Keep Your Hopes Up How to stay positive in English
hi i’m vanessa from speak english with
vanessa calm is it hard to keep your
hopes up let’s talk about it lately in
the u.s. there’s been a lot of talk
about politics Oh
politics sometimes it’s so frustrating
sometimes it makes you angry sometimes
it makes you hopeless and that’s where
this expression is coming from today an
expression that I’d like to help you use
is keep your hopes up keep your hopes up
so I might say when I look at American
politics especially nowadays it’s hard
to keep my hopes up
it’s hard to stay positive because
there’s so many things going on that
could be negative it’s hard to keep my
hopes up or we could use this in a
positive way maybe your friend is
feeling especially sad maybe she wants
ice cream and there’s no ice cream in
the house and all the stores are closed
it’s a desperate situation maybe you
could say to your friends keep your
hopes up soon the stores will open again
and you can have ice cream well that’s a
little extreme example but it’s
something that you can use to encourage
other people keep your hopes up you
could use it just by itself for example
what I told you about ice cream telling
your friend keep your hopes up or maybe
if someone feels really upset about
politics you could say to them to keep
your hopes up someday
it will get better or keep your hopes up
I hope that the candidates will actually
do something good for the country keep
your hopes up we keep this all together
as you saw from my examples but we could
change it just a little bit to say she
has trouble keeping her hopes up
typically we talk about you
hopes I have trouble keeping my hopes up
or you keep your hopes up but you could
say it about someone else her hopes
their hopes well I hope that this video
helps you to keep your hopes up about
English if you’re feeling like English
is challenging right now maybe you’re on
that roller coaster and maybe now is a
low time a down time I challenge you
keep your hopes up it will improve it
will get better your hard work will be
worth it
keep your hopes up thanks so much for
learning English with me and I challenge
you to use this expression in the
comments below let me know about a time
when it was difficult for you to keep
your hopes up or maybe you helped
someone else to keep their hopes up you
were an encouraging friend thanks so
much for using this and for encouraging
each other I’ll see you again the next
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