Hi there, this is Harry and welcome to the advanced English lesson classes with Harry. So
what are we going to talk about today? Well, the lesson is going to cover
vocabulary and it's going to look at vocabulary related to emotions. So advanced
English lesson vocabulary dealing with emotions. At the end, I'm going to give
you my address if you need to contact me, or if you need to get some more examples.
Okay, so, advanced English lessons looking at
emotions, okay. So it's going to be a list of 14, so quite a lot. I'll give them to give you
an example, when you can use these and as always, we're trying to help you to prove
your English or business English your communication, English or conversational
English with phrasal verbs, expressions and vocabulary as we're going to look at now.
Okay, so here's the list. Adoration, amazement,
anger, disgust. Ecstasy, it's very difficult to pronounce ecstasy, fear, hate. Homesickness,
joy, loneliness, outrage, sadness, surprise and finally love. Or as they say love. Okay, so here's
the 14 emotions, okay, I'm going to go through them one by one and give you some examples.
And just before we get onto those, if you really enjoy this lesson and make sure you like the video
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So, adoration. So what is this? When we adore somebody,
we treat them with adoration. We got lots and lots of respect for the person. In fact,
we love them so much. We treat them with adoration and that's the emotion.
Okay, so the celebrations that are taking place in the UK to mark the jubilee celebrations for
the Queen who has been on the throne of England for 70 years. She has been greeted with
adoration from all the public, they absolutely love her. They want to
congratulate her they want to be part of the excitement. They want to be part of the
festivities. So that's a real good example of adoration.
Or the football team when they won the Champions League. They come back into the city,
they parade around the city on the top of an open bus showing off the
trophy that they've won waving to the fans throwing scarves and jerseys.
And they've got total total adoration from the spectators from the fans adoration.
Amazement. Well, we... this is a particular type of emotion when we are really really surprised. So
we can be surprised oh, yeah, got surprised by the party, but amazement by the reaction of somebody.
So you look on and amazement, when your son or daughter takes the first steps. It's a really
interesting time. You've been expecting it for a while because they've been trying and
trying and then suddenly, when they get up and they make those first few steps.
You go, Oh my god. Oh my God, look, look, look so complete amazement on your face and
that of your partner. So as proud parents you look on in amazement, as your son or
daughter staggers across the room and then bup falls down on the bottom. Okay, amazement.
Anger. Well, this is a real sad type of emotion to have. We are angry when something happens that we
didn't expect or didn't want to happen. Okay, we show and express anger by getting really annoyed,
screaming or shouting or getting very red in the face because you really are ready to explode.
So you hear something on the radio, you see something on the internet that really gets your
blood boiling, so you're full of anger. So this emotion, you're ready to burst ready to explode
and you really want to go out in the forest and scream or kick a tree, whatever it happens to be.
So you're trying to get rid of that anger that feeling like the volcano ready to erupt. Okay.
Disgust. Well, Disgust is something we... emotion we use when we really don't like something, okay.
So it could be disgust when we smell something.
It can be disgust when we taste something we really don't like.
It can be disgust when we hear something that really goes against our views on life.
So you go to a foreign country, you want to try the local delicacies,
but when you put the food in your mouth? Or my God, what was that? And then you can't
wait to spit it out because it just really really tastes very bad. Okay, so disgust.
You can be... have that emotion of disgust when you smell something very strong. There's...
perhaps you're in the countryside and you're near a farm and you get that smell of manure that comes
across the fields. And it's not really something so pleasant for you because you're not used to it.
So it's a real, or my God, that's a disgusting smell. So that's the emotion of disgust.
Or you can have that emotion of disgust when you read some atrocity that's taken place
somewhere far away, and you wonder how people can be so cruel to each other. And just,
you really read it with that sense of disgust.
Ecstasy. So we have to be very careful how we pronounce this
ecs-, ecs-, ecstasy, okay? Ecstasy is that emotion or that feeling that
wells up inside us when we're really really happy. Very, very emotional.
So we can be jumping up and down, you know, waving our hands in the air, a big smile on our face.
We open the envelope, and we realise that yeah,
we got those points that we needed, we got the place in the university. So you've got that
feeling that emotional sense of ecstasy, but nothing can be better or.
Or you open the envelope, and they've offered you the job,
the job of your dreams, the job you'd really hoped for. So ecstasy.
Or perhaps you open the envelope, and a cheque falls out, which is the winning and
the lotto something you really didn't expect, that would certainly send me
into ecstasy, and that would be the emotion that I would be feeling. So
ecs- ecstasy, ecs- ecstasy, that feeling that good, happy feeling that we would all like to get
occasionally, just once in a while once in a lifetime.
Fear. Well, that emotion when you're walking down the street, and you see the dog coming
towards you, and it's a big dog, or you're not so sure whether he's friendly, he doesn't look
so friendly. He's eyeing you. You're eyeing him, you're trying to walk around and without that
smell of fear, but dogs have a great sense they know when something's not so right. So he starts
growling or barking and you stop dead in your tracks and you're frozen to the spot with fear
until the owner comes out called the dog and he disappeared. So that feeling of fear cold
sweat breaks out over your forehead or down your back. Okay, so that feeling the emotion of fear.
Hate it's a very strong emotion hate your will either love or hate something. Yeah. Oh, that's
TV programme on Netflix. Yeah, you're either going to love it,
or you're going to hate it. And when you hate it, you have I just can't stand that. I don't
want to watch it. No, no, no, I'm not going to watch it. I hate it.
Or for some particular reason we take a view that we don't like a particular
actor or actress or sports player, for some reason. Maybe we're a little bit jealous.
