Stop Being BORING in English | The 10 Most Amazing English Expressions In The World! !

here we go again guys with another English video this time we're looking at ten useful phrases that you can use to make your English sound more interesting and more exciting we're trying to stop our English sounding boring that's the aim of today's lesson now we're going to be doing that by looking at exaggeration now exaggeration is when we make something sound more interesting or bigger or more important than it actually is so for example I didn't just see any spider I saw an enormous spider and that makes it sound bigger than it really was so these are 10 phrases that you can use to make your English sound more interesting all that is coming right up so when do we exaggerate well we exaggerate when we want to make what we're saying sounds more interesting or funnier although we want to emphasize a particular point so these are really great to make your stories and what you say sound more interesting all right let's do number 1 oh my shoes are killing me remind me so if you want to show that something is really hurting you or it's really so you could use the phrase it's killing me so my shoes are killing me they're not literally killing me I'm still alive I'm still going to be ok but we use it to emphasize just how painful or saw this thing is I'm so hungry I could eat a horse this is a great phrase to use when you are really really hungry so hungry that you can eat a horse again not literally but we use it as a phrase to just express and to emphasize our hunger I could eat a horse now I'm really curious to know what's that in your language I'm so hungry I could eat a what animal would you say Oh what thing would you say let me know in the comments below oh my god this computer is taking for ever to start come on right to show that something is taking too long a really long time we will say it's taking forever forever like till the end of time so obviously not literally I haven't been waiting for my computer to start forever but it feels like it so we use it take it takes forever or it's taking forever to show that it's been too long a long time so yeah you might be waiting for a bus and you might say oh that's taking forever just means it's taking a really long time and you're not happy about it look I've apologized a million times I don't know how many more I can do we use the number a million to exaggerate how many times we've done something so in that example I've apologized a million times I mean I didn't apologize for many times that is completely rubbish I maybe apologized twice or three times we use it to exaggerate how many times we did it so it's a really great phrase maybe your friend has told you a story before and you say yeah yeah I've heard this thirty million times and you're saying oh yes I've heard this story before you don't need to tell me again so a lovely bit of exaggeration to be a bit humorous I guess it's nice to be a bit funny with your language there's a great quote by an English comedian called a Rik Mayall and he said I told you a million times don't exaggerate for me this is the best view in the world look at this ah it's amazing we use superlatives to express our feelings especially really strong emotions to say that something is the best in a world or maybe your husband is the most handsome man in the world or your wife is the most beautiful woman in the world now we can't obviously say that someone is the best all the most beautiful in the world or the most handsome in the world but we like to exaggerate just to show how much we like something or that we love something in London in Primrose Hill I think it's the best view in the world I mean obviously there are other incredible views but for me I'm going to use a bit of exaggeration to express how I feel it's the best view in the world hmm oh this ice cream is out of this world oh that's amazing so good if you say something is out of this world you're saying that it's extremely good you're emphasizing that it is extremely good or impressive we often use it with food I think that's the most common use that I can think of so so are this this chocolate dessert is out of this world this chocolate dessert is out of this world just means it's it's amazing it's fantastic Oh Leo Messi is on fire tonight ah he's amazing right three goals three assists what a player what's a player this one is not literal Leo Messi is not literally on fire it means more that he's unstoppable or he's on great form that he can do anything that he wants there's something magical in the way that he's playing tonight so if you are on fire then you are unstoppable you can do anything maybe for example your friend is being quite funny they've said a lot of funny jokes you can say oh my god you you're on fire today like is he like yeah you're saying so many funny things you're on great form that kind of thing so to be on fire oh my flatmate is going to kill me when he sees the broken window if we want to express that we think we are in trouble with someone we would say they're going to kill me now obviously literally they're not going to kill you but they might be very angry or very upset about something this one is from my childhood like Oh No but dad's going to kill me that I did that or my mom's gonna kill me because I did something wrong so it's a really exaggerated phrase to say that you think you're in trouble with someone that they might be angry or upset with you so in that case my flatmate is going to kill me because I broke his window so yeah he might be angry or upset with me okay it's hotter than the Sun in here let's open a window just like with superlatives we can use compare is to exaggerate about the things that we've seen or done so in that example it's hotter than the Sun hotter is the comparative adjective and in hotter than the Sun obviously it wasn't actually hotter than the Sun that would be madness but it felt really hot another one going back to my spider example this spider was bigger than my head that spider was bigger than my head now that would be quite amazing I mean if there is a spider bigger than your head certainly there isn't one in England I hope so yeah we're just exaggerating to make it sound bit funny a bit more interesting get the the listeners attention what the spider is bigger than your head oh my god I mean yeah so it makes the language of the story sound more intriguing more interesting makes the list I want to listen more I don't know by whom I'm starving let's should we have lunch and the final one it's again talking about how hungry we are and starving not literally that is of course awful but we use it to exaggerate ah not just a little bit hungry I'm starving just to express what to emphasize that feeling of that emotion so those are ten phrases that you can use to make your English sound more interesting more exciting get people to listen to you even more because your English is so interesting in the comments below I'd love you to write a sentence using any one of those phrases you could talk about your English or tell me a story try and practice and use those phrases in the comments below that would be fantastic guys remember that I release new videos every Tuesday and every Friday so that you guys can take your English to the next level so remember to hit the subscribe button hit the notification button as well so you don't miss one single video until next time guys this is Tom the chief dream on saying goodbye

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Length: 8min 39sec (519 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 29 2017