Learn the English Phrases TO GIVE SOMEONE A HEADS UP and TO FILL SOMEONE IN ON

In this English lesson,

I wanted to help you learn the English phrase

"to give someone a heads up."

When you give someone a heads up,

it means that you tell them something

that maybe they weren't aware of.

A good example would be this,

a couple of weeks ago, someone made a website

and was asking people to give them money

and then they said they would give the money to me

and then Brent, thankfully, Brent sent me an email

because he wanted to give me a heads up

that someone was doing this,

and a couple other people did as well.

So they wanted to let me know that something was happening

that maybe I didn't know about it.

It was really nice

that they were able to give me a heads up.

It was really nice that they were able to let me know

so that I could kind of take care of that.

So when you give someone a heads up,

it means you tell them something

that maybe they weren't aware of.

It's always a good thing to do.

It's nice when you can give someone

a heads up about something.

Thanks, Brent, by the way.

The other phrase I wanted to tell you today is the phrase

"to fill someone in on."

I don't know why we have two prepositions at the end

of this sentence, but when you fill someone in on something,

it means you tell them about it.

But it's more of like a formal thing

that happens maybe at work

or when you're talking about an event.

If someone said,

"Hey, I don't know anything about this Friday.

We're supposed to be having a meeting.

Can someone fill me in on the details?

Can someone tell me about what's happening?"

Or you could say this.

Maybe my mom's having a birthday party

and I don't know what day it's on.

I should know what day my mom's birthday is.

I don't know what day it's on

and I don't know what time to arrive

and I don't know what I'm supposed to bring.

I could say to my brothers and sisters,

"Could someone fill me in on all the details

about mom's birthday party?"

By the way, my mom's birthday is coming up

in a month and a half

but we're probably not having a party.

Things won't be open yet here in Ontario, Canada.

Anyways, to review, and hopefully I make some sense.

When you give someone a heads up,

it means you tell them about something,

usually one thing, that maybe they didn't know about.

And when you fill someone in on something,

it means you give them all the details about something

because maybe they were wondering what exactly

was going on or what was happening.

I hope those explanations made sense.

Sometimes when I listen to these lessons later,

I think, oh, I did actually make sense.

So hopefully that made some sense to you.

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

This is from Voiretvisite and Voiretvisite says,

"Hello. It is a nice and beautiful landscape."

Usually is. It's kind of nice.

"Who takes care of the goats during the day? See you soon."

And my response was this.

"Jen lets them out in the morning

and we bring them back in at night."

So the goats go out in the morning,

they go out on the pasture.

I did mention, I was going to try and walk and talk more.

Let's see if this will work.

I'm going to take my camera and walk and point.

So way over there is the pasture.

We let the goats out in the morning.

We let them back in at night.

Isn't it weird that we say in the morning

and then we say at night?

Why do we use different prepositions there?

I don't really know.

Anyways, they're out there somewhere.

I'm not sure if you can see them.

But the other thing I wanted to show you

while I walked and talked, which I said I would do more of,

is I wanted to show you all of the baby plants

on this wagon here.

So we have baby plants,

that's what we call them, in trays here.

These are all started in our house during the winter

and early spring and then we slowly bring them outside.

There's another wagon there

that some of you have seen before, and this wagon is cool

because we can close these doors at night.

So we have some baby plants in here

that are a little more sensitive to the cold.

So if it gets really cold at night, we will close the doors.

Anyways, I am going to try and walk and talk a bit more.

I hope you like it.

I'll see you in a couple of days

with another short English lesson.