Very crowded, very beautiful, very lovely, very rainy, and very amazing… how many times
do you use “very” in a day? Very many times, right? How does it sound to hear the
word “very” from me so many times? You'd be like, “Oh! I think she doesn't know enough
words.” Well if you use the word “very” these many times, then the listener will also
think that you don't know good words. That's what “very” does to you. It completely
spoils your vocabulary and people think that you don't know enough English and that's why
you keep on using the word “very”. Okay, so what are we going to do today? I am going
to help you improve your English by helping you kick out “very” from your vocabulary
and get in some very interesting words that you can use to replace “very”. So if you
want to learn all these words, then keep watching this amazing lesson with me, my name is Michelle
and you're watching me on Let's Talk. Okay so as you can see that we have all these “verys”
on the board and we need to kick them out, so what do we do? Let's start, let's look
at the first word that we have and this is “very rainy”. Okay do you like rain? I
love rain and guess what last night it was raining heavily. But how does it sound when
I say that? Okay let me try it again, ‘last night it was pouring’, yes, you're smart.
Pouring means it was raining heavily or it was very rainy, okay? So, very rainy as pouring.
Do you know where this comes from? Okay have you ever asked anyone, ‘please pour me a
glass of water’ yes, that's where it comes from. It means to ask someone to put some
water in your glass. That's where this word comes from, pouring alright? Now when it's
very rainy and it's pouring like it was last night what did I do? Well as simple as that
I went into the rain and got soaked. Okay socked is another word that you can use in
English to replace “very”. So this word is “very wet”. When something is very
wet, it's soaked, which means that there is so much water that it's dropping out of your
body. So if you're dripping with water you're basically soaked or drenched, okay? Soaked
or drenched. Think about a cotton ball, if you put it in a glass of water it'll become
soaked. That's how it will happen to you when you go out when it's pouring, okay? So don't
get soaked because if you get soaked then you will become frail, uh-uh, “frail”,
now we have another word. Well this word is another word that you can use to kick very
in this pair. “Very weak” means frail in English, okay? Frail. So if you feel that
you are sick and you're not doing well, you could say that I've been sick for past two
weeks and I feel frail… okay which means I feel very weak. Or you could say that, ‘what
happened to you? You look kind of frail today’ which means you look weak. Okay so this is
how you use these three words to kick “very” out of your vocabulary. Now we move to the
next one which is “very slow” or “very fast”. Okay I need to tell the secret now,
my phone these days is working real slow. So if I need to tell you guys that my phone
is working very slow, I wouldn't say it like that, okay? I would instead use a very nice
word to say that, which is, ‘my phone is sluggish these days’, which means that it's
very slow. So very slow means sluggish. So if you are also facing the same problem and
you want to take your phone to the service center, what will you go and say there? You
go there and tell them that ‘my phone is sluggish these days what can I do about it’
which means it's very slow and if you have someone in your family who is like kind of
lazy you could say that ‘hey you're so sluggish’ that's how you use it. Okay now the opposite
of very slow is very fast, okay? Of course we all know that but what do you think can
we use in English to replace very fast, well okay have you heard the word “swift” yeah?
That's the name of a hatchback car Swift and it's also sedan, so that's where this word
comes from. It comes from a car which is Swift. Swift in English means something which is
very fast. So fast can be called as Swift. Okay so either sluggish or Swift these are
the two opposites that you can use to talk about very slow or very fast. Now let's move
to the next one “very busy”. What happens during Christmas? How do the streets look
and how do the malls look? Don't they look very busy, right? They do, isn't it? So you
can say very busy to such a place. Or if you think you are very busy, then what will you
say? ‘I am very busy, I can’t do these assignments’, okay? In such a situation
you would say that, ‘I'm swamped and I can't do these assignments’, which means that
you have so much work to do, that you can't do the assignments. So very busy can be replaced
by swamped. Swamped is almost like you have all the work falling on top of you and you
don't know where to start, where to end. Now the next one is “very crowded”. So as
I was talking that if the streets are packed on Christmas, you often say that they are
very crowded, okay? But instead of that you could also say that ‘the streets are packed’,
which means that there's not even the space to move an inch, okay? Because you see people
all around the place, people are out buying gifts. So very crowded could stand for packed.
