hi there welcome back to invid with me
benjamin
in today's lesson you are going to learn
or revise
50 fantastic words that will help bring
your language to
life yes we are going to be describing
through the senses
so this will just make your language and
your
conversation more dynamic more
interesting
as your listener starts to imagine
your words more clearly we're going to
start off with the sense of
smell sometimes called the olfactory
sense
how can i talk about it you could use a
phrase such as
the smell of okay the smell of something
was
the smell was terrible disgusting
fantastic
it smelled of what did it remind you of
it smells of
old fish it smelled like a kebab shop i
don't know
let's look at some adjectives that you
could use
connected with smell
acrid okay meaning bitter
it had an acrid smell
okay so this is quite an unusual word
here
um okay think sort of lemons things like
that but even more powerful
a pungent smell pungent
uh probably not going to be used in a
good way a pungent smell is one that
sort of
uh takes you by surprise in a quite
unpleasant manner
foul again a word that
is going to suggest a bad smell a foul
a disgusting smell a foul stench that's
another good word to use
so a stench is a really strong smell
fragrant uh you can probably spot the
word
fragrance so this is you know aftershave
perfumes they are all fragrances
fragrant they're the adjectives uh this
is
more pleasant this is a nice smell a
fragrant smell of
summer flowers okay it's it's quite
innocent
fresh so we're thinking straight out the
shower a fresh
smell this is something that goes oh yes
i feel alive and awake
and awake this fresh smell makes me feel
like i'm walking through
fields okay it's one that sort of wakes
you up
musty quite the opposite with musty this
is
uh to do with mold so something that's
been lying in a cupboard for a very long
time maybe it's got
holes in because it's been eaten by
moths
yes a very old musty smell
noxious now this is often connected with
chemicals
so it's a smell that you don't want to
smell because you know that
maybe it's a pollutant it's it's quite
dangerous
obnoxious smell rancid
great word rancid again meaning
disgusting
horrifically awful smell
sharp quite similar to this word acrid
here
a sharp smell it's one that it's not
particularly nice but it
it catches you by surprise and then
a sweet smell is one that's nice mmm the
sweet smell of mama's home cooking
okay on to sound the clash of drums
can't stop thinking of joseph and his
the amazing technicolored
dreamcoat technicolor dreamcoat so
that's going to be to do with
sight isn't it more of that in a moment
sound how do we talk about sound the
sound of the trumpet
it sounded like a full
choir in good voice
right blair so this is like a
a kind of a wall of sound the blare of
traffic made the man feel sad
yep the blare of traffic uh the blair
as i said like a wall of sound chime we
think of
bells chiming church bells chiming kind
of
ringing chirp this is a sound that
perhaps a bird would make
chirping weight chop chop chop chop
chuckle this to do with laughter the
chuckle of laughter the chuckle
after the joke lasted a long time he
chuckled um so there
um it's a noun a chuckle but you can
also use it as a verb
to chuckle clash
uh we're thinking of drums here the
clash of the drum
okay we imagine that hi hat going
a clash of drums okay
but also you can use this word to mean
to fool out with someone to argue if you
clash
personalities it means they you know you
don't get along well with someone
crunch um i think of food with this word
the crunch
of crisp toast he crunched into his
breakfast cereal
or maybe you're walking on gravel the
crunch of gravel
underneath him so it's sort of a imagine
thing sort of going together
crunch crunch okay
how maybe a dog or a wolf is going oh
okay so it's slightly onomatopoeics
the the sound and the meaning are quite
close together
how yep it suggests what is happening
with that word rumble
your stomach can rumble okay if you're
really really hungry and your tummy is
empty
you can sometimes hear your tummy going
making weird noises or maybe the thunder
is rumbling in the
distance it's kind of a low deep
sound sizzle something in the frying pan
we've got steam coming up and you can
hear that sort of cooking
going on sizzling six sizzling sausages
more of that well those kind of ideas in
my
uh vocal warm-up video
slurp this is to do with drinking
really annoying habit try not to do it
slurping tea
okay on we go to taste
the taste of india
it tasted astonishingly good
uh right so ten more words to talk about
taste acidic we can see the shorter word
in there acid yeah we think of acids and
alkalines
acid do you want to be tasting something
acid it doesn't
like sound that that healthy to me
acidic not a very nice taste a little
bit like
the smell acrid meaning bitter
a biting taste so we're we're eating
perhaps
um i don't know a piece of fruit an
apple and it's got a biting taste i'm
meant to be
biting the apple but the apple is biting
me so it's like oh
this taste it's ah i don't know it's
quite quite a strong
taste if the taste is biting you
similar spelling but different bitter
okay again connected with sort of lemons
acidic type things um a
bitter taste now this has two meanings
so we've got the taste but you can be
bitter
about something i'll write that
to if you are bitter it means you are
upset you are angry about something
okay so obviously it's not a
