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So what are we going to talk to you about today? Well, in the advanced class, today,
we're going to look at advanced collocations for negative emotions and feelings. Negative
emotions and feelings. And like always, I think I've got 10 of these and I'll give
them to you in a list. And then I'll go through them one by one, and give you a few examples.
Here they are: to feel down, to feel sick with worry or to say I'm worried
sick. You can use either way that, it's both the same. So to feel sick with worry,
or I'm worried sick. To give vent to something. V-v. To give vent to something.
To weigh on your conscience or to weigh on your mind. Heavy heart. Nasty shock.
Dread to think. Bear a grudge or to bear a grudge. To dash somebody's hopes.
And then finally, to bottle up your feelings, okay. So all of those quite negative in their...
the way they express feelings. So let's go through them and give you some examples.
To feel down. Well, we can all feel down from time to time. And literally when we feel down. Uhh...
Our lips drop at the edge, or chin drops, or eyes droop. So we feel down. We feel that
we're lacking energy, we feel depressed, we feel upset, all of those negative emotions.
What are you feeling down about? Might be a way, somebody might ask you,
Ah, just feeling a little down today. I don't feel myself, I don't know what it is. Maybe
it's the weather or maybe it's just the the time of the year, whatever it might be, I just feel
a little down. I think I'll go home, put my feet up and have a glass of wine. So to feel down.
To feel sick with worry or to be worried sick. Or usually when somebody is worried sick,
they've got a lot of stress or a lot of problems on their mind because perhaps a family member is
sick. So they're worried sick as what's... what's going to happen. They've gone into hospital for
a couple of weeks, and then not sure what the results of the tests are going to be.
Or Oh my daughter, she's worried sick about the exams that just around the corner. They're going
to happen in a few weeks. And if she doesn't get the points she wants, I don't know what
we're going to do. So she's worried sick, and I'm sick with worry. So we're all under a little
bit of strain and all feeling the stress. I'm worried sick about the dog, you know, he's never
ever sick and I had to take him to the vet and the vet said he wasn't sure what it was. And we'll
check it out in a week or two. But he's no better. He's just lying around the house. I hope,
I hope it's not bad news. Okay, so to be worried, sick or sick with worry something on your mind.
To give vent to something Well, usually when we give vent to something,
it's to give vent to our anger, or to give vent to some frustration,
or something that irritates us too. So to give vent to our anger, irritation
or frustration would be good examples. When we give vent to something means we let let it out.
Okay, so perhaps you go and you kick a bottle on the street, or you go out and you kick the
lawnmower. Or you kick your bicycle to... to vent your anger or vent your frustration.
You might be cycling along enjoying the warm summer summer sun and you get a puncture on
your bicycle and you hear that terrible sound. It's as the air goes out of your tire. And you
realise that you don't have a pump with you. You don't have a puncture repair kit, you have
nothing. So you pick the bike up in you throw it on the ground to vent your anger. Argh, argh.
And then just by chance, somebody happens to come along who's got a spare tire or spare inner tube
and voila, they fix your bicycle for you. Okay, so to vent your anger, to vent your frustration.
You're trying to work out that mathematical problem and for some reason, you just can't
get the last little bit of that equation and you almost pull your hair out with frustration you
vent your frustration, and your mother comes running up the stairs,
Oh, what's wrong? What's wrong with you screaming about this mathematics? Yeah,
so to vent your frustration to vent your irritation means to show it, to reflect it
in some way by screaming, kicking, shouting, or whatever it might be. Okay?
Whatever you do, don't kick the cat, don't kick the dog.
Something weighs on your conscience or something weighs on your mind. So
it might go to the doctor if it's really bad. And the doctor says, What's up with you today?
Well, I'm not feeling good. I've had bad news at work. Yeah, there's problems at home, I have just
all of these problems weighing on my mind. And the doctor tries to talk to you and tells you Well,
look, these things happen from time to time, you know, try to get out, try to get some exercise,
try to get away from the problems. And if it doesn't work, we'll come back to me,
we can all always prescribe something. But I don't want to prescribe something,
unless it's really, really necessary. So try something a little bit more natural.
