Learn the English Phrases "to work well with others" and "a team player"
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In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase "to work well with others." When you are working and you are working with other people, either you work well with others or you don't work well with others.

Some people work better by themselves. Some people enjoy working with others and they work well with others. I'll explain what I am in a bit. You might be surprised, but hopefully you are someone who works well with others. If you were applying for a job, they might say to you in the interview, do you work well with others? And hopefully you can say, yes, I work well with others. I enjoy working with other people.

The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is a team player. If you work, again, with a lot of other people, hopefully you're a team player. You're someone who is easy to work with. You help other people. You are kind. Hopefully other people help you as well. Hopefully you are a team player. By the way, this doesn't mean you have to be on a sports team. You can be a team player at work. Like at work, I try to be a team player. I try to be helpful. I try to work hard.

well with others. So to review, when you work well with others, I'm just laughing because you're gonna, I'm gonna read a comment in a sec that you might laugh at as well. When you work well with others, it means you are kind and nice and it's easy to work with you. And when you are a team player, it means essentially the same thing. But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Tammy. Your English lessons are amazing.

"and you don't need to have a heavy hitter "to collaborate with you." And my response, "Thanks, I don't really work well "with others anyways." So thanks, Tammy, for that comment. And let me now explain.

I work well with others if it's the right people. I hope that makes sense. I hope that doesn't make me sound kind of like a jerk. If I'm working with the right people, I think people also enjoy working with me. But my preference is to work by myself. I think that's one of the reasons why I became a teacher. So again,

I do actually work well with others, but if I am given a choice, I prefer to work by myself. It's one of the reasons why I think YouTube works for me. I have an idea, I make a lesson, I edit the video, I put it online, I don't have to rely on anyone else. So, um...

I'm home again. It's a Thursday and it's a snow day. So it happened. I'm not sure if Brent had a snow day. I know he mentioned in his members only video that he had heard I might have a snow day. So I'm wondering if over there in Maine they had one. We got, again, quite a bit of ice. So a lot of freezing rain. You can see here, like I'm not sure if it shows up really well on camera, but there is a layer of ice on this tree.

I'm going to try and remember to go a bit slower when I show you stuff like this so you get a good chance to see it. And what that has done is it's made it, you can hear the snow as well, like it's, there's a layer of ice on top of the snow. Not sure how well that shows up, but yes, a little bit slick out here. There's some icicles even on this tree here. You can see some tiny icicles

where's my hand there's some tiny little icicles and uh you can see that my driveway you can see my footsteps from my walk this morning but it's yeah it's kind of like ice like it's there's a layer of water underneath but there's this thin layer of ice on top so

Another snow day. Woohoo! I love them. Anyways, I hope you work well with others. I hope you're a team player and I'll see you in a few days with another short English lesson. 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.