How to use BOMBARDED BY Advanced Phrasal Verb Practice
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English wonderful today we have an
advanced phrasal verb that we’re going
to talk about I called this an advanced
phrasal verb because it’s not something
that you’re gonna see in the list of top
10 phrasal verbs but it’s used a lot I
think that’s because the first part of
today’s verb is not a typical verb like
go pass walk see it’s a little longer
maybe a little more advanced so we’re
gonna practice saying it over and over
again and actually today’s phrasal verb
came from one of your questions one of
you asked me Vanessa how can I use this
phrasal verb so if you have any other
phrasal verbs for expressions or
questions that you want me to make a lot
video about or explain about you’re
welcome to ask me and I’ll try my best
include it in one of our lessons does
anyone know what is today’s phrasal verb
what’s today’s verb that we’re going to
talk about starts with Abby and I guess
if you see the title of today’s video
then you probably already know but it is
to be bombarded by something bombarded
by something but do you know what this
phrasal verb we can use it in two
different ways we could say bombarded by
something or bombarded with something
and it’s the same thing so today I’m
gonna use both by and with
interchangeably and you can do the same
thing too if some of you asked a
question or have a sample sentence and I
feel like maybe one is better than the
other I’ll let you know but from my
personal experience I feel like both of
these are really the same so let’s
practice using this together and I want
to ask you a question have you ever gone
to a website let’s say Amazon amazon.com
yesterday I was on amazon.com and then
when I went on Facebook oh I was
bombarded by advertisements from the
products that I was looking at on Amazon
Amazon knows that I was looking at those
products and they knew that I didn’t buy
them yet so they sent me an
advertisement on Facebook everywhere
there were probably 1015 advertisements
on Facebook for Amazon so I want to know
for you
what kind of advertisements do you get
bombarded
by who all right I’m gonna write this
sample sentence here on my clipboard
just to help you but this is something
that can be useful maybe you forgot
about that product and you want to go
back and buy it later or it can be
annoying because you were just curious
you were just looking at different
things and now you’re bombarded with all
the advertisements so I’m gonna write
this sample sentence here I was
bombarded by a lot of ads I’m just gonna
say ads it really means advertisements
but we could say I was bombarded by a
lot of ads it seems like most people
don’t really enjoy this don’t really
enjoy this concept being bombarded by
ads and generally being bombarded by
something means it’s overwhelming you
don’t really want that to happen
ah we have some great sample sentences
here contest
I’m usually bombarded by beauty product
advertisements on says when UNAM says
when I do online shopping I am always
bombarded by several shopping brands
yeah they’re everywhere
Lucic says I hate to be bombarded by
silly content on YouTube oh yeah YouTube
thinks that you’re interested in
something but maybe you’re not really
interested but it’s everywhere you are
bombarded by that you’re bombarded by
your students mail from all over the
world
oh well bombarded by has kind of a
negative connotation it means you don’t
really want it it’s annoying
Federica you’ve got it correct it’s
annoying
but when I get emails from students it’s
not annoying it’s actually pretty
interesting because I’m curious about a
lot of people write to me about their
experience learning English or some
questions that they have and it really
helps me to know if I’m on the right
path am i helping in the right way or
maybe I should try something different
maybe teach in a different way or teach
some different style of expressions so
it’s useful for me so let’s remember
that this is usually negative oh we’ve
got a really interesting different kind
of sentence here I am bombarded by my
wife when I come home late ooh
so when you come home your wife is
everywhere where have you been what are
you doing
what oh really aggressive and everywhere
asking lots of questions not letting you
forget that you came home late ooh
so we can be bombarded by ads or we
could be bombarded by other things CEO
she says I was bombarded by a lot of
rain during the last race oh yeah
it rained too much and this is a great
way to use it I was bombarded by rain
bombarded Oh Igor has a good point I
hate getting bombarded by smoke as I’m
enjoying my meal yeah if you’re eating
outside and some people beside you are
are smoking you can’t really completely
enjoy your meal because you have to
breathe you want to be able to breathe
clearly Andre says I was bombarded by a
lot of boring conversations oh so it’s
just non-stop around you you want to get
away from it I think this is something
that we can use maybe if you go to let’s
say the typical example is a family
reunion you haven’t seen your aunts and
uncles and cousins for two years and all
of a sudden everyone is asking you the
say
in questions how’s your life how’s your
job how’s your family and after 30
minutes you feel pretty tired of
answering those same questions again and
again so you can use the sentence I was
bombarded by my family I was bombarded
by so many questions now let’s quickly
talk about the pronunciation for this
it’s pretty clear there’s not really any
silent letters but because it’s kind of
a long word I want to make sure that
you’re pronouncing it correctly so let’s
say BOM bar did bombarded bombarded
bombarded bombarded with advertisements
bombarded by advertisements you can
maybe see here we have a a root word
bomb and when we say bomb now bomb is
