Let's Learn English! Topic: Describing How You Feel! 🤵👍🙏 (Lesson Only)

Well, hello and welcome to this English

lesson about describing how you feel.

As human beings, sometimes we feel

happy, sometimes we feel sad.

Those are simple descriptions.

I'm sure you know those already.

In this lesson, I will describe some more advanced

but very common ways of describing how you feel.

Some of these words will help you describe

how you feel physically, whether you're extra tired

or whether you're starting to feel sick.

Some of them will help you describe how

you feel emotionally, whether you're happy or sad.

And again, I will teach you some more advanced

English vocabulary to describe some of those feelings.

So, once again, welcome to this English

lesson about describing how you feel.

I think you'll enjoy it. Blah.

It's kind of a funny word.

And this is an informal word, by the way.

Every word I'm teaching you today can go in the

sentence starting with I feel, so I feel blah.

I don't actually feel blah.

But when you feel blah, it means

you don't have a lot of energy.

It means you don't feel like doing something.

It means you probably just want to sit at home.

So it can mean that you physically are tired and don't

have a lot of energy, but you're also mentally tired.

So sometimes, after a long week at

work, Friday night, I feel blah.

I don't feel energetic.

I don't want to go out and see a movie.

I just want to sit on my couch and drink tea

and watch a basketball game or something because I feel blah.

So low energy, not energetic.

And then mentally, you don't feel like doing things.

Lethargic.

Now, this is a very similar term to feeling blah.

When you feel lethargic, it also means

you don't have a lot of energy.

If you stay up late sometimes

the next day you feel lethargic.

Now, this isn't lazy.

Lazy means you don't want to do work.

Lethargic means you're.

You're literally tired and you don't have enough energy or

stamina to do the work you're supposed to do or

to do what you're supposed to be doing that day.

Uh, should I say it a couple more times?

Lethargic is.

Has the th in.

It makes it a little hard to

pronounce for people learning English, but lethargic.

Oh, I'm feeling lethargic.

You might also feel lethargic just before you get sick.

Sometimes you don't feel.

Yeah, you don't feel right.

Something's wrong, and you feel lethargic.

And then the next day you have

a sore throat or a fever.

So it sometimes can be how

you feel before you get sick.

Inept.

So you can see this person is trying to put a

nail into whatever surface this is using the hammer backwards.

So this person would probably say, I feel inept.

I'll say it again. Inept.

I feel inept.

When you feel inept, it means you don't know how

to do the thing you're supposed to be doing.

Sometimes you go to do something

with a bunch of people.

Maybe you're going to play basketball for the first

time, and they all know how to play basketball.

You might feel inept because you.

You don't know how to dribble

the ball or shoot the ball.

So when you feel inept, it means you feel.

It means you don't know how to do something.

And it also kind of means you think people can

see that you don't know how to do it.

Like, oh, I feel inept.

When I first started teaching, I felt inept. Okay.

When I first started teaching, I didn't feel

like I knew what I was doing.

I didn't feel like I was doing a good job.

That very first semester, way back in 97

or 98, I don't remember, I felt inept.

So you could also say inadequate would

be another way to describe it.

Down, when you feel down would say, I don't like to

say it's the same as being depressed, because I think depression

is kind of a term a doctor would use.

But when you feel down, it's like a minor depression.

Like, you're not super enthusiastic.

There's another big word.

You're not energetic. You're.

It's a little different than feeling blah.

Like, I would say you feel blah.

And then stronger than blah is you're feeling down.

Like you're kind of sad a little bit as well.

And then even a stronger

description would be depressed.

So I feel down. Sorry. I feel blah. I feel down.

I feel depressed.

So this guy, he looks down.

He doesn't look super happy.

Maybe he has a lot of work to do.

He looks a little bit sad and not super eager to

do the work that he has to do that day.

So he feels.

I feel empty inside.

So this is an interesting one.

This is a very dark emotion, a very sad emotion.

The opposite would be to feel full of life.

So sometimes when I'm doing these live

streams, I feel full of life. Like, I'm.

I'm excited, I'm happy.

Um, I like doing it.

But sometimes people might feel empty inside.

