10 BRITISH ENGLISH INTERJECTIONS Conversation training Chat like a native

hello everyone and welcome back to

english with Lucy today I’ve got a very

special guest this is Harry from the

channel really English with real

teachers hi guys hello lovely to be in

so we are lacking a member of the of the

gang are we we’re lacking Charlie who

also works with Harry on the real

English with real teachers channel and

what’s wrong with Charlie Charlie had a

skiing accident so he can’t join us

today he is bedridden bedridden yes he

can’t get out of bed he’s recovering in

bed and I saw a picture of his x-ray

broken shoulder yeah not nice you can

see it coming out like this

oh yeah it’s rank it’s not sort of

faint-hearted no not for the

faint-hearted nice expression thank you

okay so you guys might have seen my

video about five tips to help you

improve your conversation in English if

you haven’t seen already you can have a

look up here and in that video I asked

you guys if you wanted to see something

about interjections but really to show

interjections you need a partner someone

else as well so I thought I’ve got hairy

hair let’s do it together what is the

what is an interjection an interjection

is a word or phrase that a speaker can

use to show feeling or emotion so yeah

it’s normally used in spoken English can

be used in written English as well like

in stories if the author wants to show

how a character is feeling quite useful

hmm we use that a lot in British English

we use it a lot we really do and the

thing is if you want to improve your

conversation you really need to know how

to use interjections and also understand

them yeah because they’re different in

different languages so today I’ve picked

out my top ten interjections that native

English speakers use

and I want to help you understand them

and hopefully be able to use them so

let’s get started let’s do it yeah okay

so the first interjection that we’re

going to talk about is hmm hmm now what

is hmm when would you use hmm hmm

perhaps when you are going to think

about something yes you would use hmm to

show that you are thinking about

something so it could be great if you

get asked a question and you want to buy

a bit of extra time to think of an

answer hmm okay and it’s something that

I mentioned in my previous video because

a lot of speakers will say a like that

but we tend to say hmm with our mouths

shut and this is simply because having

your mouth open in front of someone else

is considered impolite yeah yeah close

close the mouth yeah I especially for

students who are doing like the IELTS

and the Cambridge speaking exam yes and

forget that yeah like Lucy said buying

that extra time think say a British

sound not a a say hmm that’s an

interesting question yeah yeah and you

just sound more native overall by not

saying and you say hmm

yeah very polite very polite yeah yeah

okay the next one is G’s G’s okay

okay and G’s I mean where do you think

the word G’s comes from probably a

friend Jesus it comes from the word

Jesus and it normally is used to express

shock or exasperation yeah so I can say

it in two different ways if I was to say

jeez what would I be showing hmm

probably annoyance yeah that someone did

something you didn’t like

yes the third interjection that we have

chosen for you is

whew hear it often be teamed with the

hand on the forehead yeah uhuhu we would

use the few interjection to show relief

that you are relieved about something so

maybe I’m running for the bus and then I

see that it hasn’t arrived

or maybe it’s delayed I say a few thank

God

yeah no yeah so you’re very relieved

about it I said it today

did you yeah yeah what happened so Lucy

and I had real problems with the trains

today and I thought I was going to miss

it and I was going to be late for the

lovely Lucy and then I managed to catch

the train and I said you feel that the

funny thing was I was on a similar train

and I was also delayed yeah but actually

we were both delayed so there was no

issuing no no it was fine so

interjection number four is oops oops

this one I think is quite international

yeah Spanish people tend to spell it ups

like oops and when we’ve reused it when

you do something clumsy yeah when you do

something by accident something I didn’t

want to do something not too serious

yeah like we can sometimes say so Daisy

yeah and that’s quite common British I

would say very not English probably

quite a British English expression I

can’t Daisy yeah I can’t imagine an

American person going whoopsie Daisy

oops-a-daisy yeah you know what we will

probably find someone in the comments

that says no I’m American and I use it

all the time so tell us if you are

American and you use that expression

yeah number five is um and um and what

would that mean well it’s so that you

clearing your throat ready to say

something okay hmm maybe you have to

interrupt someone to fit that man yeah

I’m going to say something let me

interrupt you okay so if I was talking I

want to talk now nicely done and people

will often say at home before they make

the speech mm-hmm did you dip it in ding

on a glass mmm and then go mmm I’m going

to make speech

number six is mmm mmm this can this has

many meanings we were just discussing

that we’ve a lot to show agreement that

we agree with someone hmm so yes I’ll be

talking and Harry will be agreeing along

with me mm-hmm

because you’re very you’re very

agreeable no thank you

hurry and we would also use it if we see

something delicious you might say mmm

yeah with a different information a bit

longer

no more wave to it yeah would you say if

you saw someone and you thought they

were attractive disagree it more I think

it depends really on the body language

with that one yeah absolutely agreed but

if you want to show that you’re agreeing

with someone without interrupting them

and saying yes yes right all the time

and just going yeah can show that you

agree yeah you could do that in a

meeting like a business meeting

mmm so for the next one how would you

show that you disagree ah mm-hmm so I

would go hmm with my students if they’re

saying something wrong or if they and or

if I think yeah they’ve made a ground

mistake and I want them to realize I say

okay so we’re showing a doubt we’re

showing that we don’t agree with someone

if we go in like a sort of questioning

tone yes or the one you said the one I

said which is the next interjection

today is like yikes yikes yeah

when would we say that which we would

say yikes

they’re so negative shock nothing

normally negative okay so when I saw

Charlie’s broken bone yes that looks

painful

yeah yep so you’re like thank you don’t

good example say yikes

yeah yeah something you think that

that’s a bit disgusting like yeah

now the next one that we’re going to

talk about is really really British and

it’s something I say all the time so

much so that I actually have to cut it

out of my videos quite a lot and it is

so so so is a word that I use to

introduce speech so I know I’m going to

say something so safe so next we’re

going to talk about actually it is not

best practice to say so that much but it

could be really useful for you if you’re

doing a speaking exam because it does

again buy you a little bit of extra time

yes yes so what do you think so I think

it’s really good so yeah it’s a I did it

yeah yeah it’s a way of leading from one

idea or one step in a conversation to

the next to create intervals between

your your diction or that the words that

you say exactly so I think it’s a really

good one to use yeah the next one today

is gosh gosh gosh oh gosh and when would

we say this one well we would often say

oh my god but sometimes it’s good not to

mention God and instead we substitute it

with God

oh my gosh which can then be cut down to

just gosh oh my gosh oh oh gosh yeah and

I guess traditionally people were very

careful not to be blasphemous exactly

not to use God’s name in vain yeah

exactly yeah so people would say oh my

gosh oh my gosh because if they said oh

my god

their grandmother would say that me yeah

yes be bad about the god it’s not his

problem yeah so oh my god isn’t really

frowned upon nowadays in Britain it

might be in America though a little more

religious over there yeah okay guys that

is it for our lesson on interjections I

hope you liked it I hope you learned

something

don’t forget to check out harry’s

channel real English with real teachers

and we’ve done a couple of videos

together one just gone live over there

on minimal pairs yes yes so minimal

pairs are really important especially if

you want to avoid embarrassing situation

yes absolutely so these two pairs of

words that one word is a very nice word

like Beach the other word is not so nice

it could offend someone yes don’t forget

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