Hey everyone! In this lesson, I’ll help you learn some useful words and phrases we use to talk about people who are rich and famous. We’ll look at common vocabulary like celebrity, affluent, and in the limelight, and I’ll share some simple examples so you can start using them right away.

If you’ve ever wanted to describe well-known people, their lifestyles, or how they’re influential, this lesson will help you sound more natural and confident when you speak English.

I hope you enjoy the lesson! Have a great day! 😊

Read along to learn the English phrases YOU'RE GETTING WARMER! and BENCHWARMER

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, you're getting warmer. This is a phrase we use when someone is almost right. When someone is guessing something and they are almost coming up with the right answer. If I said to Jen, I bought something today and it's really cool, and if she says, did you buy fresh made chocolate chip cookies from the bakery?

And if I had bought something from the bakery but they weren't cookies, I might say, you're getting warmer. Maybe I bought muffins, maybe I bought donuts. But Jen is definitely on the right track. She's guessing, but it's not quite the right answer. So in English, when you say you're getting warmer, it means it's a pretty good guess, but it's not the exact answer.

The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is the phrase bench warmer. A bench warmer is an athlete who spends more time sitting on the bench and isn't on the starting lineup. So if you're familiar with sports, usually a team has five or 10 or 11 players who are the starting lineup.

They are the best athletes on the team. And there are also some people you would call benchwarmers. This isn't a super positive term like it's not something you aspire to be. Like, I want to be a benchwarmer. But if you aren't on the starting lineup, you might describe yourself as a benchwarmer.

Again, very informal and a little bit negative. It's not insulting, but close. So to review, you're getting warmer simply means you're making a guess and you're almost correct. And a bench warmer is a player who spends more time sitting on the bench on the sideline than they do playing.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Know-that Maybe you're thinking about putting some solar panels there. Bob, talking about the area behind my house from the last video. That would be my guess. I mean, looking at all that lawn, which literally looks greener than ours at the moment, you'd probably need an additional energy source to support your eight or nine little future robot lawnmower helpers.

Just kidding. Thanks for the new video, Bob. Wishing you a lovely Wednesday. Thanks, Know-that. And my response, you're getting warmer. I'm just hoping that I am fit and healthy this summer to work on the project I have in mind. So I'm not going to give all the details. I'm not going to give away, what my plans are for back there.

Except to say that Know-that definitely made a pretty good guess. So we'll leave it at that and we'll move on to other topics. Yes, the grass is much greener here. It seems like spring has come very, very quickly. Even just a week ago, the trees only had buds on them and now they have tiny, small leaves.

I'll get you a little bit closer, here, they have tiny, small leaves and it certainly is a lot more mild. The problem is that the lawn is growing at a rapid rate and so we are actively mowing.

You can probably see some of the tire marks there. They aren't ruts, though. They aren't ruts. I don't like ruts in the lawn, but I'll show you some sort of ruts. These aren't very deep ruts, but still, I like everything to look really nice.

So the lawn is green. The trees are starting to have leaves on them. It's pretty cool. I'm really enjoying the spring so far. My plan this spring is to not play any sports. If there is a teacher student baseball game, I will be a bench warmer this year.

Or maybe I'll be the coach. I'm certainly not planning to play. I think that would be a mistake. So if you, if you're wondering, how am I going to stay healthy and fit, I'm going to do that by not doing anything silly like playing a sport that I haven't played for a long time and then injuring myself.

Anyways, thanks for watching this short English lesson.

In this English lesson, I will help you answer this question: Why are you learning English?

In this free English class, I’ll give you clear, practical example sentences you can use to explain your reason for learning English. Whether you want to travel, get a better job, make new friends, or just enjoy movies and music, you’ll learn to explain clearly why you're learning the English language.

Your mission: Watch the lesson, pick a sentence that fits you, and leave a comment telling us why you are learning English!

This is a great way to practice writing in English and to connect with other learners from around the world.

I hope you enjoy the lesson, and have a great day!