10 REAL ENGLISH EXPRESSIONS YOU SHOULD USE EVERY DAY
hey you want to sound like a native
english speaker right
you want to speak english fluently well
i
want to help you so today i’m going to
teach you 10
english expressions that will help you
and you can use them
every single day are you ready
all right now before i teach you these
expressions i want to remind you to
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i’m teacher tiffany let’s jump right in
all right so let’s get into the very
first english expression
the first expression is bend
the rules and it means to not
be strict or exact about following a
rule
now this expression bend the rules is
very common
and when you use it you will sound like
a native english speaker
let me tell you about one of my friends
who likes to bend the rules
i won’t say her name now this friend is
great everyone loves her
but she always likes to have her way
so one time we went to another friend’s
house and
he had a pool he had an apartment
actually but there was a pool
connected to his apartment now the pool
closed
at a certain hour but my friend decided
she still wanted to go swimming
she said i know the rule says that we
can’t go swimming at this time but
if somebody opens the pool or we happen
to get in the pool area
i mean is it really that bad it was at
that moment
i realized ah she really loves to
bend the rules makes sense right
maybe you have a friend just like that
alright so
let’s move on to number two the second
english expression you can use today
is word of mouth
now this means given or done by
people talking about something or
telling people about something in
english we say
word of mouth now this is again an
expression you can use
every day i’ll tell you something
yesterday
july 10th was my birthday and my
favorite food is
indian food i really love it so i wanted
to figure out
what the best indian restaurant was
restaurant was in maryland where i live
so i posted something on facebook i said
hey fam
hey friends can you tell me what’s the
best
indian restaurant in the maryland area
and so many comments came under that
post
and people said many different locations
but
one location amber spice if you’re ever
in maryland
came up multiple times so i said hmm
amber spice the indian restaurant must
be good
so i tried it and he was the food good
so because of word of mouth i decided to
try the indian food so word of mouth
is very powerful again word of mouth
being
other people saying hey hey hey and you
hear it and it
influences you we say oh word of mouth
like word of mouth
marketing makes sense all right let’s
move on to number three
here we go so number three expression
number three is
to doze off now this means to fall
asleep
especially for a short period
of time so let’s say you’re in class and
you’re learning something and all of a
sudden
you doze off
like honestly many times you don’t even
realize
that you fell asleep this used to happen
to me when i was in college
you see i am a very um
hard-working individual uh and when i
was in school i studied very hard
and i loved learning however the classes
that i had
after lunch they were pretty difficult
for me to focus in
because i would eat and have a really
good lunch and then i’d get drowsy
after lunch so i’d go to class sit up
front
be be ready i was ready to listen to the
teacher and then before i knew it
i had dozed off makes sense right
maybe you’ve dozed off before too all
right so
number three is doze off here we go
number four number four is make
a first impression now this means
to have or create a strong
impact on someone whether good
or bad so in english we say first
impression how does someone make you
feel when you first meet them
or what is your opinion of someone after
meeting them for the first time
we naturally as human beings look at
people
okay what is he doing what is she doing
okay i like the outfit
we assess a person their first
impression
how they look or how they speak the
first time we meet them
so i remember when i was i was in
college
there was this guy and i think i told
you all this story before he was pretty
handsome but
i didn’t know him well he had come to my
church one sabbath
and i still remember him to this day
because
he had such or made such a great
impression
he spoke very well he was really well
dressed and he really was attractive he
made
a good first impression on all the
ladies
makes sense alright so number four is
make
a first impression here we go number
five number five is get a
feel for something it means to develop a
good
knowledge or understanding of something
you know when you first start something
you’re a little bit uncomfortable you’re
not really used to it it’s not really
easy but over time it gets easier
we say ah get a feel for something so
for example
when i went to south korea i had to
learn the curriculum that i was going to
teach in class
prior to going to korea i had never
taught english before
so when i arrived at the institute they
gave us
training and they gave us books to study
so in the beginning
it was a little bit difficult even
though i enjoyed teaching i had to learn
the curriculum and follow their system
but after about two or three weeks i
started to get a feel for the curriculum
makes sense right i started to develop a
good knowledge of the curriculum
i got more comfortable in class and it
was more enjoyable
so in english we say to get a
feel for something all right here we go
number six
we have something speaks
for itself now this means something is
clearly so good or effective
that no additional argument about it
is necessary again you don’t need to
prove anything
it is evidence enough so for example
i said yesterday was my birthday and one
of our close
family friends she likes to make
desserts
and there’s this 7-up pound cake
that she said she makes and we had never
tried it before
she said no it’s really delicious people
always tell me
how much they like it so we said hey you
should make it
for tiff’s birthday and she said okay
so yesterday she came over to our house
and she brought the cake
now remember she had told us it was
amazing but we had never tried it
so she sliced the cake and she gave us a
piece and i tasted it
the cake speaks for itself oh that cake
is good
so after i tried it my dad tried it and
then we went out on the deck
area and people were out there and they
were like what’s going on we were like
you have to try the cake
it speaks for itself
and everyone realized oh that cake is
good so they went inside to get a piece
makes sense right so when something
speaks for itself
you don’t have to say anything else it’s
clear how effective
or how good something is you got it
all right here we go let’s move on to
number seven
expression number seven is wing
it and this means to do or try to do
something without much practice
or preparation no preparation
just start no practice so think about it
like this
so i teach you english and i love it
normally i have to prepare a lot
before i teach you something i have to
prepare the slides the designs make sure
the colors match
there’s a lot of preparation before i
come on camera to teach you something
but let’s say one week i didn’t have any
time to
prepare a powerpoint or a keynote
presentation and i said
it doesn’t matter i’m just gonna turn
the camera on
turn the mic on i’m just gonna wing it
you got it right again no preparation
don’t worry i always prepare because i
want to make sure you
understand i don’t wing it when i teach
you something
all right makes sense so wing it just
means you’re doing something without
