AVOID Repeating These 6 Everyday Words in Daily English Conversation Use Advanced Alternatives
hello everyone and welcome back to
english with lucy today i have a
vocabulary video for you
please sorry i’m tired
i’m bored i’m sad and i’m fine
these are words and phrases that we find
ourselves saying
over and over again they’re incredibly
common
but we don’t want to repeat ourselves
all the time over and over so in this
lesson
i’m going to provide you with 30
alternatives for these words and phrases
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first we have please
please i find myself saying please
all the time it’s part of my culture it
even annoys me
now here i’m going to be focusing on
saying please when asking somebody to do
something
one really nice alternative is would you
mind
would you mind would you mind passing me
the salt
we also have a slightly more complex
version
i’d appreciate it if you could i’d
appreciate it
if you could i’d appreciate it if you
could let me stay the night
another one maybe slightly more casual
is would you be able to
would you be able to would you be able
to pick me up from the station
we also have number four this is quite
posh
i don’t suppose you could i don’t
suppose you could
i don’t suppose you could lend me your
bicycle or we have a really nice one
number five i wonder if i wonder if you
might
i wonder if you might i wonder if you
might be able to postpone the meeting
these are all really nice ways of
avoiding
saying please over and over again
next we have five alternatives for
sorry i have made a video on
sorry before but i think it’s so
important i have to say it again in
england
we say sorry again and again and again i
am so sorry
for how much we repeat sorry sometimes i
bump into
inanimate objects like the sofa and i
say
sorry to the sofa let me know if you do
that too
one really nice way of avoiding sorry is
to say
it was thoughtless of me or it was
careless of me it was thoughtless of me
to call you so late
another one quite strong i owe you an
apology
i owe you an apology for my awful
behavior
a very serious one one you might say
after misbehaving at work
is i take full responsibility for my
actions
i take full responsibility for my
actions
in that board meeting another quite
simple one
is i apologize or even better
i sincerely apologize that really means
something
sincerely honestly i sincerely apologize
for forgetting your birthday
and then the last one number ten this
one’s quite dramatic
i hope you can find it in your heart
to forgive me i hope you can find it in
your heart to forgive me
for breaking up with you i didn’t mean
it now we have
some alternatives for i’m fine or
i’m good that very common response to
how are you a really positive one
is i couldn’t be better i couldn’t be
better
this means that you feel as good as
possible
you physically could not feel any better
sometimes we leave off i so we just say
couldn’t be better alternatively if
you’re not feeling great
you could say could be better i could be
better
one that’s slightly less positive it’s
kind of
in the middle i’ve been worse or
been worse this means you’re not the
best
you can be but you’re also you know you
have felt worse in the past
this next one is lovely it’s one that my
grandparents use a lot
it is i’m as fit as a fiddle as fit as a
fiddle and this means i’m really good
especially focusing on health i feel
very healthy
another sort of average one not too bad
thanks
or just not bad i really like
not too bad because it implies you know
i’m not great but i’m also not too
bad so i’m okay and then we have the
last one
i’m doing well i’m really doing well
thanks
you will also hear people say i’m doing
good thank you
this is informal in this context
some people say no that’s not
grammatically correct
it depends on the context also it’s so
commonly used now that i feel the
language has evolved
right next section i have some very good
although a bit sad alternatives for
saying i’m sad
we have i’m gutted i’m
gutted and this is a very british
expression it’s slang
and it means i’m very sad or i’m very
disappointed
i’m gutted that you can’t make it
tonight i’m so sad and disappointed that
you can’t make it tonight
you can’t make it is that you can’t come
to an event you say oh i can’t make it
i’m sorry i can’t come
we also have i’m absolutely
devastated this means so sad so
disappointed
i was devastated when i didn’t get into
my first
choice university but it turned out okay
in the end
to turn out okay means that everything
was fine in the end
one that you can use if you’re feeling
depressed is
i’m feeling really down low
you can also say low i’m feeling really
down
i’m feeling really down about the
breakup i’m feeling very depressed about
the breakup
if you really want to explain to
somebody that actually
you could use a bit of a hand you’re
really not feeling good
i’m not doing so good i’m not doing so
good
or i’m not doing so great really listen
to somebody
if they tell you that they’re not doing
so good or they’re not doing so great
we also have i’m a bit down in the dumps
if you’re down in the dumps it means you
are feeling
sad and depressed for those last three
if anyone uses them with you
really listen to them and look after
them because they are definitely
trying to explain that they’re having a
hard time the first two were more about
disappointment
the last three are a real expression of
emotional feeling
next we have alternatives for i’m tired
i’m
tired we have a lot of slang ones here
and a couple of phrasal verbs
we have i’m absolutely exhausted
exhausted this means very very tired
we also have a phrasal verb i’m
worn out i’m worn out if something is
worn out
it means it has been used too much and
can’t be used anymore
like shoes when the soul gets thin they
are
worn out well we can use this to
describe people as well
if you’re worn out you’ve been used too
much you can’t be used anymore you’re
too tired
we also have a very british slang word
it is i’m
knackered i’m completely knackered
the k is silent here knackered
and in cockney rhyming slang you can say
i’m cream crackered i’m cream crackered
if you’ve never heard of cockney rhyming
slang
search it it’s so much fun number 24 we
have another that comes from a phrasal
verb
i’m done in i’m totally done in
this one is very slang very informal and
lastly we have
i’m completely drained drained of my
energy that’s one my mum says a lot at
the end of the day oh
i’m completely drained or she also says
i’m completely sapped
as well sapped or drained she’s very
dramatic i love her
and then the last five we have five
not boring ways to say that you are
bored
we have i’m bored to death
or i’m bored to tears i could cry
i’m so bored or i could die i’m so bored
i love these
they’re so dramatic we also have
it’s like watching paint dry there is
nothing more boring than watching paint
dry
so if you’re in a really boring lecture
and your friend says
you know you watching this it’s like
watching paint dry it is so boring
we also have i’m bored stiff i’m bored
stiff i’m so bored that my body has gone
rigid
a phrase that we can use to describe
somebody who is boring
is a total bore he is a total bore
i went on a date last night but he was a
total bore and the last one
a bit of a snore he’s a bit of a snore
this new class is a bit of a snore a
snore
something that’s boring slang again
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