45
103640
1820
01:45
So here's what I can tell you.
46
105460
1230
01:46
Early to bed and early to rise, I think makes you healthy.
47
106690
3760
01:50
I'm not sure if it's gonna make you wealthy
48
110450
2040
01:52
or if it's going to make you wise.
49
112490
1670
01:54
But hey, it's worth a try.
50
114160
1130
01:55
So, to review, don't count your chickens
51
115290
2370
01:57
before they hatch simply means don't expect something
52
117660
3180
02:00
is going to happen until it actually happens.
53
120840
2940
02:03
And if you say, "Early to bed and early to rise
54
123780
3030
02:06
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise,"
55
126810
2120
02:08
it's just a good recommendation to take care of yourself
56
128930
2890
02:11
because it might benefit you in the long-run.
57
131820
2660
02:14
Hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.
58
134480
2940
02:17
This comment is from Natalia and Natalia says,
59
137420
3437
02:20
"I see Oscar at his usual job.
60
140857
2493
02:23
He walks around the lawn and sniffs the grass
61
143350
2320
02:25
to determine if there were any strangers."
62
145670
2380
02:28
And my reply is, "He is really good at that.
63
148050
2480
02:30
He is the perfect dog in a lot of ways."
64
150530
2250
02:32
So this is from the last video
65
152780
2510
02:35
where Oscar is in the background
66
155290
2160
02:37
and then a little while later a cat goes by.
67
157450
2000
02:39
And Oscar simply walks in the background, looks,
68
159450
3330
02:42
and then keeps walking.
69
162780
1030
02:43
He doesn't even look at the camera,
70
163810
1690
02:45
he's just kinda checking to see if anyone has been around
71
165500
3770
02:49
or if anyone's on our property.
72
169270
1350
02:50
So, thanks Natalia, for that comment by the way.
73
170620
3220
02:53
Yes, Oscar is a perfect dog in a lot of ways.
74
173840
2240
02:56
We've had a few dogs in our time here on the farm
75
176080
3730
02:59
and Oscar's definitely one of the perfect,
76
179810
2620
03:02
most perfect dogs that we have had.
77
182430
1990
03:04
He barks when strangers come on the property,
78
184420
2510
03:06
he's a really good friend
79
186930
1490
03:08
for Jen when she's working in the flower field.
80
188420
2530
03:10
He actually sits on her lawnmower sometimes,
81
190950
2600
03:13
maybe I'll put a picture here of him sitting
82
193550
2360
03:15
on the lawnmower seat.
83
195910
1440
03:17
So we have a small tractor that we use
84
197350
1970
03:19
to mow the lawn called a lawn tractor or garden tractor
85
199320
3070
03:22
and he sits on the seat sometimes.
86
202390
1820
03:24
He's just a really good dog, he's super nice.
87
204210
2290
03:26
So he's not too old, he's not too young.
88
206500
2850
03:29
We were thinking of getting a puppy
89
209350
2580
03:31
and we were thinking of having two dogs,
90
211930
2190
03:34
but we checked the price of puppies right now
91
214120
3030
03:37
and the price is through the roof.
92
217150
1920
03:39
When you say that the price is
93
219070
1630
03:40
through the roof on something,
94
220700
1120
03:41
it means it is really, really high.
95
221820
1850
03:43
Puppies are incredibly expensive right now in Canada.
96
223670
2770
03:46
A puppy, normally, is about $500.
97
226440
2390
03:48
Right now, puppies are going for between 2,000 and $3,000.
98
228830
4830
03:53
I know, it's crazy, anyways.
99
233660
1750
03:55
Thanks for watching, I'll see you tomorrow
100
235410
1370
03:56
with another short English lesson
101
236780
1670
03:58
and I do hope that you're having a great day.
102
238450
2250
About this website

This site will introduce you to YouTube videos that are useful for learning English. You will see English lessons taught by top-notch teachers from around the world. Double-click on the English subtitles displayed on each video page to play the video from there. The subtitles scroll in sync with the video playback. If you have any comments or requests, please contact us using this contact form.

https://forms.gle/WvT1wiN1qDtmnspy7