Let's Learn English! Topic: Reactions! 😮😠🙎 (Lesson Only)

Well hello everyone and welcome to this English lesson about

reactions. In life you sometimes go and see a show.

You sometimes have a conversation and you react. You

express how you feel after you see that show or after you have

that conversation or after someone tells you something.

Human beings often react in different ways. We react in

good ways. We react in bad ways. We react in ways that

show our emotions. So in this English lesson I will talk

about a lot of the different kinds of reactions you can

have. Sometimes you react by saying something. Sometimes you

react by doing something. Sometimes you react by simply

feeling a certain way after someone says something or after

you see something happen. Um so anyways once again welcome to

this English lesson about reactions. So the first one I'm

giving is an action. Sometimes when you see something you like

in life you'll give a thumbs up. Now a lot of people ask me

why do you say thumbs up and not thumb up? This is only one

thumb. This this is two thumbs. So you can give two thumbs up.

But for some reason we also say to give a thumbs up. You know I

went and watched John perform at his performance and he did a

great job. I gave him a thumbs up at the end. So you can

physically give someone a thumbs up. But as all of you

know you can also give someone a thumbs up on a video. If you

at the bottom of this video there's a little thumb and if

you click it you're giving me a thumbs up a thumbs up always

means you like what you've seen you like what you've heard you

you're giving positive feedback to that person so if you wanted

to give me a thumbs up you could right at the bottom of

this video you can give me a thumbs up. Sometimes when you

see something you are amazed. The reaction you have is that

you feel amazement. This happens me when I see a

magician. So here you have a magician and he has pulled a

rabbit. He has made a rabbit appear out of a hat. He has

pulled a rabbit out of a hat. If I saw this I would be

amazed. The reaction I would have is I would have a feeling

of amazement. So when someone does something that is just

hard to understand how it happened. Sometimes you feel

amazed. Sometimes you feel shocked. Generally when you

feel shocked it's a negative emotion. It's when you find out

that something happened. Maybe a bad thing. And you don't know

what to think and you don't know what to do. Let's say that

your brother was on a trip and he got in a car accident. If he

called you and said bro I got in a car accident. No he

wouldn't say that. He would say hey I got in a car accident.

I'm fine. You might be shocked. You might be shocked to hear

that your brother was in a car accident. So generally shocked

is a negative emotion. It's a feeling of surprise. And it's a

feeling sometimes of disbelief. Not sure if you can hear that

but the I'm a little shocked right now because the storm has

started earlier than expected. Taking a back. When you are

taken aback it means that something has happened that you

weren't expecting. Um maybe you went to a movie and you thought

it was a family movie and it was going to be a funny movie

and you and your kids were going to enjoy it. But then you

find out it's actually an action movie with lots of

violence. You might be taken back. You were expecting a fun

family movie but instead it was a a very scary movie with lots

of car chases and and lots of fighting and lots of violence.

You might be taken aback. So you weren't expecting the movie

to be about that but for some reason it is. And pleased. So

pleased is just another way of saying happy. When you are

pleased it means that something has happened that you wanted to

have happened. Many people in northern countries are pleased

if it snows on Christmas day. So on Christmas day if there is

a nice little snowfall. Like this lady is very pleased

because it's snowing on Christmas day. Well I'm

assuming it's Christmas day in this picture. Um but yes you

are pleased. It means you are content. It means you are

happy. It's always nice to be pleased I think. Sometimes you

can be pleasantly surprised as well. But a reaction to my

reaction to snow on a on a Christmas day if I wake up on

Christmas day my reaction if I saw snow would be to feel

pleased or to be pleased. You can say it either way. Now this

is kind of an opposite reaction. When someone is

outraged it means they are very very angry. Generally when

people react with outraged when people are outraged something

has happened to make them angry. A lot of times people

are outraged at the same time as other people and you end up

with something like this which is a protest and I thought it

was kind of funny because they just have a side that says no.