So surprisingly, really wealthy celebrities

sometimes aren't very Happy.

They have all the money in the world

and they have fame, they're very famous, but

they don't feel good about themselves.

They're not happy about themselves and

they might feel empty inside.

So, again, this is a very sad, dark emotion. But this.

Yeah, you would use it to describe

the opposite of feeling super happy.

Opposite of.

Yeah, Like, I feel very valuable when I do this.

So empty inside, invisible.

So sometimes when you go to a social gathering, everyone

else has fun, but no one talks to you.

And then you would say, I feel invisible, by the way.

I should talk about the past, present and future.

So you could say, I felt invisible.

That's the past.

I feel invisible.

Or I'm going to feel invisible if I go to that party.

I picked this one because this guy at the

front seemed a bit older than the other people.

I don't have this myself, but I know sometimes

when older people go to something where there's a

lot of younger people, they feel invisible because the

younger people talk to each other, but they don't

talk to the older person.

So you feel invisible.

And by the way, invisible means no

one can see you like some superheroes.

Here's a good one.

When Frodo or Bilbo put on the ring in

the Lord of the Rings, they were invisible.

You literally couldn't see them.

But we also use this to describe

someone who feels like they're left out.

That's the other way you could describe it.

Fantastic.

So I thought I should do a few positive emotions.

I think I have a few in a row here.

Yes, I feel fantastic.

I feel great.

I went for a run and afterwards I felt fantastic.

Um, today the sun is shining and I feel great.

So these are two very positive emotional states.

I guess it can also be physical.

Like after you do go for a good

walk or a run, you usually feel fantastic.

Like, you feel really, really good.

And so that's how you would describe it.

If someone said, how are you feeling today?

I would literally right now say, I feel fantastic.

I slept good, I have a lot of energy.

I don't have to go to work early.

I feel fantastic.

I have a really nice day ahead

of me and then I feel great.

This is often used after you're sick.

So a few weeks ago I was sick, but now I feel great.

You can also use this to

describe how this person is feeling.

Like, oh, I was outside, I had

a cup of tea with a friend.

Life is good.

I feel great.

So it's a very positive emotion, a very

positive way of describing how you Feel honoured.

If you say, I feel honoured, it means that

someone has asked you to do something that.

That makes you feel like they like you.

So when my friend asked me to be the

best man at his wedding, I felt honoured.

I felt like it was a great honour.

I felt like it meant he liked me, he

trusted me and he wanted me to stand up

beside him when he married his wife.

So I was honoured.

I felt honoured.

Um, when you feel honoured, it's a nice thing. Okay. Um.

If someone asked you to speak, the next English

class you're taking just said, you know, you have

an interesting life and an interesting story, we would

like you to speak, you would feel honoured and

you would feel nervous, probably, but you would feel

honoured because the teacher picked you.

So when you feel honoured, you feel

appreciated, you feel liked, you feel like

the person trusts you to do something.

Jittery.

So this is something that happens.

It's a physical reaction.

Usually after you drink too much coffee, after you

have too much caffeine, you might feel jittery.

It's a state of being where you have lots of energy.

It's not the same as shivering.

Like, if I'm cold, I'm like, ooh.

But if I'm jittery, I'm like, I have.

Sorry, that looked really funny on the screen.

Um, if you have a lot of energy from the caffeine.

I'm just watching.

Yeah, that's definitely jittery.

How I just acted it out.

Caffeine makes you very alert and you feel jittery.

If you like.

If I had three cups of coffee, I would feel jittery.

I'd be like, I would want

to run everywhere instead of walk.

And that would just be kind of funny. Knackered.

We do not use this word in Canada

very often, but I hear this word quite

often when I watch British television.

Feel knackered means you're incredibly tired.

Usually at the end of the workday, someone might

say, oh, that was a long shift at work.

I feel knackered.

Uh, I am extremely tired.

I'm knackered.

Lucky.

Sometimes you feel lucky because

you actually were lucky.

If you had a lottery ticket and you won

a million dollars, you would say, I feel lucky.

I won the lottery.

But we also use this word to talk

about just being happy about something in life.