You could say that the malls are packed during Christmas so I don't like to go shopping that
time. Okay now let's kick very further away which is “very happy”. So what do we use
to replace “very” here? And there's a very interesting word which is “thrilled”.
So when you're very excited or very happy like I am right now, that's when you use thrilled.
So if you give a good news to somebody they usually become very happy to find out about
it, like last Sunday, you could say ‘last Sunday I got the news of my admission in Atlanta
and my aunt was thrilled to hear about it’, which means she got excited and so happy about
it. Okay now with that we move to the next one which is “very scary”. Do you like
horror movies? Well I really don't like them. Okay have you seen this movie, ‘The Ring’
well that's a horror movie which is very, very scary, okay? Now when I want to talk
about that movie I will say that ‘the movie is horrifying’, okay? Instead of saying
very scary I would choose to say that it's horrifying. Okay now let's move to the other
side of the board and look at some more phrases that we have, “very good”. Okay so the
only thing that I can think about when I read this pair of my friend Josh okay, he's got
amazing math skills like you take any problem to him and he would solve it and I always
tell him that, your math skills are outstanding’, okay? Which means that they are very good.
So you can use “outstanding” or “mind-blowing”. So you could use outstanding or mind-blowing
for something which is so good, okay? Now the next one is “very lucky”. Now as I
was telling you about my friend Josh who's got great math skills, I am very lucky to
have him as a friend because whenever I have a problem I run to him, okay? So very lucky
I could say that, ‘I'm fortunate to have a friend like Josh’, which means I'm very
lucky. So “fortunate” okay now the next one is “very brave”. What kind of a person
are you, brave or not brave? Okay if you are a brave person you could say that I don't
have any fear and who is such a person? So a person who does not have fear is called
“fearless” and that's the word you can use to replace very brave. Are you a fearless
person? Let me know in the comments. Okay now “very respected”. Okay this is used
for an institution or an organization which is respected by everyone around the world.
Which university can you think of which is highly respected? Well to my mind the first
one is Harvard University. If somebody gets admission in Harvard University, it's just
amazing, right? And you would possibly tell them in response, ‘hey you got admission
in Harvard, that's the most prestigious university in the world’. You got me right, so if you
want to replace “very respected” you will say “prestigious” which means very respected
or recognized. Prestigious. Okay so this is the word for you prestigious. The next one
is “very sincere”. Okay now if you compliment your friend that wow you got admission in
the most prestigious university he would want to thank you okay and he might say ‘my heartfelt
thanks to you’, which means I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart, okay? These
are called sincere thanks or honest and truthful thanks. So very sincere can be translated
into “heartfelt”, okay? Which means from the bottom of my heart. So if someone has
helped you, you could say that my heartfelt thanks to you for helping me. Okay so if you
think that all that I'm saying is just so correct and so spot-on, so accurate then you
would tell me Michelle you're saying the exact thing that's the word you use to replace very
with accurate. So if something is so correct so accurate you say that it’s “exact”
okay? Exact. Now if you want to impress your girl by giving her a compliment and that too
by using good vocabulary, instead of telling her tomorrow that you look beautiful or you
look very beautiful you could tell her ‘you look gorgeous today’, okay? That's another
word that you can use in place of “very beautiful” and we will end this lesson on
an important note and that note is how do we replace the word very with important? So
anything which is extremely important in English is also known as “vital”, okay? V-i-t-a-l
vital. But remember we don't start the word with a ‘Y’ but we started with a ‘V’.
So vital meets something very important. Can you think of something very important? Well
I can think of paying attention during driving, isn't it important? So you'll say that ‘it's
vital to pay attention while driving’. Whoa! Here we are, you've already kicked “very”
out of your vocabulary, congratulations! So in this lesson today you have finally learned
how to replace the word “very” with some ‘very’… no, extremely useful words in
English. So thank you so much for watching this lesson with me, I'll see you guys soon
in another lesson till then you keep smiling and enjoy your time, bye-bye.