How to Talk About Emotions in English | Feeling Words and Emotions Vocabulary Words

Hi there, this is Harry and welcome to the  advanced English lesson classes with Harry. So  

what are we going to talk about today?  Well, the lesson is going to cover  

vocabulary and it's going to look at  vocabulary related to emotions. So advanced  

English lesson vocabulary dealing with  emotions. At the end, I'm going to give  

you my address if you need to contact me,  or if you need to get some more examples.

Okay, so, advanced English lessons looking at  

emotions, okay. So it's going to be a list of  14, so quite a lot. I'll give them to give you  

an example, when you can use these and as  always, we're trying to help you to prove  

your English or business English your  communication, English or conversational  

English with phrasal verbs, expressions and  vocabulary as we're going to look at now.

Okay, so here's the list. Adoration, amazement,  

anger, disgust. Ecstasy, it's very difficult  to pronounce ecstasy, fear, hate. Homesickness,  

joy, loneliness, outrage, sadness, surprise and  finally love. Or as they say love. Okay, so here's  

the 14 emotions, okay, I'm going to go through  them one by one and give you some examples.

And just before we get onto those, if you really  enjoy this lesson and make sure you like the video  

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So, adoration. So what is  this? When we adore somebody,  

we treat them with adoration. We got lots  and lots of respect for the person. In fact,  

we love them so much. We treat them  with adoration and that's the emotion.

Okay, so the celebrations that are taking place  in the UK to mark the jubilee celebrations for  

the Queen who has been on the throne of  England for 70 years. She has been greeted with  

adoration from all the public, they  absolutely love her. They want to  

congratulate her they want to be part of  the excitement. They want to be part of the  

festivities. So that's a real  good example of adoration.

Or the football team when they won the  Champions League. They come back into the city,  

they parade around the city on the  top of an open bus showing off the  

trophy that they've won waving to the  fans throwing scarves and jerseys.  

And they've got total total adoration from  the spectators from the fans adoration.

Amazement. Well, we... this is a particular type  of emotion when we are really really surprised. So  

we can be surprised oh, yeah, got surprised by the  party, but amazement by the reaction of somebody.

So you look on and amazement, when your son or  daughter takes the first steps. It's a really  

interesting time. You've been expecting it  for a while because they've been trying and  

trying and then suddenly, when they get  up and they make those first few steps.  

You go, Oh my god. Oh my God, look, look,  look so complete amazement on your face and  

that of your partner. So as proud parents  you look on in amazement, as your son or  

daughter staggers across the room and then  bup falls down on the bottom. Okay, amazement.

Anger. Well, this is a real sad type of emotion to  have. We are angry when something happens that we  

didn't expect or didn't want to happen. Okay, we  show and express anger by getting really annoyed,  

screaming or shouting or getting very red in the  face because you really are ready to explode.

So you hear something on the radio, you see  something on the internet that really gets your  

blood boiling, so you're full of anger. So this  emotion, you're ready to burst ready to explode  

and you really want to go out in the forest and  scream or kick a tree, whatever it happens to be.

So you're trying to get rid of that anger that  feeling like the volcano ready to erupt. Okay.

Disgust. Well, Disgust is something we... emotion  we use when we really don't like something, okay.

So it could be disgust when we smell something.

It can be disgust when we taste  something we really don't like.  

It can be disgust when we hear something  that really goes against our views on life.

So you go to a foreign country, you  want to try the local delicacies,  

but when you put the food in your mouth? Or  my God, what was that? And then you can't  

wait to spit it out because it just really  really tastes very bad. Okay, so disgust.

You can be... have that emotion of disgust when  you smell something very strong. There's...  

perhaps you're in the countryside and you're near  a farm and you get that smell of manure that comes  

across the fields. And it's not really something  so pleasant for you because you're not used to it.  

So it's a real, or my God, that's a disgusting  smell. So that's the emotion of disgust.

Or you can have that emotion of disgust when  you read some atrocity that's taken place  

somewhere far away, and you wonder how people  can be so cruel to each other. And just,  

you really read it with that sense of disgust.