My boss gave me a raise.

I feel really lucky.

No one else got a raise.

Or let me see another example.

I was in school and I wrote a test and I feel

lucky because I got 90% on the test and I didn't study.

So it just means you're feeling happy about

a positive situation and you feel lucky.

I felt lucky the other day because I drove

to school and it was really slippery out and

I still got to school on time.

So the roads were slippery, so I felt lucky.

Um, I should have been late, but

I got to school on time.

Nauseous.

Some people say this word

differently, but I say nauseous.

This is how you feel.

You're getting sick or maybe after you

eat food that doesn't agree with you.

That's what we say when, like, if you eat

food that's bad, you might feel nauseous afterwards.

It means that you might throw up.

You might actually get physically sick.

I know two and a half, three weeks

ago, Jen was like, I'm feeling nauseous.

And I'm like, I don't feel very good either.

And then we got really, really sick.

We had the stomach flu.

Was not very, very nice.

But yes, it's not fun when you feel nauseous.

You can also feel nauseous if you

smell something that, that you don't.

Where you don't like the smell,

it can make you feel nauseous.

Um, and maybe a little bit, like if you go

on a roller coaster, you might feel nauseous afterwards.

Like, you might feel like you need to

throw up, that you need to vomit.

I hate that word, by the way.

Like saying throw up instead of to vomit.

Vomit just has a really weird sound to it.

It means when everything in your

stomach comes out of your mouth. There we go.

Now we all know overwhelmed.

This is something that I think almost every

human being on the planet has felt.

I feel overwhelmed.

When the new school year starts, the first

few days of school, I feel overwhelmed.

That means is there's too much work to do

and I don't have enough time to do it.

Um, sometimes Jen and I feel overwhelmed at market

because there's so many customers, we can't take care

of everyone fast enough, we feel overwhelmed.

So anytime there's more work to do, and let

me put it this way, when there's a lot

of work and not enough time, will feel overwhelmed.

I'm sure all of you have felt

that at some point in your life.

It's not a very nice feeling.

Okay, so here's an interesting one, by the way.

I should mention that a lot of these words

might be new for you or used in a

new way, but all of these are very common.

I feel blah.

I feel lethargic.

I feel inept.

All of those words are used all the time in English.

These are not like strange words that only

get used every once in a while.

This is pretty common.

So if you use the phrase I feel off, it

means you don't feel the way you normally feel.

It usually means you're getting sick, maybe

you're going to get a headache.

But if I said to Jen, ah, I don't know

what's wrong, I just feel off today, it means that

I can't think as clearly as I normally think.

Or maybe we're working out in the field and

we're lifting heavy things and it's really hard.

I might just say, you know, feel off.

Like I don't feel as strong as I normally do,

or I can't think as clearly as I normally do.

So you could say I don't feel normal,

but that doesn't quite describe it as well.

If you say I feel off, it usually means you're

probably going to be sick or something's wrong, something's not

working right with your brain or your body. Queasy.

This is the same as nauseous.

When you feel queasy, something's wrong down in your

stomach and something bad is going to happen.

Um, you can.

I think I would use queasy more to refer to.

Yeah.

I'm trying to think, like, if I see

something, if I'm walking along the road, sorry,

this is going to be kind of gross.

If I'm walking along the road, there's a

dead animal on the road, I feel queasy.

I don't look at it.

I don't want to see that.

If someone else throws up, I feel queasy.

Even if I'm not sick, the smell of

someone being sick close to me makes me

feel queasy and then I almost get sick.

So I think that you've probably experienced

this before where, you know, maybe.

Oh, here's a good one.

If you have old food in the fridge and you lift the

lid and you smell and you're like, whoa, that is not.

It might make you feel queasy, relieved.

So this person is doing.

Some people think these are either the thank

you hands, thank you so much, or prayer

hands, but this person is relieved.

You are relieved when something ends up going well

that maybe you thought was going to go badly.

I studied for chapter three and then I wrote

the test and the test was on chapter three.

I was so relieved, or I hurt my

arm and I thought it was broken.

I went to the hospital and it's just a bruise.

I was so relieved.

I feel relieved.

