Learn the English Phrases STRIKE UP and STRIKE ONE

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases STRIKE UP and STRIKE ONE

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, strike up. We use this phrase mostly when we're talking about starting a conversation with someone. If I go somewhere and I see someone I know on the other side of the room, I might walk over and strike up a conversation with them. If I'm at a party and there's a person that I really want to talk to, at some point I might walk over and I might strike up a conversation with them. So again, when you strike up a conversation with someone, it means simply that you go and you start having a conversation with them. You go and you start talking to them. If I was in an airport and someone recognized me and said, "Bob, the Canadian," I would probably strike up a conversation with them. That would be really cool, by the way, if I ran into someone who knew who I was. That's never happened. Even though I have many, many subscribers on YouTube, no one has ever yelled out in public, "Hey Bob, the Canadian," and then struck up a conversation with me.

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Anyways, the second phrase I wanna teach you today is the phrase, strike one, and also strike two and strike three. Baseball is a sport where you have a number of chances to hit the ball. But if you swing and miss it's strike one. We use this phrase when we're talking to people as well. I actually use it with my students when they're not behaving well in class. I'll say to a student, "Look, you really need to stop talking and you need to get your work done. And because I need to warn you that's strike one." Okay, then the student knows that if I catch them talking and not doing their work again, it will be strike two. And then when we get to strike three, I'll probably make them go and talk to the principal.

So once again, to review, when you strike up a conversation, it means you start having a conversation with someone. And when you use the strike system, when you tell someone that, "That's strike one," you mean that they have been warned. They have two more chances and then something's going to happen that they probably won't like.

Hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. Sorry, I'm sitting out here sort of in the rain. I'm actually underneath the hatch of my van right now, because it's raining a little bit. So my camera's out of the rain, but I'm still kind of in it. But let's look at a comment from a previous video. This is from Padma and Padma says, "Hello, teacher Bob. When I see certain," sorry, "When I see certain titles of your videos, I always think these phrases are so unusual. But then on the TV show, "Friends," I hear many of them. And I say, "Oh, they are so common." And my response is this. "I'm happy to hear that. I get all of my phrases from everyday conversations. I'm always on the lookout for phrases that native English speakers use when I'm talking to them. And then I write them down quickly so that I can make a lesson about it. It has left me thinking that English is a bit of a strange language." So yeah, that one of the side-effects of teaching English is that as I study the English language, in order to teach it to you, I've been starting to realize that the language is kind of strange. Sorry, I forgot to thank Padma. Thanks Padma, for the comment.

Again, I've been starting to realize the language is pretty strange. Especially when I'm teaching phrasal verbs or when I'm teaching phrases where I'm not even sure what they mean. Like literally, I know what they mean in usage and it just seems to me like it's a strange language. But I know I've mentioned this several times to all of you, I think everyone who knows me in life, knows that I'm constantly on the lookout for really good English phrases to teach on my YouTube channel. So even at work, sometimes people will come up and say, "Have you taught this phrase yet?" In fact, yesterday's phrase, "spoken for," was a phrase that Jen used at breakfast the other day. And so I was like, "Oh, that's a good phrase. I'll add it to my list."

Anyways, Bob, the Canadian here. Sorry if I talked a little too fast today. I think the rain falling on my head made me want to get done quickly. Anyways, thanks for watching. I'll see you in a couple of days with another small English lesson.

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[yelenamishchenko]

O, I wish that someday I would fly to Canada and come across Bob the Canadian at the airport. If it did I would definitely yell : Hello, Teacher Bob! Nice to see you!

[englishfortelugupeoples]

Hi teacher Bob..
It's not fast. It's alright.
Thanks for the videos.
Love ur short lessons ❤❤❤

[elliarimle]

I will cry 🥰 The Bob Canadian, wow, l meet you! and I'm sure, that my children will definitely recognise you 😄

[archerchen]

Hey Bob! Thanks for teaching me the phrases with STRIKE, which I've always been having trouble using.

Hopefully, I could come across and strike up a conversation with you when I visit Canada someday.

And I probably would use STRIKE ONE/TWO/THREE to my kid when he behaves bad.😎

[Aleksey_FE]

It would be really cool to meet Bob the Canadian somewhere and strike up a conversation with him!

[silviaelenagar]

I would like to meet you and strick Up whit you , you are a great teacher, thanks for teach us 😀

[wjung]

Im subcribing to your video for about half a year, and i'm grateful for the practical, many contents :) and.. im still looking at it with a caption because i'm still beginner. could you please hold the paper up a little more? Captions are covering the paper. Anyway, im learning english with great gratitude! Thank you so much!

[nvirtwc]

Hi Canada! The rain is in December, I can't believe on it!

[Franciscoluche]

Hi dear teacher. 😄
My way is a little more expeditive, I say “Please, be quiet everyone, ” and I start to countdown from 3 to 1, then IF after this “ultimatum”, some rebels are still talking, everyone has to stand up hands on their heads! 😅 My T.As (Teacher Assistants) asked me to do that because our students only listen with this method !!! 😓 And I can tell you when they listen “3, 2, 1...”, they usually stop talking (well there are always some exceptions.😂). Welcome to 🇻🇳😉

[jankalaucekova]

Hi Bob, your videos are amazing! Are you offering private English lessons? That is something I would be really interested in. Please let me know.

[AA-quyt]

Hi teacher
i need your advice for tirebble things i face it eveytime when i learn English..
when i watch your videos or the other videos i find new words i don’t know thier meanings ; what should i do?
should i pause the video and looking for meaning?
or just keep watchining, but then what?
also after that i forget the new words and thier meaning
please could you help me