Learn the English Phrases "a two-way street" and "the word on the street"

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In this English lesson, I wanted to help
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you learn the English phrase a two-way street.
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Now, the street behind me is a two-way street.
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You can drive that way on that street
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or you can drive the other way.
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But this phrase also has a different meaning.
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It's used to describe a relationship or
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situation where things go both ways.
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Let's think about respect.
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When two people respect each
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other, it's a two-way street.
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I respect to Jen and Jen respects me.
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In order to be respected, you
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have to respect other people.
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It's a two-way street.
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I think this happens as well with trust.
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In order to trust someone, they need to trust you.
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It's a two-way street.
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You can also use this to
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describe a situation like this.
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Sometimes Jen doesn't have enough flowers, so
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we get some from another flower farmer,
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but it's a two-way street.
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When they don't have enough flowers,
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we sell them flowers as well.
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So we help each other out.
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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today
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is the phrase, the word on the street.
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This is what we use when we talk
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about information that we've heard from someone else.
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It doesn't have to be information you heard while walking
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along the street, but you could say to someone, hey,
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word on the street is you're expanding your business.
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Or you could say, hey, word on the street is
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you took an English test and you passed it.
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So when you hear something from someone else, you
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would say, it's the word on the street.
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It's what people are talking about, about that person.
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So to review, a two-way street is
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that street behind me, but also any relationship
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or situation where things go both ways.
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And the word on the street is a
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phrase we use to talk about information we've
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heard or things we've heard about other people.
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But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.
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This comment is from Andres. Oh, volunteer firefighters.
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Interesting.
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If you were a firefighter, were you allowed
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to interrupt your lesson at school, jump in
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your car and go to the accident/fire?
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Will this affect your performance as a teacher?
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And my response?
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I'm pretty sure volunteer firefighters have an agreement
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with their boss that they can leave.
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It's for the greater good, after all.
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So thanks, Andres, for that comment.
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And I did actually look this up, and
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it's actually a law in Ontario, Canada.
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Let me read a little snippet of the law to you.
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It says, no employer shall without good cause prevent
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a person who is a volunteer firefighter from leaving
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for work to attend any kind of fire or
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accident or other firefighter related incident.
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They may either leave work or fail
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to appear at work for those situations.
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So it's the law.
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If you're a volunteer firefighter, it means you can
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get out of work when you need to.
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Hey, I'm going to cough for a sec.
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It's just a little cold out here.
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I wanted to show you this fence.
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I find this fence interesting.
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We're actually at a park. Okay.
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But this park has this really tall chain link fence.
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We call this a chain link fence.
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And at the top it's kind of bright in the sun there.
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It actually has barbed wire.
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This is the kind of fence you
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would more likely find at a prison.
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You don't normally find a fence like this at a park.
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Now you can just come in the park down there.
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I'm not sure why this fence is here.
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I have a funny feeling that maybe
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this used to be something else.
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Maybe this park used to be some sort
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of power station or some sort of small
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water pumping station for the town.
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And then maybe the park part came later.
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But yeah, definitely.
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I would say this fence is
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probably at least 3 meters tall.
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Yeah, it's probably about 10ft tall.
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And then there are three strands
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of barbed wire along the top.
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I guess to keep those kids out of the
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park so they can't come here and have fun.
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I'm just joking there.
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We wouldn't do that in Canada.
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Anyways, thanks for watching this
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little short English lesson.
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I'll have another one for you in a couple days. Bye.
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