Learn the English Phrases TO BREATHE NEW LIFE INTO and TO BREATHE A SIGH OF RELIEF

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In this English lesson, I wanted to help you
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learn the English phrase, to breathe life into,
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or we also sometimes say, to breathe new life into.
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We use this phrase whenever someone
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or something makes a situation better.
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Here's a great example.
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Let's say they are fixing all of the roads in your town,
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but they're running out of money.
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If the government suddenly decides
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to give your town more money to fix the roads,
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that money would breathe new life into the project.
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When you think about a person,
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let's think about a party that's really, really boring,
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and if a person comes to that party
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who's really happy and excited,
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we would say that that person
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would breathe life into the party
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or they would breathe new life into the party.
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So, when you have the phrase,
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to breathe new life into something,
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it simply means that someone or something
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makes the situation better.
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The second phrase I wanted to look at is,
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to breathe a sigh of relief.
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A sigh of relief sounds like this. (sighing)
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And a sigh of relief is something that you do
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when you were worried about something
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and now you are no longer worried about it.
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Probably the best example I can give
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is from my own childhood.
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When I was a teenager, sometimes I would stay out late
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and my mom would actually stay up
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and wait for me to come home.
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And when I came home,
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I think my mom would breathe a sigh of relief.
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Basically, my mom would have been worried
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when I was out with my friends,
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and when I got home and she knew I was home
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and that I was safe,
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I'm pretty sure she would breathe a sigh of relief.
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So she would just sit there and probably go,
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(sighing) "Oh, good, Bob's home."
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So anyways, to review,
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when you breathe new life into something
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or when you breathe life into something,
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it means that you make a situation better
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or something makes a situation better.
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And when you breathe a sigh of relief,
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it means that you were worried
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and now for some reason you are no longer worried
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and you can just breathe a sigh of relief
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and be happy again.
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Hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.
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This comment is from the video I did
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on what a class clown is, and this is from Qiu Park,
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and Qiu Park says "Every class has a class clown."
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And my response was, "You are right.
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I think every class I've ever been in as a student
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and every class I've ever taught as a teacher
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had a class clown in it."
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So I just want you to read that sentence again
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on the screen.
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That's a pretty complex English sentence,
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but it's a great model sentence for talking about the past.
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So again, I said, "I think every class I've ever been in
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as a student and every class I've ever taught as a teacher
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had a class clown in it."
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So anyways, I'm sure some of you were class clowns.
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I know in the comments on that video,
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some of you shared that you were class clowns,
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some of you shared that you weren't class clowns,
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but you certainly found class clowns funny.
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Hey, let's talk a little bit more about being a teenager.
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I know some of you are teenagers,
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I know some of you are parents with teenagers,
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and I know some of you are parents
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and you're going to have teenagers someday,
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and I know all of you at some point were a teenager.
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Let's talk about staying out late.
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I don't think I was very nice to my parents
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when I was a teenager.
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I stayed out late a lot.
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I was supposed to be home at midnight,
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and sometimes I would come home
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at one or two or three in the morning.
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I was a good kid,
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but I still tended to stay out late all the time
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and I think it really worried my parents.
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So, if you are a teenager right now,
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just kind of think about that
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when you go out and you stay out late.
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If your parents are expecting you home
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at 11:00 p.m. or midnight,
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at least give them a little text message,
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send them a text message, if you're gonna be late.
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Be as nice to them as possible.
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And if you're a parent of a teenager like me,
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I totally understand what you are going through.
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Sometimes when your kids are out late,
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you just can't wait for them to get home
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so that you know that they are safe and sound.
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