30 Intermediate English Words (Useful Vocabulary)

wanna speak real English from your first lesson sign up for your free lifetime account at English class 101.com cut it out the next phrase is cut it out now this is usually what a parent would say to a child when they want them to stop doing something stop it in other words cut it out really it's any situation that you want to have stopped now let's say my friend likes to click her pen all the time and I'm getting really annoyed I would turn to her and say cut it out Michelle I'm upset the next phrase is I'm upset upset here means not happy angry frustrated I'm upset you can say this in many different ways the intonation is important if you're trying to remain calm what's wrong Becky I'm upset I mean I'm really upset but I'm not going to show you or you can really just yell this like I'm upset with you I'm upset who do you think you are who do you think you are so you say this to someone when you feel that they're being way too proud maybe way too selfish they think they're number one they've done something and you can't believe they were so bold as to do that late who do you think you are Superman you can't run that marathon tomorrow with no training who do you think you are who do you think you are the President of the Universe watch your mouth watch your mouth we say this when someone is using bad language or language we think is too strong for the situation a lot of parents will say this to their kids or a lot of you know people fighting in a relationship might say that to each other so I'm not going to use the language here but if I said something very strong very rude my mom or my friend might say hey hey watch your mouth be careful about what you say you're not listening to me the next phrase is you're not listening to me pretty clear right yeah you're not listening to me let me say it again I don't want to go or something like that you're not listening to me is used when we're getting angry because we really don't think that person is listening to us so we say hey you're not listening to me I've been saying it many times but you're not listening to me let me say it again I want a raise let's stay together loving you whether times are good or bad happy or sad Al Green from let's stay together our first amazing love quote is from Al Green from his song let's stay together now first I'm going to say it for you then I'm gonna sing it okay let's stay together loving you weather times are good or bad happy or sad now for Al Green it's very important that you get very what we call groovy you got to get me feel feel the groove and this chorus this comes from the chorus less let's stay together loving you weather times a good or bad happy you're sad Thank You Al Green that was beautiful Al Green love it every time nice slow song playing on a Friday night with your girlfriend or boyfriend so this quote I love it because it means that Al Green or whoever is singing it to you is going to love you no matter if it's good times or bad times if you're happy or if you're sad and it kind of reminds me of the classic American wedding vows that we say we say I will love you this is AG not exact but we say I will love you in sickness or in health till death do we part I like this song a lot we should love each other in good times and bad right it's not love if you're just loving in good times right I want you there in the bad times to Bette Midler from wind beneath my wings our second amazing love quote is you are the wind beneath my wings we first heard this from Bette Midler in her song wind beneath my wings now this is a very beautiful song about it comes from a movie called beaches that was about to basically best friends so she's singing this to her best girlfriend and she's saying you are the wind beneath my wings in fact you are the person who gives me this feeling that I can fly and you support me so that I feel like I can fly so you're the wind kind of beneath my wings and it's this line is in the chorus repeated many times in the song and it goes like this do you ever know that you're my hero you're everything I would like to be I can fly higher than an eagle for you are the wind beneath my wings something like that I love that maybe will make you cry by the way girls get the tissues ready oh and then the spell was cast and here we are in heaven for you are mine at last Eddie James from at last okay our third amazing love quote is Etta James this is from her song at last oh and then the spell was cast and here we are in heaven for you are mine at last now let me talk for a minute about the phrase the spell was cast it's kind of like a witch that can cast a spell on you and so if you have a spell cast on you it's like you are under this this command from someone else and you are acting different because they made you do something but it's like you're so in love with this person that it's like you'll do anything for them you're under a spell you know we might say and so it's like we're in heaven together it feels like we're in heaven I've been waiting so long to be with you here we are you are mine at last now this may not surprise you but this is a popular wedding song Etta James sang this I want to say back in the 1960s I might have that wrong but it also became popular from the Beyonce movie a few years ago where she played at a James and Beyonce sang this song as well this quote is right in the middle of the song so don't be don't be surprised when I start very strong here here we go oh and then the spell was cast and here we are in heaven for you are mine at last there's a lot of quaver in the voice in that song actually it does come at the end of the song sorry not the not the middle but beautiful song recommend that song at last check it out by Etta James I keep the ends out for the tie that binds because you're mine I walk the line Johnny Cash from I walk the line our next amazing love quote is from Johnny Cash one of my favorites the quote is a little difficult I think so listen closely I keep the ends out for the tie that binds because you're mine I walk the line the tie that binds means a like a tie or a connection to someone you're bound to that person and Johnny actually wrote this song for his first wife Vivian as kind of a promise to her that he would not cheat on her on the road so by this lyric he's saying I keep my eye out in case anyone I keep the ends out here he says there's like his eye I keep the eye my ends out for any potential connection I don't want to be connected to anyone else because you're mine I walk the line now walking the line means like to follow a strict line or path and not go out or away from that line to follow the rules basically because you're mine I'm following the rules I am keeping my eye out in case I make any connections that I'm not hoping or wanting to make I keep the ends out for the time that binds because you're mine I walk the line sorry Johnny had to go high on that one Johnny did not