Hi there, this is Harry and welcome back to advanced English lessons with Harry, where I
try to help you to get a better understanding of the English language. If you're preparing for some
proficiency exams, or if you're preparing for a job interview, or you just simply want to improve
your business English or your conversational English, well, you've come to the right place.
In this particular advanced English lesson, we're going to look at expressions and phrases how you
can encourage somebody by using English. So expressions to encourage somebody in English,
there are advanced expressions, okay, I've got 10 of them, I'm going to go through them with you,
then I'm going to give you a situation, perhaps when you can see it working, and then you can
use that as well. Okay, so I said, there are 10 of them, let me go through them. Okay. Now,
a lot of these, as you'll hear, when I said them, there is a lot to do with intonation, and the
intonation can change and put different emphasis on it. So I'll try to introduce that when we when
I'm giving you the situations that I feel worked for these particular expressions or phrases.
Okay, so let's look at the first one, you can do it. Okay, so there's an exclamation after this,
you'll see it on the screen, you can do it. So if you're really trying to encourage somebody
who's been in a little bit deflated, Oh, I don't know about this exam. I'm not even
sure if I can pass I'm not even sure do I want to pass. Oh, come on, you can do it,
you can do it. You've been studying hard, you've been working hard. After all, you know what it
means when you get it, you'll be able to get the better job and you'll be able to get more money,
you can do it. You can do it when you try. Okay, so it's all about encouraging some somebody to do
something they know they can do it. They just need that little encouragement from you. You can do it.
Next, it might work out fine. Okay, there's a bit of a risk that it won't work out. But
it might work out fine. Yeah, why not? It might work out fine. What have you got to lose anyway,
you could have to try, it might work out fine. So you know, somebody's worried about the job,
they're not so sure whether they should accept the job because it's going to mean changing location,
perhaps you're going to have to change schools for the kids. And when they talk
it over with their partner, they say, Come on, is a great opportunity for you. You know,
it's... there's risks with everything, but it might work out fine. The kids will settle very
quickly. Okay, for a couple of weeks, they might be just disorientated. But you know,
kids like to make friends very easily. The biggest problem wouldn't be for for you or me,
but I think it might work out fine. So let's go for it. Okay, so it might work out fine.
Next one, don't give up or never give up. So if you're trying to encourage somebody, then,
you know, it's easy for somebody to give up. You know, they try to do that tense exercise
and they can't get past it. They tried to get on to the next level of their computer games,
and they can't get past it. They try to get on to C1 in English, but they don't seem to be able to
get past the B2 level. So it's easy to give up and say, Well, look, that's it. It's not for me. But
if you want to encourage people, then you say, Look, never give up. Don't give up. People who
give up always regretted later on. So yeah, it's a little bit difficult. But you know what, just put
in that little bit of extra effort, and it will work out for you. So never give up. Okay, so we
should always encourage our kids that way. If they want to do something they want to be successful.
You gotta try. The Einstein and all that these famous inventors. They didn't give up the first
time they tried to do something they tried and tried and tried. And then eventually, that's a
eureka, eureka moment. It worked. So never give up or simply don't give up. Yeah, if you're running a
marathon, and you hit the wall at 19-20 kilometres or 30 kilometres or 35 kilometres, all the people
around you will be saying, Come on, come on. Don't give up. You can do it. Just walk out,
run a little bit more slowly. You'll get there. You've come too far to give up now, don't give up.
I'm sure it'll be fine was a little bit similar to it in might work out. I'm sure
it'll be fine. You say, Look, don't read too much into it. Don't overthink it. Or
I'm always telling this to my my beloved wife. She overthinks things. So I tell her,
Don't overthink it. I'm sure it will be fine. Things always work out at the end. It will come
good. I'm sure it will be fine. So you might do something you might have made a little mistake
or you know the way we are always our worst critics and our worst, our own worst enemies
and we do something. Ah, I'm not so sure I did such a good job. I don't think the interview was
really so good as I thought it might be. Maybe I could have answered that question better or
differently. I'm sure it will be fun. I know they haven't contacted you to say you're dismissed or
you've been dropped from the panel. So let's see what happens. I'm sure it will be fine.
Another way of expressing it, you never know. Well, of course we never know. I mean,
things have a habit of changing. Things have a habit habit of changing very quickly. So yeah,
exactly. You never know, you never know what might happen. You never know what the day... the
next day is going to bring. Okay? So when you're trying to encourage somebody, if they don't try,
well, if you don't, if you're not in, you can't win. So you never know. So for the
kids when they're entering a competition, well, look, if you don't go in for the competition,
certainly you have no chance of winning. But if you enter the competition, you never know,
you might have a bit of inspiration. Somebody might like your particular art
compared to somebody else's. And anyway, it's not all about winning, it's about competing,
it's about making yourself better, is about you being as good as you possibly can, in this
competition, in this exam on this particular day, so you know what you never know. But try,
try, try, try, try and try again. My grandmother used to say that to me, never give up try,
try and try again. Looking at this particular lesson, and if you do like the lesson, please,
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Another way of giving people some encouragement is expression, keep up the good work, or simply keep
at it. That this is a expression bosses like to use to give a little bit of encouragement
to the workers, you know, it's it's good idea, if you're the manager, line manager,
or whatever manager you are, when you walk around the room, or you meet the colleagues to give them
a little bit of praise. Yeah, keep up the good work, you're doing really well. Keep at it,
you know, we're getting there things are improving, you know, you're really settling
into the company. Well, keep at it, keep up the good work, you've got a bright future. So these
are good words of encouragement to hear. And this is how we should use them. So if you are a boss,
if you are a line manager, people like to get some sort of gratitude,
they like to get some sort of praise. They like to be inspired and simple words can inspire them
a lot. It's not about money all the time. It's not about promotion. It's just simple gratitude.
