Learn the English Phrases "might as well" and "freezing rain"

In this English lesson, I wanted to help

you learn the English phrase might as well.

We use this phrase when we're

saying that we should do something.

I think a good example is this.

If you're driving in your car on the highway

and you pull over to get gas, you might

as well get something to eat as well.

Since you're already getting gas, you should eat at the

same time because you don't want to stop later.

Let's say that I'm stuck at school waiting for one of

my kids to be done, whatever they are involved in.

Then I might as well grade some

student work since I'm at school anyways.

I should grade some student work

because I'm waiting for my kids.

So when you might as well do something,

it means you should do it usually because

it's just a good idea to do it.

The other phrase I wanted to teach

you today is the phrase freezing rain.

It's a snow day.

I'm recording this on a Thursday because

we had freezing rain last night.

I talked about this in my

lesson about weather a week ago.

Freezing rain is when it's raining

but it's still below zero.

It's kind of a weird phenomenon, but

you end up with things like this.

I'll show you the ground here.

You end up with all these little...

You can't quite see them,

but there's these little tiny.

I can't pick them up.

They're frozen. Basically.

Yeah.

You end up with this.

Hopefully it's in focus and hopefully you can see you

end up with a lot of ice on the ground.

So it's a snow day, I get to stay home.

So to review when you might as well

do something, it's something you should just do.

Let's say it's 4:00 and Jen and I are sitting down

to have a snack and we have to go out later.

We might as well just have a big meal

and then we don't have to eat later.

And then freezing rain is when it rains

and it freezes when it hits the ground.

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

This is from Ginny.

Isn't it cold in the early morning?

The dogs behind the screen seem very energetic, especially

the black one was running like a horse.

Yes, Walter tends to do that.

And my response, it was cold, but not too bad.

The dogs sleep in our garage and were just let out.

They're usually quite energetic

first thing in the morning.

So yeah, the dogs, when they first

get up are very, very energetic.

Gonna show you a few.

Thanks for the comment, Ginny.

A few things that happen when there's freezing rain.

You can see this is all frozen.

So I do have to go somewhere later today.

But the windshields on our vehicles all have a

thin layer of ice on them. As well...

Walter's not as energetic this morning.

The ground, it's a little bit slippery.

It's actually not too bad.

But we have to be careful because the

dogs can slip and fall and that's not

good because they can hurt themselves.

So we're trying to make sure they don't run around

on the driveway and instead run around on the grass.

You can see this car here, too,

just has all these little ice pellets.

Maybe I could actually pick one up this time.

It's frozen to my finger.

No, I dropped it.

Yeah, all these little ice pellets, they all fell

as rain and froze as they were coming down.

And then now we have a situation where the car

is just covered in a thin layer of ice.

It's kind of beautiful, though.

And I don't mind having a snow day today.

Actually, I never mind having snow days, but it

wasn't that important of a day, so it's kind

of nice just to be home and relax.

Jen made pancakes for the kids

because they're home from school.

So it's just a nice day, relaxing at home.

Anyways, thanks for watching.

Hope you're having a good day.

Here's Walter as well out having a

little bit of a look around.

It's much later in the morning

now, so they're a little calmer.

Anyways, thanks for watching. I'll see you in a couple

days with another short English lesson. Bye.