Ecstasy. So we have to be very  careful how we pronounce this  

ecs-, ecs-, ecstasy, okay? Ecstasy  is that emotion or that feeling that  

wells up inside us when we're really  really happy. Very, very emotional.

So we can be jumping up and down, you know, waving  our hands in the air, a big smile on our face.

We open the envelope, and we realise that yeah,  

we got those points that we needed, we got the  place in the university. So you've got that  

feeling that emotional sense of  ecstasy, but nothing can be better or.

Or you open the envelope, and  they've offered you the job,  

the job of your dreams, the job  you'd really hoped for. So ecstasy.

Or perhaps you open the envelope, and a  cheque falls out, which is the winning and  

the lotto something you really didn't  expect, that would certainly send me  

into ecstasy, and that would be the  emotion that I would be feeling. So  

ecs- ecstasy, ecs- ecstasy, that feeling that  good, happy feeling that we would all like to get  

occasionally, just once in  a while once in a lifetime.

Fear. Well, that emotion when you're walking  down the street, and you see the dog coming  

towards you, and it's a big dog, or you're not  so sure whether he's friendly, he doesn't look  

so friendly. He's eyeing you. You're eyeing him,  you're trying to walk around and without that  

smell of fear, but dogs have a great sense they  know when something's not so right. So he starts  

growling or barking and you stop dead in your  tracks and you're frozen to the spot with fear  

until the owner comes out called the dog and  he disappeared. So that feeling of fear cold  

sweat breaks out over your forehead or down your  back. Okay, so that feeling the emotion of fear.

Hate it's a very strong emotion hate your will  either love or hate something. Yeah. Oh, that's  

TV programme on Netflix. Yeah,  you're either going to love it,  

or you're going to hate it. And when you hate  it, you have I just can't stand that. I don't  

want to watch it. No, no, no, I'm  not going to watch it. I hate it.

Or for some particular reason we take  a view that we don't like a particular  

actor or actress or sports player, for some  reason. Maybe we're a little bit jealous.  

Maybe it's something they say maybe they're  a little bit arrogant. And we come up with  

very strong emotions. I hate him. I really  don't like watching it when he's playing. No,  

I just hate it. Or perhaps it's a  particular sport. We don't like.

Oh, I hate darts. It can't be considered a  sport at all. I mean, guys who just drink  

beer throwing darts into a board? How can  that be a sport? So no, no, I really hate it.

In my case, I hate computer games. I  really really don't like it. I never play  

them. I have never played them. And I don't  really see how people enjoy it. So for me,  

it gets that emotional reaction of hate.

Homesickness. Well, homesickness is something  that we've all felt from time to time,  

when we've been away from home  for a considerable period.

It could be that we are living in  university in a city away from our  

home. Yeah, so for the first few weeks or  months, we feel an element of homesickness.  

Yes. So homesickness is that feeling where  you miss your friends, you miss your family,  

you missed the closeness, you missed the  touch, you missed the chat, whatever it is. So  

this creates and generates this  emotional reaction of homesickness.

Usually when people as I said, go away  to university or if you're sent away on  

a training programme for several months, or  many a time when somebody joins the military,  

and they go off on manoeuvres, for the navy or  wherever then there's a feeling of homesickness.

I am really going to enjoy this two years stint in  Australia but I'm sure I'm sure I'm going to feel  

homesick from time to time. So a  feeling that emotion, homesickness.

Joy, the emotion of joy. Well, the  

opposite of sad. So the feeling of  joy when something good happens.

The birth of your children is a  feeling emotional reaction of joy.

When summer finally arrives, or you're going  to go on your holidays, and the sun is shining,  

you get an emotional reaction  of joy. So when something  

has happened, something that you  didn't expect to be successful.

Even looking into your vegetable patch and  seeing your first strawberries or your first  

tomatoes that might give you a feeling of joy and  emotional reaction. So it's all about happiness.

Loneliness, well, that's another  

emotional reaction. And loneliness a bit like  homesickness is when you're on your own. And  

you can feel lonely without actually being alone.  But loneliness is when you feel lost or abandoned.

