Hi there, this is Harry and welcome back to advanced English lessons with Harry. Just a
quick apology, you might hear a little sound in the background as a car alarm or a house alarm
going off outside, so it might cause a little bit of disturbance, but hopefully not too much. So as
I said, this is the advanced English lessons with Harry, where we try to help you get a
better understanding of the English language to improve your grammar, your conversational English,
all the aspects of English that you really need to make those strides forward. So what are we
going to talk about today? Well, in today's advanced English lessons, we're looking at
other ways to say sad. Yeah, other ways to say sad, I'm going to start off with a little joke,
okay, so this might brighten you up, you're feeling a little sad. A man walks into a bar,
and he sees his friends sitting in the corner, sitting over his pint of beer and looking really,
really sad. And he goes up to him, and he says, What's wrong with you? You look so sad today. And
his friend says, Oh, I've just found out that my wife has run away with my best friend. I really
miss him. Okay, so let's talk about real sadness. So I've got 11, this time, 11 ways in which you
can say sad in a different way. So go down through the list. And I'll give you an example of each of
them down well, when you're feeling down, it's just a general feeling that we have. Often,
we can't put our finger on exactly what the problem is. But we just wake up and it's one
of those days, the rain is lashing against the window. Nothing particular but you just feel a
little down. So your friend might say what's up with you? Ah, I'm not feeling so good today. I'm
not sure what it is. I just feel a little down and feel a little sad. To feel blue. When we use the
word blue. A lot of times when we're talking about sadness, blue Mondays, usually when we come after
weekend or after a holiday. So when we feel blue, we feel sad. There's lots of songs using the word
feeling blue to feel sad. When you're feeling blue. All you have to do is something something
something. So there's the different songs that use that expression. So if you're feeling blue,
you're not happy in any way. You're feeling sad. oh, I'm feeling blue. She'd been feeling blue for
the whole weekend. I don't know what's up. I think I'll take her out for a nice meal on Friday and
just see can we get to the bottom of this feeling blue miserable, where when somebody's miserable,
they really don't feel so happy. You can be miserable because you've got a cold, or I've
had this flu for two weeks now I can't get rid of it coughing sneezing, snotty nose headaches. It's
really I really feel miserable and I don't know what to do. I think I'll just go home and stay in
bed for two days so miserable to feel miserable. You can look miserable as well when you've
got a real sad face. What are you looking so miserable for? You've got everything has gone for
you that you shouldn't need to look so miserable, so miserable and sad, sad and miserable.
Distraught, a little bit more formal, distraught. And as I said, at the end in the introduction,
just be careful with the pronunciation. See how I've spelt it here on the screen and the
pronunciation distraught. Distraught, okay, and when you're distraught, you're really sad it could
be because of a particular event. Perhaps the cat has run away and you can't find it anywhere
you've put up notices on trees notices and sharps. You've gone to the local animal rescue centre but
no sign of the cat and it just hasn't been seen for three or four days. So you and the children
are distraught meaning very very sad at the loss of the cat and you hope that it will return. So to
be distraught about or over something. Distraught about the lost cat, distraught over the death of
your favourite dog or your long lost friend. Okay? Gutted gutted now is a little bit more
informal. When somebody is gutted, they're really disappointed but something they didn't get a job
so they got it they really had their heart set on getting that job they want to get out of this
company they want to move on get more money, and they really thought they had done a good
presentation. They'd gone through the interview well, but they got a no, sorry. You did well,
but we have found somebody a little bit better. So they are gutted. What's wrong with Tommy? He's
got the last the Cup final for school. It was his first year or to play in the school team.
