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Hi there. This is Harry, and welcome back  to Advanced English Lessons with Harry,  

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Okay. So in this particular advanced English  lesson, we're looking at other ways to say  

"I am tired." We've got ten in total, and I'll  give you an example of them. Some are similar,  

but I'll give you a situation  in which you could use them.

Now when we say "I'm tired," there are many ways  and many adverbs we could add that will just tell  

us how tired we are. So simply, I am tired. I  can say "I am very tired," "I am really tired,"

"I am pretty tired," "I am mentally tired," well,  then, "physically tired." Okay, so these are just  

adverbs. So you're still using "tired," but a  different way to stress how tired you actually  

are. But in relation to alternative words for  tired, that's what we're going to look at now.

Okay. So I've got ten of them in total. I'll  give them to you one after the other as I sit  

down and go back and give you some examples and  situations when you might be able to use them.

Some of them. We just have to focus on  the pronunciation as we go through them.  

I'll give you the pronunciation properly so  you can practice that as well. And you know  

the drill by now. I'll go through them.  I'll give you the examples later on. You  

should practice them just to see which of them  you can use in your particular conversations.

Okay, so I'm worn out. Well, worn out is  when we've been working long, long hours,  

long, long days, long, long weeks. I'm  really looking forward to my holiday  

next week because I'm completely worn out.  And worn out can be like a pair of shoes,  

literally, that have a hole in them or the  sleeve of your jacket which has a worn part  

on the elbow. But here we are talking about  the feeling we have when we've been working  

very hard. I'm worn out. Can I just... I can  do no more. I'm going to bed. I'm worn out.

I'm exhausted now. Here. Just be careful with the  pronunciation. Exhausted? I'm exhausted. Yeah,  

exhausted. So I'm exhausted. It's  the next level up from being tired.  

It means you're really, really tired. So  perhaps you were running or training or  

jogging or doing some physical exercise.  And when you get back home, you sit on  

the sofa. Wow. I'm exhausted at that run out  or that workout really took a lot out of me.

I'm exhausted. I think I'll go to bed early.

Drained a little bit more informal.  Drained is when there's nothing left.  

If you have a kettle or a bottle and  you drain it, you make sure you empty  

it of all the liquid that was inside of  it. Or if you want to drain a garden, we

Put some holes in it. So whatever liquid  water, rain, whatever is on the surface  

will drain through the soil. So when  you're drained, you've got no energy  

left. I'm drained. This hot weather has me  really, really exhausted. I'm completely  

drained. All my energy is gone. I think I need  a couple of really long, long drinks of water.

Okay. So drained.

Inform on again the next one. I'm beat. So  beat could mean defeated. Yeah. So you know,  

when you have somebody beat you in a game  of tennis or beat you at a game of chess,  

whatever it might be, you're not  beat, you're defeated. But when we  

say "I'm beat" in the sense of tired,  it just means, oh, I can do no more.

You win. Yeah. So, you know, the  hot, hot days that people have  

encountered over the recent summer weeks  would indicate that, you know, they really  

can do nothing when the temperatures are 35  to 40 degrees. So people in those situations  

and in those conditions would be completely  beat, you know, like an hour walking in the  

hot sun, working in an office that has no air  conditioning, then you certainly will feel beat.

I am pooped. Very, very informal. Pooped means  tired. Yeah. It's just an informal way to say  

I'm tired. I'm pooped, I'm pooped. So maybe you've  been decorating the house painting. Or maybe  

you've been shifting furniture. Perhaps you've  been up and down the stairs hoovering and cleaning  

and spring cleaning the house generally. So you  sit down to... I'm going to have a cup of tea.

I'm pooped. So you take a rest,  a break until you finish the tea,  

and then you get back to  finish the work. So I'm pooped.

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I'm shattered. Shattered doesn't mean you're in  pieces. Like if you drop a mirror or something  

like that on the piece of chain on the floor, it  will shatter into tiny little pieces. But we use  

shattered when we really can't do anymore. Okay,  look, I'm going home. We've been working long

days on this particular project. I don't  know about you guys, but I'm shattered.

I think it's time for a long,  hot soak in the bath. Yeah,  

a nice glass of red wine and then bed. Yeah.  I'm completely and totally, utterly shattered.

You can shatter someone's dreams. You mean  you break them into thousands of pieces?  

But here we're using the word in connection  with shattered as exhaustion or tiredness.

I'm weary. Weary is,

Somewhere.

Between

Worn out and exhausted and weary and weary of  all this work, and weary of driving in and out

To work every morning. The traffic is so heavy.  I'm either going to have to move job or move  

home. I can't keep this up. I'm just weary.  So yeah. Tired. You get up in the morning,  

you're tired. Before you even get  into the car. You get to the office,  

you're tired, so you're weary. You're worn out.

Burnt out is that sense when really  physically and mentally we can do no more.  

Oh, I think he's heading for a burnout. Yeah,  he'll be burnt out in no time. If he doesn't  

take care. He can't work all of those hours every  day and the weekends, month in, month out without  

taking a break. Somebody should have a word  with him and tell him he will be burnt out.

The burnt out is literally when you have zero  energy left and you almost virtually collapse.  

So you could have a physical or a mental  breakdown as a result of being burnt out.  

And it is a condition that a lot of people  suffer from who fear they have to work and  

work and work because the boss works hard,  or if they want to get that promotion,  

they've got to work, work, work,  or they want that extra money.

Work, work, work, and eventually  they get burnt out and they end  

up just packing in the job and going off and,

Raising hens or something silly  like that. Okay, so burnt out.

then we've got knackered. Now again, here with  pronunciation. Here we've got the k and the k  

is silent, so it's spelt k n. But the stress and  

the emphasis in the sound is  on that n not not knackered.

Yeah. Not knackered like ni knackered and  knackered is a very, very informal way to  

say completely exhausted. So you could have been  playing a game of football with your mates. You  

could have had a game of squash or tennis,  something that has you running backwards and  

forwards, and then you say, oh look, let's, let's  call it today, let's have a shower and go home.

I'm completely knackered. It was a great  game, but really I can give it no more.  

Knackered, exhausted, completely  exhausted. And the K is a silent K

And then finally whacked. Okay, whacked. Is there  an informal way to say I'm tired? I'm. You've  

beaten me. I'm whacked. So you've got no energy  left. You've got no way in which you can recharge  

your battery. So knackered. Whacked. It means  that just. There's there is nothing left. Okay,

so there are the different expressions,  alternative ways in which you can say, I am tired.

And as I said at the beginning, we can always add  some adverbs. I am very tired and really tired.

And with some of these expressions, we can add  other adverbs. Yeah. I'm completely worn out.

I'm totally exhausted. Completely drained. I'm  

dead. Beats is a way in which  we can describe that deadbeat.

Absolutely pooped.

Completely and totally shattered.

Completely weary.

Totally burnt out. Absolutely knackered.  Completely whacked. Okay, so using different

adverbs, you can put them before  the particular alternative to tired.

And it just stresses and emphasises how tired,  

how worn out, how knackered,  how whacked you are. Okay.

So what I want you to do is to try and practice  them, understand when we use them and see. Can  

you introduce them from time to time when you're  talking to your friends, but how you feel about  

your work or your fitness, whatever it is you  want to express some way in which you're tired?

Okay, as always, I really, really appreciate you  

watching and listening. Hope you can  practice those and join me again soon.