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this week we are going to talk about
ways to level up your English adjectives
so you can see from the board today’s
lesson is going to be a little bit
different I’m going to introduce this
tool this tool is called an adjective
wheel sorry it’s hard to see but
adjective wheel so I’m going to use this
to show you how you can level up your
adjectives so when I say level up
adjectives I mean stop using just like
basic adjectives like happy or sad or
surprised and move to more descriptive
words so this is going to be our lesson
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adjective use in English how to improve
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down now I explained that today’s lesson
if you have joined our lessons in the
past today’s lesson looks a little bit
different I’m going to use this
adjectives wheel so this is called an
adjective wheel sorry it’s in a bright
spot on the board adjectives wheel so
wheel is this round thing so I’m going
to use this to one introduce some new
vocabulary words some new adjectives
that you can use the adjectives for
today’s lesson will be like emotion
related adjectives and there’ll be like
taste or like smell related adjectives
and then we’ll talk about some different
ways to use them also before I begin the
main content I want to point out this
thing over here many students ask about
the difference between adjectives that
end in Edie and adjectives that end in I
n G so like shocked
for example shocked is an IDI adjective
thanks shocked is an IDI adjective and
then there’s shocking that’s an ing
ending adjectives
so please remember easy adjectives
adjectives that ends in that Edie
shocked for example those are for your
emotions those are things that you feel
like as a person like that’s your
emotion those ing adjectives are for
things that are outside you so like that
movie was shocking the news was shocking
so please try to remember this many of
the adjectives I’m going to talk about
today are actually like we can use both
forms an IDI form and an ING form so
please keep this point in mind I will
remind you again a little bit later okay
so with that said let’s get to our first
part of today’s lesson
so I said that this is called an
adjective wheel so I’m going to
introduce like if you imagine like a pie
kind of I’ll introduce parts of it at
one time and we’ll talk about the
adjectives so let’s begin let’s begin
with this part right here so what is
this thing how do we use it these parts
in red at the center at the center here
these are our basic adjectives these are
the super basic ones that I think many
of you already know so today I’ve chosen
good surprised sad angry scary and
beautiful so these are just like basic
adjectives that we use a lot then this
next layer after that is sort of like
the like the medium level the
intermediate level adjectives but there
are different types of these emotions so
we’ll talk about some different sort of
feelings that relate to this original
emotion then which we’ll see a little
bit later this outside area is like kind
of the super deep I guess ways to
express like a a more specific emotion
or a more specific feeling so let’s try
let’s try it out so let’s begin with
surprised here so surprised is the base
adjective then from surprised I’ve got
I’ve chosen two for today
so amazed or we can use this ing form
amazing for something that’s outside of
you I’ve also chosen shocked so shocked
again this has this Edie ending so
that’s for your emotions I’m shocked
something outside you is shocking so
I’ll mark these ones with these ing
endings so amazed we use amazed for
something that’s a happy surprise so
like you passed a test you weren’t
imagining you had passed I’m amazed I’m
amazed I passed the test so shocked on
the other hand is like kind of a
negative surprise so like we were
shocked to hear of the robbery for
example so that’s something but like you
were surprised and it’s a negative
feeling so shock is a great way to
express that I was shocked for something
outside you it was shocking so again
remember that Edie ending great yeah
someone wrote I was shocked or the movie
was shocking good
and then amazed it’s like a happier more
positive way to express your surprise
nice perfect thank you okay
so let’s go a bit deeper into these two
then let’s start with amazed than here
so this word it’s hard to see sorry my
writing is really bad I’ll write it
again this we’re here under amazed so I
have two words that are under amazed one
is thrilled thrilled so this is a th
sound at the beginning of the word if
you saw last week’s lesson about
pronunciation this is a great one for
you to practice thrilled thrilled
thrilled is like you’re really excited
and surprised about something so
thrilled is a positive word so for
