Name: 我現在要休息一下9月3日將恢復英語課! (I'm taking a short break. English lessons will resume on September 3!)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T11:03:57.000Z
Duration: 6 min 48 s
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I hope this video isn't too boring for some of you.

未來簡單式

I'm basically going to spend about five minutes talking about myself.

I know some of you are interested in my life, but hopefully you don't mind just listening

I looked at my calendar this morning, and it is full.

There are a lot of things on my calendar for the next week and a half, almost two weeks.

And the reason the calendar is so full is because it is almost time for school to start

In Ontario, Canada, school starts at the beginning of September, and as most of you know, I am

I have a full-time job, and that job is teaching at a high school.

And so my life gets busy, because I need to go back to work next week.

I have meetings all next week with other teachers where we plan the school year.

I like to make sure the classroom is nice and tidy, and that there's some stuff on the

walls, so that when students are bored with me, they can look at the stuff in the background.

That's kind of what happens in my videos as well.

If I get boring, you can always look at the stuff in the background.

I need to get my lessons ready for the fall semester.

And I just need to be ready to go for the first day of school.

So what that means is I need to take a short break from YouTube.

My plan is to not do live lessons for the next couple of weeks, so there'll be no live

lesson on the Friday and Saturday of this weekend, or the Friday and Saturday of next

But what I plan to do is, when I have a little bit of time, I will still make a video.

But my hope is for next week to still make just a little video, a lesson for you guys,

either to teach you a bit of English, or just to give you an update on how my life is going.

If you don't know, I really like teaching people things, and so this is actually hard

But I'm trying to create, what we call in English, some work-life balance.

That's where you make sure that you don't do too many things, because we all know if

you do too many things, you can actually burn out.

And when you burn out, it means you don't feel like doing anything.

You have used up all your energy, and then you end up calling in sick, or you end up

not making videos for two or three weeks in a row.

No live streams for a couple of weeks, but still a video here and there for you to listen

The other reason I'm busy is because the farm, as you can see behind me, the farm is in full

If I show you over here, we have sunflowers, we have dahlias, we have zinnias over there,

The farm is also in its busiest time of year.

So not only am I busy because I'm going back to school, but Jen and I are busy because

there is a lot of work to do on the farm.

And the flowers don't harvest themselves.

It's a little bit of a joke in English, when you say something doesn't do something itself.

You have to go out, and you have to cut the flowers.

Enough about me talking about being busy.

What should you do if I'm not doing live lessons for the next two weekends?

Well, I always think you should read a book.

In the comments below, let me know what level English you think you are, beginner, intermediate,

advanced, in terms of your reading, and I will try to think of some books to recommend.

So ask in the comments for a book recommendation.

I'll also try to create a list, in the next couple of days, of books that are really cool

and fun to read, and I will post them below.

But I think that if you normally come and watch one of my live lessons on a Friday morning

or a Saturday evening, maybe just take some time over the next two weekends to just sit

And you can also listen to some podcasts or watch some other YouTubers.

I often recommend Pete from Aussie English, or Learn English with Vanessa.

Those are two of my favorite English teachers on YouTube.

As well as you could listen to Mark from Mad English TV.

I'll put links to those three people in the description below.

But anyways, I've talked for quite awhile about myself, and I think it's time for me

It's time for me to go and plan out the next week and a half, so that I can work really

hard, and that on September 3rd we will go back to our normal schedule.

So on Tuesday, September 3rd, there'll be a new video.

And then if Tuesday's the 3rd, on Friday, September 6th, there will be a live lesson.

And on Saturday, September 7th, in the evening, there will be a live question and answer session.

All of that will start up again, and we will have a great time going through the fall and

into the winter, learning some English together.

I hope you listened to everything that I had to say, and I hope I didn't bore you.

Hope you have a good week and a half ahead.

Look for a video next week sometime, and then we'll get back to our regular schedule the