one of the most common topics of small
talk in conversation
is how you feel about something
happening it may be as simple as your
response to the common question
hey how's it going to telling your
coworker how happy
sad tired or angry you are about
something that happened yesterday
of course you know words like happy sad
angry and tired
but english speakers have a vast number
of
expressions collocations and idioms we
use
to talk about how we feel doing so not
only brings exciting variety to the
conversation
but it also allows you to be precise
about how you feel
choosing the exact word that allows you
to express what you want
i'm anne-marie with speak confident
english this is exactly where you want
to be
every week to get the confidence you
want for your life and work in english
in this video today you're going to
learn 23 new
ways to talk about how you feel
whether it's happy sad angry
tired confused or all the feels
throughout the lesson you'll learn a
variety of collocations
idioms and synonyms so that you can
describe even the
smallest difference in the kind of
happiness you feel
for example there's a difference between
feeling happy because it's friday
which is certainly a great feeling and
the kind of happiness you feel when you
realize you were successful
in a job interview in english and they
just offered you the job
both of those result in happy feelings
but there is
a little difference isn't there there
certainly is
and in today's lesson you're going to
learn exactly how to talk about those
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let's start today by talking about the
feels
on social media or on tv shows you may
hear
people talk about having all the feels
or
feeling all the feels it's not very
common that we
see that word feel used as a countable
noun
these two expressions are very informal
and what they mean
is to feel a depth and often a variety
of emotions
for example have you ever watched a tv
commercial
that made you cry and you had this
weird mix of feelings including hope for
humanity
those are surprising feelings from a tv
commercial
and when you're telling a friend about
it you might say
that tv commercial made me feel all the
feels or
i had all the feels when i watched that
tv commercial
it's definitely become a common
expression to use
and now that you know it you'll probably
start seeing it quite a bit
so now that we know about all the feels
let's talk about a few ways to describe
happiness
for this feeling we're going to focus on
four different
synonyms that describe different levels
or
kinds of happiness we feel the first one
is to be thrilled now this is a word i
actually use a lot i love this word
and it means to be extremely pleased
for example when someone tells me that
one of my lessons was useful to them
i feel extremely pleased i feel really
happy
i'm thrilled now with the word happy of
course we could emphasize
that word by adding the word very to be
very happy
or we could be blissfully happy
blissful means to be full of to be
full of happiness similar to being
blissfully happy is to be delighted this
is also
a great alternative to the word thrilled
because it also means to be extremely
pleased about something
you might be delighted that your team
was successful in winning a new client
you might be delighted that your son's
sports team
won the championship or you're delighted
because a co-worker brought you flowers
for your birthday
and the last one for talking about
feeling happy is a really fun one
to be giddy we often combine this with
the word
excitement to be giddy with excitement
to be giddy can mean to feel dizzy
so imagine there's so much excitement
and happiness that you are
dizzy or it can also mean to be
light-hearted someone who's
light-hearted is so
happy and they don't have any worries or
concerns or
stresses one image i love to think about
with this idea of
giddy with excitement is to imagine a
wave
of excitement something that's
overwhelming
but in a positive way all right now that
you've got a variety of ways of talking
about feeling happy
let's talk about feeling sad you know
those days when you
wake up and you just don't feel
great you don't really know why maybe
it's
lack of sleep maybe something's not
going well at work and you just feel
this
slight general sense of
sadness or a little bit of depression
it's nothing serious
but you just don't feel particularly
great
in that case you might say that you feel
blue
if a friend calls you and says hey how
are you doing
you might say feeling kind of blue today
similar to that idiom but perhaps
slightly stronger
is to feel down or to feel down in the
dumps
again this means to be sad or depressed
if a friend of yours recently lost a job
they might be
feeling down or maybe you see a friend
and immediately
you notice that something isn't right
she's upset about something so you might
say
you look a bit down is everything okay
our third way to talk about feeling
slightly sad
is to say i'm not really feeling it
what that means is you're just generally
disinterested in something
i actually use this one recently when my
husband and i were watching a movie
it was a movie that he thought was
fantastic
he was really enjoying it and at the end
he said wasn't that fantastic and i said
i wasn't really feeling it in other
words
i wasn't very interested in it i don't
know why
now typically we might feel that sense
of disinterest
because we're tired or slightly
depressed or upset about something
and finally our last example for how to
talk about feeling sad
is to have a heavy heart now this one is
a
powerful expression if you have a heavy
heart
you are very sad even
miserable you may have a heavy heart
because
a friend received some terrible news
or something awful happened at work
if you're telling a co-worker about
something upsetting you might say
oh i have a really heavy heart today
before we move on to look at a variety
of ways that we can use to talk about
feeling
angry i want to pause here for a moment
this particular month i'm sharing
several videos related to vocabulary
because i want to help you grow your
vocabulary
and communicate precisely my goal of
course is not only for you to learn new
vocabulary
but to remember it to be able to use it
so as you watch this lesson today i have
two pieces of advice
number one after you hear my example
