What Do You Take For Granted

hi i’m vanessa from speak english with

vanessa calm and today we’re going to

talk about something that you take for

granted let’s get started is there

something in your life that you don’t

appreciate something that you expect to

always be there and not change

maybe you expect to always be safe maybe

you expect to be able to go to the

grocery store and buy any kind of food

at a reasonable price

maybe you expect your husband or wife to

be patient and kind these are perfect

examples of today’s expression to take

something for granted

I think this expression is a little bit

difficult to use correctly and

grammatically so I’m going to give you

some examples during this video but I’m

also going to give some more examples in

my full lesson below this video so if

you are not on my website if you are

watching this on youtube or somewhere

else click the link so you can go to my

website and see all of the other sample

sentences so that you can use this

naturally and casually I already

mentioned three things that you expect

to not change safety food and your

partner your husband or wife so let’s

use those same sentences that I used

before and change them to include

today’s expression you could say I take

my safety or granted I take fresh food

at the store or granted I take my

husband for granted now if you take

something for granted it means that you

don’t really appreciate it

so I want to give you two stories to

help you remember take something for

granted the first is from when I lived

in Korea when I lived in Korea it was

perfectly fine to drink alcohol in

public my husband and I would often go

to the park and have a picnic we would

bring some pizza maybe some cheese or

bread or some snacks and maybe we would

bring some wine

or some Korea and alcohol like McCauley

or soju and we would drink it in the

park together or with our friends and it

was nice to be able to do this in public

in a natural setting but in the u.s. at

least where I live

you’re not allowed to do this so when I

go to the park now I’m not allowed to

drink alcohol it’s against the law

so when I was in Korea I took it for

granted I took it for granted that I

could drink alcohol in the park it was

something I didn’t appreciate it was

something that was normal but now that I

don’t have that experience I’m not

allowed to drink alcohol in public I

realize ah that was really nice to be

able to drink outside in public I don’t

take it for granted anymore the second

story is a little bit different

six years ago when I lived in

Pennsylvania which is in the north of

the US my husband and I lived in a very

old house and this house didn’t have any

heat that worked very well

there was really no heat in the house

and Pennsylvania is similar to New York

so it’s very far north and very cold in

the winter so inside my house in the

winter it was the same temperature as

outside this is not a joke this is real

it was so cold inside there was ice on

the inside of my windows and when I went

to bed I wore a hat because it was so

cold now when I was growing up I never

experienced this because I lived in the

south the winters were not that cold but

in this experience when I lived in

Pennsylvania I did not take heat for

granted I appreciated heat when I went

to someone’s house and they had a heat I

really appreciated it maybe their house

was beautiful the food was amazing but

the number one thing I noticed was it’s

warm inside it feels so good I really

appreciated it so I could say I didn’t

take the heat for granted I really

appreciated it so now I have a question

for you what is something that you take

for granted in your life do you take

air-conditioning for granted do you not

appreciate air conditioning because it’s

so normal in your life do you take your

mother for granted because she is always

helping without questioning she’s always

there for you what do you take for

granted and I’ll see you in the comments

below and try to help you use this

expression as naturally as possible

thanks so much and talk to you later bye