Learn the English Phrases HOLD ON and TO GET A HOLD OF

In this English lesson I wanted to help you

learn the English phrase, hold on.

There's two ways that I use this phrase

most commonly when I speak English.

the first would be, if I was driving a snowmobile

and you were sitting behind me,

I would probably say, hold on

before I started to move forward,

because I wouldn't want you to fall off the back.

We also use the phrase, hold on

when we want someone to stop or to wait.

Let's say that Jen was leaving for market

and she had forgot her wallet.

I might run out of the house and I might yell,

hold on, hold on, don't leave yet.

You forgot your wallet.

So we can use this phrase two ways.

We can use it to tell someone to hold on to someone

or we can tell it to,

we can say it to someone to mean that they should wait.

The other phrase I wanted to teach you today

is the phrase, to get a hold of.

When you are trying to get a hold of someone,

it means you're trying to phone them or text them

and they're not responding to you.

Sometimes my son is at work

and I'm trying to get a hold of him during the day.

I'm trying to get a hold of him

so that I can tell him to stop at the grocery store

and get some things before he comes home.

So when you tell some,

when you are trying to get a hold of someone,

it means that you are trying to contact them.

You're trying to get a hold of them using either your phone

or via text or even via email.

So to review, when you tell someone to hold on,

when you yell, hold on,

it means you want them to stop or wait.

When you tell them to hold on,

let's say, if they were riding behind you on a motorcycle,

it means you want them to hold on either to you

or the motorcycle, so they don't fall off the back

when you start going.

And when you try to get a hold of someone,

it simply means that you are trying to contact them.

Sometimes I'm trying to get a hold of someone

and they don't respond and it can be a little frustrating.

Can't it?

When you're trying to get a hold of someone

and they don't answer you.

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

This comment is from Yusuf.

And the comment is this,

"Yo, hello, Mr. Bob,

Did you cut the tree that was not thriving?"

And my response is, "I have not done that yet.

Summer has really just begun for me,

and there are lots of little jobs

waiting for me on the farm.

I'm just getting started with my summer work list.

It's exciting."

So I do really enjoy working on the farm,

but I kind of just started on summer vacation last week.

So the tree that Yusuf is talking about

is actually right here.

If you wanna have a look at it,

you can see that it's definitely not thriving.

It has a dead branch here.

It doesn't really look healthy at all.

So I'm sorry to say once again,

I know people were sad last time I mentioned it.

It's time for this tree to go.

So it's one of the jobs that I do need to do

here on the farm.

If we look at this side, you can see it's even worse.

There's just lots of dead branches.

So I'll get that eventually.

There are many things that I need to do on the farm.

And it's probably one of the healthiest things I do in life.

I know sometimes people say

that you should take a break from work,

but for me, when I'm done teaching,

when I'm done, especially this year,

using all the technology and interacting with people,

this gives me peace, okay.

It's very peaceful for me to do farm work.

It's something I really enjoy doing.

Oftentimes, it's work that I do by myself.

So it has that value as well.

My school year is very, very social, I guess you could say,

not that I'm socializing,

but I'm always surrounded by people.

So when I come home to the farm in the summer,

it's just very relaxing, very peaceful.

And it's good for the soul.

It's good for my brain.

Anyways, Bob, the Canadian here,

I hope you're enjoying these little lessons.

I'll see you in a couple of days with another one.

Bye.