They've done really well to get to the final, but they lost in the last few minutes. And yeah,
I can't console them. Yeah, he's gutted. So to be gutted, meaning really upset, really
sad. Devastated, again that a bit more formal. Devastated when something happens. Devastated
at the news. Devastated to hear what had happened. The whole country was devastated to hear the news
that there were a boatload of refugees found floating in the sea, but they unfortunately
had died. So the country was devastated. So everybody was feeling a little sad. Or indeed,
the country could be feeling devastated when the team gets knocked out of the World Cup for the
country when they lost their competition with a game are absolutely devastated. What happens
by how come we got bitten by such a team so devastated really sad, really unhappy about some
bad news. Desolate. Now I use desolate in quite a few ways. And usually desolate is about somewhere
really lonely, and very unhappy place. Okay, a desolate island where there's nobody living
on it. Or a desolated village and everybody has moved out. So it can often be used in relation to
places and things but when we talk about people, he was desolated by the loss of his long friend,
he had a friendship going back 30-40 years and that friend died suddenly and he's desolated by
the death of his friend. So we use it in the way to describe how they feel deep down. So desolated
by. Inconsolable. Well, if we go back to the story about young Tommy who lost the football match,
he was inconsolable no matter what you said to him. He was all know when must the match and what
am I going to do and everybody's going to be upset at school and so he was inconsolable meaning he
was crying or when Jean and nothing you said you brought him his favourite dinner you brought him
his favourite soft drink is whatever it was now. He was inconsolable. So the best thing to do is to
leave him and he get over it eventually. So when somebody is inconsolable, it means whatever you
say or whatever you try to do, you cannot relieve a take away that pain or that suffering they are
inconsolable. So they are crying or whimpering and just nothing can help inconsolable. A broken man
or woman. Well, when somebody is broken, there's not literally it means figuratively. So they're
broken by what has happened, perhaps their broken man or woman because their relationship of many,
many years is over. Something happened, everybody thought they were the really happy couple,
you know, they've moved house once or twice moved to different cities, they have kids,
but just something happened and the relationship has ended. So he is a broken man, he thought this
was his life partner or she is a broken woman, because perhaps she also thought that this was
the partnership for the rest of her life. So a broken man or a broken woman based usually around
relationship issues. At the end of your tether. Well, when you're at the end of your tether,
it means that you just cannot take anymore, I've had enough of this place. I fed up arguing with
the people all the time and fed up with the amount of pressure that the boss continues to put on us.
You know, what do we do, I'm just at the end of my tether. I think I'm just going to hand in my
resignation, and go okay, so to be at the end of your tether means to be at the end of your rope,
you've had enough you cannot take any more. Okay, and if you like this particular lesson,
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helps. And then finally, as sick as a parrot. Now this is really, really informal. It's one of those
expressions British English people use to talk about something when they're really sad. Perhaps
the football team lost the Cup final, perhaps this football team got relegated. Oh, he's as
sick as a parrot. Yeah, I mean, he really really isn't happy. So it's quite funny. And it doesn't
really mean anything much except that somebody is really sad or unhappy because of some event. So
he didn't get the job. He didn't get the promotion his team last year, he's a sick as a parrot. Yes,
it was one of those expressions that are normally attributed to and associated with games
of football, particularly British English. You know, you wouldn't hear it in American English.
Okay, so there are the 11 particular expressions or alternative words that we can use to say sad
let me go through them one more time with you Down feeling down, blue feeling blue, miserable,
distraught, just practice that pronunciation distraught. Got it. It's real informal, gutted,
devastated, desolate. And again the pronunciation desolate, inconsolable, inconsolable, a broken man
or woman. At the end of your tether, sometimes they say at the end of your rope at the end of
your tether. And then finally the funny one as sick as a parrot. So these are advanced English
words that you can use instead of saying 'sad.' So try to practice them as always, and you know
the drill by now try to practice them yourself. Try to get to know how to use them, you won't
remember them all but try to introduce them bit by bit into your written English or your spoken
English and if you need any further help you just drop me a line www.englishlessonviaskype.com.
I'd be very happy to explain it to you in a little bit more detail. We always appreciate
you watching listening. So as always, this is Harry saying goodbye and join me again soon.