hello and welcome to number 18 of 25
bite-sized lessons which I'm making
especially for you because it's
Christmas
my name is Anna and today's lesson is
all about the word the glass now glass is
a transparent material and we look
through it so you'll see glass in the
windows but glass is also used for many
other things so the glass is used to
make a container which we handily call a
glass cheers bubbley we also
referred to spectacles as glasses so
wearing a pair of glasses so if you have
bad eyesight you might wear glasses and
you drink out of your glass while
looking out of the glass window now the
reason I chose the word glass is because
there are a few phrases that involve the
word glass that you might not know they
are as follows
glass half empty or glass-half-full this
refers to how optimistic or pessimistic
you are about the world and about life
so if you're a glass-half-full type of
person you look at the glass half full
and say yay it's half full
I'm optimistic about life I see things
in a good way but if you are a
glass-half-empty kind of person you
won't look at the full half of the glass
but the empty part of the glass and say
oh this glass is half empty this mean
you're pessimistic and negative you see
the negative things in life so are you a
glass half-full or glass-half-empty kind
of person?
why not comment in the comments box
below and let me know. I think I'm a
glass-half-full kind of girl
so tell me what are you. Another phrase
you might hear is people who live in
glass houses shouldn't throw stones
this means that if you can't take
criticism
then you shouldn't throw criticism at
other people so if you can't take a
stone being thrown at your glasshouse
because your glasshouse would break then
you shouldn't throw stones at anybody
else so people who live in glass houses
shouldn't throw stones if anyone refers
to themselves or somebody else as being
made of glass
this would suggest that they're
vulnerable so i might say the opposite i
might say hey come on I'm not made of
glass
meaning I'm strong I'm not brittle I'm
not likely to break you can knock me you
can put me down you can leave me nasty
comments and give me a thumbs down but
I'm not made of glass
I'm stronger than that and finally if
you ever hear the phrase rose-tinted
glasses
this means to have a very positive view
of whatever you're looking at so i might
be wearing rose-tinted glasses when I
look at the world and the life around me
it means i only see the good in the
world and the people around me I choose
not to see the negative i'm looking at
the world with rose-tinted glasses
ok so that was a nice short lesson for
you there but I still hope you found it
helpful
do tell me in the comments box if you
are a glass half full or a
glass-half-empty kind of person I'm very
interested to know and if you did like
this video then show me a thumb
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of 25 lessons so if you haven't seen the
other 17 lessons before this one then do
go and catch up on those otherwise I
will see you tomorrow take care my
lovely students