Because I don't have to wear a cast.

So it usually means you think something is

going to go badly, but then it goes

well and then you feel relieved.

It's a great feeling for sure.

Useless.

So this is the same basically as feeling inept.

The best picture I could come up with for the

phrase I feel useless is sometimes when Jen and I

buy furniture, should I name the store from Ikea?

Sometimes I feel useless when I'm

trying to put it together.

Sometimes there's not enough screws or there's too

many screws or pretty good at building stuff.

But sometimes I feel useless when

I try to put together furniture.

Um, so when you feel useless, it means you don't have

the skills you need to do what you want to do.

I've heard English learners say, when I

speak English, I sometimes feel useless.

Like I, I don't know enough, but I would use

it more for a skill, like a physical skill.

Like when I try to build something out of wood,

I feel useless because I'm very good at it.

Weird is similar to off.

So weird has a lot of meanings.

Like if you say that guy is weird, it might mean

that he doesn't dress the same as other people and maybe

his hair is really long and it just, I don't know,

you might say, oh, that guy looks weird.

It's an insult.

But if you say, ah, I feel

weird, it means you're not feeling well.

The last time I heard someone say

this was at long distance running event.

A runner finished the race and the runner did not

look very good after running seven or eight kilometres.

And they said, oh, I, I feel weird.

So very quickly they got that

person some water and some Gatorade.

Because if you say I feel weird, it usually means maybe

you're going to be sick, maybe you're going to, I think

this guy going to pass out, like become unconscious.

But it certainly means you're

physically not feeling normal.

Like another example might be if you.

Yeah, I don't usually talk too much about it,

but if you drink too much or if you,

yeah, you can just say you feel weird.

It means you don't feel normal.

If you feel weird, you don't feel normal.

Inadequate.

I tried to find a picture of a parent

who, who looks tired and kids who are hyper.

This is, I think, a good picture.

Parents often feel inadequate.

When you feel inadequate, it means you don't know

what to do in the situation you're in.

Parents are always learning how to

be good parents while they're parenting.

It's kind of a weird situation,

and you often feel inadequate.

Uh, especially if one of your kids has a

big problem in their life, you might feel inadequate.

You don't know how to help them.

So it's similar to inept and useless, but it

kind of has, like, a feeling of, you know,

you should know how to do it, but you.

You just feel inadequate.

Jen and I think have done a fairly good job as

parents, but there have been many times where we felt inadequate,

where we didn't know what to do in order to help

our kids in whatever situation they were in. Free.

So here's a couple of retired people.

If you say I feel free, it's something you can

use to describe a day off, a weekend, retirement.

It means you have no obligations.

So when you feel free, you are having a very nice life.

You are enjoying things.

So in the summer, I feel free.

Uh, when I visit Brent in the summer, we

feel free because as teachers, we do not work

in the summer, so we feel very, very free.

And it's nice to be able to enjoy life at that time.

Not that work is bad, but it is

nice to feel free once in a while.

Awful.

If you say I feel awful.

Like, if a person.

Well, let me not say that yet.

If you say I feel awful, it usually means you're sick.

How you doing?

I have a bad cold.

I feel awful.

My nose is stuffed up.

My throat is sore.

I'm coughing all the time.

I feel awful.

So when you feel awful, it simply means you feel sick.

If I call in sick work, and the next day my mom

calls me and says, oh, sorry, this story isn't making sense.

If I tell my mom I'm sick and she

calls me two days later and I'm still sick,

I'm just going to say, oh, I feel awful.

I'm not getting better.

Not a nice feeling at all. Tense.

If you say I feel tense,

it means you're nervous about something.

Here's a big word.

It means you're apprehensive about something.

It means you're not excited about something.

Anytime you have to talk in front of a

large group of people, you will probably feel tense. So.

And you can even be physically tense.

Like, you're like, this is relaxed.

You know, If I'm driving in my car, I'm really relaxed.

But if I'm like.

Like this, like my.

I'm actually almost flexing my muscles and

I'm really tense, means I'm nervous.

It means I'm not excited about what I'm going to do or

what I'M doing, um, the first live stream I ever did.

