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In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase something's up. If two or three police cars went by my place with their lights on, I would probably think something's up down the road. It means that I think something's going on. It means that I think something is happening. It means that I think something's up. You can also use this when you're talking about a person. Maybe your sister has been behaving strangely lately and you're talking to your brother. You might say, "Hey, I think something's up with our sister. I think something is happening in her life that's making her behave just a little bit differently." Sometimes I see students standing and talking to each other, and I wonder if something's up. I wonder if they're planning to do something bad. Usually they're not, but sometimes you wonder.

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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase up to. This has a couple meanings. The one I want to focus on mostly today is when you think someone is doing something. Usually we have the word no good with this as well. We'll say we think someone is up to no good. But you can use it just as up to as well. You can say, "What are you up to tonight?" and someone could say, "Oh, nothing. Do you wanna go out and have a coffee?" You can say, "I want to know..." You could say, "What are you up to this weekend?" and the person can say, "Oh, I'm really busy this weekend. I have a lot going on." So when you use up to, it simply means what the person is doing or what they have planned or what they're going to do.

So to review, when you use the phrase something's up, basically, you're talking about the fact that something is happening or something is going on, and when you use the phrase up to, you're talking about what someone is doing. Like right now, what am I up to right now? I'm making an English lesson.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. That's usually what I'm up to after work. What do I do after work? What am I up to? I'm usually making an English lesson. Today I could sit nicely at the picnic table.

Hey, this comment is from Ivan, and Ivan says, "Dear Bob, would you consider making a channel about flowers? With kind regards." And my response was, "Jen and I have talked about this, but aren't sure if there is enough time in our week to do this. It certainly would be very nice."

So as many of you know, I live on a flower farm. Jen grows flowers. I help grow the flowers. Jen does more of the work that I do, but it is a beautiful place to live, and especially in the summer, the colors are amazing. It's just a really cool place to be, and Jen and I have talked about whether we should make another YouTube channel where we make videos about the farm and show everyone lots of flowers. We might do that, but I doubt it. It's a lot of work making videos. Maybe we'll make one or two videos this summer to kind of show what's happening on the farm, but for now I would say, yeah, thanks for the comment, Ivan, and thanks for the suggestion, but I think for now, we probably won't be doing that.

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