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In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase "have in mind." We usually use this phrase in two questions. You might hear the question, what do you have in mind? And you might hear the question, who do you have in mind? Here's an example. Let's say Jen says, "Hey, I think we should go out this Saturday night." I can say to her, "What do you have in mind?" What I'm asking is, what are you thinking we should do? Or what are you planning? What do you think would be fun for us to do? So I would say to her, "What do you have in mind?" Let's imagine another situation. Maybe Jen wants to hire someone to work on our flower farm. I could say, "Who do you have in mind?" And basically what I'm asking her is, who is the person you are thinking of hiring? So when you say to someone, "What do you have in mind?" It means, what are you thinking? And when you say to someone, "Who do you have in mind?" We're asking, who are you thinking about?

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The second phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase "Do you mind?" This is a polite way to ask someone if they can do something. Sometimes in my classroom, I'll say to a students, I'll say to a student, sorry, "Do you mind closing the window?" Or, "Do you mind opening the window?" It's just a polite way to ask someone to do something. Sometimes in the kitchen, Jen will say, "Hey Bob, do you mind handing me a fork?" Or, "While you're up, do you mind getting cups for all of the children?" So when you say to someone, "Do you mind?" and then you ask them to do something, it's just a polite way to ask them to do it. So to review, when you use the phrase, "Who do you have in mind?" or "What do you have in mind?" you're asking basically what the person is thinking about or who they are thinking about. And when you say to someone, "Do you mind?" and then you ask them to do something, it's just a really polite way to ask them to do something for you. So I always say things like this, "Do you mind clicking the thumbs up on this video?" Or actually I usually say, "Would you mind?" in that case, don't I? Yeah, interesting, 'cause you can use both. I could say to a student, "Would you mind opening the window?" And I could say, "Do you mind opening the window?" Both work.

Hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Aleksey and Aleksey says, "Thumbs up and only then watching the video over again. Listening to Bob's voice, reading the subtitles, and speaking aloud at the same time 'cause there's no time for farting around." Great use of the phrase, by the way. "Finally writing the comment. This is my simple plan for learning English which I follow step by step with my favorite teacher. Thank you very much." And my response to Aleksey is this, "This is an awesome plan. I'm glad you recognize the importance of combining different modes of learning. You've got reading, writing, listening, and speaking all happening from one video. Great job Aleksey." So I do wanna talk about that for a bit. Thanks for the comment, by the way, Aleksey. Aleksey, you've kinda keyed into what I think is a very important aspect of learning the English language and I'm going to sound a bit like a broken record here because I say this all the time, you really need to work on all the areas.

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