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In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase bang on. In English, when we say something is bang on, we mean that it's perfect, and I think this might be a North American saying. I'm not sure, but I hear this all the time. Let's say I went to a party for my sister's birthday last week, and my brother-in-law planned the party, and the planning was bang on. That means he did a really, really good job planning the party. Let's say my van needed to be painted and I want the paint job to look perfect. I would go to a certain person I know who paints vehicles, because the job they do is always bang on. So when you say something's bang on, it just means that it's done perfectly. I try to make sure my English lessons are bang on whenever I make them. I wanna make them current and I wanna make them something that helps you learn a bit more English. I want them to be bang on.

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The second phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase a bang up job. Now, bang is actually a word that means when two things hit together, right? Like one car can bang into another. But in these two sentences, we're using bang to talk about something good. A bang up job means a really, really good job. Sometimes people do a bang up job when they're making supper for someone else. If I go and eat at my sister's place, I know that she's going to do a bang up job when she prepares dinner. She's just a really good cook. She knows how to use just the right amounts of salt and pepper and spices to make almost anything taste amazing. She always does a bang up job.

So to review, when you say something is bang on, you mean that it's perfect. When I come outside, I always think to myself, the work that Jen does is bang on, and I'll show you some of her work in a bit. And when someone does a bang up job, it's kind of similar, isn't it? When someone does a bang up job, it means that they've done something really, really well. I hope when you go to work, you do a bang up job everyday.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Andres. "I really enjoy the weekend. When Friday morning arrives, I feel that the weekend is so close that I can taste it. Recently, I've been taking an online course about engineering, completely in English. I could take it in Spanish, but I just want to get a taste of studying in English. Thanks, Mr. Bob." And my response was this. "Your usage of both phrases is bang on," and then in brackets, "That means correct."

So I used the phrase I taught earlier to respond to Andres. Yes, your use of both phrases from the video before, the phrase to get a taste of, and oh, I just forgot the other one. It slipped my mind. What was the other one? To get a taste of, and so close that I can taste it. I should have remembered that one. Anyways, bang on. You did a bang up job on those two.

Hey, I was going to show you over here today, we have been planting a lot of flowers into the field, but we still have a lot more to plant. So behind me, you can see what's kind of this covered wagon. We call it our greenhouse wagon because light can come through. I'll give you a little peek inside here for a minute. So you can see, we have some stuff on the ground here. I actually think these are gourds, some mini pumpkins. And then over here in our greenhouse wagon, we have a lot, oh, these haven't done so well. That happens sometimes when you farm. We have a lot of things that we need to plant. You can see all of these seedlings in here. We have quite a bit o

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