follow those rules in fact when he met his second wife June Carter Cash who turned out to be the love of his life and on the day he met her he said you're the woman I'm gonna marry someday my baby don't care for shows my baby don't care for clothes my baby just cares for me Nina Simone from my baby just cares for me oh my god I love this song oh my god oh my god I love this song the next amazing love quote is I'm gonna say it's my favorite I just love this song it's by one of my favorite singers of all time Nina Simone absolute legend wonderful pianist okay here's the quote my baby don't care for shows my baby don't care for clothes my baby just cares for me now maybe by the end there you realize my baby is not her actual baby like baby no no this is her lover her love interest so she's saying my baby don't care for shows my baby doesn't care about going to plays or maybe movies my baby don't care for clothes my baby doesn't my lover doesn't care about buying the latest fashion trends my baby just cares for me my lover just cares about me so we don't need anything see we don't have to do anything special we just need to care and be with each other and so it's a it's a great it's a great quote also notice here the grammar is completely wrong my baby don't you should say my baby doesn't but this is for a stylistic flair if you will so here is part of this amazing song here we go my baby don't care for shoes my baby don't care for clothes my baby just cares for me oh where is my piano backup that song is gorgeous please check out the whole song phrase number one I get to check this off my bucket list in English we have this phrase to kick the bucket which means to die so to make a bucket list is to make a list of things to do before you die now for me one of mine was to go in a hot-air balloon I had tried to do it for the first time in 2009 but the morning I went the trip was canceled so here I am again more than six years later and I'm trying again and this time it was successful so I get to check it off my bucket list I get to do this thing before I die and I did it English class 101 listeners it was so exciting so you should make a list of things to do before you die your own bucket list phrase number two will you marry me so today is actually Valentine's Day and it's very popular on Valentine's Day and anytime you're planning to propose to your special someone to go to a special place and I can't think of a more special place than in a hot-air balloon there's enough space trust me in the basket to kneel down at least from my country the USA it's customary to get down on one knee it doesn't really matter which knee at least I've never thought so and you get down you kneel on one knee and you say will you marry me now unfortunately listeners I did not see any marriage proposals on my balloon yesterday but I bet you today there are over 30 balloons that go off here in Bergen EMR I bet you someone proposed oh it would have been such a beautiful and will you marry me that is phrase number two phrase number three this is a first for me so going in a hot-air balloon as I said I had never done it before so it is a first for me a first being the first time I have done something I'm sure there are many firsts that you can think of in your life that you've had and maybe many more first that you'd like to have so this was a first for me or this is a first for me phrase number three may be a first for you could be the first time that you've ever had sushi or the first time that you've ever climbed a mountain I mean there are so many firsts that you can have this is a first for me getting at a hot air balloon phrase number four the view is incredible from up here now this is something that we use in English to say whatever we've gone to the top of an observation tower the top of a mountain the top of a temple like I went to this morning or really any high place that you go to to take a great photo or to get an incredible view we say the view is incredible from up here phrase number five what a ride champagne time so at the end of my balloon ride yesterday as soon as we dropped into the field below we had a beautiful picnic basket unfurled on the field in front of us and we got to enjoy a glass of champagne to celebrate and when we finished something some incredible rides some maybe could be in a car on a bus it could be from a bad experience or a good but we say what a ride what a ride and when we're about to drink champagne we say champagne time this expression from after riding in a hot-air balloon originally came from the pilots of these balloons wanting to make sure the farmers in the fields where they landed didn't get too upset so they would offer the farmers some champagne along with any guests they may have in their balloons and that's where the tradition first came from so what a ride champagne time phrase number five how much is it - how is it - how much is it - the airport you might ask this question to find out how much it costs to take a train or a bus or a taxi to where you need to go if you get into a taxi for example and you ask how much is it to the airport the taxi driver will tell you $30 he'll tell you the price you need to pay to get to the airport if you're taking a train you might ask the ticket seller how much is it to the airport and the ticket seller will tell you the train to the airport costs $10 for example that way you know how much it costs to go to where you need to be does this bus go - does this bus go - does this bus go to the suburbs does this bus go to is a way of asking whether or not the bus that you're looking at has the destination that you need so you might get on the bus and ask the bus driver does this bus go to the suburbs whatever destination and the bus driver will answer and tell you yes get on or no you want a different bus what time is the next bus what time is the next bus what time will the next bus arrive by asking what time is the next bus you're asking when the bus is going to come to the bus stop or whatever station the bus will stop at this way you know what time you need to be at that bus stop the train is running late the Train is running late the train is running late again this is something I say all the time in New York City the Train is running late if the Train is running late that means you will probably be running late when you get off the train where are the ticket machines where are the ticket machines where are the ticket machines in this station a ticket machine is a machine that you go to to purchase your tickets you might see in any station whether it's a subway station or a regular train station or sometimes even a bus station there will be kiosks that you can go to to enter the information and purchase your ticket by watching English movies and TV shows and enjoying the feeling when you can understand a word or a sentence yeah I do this too when you enjoy something when you find entertainment value in something like music