Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases CAN'T BE BOTHERED and NOT A BOTHER

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase can't be bothered. When you can't be bothered to do something it means you don't want to do it. It means you don't see the point in doing it. So you don't do it. It means you have no desire to do it. When it snows here a lot and if the weather forecast says that it's going to be above zero the next day I can't be bothered with cleaning the driveway. I don't want to do it. I don't see the point. Sometimes students when they are preparing for exams they can't be bothered to study. That means they don't want to study and they have no desire to study, but they should study. They should definitely study when they have an exam coming up. If you have an English test coming up in the future and you can't be bothered to practice your reading, writing, listing and speaking, you should make sure you do that. It's always good to study.

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The second phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase not a bother. When you tell someone that something's not a bother, oh, that's not a bother. Nope, it's not a bother. It means that you are willing to do it and it's not annoying to you. If one of my kids said I need to stay after school late tomorrow because I have a practice, is that okay? I would say, yeah, it's not a bother. I'll pick you up at five or 5:30 whenever you're done. So when you say to someone, not a bother, nope it's not a bother. It simply means that you're okay with it, you're happy about it, you're not annoyed about it.

So to review, when you say you can't be bothered it means you don't want to do something. You can't be bothered to do it. And if you say something is not a bother, it means that it doesn't annoy you and you're quite happy to do it.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Mohd. Mohd Ags says when you said this is from the last video, when you said I don't have a lot to talk about, I was like, no way. That doesn't sound like Bob the Canadian Babbler. By the way, a babbler is someone who talks a lot. Haha, but it makes me happy to see you relaxed like this and in a good mood, all the best to you and your students. And I like the emojis, happy face pizza bird 'cause we were kind of joking about birds, banana and donut. I do like donuts too. My response, the day I run out of stuff to talk about will be the day I stop doing YouTube. So like probably never.

I, interestingly enough, am a very quiet person. Thanks for the comment Mohd. I'm actually a very quiet person, but for some reason when I'm teaching and I do consider making these videos teaching I do talk a lot. I do like talking to my students at school and I do like talking to the camera. I do like talking to all of you. In my mind, I can kind of picture some of your names. The live streams help a bit on my bigger channel because in some ways in the chat get to know some of you a little bit. But yeah, I said I like talking to the camera but I very much like talking to you. I feel like I'm looking in a lens, but I'm actually talking to all of you. So anyways, yes, I'll keep talking. So I'll keep making YouTube English lessons for you.

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Learn the English Phrases "can't be bothered" and "not a bother"