How to Express Your Feelings in English
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how to express your emotions and
choose great adjectives to do so so in
this lesson
i’m going to cover a lot of vocabulary
and i’m going to cover a few simple
patterns
you can use this vocabulary with the
vocabulary i’m going to
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chosen
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adjectives everyone to re
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intermediate and some
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intermediate level and advanced level
expressions
for emotions so you can see there are
images
for each emotion i hope that it
makes it easier to understand no matter
what your level is so we have a lot to
cover today let’s get started
okay so first thing first let’s begin
with
beginner beginner level expressions
so uh this i want to use as quick
review i think most viewers
probably have studied these words before
so let’s review these quickly
a beginner level pattern you can use to
express your emotions
is i am adjective
or to make it negative i am not
adjective to make a past tense
expression
i was adjective or i was not adjective
so maybe as an easy way to get started
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you can send in the live chat how you
are feeling
now so what’s your emotion now for
example for me
i might say i’m happy and i’m
a little so you can use little here i am
a little
uh thirsty i’m a little thirsty i want
some water so send me in the live chat
uh how you feel right now let’s review
quickly
a couple points so first of course we
have happy
very basic emotion i hope you are happy
the opposite unhappy unhappy so just
not good not good i’m unhappy on
means not yeah hungry
you want to eat something i’m hungry i’m
hungry
uh the next one angry angry
so you can see the face there not not
good right
okay tired tired
sad so sad here different from
unhappy though they can be in the same
category
sad is like we’re crying there’s tears
okay lots of people say i’m hungry i’m
hungry someone says they’re bored oh no
i hope you enjoy this lesson okay
excited
excited okay so excited means we are
looking forward to something something
good is happening
very soon okay bored someone said they
are bored
someone said they’re bored many people
say i’m happy i’m happy
some people say i’m sad oh no i hope you
can
become happy in this lesson okay
sleepy one quick point one quick point
sleepy here
and tired people ask what’s the
difference between sleepy and
tired sleepy means you are
ready to go to bed yeah
like i am ready to close my eyes and go
to sleep
tired can mean like your body is tired
for example after you exercise
or after you finish work i feel tired
i’m tired so maybe you don’t want to go
to sleep
quite yet but you want to express
that your energy is low okay
someone says is in love and emotion i i
would say
in love is a state a condition yeah
the condition of love okay great many
people say i’m happy i’m excited
oh someone someone wrote i’m boring now
careful
a very very very important point i’m
going to cover well i’ll cover now
that was a point for today a very common
mistake
with this kind of topic
learners say i’m exciting or i’m boring
and this is
incorrect we use exciting or boring
for something outside us for example
alicia your video is boring i hope you
don’t think so
but that movie is boring something
outside us
is boring our feelings end with
ed i’m excited i’m
bored so beginners this is a huge point
please practice this point
okay next nervous nervous
nervous maybe you know the word nervous
nervous means we have something to do
in the future and we feel not sure
about it our confidence is low maybe a
performance
or presentation i’m nervous
next two are scared and afraid scared
and afraid
we use this when something causes fear
a scary movie or a scary animal
something causes fear in us
okay thirsty means we want liquid
we want liquid generally we want liquid
something like water tea
and finally we have cold and hot
actually i’m a little hot
i’m near a window it’s really sunny so
this is our review basic expressions
so today these emotions
these faces i made here
this will be the basis so
we’re going to use these same uh
feelings
but we’re going to level up the
vocabulary
in part two and part three of today’s
lesson so i hope that you watch
and you find a better way to express
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so part one basic pattern and
basic emotion related expressions
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intermediate level so let’s begin
alrighty intermediate level first let’s
look at a pattern
a pattern you can use to express
emotions
that uses present perfect tense
everyone’s favorite grammar point
i’ve been this is the reduced form of
i have been i’ve been adjective
lately to make the negative i
haven’t been adjective lately
at native speed these sound like i’ve
been something
lately like i’ve been happy lately or i
haven’t been happy lately
that’s what these sound like at native
speed so
what’s the difference between this and i
am happy or i am not happy these
patterns
are used for a mood or for an emotion
you’ve experienced a lot lately so
lately means
recently the last few days or the last
few weeks
maybe so when you want to talk about a
current
