5 Ways to Wish Someone Well in English! An English Lesson!

Hi, Bob the Canadian here.

Welcome to this English lesson.

We all know someone who has a test coming up,

and there are different kinds of tests in life.

In this English lesson, I will teach you

four English phrases that you can use

to say something to someone

who maybe has a test coming up like an English test,

or maybe they have a test coming up

like a test at a hospital.

So, stick around and I'll teach you

four English phrases so you know

what to say in those situations.

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Well, hey, welcome to this video

where I'm going to teach you four English phrases

that you can use to be able to say something

nice to someone before they go

and write a test like an English test,

or maybe go to a hospital for tests

because maybe there is something wrong with their body.

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The first English phrase that I want to teach you

is "I wish you all the best"

or, there's a shorter form, "all the best."

We would use this phrase for someone

if they were going in for a medical test.

By the way, I just had a medical test

done yesterday on my heart.

I had an angiogram,

and it looks like everything is looking good,

so that's nice.

But, if you had known that earlier in the week,

you might say to me,

"Hey Bob, I wish you all the best

on your test on Monday"

or you might say,

"Hey, Bob, all the best on your test on Monday."

And that would just be a really nice way

to encourage me and make me realize that people

are going to be thinking about me

while I go through that test.

So, you could say, "I wish you all the best"

or, the shorter version of it, "all the best."

The second phrase that I wanna teach you

in this English lesson is the phrase,

"I hope things go well."

You could also say "I hope everything goes well."

This would be a great phrase to say to someone

who you know is going to do their driver's test.

Maybe you have a friend or family member

that wants to get their driver's license,

and you know that the next day,

they sre going for their driver's test.

A great thing to say to them would be,

"I hope things go well during your test tomorrow"

or you could you say, "I hope everything goes well

during your driver's test tomorrow."

That would just be a really nice thing to say to someone

because what it does, is it communicates to them

once again, that you are thinking about them,

that you care about them, and that your genuine hope

is that they do well on the test

that they are going to do the next day.

So, for me, I hope for you that things

go well everyday while you're studying English.

So, that was the second phrase that you can use in English.

You can say to someone, "I hope things go well" or,

"I hope everything goes well."

The third phrase that I want to teach you today is,

"good luck" or "best of luck."

You might have heard the first phrase before.

We say "good luck" to people a lot in English

and a more formal version of it would be to say

"best of luck."

This would be a great thing to say to someone

if you are in school and you have a little quiz

or a little test that day in whatever subject

you are studying.

You might say to your friend,

"good luck on your test today"

or you might say, "best of luck on your test today."

Basically, you are wishing them luck.

Hopefully they've studied a lot.

Hopefully luck or chance doesn't factor in

as much as you would think it would.

Hopefully, they are really prepared for the test or quiz

but you still might say to them

"hey, good luck on your test today."

Or, "best of luck on your test today."

Again, just wishing them well and letting them know

that you're hoping that they do well

on the test that they're going to do.

So, I hope that you guys have good luck

when you're studying English and I wish you best of luck

as you continue to study English this year.

The fourth phrase is a phrase that you would use

if you are a religious person.

So, let's say you are going into the hospital for a surgery.

That's something really really serious,

you certainly wouldn't want to say,

"good luck with your surgery."

That's a little too light hearted,

but religious people sometimes will say,

"I will be praying for you."

So, basically they are a religious person

and they engage in the act of prayer,

many religious people pray.

And they are saying to you,

you are going in for something serious,

what I will do to support you is I will pray for you.

So, that's the fourth phrase.

Even in Canada, people who are not religious

will sometimes say this phrase,

especially if someone is having something serious

done the next day or later that week.

They might say, "our prayers will be with you"

or, "I will be praying for you."

So, that's the fourth way to encourage someone

or to say something nice to them before they have a test

or before they have something major, like a surgery.

"I will be praying for you."

Another phrase very similar to "I'll be praying for you"

is something that's used by non religious people

and that's the phrase,

"I'll be thinking of you."

So, they'll directly tell you that when you are going

through with whatever serious thing is happening

they will be thinking about you during that time.

So, they'll kind of in their minds be thinking of you

at the same time you are doing that stressful thing or

experiencing that stressful thing.

And that is another way that they will show their support.

So, they might say, "I'll be praying for you"

or, they might say "I'll be thinking of you."

The fifth thing you could say to someone

as they head into a test or some other

stressful situation is you could say,

"Oh, I'm sure things will go fine."

This is probably the lightest most light hearted way

of letting someone know that you

are thinking about them when they go through something

that might be a little bit challenging.

Whenever my son has a test at school

and if he is really stressed about it,

often times Jen and I will say the night before,

"just study hard, I'm sure things will go fine,

I'm sure things will go really really well for you

tomorrow when you write that test."

So, it doesn't necessarily make the person

more relaxed but it does let them know

that someone else is thinking about them

as they study for and as they go through something

that is difficult like a test.

So, I'm sure things will be fine for all of you

as you go through this week as well.

Well, hey, that was five things

that you can say to someone before they have

something like a test at school

or before they have maybe a test at a hospital,

a serious medical test.

I think that these are very helpful phrases.

They are very common English phrases.

So, generally when I teach an English lesson to you,

I look for the things that I would say as a

native English speaker and these are all sentences

and phrases that I have said and do regularly say

when I am speaking English.

Anyways, Bob the Canadian here,

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