Hello friends, I am Niharika. You know we all realize that life is quite a struggle.
And that's exactly the reason why we all love to hear words that encourage us. Am I right?
So, if you are the one who would like to motivate people, who would like people to try hard,
then you encourage them. So in this lesson today I have some set of phrases that would
help you to encourage people. So let's begin.
The first one over here is - Give it a try. Now if you see the first three phrases which
are written in black, these set of phrases are for the people who haven't started yet.
It's for the people who are little confused, who are still contemplating that whether I
should go for it or not and keep worrying. So, these set of phrases are for the people
who are confused, okay? Or who haven't started yet. So as I said the first phrase here is
- Give it a try. Now when you say that? Ah.. Lets think of a situation here, now probably
your friend wants to learn to drive but she is just too nervous to do that. So to motivate
her, to encourage her you would say - Hey! I think you should just Give it a try. So
here you just want to her to stop worrying about it and just try it, and just do it.
And that's why you would use the phrase - Give it a try. the second phrase over here is - It's
worth a shot. Now it's worth a shot, let's again think of a situation here, now probably
your brother has a crush on your neighbor, okay there's this beautiful woman who lives
close to your house, she is your neighbor and your brother is pretty interested in her,
but he is too nervous to approach her or ask her on a date. So to motivate or to encourage
your brother the right phrase to use is - It's worth a shot. I mean... you know you can just
do it, stop worrying about it, it's worth a shot. right? Let's go to the third phrase
here - What do you have to lose? Now, What do you have to lose? When can you say this,
now probably your friend is looking for a job, and she has found a job, however she
is again too nervous or very confused or is hesitating to apply for that position, for
that job. So, again you just want here to stop worrying about it, so the right phrase
that you can use to encourage her is - What do you have to lose? It's again pretty much
similar to - Give it a try OR Give it a shot. Okay, these three phrases can be used for
the people who are a little confused or worry too much. Got it? Now let's look at the other
set of phrases here. Now these set of phrases are for the people who are already doing well,
who are already doing a good job and you just want them to do better, okay. So the right
phrase to use for such people is - keep up the good work. Now maybe this phrase can be
used for your students, or for your children, okay who are already doing a fantastic job
and you know it that they can do it still better, then you can say that - Keep up the
good work. The other one is - Keep it up. I am so proud of you! So, probably your friend
is being featured in a magazine or maybe in a news paper and you are extremely proud of
him, right? because he is featured in the magazine, probably for something that he is
done, you know.... something really nice, he is excelled at, so you can say that - Oh
really! Keep it up. I am so proud of you! right? So it's kind of very motivating for
the other person. And then the last one here is - There you go! No when do you use this?
Let's think of a situation again, now probably you are teaching your son to cycle. And he
is now able to balance it well and he's getting much better at cycling, so when he does that
to encourage him, to motivate him you would say - There you go honey. I mean you are doing
such a great job, okay. So this is the way you would use these set of phrases. so these
set of phrases are for the people who are already doing well. Alright, so let's have
a look at some more phrases now.
So here we have some more phrases for you. Now the first three set of phrases are for
the people who are facing a very difficult time or who are extremely stressed. So the
right phrases that you can use for your friends and family are , well let's look at the first
one here - Hang in there. Now Hang in there is a slang and you can use it for your friends and family
who are facing a very difficult time, they are facing a lot of trouble, for example your
cousin who is doing her Masters is extremely stressed about the studies , it's just too
much of work, too many projects and she is feeling really stressed about it. So for her
to keep going and to motivate her you would use - Hang in there, I am sure you will get
through this, you know this is the way you will encourage her. The other one is keep
fighting, you could also use another word that is pushing. So keep fighting or Keep
pushing is another phrase that you can use for the people who are facing a bad time.
So probably your best friend is having a very bad day at work and she's called you and she's
complaining about her boss, about her colleagues being really mean to her, so you can say - Oh
honey, Keep fighting or Keep pushing, this is the way you will try to distract her of
course motivate her, okay. And then the third one is - Never say die OR Stay strong. Now
these are the phrases that you can use for someone who is losing hope, now probably one
of your family members is having cancer and she's been very sick and she's just losing
hope, like she doesn't feel that she will ever recover. So you know to keep encouraging
her so that she doesn't lose hope the phrase that you can use is - Never Say Die / Stay
Strong. So this is the way you will encourage your family member. So now let's look at the
other three phrases here. Now these three phrases, you would not use in a regular conversation,
but when you are writing to someone or maybe you are giving a speech or a lecture, then
yes these phrases can be a part of your speech or your lecture or if you are writing to someone.
So let's have a look at it, the first one is - Follow your dreams. So again as I said
you would not use this in a regular conversation like you would not say - Oh follow your dreams,
of course you can say, but it's just appropriate when you are writing or giving a speech, so
follow your dreams, it's something, which means believe in yourself. The other one is
- Do the impossible. So which means that, Nothing is impossible, you need to just try
hard and just do it, okay so you are encouraging someone by saying - Do the impossible. And
then the third one is - Believe in yourself. So something similar to Follow your dreams,
okay. So again you are asking someone to just believe in yourself and you know, believe
in your goals, believe in your dreams or follow your dreams, they all are the phrase that
would help you to encourage people. So hope this lesson is helpful to you and you would
definitely do great when it comes to learning English, okay. And I will be back with a new
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