English Lesson - 10 Ways to Say, "I'm in a bad mood!"

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Sometimes, believe it or not, I’m in a bad mood.

I’m not in a bad mood right now.

I’m in a pretty good mood, but the other day I was in a bad mood and I thought to myself,

I should make a video for all of you and go over 10 different ways in English to say,

“I’m in a bad mood.”

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Well this video’s about how to say, “I’m in a bad mood.”, 10 different ways, and

the first one is really simple.

You just say, “I’m in a bad mood.”

I think I’ve said it two or three times already.

So number 1, you can simply say, “I’m in a bad mood.”

A second way to say that you’re in a bad mood is, “I’m cranky.”

I often say I’m cranky especially when it’s been a long time since I’ve had my last

meal and I’m really, really hungry.

I’ll usually just say, “Ah, I’m just really cranky because I need something to

eat.”

So a second way to say you’re in a bad mood is to say, ‘I’m cranky.”

A third way to say that you’re in a bad mood is to say, “I’m grouchy.”

So you may have watched the show Sesame Street.

It’s an English kids show and on that show they have a character called Oscar the Grouch,

and he’s always grouchy.

I usually get grouchy when I have too much work to do and not enough time to do it.

That usually makes me grouchy and I’ll say to people, “I’m grouchy today!”

So a fourth way to say that you’re in a bad mood is to say, “I’m grumpy.”

So you say to someone, “I’m just grumpy today.”

And a lot of times I’ll be grumpy if I have a day where nothing seems to go right all

day long.

So from the minute I get up until I go to bed nothing goes right and that definitely

makes me very, very grumpy.

So for example maybe I sleep in by accident.

Maybe I go to make eggs for breakfast and there aren’t any.

Maybe on the way to work I notice that my van has not enough gas in it to make it home

again.

All of those things would put me in a bad mood and I might describe it to people by

saying, “I’m grumpy today!”

So a fifth way to say that you’re in a bad mood is to say, “I’m crabby.”

So when you say I’m crabby I usually tell people I’m crabby if I don’t get a good

night’s sleep or if I don’t get enough sleep.

So let’s say it’s nice to get 8 hours sleep in a night and I only get 5 or 6 or

maybe I toss and turn all night.

So I would definitely the next day tell people that, “Ah, I’m crabby today because I

didn’t get enough sleep last night.”

So a sixth way to say you’re in a bad mood is to say, “I’m irritable.”

So the thing that makes me really irritable is when somebody wants me to get something

done, but I don’t have enough time to get it done.

That, that really makes me irritable.

So when you’re irritable you’re just, everything bothers you.

Another way to say you’re in a bad mood is to just say, “I’m not in a good mood.”

So you’re saying the opposite of saying that you’re in a good mood and this is quite

common in English.

Often times people will say, “Ah, I’m just not in a good mood today.”

So they use the negative form of the phrase, “I’m in a good mood.”

to say that they’re NOT in a good mood which means the same as, “I’m in a bad mood.”

And one of the things that makes me not in a good mood is a day where I just have one

thing after another to do.

Do you ever have one of those days where you have so many things to do that day and you

just do one thing after another and it just, at the end of the day you just say, “I am

not in a good mood today.”

So an eighth way to say you’re in a bad mood is to say, “I’m agitated.”

So I would say I get agitated or I would describe myself as being agitated when I’m trying

to get work done, maybe I’m trying to edit a video for my Youtube channel and the phone

keeps ringing, or my phone keeps beeping or buzzing because someone is texting me and

interrupting the work I’m doing.

So that definitely is something where I would say, “I’m agitated.”, because I just

feel like I’m trying to get something done and I keep getting interrupted.

So an ninth way to say that you’re in a bad mood is to say, “I’m aggravated.”

So the best example I can give of this is if you go on a long trip with children and

they’re really noisy in the backseat.

I would definitely say that that behaviour is aggravating and I would feel aggravated.

I would be in a bad mood, I would be aggravated because of the noise that my kids were making

while I was trying to drive.

So I would definitely describe that situation as, “I’m aggravated.”

And a tenth way to describe being in a bad mood is to just say, “I’m annoyed.”

or “I’m annoyed with everything.”

So a good example of this would be, you know sometimes we work with people we like, sometimes

we might work with someone who isn’t so enjoyable to work with and so you might end

up saying, “I’m just annoyed.

I’m just annoyed with everything today because my co-worker is hard to work with, and that

would be another description of, of being in a bad mood you know.

I’m just I’m annoyed with everything today.

I’m annoyed.

Well there’s a few things that you might do when you’re in a bad mood or ways we

would describe people who are in a bad mood.

And I have a list of them here and I’m gonna read them off to you.

So you might snap at people.

So when you snap at people it means you respond really quickly and in a tone that sounds

kind of mean.

You might be short with people.

In English when say “You know I was really short with people today.”

it means that you answer in really quick sentences.

You speak really briskly.

Like, “Ok”, “No thanks!”

That would be being short with someone.

Not taking the time to have a good conversation with them, but speaking in really short quick

sentences.

Another thing that you would have is you might just be rude to people.

So instead of being a warm, happy, enjoyable person to be around you might just be rude.

You might answer in ways that aren’t appropriate.

You might just be not a very nice person that day.

You might yell or swear at people.

I don’t , I don’t do this, but you might yell which is yelling is to speak in a really

high volume or might swear at people so you might actually use bad words or call people

names.

Don’t ever do that by the way, but that’s something you might do if you’re in a bad

mood.

You might treat people harshly.

So when we treat people harshly it’s similar to being short with them, it’s similar to

you know, not taking the time to talk to them nicely, but you could say that you’re, you’re

just being harsh with people all day long.

That’s something that a lot of times people do when they’re in a bad mood.

And then lastly maybe you just ignore people.

Sometimes when I’m in a bad mood I just wanna go somewhere by myself so that I don’t

have to deal with people.

So you might just, if you’re in a bad mood, you might just ignore people.

So, anyways, that was 10 ways to say that you’re in a bad mood and then there was

just a few descriptions of some of the behaviours or some of the things you might do or say

if you’re in a bad mood.

Hopefully that helped you.

Hopefully this English lesson helped you.

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