In this English lesson,
I wanted to help you learn the English term, pep talk.
A pep talk is a talk that someone gives you
that makes you more excited about something.
As the new school year approaches,
we find that we are giving each of our children
a little pep talk.
We're just kind of encouraging them
that we think they'll do well
when they get back to school
because we want them to be excited.
So again, when you give someone a pep talk,
it's a conversation that you have with them
where you are trying to make sure
that they are excited about something that they are doing
or that they are going to do.
Often, coaches of sports teams
will give their team a pep talk before they play a game.
If you watch my video from earlier last week,
where I was encouraging you to keep working hard
as you continue to learn English,
you could say that that video was a pep talk.
In that video, I was giving you a pep talk
encouraging you to do well
as you continue to learn English.
The other phrase I wanted to teach you today
is the phrase peps me up.
So we have this word pep,
and when we say that something peps me up
or when I say that something peps me up,
it means it gives me energy or it makes me excited.
When I drink coffee in the morning, it peps me up.
It literally gives me energy.
I think the caffeine in coffee
is known to do that in people.
So if I say that something peps me up,
it means that it gives me energy
and makes me more energetic,
makes me more excited to do what I'm doing.
If I was talking about another person,
I could say, "When he drinks a can of Coke, it peps him up."
So notice I changed it from peps me up to peps him up.
So again, if you give someone a pep talk,
it's a conversation or a talk that you give
to get them excited for something they are doing
or going to do.
And if you say that something peps you up
or if I was to say that something peps me up,
it means that it is something that gives me energy
or gives me excitement
or it makes me just super energetic
to do what I'm going to do.
Let's look at a comment from a previous video.
This comment is from Lolly Lolly,
and it's from the video I did on bear a grudge,
and Lolly Lolly says, "Hello from France.
"Bear a grudge and hold a grudge equals the same meaning?
"Thanks, Bob."
And my response was, "Yes, I should have mentioned that.
"Oops, it didn't occur to me at the time."
So yes, it's weird in English.
Sometimes we have two phrases
that mean exactly the same thing.
If you bear a grudge or if you hold a grudge,
it means you are annoyed with somebody
because of something that they did.
I think I might bear a grudge or hold a grudge
against the bird that keeps chirping over there
while I'm trying to make my video.
In my area of Ontario, Canada,
I think we use the phrase bear a grudge more often,
so I didn't think of the phrase to hold a grudge
at the time.
It might be more American.
I know I've heard it many, many times on television shows
where somebody does something to someone
and then the other person will hold a grudge
or bear a grudge against them.
So, yeah, I think I said that, right?
I think say bear a grudge,
but I think hold a grudge might actually be more common.
So anyways, just a little bit of,
I'm just gonna talk a little bit
about the river behind me.
It's a beautiful day here.
And I have to say,
I feel very lucky to live beside a river.
I think that all of the people in the world
that live beside a body of water,
like the ocean or a lake or a river or even a stream,
there's something really special about water.
Water's just really cool.
There's something peaceful about this for me.
When I come out here and I see the river,
it's easy to calm down.
It's easy to just feel better about life.
It says if the river just quietly gives me a pep talk
every time I'm out here looking at it.
So that's my little poetic image for the day for you.
Anyways, thanks for watching.
See you tomorrow in another little English lesson.