Learn the English Phrases "to push through" and "to push it too far"

In this English lesson, I wanted to help

you learn the English phrase to push through.

This past weekend, Jen was sick and I was a

little bit sick, but I decided to push through.

I took one day off work and I probably went back to

work one day too early because I decided to push through.

When you push through, it means you do

something when you're not quite strong enough or

have enough energy to do it.

When you're training for a sport, when you're lifting

weights the last 10 or 11 times you do

the weight, you might have to push through.

You have to give a little extra energy.

And sometimes when you're sick, you just decide

to go to work and push through.

And sometimes that's a bad idea.

It actually led to me not getting as much

work done as I wanted to this week.

So to push through simply means to kind of

just dig deep, find the energy somewhere to do

something maybe you don't have the energy for or

you're just a little bit too sick to do.

The other phrase I wanted to teach you today

is the phrase to push it too far.

This is what happens when you push through.

Sometimes you push it too far.

Let's say this past week, if I had done everything that

I wanted to do, I probably would have lost my voice.

I would have pushed it too far.

When you push it too far, sometimes

things go wrong or sometimes things break.

Let's say your car is making a funny noise and you're

like, I'll get that fixed in a week or two.

Maybe you are going to push it too far and

the whole car is just going to stop working.

So to review, to push through means to

find the energy somewhere to do something even

though you don't have the energy for it.

Or maybe you're a bit sick or

you just don't have the enthusiasm.

You just decide to push through.

And to push it too far means to simply keep

doing something or keep using something beyond when you should

have stopped or gotten that thing fixed, or if it's

like your throat looked at by a doctor.

Anyways, I feel great now

by the way. I took the hood

off because can you hear the.

I just thought it was probably making

a funny sound with the microphone.

But hey, let's look at a comment

from from a previous video from Brent.

From American English with this guy or with Brent.

Oh, very cool.

Your students are allowed to leave campus during lunch.

Not true for my students.

They are stuck bringing a lunch

from home or eating school lunch.

Thankfully, our school lunches are edible.

And then Konstantin, who does the same job

as Brent as I, as Brent and I. Same here, Brent.

Our school students can leave school only if we

have written or phone permission from their parents.

And then my response, it's age related here.

The lower grades must stay at school.

The older grades, grade 11 and 12,

are allowed to go to town.

So my school is in a town, but it's

on the edge of town and sometimes we refer

to the center of town as the town.

But thanks, Brent and Konstantin, for giving me a

bit more insight into how your schools work.

Yes, our older students are allowed to go.

In Canada when you are in grade 11,

or what the Americans would probably call junior

year or the 11th grade, that's usually the

year where you get your driver's license.

At some point you get your learner's permit

or beginners around grade 10 into grade 11.

And some students in grade 11 right around

now are starting to get their driver's license.

So their age, I think age 16 and then 8 months.

If you went to driver's education school at age 16

years and 8 months, you can get your driver's license.

So that's when we usually start to see students in

grade 11 starting to go to town for lunch.

So but anyways, does it say almost four minutes already.

Have I lost track of how to make these lessons

and keep them contained into a certain amount of time?

Possibly.

Anyways, thanks for being here. Thanks for watching.

I'll be back in a few days with

another short English lesson and I'm feeling great.

I'll see you at the live stream as well.

If you're watching this before 7:30am Eastern Standard Time on

a Friday, I'll see you in just a bit. Bye.