like uh situation like you’re busy with
work
for example you can use a pattern like
this to express your emotions
about that okay so with this group of
words
again you can practice this now send me
your emotion in the chat from this
group of words okay so you don’t have to
use this pattern
but you can and you can change this
lately
to a different time period like i’ve
been
down all day today so you want to talk
about a continuing state or a continuing
condition okay let’s talk about some
expressions that mean
happy happy we have upbeat so
i’m upbeat you can think of this like
music beats in music
when when you listen to an upbeat song
the beat
level like the tempo the pace of the
song is high
we feel positive when we listen we use
this
to express emotions positive emotions
or i’m in a good mood
in a good mood don’t forget this uh
i’m in a good mood the opposite then
the opposite i have a few here i have
down this one’s really really helpful
for a
general kind of unhappy feeling
i’m down or i’ve been down recently
depressed depressed is like
unhappy sad and maybe you
feel like there’s no hope so this is a
really
sad feeling and it’s kind of constant
for a long time i’m depressed
i’m depressed or he’s depressed another
one
casual one maybe you’ve heard me use
this
bummed out bummed b-u-m-m-e
i’m bummed out we use this expression
this is a casual kind of slang
expression
we use when we feel disappointed about a
small thing
for example ah i found uh something i
want to buy
but it was sold out i’m bummed out
so a small disappointment we can say i’m
bummed out i’m bummed out about the
small disappointment
okay uh i’m looking for your
questions about this uh good people
someone says i have been gloomy lately
oh no
i hope that you feel a little more
cheerful watching this
maria says i have been very busy lately
good nashot says
i’ve been happy watching you teaching us
great okay
fantastic good examples everyone
next this is my hungry face okay
so we have starving and snacky i put
snacky here this is a word i personally
use a lot
it’s like snacky is when you don’t want
to eat
like a full breakfast or lunch or dinner
but you feel like
some small things you want to eat chips
or
you want to eat like a cookie or two you
can say
i’m snacky i’m snacky or i feel snacky
okay starving means super super super
super hungry
yes starving is used to express a very
serious condition
also like when people don’t have enough
food we also use this in conversation
casually to express super hungry
being super hungry okay uh
next one the next two are irritated and
frustrated they’re kind of similar you
might ask
let’s talk about the difference
irritated
is an emotion we experience when
something is constant and we don’t like
it
for example your computer or your mobile
phone
every five minutes there’s a
notification that pops up you have to
check you might be like
ah i’m so irritated it’s a small thing
that repeats a lot
that makes you feel unhappy that makes
you feel like
go away i don’t need it express that
emotion
with irritated i’m irritated
again this ends with ed
that’s my emotion i’m irritated
you can say that notification
is irritating irritating
so don’t forget that second here
frustrated frustrated we use frustrated
to express
our emotions when we try and try and try
to do something and fail and fail and
fail a lot
i’m frustrated i try to update my
computer
i’ve tried many times it doesn’t work
it’s broken
i’m frustrated i’m frustrated
okay next one uh
let’s continue to what’s the next one uh
i lost my place
okay here exhausted and beat so some
words that mean very tired
are exhausted and beat exhausted and
beat
exhausted means very tired like we use
this
to express more than tired i’m exhausted
the pronunciation here is not exhausted
but exhausted think of it like eggs
if that helps that that’s how we say it
in speech i’m exhausted
beet is more casual beet means i’m very
tired
but it’s casual exhausted sounds kind of
serious like don’t bother me i’m
exhausted
i’m beat it’s like i don’t want to do
anything but
not so serious i’m beat
uh protoi says could you please again
clarify
i’ve been this is a i’m not going to
talk a lot about this grammar today but
this again we use this pattern to
express a mood
you’ve felt a lot recently so this is
just
another pattern you can use like you
could say
i’ve been down lately like it’s not been
a good week for me
all right uh let’s continue to
these next two gloomy and heartbroken
so gloomy expresses that sad
feeling maybe i often feel gloomy when
it’s
like rainy for many many days in a row
like i would say oh it’s such a gloomy
day like it feels sad
or i feel gloomy heartbroken
we use at the end of a relationship
usually
and this can be for family members like
if your family member
passes away you can express that you
feel
heartbroken about that or maybe a pet
passes away
that means to die to pass away means to
die
so you can use a heartbroken to express
that feeling your heart is broken
okay onward um what are we on here
stoked included stoked here stoked is a
very casual expression that means very
excited
you might hear this a lot in movies i’m
stoked
about something or i’m stoked to do
something stoked i’m stoked
here the next one so bored if you want
to express
bored plus like angry or bored plus
unhappy you could say sick and tired
i’m sick and tired of something
it’s like i’m sick and tired of my
