Lets talk about AMAZING events Advanced Vocabulary Lesson
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going to try to read the comments and
talk about some great expressions at the
same time Paulo welcome Douglas hello
hello Manuel glad you’re here I would
like to first introduce myself if you’re
new to today’s live lesson or if you’re
new to this YouTube channel I’m Vanessa
and I teach English to awesome
intermediate English learners like you
so that you can speak fluently and
naturally today we’re going to talk
about some great expressions to talk
about amazing things this is gonna help
to expand your vocabulary and to help
you be able to understand exactly what
native speakers are saying in exactly
their attitude when they’re trying to
say it then it’s welcome Angie I’m glad
you’re here Trung danielle any glit
welcome welcome we’ve got people from
all over the world wonderful Vietnam
Colombia Brazil Taiwan welcome glad
you’re here I would like to thank you
for your participation it’s great to
have live lessons but it’s so much
better when people are commenting and
participating you’re awesome
this way we can learn from each other
and learn from each other’s mistakes so
I’d like to ask you a quick question
did you see
the supermoon yesterday did you see the
supermoon yesterday yesterday I think
the moon was as close to the earth as it
has been for the last 60 years I believe
it’s been a long time so the moon was
much bigger than normal last night Oh
Pascal says yes he saw it Richard yes
now just as yes some are wonderful while
people all around the world saw the
super moon daniel said it was incredible
yes in the last 70 years incredible well
if you missed the super moon if it was
cloudy or rainy and it’s not cloudy or
rainy tonight you can probably see it
tonight as well maybe it won’t be as big
but I think for our eyes I’m not a
professional not a moon professional so
maybe you can also see the amazing moon
tonight and that is the inspiration for
today’s live lesson because I saw the
super moon last night and it was
incredible it was amazing so I hope that
we can just talk about incredible events
something that’s beautiful and
breathtaking there are some great
adjectives to talk about amazing things
I want to know in your mind what are
some great words that we could use to
describe a beautiful scene so if you saw
the super moon maybe you could use one
of these words to talk about it yes
incredible incredible is a great one it
was incredible it was stunning
yes not just as stunning we have
incredible the super moon was stunning
or maybe if you are looking at a
waterfall or the Grand Canyon or
something physically beautiful
picturesque breathtaking majest
oh these are great words spectacular Oh
she’ll Jack you can still see the moon
incredible Oh
maybe you could say yes I want to make
sure I can clearly read your comments it
was tremendous marvelous wonderful
fabulous excellent yes those are such
descriptive words to talk about
something just breathtaking
oh right right Rogerio shared a couple
video our couple pictures were those
your pictures Oh Jerry oh those were
really impressive of the moon personally
I tried to take a picture with my phone
and it was not possible fantastically
stupendous now John wow what a really
intense expression Oh Pablo says I lost
my breath of it maybe we could say it
was breathtaking it was breathtaking so
when you saw it you thought ah I can’t
even breathe it’s incredible
breathtaking tremendous brilliant oh
we’ve got such great words yes these are
wonderful words for talking about
something amazing amazing and I think
it’s really cool that all around the
world maybe you’re in Turkey or Vietnam
or Colombia or Brazil or Canada you are
looking at the same moon isn’t that so
cool that is incredible
oh our today we’re talking about amazing
events in how to describe them so I
wanted to tell you a little story about
what happened last night when I went to
see the super moon eye catching that’s
another great expression I catchy
last night I went hiking at night to the
top of a mountain it wasn’t too high
maybe just 20 minutes but it was
because I wanted to get a good view of
the super moon I wanted to see the moon
rise usually we talk about a sunrise or
a sunset but this was a moon rise so I
wanted to see the moon come over the top
of the mountains and when I got to the
top of the mountain guess what I saw
there were 30 or 40 other people at the
top of the mountain - I was pretty
surprised because that’s a pretty big
adventure at night hiking to the top of
a mountain and in the cold weather it
was pretty cold last night but the view
was incredible and everyone was waiting
and we saw the light start to come and
then we saw it look like the Sun we saw
a beautiful bright moon come over the
top of the mountain and everyone on the
top of the mountain 30 or 40 people
guess what everyone did when we saw the
moon it was a very strange situation
when we saw the moon everyone this is
really strange but everyone started
howling
does anyone know what howling is hmm
what animal what animal howls oh yes but
lots of people were taking pictures too
does anyone know what animal howls I
can’t believe that this happened but it
was quite something to remember yes
jean-jacques amia you’ve got it like a
wolf I couldn’t believe it
when does and there were young people
teenagers kids older people grandparents
everyone was there
and everyone was doing the same thing
so when the moon rose everyone just for
fun started Halloween like a wolf and
all of the dogs a lot of people brought
their dogs all of the dogs started
howling - I think I’ve never experienced
something so strange like that but it
was quite entertaining
so I hope that for you you could also
experience something fun when you see
the supermoon I tried to imagine what
what did our ancestors 1,000 years ago
2,000 years ago what did they think
about a supermoon
I can’t imagine because it was so