example like he’s thrilled to be part of
the project I’m thrilled to have a
chance to do this so it’s a very happy
surprise amazed word the other one over
here humbled humbled so humbled
expresses that surprise yes but it also
expresses gratitude so if you feel
appreciative you want
say thank you to someone you could say
for example like I’m humbled to receive
this award for example or I’m humbled to
participate in this project so these two
are kind of deeper ways to express a
positive sort of surprise then let’s go
to sort of the opposite then we talked
about how shocked I’m shocked that’s
shocking
is used to describe something that’s
like kind of negative and negative sort
of surprise so down here again I divided
shock into two feelings so here I have
alarmed alarmed and concerned concerned
so here maybe you can see already this
alarmed has this alarm root to it yeah
so alarm it’s like when there’s a
problem there is some warning that like
we need to tell people about I’m alarmed
so we use alarmed for things that’s like
where maybe worried about something
dangerous happening
so like I’m alarmed at the amount of
violence in the news these days for
example again with this word we can use
the ing form alarming alarming Lego news
was alarming we can do that with this
one too then this other one concerned
concerned I’m concerned or that’s
concerning this word is more for
something you’re worried about so you’re
surprised shocked and maybe you’re
worried not like danger worried but
worrying about what’s going to happen so
it’s like you know I’m concerned about
your grades for example that means like
I’m worried about your grades I don’t
think they’re good we can use the ing
form here too concerning that’s
concerning news
example okay so this is how we use an
adjective wheel so we’re dividing up one
basic adjective into deeper and deeper
adjectives so this will be the structure
for today’s lesson so I made this you
can make your own too if you like okay
let’s continue on if you have any
questions please do send them in the
chat I will try to watch the chat in
this lesson okay let’s move along then
to the next adjective so the next one I
want to look at is sad the next
adjective will be sad so sad is our base
adjectives
I broke it into two feelings lonely and
disappointed lonely and disappointed so
disappointed we can use this with an ING
form disappointed or disappointing so
this one we have some kind of
expectation and the expectation the
thing we thought was going to happen did
not happen so I’m disappointed that’s
disappointing lonely we we don’t use
lonely we can only use lonely it refers
to our like a human emotion so lonely is
used to talk about like when you want to
meet people or you haven’t seen your
friends for a long time for example
lonely so let’s take a look at the
adjectives inside lonely first we can
see them
so I’ll start up here the first one up
here will zoom in in just a second no
worries so the first one here is
isolated isolated so isolated isolate
refers to just being one of something
like there’s only you so I feel isolated
we use isolated for the ing form
isolating when we are alone so we are
cut off from our coworkers are cut off
from our friends for example I feel so
isolated these days
okay so isolated I’m like I haven’t seen
my friends I’m so isolated I got so much
work to do okay
then the other one here I have is
heartbroken heartbroken I included under
lonely we use heartbroken or we can use
heartbreaking as well ing heartbreaking
when we lose someone we care about so
this can mean ending a romantic
relationship it can mean like a loved
one a member of your family or your
friends friend of yours has passed away
has died so heartbroken or something is
heartbreaking like the movie was
heartbreaking we can say it causes that
feeling of loss of losing someone we
care about so isolated very alone and
heartbreaking losing someone we care
about okay so let’s go on to the other
adjective for this group disappointed so
I broke disappointed into two adjectives
here the first one is miserable
miserable so miserable refers to being
in a state of just like suffering or
discomfort or distress or unhappiness
like for example he hasn’t had a day off
in two weeks he’s miserable miserable
okay it’s just miserable so we can’t use
miserably we have to use miserable
there’s no ing form here miserable then
this one unsatisfied unsatisfied I’ve
talked about prefixes on this channel
before here we see one
so here the prefix unn means not
unsatisfied unsatisfied so not satisfied
so when you’re disappointed and it’s
because something did not satisfy you
something with not as good as you
thought it would be you can say I’m
unsatisfied like I’m unsatisfied with my
hotel experience or my stay I was not
satisfied with my stay I was
satisfied we can use this in the ing
