Learn the English Phrases "No need to..." and "to need to go"

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In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, “No need to...”
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This is just a quick way to start a sentence that we would normally start by saying, “There
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is no need to.” But often in English, in spoken English, we'll say “No need to...” instead.
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Maybe you're going to a party and you say, Hey, should I bring some food?
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The person might respond and say, No need to bring food.
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There will be lots. Maybe...
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Let me think of another example.
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Let's say my brother was coming over to help me do some weeding.
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The weeds are growing really fast here on the farm.
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If it rained or if it's raining, I might text him and say, No need to come over today.
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It's too wet to work outside.
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So again, it's just a short form of the phrase, “There is no need to...
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” or “There's no need to...” but often in spoken English
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or when we text, Sorry, the geese are honking.
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We say, “No need to...” just to shorten things up a bit.
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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase
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Sorry, there's something crawling on me.
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There's lots of bugs too, is the phrase, “to need to go”.
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Now, this can simply mean that you have to do something.
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You can say, I need to go to the store.
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But the meaning I wanted to teach you today is the meaning
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that refers to having to go to the bathroom.
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Let's say you really need to go pee.
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You might say to someone, Can we stop the car at the next rest stop because I need to go.
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When we were driving, when we were younger and our kids were younger,
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sometimes one of our kids in the back of the van would say, Can we stop?
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I need to go.
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And what they meant is that they needed to go to the bathroom.
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So it's a very nice way of saying
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that you need to use the washroom or you need to go to the bathroom. So
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to review, “No need to...” simply means, “There is no need to...
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” No need to watch this video twice, if you understand it the first time.
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And the phrase, “to need to go” can simply mean that you have to go somewhere.
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But we also use it to mean that you need to go to the bathroom.
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Hey, let's look at a comment from I'm not sure why I did that little dance.
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I think that's what little kids do when they need to go, anyways.
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Let's look at a comment from a previous video.
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This comment is from Brenno. Hi, Bob.
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Thanks As usual.
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We always have more than enough knowledge with you to go around.
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Enough said. Have a good weekend.
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My response?
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Thanks. You too. Yes, Brenno, I hope you have a good week.
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And that was an excellent use of both phrases from the previous video.
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Good job.
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Well, hey, I don't have a lot to talk about today.
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I am out here.
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It's a nice sunny day.
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You'll see that in a moment as I walk into the sun.
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I got up really early.
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I went for a walk.
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The only thing I would say is I have actually started to be a little bit bored.
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This is the fourth day of my summer vacation.
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And I mentioned to Jen the other day that
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somewhere
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around four or 5:00, all of a sudden, I was a little bit bored.
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It's rare for me to be bored.
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So that was something new and it's a good thing.
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When I'm bored then new ideas come to me.
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When I'm bored, I start to think of new ways to teach English in particular.
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And I have some ideas that I've been mulling over in my head
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for ways that I can make new videos or little posts
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I can do on my community tab and those kinds of things.
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So yes.
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Bob, the Canadian, after months of being a little bit
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too busy, was actually bored for just a little bit.
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But I won't be bored later today because it is actually market day.
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We're loading the red van we’ll be heading out in a couple of hours.
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I do have to have a little French conversation with my friend in France at 11:00 this morning.
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But other than that, it should be a nice day at market.
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It's going to be 32 degrees, though.
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A little warm, but we'll see how it goes.
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Anyways, thanks for watching.
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See you in a couple of days with another short English lesson. Bye.
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