Improve Vocabulary through different acts | Action Verbs acted out | Part-1 | Havisha Rathore

Now, you will face the consequences. I promise you

You will never ever shoot a video again. [Laughter]

A warm welcome to this channel, English boosting power. In this video, we will

learn a few action verbs which we generally use in our daily conversation.

I am sure you will enjoy it. Please try to use them in your sentences. It will

boost your confidence as well as your fluency. So let's get started without a snag.

I'm bumping elbows. Due to corona, we stopped shaking hands and started bumping elbows.

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What was that? What do you call the sound of water running over stones?

That sound is called babble. Babble. I'll repeat. Babble.

I'm beating the rug.

I think I've got something in my eye. I think I should blink for some time.

What am I doing? I'm blinking. What am I doing? I'm blinking. I repeat. Blinking.

That light is blinking.

The children are crawling across the floor.

Let me also crawl with them.

Oh my God, it's so hot over here. I think I'd catch the sun if I stayed here for

some more time. My mother told me not to go shopping, but in fact, she wanted to go

shopping but I did not listen. ah

But I think now I need to shift gears. Otherwise, I'll catch the sun and I don't

want to catch the sun. Oh no, what do I do? Wait a minute!

What is the meaning of shift gears and catch the sun?

Shift gears means to change suddenly whatever you are doing.

And catch the sun means to get sunburn. Oh my God, now I think I need to go to my

house or else I'll catch the sun. I'm gonna shift gears. I'm going back to my house.

Now, I have reached my house.

Now, see, I'm gonna brush away the crumbs from my dress.

I am brushing away the crumbs from my dress.

I brushed away the crumbs of bread from my dress. Now, let me continue eating this bread.

I sniffed the flower. These flowers in bloom are a beautiful

sight. Now what is this Bloom? Bloom

I repeat, Bloom. Now, let me show you. I will pluck this flower.

I plucked the flower. What did I do? I plucked the flower.

I sniffed the flower. Now, I'll trample the flower.

I trampled the flower. It means I crushed the flower. Trample means to step heavily

on someone or something causing damage or injury.

I trampled the फूल I trampled the flower. Now look at this

plant. This plant is just beginning to bud. It means this plant has just started to

produce flowers. Now look at this. This is a bud.

This is a bud which is a small part of a plant which slowly develops to a flower

or a leaf. Now, slowly this bud will develop into a flower like this one.

So, this is called bud. What is it called? Bud.

And let me tell you that this word

Bud reminded me an idiom which is Nip something in the bud which means to

destroy something at an early stage. For example, my mother nipped my idea of

going to the water park in the bud. It means she destroyed my idea or I would say she

canceled my idea even before it developed. The bud. The flower. Leaf.

This is sniff. Pluck.

Break. I will break this stick.

I have broken this stick. But I don't break my promise. This is called an axe and

this axe remembered me an idiom. But what is the idiom? The idiom is an axe to grind. I

repeat, an axe to grind and it means to have strong personal opinions about

something which you want other people to trust or I would say to believe and that

is the reason you're trying to do something so that is called an axe to grind.

An axe to grind. I repeat an axe to grind. Let's take an example. Generally,

environmentalists have no political axe to grind. They simply just want to save the planet.

Let's take another example. I have an axe to grind with my friend.

You didn't listen to me. Didn't you?

Now you will face the consequences. I promise you.

You will never ever shoot a video again.

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Hey, what's that? You don't know what it was. It was a belly laugh. Hmm

If you can tell me the meaning of belly laugh,

maybe, I'll let you go.

And the English meaning? Belly Laugh means a loud, unrestrained laugh.

I didn't know that you actually knew the meaning. Now let me go.

As promised.

I am free!

I'll capture her again. Anyway if you liked this information then don't forget

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video. And yes, if you learned or I would say, if you understood this

idiom nip in the bud then do make a sentence with this idiom nip in the bud

and drop it in the comment box. Bye-bye! See you in the next video!

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