Maybe it's something they say maybe they're a little bit arrogant. And we come up with
very strong emotions. I hate him. I really don't like watching it when he's playing. No,
I just hate it. Or perhaps it's a particular sport. We don't like.
Oh, I hate darts. It can't be considered a sport at all. I mean, guys who just drink
beer throwing darts into a board? How can that be a sport? So no, no, I really hate it.
In my case, I hate computer games. I really really don't like it. I never play
them. I have never played them. And I don't really see how people enjoy it. So for me,
it gets that emotional reaction of hate.
Homesickness. Well, homesickness is something that we've all felt from time to time,
when we've been away from home for a considerable period.
It could be that we are living in university in a city away from our
home. Yeah, so for the first few weeks or months, we feel an element of homesickness.
Yes. So homesickness is that feeling where you miss your friends, you miss your family,
you missed the closeness, you missed the touch, you missed the chat, whatever it is. So
this creates and generates this emotional reaction of homesickness.
Usually when people as I said, go away to university or if you're sent away on
a training programme for several months, or many a time when somebody joins the military,
and they go off on manoeuvres, for the navy or wherever then there's a feeling of homesickness.
I am really going to enjoy this two years stint in Australia but I'm sure I'm sure I'm going to feel
homesick from time to time. So a feeling that emotion, homesickness.
Joy, the emotion of joy. Well, the
opposite of sad. So the feeling of joy when something good happens.
The birth of your children is a feeling emotional reaction of joy.
When summer finally arrives, or you're going to go on your holidays, and the sun is shining,
you get an emotional reaction of joy. So when something
has happened, something that you didn't expect to be successful.
Even looking into your vegetable patch and seeing your first strawberries or your first
tomatoes that might give you a feeling of joy and emotional reaction. So it's all about happiness.
Loneliness, well, that's another
emotional reaction. And loneliness a bit like homesickness is when you're on your own. And
you can feel lonely without actually being alone. But loneliness is when you feel lost or abandoned.
Your partner may have died, the children may have left home,
you're in a foreign land, you're looking at the four walls every day,
you're on your own, a lot of the time, this is when these emotional reactions occur,
the feeling of loneliness, you're not lonely as such, you can go out and he can meet some
old friends or you can meet somebody in the park. But there's a deep loneliness because
the people you really love the people that you really would want beside you are not there.
So that feeling of loneliness, the feeling of being lost in a big place,
we can be very, very lonely and feel and have that emotional feeling of loneliness in a big
city. It could be a city of four or 5 million people. But you can feel
as lonely there as you would be in an open field. Loneliness.
Outrage. Well, outrage is about being annoyed about something.
The generally it's about a group of people are outraged at perhaps the
actions of their government. Their outrage that the government have done nothing about
rising inflation. Every other country seems to be taking some action, they are reducing the cost of
VAT (value added tax) on fuel so that it's not so costly. They are reducing the cost of cooking oil
or they are fixing prices in the shop, whatever they're doing, they're taking some action.
But your government seems to be a little bit slow. And maybe they have some budget problems
so that people are outraged so this is the anger building up inside their outrage. So the
letters to the newspapers, the articles and blogs on the internet. The message getting through to
the government ministers is that the population the general populace are outraged that the
government has so far taken no action so there are going to be demonstrations on the streets,
people are going to be marching holding placards, your government out, costs down inflation up all
these sorts of messages to show their outrage, to demonstrate this particular emotion.
Sadness. Well, sadness is another
feeling a bit like loneliness. We're sad because something has or hasn't happened.
Sadness can creep up on us because of changes in our life and circumstances.
The death of a pet will leave us with that emotional feeling of sadness.
The loss of a job. The loss of a friendship,
something has been lost something has gone something has changed and we cannot
get it back so there's a feeling and a general feeling of sadness.
We can just read on the world events and that can make us feel sad that we are a little bit blue.
Yeah so we we have a blue feeling because the news generally is not so good. It's not
great and we are left with this emotional feeling of sadness. We.... we are sitting there not
quite sure how we will react but our face or body language suggests as a sign of sadness.
A little bit down in the dumps, not feeling so good.
Surprise. Well, a bit like amasement,
not as high or feeling as amasement but surprise can come to all of us.
We can get a surprise because we get that
phone call from a kids that they're going to pop round. You haven't seen them for a while.
You get a surprise on your birthday when the postman delivers a card that you hadn't expected
to get. You get that email that WhatsApp message wishing you a happy birthday. These are all
times when you'll get that feeling of surprise, something unexpected. Something that makes you
feel happy, something that can give you that feeling of joy. So surprise. Oh,
really well, great. Or you're coming over tonight. Great. I look forward to seeing you so
surprising your voice surprised when you open the door and see the postman standing there with
a package that you hadn't expected and you can't wait to open it to see what the gift is surprise.
And then finally love. Now, there is a difference between like and love.
Like is something that we feel comfortable with.
We like a friend. We like a particular food. We like to spend time on our own.
Love is much deeper. To deep... much deeper emotional feeling.
We love our best friend. We love our partner. We love our family. We hope
we love our pets. We love our favourite food and we can't wait
to get to the restaurant to order that special pizza he had the last time.
Oh, I really love it. So it's a real deep feeling make you feel really happy and
really, really satisfied. Okay, so love as they say it makes the world go round.
Okay, so let's go through those again.
So 14 and they are all about emotions. Adoration, amazement,
anger, disgust. Ecstasy, be careful with the pronunciation ecstasy. Fear, hate,
homesickness, joy, loneliness, outrage, sadness, surprise. And finally, love.
Okay, so 14 particular words vocabulary, dealing with emotion. So
that's the advanced English lesson for today. Thanks very much for joining me
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