So they're outraged. They're annoyed about something. So

their reaction to something happening is to feel anger is

to be outraged. So not a nice feeling but that is how people

sometimes react. Sometimes people react by getting

offensive. Sometimes you are offended by something someone

has done. I've blurred out the word here. But if you are

playing this word game and someone used a swear word or a

bad word. You might be offended. You might react by

being offended. They've done something that has offended

you. And so your reaction is to be offended. When you're

offended it means you're annoyed. Or even a little bit

angry at someone for something they did. So may someone used a

bad word. Maybe someone did something that you don't think

is proper. Something that you don't think is okay. You might

be offended. Another way people are offended is sometimes

people will spray graffiti on the walls of buildings and

they'll spray bad words and they'll be offended. Because

somebody did that. Grateful. So when you are grateful it means

you are thankful. It means that some has done something and it

made you happy. Someone did something kind for you. So a a

good example of this would be this. When I watch a YouTube

video that helps me learn to do something I'm thankful. I am

grateful. My reaction to watching the video is to feel

grateful. Then usually I give a thumbs up when I when I am

grateful for a video that I have seen. Stunned. So when you

are stunned It means something has happened that you weren't

expecting and you didn't know what to say or what to do. You

were almost frozen. You were unable to act. You know if

someone let's see. If someone did something you weren't

expecting. Let's say you know if my mom used a swear word I

would be stunned. I I wouldn't know what to say or what to do.

So you know there's a swear word in English that starts

with F. We call it the F word or the F bomb. If my mom use

the F word. Um I'm not going to spell it but I think you know

what I mean. I would I would be stunned. I I I'd be like what

just happened? I I wouldn't know what to say and I wouldn't

know what to do because my mom never swears. In my whole life

I have never heard my mom use a swear word. So I would be

stunned. That's how I would react. If you are livid it

simply means you are really really angry. So sometimes like

if my boss had said you have to drive to work today even though

there's a snowstorm my colleagues would have been

livid because it's dangerous right now to drive. So when you

are livid it simply means you're very very angry. Um so

if you're very angry you you say mean things sometimes. So

if my boss said everyone come to work now I don't care that

it's snowing. Uh we would livid. I don't know if I would

be. If I had a four-wheel drive vehicle I would drive today I

think but I don't. Moved. Now I think I've talked about this in

a previous lesson. Um sometimes you react to a piece of art or

to something like an orchestra by feeling moved. Your reaction

as you sit in the audience and listen to the music is you feel

moved. It's deeply emotional. It makes you happy or it makes

you sad or it makes you experience all different

emotions. You are moved. So when you say that you feel

moved or you felt moved. It means you experienced a lot of

emotions when experiencing something very cultural like

music or art. Um and then you can also use it as moving

right? It was a moving experience. Grossed out. So

when I see something like this I'm grossed out. Grossed out is

an interesting English phrase that means to feel disgusted or

sickened a little bit or annoyed it's all of those

things together. Um when I open the milk up and smell it. If

the milk has gone bad I'm grossed out. Cos it it just

smells horrible. When I see a pile of garbage and it stinks

and it's just not nice I'm grossed out. So one of the way

you react when you see something like this is you you

just feel grossed out. You're like oh I was grossed out the

other day. I was carrying the garbage to the road and the bag

ripped open and stuff fell out on my good clothes and it

stink. I was grossed out. Fired up. When you are fired up when

you are playing a game or a sport you want to be fired up

when you start. Sometimes players get into a huddle and

in the huddle they try to get each other excited for the

game. They try to get fired up. One of the ways you react when

someone scores against you is you might be fired up. You

might have new energy and a desire to play really really

well. You get fired up. So what that is definitely something

that means to excited to have lots of energy and to try and

do well. Delighted. So when you are delighted you are simply

really really happy. So we have a picture here of a man and a

woman and the woman is expecting a baby. So they are

probably delighted. So when you're happy you're right here.

Sad is down here. Delighted is even higher. So if you're

delighted you just feel super happy. Super excited. We would

often use the word delighted to talk about when people are

expecting a baby. Um you know they're expecting a baby and

they're just delighted. They're super They can't wait. Baffled.

