Learn the English Phrases "to put together" and "to pull yourself together"
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In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to put together. When you put something together, it means there are pieces and then you attach all the pieces together with glue or screws or nails or something like that. If you're wondering what the noise is, Jen's driving by in her Gator, which kind of cracks me up because...

One of the last comments was that there was too much noise when I make these videos in town and someone wanted me to do them on the peaceful farm. And I thought I should do that, but then there was still some traffic, wasn't there? Anyways.

When you go to Ikea and you buy a bed, it comes in a box and then you need to put it together. When you get home, you need to use the tools and the screws that they give you, or maybe you need to get your own screwdriver and you take all the pieces and when you're done, after you put the bed together, you have a bed. So when you put something together, it's in pieces and then when it's done, it's whole. The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is to pull yourself together.

I might've taught this one before. All of a sudden, I just thought maybe I have, but I'll teach it again anyways. If you are emotional, if you are sad or upset or crying, you might need to pull yourself together. Let's say you're at a wedding.

it's beautiful and maybe someone you know is getting married and you're you're just crying a little bit beat but their tears of joy and then you have to go up and give a speech you need to pull yourself together before you go up and give the speech you need to get control of your emotions you need to calm down so to review

To put together, to put something together means, oh, here's another good example. If you ever played with Lego, you get a Lego set and then you need to put together all the pieces to build what you are building. And to pull yourself together simply means to calm yourself down when you're in an emotional state, when you're in a heightened emotional state.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from K-Sinom. "I never get up on the wrong side of the bed. There's a concrete wall. What's the difference between make the bed and assemble the bed? Dandelions grow here in Finland too. However, this spring, the night temperatures have been unusually low, so the flowers haven't appeared yet." And my response, "When you buy a bed from a store, you assemble it. You do this once. You put it together."

When you make the bed, you tidy up the blanket. So thanks K Sanam for that comment and hopefully you understood the difference. When you use the verb to make the bed, it's to put all the blankets flat or

But if you were to get wood and cut the wood and like not assemble it, like you are literally going to build it, we could use the verb make as well. But generally 99% of the time when you make the bed, it means you're putting the blankets on nicely. Today I wanted to talk about shade. The shade has returned on my farm, on my property. One of the problems with making videos in town

is that you don't get to see all of the changes here on the farm property. So you can see that, hopefully I'm not rotating you too quickly, you can see that shade has returned. I'm standing in the shade of this tree and it is beautiful. And hopefully, cross my fingers, the weather is beautiful on the first Saturday of June and I can sit here, you'll recognize the view in a moment, I can sit here

and do my live stream. We'll see. Hopefully the weather's good that day. It's too far away to read the forecast right now, but hopefully it is. Anyways, thanks for watching these short English lessons. I'll see you in a couple days with another one. Bye. Hi, Bob the Canadian here. Thank you for listening to this English podcast lesson. If you would like to support me in the work that I do as an online English teacher, please visit patreon.com slash bobthecanadian.