In this English lesson I wanted to help you
learn the English phrase, come out of the woodwork.
This is what people do after you win the lottery.
They come out of the woodwork.
This is a phrase that means that people show up,
or it could be animals, or something else,
but things show up, people show up
after something good has happened to you.
Here's a good example, we'll talk about the lottery.
If you won the lottery,
I'm sure that people would come out of the woodwork.
Friends that you haven't seen for years,
relatives that you didn't even know you had,
they would come out of the woodwork
because they would want money from you.
I think this phrase is similar
to when you drop some food on the floor
and insects, ants and stuff,
come out of the walls of your house to eat it.
They come out of the woodwork, literally,
and people come out of the woodwork
if you win a lot of money.
The second phrase I wanted to teach you today
is the phrase, to come alive.
People come alive when,
if they normally don't do a lot of things
where there's a lot of activity
and then suddenly do them.
A good example would be this,
when I was a kid, I had a little fish,
so it can be more than just people,
I had a fish in a fish bowl,
and it would kinda swim around slowly until I fed it,
and then it would certainly come alive.
It would swim up to the top of the bowl
and eat all the food.
Sometimes, I've noticed at wedding receptions,
after the wedding ceremony there's a reception,
and sometimes they play music,
and older people might come alive
when they hear a song that they knew
or that they used to listen to when they were younger.
They come alive, they might even dance a little bit.
So anyways, to review, when people come out of the woodwork,
it means they show up,
usually after something good has happened to you.
I think if you were to become the mayor of your town,
old friends and relatives that you didn't even know you had,
might come out of the woodwork
and try to get you to do favors for them.
And then the phrase to come alive
simply means to act in a lively fashion,
usually after not acting very lively.
So you come alive.
I usually come alive as soon as
I hit the start button on the camera.
But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.
This comment is from Yaroslaw, and the comment is this,
"I miss your Geoguessr lesson, teacher Bob."
And my response was, yeah, sorry about that.
I've had to make a decision about that,
and I probably won't be doing them again anytime soon.
It was just one thing too many.
So I think all of you are familiar with the fact
that in life you decide to do certain things,
and sometimes you decide to do one thing too many.
So when I was doing the Geoguessr lessons,
I was noticing that I was talking a lot every week.
I was doing a lot of live streams, a lot of videos,
and so I thought to myself, I need one day a week
where I don't do a lot of talking, maybe two.
So I've decided that on Sundays and Tuesdays,
those would kinda be my days off
from doing anything where I needed to talk.
So, sorry about that.
There will probably be no Geoguessr
for the foreseeable future.
Maybe in the fall if I have a bit more time
and my throat, my throat's just a little bit
sore all the time, and I don't know why.
Hopefully that gets better soon.
Anyways, I wanted to show you the zinnias today.
Let me do that fun thing where I spin the camera around,
and then I can keep talking and show you the Zinnia beds.
So the Zinnia is one of my favorite flowers
because it produces a lot of blooms,
and it produces them in a variety of colors,
which is really good for us as flower farmers.
Hopefully you're not getting seasick.
So I love the zinnias, they look great this year.
I take a little bit of credit for that
because I'm the one that prepares the soil,
so I think I did a good job.
Anyways, I'll give you a nicer view.
Thanks for watching.
I'll see you in a couple of days
with another short English lesson, bye.