In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn
the English phrase, the grand tour.
This is something we say kind of jokingly.
I think it's we just say for fun
when we are showing someone our house for the first time.
If my sister bought a new house and I went over to visit her
and I had never seen her house before,
I might say, "Hey, can you give me the grand tour?"
Basically, what I'm asking for her to do
is to show me all of the rooms
in the new house that she bought.
If someone came over to my house
and if they had never visited me before, I could say,
"Hey, why don't you come on in
and I'll give you the grand tour."
So when you tell someone
you're going to give them the grand tour,
it just means you're going to show them
everything in your house, all of the rooms,
and all of the things that are in your house.
So that would be the grand tour.
The second phrase I wanted to help you learn today
is the phrase tourist trap.
I wanted to teach you this phrase
because I actually went to Niagara Falls today
and I made an English lesson there.
It'll be up on my other channel tomorrow.
But a tourist trap is an area that's designed
to try and get tourists to spend their money.
When you go to Niagara Falls,
there are many stores that are tourist traps.
They have lots of big signs and they're very colorful
and they try to lure tourists in
so that the tourists will spend their money.
So you can describe things in a touristy area as tourist traps,
if they're designed to try and get tourists
to spend their money.
So to review, the grand tour
is simply showing someone your house.
You can give them the grand tour.
And a tourist trap is an area in a touristy part of a city
that's designed to try and get tourists
to spend their money.
If you ever go to Niagara Falls,
there are a lot of tourist traps there.
But let's look at a comment from another video.
This comment is from the video about the phrase jump ship,
which means to leave your place of work
or to leave an organization.
Now, the comment is from Silent Night.
Silent Night says,
"I'm going to jump ship from my current job."
And then my response is, "I wish you all the best."
That's a very common response in English.
If someone says that they are going to leave their job,
or if they're going to make a change in their life,
you'll often say, "Hey, I wish you all the best."
So that was my response.
Natalia also had a response.
Natalia said, "I did jump ship last month.
This was my best decision in the last five years."
And my response to that was, "I'm glad for you, Natalia."
So Natalia did jump ship.
Natalia did leave her job and did start a new job.
I think she's talking about her job
and she now has probably a better job
or is in a better place,
and she's saying it was the best decision
that she has made in the last five years.
So very cool for you, Natalia. I'm glad for you.
So thanks for the comment, Silent Night.
I hope that if you are planning to jump ship
from your current job,
I hope it goes well.
I do wish you all the best.
I think sometimes change in life is good.
It's good, sometimes,
when something isn't exactly what you want
and if you have an opportunity to change,
you should do that.
Okay, I need to talk really quickly for the last minute here
so that you can see how excited I am.
I was able to go to Niagara Falls today.
I went to Niagara Falls this morning.
I took my camera with.
I made an entire English lesson about travel and tourism
while I was in Niagara Falls,
and that video, I'm almost done editing right now.
It will be up on my bigger channel tomorrow.
So I will put a link up there at some point.
I'll probably forget,
but tomorrow morning at three a.m. Eastern Standard Time,
there'll be an English lesson called,
"Learn English Vocabulary About Travel and Tourism
While Visiting Niagara Falls."
It was beautiful. It was a beautiful, sunny day.
I got the video made before rain came.
It started raining like crazy just as I was driving home.
So I'm just super excited.
I think you will really like the video
and there's just a lot of nice little clips
of Niagara Falls.
Anyways, see you tomorrow with another English lesson.