Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO HAVE A TASTE FOR and TO DO SOMETHING TASTEFULLY

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to have a taste for. When you have a taste for something, it means that you like it. And it can mean food. It can be used when talking about food, let's say that I used to only eat standard North American food, like hamburgers and hot dogs and pizza, but I'm starting to have a taste for Indian food. Maybe I've started eating Indian food. And I really like it. I'm starting to have a taste for it. You can also use this about other things besides food. Maybe you've been in charge of something. Maybe you were elected mayor of your town and now you have a taste for power. You liked being in charge of other people and now you have a taste for it. So when you have a taste for something it means that you've experienced it. You like it. And you want more of it. Whether it's food or something like power.

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The other phrase I want it to teach you today is the phrase to do something tastefully. When you do something tastefully, you do it in a way that is very pleasing for people, in a way that doesn't offend people. Sometimes when people decorate for, let's say a wedding, they want to decorate tastefully. They want to decorate tastefully, so that people enjoy the decorations. They enjoy what everything looks like. You don't want to decorate a place in a way that offends people or annoys people. You want to do it tastefully. You want to do it in a way when, so that when people look at it, they're like, this looks really cool. This looks really nice. There's nothing offensive about how this has been done. Hopefully I explained that well. I tried to do my videos tastefully. I don't know if you've noticed that. I try to make sure I don't say things or do things that annoy people. I try to make the videos as tasteful as possible. I try to do them tastefully.

So to review, when you have a taste for something it means you like it. You like doing it. It's enjoyable for you. You have experienced it and you want more of it. And when you do something tastefully it means you do it in a way that pleases people. When they look at it, when they hear it, when they see it they just enjoy what you have done.

But Hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video, I thought for a second there it fell out of my pocket. Did you see me go like this? It's in my back pocket. It was in my right pocket, not my left one.

This is from Ðhin. And the comment is this. While I was watching your video my mum gave me a heads up that the water was going to boil. I often do something else when cooking. So, and then thanks for the lesson, Bob. And my response is this a watched pot, never boils. This is an old English phrase that my mum used to say when I was waiting for something.

So thanks Ðhin for that comment. And yes, that is a phrase. When I was a kid, sometimes I would be waiting for something. Sometimes I would be waiting for a delivery truck to come or waiting for something to arrive that I wanted. And my mom would always say, Hey, Bob a watched pot, never boils. And what she meant by that was that when you're waiting for something, it takes longer for it to actually happen. We, we say this to our kids now, jokingly we say a watched toaster never pops up because sometimes our kids are waiting for the toaster to pop up and it can take a very long time.

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Learn the English Phrases TO HAVE A TASTE FOR and TO DO SOMETHING TASTEFULLY