I felt tense because I, I didn't know how it worked.

I didn't know if anyone would watch it.

Um, I think I can't remember the stats on that

one, but I think there were only two people there.

Was kind of funny.

Was fun though hopefully.

So when you feel hopeful, you are excited and

happy about something that is going to happen.

So if you're going to have a baby, you're hopeful.

If you're going to go on a trip,

you're hopeful that you're going to have fun. If you.

It basically means that you

are excited about the future.

If your favourite team is playing

in the playoffs, you are hopeful.

You hope that they will win.

You hope, feel hopeful, grateful.

So when someone does something for you and

it helps you, you usually feel grateful.

When you're grateful, you will say

thank you to that person.

Many of you are grateful for these lessons.

So I make lessons and in the comments I

regularly see people saying thank you, you are grateful.

So I did something you liked and to

show that you are grateful, say thank you.

So and then I say, you're welcome.

I say you're welcome a lot in the comments

because there are a lot of thank yous.

So optimistic.

This is similar to hopeful.

It means that you are thinking

that something will go well.

This morning I was planning to do this live stream

and I was optimistic that the Internet would work well.

Our Internet has been working very

well the last couple of weeks.

Two weeks ago the Internet stopped

working during the English lesson.

But this morning I was optimistic. I.

I didn't think I was going to have any problems

and knock on wood, we haven't had any problems.

I was very optimistic.

Energized.

I have not done this.

I am curious to know if any of you have done this.

Let me know in the comments or chat but.

This is an ice bath.

It's tub filled with cold water and ice cubes

and you sit in it for one or two

minutes and afterwards you're supposed to feel energized.

It's supposed to make you feel

like you can do anything.

Um, I'm.

I'm not sure I could do this.

Jen would love to try this.

She would love to try an ice bath to

see if it will make her feel energized.

So see, someday maybe we'll try it.

Maybe Jen will try it. I'm not sure I will.

But there are many things that

will make you feel energized.

A good night's sleep will make you feel energized.

A nap, like sleeping for 10

minutes might make you feel energized.

It just means you have a lot of

energy and you're ready to do anything.

Kids are sometimes hyper.

Sometimes I feel hyper.

Even as an adult, sometimes before you do

something fun, you feel a little bit hyper.

Um, I think the last time I

felt hyper was where did I go?

I went to an event with

my colleagues where we played games.

It was a social event for me and my colleagues.

Um, and I was.

I was feeling hyper.

Like, I was excited, I was energetic, I was happy.

But normally kids are usually use

this word to describe kids.

Like, ah, those kids were running around.

They were so hyper.

They were loud and running around.

They were hyper. They.

So they were feeling hyper.

I feel hyper.

I feel hyper right now.

A little bit, Just a little bit awake.

This person is drinking a cup of coffee.

After I drink coffee, I feel awake.

Like, I feel awake.

I feel like do not need to sleep at all.

Caffeine has an incredible effect on me.

It makes me feel awake.

After a good night's sleep, you might

say, ah, I feel so awake.

Um, and then you might also say you feel alive.

If I ever jumped out of an airplane with a parachute

when I landed, I would probably say, oh, I feel alive.

Like, sometimes you feel blah and

lethargic, and sometimes you feel down.

But when you do something this and when

your adrenaline is flowing, you feel alive.

After I went ziplining, I certainly felt alive.

That was an incredible experience. I think it.

I probably would say this.

I felt energized.

I was tense before the zip lining, but when

I was done, I felt alive again, past tense. There.

I felt alive and motivated.

If you run long distances, you are very motivated.

When you're motivated, it means you want

to do something, and you do something.

You plan to do it, and you do it.

My biggest wish for English learners

is that they stay motivated.

I hope that every Monday morning, you.

You wake up and say, I feel motivated.

It means you want to learn English.

Like, if you say, I feel motivated to learn

English, it means you want to learn English.

You have energy, you're excited, it's fun.

You look forward to it.

You are excited and motivated.

It's a good feeling.

I'm not motivated right now to grade student work,

but I have a pile of it to look

at, so I'll have to do something.

So I feel motivated, so I want to do it.

It.