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In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase a piece of my mind. If I give someone a piece of my mind, it means that I am angry with them and I'm going to tell them about it. If I see somebody do something that I don't think they should do, and it makes me angry, I might say, "I'm going to give that guy a piece of my mind." I am going to go and tell that person that they are making me angry, and I'm gonna tell them why they are making me angry. I'm going to give that guy a piece of my mind. I'm gonna give that person a piece of my mind. So basically, like I said, it means you're angry, you're upset, you're not just going to tell the person that you're angry, you're also going to tell them why you are angry. When you give them a piece of your mind, you certainly just let them have it. That's another way we say that in English.

The second phrase I wanted to teach you today is peace of mind. Now don't get confused here. Notice the spelling change, a piece of my mind means I'm going to tell someone I'm angry and why, but peace of mind, this is the word peace, in a peaceful, calm and pleasant way. When you have peace of mind, it means that you are relaxed and you are calm and you feel really good about life. When I am done all of my work for the week, and when I don't have any other work to do, I have peace of mind. I feel really calm, I feel really relaxed. I feel really happy. It's really nice to have peace of mind. When you get in a vehicle and the gas tank is full, you have peace of mind because you know you aren't going to run out of gas.

So to repeat, if you give someone a piece of your mind, or if I give you a piece of my mind, it means I'm angry and I'm gonna tell you why, I'm gonna tell you all about it. But if you have peace of mind, you just feel calm and pleasant and peaceful and relaxed. So by the way, the second one is much better than the first one. I think you understood that, though.

Hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Shaya, and Shaya says this, "I can count on one hand the number of times I have had a meal in a restaurant." And then Shaya continues with, "When my class has more than 35 students, things get out of hand." So this was from the lesson yesterday on get out of hand, and I can count on one hand. So great use of both phrases, Shaya. My response was, "This is very true. The more students I have in a class, the more likely it is for things to get out of hand." So quite common in classrooms when you get lots of students, oh, by the way, thanks Shaya for that comment, that was a great one.

It's very common in classrooms that as you get more students, it's more likely for things to get out of hand. When I teach about 15 or 20 students in a class, things are usually fairly calm and fairly relaxed, and things go really well. When I have 30 students in a class, that's a lot. And every once in a while, I might have 32, maybe 33 students in a class, and then things can get a little bit out of hand. They can get a little bit out of control. Now that's uncommon here in Ontario, Canada. Most class sizes are between, I would say on the low end 15 or 20 students, but usually closer to 25 or 30. I would say an average class size for me, the total number of students I have in a class, is usually around 25 or 26, sometimes 30, every once in a while 31 or 32, but that's pretty rare. I actually like the classes to be a little bit bigger.

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