in this english lesson i wanted to help
you learn the english phrase to dumb
down now i think you know what the word
dumb means it's kind of an insult for
someone who's not very smart if you say
he's dumb you're saying that that person
isn't intelligent so it's not a nice
thing to say but we do use the phrase to
dumb down to talk about making something
simpler and easier to understand think
about it this way sometimes you read a
book and it's a really good book and
it's very complex and a little bit hard
to understand and then they make it into
a movie and then they
dumb down the story a little bit so it's
easier for people to understand
sometimes too they'll make instructions
for something and the instructions might
be really hard to understand so they
might say to someone at that company hey
before we ship that product someone
needs to dumb down the instructions you
need to make them simpler and easier to
understand
the other phrase i wanted to teach you
today is the phrase dumb luck so luck
when you're lucky it just means that
something goes your way for no reason
and dumb luck is the same thing
basically a good example would be this
normally i take a certain road to go to
work but the other day i took a
different road and then i ended up
finding out the road i normally take
there was an accident there and i would
have been stuck so it was just dumb luck
that i took the right road there was no
reason when i got to the end of my
driveway i decided to go one way and not
the other it ended up being dumb luck
that i just ended up going the way where
there was no traffic and no accident
that would have held me up
so to review
when you dumb down something when you
are going to dumb something down it
means you're going to make it simpler
and easier to understand and when you
have dumb luck it just means that things
went your way for some reason
usually just because you got a little
bit lucky but hey let's look at a
comment from a previous video this
comment is from
gil
thanks bob i like lilac in russian we
call it a bush not a tree could you tell
me what you call the color of that cat
of yours in canadian english ginger or
red my response we also sometimes call
it a bush lilac tree lilac bush
i think it depends on how tall it is
also we would say it is an orange cat so
yeah technically the lilac trees that i
showed you in the last video technically
i think they would be a lilac bush they
look more like a bush than a tree but
we've always called them lilac trees i
think because they are taller than me
and the cat yeah we don't usually call a
cat like that a ginger cat
we would usually just say it's an orange
cat and the other name we have for it is
tabi i think tabby refers to
you know the uh
the pattern of the fur on the cat so i
would have called that an orange tabby
cat
hey an interesting thing is happening at
work for some reason we're trying to
figure out how we used to do all kinds
of things
in may and in june last year in may and
june we were learning from home two
years ago in may and june we were
learning from home so there's all these
little
activities and things that we can do now
that we can do in person and as a staff
as teachers we're trying to figure out
how we used to do certain things i was
in a meeting this morning where a lot of
people were saying well how did we do it
three years ago the last time we did it
or how did we do it three years ago who
was in charge back then and who
organized it so i'm sure similar things
are happening for you if you work at a
school or at your place of business
there are things that we're able to do
now because kovit seems to be going
slowly away i don't think it's totally
gone yet and sometimes you end up
sitting around asking each other well
how did we used to do it who was in
charge last time did anyone take notes
and thankfully usually we do have notes
on everything that's where the
using uh computers is really awesome you
can go back and find out how you did it
the last time anyways thanks for
watching see you in a couple days with
another short english lesson bye