Learn the English Phrases "to be in the know" and "For all I know..."

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you

learn the English phrase "to be in the know".

When you are in the know, it means

that you know something is going to happen.

Here's an example.

If I was planning a surprise birthday party for my

mom and if someone said, who all knows about this?

I could say, well, my brother

and sister are in the know.

That means that they know that

this party is going to happen.

Maybe you're helping plan something at work and

it's a top secret project and only certain

people are supposed to know about it.

Only certain people are allowed to be

in the know about the project.

That means you would have to make sure

that you don't talk to the people you

shouldn't talk to about the secret project.

The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is

"for all I know". This is a phrase we use

before we say something that we're not sure about.

For all I know, it could snow tonight.

I haven't checked the weather.

I don't have enough information to actually

know if it's going to snow tonight.

So I could start that phrase by saying,

for all I know, it could snow tonight.

For all I know, some of you only

watch the first 10 seconds of my videos.

I don't actually know if you watch the entire lesson.

For all I know, maybe you just watch the first little

bit and think, this one seems a little bit boring.

So to review to be in the know means

that you do know about something that's going to

happen, and it kind of implies that there's people

who don't know what's going to happen.

And for all I know is a phrase we

use to introduce something that we're not sure about.

For all I know, these leaves might all

blow away tonight if it gets windy.

I don't know if it's going to be

windy or not, but it might be.

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

This comment is from Tammy.

Yes, you always go to great lengths to

make online lessons for us and all your

lessons are a token of generosity.

Thank you for your hard work.

In my response, I do my best, but oddly,

I just took a huge break on this channel.

I'm back at it now.

So yeah, I took a little bit of a break.

Many of you have told me, I'm just

putting the comment back in my pocket.

Many of you have told me, don't apologize

when you take a break, that I deserve

to take breaks once in a while.

So I'm not apologizing this time, but

man, that was a long break.

It was a week and a half, I think.

But I got lots of work done.

I'm in kind of a little bit of the

tail end of a busy stretch at work.

I do have parent teacher interviews tonight.

We sometimes call these learning conferences as well.

So I do have to go back to school.

I'm just home to make this video and have a

little bit of supper and then I'll head back in.

I've talked about parent teacher interviews before.

This is where parents and sometimes students

come in to talk about their learning.

We're at about the midway point of the semester.

I do work in a semester system, we would call it.

So we're at the halfway point.

Grades went out last week, so students are aware

of how well they're doing in their classes.

But yeah, tonight.

But I only have three, so maybe

that means I'm doing a good job.

Maybe that means no one wants to talk to me.

I don't know.

By the way, I think there's like 15 time

slots and I only have three interviews tonight.

So my colleagues are a little jealous.

Some of them have a full slate this evening.

That means they have interviews from, like, I think, seven till

nine and I just need to go in at ten to

8, 8:10 and 8:20 and then I'll be all done.

Well, maybe I'm doing a good job so the parents

don't feel like they need to talk to me.

Actually, I do know why.

It's because I teach computer class, which

isn't considered as important sometimes times.

So the science, English and math teachers,

they get a lot of interviews, but

us computer teachers, not as many.

Anyways, thanks for watching.

It's good to be back.

I'll have another little English lesson ready

for you in a couple of days. Bye.