In this English lesson,
I wanted to help you learn the English phrase,
comes with the territory.
When something comes with the territory.
it means it's something that you can expect to be somewhere
when you do something.
Or, let me think here.
There's gotta be a good example I can think of right now.
Let's listen.
If you can hear geese,
you should know that when you make videos outside in Canada,
hearing geese in the background comes with the territory.
So when you say something comes with the territory,
it means that something that you can expect.
When you are a teacher,
you will have students who listen to you
and you will have students who misbehave.
Having students misbehave in class
is just something that comes with the territory.
So when something comes with the territory,
it's just normal for that situation.
Can you hear geese?
I really hope you can hear them.
It just comes with the territory.
The other phrase I wanted to teach you today
is the phrase, come across.
There's a number of different meanings for this phrase.
The one I want to use refers to how someone seems to you
or how someone appears to you.
When you meet someone
they can come across as a nice person.
They can come across as not a very nice person.
When I make videos using a camera, I try to come across
as naturally and as authentically as possible.
So when you come across,
it's how you communicate either through a device
or how you communicate to someone in person.
It's what they think of you after you talk to them.
So usually when I meet people, I try to just be myself.
I want to come across as normal and authentic.
I just want to be me.
So I try to make sure I come across that way.
So let's review.
When you say that something comes with the territory,
it means it's normal for that situation.
And when you come across a certain way,
it's how people think or what people think you are like
after they listen to you or talk to you.
By the way,
come across has about five or six different meanings
but that's just one of them.
Hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.
This comment is from voiretvisite, a French name.
And the comment is this.
Hello, I am a teacher and I have an English speaking class.
One of my students made a mistake
and she said to me, "Oh, my bad!"
She should not use this expression
when she is speaking to her teacher, right?
Because this expression is not formal.
And my response was this,
"Students will use this phrase sometimes."
By the way, especially in a high school.
It's not considered rude, but it's not polite either.
It's sort of in between.
In my upper level classes
where I teach students who I've known for four years,
it would not bother me.
With new students, I would expect more respect.
So this is a tricky one.
With young children,
you probably wouldn't expect them to say, "My bad."
With high school-aged students or university students,
you might actually hear them
use that phrase once in a while.
By the way, thanks voiretvisite for that comment.
This is from the lesson yesterday
where I talked about the phrase, my bad,
as a way to informally apologize for something.
I do hear this phrase all the time.
I think with my upper level students,
when I've taught them in grade nine, 10, 11, and 12
and I know them quite well and they are familiar
I'm somewhat easy going in my upper level classes.
I'm a lot more strict in my lower level classes.
I think that it would be fine with me
if a student said, "Oh, sorry, sir, my bad."
I always add sorry in front, don't I?
I think for sure if they said sorry in front,
I would be fine with it.
But if a student in grade 12 said, "Oh, my bad,"
I think it would be fine with me.
But yeah, it really just depends
on how well you know the student
and what kind of classroom you have created.
Anyway, it's Bob the Canadian here.
Thanks for watching this short English lesson.
I'll see you in a couple of days with another one.