So when you've got something weighing on your mind, or something weighing on your conscience,
you feel guilty. Maybe you feel guilty about something you should have done. Perhaps you
didn't do the report as well, as you could have done for the boss.
Perhaps there was something a colleague or a friend really asked you for. And you said, No.
But when you got home, you're thinking about it. Perhaps I should have lent her the money. You
know, she really looked desperate. But you made a promise to yourself once that you would never lend
friends any money. So you decided not to do it. But now you're feeling a little bit
guilty. And it's weighing on your conscience, weighing on your mind. So that's something
pressing down on you like a weight here. To weigh. W-E-I-G-H, to weigh on your mind.
A heavy heart. And a heavy heart will also weigh on your mind. When we have a heavy heart,
it means we're sad about something. We often use the expression to do something with a heavy
heart means you do it but your heart's not in it, you don't really want to do it. Okay.
So perhaps you have told your kids that we're not going to have a holiday this year, because
really we can't afford it. And they're really upset because they were looking forward to the
boat trip, they were looking forward to the drive, they were looking forward to doing the
camping trip. But for some reason, we don't have the money, and you can't go. So it's with a heavy
heart that you call the kids together and say, Guys, look, I have to tell you that we have to
cancel the holiday this year, we just can't go. And of course, there's wailing and gnashing of
teeth and screaming that, Oh, you've ruined the summer, blah-blah-blah... a little bit upset. So
you do it with a heavy heart, you do it without wanting to do it, it's just one of those things.
Perhaps you're a school teacher, and you have to mark the exams, and you look at a few and
you've got a couple of bright students, but for some reason, they just didn't reflect it in the
exams or the tests. And it's with a heavy heart that you failed them. But you have to tell them,
they really need to try better the next time. So it's with a heavy heart,
that you give them the exam results because when you look at their faces,
they're going to be really, really disappointed. So to do something with a heavy heart.
A nasty shock. Well, a nasty shock can be literally if you stick your finger in the socket
on the wall, you'll get a nasty shock. Okay, but a nasty shock is something that's bad news.
I got a nasty shock when I opened the bill. The electricity has gone up by 60%. 60%! Can
you believe it? I don't know what I'm going to tell Bill when he comes home. So it's a real,
real shock and nasty shock.
We get a nasty shock when I opened the letter and found out that I'd been caught speeding a
few weeks ago. Afterwards that Sunday morning, I was nice and relaxed, just driving along on
the motorway and all the music on, no traffic in front of me. I didn't even see the speed camera.
And I don't even think I saw the police car. And of course, I opened the letter this morning. Yeah,
got a fine of 70 Euro. Could you believe it? 70 Euro, that's another nasty shock.
Or when you get the vets bill, you've taken the dog to the vet for the second or third
time in the last couple of months. And when the bill comes in, you'll go, Oh my god,
these vets they can really really charge a lot of money. So another nasty shock.
Okay, so nasty shock. Bad news. Something you weren't expecting something you didn't
want to happen. And yet when you open that envelope or you open that email,
there it is staring you in the face and very expensive invoice.
Dread to think about something. Yeah, now, we use this expression quite a lot. Oh,
I dread to think what the world is going to be like next year when we have all these food
shortages. What are the... what's going to be the prices of everything? Will we be able to
get flour? Will we be able to get ordinary things like pasta, even toilet rolls, okay.
Remember, during the pandemic, you couldn't get toilet rolls in the first couple of weeks
for love no money. So I dread to think meaning I don't want to think about it.
I dread to think what life would be like without mobile phones. How would we contact everybody? How
would we send messages? We'd have to go back to the old way of ringing up on those landlines or
even walking around. Oh my god, think of that! We'd have to get on a bus and go
see somebody. So I dread to think what life would be like without technology. I dread to think
what life would be like what my life would be like, without a mobile phone.
Okay, me as a teacher, I would dread to think what life would be like without online lessons.