Keep up the good work, you're doing really well keep at it. Yep, you've got a bright future.
Give it a try. Well, this is a great way to encourage people, how do you know unless you try,
you don't want to take up a new sport. I think I'll give it a try. Meaning I'll see what what
it's like if I don't like it after three or four weeks, but I can try something else. So
perhaps you're looking at some of these sports, like judo, or perhaps you're looking at some
other sport or gymnastics, or something that you haven't done before, perhaps is learning another
foreign language, French, Italian, I'll give it a try. I really liked languages, I'd love to be
able to speak those languages better. I really want to travel more. So I give it a try. So to
give it a try means to attempt to do something, you might not be successful. But you know what,
sometimes when you give it a try, you get to like it, and you keep going and going it might
not be perfect the first time, but you will get better. So give it a try. Right? So it's perhaps
sitting in your driving test. Maybe you don't feel so comfortable with some of the rules.
Maybe you don't have enough experience. But you'll you won't know until you try. So when
you give it a try. You can be successful. So give something a try. Attempt it. Okay.
What do you have to lose? Well, this is a good way of facing difficulties. What's the downside?
What's the worst that can happen? So I often say to people, if they're, you know, they don't ask,
they will never find out. So what's the worst somebody can say? They can say "no." So,
you know, if that's the worst and you might as well ask, yeah. So if you're asking your boss
can you have more responsibility, than if you don't ask, you'll never know. If he says no,
you're no worse off. Okay? If he says yes, you're a winner. Okay. So you have to try and
ask what have you got to lose by not asking, Okay, what do you have to lose by entering
the competition? If you've got a good voice and you want to enter a singing competition,
but you're not quite sure your friends will give you the encouragement? Well, what have you got to
lose? You've got to go through some preliminary rounds. And if you're successful there,
you get into the final stages, more practice more experience. It could be a bit of fun. Now,
if you start off and you don't think you can win Well, every step you go further, is a little bit
of a win for you. Okay, so what have you got to lose? A bit of fun, a bit of entertainment,
the chance to get yourself on that stage a chance to test yourself against other people. You know,
you can you can do it. It's just a question of how you measure up against other people. So what do
you have to lose nothing really no reputation at stake, no money at stake, nothing to lose.
Keep pushing. Now, when we tell people to keep pushing, we mean, keep trying to move forward,
keep pushing yourself, yeah, keep pushing yourself to be better. Keep pushing yourself to learn more,
keep pushing yourself to perform better. It's after all, what it's all about, particularly,
for example, if you go to a gym, you have to keep pushing yourself, you go the first day of first
two days, You're as stiff as a poker when you wake up the next morning, because the muscles
are really, really sore. So you push yourself to go the next day. And after three or four weeks,
the exercises become easier and easier. So you've got to do something a little bit quicker,
or a little more frequently, or you have to lift in some extra weights, you have to keep pushing
yourself to perform well. Okay, so keep pushing, and you'll you'll achieve some sort of success.
And then finally, hang in there. Well, now this is when you're up against the wall,
you're back to the wall, and you've got really, really, you're not sure whether you're going
to succeed or fail. But somebody will say, Come on, come on, you can do it, hang in there. Yeah,
you're just, you've got another four kilometres to run, before you get to the end of the marathon
hang in there. You can do it. Yeah, okay. Or perhaps it's about some exam, you know,
you've it's in four or five stages, you've got three through, the first three to four stages,
you're in the last leg of it, you've got two parts to complete. And you feel like given up, it's got,
I've got to still do some more study. So somebody will say to you, Come on, come on, hang in there,
you've only got two parts to do, you've done three, you've done really, really well,
up to now. So just give it another few days. And then you can breathe a sigh of relief, it will
be all over. So hang in there. So hang in there as when something is getting a little bit tough,
a little bit difficult. You're not so sure whether you can continue. But you need that encouragement
for others. So come on, hang in there, you can do it. Okay, so the same with English,
you want to get to the next level level, hang in there, don't give up on your lessons just because
something got a little bit difficult. Don't give up because you don't understand some words,
don't give up because at some stage, we all have it. We feel we're not learning
as quickly as we might hang in there, you can succeed. So the people who come back to
the English lessons time and time again, on a consistent basis, guess what? They're the
ones who speak better English at the end of the day. So hang in there, learn as much as you can.
Okay, so they're the phrases that we would use where we want to encourage somebody so 10 phrases
in total, I'm gonna give them to you one more time. You can do it. It might work out fine.
Never give up or don't give up. I'm sure it'll be fine. I'm sure it will be fine.
You never know. You never know. And listen to my intonation. Okay. Keep up the good work or
keep at it, you'll succeed. Give it a try. What do you have to lose? What do you have to lose? Keep
pushing. Come on, keep pushing. And then finally, hang in there. Hang in there. You can do it.
Okay, so 10 expressions of how you can encourage people in English. Advanced English lesson try to
use them, try to read up about them. Try to put them in sentences and practice them and
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