Your partner may have died, the  children may have left home,  

you're in a foreign land, you're  looking at the four walls every day,  

you're on your own, a lot of the time, this  is when these emotional reactions occur,  

the feeling of loneliness, you're not lonely  as such, you can go out and he can meet some  

old friends or you can meet somebody in the  park. But there's a deep loneliness because  

the people you really love the people that you  really would want beside you are not there.

So that feeling of loneliness, the  feeling of being lost in a big place,  

we can be very, very lonely and feel and have  that emotional feeling of loneliness in a big  

city. It could be a city of four or  5 million people. But you can feel  

as lonely there as you would be  in an open field. Loneliness.

Outrage. Well, outrage is about  being annoyed about something.  

The generally it's about a group of  people are outraged at perhaps the  

actions of their government. Their outrage  that the government have done nothing about  

rising inflation. Every other country seems to be  taking some action, they are reducing the cost of  

VAT (value added tax) on fuel so that it's not so  costly. They are reducing the cost of cooking oil  

or they are fixing prices in the shop, whatever  they're doing, they're taking some action.

But your government seems to be a little bit  slow. And maybe they have some budget problems  

so that people are outraged so this is the  anger building up inside their outrage. So the  

letters to the newspapers, the articles and blogs  on the internet. The message getting through to  

the government ministers is that the population  the general populace are outraged that the  

government has so far taken no action so there  are going to be demonstrations on the streets,  

people are going to be marching holding placards,  your government out, costs down inflation up all  

these sorts of messages to show their outrage,  to demonstrate this particular emotion.

Sadness. Well, sadness is another  

feeling a bit like loneliness. We're sad  because something has or hasn't happened.

Sadness can creep up on us because of  changes in our life and circumstances.  

The death of a pet will leave us with  that emotional feeling of sadness.

The loss of a job. The loss of a friendship,  

something has been lost something has  gone something has changed and we cannot  

get it back so there's a feeling  and a general feeling of sadness.

We can just read on the world events and that can  make us feel sad that we are a little bit blue.

Yeah so we we have a blue feeling because  the news generally is not so good. It's not  

great and we are left with this emotional feeling  of sadness. We.... we are sitting there not  

quite sure how we will react but our face or  body language suggests as a sign of sadness.

A little bit down in the  dumps, not feeling so good.

Surprise. Well, a bit like amasement,  

not as high or feeling as amasement  but surprise can come to all of us.

We can get a surprise because we get that  

phone call from a kids that they're going to  pop round. You haven't seen them for a while.

You get a surprise on your birthday when the  postman delivers a card that you hadn't expected  

to get. You get that email that WhatsApp message  wishing you a happy birthday. These are all  

times when you'll get that feeling of surprise,  something unexpected. Something that makes you  

feel happy, something that can give you  that feeling of joy. So surprise. Oh,  

really well, great. Or you're coming over  tonight. Great. I look forward to seeing you so  

surprising your voice surprised when you open  the door and see the postman standing there with  

a package that you hadn't expected and you can't  wait to open it to see what the gift is surprise.

And then finally love. Now, there is  a difference between like and love.  

Like is something that we feel comfortable with.

We like a friend. We like a particular  food. We like to spend time on our own.

Love is much deeper. To deep...  much deeper emotional feeling.

We love our best friend. We love our  partner. We love our family. We hope  

we love our pets. We love our  favourite food and we can't wait  

to get to the restaurant to order that  special pizza he had the last time.

Oh, I really love it. So it's a real deep  feeling make you feel really happy and  

really, really satisfied. Okay, so love  as they say it makes the world go round.

Okay, so let's go through those again.

So 14 and they are all about  emotions. Adoration, amazement,  

anger, disgust. Ecstasy, be careful with  the pronunciation ecstasy. Fear, hate,  

homesickness, joy, loneliness, outrage,  sadness, surprise. And finally, love.

Okay, so 14 particular words  vocabulary, dealing with emotion. So  

that's the advanced English lesson for  today. Thanks very much for joining me  

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