I'd have to get in my car and have to waste hour after hour going to and back from classes. So to
dread to think or I dread to think what might happen. A negative view and negative feeling.
To bear a grudge. Well, we all have born a grudge from time to time. So if you bear a grudge,
it's a bad feeling or an ill feeling you hold against somebody because of something they said,
or something they did or something they didn't do.
A long time ago could be days, weeks, months, years, somebody or some people bear grudges for
a long, long time. There can be family grudges, of course, those families always have rows and some
brother bears a grudge against another one. And it passes on through the generations.
And somebody might ask, What's all that about? Why don't they talk to each other anymore? Oh
he bears a grudge because he went out with his girlfriend and eventually got married.
So it could be something to do with love often is to bear a grudge. Often, the reason has been
long forgotten about but the grudge is still there. And if you ask the people to explain
what what is all this about, nobody could explain it to you. So to bear a grudge is
when you hold something against somebody, something they did do, something they did say
or something they didn't do. And they bear a grudge for a long, long time.
Businesses in competition with each other. The... the
managing partners or the CEOs might bear a grudge against the other because they've got a
better position in the marketplace. And can be for many, many simple reasons to bear a grudge.
To dash somebody's hopes. Dash is a wonderful word to... You can dash means to rush somewhere,
or dash means to break something. To dash the glass against the wall.
To... The ship dashed against the rocks and broke into many, many pieces.
So when we dashed someone's hopes, we break them, we smashed them here, we destroy them.
So if you get bad results in your exams, that dashes your hopes of getting into
that university that you wanted to go to and you have to settle for the other university.
Your team lost in the semi finals of the cup. So dashed your hopes of being able
to go and watch them in the big stadium. Or it... they dashed the hopes of bringing
glory to the team for yet another season. Okay, so to dash your hopes.
When you were walking down the street, you...
you saw the boy who you fancied walking out with another girl and that dashed your hopes
about ever getting together with him. Okay, so when you dash someone's hopes,
it means they are over, they have ended. And they'll have to start again. To dash hopes.
To bottle up your feelings. When we bottle something up, when we put it in the bottle and we
stick a cork in the top of the bottle. So you literally bottle it up. When we bottle
up our feelings, it means we don't let them out or we try not to let them out.
And like every bottle with a cork in it eventually it will pop. Yeah, okay. So you have to be really,
really careful. And you have to be very careful, you don't shake it because it will explode.
But if you bottle up your feelings, you don't let people know how you feel. And you sit there steam
coming out of your ears. When you really should be telling somebody exactly how you're feeling.
So we often hear the expression, Don't bottle it up. Don't bottle up your feelings, you'll feel
worse, it'll make you feel sick. So let it out, go outside and scream, go and have a run or a cycle,
do something that will let those feelings out. Don't bottle it up. Don't lock it inside. You
don't keep it with a cork on it because yet it might explode and hopefully not in your face.
Okay, so those are the 10 particular
collocations all about emotions and feelings, all with a negative twist.
So let me go down through them one more time.
To feel down. To feel sick with worry or to be worried sick. To give
vent to something. To give vent to some feelings of anger or frustration.
To weigh on your conscience or to weigh on your mind. To feel guilty. A heavy heart, Do something
with a heavy heart when you don't really want to do it but you have to do it. To get a nasty
shock when you open that envelope and the bill falls out for an extraordinary amount of money.
You dread to think about something. I dread to think what would happen if... To bear a
grudge. To hold a grudge against somebody for a long period of time. To bear a grudge. To dash
somebody's hopes so that they can't do what they wanted to do, what they hoped to do. To go to that
university because they didn't get the right exam results. And to bottle up your feelings as the
last one where we lock everything in tightly, we don't let it out. And sometime, some place,
it's going to explode and it's going to cause a problem. Okay, so to bottle up your feelings.
Okay, so 10 particular collocations, negative emotions and feelings,
they're at a really advanced level. So as always try to use them, try to practice them you won't
remember them all, but try to practice one or two. Okay, I promised to give you my address.
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