Wednesdays with Bob #23: The Seasons of Life (An English Listening Practice Lesson)

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- Well, hey, welcome to Wednesday's
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with Bob Number 23.
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Remember, even though this isn't
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really an English lesson,
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there are word for word English subtitles
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if you need to turn them on,
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and there's a complete transcript in the description.
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Good morning.
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Welcome to the great outdoors.
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It is the beginning of Fall here
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in Ontario, Canada.
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And again, I just like to be outside
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when the seasons change.
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Right now it is the changing of the seasons.
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You can see the trees behind me
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are just starting to turn color.
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The Fall colors are beginning,
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and it's one of the most beautiful times of year.
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I like Winter the best, you know that.
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And I like Fall and Spring 'cause it's cooler
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and Summer is a little too hot for me,
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but I also like the changing of the seasons.
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It's really cool when Winter starts to go away
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and spring begins.
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It's really cool when Summer
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starts to end and Fall begins.
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I just love it when the trees
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start to turn color.
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And it just reminded me
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that we use seasons to talk
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about our lives as well.
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In your life, you go through different seasons.
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I remember when I was really young,
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when I was a kid,
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that season of my life was amazing.
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I just rode my bike all the time.
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I just played outside after school,
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I helped on the farm a lot,
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but that season of my life
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was a really nice season.
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I remember when I was a teenager,
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that season of my life was a little more rough.
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I fought with my parents a bit.
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I didn't like all the rules all the time,
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sometimes I stayed out late
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when I wasn't supposed to.
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That season of my life
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was really cool for me,
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but my relationship with my parents
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wasn't very good during that season.
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I remember when I was in my 20s,
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when I was finishing university,
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when I started dating Jen,
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that season of my life was amazing.
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I got along really well with my parents.
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I think I was a little more mature,
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and it was just fun to go out on dates
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with Jen and get to know each other
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and then to eventually get married.
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That was a great season in my life.
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I had a lot of freedom back then.
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And then I got to the season of being a dad.
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When we started having children,
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that was a wonderful season as well.
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I did like the responsibility.
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I liked having children.
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When I was in my early 30s
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having a whole house full of kids,
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really little kids was super fun
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and I really, really enjoyed it.
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And now we've kind of moved
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into the season where I'm getting older.
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The kids are getting older,
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my oldest son is actually at university,
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my youngest four still live with us
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and obviously are in school.
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This season of my life is really cool.
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Jen and I just yesterday
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were talking about how
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we've enjoyed every season of our life.
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Every season that we've been through
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so far has been really, really fun,
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and we try really hard to enjoy
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the season that we're in when we're in it
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because we don't want to think too much
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about the future and we don't want to dwell
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too much on the past.
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So, I'm hoping you're in a really cool season
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of your life right now.
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By the way, if you've noticed
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this members only video,
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I actually released to everybody.
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I thought that every few months
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I should just let everyone have a little taste
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of what you get if you have a membership.
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So enjoy this video.
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These Wednesday videos,
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again, aren't designed to be English lessons,
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but they can be English lessons in a way
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if you use them for listening practice,
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if you just use them to get to know me
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a little bit better as well.
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But hello to all of you
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and a special thank you to all of you
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who are members,
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who have clicked that join button
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to support my channel.
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Thank you very much.
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I'm glad that you are in a season of your life
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where you're able to support me
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in the work I do here on YouTube,
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helping people learn English.
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So again, it is a beautiful time out here.
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I should actually-
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Let me do this,
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let me take this camera,
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let me just tilt up a little bit
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so that you can see
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how beautiful it is out here right now.
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It is just a gorgeous day.
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Bye.
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