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In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, comes with the territory. When something comes with the territory. it means it's something that you can expect to be somewhere when you do something. Or, let me think here. There's gotta be a good example I can think of right now. Let's listen. If you can hear geese, you should know that when you make videos outside in Canada, hearing geese in the background comes with the territory. So when you say something comes with the territory, it means that something that you can expect. When you are a teacher, you will have students who listen to you and you will have students who misbehave. Having students misbehave in class is just something that comes with the territory. So when something comes with the territory, it's just normal for that situation. Can you hear geese? I really hope you can hear them. It just comes with the territory.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase, come across. There's a number of different meanings for this phrase. The one I want to use refers to how someone seems to you or how someone appears to you. When you meet someone they can come across as a nice person. They can come across as not a very nice person. When I make videos using a camera, I try to come across as naturally and as authentically as possible. So when you come across, it's how you communicate either through a device or how you communicate to someone in person. It's what they think of you after you talk to them. So usually when I meet people, I try to just be myself. I want to come across as normal and authentic. I just want to be me. So I try to make sure I come across that way.

So let's review. When you say that something comes with the territory, it means it's normal for that situation. And when you come across a certain way, it's how people think or what people think you are like after they listen to you or talk to you. By the way, come across has about five or six different meanings but that's just one of them. Hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.

This comment is from voiretvisite, a French name. And the comment is this. Hello, I am a teacher and I have an English speaking class. One of my students made a mistake and she said to me, "Oh, my bad!" She should not use this expression when she is speaking to her teacher, right? Because this expression is not formal. And my response was this, "Students will use this phrase sometimes." By the way, especially in a high school. It's not considered rude, but it's not polite either. It's sort of in between. In my upper level classes where I teach students who I've known for four years, it would not bother me. With new students, I would expect more respect.

So this is a tricky one. With young children, you probably wouldn't expect them to say, "My bad." With high school-aged students or university students, you might actually hear them use that phrase once in a while. By the way, thanks voiretvisite for that comment. This is from the lesson yesterday where I talked about the phrase, my bad, as a way to informally apologize for something. I do hear this phrase all the time.

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