So baffled is simply another word for confused. Um if I was

at this stoplight I would be baffled. Because I wouldn't

know if I can go or if I need to stop. So my reaction would

be that I would feel baffled. I'd be like what's happening

here? The one light says green. Straight ahead green to the

right and the other light says red. So I would be baffled I

would be confused. It's an exact replacement for the word

confused. I was writing a test the other day and I was baffled

at question two. I was writing a test the other day and I was

confused about question two. I see the chat. Amen saying I'm

delighted to be here. Thanks Aman. Fuming. So fuming is the

same as livid and the same as angry or very angry. When you

are fuming you are really really mad. When I picture

someone fuming. When their reaction is to be extremely

angry I always picture smoke coming out of their ears. When

someone is fuming probably because of the French word fume

possibly but fuming to me would be someone who is extremely

angry. Um something has happened and their first

reaction is to become very very angry. Uh they are fuming.

After I eat a really good meal my reaction is usually to feel

very satisfied. When I eat a meal I am satisfied. Um I have

a feeling of fullness and I'm very happy. Uh and I am very

satisfied. So this will be happening to me a couple of

times. It will be happening to me in a couple days. It will

also be happening next week when I go to my sister's house.

I will feel satisfied. It should be should be a nice day

I think. Drained. So one of the ways people react to a really

long day is they feel drained at the end of the day. So this

person has their head down. I feel like their reaction to

studying all day. It looks like someone who's in school. Their

reaction is that they feel drained. They are exhausted.

They are fatigued. They are really really tired. I'm

laughing at Harry three 00 saying I am calling Bob. Cos

people could hear phone ringing. I guess everything's

happening during this lesson today that can distract me. My

reaction to the phone ringing was to ignore it by the way. So

I ignored the phone. Um I'm not feeling drained but I am

feeling a little bit what would I say distracted during this

lesson. So hopefully you can't tell. Elated. So this would be

similar to feeling delighted. When you are elated. Um it just

means you are feeling super super happy. We often use this

to describe how someone reacts to good news like getting a new

job. So if you have a friend who's looking for a job. They

might call you and say I got the job. I got my dream job.

I'm elated. So it simply means They are super happy. Um that

and they often when people get a job when they're looking for

a job they look like this guy. Just super super happy. Super

super excited. Now we have upsets when someone says

something mean to you or when someone does something mean you

often react by getting upset. That's how we describe it. You

can say I am upset or you could say Joe said something mean and

now I am upset or I got upset. Um but yes often in life people

say things that are just not very nice. Um or they do things

that aren't nice. And we would describe that reaction as being

upset. It's not nice when people are upset. Um I like it

when everyone's happy. So pressured. So this is another

feeling. This is something that you can feel and you react when

when someone tries to get you to do something. Teenagers

often react to friends by feeling pressured. When you

feel pressured maybe someone wants you to smoke cigarettes

and you don't want to smoke. Maybe someone wants you to do

something Maybe your friends are like let's go steal some

things from the local store. You might feel pressured. A lot

of other people want to do something and you don't want to

do it and they keep trying to get you to do it. So your

reaction to that might be that you feel pressured. Um

sometimes when I am on the internet I feel pressured to

buy things from certain YouTubers. They try to Convince

you to buy things and then I feel pressured. Um I try not to

make any of you feel pressured. I try to make you feel

welcomed. It's a different feeling. Embarrassed. So when

you are embarrassed it means you just feel like everyone's

looking at you or maybe something happened. So one

thing that can make you feel embarrassed is this. I walked

around one day at school and my zipper on my pants was down a

little bit. In English we would say your fly is down. And then

I realize it about an hour into the day. I hadn't taught any

classes yet but I was embarrassed because my zipper

wasn't done up. Um you might when you're a kid be forced to

wear clothing that you think looks funny and you might be

embarrassed to go to school. So when I was a kid my mom bought

me some T-shirts that I didn't like. And my reaction was that

I didn't want to wear them. Um I felt embarrassed to wear

them. They actually nice T-shirts now. Don't think it

was too big of a deal. Sometimes you react to

something by feeling cheated. Okay when you feel cheated it

means that you were expecting more. Or it doesn't necessarily

mean someone stole from you. Here's a good example though.

