Learn the English Phrases OUT OF MY CONTROL and TO BE IN CONTROL

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In this English lesson,
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I wanted to help you learn
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the English phrase, "Out of my control."
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There are things on this farm
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that are under my control.
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There are things that I am in control of,
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but there are also things
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that are out of my control.
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Things like how often it rains,
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that's out of my control.
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Sometimes we get too much rain.
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Sometimes we don't get enough rain,
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but I can't make it rain.
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Okay?
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It is out of my control.
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I wish sometimes that it was though.
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I wish sometimes we could just
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go on the internet and order rain.
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Like, "We would like one inch of rain tomorrow,
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preferably in the afternoon."
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But we can't
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because the rain is out of my control.
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This morning it's Saturday,
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today that I'm making this lesson early.
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This morning I did a live lesson,
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and the wind was out of my control.
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It was quite windy,
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but I think people could hear things just fine.
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The second phrase I wanted to teach you is
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"To be in control."
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A lot of people want to be a leader.
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They want to be in charge of something.
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They want to be in control.
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We have this even in my own family.
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Sometimes when we organize an event,
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a few of us really like to be in control,
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even if it's something like a small party
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for my mum or a family gathering.
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Sometimes my brothers and sisters,
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and I argue a little bit
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because all of us like to be in control.
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We like to be the person in charge.
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We like to be the person doing the planning,
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and buying everything,
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which is kind of silly.
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It's actually far easier
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to not be in control of a situation.
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It's far easier to let someone else be in control.
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But hey.
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that's the way it goes sometimes.
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So to review.
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When something is out of my control,
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it means that I cannot make it happen.
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Okay?
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If I'm driving on the highway,
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and traffic is slow,
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it's out of my control.
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I can't make people in front of me go faster.
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And to be in control
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is the same as to be in charge,
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to be the person who is responsible
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for something that is happening.
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But hey.
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Let's look at a comment from a previous video.
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This comment is from
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voiretvisite
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and the comment is this.
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"Hello, your grass is nice
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with a wonderful green color.
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You really know how to take care of it.
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The weather seems fine for mid September,
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have a nice day."
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And my response,
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"The only thing we do to make our grass look good
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is that we don't cut it too short.
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Cutting grass too short makes it unhappy.
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Rain helps, but that's outside of my control.
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Notice I use the phrase there
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that I just taught you.
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But yes.
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Let's have a look at the grass.
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Let me hold this as high as I can.
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Our grass right now is very nice and very green.
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We have been very happy here on the farm.
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It was dry for a while,
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and then it started raining again.
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But we don't fertilize our grass.
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We don't do anything special to our grass.
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We don't water our grass.
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The only thing we do is we make sure
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that when we mow the lawn,
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let me spin you around.
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We make sure that when we mow the lawn,
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the setting on the lawnmower
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is as high as possible.
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And this is one of the secrets
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to having a very nice green lawn.
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Many people don't actually realize this.
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Many people cut their lawn super short,
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and that's actually a bad idea.
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It looks nicer when it's super short,
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but it's not actually healthy for the plant.
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Sorry.
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It's a little windy out here still.
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Hopefully the microphone
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isn't making all kinds of weird noises on you.
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I'll probably just wrap this video up
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as it gets super windy.
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Maybe my hat will blow away.
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Anyways.
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Thanks for watching.
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I'm Bob the Canadian.
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I hope you enjoyed this little short English lesson,
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and I'll see you in a couple of days with another one.
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Bye.
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