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

In this English lesson,

I wanted to help you learn the English phrase

don't count your chickens before they hatch.

When we say in English

that you should not count your chickens before they hatch,

we mean that you shouldn't expect something to happen

before it actually happens.

You shouldn't hope that something happens

before it actually happens.

Here's a good example.

Maybe you went to three different job interviews

and you're hoping that you get a job at the company

that you really want to work at.

You shouldn't then go and buy a car

and rent a really expensive apartment

and spend all kinds of money,

thinking that you will get the job.

If you went to the job interview,

you should wait patiently to hear back

as to whether you did get the job

or not before you spend too much money.

Because you don't want to count your chickens

before they hatch.

This literally means if you have six eggs,

don't think in a few weeks you're gonna have six chickens.

Who knows?

The next phrase I wanted to teach you is the phrase

early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy,

wealthy, and wise.

I almost forgot the whole phrase,

but we do say this sometimes in English by the way,

the don't count your chickens before they hatch phrase.

I did just hear the other day,

but it's kinda rare now,

it's kind of an old-fashioned phrase.

And the phrase early to bed,

early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise

is kind of an older phrase too,

but I thought I should teach them to you.

I'm not sure if this phrase is true.

I have gone to bed early my whole life

and I do get up really early and I'm fairly healthy now.

I'm not wealthy.

I don't know if wise would be a good word to describe me.

I think I'm fairly intelligent,

but I wouldn't say that I'm wise.

So here's what I can tell you.

Early to bed and early to rise, I think makes you healthy.

I'm not sure if it's gonna make you wealthy

or if it's going to make you wise.

But hey, it's worth a try.

So, to review, don't count your chickens

before they hatch simply means don't expect something

is going to happen until it actually happens.

And if you say, "Early to bed and early to rise

makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise,"

it's just a good recommendation to take care of yourself

because it might benefit you in the long-run.

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

This comment is from Natalia and Natalia says,

"I see Oscar at his usual job.

He walks around the lawn and sniffs the grass

to determine if there were any strangers."

And my reply is, "He is really good at that.

He is the perfect dog in a lot of ways."

So this is from the last video

where Oscar is in the background

and then a little while later a cat goes by.

And Oscar simply walks in the background, looks,

and then keeps walking.

He doesn't even look at the camera,

he's just kinda checking to see if anyone has been around

or if anyone's on our property.

So, thanks Natalia, for that comment by the way.

Yes, Oscar is a perfect dog in a lot of ways.

We've had a few dogs in our time here on the farm

and Oscar's definitely one of the perfect,

most perfect dogs that we have had.

He barks when strangers come on the property,

he's a really good friend

for Jen when she's working in the flower field.

He actually sits on her lawnmower sometimes,

maybe I'll put a picture here of him sitting

on the lawnmower seat.

So we have a small tractor that we use

to mow the lawn called a lawn tractor or garden tractor

and he sits on the seat sometimes.

He's just a really good dog, he's super nice.

So he's not too old, he's not too young.

We were thinking of getting a puppy

and we were thinking of having two dogs,

but we checked the price of puppies right now

and the price is through the roof.

When you say that the price is

through the roof on something,

it means it is really, really high.

Puppies are incredibly expensive right now in Canada.

A puppy, normally, is about $500.

Right now, puppies are going for between 2,000 and $3,000.

I know, it's crazy, anyways.

Thanks for watching, I'll see you tomorrow

with another short English lesson

and I do hope that you're having a great day.