Learn the English Phrases COMES WITH THE TERRITORY and TO COME ACROSS

In this English lesson,

I wanted to help you learn the English phrase,

comes with the territory.

When something comes with the territory.

it means it's something that you can expect to be somewhere

when you do something.

Or, let me think here.

There's gotta be a good example I can think of right now.

Let's listen.

If you can hear geese,

you should know that when you make videos outside in Canada,

hearing geese in the background comes with the territory.

So when you say something comes with the territory,

it means that something that you can expect.

When you are a teacher,

you will have students who listen to you

and you will have students who misbehave.

Having students misbehave in class

is just something that comes with the territory.

So when something comes with the territory,

it's just normal for that situation.

Can you hear geese?

I really hope you can hear them.

It just comes with the territory.

The other phrase I wanted to teach you today

is the phrase, come across.

There's a number of different meanings for this phrase.

The one I want to use refers to how someone seems to you

or how someone appears to you.

When you meet someone

they can come across as a nice person.

They can come across as not a very nice person.

When I make videos using a camera, I try to come across

as naturally and as authentically as possible.

So when you come across,

it's how you communicate either through a device

or how you communicate to someone in person.

It's what they think of you after you talk to them.

So usually when I meet people, I try to just be myself.

I want to come across as normal and authentic.

I just want to be me.

So I try to make sure I come across that way.

So let's review.

When you say that something comes with the territory,

it means it's normal for that situation.

And when you come across a certain way,

it's how people think or what people think you are like

after they listen to you or talk to you.

By the way,

come across has about five or six different meanings

but that's just one of them.

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

This comment is from voiretvisite, a French name.

And the comment is this.

Hello, I am a teacher and I have an English speaking class.

One of my students made a mistake

and she said to me, "Oh, my bad!"

She should not use this expression

when she is speaking to her teacher, right?

Because this expression is not formal.

And my response was this,

"Students will use this phrase sometimes."

By the way, especially in a high school.

It's not considered rude, but it's not polite either.

It's sort of in between.

In my upper level classes

where I teach students who I've known for four years,

it would not bother me.

With new students, I would expect more respect.

So this is a tricky one.

With young children,

you probably wouldn't expect them to say, "My bad."

With high school-aged students or university students,

you might actually hear them

use that phrase once in a while.

By the way, thanks voiretvisite for that comment.

This is from the lesson yesterday

where I talked about the phrase, my bad,

as a way to informally apologize for something.

I do hear this phrase all the time.

I think with my upper level students,

when I've taught them in grade nine, 10, 11, and 12

and I know them quite well and they are familiar

I'm somewhat easy going in my upper level classes.

I'm a lot more strict in my lower level classes.

I think that it would be fine with me

if a student said, "Oh, sorry, sir, my bad."

I always add sorry in front, don't I?

I think for sure if they said sorry in front,

I would be fine with it.

But if a student in grade 12 said, "Oh, my bad,"

I think it would be fine with me.

But yeah, it really just depends

on how well you know the student

and what kind of classroom you have created.

Anyway, it's Bob the Canadian here.

Thanks for watching this short English lesson.

I'll see you in a couple of days with another one.