beautiful for us and we understand
science and we understand what’s
happening but for them they probably had
no idea actually what was happening I
think that would be a really cool really
cool experience and it’s cool for us - I
hope that for you you can experience the
incredible super moon and enjoy this
beautiful event today you mentioned a
lot of great expressions for talking
about for talking about amazing things
breathtaking incredible tremendous
picturesque I recommend going back
through this video and when I say one of
these words use a notebook and write it
down so that you can add this to your
vocabulary because this is going to be a
great way to express yourself and be
able to really understand what other
people are saying when they’re
expressing different events in different
situations so just a couple idioms I
want to help you note learn a couple
idioms that you could use to talk about
the supermoon or talk about something
else
amazing maybe something in your life
like your
birthday party was incredible or maybe
your grandmother came to your house and
surprised you and you were so amazed and
happy you could use these idioms to talk
about those situations we already talked
about one of them which is it took my
breath away
it took my breath away this means my
breath and it took my breath away this
is kind of like breath taking it took my
breath away
so typically we use this for natural
scenes like the super moon or a
waterfall something that looks beautiful
it took my breath away
yes Chu Jung Joo Jung I hope I read your
Korean name correctly it took my breath
away great spelling yes the beautiful
super moon took my breath away we could
also say it was unforgettable some event
was unforgettable
maybe you couldn’t even imagine that it
happened in the first place now Jo has
another great expression I couldn’t take
my eyes off and usually we add something
to the end I couldn’t take my eyes off
of it of it
so when last night when everyone was
looking at the super moon we couldn’t
take our eyes off of the moon it doesn’t
mean that my eyes were on the moon I
couldn’t take my eyes off of the moon
that’s not what happened but it means my
gaze my look I couldn’t take my eyes I
couldn’t take my eyes away from it oh I
couldn’t look away it was so incredible
this is for beautiful things oh
wonderful fabulous as in Brazil for the
new year you can see people cheering for
the sunrise on the beach ah that would
be
perfect Wow I think another incredible
event was when I experienced New Year’s
the New Year’s in Thailand it was on the
beach and everyone had wonderful
lanterns and they were lighting
thousands of lanterns kind of like the
Disney movie what is that Disney movie
called Rapunzel tangled I think in that
Disney movie they have tons of paper
lanterns and people were flying them
into the water over the ocean and it was
incredible
this was breathtaking it took my breath
away I couldn’t take my eyes off of it
those are beautiful idioms to talk about
this expression I could talk about this
idea Oh Paolo I agree Paolo says you
should have recorded this event with
your phone I’m curious to listen to
people howling together I know I wish I
wish I had but it was so spontaneous
that no one knew what was going to
happen I think it would have been really
interesting if someone had a guitar and
we could sing together some kind of
group activity but instead we became
animals it was quite funny just for a
couple moments but certainly something
that I will never forget and that is not
really an idiom but that’s a great
sentence that you can use for a special
moment it is something that I will never
forget so I want to know for you what is
something that you will never forget
maybe that is when you are going to I
want to make sure it’s working okay oh
maybe that is when you had your wedding
it’s something you’ll never forget or
maybe someone did something nice for you
it’s something you’ll never forget I
hope that this you have an event in your
life that you will never forget I
think maybe at the moment at least on my
screen
the video is frozen I hope it’s not for
you too but it’s quite possible uh
dennis has a good question it takes my
breath away does it mean I can’t breathe
yes but just for a moment like oh wow
it’s so beautiful
oh so this is something that is taking
your breath away just for a moment oh
it’s something that you’ll never forget
the first time I met my wife oh how
great Douglas I’ll never forget when my
son was born oh we usually recall about
a delicious moon cake in our family so
maybe for you I’ll never forget the
times that we ate moon cake together
why not welcome for their first time
here great Oh Marco that is an excellent
point Marco says there is a song take my
breath away yes this is a classic 80s
80s song maybe called take my breath
away after this lesson go on YouTube and
try to find it take my breath away all
of Sabina says I’ve never forgotten my
sister’s birthday it was amazing
or we could even use the future tense
here I will never forget my sister’s
birthday it was amazing so in the future
you’re never gonna forget it because in
the past you had such great great
memories yes something unbelievable oh
you’ll never forget the birth of your
kids oh I’m sure you won’t that’s
something that’s really valuable for you
oh yes take my breath away is from the
movie Top Gun great memory great memory
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Oh Pascal says when someone told me I
sound like an American it took my breath
away
beautiful what a wonderful moment to
happen to you yes yes so I hope for all
of you you can enjoy the moon tonight
maybe howl at the moon if you want kind
of a strange experience but I hope that
you can enjoy looking at it and it will
be breathtaking amazing incredible for
you I hope it will take your breath away
something so special so thank you
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