It's another absolutely beautiful day here in Maine, so I thought,

"Why not do the intro outside?"

Hello and welcome back to another video. This is American English With This Guy.

I'm This Guy. My name is Brent. I've been an English

teacher in the United States for 20 years, and the goal of this channel

is to help you improve your English. In today's video,

I want to talk about phrasal verbs and even prepositions associated with

driving, and this comes from a great question

Simbha asked, and he was wondering about driving down the street. And you would

think, "Oh, down. I know what that means. Down.

No, when we say driving down the street, that simply means,

driving along the street, and I thought the best way to

teach phrasal verbs is to actually show them. So in this video, you will see

what "break down" means maybe, you saw the

thumbnail where I pretended that I was broken down

in my car. You'll see me filling up my gas tank, and you'll see a man who has

a parrot on his shoulder at that gas station. The

subtitles for this video will be accurate so

go ahead and turn those on, and if i know Eugene the Machine and Rod,

in a few days, there will probably be Russian subtitles and Brazilian

Portuguese subtitles, so again thank you guys for

adding so many of those subtitles to my videos. All right, let's check out the

footage. Right now, I am pulling out

of my garage.

I'm driving through my neighborhood, and it is trash day. You can see the

trash cans on the side of the street.

Uh-oh, there is a detour.

I am going to drive through the car wash because i noticed my windshield

it's pretty dirty. We have an unlimited pass,

so we pay $20 a month, and we can get as many

car washes as we want. I didn't plan on talking about detour,

but since we just passed one, why don't i

talk about that while i go through the car wash.

A detour is when there is a problem up ahead on the street you're trying to

travel on, and basically you have to go a different

way. Not sure what it is called in your

country, but we call it a detour. And my windshield was dirty because

I took my son to hockey practice last night,

and we had to drive late at night like 9:30, 10 o'clock, and there were a lot of