British Bitesize Lesson #14: BUMP

hello and welcome to number 14 of 25 bitesize

lessons which I'm making especially

for you because it's Christmas

so today's lesson is all about the word BUMP

what a fun word now I realised the

other day there's lots of ways that we

use the word bump initially bump means when two

things

gently hit each other so if I bang my

head on a cupboard door i could say i

bumped my head, I bumped my head on the

cupboard door. A bump can also mean a raised

surface like a lump

so if i had a lump on my skin I could say

I've got a little bump on the back of my

hand

or can you see the bump on my head

where I bumped my head

we sometimes use the word bump to mean

move in a jolty fashion so if you're

on the train and the train starts to

move but starts with a jolt, you

could say the train started with a bump

or if the train continues to jolt you

could say it was a bumpy ride the train

bumped along some of the phrases we use

with the word bump are as follows you

could bump into somebody

this could either mean that you

physically banged into them

oh sorry or that you meet with them

unexpectedly

so I'm walking down the street minding

my own business and Oh Julie

hello what are you doing here

it's so nice to bump in to you sometimes

when you're cold

we get lots of bumps on our skin

some people call it chicken skin in

other countries but in the UK we call it

goosebumps

so if my skin goes lumpy because I'm

cold I have goosebumps goosebumps we may

talk about things that go bump in the

night

this means spooky and supernatural

happenings that go on during nighttime

things that go bump in the

night if you're boarding a flight and

your flight attendant says oh lucky for

you we bumped you up

that means you've been raised to a

better status so maybe I was flying

economy class and now I've been elevated

to first-class travel so I was bumped up

to first class. If two people are not

getting on very well you might say they

bumped heads so they had an argument

just like like goats or rams is it

goats or is it rams, the ones that

have the big horns and they bang heads i

think it's rams

yes they ram each other. They ram heads

together they bump heads when they're

fighting so we can say this about people

they bumped heads with each other

yesterday in the office sometimes you

may hear the phrase bumped off this

means that a contract killing has

happened so someone has been killed

because somebody else has organized it

to happen so an assassination they were

bumped off

it's not an accident they were killed by

someone by contract they were bumped off

anyway let's think about nicer things so

there you go lots of interesting ways to

use the word bump

if you can think of any other ways that

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