Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO WAIT AND SEE and WAIT FOR IT!

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to wait and see. Sometimes you don't know what's going to happen, and so you want to wait and see what happens. And we even call this the wait and see approach. Maybe you're someone who likes to invest money in the stock market, but right now, you're going to hold onto your money, because you just want to wait and see what will happen. You don't feel like investing your money now, because you're not sure if the market will go up or down. So you might take a wait and see approach. Sometimes when you're looking to buy something, you think to yourself, you know what? I might just wait and see if the price will go down, or I'll wait and see if the price will go up. So it just means to wait, and to eventually see what happens, to see what change takes place.

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The second phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase, wait for it, that's kind of how you say it. Wait for it. This is a common phrase. When you're watching short video clips on TikTok or Instagram, sometimes they'll show someone walking along, and then they'll have the words on the screen, wait for it, which means that something's going to happen. Maybe that person is going to get caught in a rainstorm. Maybe that person is going to slip and fall. And when they say wait for it at the beginning of the video, they're telling you that something's gonna happen, and you should wait. It's actually become a pretty common phrase on those platforms.

Anyways, to review, when you wait and see, it means you wait, because you think something will change, and you're not sure what that will be, but you're going to wait and see what that change is. And when someone says to you wait for it, it means that something exciting is going to happen, and they want you to be ready to see it. Maybe someone's showing you a clip from a sporting game, and they say, and you're like, this is kind of boring. And they might say, wait and see, or wait for it. Sorry, I used the wrong phrase. Wait for it. And then something exciting will happen in the game.

Anyways, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Lemoncute. Hi Bob, in my place, the roads are quite flat and long, so it's very suitable for jogging. It's pretty cool. And my response is it probably also makes it easier to see traffic coming.

So yes. Thanks, Lemoncute, for that comment. I'm just laughing, 'cause a goat is actually yelling over here. Maybe we'll go see it. But yes, when roads are flat, it probably makes it nice for walking and jogging as you said, and that's probably really cool. 'Cause you can see if there are cars coming.

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Learn the English Phrases WAIT AND SEE and WAIT FOR IT!