Um I feel like cereal boxes and cracker boxes and cookie boxes

are getting smaller but I'm paying the same amount of money

and when I open the box there's less in it. So I'm feeling

cheated. My reaction when I look in a box of crackers and

realize that the box is this big and I paid for this much

air and I paid for this many crackers or cookies. I feel

cheated. My reaction is I feel like they stole from me. They

didn't actually steal from me. But my feeling is that I have

been cheated. Not a nice feeling. Affirmed. When you are

feeling affirmed when your reaction is that you feel

affirmed. It means that someone has told you you did a good job

or someone has made you feel good about yourself at work if

the boss says good job Bob I feel affirmed. I feel like I

did something good and I feel like someone has recognized me

for doing something good. I like it when I feel affirmed.

It's a very very nice feeling. Pessimistic. When you are

pessimistic it means you are reacting in a negative way. Um

if someone says here's a cup of water and you might see it as

half full if you are optimistic. But you might see

it as half empty if you are pessimistic. When you react in

a pessimistic way it means you see the negative side of

things. You are being very very negative about something. When

you react in an optimistic way it means you are being very

positive about something. So another good example would be

this. Someone might say oh it's too bad there's a snow storm

now we can't have our Christmas party that's I'm just annoyed

by that or someone could say oh what a beautiful snow storm I

love snow I can't wait to go outside and play in it so you

have a negative or pessimistic reaction or a positive or

optimistic reaction you might feel dismayed dismay is a

reaction that I would use to describe sadness at receiving

bad news. Sometimes you just feel dismayed. You might be

trying to get your driver's license and you keep failing

the test. You would feel dismayed. Your reaction would

be to feel dismayed. You would just be sad because you haven't

passed the test. Maybe your plan is to study English every

day. And you just keep yeah you just keep forgetting to do it.

And all of the sudden a month has gone by and you haven't

studied English at all. You might feel dismayed. You might

feel very very sad. Abandoned. So this happens to me sometimes

at work. I'm working with a team of teachers on something

and then one by one they all go to do something else and

eventually I react by feeling abandoned. It's not nice to

feel abandoned. This means that you are all on your own. You

are alone and you can't do what you want to do. So sometimes

you just feel abandoned when everyone finds something else

to do. Sometimes when I talk to my mom she'll say that I

haven't visited her enough and I react to that by feeling

guilty. When you feel guilty you feel a little bit sad about

something or you feel like you didn't do what someone wanted

you to do. Um I don't often feel guilty. But sometimes when

I don't do things I should be doing I feel guilty. I feel bad

about the fact that I haven't done something. This dog looks

guilty. I'm going to guess that this dog ate something it

wasn't supposed to eat. Or maybe chewed up the couch or

some other piece of furniture and now the dog looks very very

guilty. So it is reacting by feeling guilty and looking

guilty. Self conscious. So sometimes you get a haircut and

you feel like everyone's looking at you. So your

reaction to getting a haircut isn't to be happy. Your

reaction is to feel self-conscious. You are worried

that maybe the haircut doesn't look good. You're worried that

everyone thinks your haircut looks funny. So in that

situation we would say you are feeling self conscious. Um it's

not a very nice feeling. Um I think because I'm a teacher I

don't feel this very often. I'm often in front of people. So I

don't think about it as much but sometimes when people have

to speak in public. They feel self-conscious. They are

stressed and worried because they think everyone is looking

at them. Relieved. So last week Jen was sick. So she took a

COVID test. Um and she was relieved. Her reaction was to

be relieved when she found out the test was negative. I think

many of you have taken these tests when the results are

negative. You react by feeling relieved. You are very very

happy. You you feel less stressed. When you're relieved

it means you feel less stressed. Um but certainly

feeling relieved is a nice feeling to have after something

goes your way. And then of course sometimes people react

to something by feeling thankful. Um or being thankful.

You could say oh I was thankful yesterday because I was able to

get all my Christmas shopping done. I was thankful because my

mom sent me a Christmas card and it was really nice. Um and

you might be thankful that you're able to watch this

lesson right now. So I will thank you for watching. I'm

going to react to you watching this by being thankful and you

can react by thanking me as well. So