Hi guys and welcome back to Love English. So, you have been treated to
quite a few rather extravagant lessons. Today I will be simply here with you the
camera and no green-screen no Sabra just us. Today is a very simple vocabulary
lesson but it's one that hopefully will make you sound a little bit more native
as well as helping you understand those strange natives when we talk. Now, most of
you will know the basic verbs in English have, go, get, want, these are great and
very important but as most languages do English has many colloquial and slang
verbs that's what we're focusing on today so what is colloquial well
colloquial is referring to a language that we use less formally not
necessarily as informally as slang but certainly it's more spoken and amongst
native speakers today I've got 10 colloquial and a few slang verbs for you
and these are only verbs and I will say these are actually verbs that I
personally use myself don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already you can
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right let's get started now number one one of my favorite verbs to use
something I really do commonly use in my day-to-day English is the word pop now
pop is actually a word that we would use to describe kind of the air exploding
from a champagne bottle or a can of coke pop okay but in this case we're using it
as a verb meaning to go or come it can mean both so I would often say
I'm just popping to the shops why don't you pop round meaning why don't you come
over now bear in mind pop is really for short distances I wouldn't say I'm just
popping a to Italy it would really refer to somewhere that
is quite close by so it won't take you very long number two bit more slang
quite informal not something you would use maybe with your family your
mother-in-law for example but sabra often tells me off for stopping too many
chocolates to scoff scoff means to eat a lot and usually very fast so if you
scoff something you're eating it in not the most polite ways okay number three
just sky now this is a great word and some think that both adults and children
very often do describe off work and Skype off school when you Skype you are
avoiding going or doing something so very often you would say i skived off
school because i didn't want to go or I had an exam so I skived off notice that
there is a preposition there so when you are using it in a sentence very often we
would say I skived off and it is usually work or school you
can also call somebody ask Ivor for avoiding doing or going to this place
number four faff now this is something that possibly women are more guilty of
than men fapping it means to take your time doing something of them too much
time often wasting time so if you are suffering about or faffing around it
might be that you're kind of looking at something on your phone playing with
something just wasting time really so too fast often if someone is taking a
long time to get ready we might say stop faffing come on okay
number five now this is a great one if you are a student to cram now when we
talk about cramming we often it kind of it just means to put something into a
very small space usually but if we're using it in the context of studying you
might say I'm cramming I'm cramming my revision in because you've got very
little time and a lot to do so if you cram you are trying to get a lot done
number six now I'm actually going to give you two here this is a referring to
people that try and listen in on other people's conversations very naughty you
shouldn't do that however if you're at work and you're listening to your boss
talking to the manager you might be trying to listen carefully to hear what
they're saying in this case we've got two verbs you can eavesdrop eavesdrop
okay or a bit more informal here actually this really is slang earwig
okay so she was earwigging into the conversation she was eavesdropping and
listening to the conversation so these are referring to somebody listening to
another conversation that they really shouldn't be number seven is a nice
simple one if actually a phrasal verb to crack up we have mentioned this phrasal
verb in previous slang lessons but I thought I would mention it here as it's
one that I often use to crack up hahahaha that was a terrible laugh sorry
it just means to laugh that's it it's informal you made me crack up oh my god
I'm cracking up it doesn't mean break in this context it
simply means to laugh now number eight is actually quite slang quite informal
and it's not something that I often do leggett it means to run it's often said
as an imperative amongst young children like it run but it is used in our day to
day speaking in the UK so when was the last time you had to leg it it's usually
for a purpose or a reason it's not just running so for example the other day
I'll egged it for the bus pay attention there we have leg and it it's a bit
bizarre but hey that's English okay number 9 another one that I probably am
guilty of waffle now this is not a Belgian waffle hmm would love that right
now but so too woeful the verb means to kind talk about not a lot really just to
keep talking but about nothing that's particularly important
so you might say oh my mother was waffling on the phone and it just means
that they were talking quite a lot about nothing in particular finally number 10
to fancy now fancy is a verb that we use very frequently in the UK and it
basically means to desire to want now we can use it in two contexts I really
fancy you know every fancy who a person I really fancy George
Clooney my eyes getting a bit old now but he's okay
saber quite fancies Prince Harry which is not that happy about Megan Merkel
marrying him now so fancy can mean to desire and like somebody in a romantic
sexual way but it can also mean I want something often we use it when we're
talking about food mmm I really fancy fish and chips I really fancy a cup of
tea so you can see there that fancy very common and you will no doubt hear it if
you are watching British TV at programs so make sure that you learn that
very well to fancy okay guys that was a super fast lesson but I hope that gave
you some useful vocabulary remember try and use these words when you speak in
writing as well you can even comment below and write some sentences tell me
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