Hello and welcome back to Love English Now this is the second time I have
attempted to film this lesson the first time I did it this happened yes that's
right sorry with me now as you can see it is really sunny here in England
that's right it doesn't always rain in the UK and we
could even say that it is hot in fact it's very hot in fact I'm really hot
but using hot if such a dull and boring adjective much like good or bad or ugly
there are so many different expressions adjectives idioms in English that you
can use to express the same thing but perhaps with slightly different
connotations slightly different meanings so today I'm going to share with you
well a lot of expressions to mean it's hot and I'm hot and by the way I am NOT
on holiday abroad this is a beach in the UK this is Bournemouth Beach so if you
ever want to come to the UK you might want to come to my hometown
right number one now it's not often that we can say this but in fact at the past
few weeks we have had some real scorcher days to say it's a real scorcher means
it's really really hot to scorch essentially means to burn something so
when you say it's a real scorcher you could perhaps look at the graph see that
it's going that brown color and that implies that it is so hot it's scorching
the ground it's slightly burning the ground where there's not enough rain and
too much Sun so you can say it's a real scorcher today or Wow
it is scorching remember we don't say the weather is scorching we'd say it's
it's scorching it meaning the weather you can also use the extreme adjectives
it's boiling it's boiling hot today it's boiling I'm boiling boiling is an
extreme adjective so you wouldn't say it's very boiling but ordinarily I just
say it's boiling now when there's a period of sustained heat where it's
continuously hot and there's no break there's no rain it is just intense heat
we would describe this as being a heat wave so in the UK our expectations are
pretty low so when there is let's say 25 degrees centigrade or even 24 we might
describe that as a heat wave and Europe has certainly been experiencing a heat
wave France Italy Germany all incredibly hot at the moment perhaps a little bit
too hot a nice idiomatic expression to describe how hot you think it is outside
is to say wow it is like a furnace outside or it's like an oven outside an
oven is where you cook your food so it is an idiomatic expression it's probably
not literally like an oven but to say it's like a furnace it's like an oven
outside implies that it is really hot now when we are having a heatwave
there's a lovely idiomatic expression not one that I particularly use but we
would say we're in the dog days of summer we're in the dog days of summer
now using this expression well it's a bit weird it's an old expression there's
lots of history behind it but essentially we're talking about you know
dogs becoming slightly mad with the heat so we're in the dog days of summer now
my next expression to be stifled to feel that the heat is stifling stifle is a
verb where you feel that you can't breathe often we would say it's stifling
out there meaning the heat is so oppressive so hot kids playing it's so
hot that you can't breathe we can also say that you are stifled by somebody
emotionally so if you have a mother that's a bit overbearing that's
controlling you could say that you feel stifled it is stifling out here today
number seven it's sweltering it's sweltering just swelter is to be very
very hot to almost be melting so when you say I'm sweltering it's sweltering
you mean you are extremely hot number eight similar to it's like a furnace out
there it's like an oven out there you could say it is baking hot I'm baking to
bake is to cook something without oil so roast you cook with oil bake without
you bake a cake so you can say it's baking or I'm baking and actually you
can't say it's roasting out there next adjective it's blazing out it's blazing
hot a blaze is another word to describe a very fierce strong uncontrollable fire
so to say it's blazing hot it is so hot it feels like fire a bit of an
exaggeration really but you get the idea okay some not so charming expressions to
describe how hot you might be feeling you can say I'm sweating like a pig I'm
not at the moment if it's feeling I'm not that hot but if you say I'm sweating
like a pig it doesn't sound lovely but it is a
common expression in the okay now ironically pigs actually don't
sweat but I suppose the implication is pigs are considered a little bit dirty
and not clean just like sweating you can't be very dramatic and tell people
oh it's so hot I'm melting out here now to melt is a verb meaning to go from a
solid to a liquid so ice melts and becomes water I'm melting out here today
bit dramatic an American expression I think because I haven't heard this one
in the UK I'm sweating bullets bullets are what you put in the gun to load the
gun to make sure that you can shoot something but if you sweat bullets I
suppose it just implies that the sweat is so big it's the size of a bullet not
an expression I would use all that I've heard really in the UK now this is my
favourite expression I'm a bit of a sweaty Betty at the moment if you're a
sweaty Betty you're sweating a lot Betty is the name of a person it doesn't
really mean anything it's a play on words it is kind of slang informal so
use it with friends do not use it in formal situations right now a few idioms
to finish off it's hot as hell it's hot as hell now not everybody likes using
the word how some people consider it kind of blasphemy or swearing so if you
prefer not to say it's hot as how you can say of course it's hot as an oven or
it's hot as a furnace but otherwise it's hot as hell and a great final expression
to end with which might be true where you live it's hot enough out there to
fry an egg now it's really hot enough to fry an egg in the UK but I know that
some countries you can crack an egg on the floor and it will cook in the Sun
that is crazy hot and quite literally as hot as an oven and that six
why don't you comment below and tell me how hot it is in your country how hot is
it where you are you some of the expressions to express
yourself in a way other than using I'm hot and it's hot thank you so much for
watching bye