hello hello hello everybody my name is steve ford welcome to your english lesson welcome to
english for 30 days the 30 day challenge we're on day 3 of our challenge and i've got a great lesson
prepared for you today today we're going to be talking about similar expressions related to time
how those can change using prepositions phrasal verbs are you ready let's go
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after this lesson to see if you can remember all of the things that i'm going to teach you today
and here we go so my first question for all of you watching this video is do you like to plan
ahead do you like to make sure that everything is ready for the next day the next week the next
month some people are different in some cultures you live day to day you live day by day because
you don't know what's going to happen tomorrow and that is so true especially nowadays we really want
to live in the moment let me know if you like to plan ahead how far ahead you like to plan
now some people of course it's human nature to procrastinate to put things off sometimes and when
we do that it means that we leave things for later don't do it now do it tomorrow putting things off
so i'm gonna give you some examples and maybe one of these is you in terms of putting things off
things we like putting off we like putting off doing the dishes put off doing homework
or studying something many times when we have to rush to do something if we have a deadline
is maybe if we put it off for a few days then maybe we end up doing it the night before
and when you're studying you could say well i'm gonna have to pull an all-nighter you manage
to do something even though it's difficult now we have an interesting situation because
before it was okay you leave for work you leave for school and you get caught in traffic
something happens and you're 10 15 minutes late
and it was forgivable it was okay but that's not exactly the case now maybe you've noticed
this that when you have a meeting scheduled for nine o'clock you have to arrive on time
and when you arrive on time that means that you arrive punctually now going back to what
i was saying before maybe you were caught in traffic or something like that you arrive at 8
59 and you arrive just in time that and what i've been hearing from a lot of my students
is that there's a very low tolerance for being late to meetings that are online
so if somebody's one or two minutes late everybody is still waiting for them hey where
where have you been it's been like two minutes oh i'm sorry i got caught in traffic in the kitchen
there was a traffic jam in the bathroom when traveling do you like to arrive at the airport
a just in time b on time c with time to spare let me know in your comments
now the next one that i'm going to use about time is using the subjunctive and this will
also be the subject for tomorrow's lesson let's say that you have an old car and you say well
it's about time i bought a new car or maybe you have an old cell phone you could say it's about
time or it's time i bought a new phone so if i were to translate the meaning here it means that
it would be suitable it would be appropriate it's important that you make this change in your life
it hasn't happened yet but it would be good that it happened in the future it would be good for you
to make this change so you could say if you're watching this english for 30 days challenge you
could say well it's about time i learned more english or it's time i learned more english i
see a lot of people after the holiday break after all that great food and wine a lot of people are
posting pictures of exercising online long story short it's time i started exercising now in this
situation here she's 20 which do you think is okay it's time she moved out she can wait a few years
she can wait for as long as she likes the more that i talk to parents these days i would
especially in the situation we are in now i know that it would be okay for for her to live there
and then we come to this situation here he's 40 he's 50 which do you think is okay it's about time
he moved out he can wait a few years he can wait for as long as he likes okay everybody i hope that
you enjoyed this short lesson talking about the different ways that we can use time in tomorrow's
lesson we can practice some more of that using wishes and time and also using the same verb tense
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