sentences
take a moment to create your own example
sentence using the same synonym
idiom or collocation doing that
not only personalizes the language but
it also gives you some of the repetition
you need
to help you remember something new
the second thing that you can do is to
create an effective
daily habit for practicing vocabulary
and i've got an
easy way to help you do that recently i
shared a lesson
on how to develop an effective daily
habit in english
and i included a free download to help
you
track your english vocabulary habits
you can check out that lesson and get
the free download on my website
i'll be sure to leave a link for you
just below this video
and now let's talk about a few different
ways to talk about feeling angry
the first order on our list is kind of a
fun word
even though it's a negative feeling to
feel prickly
now a cactus is prickly
and when someone is prickly
it means they are easily offended or
they're just
ready to take offense maybe you know
someone at work who's
generally just prickly you never know
when they're going to be offended and
upset by something you say
and of course sometimes all of us are
prickly maybe you didn't get a lot of
sleep last night so today you're just
kind of a little angry and frustrated
the danger of being prickly is that
you never know when someone might
explode
or be about to explode now of course the
word explode is an aggressive word
imagine
something exploding in anger
definitely not a positive moment for
example
yesterday we were all shocked when our
boss
exploded with anger or those moments
when you feel really angry inside you
know that you're prickly
and you want to warn someone to be very
careful
you might say i'm about to explode
and that lets them know it's probably
time to walk away
the third way that we can talk about
feeling angry is to say that we're
furious now this is a synonym that we
can use
and it's definitely a more powerful way
to talk about being angry
because when someone is furious they
are extremely angry
they may be about to explode okay we've
talked about
all the feels alternatives to talk about
feeling happy
sad and angry so now let's move on to
talking about feeling tired feeling
confused and we'll
finish with some great expressions to
use when you want to tell someone else
that you
understand exactly how they feel
so let's talk about feeling tired the
first one is to feel or to be
worn down which means to be weary and
overcome with stress and pressure i
think for many of us
2020 was a year when we felt worn down
we had a lot of increased pressures and
unexpected
stresses in our lives at the end of a
long week you might come home on friday
and say
ugh i'm so worn down i just want to
sleep all weekend an expression that
sounds similar is to be worn
out but there's a slight difference in
the meaning here
when something is worn out it means that
it's been overused
so if you're feeling worn out it
typically means that
physically you're exhausted
maybe you had a particularly difficult
workout or you went on a run that was
much
longer than usual and afterwards
physically
you're worn out and when that happens
you may need to take a breather
to take a breather means to pause your
activities for a short period of time
and just relax
again for example if you've had a
particularly long week
and someone asks what are you doing this
weekend you might say ah
i'm worn out i'm just taking a breather
and lastly the fourth way to talk about
feeling tired
is again a synonym to feel or be
exhausted
so here we're using a more powerful word
to talk about feeling
very tired how are you doing i know
we've got a lot of new vocabulary today
how are you feeling about it of course
in a moment i want you to practice but
first we have just six more expressions
to learn today
we've got four about feeling confused
and two
to learn for what to say when you want
to tell someone else that you understand
how they feel
so let's talk about feeling confused
the first one is to feel off or to feel
slightly off this one works for a
general feeling
of being confused or not really
clear-minded
it's also possible to use it when you
just feel a light
sense of sadness or depression to just
feel off i feel off today it may be
because you slept poorly
or maybe you're coming down with a cold
there may be days when you go to work
and you
just can't do anything you can't think
clearly you don't have the energy
again you just feel off our second one
is to be a hot mess if you're a hot mess
you are absolutely disorganized
everything is in chaos and you might
feel
that you can't do anything right maybe
you had a particularly terrible day at
work where
everything went wrong so then you come
home at the end of the day and you say
oh my gosh i'm a hot mess today
or i feel like i'm a hot mess
number three is to feel puzzled
this is a great synonym for feeling
confused
and we often use this if we've got some
doubt or uncertainty
now recently i actually did a lesson on
how to talk about
expressing doubt and uncertainty and
i'll leave a link to that
just below the video and now our last
one for talking about feeling confused
is to have mixed feelings
this is another great one to talk about
doubt and uncertainty
let's say that you're about to make a
big decision
but you're still having this mix of
is this the right thing is it the wrong
thing i don't know
you go back and forth you have mixed
feelings about it
similarly maybe you and your team
members at work are trying to solve a
problem
and although someone has presented a
really great solution
you're just not sure about it something
doesn't seem right
again you have mixed feelings about it
and with that you have
21 different ways to talk about all the
feels
plus being happy sad
angry tired or confused so
let's finish with two ways that you can
tell someone else that you
understand how they feel for example if
someone says
after 2020 i feel totally worn out you
might say
i feel you i feel you
or i know the feeling both of those are
perfect ways to identify
with someone else now that you have
finished this
lesson with 23 new ways to talk about
how you feel
i want you to practice that is an
essential step
in remembering all this new vocabulary
so you can use it
easily in conversation if you found this
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