movies TV and you there's that moment when you pick up or when you understand what your favorite character said or you understand it like a key point in the story it's a really really good feeling it makes you want to continue watching I think so that's a really really nice feeling I think and you can do that by enjoying media so it's a fun way to learn and it's a fun feeling to experience okay the next way to motivate yourself is by reading English news articles blogs and magazines to get a feel for formal and casual language so the style that we use here like an English class 101 and this on the videos on this channel is quite casual most of the time or at least in these videos it's very casual but the way that I speak in the way a newspaper is written the way a magazine is written the way a a newscaster presents the information these are all different ways of communicating we're using the same language yes but there are different styles so it's important to try to understand those differences and to become familiar with them so try to find a few different things that you can enjoy the next way to motivate yourself is after dinner you write about your day in a journal in English okay this is an interesting idea so just take a few minutes after dinner or before you go to bed to write something in English about what you did that day or maybe so you have a chance to talk about future tense or to use the future tense you can use you can talk about your upcoming plans or the things you're going to do the next day so you can talk about past tense what you did that day maybe present tense how you're feeling as you're writing your journal for the and future tents to talk about your upcoming plan so journaling can be a really effective exercise for motivating you okay the next way to motivate yourself inspire practicing with flashcards of useful words and phrases for 15 minutes every day on the train I actually do do this I use but I use an application to study in Japanese to study kanji and 15 minutes every day adds up over the course of a week you can learn a lot of information in a short period of time and if you live in the country where your target language is spoken then you might even find the word you studied on the train you see it like after you leave the train you might see that word later on in your day so you can immediately feel like an extra sense of motivation by knowing that this thing you're studying is applicable it's something you can use right away it's a really cool feeling so this is a tip I honestly I use this last I make sure to thank anyone and everyone who corrects my English yeah I think this is really important because people are really nice they don't want to correct you when you make a mistake but sometimes people do they're really polite about it and they tell you the more tell you a more natural way or they give you a suggestion for how to improve your English make sure you say thank you like repeat after them and then say thank you so that you know it's motivation for them to tell you again in the future to help you again in the future so make sure to say thank you to anyone who helps you with your English personally I think that or I would just use I think that personally makes it sound a little bit more polite I think you can use this to introduce an opinion for example personally I think that pizza is amazing personally I think that dinosaurs would have been delicious personally I think that cars should be made to enjoy with friends personally I think that you should worry about it yes it's probably a much more useful sentence than dinosaurs would be the next expression is what does blah blah blah mean so we're here is the word you don't know so for example what does pasta mean what does Stegosaurus mean so a word like Stegosaurus is a really strange word that you probably don't know Stegosaurus is a type of dinosaur we're gonna marry dinosaurs I don't know Jurassic we're on a jurassic adventure at the moment so this is a pattern you use when you don't know when you don't know the meaning of the word and you would like someone to explain it to you so if you say what does Stegosaurus mean then someone can say oh it's a dinosaur it's kind of like it's a sort of short guy and it has a bunch of spikes on its back and it has a long tail and it gets into a fight with a Tyrannosaurus Rex if you saw the movie Fantasia by Disney okay in this sentence what does complication mean it means problem okay the next pattern you can use is can you tell me more about bla bla bla so on a topic that you would like more information about you can say can you tell me more about the soccer game last week can you tell me more about the plan for the party next week so something you would like more information about you can say can you tell me more about this thing okay so in a sentence can you tell me more about your sandwich options that is a useful sentence that is a useful sentence okay in this sentence here we don't have that back home can you tell me more about it mmm this is used to the reverse pattern okay the next expression is if it were up to me if it were up to me I had to teach this in a class couple weeks ago actually if it were up to me means if I could make the decision if this was my if this were my decision bla bla bla so meaning if I could make the choice this is what I would do but one point here is the nuance is it is not my decision this is not my decision but it if it were my decision I would do blah blah blah so for example if it were up to me every day would be Saturday whoo but it's not right so that's that's always the underlying that's always the kind of basic nuance of this phrase some this decision is not mine okay here the example is if it were up to me I would take my boss to dinner oh my things just got scandalous the next pattern is I feel like blah blah blah you can use I feel like when you introduce a suggestion or something that you would like to do especially for food drinks or activities so for example I feel like coffee I feel like Italian food I feel like an action movie there's some activity or something you would like to do at the end of this pattern I feel like bowling this afternoon something needs to go here some sort of activity of course you can use this expression to talk about your feelings I feel like something but this something must be a noun it must be a noun like if you feel really great I feel like a million bucks for example if you feel really bad I feel like garbage that's a nice expression that somehow it just came out of my head anyway you can use this in two ways but this must be completed with a noun phrase at the end of the sentence want to speed up your language learning take your very first lesson with us you'll start speaking in minutes and master real conversations sign up for your free lifetime account just click the link in the description

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Published: Tue Aug 13 2019