Stop Being BORING in English | The 10 Most Amazing English Expressions In The World! !

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Here we go again guys with another English video.
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This time we're looking at ten useful phrases that you can use to make your English sound
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more interesting and more exciting.
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We're trying to stop our English sounding boring.
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That's the aim of today's lesson.
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Now we're going to be doing that by looking at exaggeration.
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Now exaggeration is when we make something sound more interesting or bigger or more important
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than it actually is.
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So for example I didn't just see any spider i saw an enormous spider.
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And that makes it sound bigger than it really was.
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So these are ten phrases you can use to make your English sound more interesting.
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All that is coming right up.
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So when do we exaggerate?
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Well we exaggerate when we want to make what we are saying sound more interesting or funnier
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or that we want to emphasise a particular point.
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So these are really great to make your stories and what you say sound more interesting.
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Alright, let's do number one.
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'My shoes are killing me.
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Blimey!'
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So if you want to show that something is really hurting you or it's really sore you could
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use the phrase 'it's killing me'.
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So my shoes are killing me.
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They are not literally killing me, I'm still alive, I'm still going to be ok but we use
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it to emphasise just how painful or sore this thing is.
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'I'm so hungry I could eat a horse'
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This is a great phrase to use when you are really really hungry.
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So hungry that you could eat a horse.
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Again not literally but we use it as a phrase to just express and to emphasise our hunger.
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I could eat a horse.
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Now I'm really curious to know what's that in your language?
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I'm so hungry I could eat a, what animal or what thing would you say?
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Let me know in the comments below.
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'This computer is taking forever to start' Come on!
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Right, to show that something is taking too long, a really long time, we say 'it's taking
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forever'.
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Forever, like, until the end of time.
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So obviously not literally.
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I haven't been waiting for my computer to start forever but it feels like it so we use
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it takes forever or it's taking forever to show that it's been too long, a long time.
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So yeah you might be waiting for a bus and you might say 'It's taking forever'.
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It just means it's taking a really long time and you are not happy about it.
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'Look I've apologised a million times!
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I don't know how many more I can do.'
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We use the number a million to exaggerate how many times we've done something.
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So in that instance I've apologised a million times, I mean I didn't apologise a million
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times that is completely rubbish.
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I maybe apologised twice or three times.
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We use it to exaggerate how many times we did it, so it's a really great phrase.
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Maybe your friend has told you a story before and you say 'Yeah yeah I've heard this story
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a million times'.
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And you are saying yes I've heard this story before, you don't need to tell me it again.
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So a lovely bit of exaggeration to be a bit humorous I guess, it's nice to be a bit funny
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with your language.
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There's a great quote by an English comedian called Rick Mayall and he said 'I've told
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you a million times, don't exaggerate.'
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'For me this is the best view in the world.
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Look at this., it's amazing!'
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We use superlatives to express our feelings especially really strong emotions.
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To say that something is the best in the world.
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Maybe your husband is the most handsome man in the world or your wife is the most beautiful
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woman in the world.
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Now we can't obviously say that someone is the best or the most beautiful in the world
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or the most handsome in the world but we like to exaggerate just to show how much we like
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something or that we love something.
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In London, in Primrose Hill, I think it's the best view in the world.
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Obviously there are other incredible views but for me, I'm going to use a bit of exaggeration
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to express how I feel, it's the best view in the world.
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'This ice cream is out of this world.
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It's amazing.
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So good!'
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If you say something is out of this world you are saying that it is extremely good.
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You are emphasising that it is extremely good or impressive.
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We often use it with food, I think that's the most common use that I can think of.
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So you say 'this chocolate dessert is out of this world.'
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It just means it's amazing, it's fantastic.
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'Lionel Messi is on fire tonight.
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He's amazing, right?
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Three goals, three assists.
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What a player!
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What a player!
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This one is not literal.
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Lionel Messi is not literally on fire.
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It means more that he's unstoppable or he's on great form.
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That he can do anything he wants, there's something magical in the way that he's playing
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tonight.
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So if you are on fire then you are unstoppable you can do anything.
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Maybe for example your friend is being quite funny, they've said a lot of funny jokes,
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you could say 'Oh my god, you are on fire today.'
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As in you are saying so many funny things, you are on great form, that kind of thing.
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So to be on fire.
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'Uh oh.
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My flatmate is going to kill me when he sees the broken window.'
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If we want to express that we think we are in trouble with someone we would say they
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are going to kill me.
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Now obviously literally they are not going to kill you but they might be very angry or
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very upset about something.
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This one is from my childhood 'oh no, my Dad's going to kill me.'
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Or 'My Mum's going to kill me because I did something wrong'.
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So it's a really exaggerated phrase to say you think you are in trouble with someone.
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That they might be angry or upset with you.
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So in that case my flatmate is going to kill me because I broke his window.
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So yeah, he might be angry or upset with me, ok.
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'It's hotter than the sun in here.
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Blimey!
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Let's open a window.'
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Just like with superlatives, we can use comparatives to exaggerate about the things that we've
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seen or done.
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So in that example it's hotter than the sun.
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Hotter is the comparative adjective and then hotter than the sun.
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Obviously it wasn't actually hotter than the sun, that would be madness but it felt really
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hot.
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Another one, going back to my spider example 'the spider was bigger than my head'.
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Now that would be quite amazing, I mean if there is a spider bigger than your head, certainly
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there isn't one in England, I hope.
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So yeah, we're just exaggerating to make it sound a bit funnier, a bit more interesting.
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To get the listener's attention.
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'What?
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The spider was bigger than your head?
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Oh my God!'
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Yeah so, it makes the language or the story sound more intriguing, more interesting and
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makes the listener want to listen more.
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'I don't know about you but I'm starving.
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Shall we have lunch?'
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And the final one, it's again talking about how hungry we are 'I'm starving'.
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Not literally, that is of course awful, but we use it to exaggerate.
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I'm not just a little bit hungry, I'm starving.
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Just to express or to emphasise that feeling or that emotion.
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So those are ten phrases that you can use to make your English sound more interesting,
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more exciting, get people to listen to you even more because your English is so interesting.
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In the comments below I'd love you to write a sentence using any one of those phrases.
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You could talk about your English or tell me a story.
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Try and practise and use those phrases in the comments below, that would be fantastic.
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Guys remember that I release new videos every Tuesday and every Friday so that you guys
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can take your English to the next level.
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So remember to hit the subscribe button, hit the notification button as well so you don't
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miss one single video.
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Until next time guys this is Tom, the Chief Dreamer, saying goodbye.
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