Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases TO KEEP IT TOGETHER and TO EARN YOUR KEEP
In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, "To keep it together." If you say to someone, "Hey, you need to keep it together," it means that that person is having some kind of emotional outburst. Maybe you play on a sports team, and you've won the championship, and you're cheering and shouting and you're super happy, but one of your teammates starts to cry a little bit. They're so overcome with emotion. They're starting to cry. You might say, "Hey, keep it together. "We need to go and get the trophy. "Don't start crying now. "You need to keep it together, smile, "and show a positive, happy face." So when you say to someone that they need to keep it together, you're telling them to stop being emotional.
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The other phrase that I wanted to teach you today is the phrase, "To earn your keep." When you earn your keep, it means you do work so that people appreciate having you around. The best example I can give for this is when my son comes home from university, he helps do certain jobs on the farm because we want him to earn his keep. Sorry, I changed the word your to his in that situation, but we want him to earn his keep. We don't want him to come home and just eat our food and lay on the couch and use our Wi-Fi without doing something in return. So when you have a situation where someone is earning their keep, or where you say to someone, "You need to earn your keep," it means that they need to do some things to contribute to whatever the living arrangement is.
So let's review. When you say to someone that they need to keep it together, it means that they need to calm down, they need to stop being emotional, and they need to be a little more serious or a little more happy. You need to keep it together. Stop crying, Jim. Just because we won the championship doesn't mean you should get all emotional. Try to keep it together. And then the second phrase, "To earn your keep," is simply when someone does a little bit of work to help pay for food and lodging and all of the other things that go along with living somewhere. When my son comes home, we make sure that he earns his keep. Se doesn't just get to sit around. That wouldn't be very good anyways, would it?
But anyways, let's look at a comment from a previous video, and this comment is from Benoit. And Benoit says, "It doesn't matter if it's three "or four a week." Benoit is talking about the number of lessons I do each week. "As we all say, what matters is not the quantity "but the quality. "Anyway, Bob usually does a great job. "Thanks a million." And my response was, "I'll keep the quality high."
So two words in there that Benoit has shared with us. Thanks for the comment, Benoit. Quantity and quality. So quantity refers to the amount of something, like how many videos did I make a week? Well, the quantity of videos I made per week was four. And quality refers to how good something is. So the quality of the videos I made each week, well, I thought it was okay and most of you think was really good. But the quality let's just agree was high, okay. I'm a little embarrassed saying that. I think it was medium-high, okay. So the quantity was four a week and the quality was okay. Now, I'm gonna do three videos a week, so the quantity has gone down, but the quality, I guarantee you, will stay absolutely the same.