form unsatisfying my stay was
unsatisfying okay good so this is how we
use an adjective wheel so I’ll introduce
a couple more sections later in the
lesson for now let’s take a quick break
da da
okay so for today the focus is on
adjectives when you need to like use
them to express your emotions so a
couple of situations where it’s really
useful to have a big adjective related
vocabulary are over here when you are
dating and when you are shopping so
especially when you’re shopping with a
friend like when you want to describe
how something looks so like sorry sorry
sorry so like over here for example when
you say can I try it on or do you have
this in a bigger size you might say
something like it’s like it’s not the
right fit or like I want something
that’s a little more extravagant I don’t
know depends on what you want to do but
these are examples of situations oh
sorry
where your adjectives use could be
important here’s a great one this is
from the dating or the romance and love
PDF this says you’re smart or you have
beautiful eyes for example you’re a
stylish so we talked about amazing over
here actually so these are examples of
situations where having a good adjective
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today’s lesson if you missed it is
leveling up your adjectives today I’m
using an adjective we
to do this so we’ve talked about one
part of the wheel so far so let’s move
on to the next two adjectives now that
we know how to use it and try to check
it out
Anderson kind person or a good person I
will talk about that right here
later I’ll talk about that later uh I
don’t see any questions yet but great
okay so let’s go on to the next part
next I want to move on to these two
the base verb or base verb face
adjectives are angry and scary these are
the next two so let’s take a look at
angry angry so I broke angry into two
parts the two parts for angry are
irritated irritated is the pronunciation
irritated and furious furious so
irritated can take the ing ending that’s
irritating my brother’s so irritating or
this movie was so irritating something
that bothers you so irritated might like
when I describe my emotions as irritated
it’s like something is repetitive often
something is repetitive and it’s
disturbing me in some way so I feel
irritated like my computer keeps giving
me the same error I’m so irritated for
example so inside irritated I included
two words this one’s kind of a higher
level one maybe lots of you don’t know
this one this one let’s look at
frustrated first though frustrated
frustrated can take an ing ending
frustrating that’s so frustrating or I’m
frustrated we use frustrated when we try
to do something many times and we keep
failing at that thing so it’s like I
keep I’m trying to I can’t fix the
printer I’m so frustrated for example so
you try to do something many times and
you can’t do it we use frustrated to
express that feeling or that’s so
frustrating for it
oh okay so a similar word exasperated
exasperated this is it’s hard to say
this is exa XS
exa s exasperated exasperated this word
also takes an ING ending
so that’s exasperatingly exasperated
this word is when we use when for
example we give someone an instruction
or we give a group of people
instructions and they don’t follow the
instructions and you just you keep
trying and trying and trying but they
don’t follow the instructions so you can
say I’m so exasperated or this situation
is exasperated so frustrated and
exasperated are quite similar but I
think exasperated is kind of a higher
level much more advanced vocabulary word
than frustrated uh okay let’s continue
on to Oh someone said she forgot to talk
about annoy I did not forget to talk
about annoy I just chose not to there’s
a difference
annoyed would probably be right here
annoyed and irritated we use annoyed and
irritated in the same way so we can use
annoying as well but I chose not to
focus on it for this lesson okay so
let’s continue on to the next adjective
if you have other ones you can send them
along let’s go on to the next adjective
which is furious so irritated described
some kind of like feeling of a repeating
thing that really bothered you so
furious is a different kind of angry
furious is where like your face turns
red or you like shout or something like
that so furious is really like negative
and maybe kind of scary so furious he’s
furious so like we broke the camera my
boss was furious for example I hope that
doesn’t happen
okay so furious let’s look then at these
two words inside hi inside bitterness
inside furious
the first one here actually these are
both really good words I think so
the first one is offended offended this
one does not have an ING form like well
it does we can say offending but to use
it as an adjective we say offensive
that’s offensive offensive something
that’s offensive
