Learn the English Phrases TO BE ON THE LOOKOUT and LOOK OUT!

In this English lesson,

I wanted to help you learn the English phrase

to be on the lookout.

When you were on the lookout for something or someone,

it means that you are actively looking for them.

Here's a great example.

I like teaching you little English phrases every day,

so I'm always on the lookout for new English phrases.

Every day, I listen to all the conversations around me,

I listen to the radio, I listen to television shows

that are in English,

when I'm watching the news in English.

I'm always on the lookout for new English phrases

that I hear so that I can teach them to you.

Another good example would be this.

When the police are looking for a criminal,

they are on the lookout for that criminal.

That means when they drive around in their police cars,

they're actively looking all the time.

So yes, once again,

when you are on the lookout for something,

you are trying to find it,

or you're trying to find that person.

The other phrase I wanted to teach you today

is the phrase look out.

This is a phrase that we yell or shout at someone,

maybe when something's about to hit them.

Imagine you are at a football game

and the ball is heading towards your friend's head.

You would say, look out.

When you yell look out in English,

it means that the person should pay attention.

The person should look around them

because something is about to happen

that might not be very good.

So once again, when you are on the lookout

for someone or something,

it means that you are actively looking or listening

for that thing or that person, okay.

It can be both listen and look.

You can do both, actually.

And when you yell look out or when you shout look out,

it means that someone should just immediately

look around them,

because maybe they're gonna get hit by a ball

or something else bad is going to happen.

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

This comment is from Rose and this was a great comment,

and it has a couple of followup comments as well.

Rose says, "In some families,

"there is a get together every weekend.

"So it is a lot of work

"for those who have it in their house."

Then Roman replied and said, "It's true."

Then Maggie replied, and I love Maggie's reply.

Maggie said, "Tell me about it."

That is an awesome phrase, Maggie.

Great job using that phrase.

Basically what Maggie is saying is I agree with you,

and you could just talk about that

and I would continue to agree with you,

because Maggie probably has some experience

with having get togethers.

My response was this.

"Very true.

"Before COVID, my mum would often

"have a small get together on Sundays,

"and it was a lot of work for her.

"She misses the social time,

"but doesn't miss the cleanup."

So yeah, when you have people over,

when you have a small get together,

sometimes you have to provide food,

and then afterwards you do have to clean up as well,

and that can take quite a bit of time.

Hey, I did want to read a second,

oh, by the way, thank you so much, Rose, for that comment.

That was an awesome one.

Just a sec.

Sorry, I had to check something.

Yes, thank you Rose for that comment.

Sorry, I briefly forgot who made the original comment

so I had to pick my paper up off the ground again.

I wanted to look at a second comment today,

because I wanna talk a little bit about school.

Lara says, "Do your students attend school

"or do they have remote learning?"

My response was, "Right now,

"we have four days of in school learning

"and one day of remote learning.

"It seems to be going well so far."

So again, I know I give you a lot of updates

about my life and my job.

Things seem to be going well here in Ontario, Canada,

so my school has decided that we will have

in class learning.

We are in school for learning four days a week,

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday,

and today I'm actually videotaping this on a Wednesday.

I am home and I am teaching from home.

Now, I only have classes in the afternoon

and it's morning right now, so it's okay.

It's okay for me to be outside making a video.

But yes, right now we have four days of in school learning

and one day of remote learning.

That might change, we'll see.

Time will tell.