Hi this is Ceema and today I will bring you a new lesson on talking about facial expressions.
Well, the expression on people's faces can tell you a lot about, what they are thinking
and how they are feeling or the emotions that they are going through. Believe me, one look
at a person's face and you can tell what is going on in the inside, right? So if I were
to come here and stand like this, you'd know I'm very sad, right? but if I come here and
I'm all upbeat and I'm really happy, you know that I'm in a really, really good mood because
my face says it all. So today we're gonna talk about the different expressions that
we will use when we want to convey how a person is feeling based on his or her facial expressions,
The first word is beaming, when do I say that a person is beaming? So the other word for
beaming or the other expression for beaming is to smile from ear to ear and this expression
means nothing but being very happy. So you can say something like, when I got to know
that we have a holiday tomorrow, I was beaming or I was smiling from ear to ear, indicating
that I was very happy and it showed on my face because I was beaming, okay. So beaming
basically means you are very, very happy.
The next facial expression is called quizzical. Now another word for quizzical basically means
comical, puzzled or confused. So when a person looks quite funny in the face or if a person
looks quite puzzled or confused, you call that a quizzical expression. So you can say
something like, my little daughter had a quizzical expression when she saw that her lunch box
was empty. So maybe your daughter looked very funny because of the expression on her face.
Maybe she was a little puzzled or a little confused. So quizzical is an expression used
to indicate a look of confusion or the look of being very puzzled or the look of being
very funny on your face, okay.
The next one is a grin. Well a grin is more of like a smile but not a normal smile as
in when you are happy or beaming but a grin can be of two types. So you've got a sheepish
grin and you’ve got a wicked grin or shall we say a very malicious grin. Now both these
expressions are quite different, okay. A sheepish grin is made when you are embarrassed. So
you know, you fall off the chair, you get up and you're like, you’re embarrassed okay.
That’s a sheepish grin. Okay you're not amused you're very embarrassed because people
are looking at you now. So you give a very sheepish grin. A wicked grin is something
you do when you are up to some mischief or if you have something very bad in mind. Okay
you are a very naughty person; you’ve got something very bad in mind. So you’re like,
okay, so there's a difference okay. You have a sheepish grin which is like an embarrassed
grin and you have a wicked grin which is like not a very nice thing because you're up to
something very naughty, something not very nice, okay. So that’s what a grin is all
about. The other facial expression is a winced expression, so when I say I winced. Okay winced
is basically used when you are talking about being hurt, either physically or emotionally,
okay. So I can say, I winced when someone pinched me. So when someone pinches you, your
face goes like this, okay, ouch, that's a wince right? That’s when you are hurt physically.
How do you wince when you are hurt emotionally? suppose you have a very memory of a very bad
accident, okay I can't really make the face because I’ve got to really think about something
very bad but when you have a memory of a really bad accident, then you wince on the inside.
So you wince emotionally, okay so winced is basically a facial expression to talk about
being hurt physically on the body or emotionally in your mind, okay.
The next one is a dirty look. Okay you have a nice look and you've got a dirty look. What
is a dirty look? Well a dirty look basically means that you look in a very angry way, okay.
So you’re driving a car and someone cuts you off the road and you give them a dirty
look. Okay or you can also call it looking daggers. So you can say that the driver looked
daggers at me because I cut his lane or you can say, glowered or you can also call it
glared. I glared at the lady because she wouldn't stop talking loudly. I looked daggers at the
driver who always kept cutting me off or I gave him a dirty look because he was so annoying.
So an angry look is a dirty look.
Okay and the next one is to pout. Well what is to pout? A pout is basically well some
of us naturally have a pout. Okay so you do, that's a pout. When you kiss someone, okay
that kind of an expression is a pout. So when you are unhappy or when you are expressing
your discontent, you're not very happy about something, you kind of sit like this. So when
you are angry, when you are not very happy or you are just very complaining by nature,
you always give a pouted expression, okay. So you can say that the little child pouted
when he was asked to eat his veggies or his vegetables. So he was not very happy about
being told to eat vegetables. He’d rather have ice-cream instead. So pouted is basically
an expression to show that you are not very happy, you are kind of in a complaining mode.
You are not very content. Okay you are unhappy.
The next one is to be glazed over or a deadpan expression. So there are two different words
for this expression, which basically means an expression which is very unfocused or very
unseeing. You’re not really looking at something. This is an expression that comes on your face
when you are over whelmed with sadness. Okay so when you are very, very sad.so you're almost
numb, you’re very numb. So when people are really sad or when people are really high
on drugs or alcohol, they have this expression. There’s absolutely nothing. I mean they
are glazed over, it's a deadpan expression, like a zombie, almost lie a zombie like expression.
Okay so you can say something like, the night after the tragedy, the woman sat in her kitchen
with deadpan expression over her face. So she was glazed over, her eyes were glazed
over. So she had nothing on her face to show any expression at all. She was very, very
sad.
Okay, then the next one is a long face. Some people when they are sad again this is another
expression to be very sad or very unhappy. So that expression is called having a long
face. So I can say something like, what happened to you, why the long face? In other words,
it basically means what happened to you? Why are you so sad? Why are you not happy? so
when you’re talking about a long face, you're talking about someone who is really, really
sad, who is really not very happy, who comes down looking like this, okay so someone who
is very sad, has a long face.
The next one is, an unreadable expression. I call this or most people call this a poker
face. You know this is one of the best expressions, I believe because this is a very unreadable
expression. Someone who has a poker face can lie and get away with it. So when you know
you are playing cards or if you are in a profession which requires you to lie a little bit, it
pays a lot when you have an unreadable expression or a poker face. A poker face is a straight
face. You can also call it a straight face. When you have an unreadable face, a poker
face or a straight face, no one knows what you are thinking. So it is a very deceiving
facial expression because you could be thinking anything. You could be angry and you could
still be, you know hi, what’s up? So it's an unreadable face, a poker face and definitely
a very straight face to make sure that no one knows what's going on, on the inside,
okay.
The next and the last expression to talk about you know what you are feeling is a dumb founded
expression. What is it to be dumbfounded? When you are dumb, you don't know what to
say, you are speechless, right? So dumbfounded is basically an expression when you are speechless.
Well you can say something like, when Jim proposed to her, she was dumb founded. She
was speechless. So your expression wherein you don't what to say, you're dumbfounded.
Okay well that's it from me on this lesson on talking about facial expressions, I'm sure
you have some more facial expression that you'd like to talk about. If there are anymore,
please write into us. I'll be back with some more lessons, until then this is me saying,
good bye.