preparation and just
i’m just gonna do it i didn’t need to
prepare all right
all right here we go number eight
expression
number eight is moral of
the story moral of the story and this
just means the main
message of the story or what the story
is really about so whenever i tell you a
story you know during
story time hey i said it’s story time
writing that song you know what’s gonna
happen so i tell you lots of stories
about my life
and different things that have happened
right well at the end
i normally wrap up the story by telling
you something i
learned or telling you something that i
hope you will learn
i can say hey the moral of the story
is you must treat people well or
the moral of the story is always do
things and give 110
so again moral of the story just means
the main message
the main idea and what the story is
really about makes sense right
okay good now we have number nine and
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number nine here we go number nine
is right here rubbing off
on someone now this means
to have one’s characteristics
mannerisms or behavior be
adopted by someone with whom one has
spent
a lot of time we say rubbing
off on someone now
i have some good friends one of my
friends
we rub off on each other a lot meaning
we influence each other our
characteristics
and mannerisms mimic each other so for
example
i can get on the phone with this friend
and we can laugh
we can talk about everything and
normally we bounce off of each other
meaning that i’ll do something and then
she’ll do the same thing back and we’ll
start laughing
so we are rubbing off on each other
think about this when you go somewhere
and something gets on your hand and
you’re like
oh man what is that when you rub
it it gets on your arm so when someone
that you’re around
a lot someone you enjoy spending time
with
after a while you start to
act like that person and they start to
act like you
rubbing off on each other it happens a
lot too between
close friends couples and family members
all right
all right let’s keep going we got number
- here we go
number 10 is right here number 10
is drop everything for
someone or for something
now this means to stop one’s
current activity to tend to someone
or something else again
in english we say drop everything for
someone
or something now i’ll tell you this
quick story
um one of my friends unfortunately she
lost her child
now i was overseas in south korea i was
an english missionary
i had a really busy schedule but when my
family
called me and said tiff the person’s
name her son passed away
i dropped everything i stopped all of my
classes i got on the plane
i think in two days i was able to find
an airline ticket
and i flew to america here in order to
be there for my friend for the funeral
i dropped everything because i cared
about my friend
her husband her other children and i
wanted to be there for them
so again dropping everything is stopping
your activity
in order to help someone with something
or to do
something else makes sense right all
right
now i hope you enjoyed today’s lesson i
hope you start
using these 10 english expressions
starting today because you will start
sounding
more like a native english speaker all
right i will see you next week as
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[Laughter]
all right guys so today’s story is
actually about how i became
your english teacher now this happened
toward the
end of my time in south korea
so let me tell you what happened this
story really touches my heart
because i realized what my purpose in
life
was so i had been in korea for almost 10
years
i had taught english i had taught the
bible for a long time
and i even had finished my grad program
i had a master’s degree in oriental
painting
god had blessed me and i had done a lot
but i was about to come back to america
and i said i have two choices
either i can become an art professor
because i have learned so much about
oriental art
and i wanted to teach other individuals
in america
the beauty of asian art or
i could continue teaching english online
i had started my youtube channel
it wasn’t really a business at the time
it was just more of me
helping students like you and i enjoyed
it i had two choices
but i knew that whichever one i chose i
was going to give
110 i couldn’t do both at that time
because i wanted to make sure i was
focused on one thing
so i called my uncle um he used to be
a provost basically kind of like a
president of a college
in this area and i was asking for you
know some advice
and you know recommendation i was going
to apply to different schools to see if
i could become an
art professor in the maryland area so i
was going through that process and i
decided you know what for one week
i am going to pray and ask god to show
me
what he wants me to do i wanted to know
how i could best help people around the
world
again because even if i was going to
become an art professor
i was going to be affecting young people
lives were going to be changed because
they were going to be exposed to
asian culture and learning about other
people and
i was excited about that too so
for a full week excuse me for a full
week i got up early in the morning and i
would have worship
and i would pray and search the bible
looking for
some signs that would help me know what
to do excuse me guys
so throughout the week you know i said
okay god you know how can my life
help more people how can me working
affect other people tell me what’s the
best thing to do
so i went sunday monday
tuesday wednesday still had no clarity
no
answer from god on thursday
had worship studied and i prayed god do
you want me to be an art professor or do
you want me to
go head forward like move forward head
on with
the youtube english business
on that thursday i received an email and
the email was from
a korean television station now i had
been receiving lots of emails and some
of them were spam so i honestly thought
it was spam
but when i opened the email and i read
through it
i realized that it was not spam
basically
the television station said hi we found
you on youtube and we love your content
and we’d like to put it on our
television
station please contact us so we can work
out a contract
i said wait a minute remember this was
thursday i had
two more days before my full week was
done of praying and asking god to show
me what to do
so i responded and we started this
conversation back and forth
and i’ll fast forward and let you know
that yes that contract went through
yes my videos i think they’re actually
still being shown on a korean television
station
right now and i took that as a sign that
god
wanted me to move forward with this
english teaching
business and here we are today
i’m more passionate than i was then to
teach you
english i’m more excited than i was then
to help you speak english with
confidence and i am happier than i was
then to get up every morning and know
that
what i’m doing is touching someone
else’s life
around the world so you never have to
doubt my passion for helping you learn
english
it really makes me happy and i know that
i’m doing what god had placed me on this
earth
what god placed me on this earth to do
so thank you again for giving me the
honor to be your teacher
and thank you again for studying with me
i hope you enjoyed thank you again so
much guys hope you enjoyed this story
and if you have any stories about asking
god to help you with something
put it in the comment section i’d love
to know have a wonderful week
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