particularly good taste to have leaving
in your mouth
full bodied this is most closely
associated to
wine okay if it's a full bodied
wine then it's got a good complete taste
okay rank
rank is not a very nice word if it is a
rank taste it tastes disgusting
i'm sort of thinking of like dead
animals or something
sugary you can all see the word sugar in
there if something is sugary
it tastes of sugar succulent
so this is really tasty it's got um
it's got it's moist it's uh just
really enjoy eating this succulent it's
satisfying to eat
a succulent steak you might be a
vegetarian but succulent goes well with
a steak
because of the repeated s sound tangy
a bit like bitter but sort of a pleasant
tang a
tangy taste is manageable it's um
you know it's got flavor a tangy lemon
cheesecake
is you know it's not plain it's got some
flavor
but uh in a good way zesty
again this is positive uh if you have
a zest
for life then you have a lot of energy
so zesty is
full of kind of flavor full of taste
but again i'm sort of associating it
with a lemon it's that kind of fresh
biting taste zingy um
quite an a strange word not quite sure
why i've included this because it's not
one
often used but similar to zesty a
zingy taste if you just want to vary
your vocabulary
touch touch yeah the touch
of something the feel of something it
felt okay we're thinking what it feels
like
through your body the sensation of
sensation means feeling the feel of
another 10 words for you damp meaning
wet yeah it felt wet
under foot okay it's been raining it's
damp
limp um
the feel of his or her handshake was
limp a limp handshake not good
uh rough okay it felt too rough if
you've got a rough handshake
yeah and your hands kind of okay
rough um a rough his
hand felt rough it's kind of been
weathered he's been outside it's got
you know a really the opposite of smooth
slimy we're thinking monsters here we're
thinking
slimy bit like jelly
sticky um
like sellotape yeah when you can't get
your hand off the sellotape it's sticky
it attaches two things velvety
very smooth this is a very positive
um adjective velvet okay so that
expensive beautiful material if it feels
velvet it's
very smooth in a good way you could also
describe it
um in more things than touch it has a
velvety taste it
um or sound he had a velvety voice
smooth most of you should have come
across before
if smooth as
a young person's skin it's really
you know it feels nice it's it's smooth
it's not
it's not like sandpaper it's not rough
frosty
so frost in the morning you go outside
it's really really cold
if something feels frosty it's very very
cold
feathery we think of the feather so
if something is feathery it's light and
light as a feather it's feathery it's
nice and light
abrasive here we are going thinking of
the rough idea again if something is
abrasive
it's dangerously rough okay an abrasive
surface i'll write that for you abrasive
surface is one where you know if you go
along like that with your hand
you're going to lose your skin okay
i've got 10 more words for you are you
ready to learn 10 new words about
sight sight okay what we
see with our eyes this is why i've tried
to use more color
to appeal to how things look
it looked beautiful it looked fantastic
it looked
like a beautiful sunset all i could see
was cars fog
describe the sight of the eiffel tower
was
jaw-droppingly impressive
ten words angular so with these words
i've tried to express their meaning with
how i've written them on the board
if something is angular then it's got
sharp edges
angular so the shorter word would be
angle
so an angle in maths is you know
measuring
the angle there it's all about funny
lines and shapes
angular the building
had an angular appearance
distinct if something is distinct you
recognize it
it's clear it had a distinct shape
the car was distinctive
in its design blushing if you blush then
you go all red because you are
embarrassed
um
he looked like he was blushing
yes okay filthy means very dirty
um his car was filthy
okay it's just covered in mud gleaming
if something is gleaming then light is
shining off it
very similar word here glowing you could
say um
she was glowing with good health it
means she just looks
very healthy grotesque means
disgusting okay but it's also
um sort of exaggerated it's like
a kind of a big weird theatrical
pantomime so it's it's a
big disgustingness
murky murky is like something that lies
down
in the underworld it's kind of dark and
forbidden and not very clear it looked
all
murky okay um you kind of think of water
the murky water
you certainly can't see your feet in
murky water
rotund this is all one word i just made
a bit of a boo-boo there
row tonned if someone's uh quite fat if
they're quite
round okay can you see this word here
can you try and work out what that says
let's join the dots together
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worked it out transits all one word
translu
translucent means see through
okay so i have just presented to you
50 words to describe through your
senses if you can start using these
words then people
will listen to you and they'll they will
imagine what you are saying much more
clearly because you will
put pictures you will put sounds you
will put feelings
into their mind with these words
have some fun with them have a go try
them out today why not do the quiz to
make sure that you
have fully learnt these words and can go
out and play
until next time goodbye