typically something that is explosive
and destructive and when we say this
word there were a lot of bombs the B is
silent but when we say this forward
bombarded bombarded barded you can hear
the B so in this word the B is not
silent let’s make sure that we say it
but when you say this word the root word
by itself make sure that the B is gone
so here bombarded I was bombarded Oh
Manuel says I don’t like getting
bombarded by my boss while I’m studying
oh you’re trying to focus and it’s
impossible let’s also practice using
bombarded with now you can use the same
kind of sentences but let’s just
practice with so that you’ve got two
options because you’re going to
you’re both of these and both of them
are fine you might have noticed that I
use buy more often than with but really
both are fine don’t worry about it
so we can let me take one of your
sentences here and add with instead oh
how about James says I was bombarded
with a lot of criticism oh this is
interesting
after I wrote the article so maybe you
wrote a controversial article you wrote
an article about something that other
people didn’t agree with and there was a
lot of criticism so you could say I was
bombarded with a lot of criticism I was
bombarded by a lot of criticism both are
excellent I want to make sure that we
have a possibility to answer any
questions about this expression because
I saw a couple here such as can we use
this in a positive sense can we use this
for things that are good someone here
wrote that when I get home I was
bombarded by my children’s kisses you
can say this but typically it’s kind of
sarcastic or a joke because usually
bombarded we have our root word here
that is bomb our root word is a bomb and
a bomb is a a bad thing a negative thing
so typically we imagine destruction
annoyance to much of something
and when you get home from work if your
kids are giving you kisses it’s a
positive thing you can’t get too much so
if you say this with a positive
situation I was bombarded by my kids
kisses then you kind of can say it with
a smile maybe with a joke like oh it’s
so much I can’t take it it’s so much
it’s overwhelming but usually it’s with
kind of a negative situation yes we can
use this with homework I was bombarded
by homework I was bombarded by homework
Barbara says your videos are being
bombarded by a lot of comments so maybe
for me I’m trying to read and interact
with your comments but I am being
bombarded by so many that it’s hard for
me to read all of them but that’s a good
thing right
Ariella says my daughter was bombarded
with a lot of gifts for her birthday oh
so maybe this has a connotation that she
was overwhelmed that she got so many
gifts she was bombarded by so many gifts
but in the end she was happy because she
got a lot of interesting things Oh
Brenna says I was bombarded by my
daughter when she wanted something ooh
so maybe your daughter doesn’t stop
asking you when she wants something she
repeats it again and again and again and
I hope that that’s something that you
can do with English when you learn
something new you can repeat it again
and again and again so let’s practice
saying a sentence all together let’s
practice saying a sentence using
bombarded by whoo hmm let’s try to
connect this with English but because
it’s a negative thing I want to try to
create a sentence somewhat positive
using English how about i/o if you want
to write this as a dictation go ahead
you can write this in the chat box write
this in the comments try to write this
and see if you can write it accurately
how about I I don’t want to be bombarded
by boring English material I want only
useful material I don’t want to be
bombarded by boring English material I
want only useful English material I
don’t want to be bombarded by boring
English material I want only positive
useful interesting English material and
this sentence I want to say it again and
again with you so that you can say it
out loud practice your pronunciation
practice your sentence structure and
speaking because I think it’s really
useful to hear your voice
using English it’s good to hear someone
else’s voice listening is really
important but the most important thing
is imitation and using it if you have
kids in your house or you have ever been
around kids you know that they love to
imitate exactly what other people are
doing so if you say a bad word they’re
going to imitate it if you do something
funny or crazy they’re going to imitate
it and that’s how they learn so this is
the first step is imitating my sentence
and trying to use this so let’s say this
all together Thank You Sebastian for
writing this down I don’t want to be
bombarded by boring English material I
want only positive material great let’s
say this together I’m gonna say it
slowly I want you to repeat try to
follow my lips follow the my tongue try
to use the same
pronunciation I don’t want to be
bombarded by boring English material
I want useful material let’s say it a
little faster because we can link these
together and emphasize certain parts of
the sentence I don’t want to be
bombarded by boring English material
I want useful English material I don’t
want to be bombarded by boring English
material
I want useful material and I hope that
today this lesson about this advanced
phrasal verb will help you to expand
your vocabulary and also just help you
to understand more as well because
understanding is a great step next is
using it yourself so first of all now
you’ve heard this phrasal verb a lot so
I hope that for you
you are not bombarded by boring material
I hope that you will be surrounded by
useful material repeat this lesson write
down a lot of the sample sentences write
some of your own sample sentences and
use this when you speak with someone in
English when you write in English
use this phrasal verb advanced phrasal
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