something that causes me to feel
offended so um this offended describes
an angry feeling because of something
that’s inappropriate so depending on the
person they feel offended about
different things I’m offended that’s
that’s offensive so for example don’t
use curse words in the office it’s
offensive for example so someone has
inappropriate behavior that’s offensive
offensive okay then let’s go to the
other one here this one is great the
word is livid livid another great
pronunciation point livid livid is super
angry so like livid if you imagine like
red in the face screaming shouting maybe
throwing things like it’s dangerous
level angry like my boss was livid or my
parents were livid I crashed the car
so there’s someone who is just super
super angry we can use livid to describe
that livid alright good um so that’s the
next part of the adjective wheel I want
to talk about um let’s see we have seven
minutes left
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is important it is when you are eating
I’m going to move on now to some
adjectives we can use when eating
someone asked about the adjectives good
for example so when you make a request
in a restaurant this is the dining so
dining this means visiting restaurants
for example so this one has some phrases
you can use to talk about food so being
able to describe your favorite or your
least favorite flavors is important so
here it lacks salt we’ll talk about an
adjective about salt later or it looks
tasty for example so this is another
situation we’re having some good
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to the last 3 parts because I’m running
out of time
today’s lesson is about leveling up your
English adjectives so we’re using an
adjective wheel today alright let’s go
on then to the next adjective oh I did
something very interesting here oh I see
what I did magic - oh no I just realized
ok I have to I have to quickly make my
thing a little bit different I realized
I left out an adjective but I don’t have
time to talk about it ok let’s move on
to the next one I’m just gonna make this
a big space beautiful we’ll talk about
beautiful now totally I’m good at
drawing circles let’s go on to the next
one we’ll go to beautiful
and good to end the lesson then okay so
beautiful is my base adjective for this
section here so I broke beautiful into
two categories this is one some of you
at sent me questions about like on ask
Alicia so I broke beautiful into two the
first one is gorgeous gorgeous the other
one is cute cute so let’s start with
cute here I think lots of people know
about cute so cute cute is used for like
children or things that seem kind of
nice a little bit childish they’re kind
of harmless mild little things so cute
so like for example what a cute puppy or
like um this design is so cute for
example it’s so cute then we have I have
two adjectives in the mid are in between
here I chose charming and adorable as
kind of the deeper adjectives for cute
so adorable adorable is used to describe
like very young kids or things that are
related to very young kids so it’s
something it’s like super cute if you
want a better word than very cute or
super cute you should use adorable so
like oh this picture is adorable like of
your children for example or all this
design it’s adorable so something very
childlike so adorable
charming on the other hand is like cute
but it’s but it’s good to use for like
adults so it’s something that’s cute and
like Pleasant but not necessarily
childlike so for example a charming cafe
or like a charming conversation perhaps
so these are things that aren’t
necessarily childish but they’re kind of
sweet and nice
and like maybe easy to understand
something that is charming okay good
then let’s go on to the other part for
this one gorgeous
so let’s contrast so cute adorable and
charming with gorgeous so gorgeous I
talked about beautiful here gorgeous is
like the leveled up version gorgeous
doesn’t have that feeling of
childishness so cute has that very like
childish feeling that young feeling
gorgeous is more grown-up so something
that’s gorgeous we could say for example
like the view is gorgeous or her dress
is gorgeous for example something that’s
a bit more adult inside gorgeous then I
chose two adjectives let’s start here
I chose stunning stunning and exquisite
exquisite so let’s start with stunning
so stunning we can use this in the IDI
form as well I was stunned
so to stunned the route here is stunned
so to stun means like to cause someone
to stop moving or to stop talking or to
stop breathing like they’re so like
excited or it’s so much so something
that is stunning causes you to stop what
you’re doing so like oh the view was
stunning or the cake was stunning it was
amazing so something that’s just really
really like you can’t speak it’s so
exciting
