How to give COMPLIMENTS British English Speaking Practice
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Lucy I’m with Anna today from English
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we are going to be talking about how to
give compliments we are filming two
videos the first one is here on my
channel and the second one will be on
happens online channel yeah you can go
straight to her channel as soon as you
finish this one here we’re going to be
talking about things that you should say
and then we’re going to talk about
things that you shouldn’t say when
you’re complimenting someone for both a
very important video so stay tuned okay
so firstly let’s talk about some
adjectives that we can use to compliment
people or them compliment the way they
look exactly so the first one is pretty
you’re very pretty
some of you are tea and pretty should be
used generally towards women if you want
to compliment a man on the other hand
you can use handsome I know lots of
handsome men I don’t know any maybe you
could introduce me oh so another word
you can use to compliment a man or a
woman would be beautiful yes that can go
for both come here I don’t know so
really nice word and then we have
gorgeous and gorgeous just means us so
attractive so if someone is gorgeous it
means they are really really nice
and then we have stunning so if someone
stuns you with how beautiful they are
then you would call them stunning and
then the last one breath taking so they
take your breath away
with their beauty they are just so
amazing I can’t breathe you’re so
handsome one thing that I often hear my
students use incorrectly is you look and
you look like I would say you look plus
adjective and you look like plus now so
I might say you look like Angelina Jolie
funny you should say that or Ana you
look beautiful or you look stunning so
make sure that you’re very careful when
differentiating between you look and you
look like so now we’re going to give
some examples of some nice ways of
complimenting people something that I
would think is nice is noticing a change
and so if someone’s made an extra effort
with what they’re wearing yet or the
hair yep
it’s nice to say something about it or
if they’ve had their teeth whitened
perhaps wow my teeth okay so an example
would be Anna what you’ve done with your
hair oh I just had it cut thank you so
much nice noticing I love that top is
that you thank you is it really brings
out the color of your eyes ah so it’s
good to compliment the eyes when in
doubt talk about the eye you could also
talk about something that’s not related
to the way they look yeah it’s always
really nice to compliment the way a
person is I appreciate compliments about
personality more than I do that looks
sassy so if I were to say maybe Anna I
find you really easy to be around
or I find you really funny I think
that’s a much nicer compliment than just
you look nice yeah definitely I think I
would definitely hold onto a compliment
like that then someone to say you look
pretty it’s really nice when someone
says something that they’ve obviously
spend some time thinking about or
something that’s very specific like I
really like that
on your face when you smile no I like
you like that we really like your
dimples okay so those were some helpful
tips on how to comment people in English
remember it’s very important to
differentiate between you look and you
look like remember Anna looks beautiful
and she looks like a potato
hahahaha sorry she look like Cantonese
but you’re making make sure you use the
correct adjective be careful when
calling men pretty and women handsome
they might get offended you should
generally call women pretty and men
handsome another thing is to try and be
specific people will always appreciate a
specific comment more than a generic
comment definitely yeah try and make an
effort to compliment things other than
just appearance normally people are much
more fluttered by a compliment about
something they’ve done or their
personality rather than their appearance
yeah or something they’ve chosen
something may have an effect on okay so
that’s it for today now you need to head
over to Ana’s channel to watch the
second part of this video which is very
important it’s about what not to say
when you’re trying to compliment someone
so if you don’t want to offend us you
need to watch that video of them don’t
forget to connect with me on all of my
social media which is right above Anna
here and I’ll see you to another English
lesson very very soon
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