Hi I’m Rima and welcome to today’s lesson, which is all about words to describe facial
expressions. Now all of us are blessed with face, which is our face and our face can come up
with many, many, many different types of expressions.So I have a few words which describe facial expressions.
Like for example, the first one, doleful. What do you think this
means? Well, it has nothing to do with a doll and it’s not about being full of yourself
either, it’s actually a very simple word called doleful, which means sad, that’s
right, sad. Simple isn’t it? So for sad expression, you can use the word doleful.
So sometimes, when you see someone looking really sad, really down, really out. You could
just ask them something like, why do you have such a doleful look on your face? You’re
looking very doleful today is something the matter? Can i be of help? And you know what
if you use the word doleful in this sense, you’ll come across as very compassionate
very observant and very very sensitive. So doleful is the simplest way, you know to kind
of replace the word sad, because the word sad is kind of really sad mundane and very
very normal common place word. But doleful is a good word to use over there, so what
you think doleful would look like on your face? Mmmm maybe something like melodrama that’s my thing. So well that’s
a doleful look for you, don’t forget the look, don’t forget the word and I’m gonna
move on to the next one. Now this one is my favourite in fact it’s my very favourite,
it’s called glaring and what do you think it means? It actually means staring as in
looking at one place or one person or at one point intently, repeatedly, continuously.
But it also means looking at somebody intently but with a little bit of annoyance, a bit
of anger, not too much anger , not like rage or anything, but a little bit of you know
feeling of annoyance a little bit feeling of anger. Now if you’re getting confused
then you know what? I’m going to clear it to you; I’m sure that made it really clear
for you? So glaring actually means staring in an annoyed fashion. So if you don’t like
somebody or if somebody offends you, annoys you at your work place or mostly this happens
a lot at home with mothers, when their little children just annoy them. All mummy has to
do is, she has to glare or probably better still. That one look and discipline is back
in the house. Well, I’ve seen that happen many, many places. So glaring is a great word
to use. Imagine using something like, she was staring at me in a very annoyed fashion.
Wow! That’s really long. You could just say, she was just glaring at me. And after
that i did not dear to misbehave, so the word glaring very very effective and i quite enjoy
the word, coz i enjoy glaring. I’m gonna move on to the very next one, this one, i
think all of us know this, it just has a very happy sound to it. It’s called ecstatic.
Now please remember the spellings a bit confusing. It’s ecstatic, but it does not have a letter
X in it. It is ecstatic. Which means very joyful. So if you receive a piece of good
news like the best news ever, news that you were really waiting for, for a really very
long time in your life and suddenly it comes to you. Say maybe in the form of an email,
in the form of a letter. You now or the door bell rings and you see someone that you’ve
been really wanting to see. Someone you’ve been missing, you just go ecstatic. Which
means you become really joyful. So whenever we are ecstatic,we could expressions like,
Wow! Oh my god really amazing. So don’t i look ecstatic now? That’s right. So that
is the usage of the word ecstatic and in a sentence it could be used like, when i received
my report card and saw my really good grades or excellent grades i was ecstatic and so
was my family. Well, this sentence kind of gives you the feel that my family didn’t
expect too much from me in terms of the report card, but that’s another topic for another
day. But remember that ecstatic means extremely joyful. In fact if i say very joyful I’m
gonna add another very to it and say very, very joyful. So it’s extremely joyful and
you could actually you know use expressions like, Yeah, Hurray, Wow, Superb. All of these
expressions and words can be used to describe the ecstatic feeling that you’re feeling.
I hope you’re feeling ecstatic so far listening to my lesson and yes the next one, hmmm now
this one not so positive. It’s called exasperated. Quite a long word isn’t it? Exasperated,
like i think it also has like irritated feel to it. So exasperated is annoyed and irritated.
So my exasperated expression could be like, oh! My god. Imagine the comparison between
ecstatic and exasperated. Ecstatic would be like, Oh! My god and exasperated could be
like, oh my god. How frustrated is that word right? It could also mean like annoyed, irritated
or frustrated. So rather to use in a sentence i would use t like you know, while i was driving,
i actually took the wrong road and then i saw that there was a long one kilometre long
traffic jam. I found it so exasperating. I wanted to scream in my car. Ever felt like
that? I’m sure you have everyone feels like that, you know almost on a daily basis. So
make sure next time you’re feeling like that, you use the word exasperated to actually
catch the correct tone of your feeling. It will actually make you feel better, I’m
exasperated with you, it feels great, i mean half your irritation, half your frustration
just drains out, because of using the correct word, which is exasperated. So well those
were my four expressions so far. I have four more very interesting words for you, now these
words also describe expressions, that’s facial expressions of different types. The
first one a very naughty one, its grinning. It means smiling naughtily. If you’ve seen
children they are always smiling, almost always unless you know a really cranky child. Most
of their smiles are not straight smiles, like for example, Hi; this is a very straight smile.
Their smiles are kind of naughty, impish, sly, like they are up to something you know.
Like they are up to some sort of mischief. So you always find children you know grinning
like, well i wish i had the innocent face of a child, but a naughty smile is what I’m
trying to explain to you. So grinning means smiling very naughtily as if you’re up to
something or in a sly fashion as if you’re hiding something, so if you have some trick
up your sleeve, you’ll find yourself grinning and moving on i have the next one, which is
very, very common place, its annoyed. Now this is pure anger, so annoyed actually means
having an angry expression on your face. So i could be like, you know so it’s very close
to glaring, but it’s a little more angry than glaring is, glaring could be like, which
is subtle and annoyed could be like, you’d almost always find yourself breathing really
deeply, when you’re annoyed, coz you would be controlling your anger. Well, that’s
annoyed for you plain and simple angry, now the next one yes, the temperature on the thermometer
is just rising, where mercury levels are soaring, coz fierce is very angry, so if i have to
look at you very fiercely, my expression would be something like, I’m watching you. I hope
you’re getting scared sitting there? So well if you have big eyes use them, to actually
put on this expression and you can scare anyone around you. Want to get your work done from
your boyfriend, girls just look at him fiercely and it’s gonna workout i your favour. Don’t
forget fierce which means very angry, so annoyed and fear are almost similar, it’s just that
annoyed is angry, but fierce is very, very angry. And yes the next one mocking. Now mocking
has a very interesting meaning, mocking means taunting or sarcastic. Which means you’re
trying to put down or very subtly disrespect the person in front of you, so if you want
to criticize someone, do it very subtly, you could say something like, you know, well you
look great today. So a person, who hasn’t seen your face, will actually think, Oh Wow
I’m receiving a compliment. How lucky am i, but moment somebody looks at your face
and they spot the mocking expression on your face, they will know that you actually mean,
not good. You actually mean something very negative towards the person. So you could
say something like, you look great today or Wow it’s great to have you here or it’s
wonderful to see you come here on time. You’re always on time, aren’t you? Now the expression
on my face actually betrays the fact that I’m annoyed and I’m taunting and I’m
being sarcastic. So i hope that you’ve got all the expressions put down. Well, in case
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This is me Rima saying bye. Take care, I’m gonna see you very soon with a new lesson.