it’s so beautiful you can say it’s
stunning it’s stunning okay then the
final one here is exquisite exquisite
exquisite is not as commonly used as
perhaps some of these other ones
exquisite we use to talk about
oftentimes kind of expensive things so
maybe a jewelry or decorations in
someone’s house or we might use it to
talk about something that’s very
detailed like her necklace was exquisite
or the chandelier was exquisite
for example exquisite
it’s gorgeous and very detailed maybe
very expensive
exquisite okay great then let’s continue
on to the last one because we’re out of
time so it was actually a good thing so
let’s go on to the last adjective so
that was beautiful and you’ll notice to
these I did not mention most of these
have ing and IDI forms stunning we can
use both forms charmed is a word but it
does we don’t use it as often actually
so let’s move on to the last piece of
today’s adjectives pi which is good good
someone asked a question about this in
the chat about the word good so good is
an extremely useful adjective but it’s
really boring if you use good good good
all the time like this food is good or
like oh the movie was good give some
more information so let’s look at these
two I chose an emotion and a taste or a
flavor related word so from good if you
want to talk about people like my
neighbor is a really good person for
example if you want to talk about people
you could use a word like kind kind or
perhaps nice as well would go here so
someone is kind like they’re very warm
they’re inviting they make a comfortable
space for you you feel like relaxed or
at ease around that person they’re kind
someone who is kind inside kind then
I’ve chosen two more adjectives I’ve
chosen first generous is one generous
and I chose thoughtful thoughtful so
let’s look at generous first someone who
is generous is very giving so someone
who’s generous maybe they give money to
others or they feed others in the
community or they just give people gifts
someone who is generous gives a lot of
things someone who is thoughtful then
thinks about others a lot so they think
about the feelings of others or maybe my
coworker bought me a souvenir how
thoughtful for example or oh wow you
made my favorite thing for dinner how
thoughtful of you so when you’re
thinking of another person’s needs or
once that’s someone we can describe as
thoughtful okay
then last parts for today last part for
today’s lesson this is a couple examples
of adjectives you can use to talk about
food or drink if you watched our
livestream last year we talked about
other food and drink words so you can
check that for some more adjectives so
delicious delicious actually this is not
a word that we use a lot to be quite
honest we don’t say it’s delicious you
can it’s not wrong but we might use a
more specific word when we’re talking
about food or drink so here are two
examples rich and savory rich and savory
rich is something that has a strong
flavor and that’s kind of like fatty and
it’s usually used in desserts actually
so for example chocolate cake is really
rich so it’s like the flavor is kind of
like it’s like a deep flavor and there’s
some sweetness to it or like pudding is
really rich for example then opposite
that is a word like savory savory so
savory savory is something that has
again a deep flavor but is salty so for
example roast meats are savory or maybe
a barbecue sauce is savory so something
that has a salty flavor to it you can
use words like these and then we don’t
have easy or ing endings for these
because these are related to foods
not emotions okay so that is a quick
introduction I hope to a few a few new
adjectives maybe but if you are trying
to level up your adjectives you could
try to make something like this for
yourself also if you want to see more
examples just a google adjective wheel
seriously like there are tons there are
lots and lots of examples of adjectives
wheels for emotions and for tastes and
for smells so please take a look at this
if you want some more information just
google around so this is one I I made
this one you can try making your own or
just think about this sort of base level
adjectives and the next level and then
kind of a deeper way to express yourself
so I hope that this was helpful for you
I saw only a few questions and lots of
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for today so I will end there but next
week we will be back with a new lesson
as always next week’s lesson I’m going
to talk about date phrases so I’ve made
kind of into like a date slow I guess so
it’s like how to invite someone on a
date what to say a couple expressions on
the day and then after the date - so
next week will be about dating related
expressions and in general just like the
invitation related expressions - yeah so
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