English Vocabulary: Lag

Hi, everybody. I'm Esther. 

And in this video, I want to talk  with you about the word ‘lag’. 

Now ‘lag’ means to do something very slowly, or to be very slow, okay. 

So the word ‘lag’ is up here on the board. Now, the pronunciation - it's hard I know 

but you have to try and practice ‘lag’ 

‘lag’ Okay. 

So let's look at these examples. “She's lagging .” 

“She's lagging.” This means she's  

taking a long time to do something. She's doing something very slowly. 

“She's lagging.” The next one is, 

“Stop lagging.” “Stop lagging.” 

You're telling somebody hurry up. 

Stop being slow. Okay. 

The next one is a very common problem. “My computer is lagging.” 

“My computer is lagging.” That means my computer is slow. 

It's slow. I'm trying to do something but it's lagging. 

It's slow. And the last one is, 

“I have jet lag.” “I have jet lag.” 

You might hear this a lot especially  from people who are travelling. 

So if you travel around the world, maybe  too a far away country that you're going  

to be changing time zones, so the time will be different, 

and you'll feel very tired, your body will feel slow and tired, 

and your body is taking a long time  to adjust to the new time zone, 

your body is slow to adjust, so you have to say, 

“I have jet lag.” Okay. 

Let's look at some more examples together. Okay. 

Let's look at a few examples. First one. 

“She's always late because she lags.” “She's always late because she lags.” 

The next one. “I wish you wouldn't lag so much.” 

“I wish you wouldn't lag so much.” Next. 

“I can't open the program  because my computer is lagging.” 

“I can't open the program  because my computer is lagging.” 

The last one. “My jet lag is terrible. I keep falling asleep.” 

“My jet lag is terrible. I keep falling asleep.” Okay. 

So in this video we learned  that we use the word ‘lag’  

to describe an action that is very very slow. Now, my best friend is someone who lags a lot  

whenever we want to do something especially at  night. She takes almost two hours to get ready. 

She has to wash her hair or take  a shower then put on her makeup, 

you know decide what to wear. And that can take a very long time. 

So I always have to say to her “Stop  lagging! Hurry up! We're late! Stop lagging!” 

Okay. So next time, if you have a friend  

or somebody that's taking a very long time, you can use the word ‘lag’ to say ‘stop  

lagging’ ‘hurry up’ okay. Well that's the end. 

Thank you. Bye.