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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