Learn the English Terms "bad attitude" and "positive attitude"

In this English lesson, I wanted to help

you learn the English term bad attitude.

If someone has a bad attitude, it means

they think something's going to go badly before

it even starts or even while it's happening.

Here's a good example.

Maybe you go to watch your favorite sports team,

and as the game is starting, you say, ah,

they're going to lose tonight because the best player

is injured and the other team's too good.

That's just a bad attitude.

It's not a very positive way of thinking to just

say, oh, we're going to lose because of that.

It's best to wait and see.

Sometimes students have a bad attitude.

They might say, oh, I'm going to fail this

class because the teacher doesn't like me and there's

too much homework, and I don't feel like doing

what I'm supposed to be doing.

That's just a bad attitude.

As you can tell, I don't like

it when people have a bad attitude.

I like it when people are a little

more positive when they have a positive attitude.

Now, you might have thought, as I teach this phrase, as

I teach the opposite, that I would say good attitude.

And we do sometimes say that, that,

oh, you should have a good attitude.

But often, more often, we say a positive attitude.

I'm not sure why we don't say negative attitude,

but we usually encourage people to have a positive

attitude. Even though the best player is injured,

I still think my team is going to win tonight.

I'm going to have a positive attitude.

I'm going to think happy thoughts

and good thoughts about my team.

I was going to say something

else about this good attitude.

Positive attitude.

There's another term.

It's not coming to my mind right now.

Maybe I'll think of it later.

Anyways, to review a bad attitude would be to

say something like this, oh, I don't know if

I'm going to make an English lesson today.

Hardly anyone's going to watch it.

Maybe I'll just not do it.

Bad attitude.

But a positive attitude would be to think, you

know, I'm going to make an English lesson today,

and some people will watch it, and those people

will hopefully learn a little bit of English.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.

It's in my back pocket here.

Let me see if I can find it.

The comment is from Emerson.

Oh, it's from the last lesson

isn't more or less outdated.

So I taught the phrase more or less in the last lesson.

And my response, not at all.

Almost every phrase I choose for these lessons

is from real life, and I heard someone

use it just four days ago. So, no, not at all.

In fact, I did a little bit of research.

I'm not sure if you know what

Google trends is, but Google trends kind

of identifies the things people search for.

And if you look in a moment, probably right now, there

should be a graph on the screen for the phrase more

or less, and you can see it's actually going up.

Now, this doesn't mean people are

actually using it when they talk.

It simply means people do still search

for that phrase, more or less.

So, to me, that graph probably means that people are

still using that term and then Emerson as well,

just so you know.

Yes, I do.

Listen as I go through my day and I try to

hear people using phrases and or sometimes I observe behavior, and

that helps me decide what I'm going to say or what

I'm going to teach in the next lesson.

So you might wonder, where did bad

attitude and positive attitude come from?

Well, I want to keep that a secret,

but as you know, I'm a teacher.

Sometimes I see students in my classroom, and sometimes they

have a bad attitude, and sometimes they have a really

positive attitude, and it can make all the difference as

to how well they learn what I am teaching.

Sometimes a good positive attitude goes a long way,

and sometimes a bad attitude can just be,

yeah, like the worst thing in the world.

I, you know, positive energy really, really helps.

And if you have a bad attitude, man, it's like you're....

You're not helping yourself at all.

Anyways, thanks for watching.

Are you enjoying all the leaves on the ground?

It's definitely fall here.

So, anyways, I'll see you in a

few days with another short English lesson. Bye.