Read along to learn the English phrases FOR THE SAKE OF and OLD TIMES SAKEIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, for the sake of. When you do something for the sake of someone else, it means you're doing it for their benefit, you're doing something for their safety, for their benefit, or you're doing something good for them. Sometimes people in Canada will donate money for kids who don't have parents and we do that for the sake of the kids.We want to do something that benefits them. Sometimes at school we'll have a snow, snow day for the sake of the kids because we wanna make sure they're safe. A snow day means they get to stay at home. So when you do something for the sake of someone else, it means you're doing it to benefit them or you're doing something to keep them safe or to help them.The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is for old times sake. When you do something for old times sake, you do it because it's something you used to do and it's a good memory and you'd like to do it again. Sometimes Jen and I will go out to the lake and walk along the pier for old times sake because it's something we used to do a long time ago when we were much younger and didn't have kids.So when you do something for old times sake, it means you do it because it's something you used to do and you have good memories of doing it. So to review, when you do something for the sake of someone else, you're doing something that benefits them or helps them or is good for them. And.And when you do something for old time's sake, it means you're doing it because it's something you used to do and it was really, really fun. But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. Sorry, I'm not throwing that on the ground. The van is right behind me with the door open.Because I thought it might rain, but. Hey, let's look at a comment. This is from. ThisIsSebb, Bob. I just found your channel and I'm preparing for my TOEFL test in one month. You're great. And my response, that is great to hear. I hope my videos helped you prepare and that you do well.So the Toefl, I think maybe in the UK they say Toefl. It's not actually a word, right. T, O, E, F, L. But, that's how I say it. I say Toefl, but. So anyways, thanks. ThisIsSebb. Was that who it was?Yes, thanks for leaving a comment and, I hope you have a good day. So I'm here in town. Strange. Eh? I don't work right now, but I'm in town. Here, let me just adjust this a little bit. I'll put you guys way further up. Someone once said I should try more of these.I did this once a time ago. That looks kind of funny. But, let's try this anyways. You can see I'm just little, but you can see a lot more behind me. So I'm here in town, and I'm just here because Jen and I have to do a few errands.One of the things we do is we buy chicken at a special butcher shop in town. So we're on our way there and then Jen is also at the dentist's office, so she is currently getting a cavity film. I hope that goes well.Does not sound exciting to me at all. By the way, it is kind of weird with you guys way up there. Let me just adjust this a bit. Again, I'm not sure. I know you probably can see the pole now, but that's okay. So I'm in town. I normally don't come to town in the summer.Normally. In the summer I'm just at home. And I usually make videos in the towns where my kids work if I have... if I have to give them a ride to work. And I will be doing that later this year. Oh, I should keep working here... or I walking here.I think someone is talking on the phone in this red truck or he's talking to someone in the truck with them. So anyways, I'm not sure you enjoy being way up there in the sky, but it's certainly a different view. So randomly, I'll talk about this truck.This is a Hummer. This is a really big vehicle. I would probably call this, in English, we would probably call it a gas guzzler, because I'm sure it costs quite a bit of money to drive that truck.

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