Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases A MIXED BAG and TO BE MIXED UP
In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English term a mixed bag. When we say something is a mixed bag it means it's a little bit of one thing, a little bit of something else, and maybe a little bit of a third thing, or fourth, or fifth thing. When I go to buy shirts it's kind of a mixed bag at the store. There are short sleeve shirts and long sleeve shirts, new shirts, expensive shirts, old shirts, there are shirts that are on sale. It's a mixed bag. It's kind of a mixed bag when it comes to buying shirts. My mechanic sells different kinds of vehicles and when you go and look at the lot where he has all the vehicles, the parking lot, it's kind of a mixed bag. He has vans, and cars, and pickup trucks, there's all different sorts of vehicles, all different kinds of vehicles. It's definitely a mixed bag.
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But hey, the second phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase to be mixed up. When you are mixed up it means you're a little bit confused about something. And sometimes it means you're confused about two different things. Sometimes when people are coming over they come late because they got mixed up. They weren't sure what time they were supposed to come. Maybe when my sister's having a party, maybe my brother goes to my other sister's house because he was mixed up, he didn't know which house he was supposed to go to. So he was mixed up. He was mixed up and he wasn't sure where to go he was a little bit confused.
So, to review, when something is a mixed bag it means that it is a variety of things. Our flower farm is kind of a mixed bag. We sell flowers, we also sell flower seeds, and we sell the bulbs. You can buy cut flowers, you can buy flowers in a pot, it's kind of a mixed bag. And when you are mixed up it means that you are confused. It doesn't have to be about two different things but we usually use it when we're talking about that. He bought one kind of bouquet for his wife but it was the wrong one because he was mixed up he wasn't sure which one he was supposed to buy.
Hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. And, I think it's in the pocket inside my sweater so give me a second here. I thought it was in the pocket of my jacket. I thought I forgot it for a moment there.
This comment is from Roland and Roland says, " "Inception" is one of the most mind-blowing movies I have ever seen in my life. The concept of time travel can really blow your mind. My response was that movie really had me thinking. It was hard to keep track of all the dreams within dreams." So Roland is using the terms mind-blowing and blow your mind the terms and phrases from the last lesson. Excellent use of both of those Roland thank you for that comment.
The movie "Inception" definitely blew my mind. It was hard to get my head wrapped around what was happening in that movie. It was mind-boggling. It blew my mind. Definitely excellent uses of all those phrases and terms to describe that movie. In that movie people go to sleep and then when they're asleep they can go into other people's dreams. But then they can have dreams inside of the dream and it gets a whole lot more confusing than that. And by the end I wasn't sure what was going on.
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In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English term a mixed bag. When we say something is a mixed bag it means it's a little bit of one thing, a little bit of something else, and maybe a little bit of a third thing, or fourth, or fifth thing. When I go to buy shirts it's kind of a mixed bag at the store. There are short sleeve shirts and long sleeve shirts, new shirts, expensive shirts, old shirts, there are shirts that are on sale. It's a mixed bag. It's kind of a mixed bag when it comes to buying shirts. My mechanic sells different kinds of vehicles and when you go and look at the lot where he has all the vehicles, the parking lot, it's kind of a mixed bag. He has vans, and cars, and pickup trucks, there's all different sorts of vehicles, all different kinds of vehicles. It's definitely a mixed bag.
But hey, the second phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase to be mixed up. When you are mixed up it means you're a little bit confused about something. And sometimes it means you're confused about two different things. Sometimes when people are coming over they come late because they got mixed up. They weren't sure what time they were supposed to come. Maybe when my sister's having a party, maybe my brother goes to my other sister's house because he was mixed up, he didn't know which house he was supposed to go to. So he was mixed up. He was mixed up and he wasn't sure where to go he was a little bit confused.
So, to review, when something is a mixed bag it means that it is a variety of things. Our flower farm is kind of a mixed bag. We sell flowers, we also sell flower seeds, and we sell the bulbs. You can buy cut flowers, you can buy flowers in a pot, it's kind of a mixed bag. And when you are mixed up it means that you are confused. It doesn't have to be about two different things but we usually use it when we're talking about that. He bought one kind of bouquet for his wife but it was the wrong one because he was mixed up he wasn't sure which one he was supposed to buy.
Hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. And, I think it's in the pocket inside my sweater so give me a second here. I thought it was in the pocket of my jacket. I thought I forgot it for a moment there.
This comment is from Roland and Roland says, " "Inception" is one of the most mind-blowing movies I have ever seen in my life. The concept of time travel can really blow your mind. My response was that movie really had me thinking. It was hard to keep track of all the dreams within dreams." So Roland is using the terms mind-blowing and blow your mind the terms and phrases from the last lesson. Excellent use of both of those Roland thank you for that comment.
The movie "Inception" definitely blew my mind. It was hard to get my head wrapped around what was happening in that movie. It was mind-boggling. It blew my mind. Definitely excellent uses of all those phrases and terms to describe that movie. In that movie people go to sleep and then when they're asleep they can go into other people's dreams. But then they can have dreams inside of the dream and it gets a whole lot more confusing than that. And by the end I wasn't sure what was going on.
And then Roland also mentioned time travel. The concept of time travel can really blow your mind. And that reminded me this morning during my live lesson by the way, I'm recording this on Saturday. Someone mentioned that they pretended they were me from the future coming back in time. Time travel is a mind blowing concept. I'm pretty sure it's not possible, but if it was possible it would certainly be interesting to be able to go forward in time or to go back in time. That's how we refer to time travel in English. You can go forward in time and you could go you could go forward in time and maybe visit your older self, or you could go back in time and you could visit your younger self. I don't know if I'd wanna do it. I think if time travel was invented I don't think I would go on a time travel trip or whatever they would end up calling it.
Anyways, Bob the Canadian here, hope you're having a good day today. I'll see you in a couple of days with another short English lesson. Bye.