In this English lesson. I wanted to help you
learn the English phrase "to end up."
This is a phrase we use to talk about
the thing that eventually happens.
I think the best way for me to explain it
is to give you a few examples.
Today my son was playing basketball after school
and Jen was going to pick him up,
but she got really busy, so I ended up picking him up.
So past tense there.
So instead of Jen, it was me.
So it can be used to talk about a situation
where something happens that maybe you weren't expecting
or not the way you thought and it's kind of the conclusion.
Another way to use it is in a sentence with if.
I could say, if you don't work,
you're going to end up with no money.
So the situation that results from not working
is that you don't have any money,
so you end up with no money.
The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase
"until the bitter end."
Sometimes people go and watch a basketball game
and they leave early because their team is losing,
but sometimes people will stay until the bitter end.
Sometimes we even just say til.
They stay til the bitter end.
Jen and I, when we go to see something,
we always stay until the bitter end.
We are not the kind of people to leave early from something,
usually because we want to get our money's worth
so we usually stay until the bitter end.
Even when we go to market to sell flowers,
sometimes other vendors will leave early
but we always stay til the bitter end
because we wanna sell as many flowers as we can.
We'll go have a look at them in a bit.
Anyways, to review.
When you end up doing something,
it means it's the end result.
If you watch this video,
you might end up learning some English.
And when you do something until the bitter end,
it means you do it until the very end.
It means you don't quit early.
It means you keep doing it.
But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.
This comment is from Noriko.
"Welcome back, sir.
Seems like you're better now.
Shadowing what you speak does the trick
for practicing my speaking muscle, thanks."
And my response, shadowing is a great technique.
I'm glad it does the trick for you.
So great use of the phrase, Noriko.
And yes, shadowing, which is when you watch a video
or listen to audio and then you pause it
and you repeat what the speaker has said,
so if you watch my videos, if you were to practice
doing shadowing, you would hit pause right now
and then you would say "practice doing shadowing"
and then you would hit play again.
Something like that.
Hey, I promised that I would show you these
when they were blooming, and they are definitely blooming.
So the peonies have definitely started to bloom.
You can see that we have some pink,
or we might call this fuchsia.
Over here, you can see one that's about to pop open.
It's about to burst into flower, I guess.
Sorry, I lost the train of thought there.
And over here, you'll see a big row.
Normally we would have harvested all of these.
We've harvested quite a few, but we're a little behind
and it has been raining a bit here.
You can see in the distance that it's a little cloudy.
I'm actually outside right now,
it's both sunny and cloudy at the same time.
So when I look this way, I have to squint
because it's very sunny, but when I look this way,
I can see pretty easily, but yes, to the south of us
I think it's definitely raining when I look at that sky.
So yeah, when it rains, we sometimes don't get
all of the peonies because they start to open up
and they get a lot of water on them.
We like to harvest them when they're closed,
and once they open, we just leave them out in the field
and it actually just makes things look
quite nice and quite beautiful, so we don't mind doing that.
Anyways, thanks for watching this short lesson.
I hope you're having a good day.
I know I certainly had a great day today,
and again, I just hope you did as well.
I'll see you in a couple days with another short lesson.
Bye.