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In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English term, pep talk. A pep talk is a talk that someone gives you that makes you more excited about something. As the new school year approaches, we find that we are giving each of our children a little pep talk. We're just kind of encouraging them that we think they'll do well when they get back to school because we want them to be excited. So again, when you give someone a pep talk, it's a conversation that you have with them where you are trying to make sure that they are excited about something that they are doing or that they are going to do. Often, coaches of sports teams will give their team a pep talk before they play a game. If you watch my video from earlier last week, where I was encouraging you to keep working hard as you continue to learn English, you could say that that video was a pep talk. In that video, I was giving you a pep talk encouraging you to do well as you continue to learn English.

The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase peps me up. So we have this word pep, and when we say that something peps me up or when I say that something peps me up, it means it gives me energy or it makes me excited. When I drink coffee in the morning, it peps me up. It literally gives me energy. I think the caffeine in coffee is known to do that in people. So if I say that something peps me up, it means that it gives me energy and makes me more energetic, makes me more excited to do what I'm doing. If I was talking about another person, I could say, "When he drinks a can of Coke, it peps him up." So notice I changed it from peps me up to peps him up.

So again, if you give someone a pep talk, it's a conversation or a talk that you give to get them excited for something they are doing or going to do. And if you say that something peps you up or if I was to say that something peps me up, it means that it is something that gives me energy or gives me excitement or it makes me just super energetic to do what I'm going to do.

Let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Lolly Lolly, and it's from the video I did on bear a grudge, and Lolly Lolly says, "Hello from France. "Bear a grudge and hold a grudge equals the same meaning? "Thanks, Bob." And my response was, "Yes, I should have mentioned that. "Oops, it didn't occur to me at the time." So yes, it's weird in English. Sometimes we have two phrases that mean exactly the same thing. If you bear a grudge or if you hold a grudge, it means you are annoyed with somebody because of something that they did. I think I might bear a grudge or hold a grudge against the bird that keeps chirping over there while I'm trying to make my video. In my area of Ontario, Canada, I think we use the phrase bear a grudge more often, so I didn't think of the phrase to hold a grudge at the time. It might be more American. I know I've heard it many, many times on television shows where somebody does something to someone and then the other person will hold a grudge or bear a grudge against them. So, yeah, I think I said that, right? I think say bear a grudge, but I think hold a grudge might actually be more common.

So anyways, just a little bit of, I'm just gonna talk a little bit about the river behind me. It's a beautiful day here. And I have to say, I feel very lucky to live beside a river. I think that all of the people in the world that live beside a body of water, like the ocean or a lake or a river or even a stream, there's something really special about water.

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