computer causing me problems so sick and
tired expresses
kind of like boredom and unhappiness and
anger a little bit rochio one of our
members on youtube hi
says i never hear gloomy new word yeah
gloomy we used to talk about the weather
also
a gloomy day okay no it says i’ve been
very
irritated oh all right um
let’s go to these next ones because
time’s going quick
okay this one is a tricky one i hear
some students
say this one’s hard to pronounce drowsy
drowsy this is d-r-o-w-s-y
drowsy drowsy is a word we use
uh this is a key usually after we take
medicine and that causes us to become
sleepy i’m drowsy or you may become
drowsy after you take this medicine
drowsy
so it means sleepy it’s like you may
fall asleep
really quickly drowsy so this is one you
can use
to talk about a sleep or a sleepy
feeling
because of medicine something like that
okay this next one uh the nervous face
here
the nervous word is jumpy jumpy
so jumpy means it’s easy to cause you
to jump so when you watch a scary movie
and some monster some like scary thing
appears
suddenly you jump right like ah it’s the
surprise
feeling we expressed that emotion with
jumpy like wow you’re jumpy are you okay
so jumpy has that nervous feeling and a
little bit of
fear okay um
all right let’s go israe says i am sick
and tired of wearing warm clothes good
example sentence nice one nice one
cook dad says i was drowsy yesterday oh
did you take some
medicine okay okay onward
uh the adjectives can be used with the
auxiliary hab
no so this is just an example pattern
i talked in part one today about the
basic pattern i
am adjective this is just another
pattern
you can use with these adjectives you
can say i am
jumpy or i am heartbroken perfectly okay
okay let’s go to the next ones terrified
terrified this means very scared or very
afraid
i was terrified so something is very
very scary
i can express my emotion with terrified
again remember terrified ed
ending this ed ending refers to
our feeling i’m terrified that thing
is terrifying okay
all right uh next one thirsty
another word for thirsty is parched
parched so parched it
makes it sound like our mouth is really
really
dry so not just i want to drink
something
but i feel dry i’m parched
parched expresses this okay
uh let’s go someone says i feel
terrified oh
make sure i feel not i’m feel
i feel steve benjamin uh i feel
terrified
watching this video is this video scary
okay
let’s go to the last two cold and hot
so for cold chilly and freezing
these are kind of opposites a little bit
chilly
means oh it’s a little cold like at the
end of the day the sun
goes down the temperature starts to go
down
you can say oh it’s chilly freezing
is like ice so it’s super cold it’s
freezing out the opposite
sweaty and on fire so to express your
hot
feeling when you feel hot so after you
exercise or on a
super hot day your body
maybe produces sweat creates sweat
we use sweaty to describe that so after
you exercise you can say
i’m sweaty i need a shower you can also
say
on fire to mean you’re very very very
very hot so on a very hot day you can
say
ah i’m on fire of course hopefully
this does not mean there is a fire on
you
but you express your hot feelings
with on fire bruno says what’s the
difference between
upbeat and upset upbeat means happy
upset means unhappy that’s the simple
that’s the simple difference okay great
this is part
two so part two is finished wow and we
still have
lot in our advanced level to cover
okay we’ll take one more quick break and
then we’ll continue to part
three advanced vocabulary and
expressions
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okay so we’re going to talk now about
part three advanced level vocabulary
so when i say advanced level i mean
these are like some kind of idioms or
some
uh they’re longer words that can be a
little
more challenging to pronounce also these
are not
as common they’re more specific so let’s
cover them
okay let’s begin all right
so again we have the same basic emotions
we practiced in parts one and part two
but again i want to talk about uh more
advanced
uh less common words you can use so for
advanced learners
i hope that you can find something new
here
all right this one first one let’s start
with an idiom
a happy idiom the expression is tickled
pink tickled pink i personally do not
use this expression
but you may see it from time to time
someone
uh who is tickled pink is very very
happy
this comes from the express like to
tickle someone the verb to tickle
means to touch like your foot or maybe
the under part of your arm
you feel like laughing maybe when
someone touches you there
it produces like a happy excited feeling
for some people so when you say tickled
pink it’s like that haha like giggling
happy feeling
uh and that’s an idiom we use to mean
happy okay uh then we also have
overjoyed overjoyed so joy
the noun joy means like uh great
happiness
right overjoyed is like too much joy
right i’m overjoyed to receive this
award
overjoyed let’s contrast let’s look at
the opposite unhappy words that mean
unhappy i have two here they’re very
serious
despondent is the first one despondent
i’m despondent or he’s despondent
and disconsolate disconsolate
despondent first one despondent means
like super super unhappy so
uh you lose a friend or a family member
they pass away
you’re despondent or there’s no way
to cheer someone up they are despondent
we use that to express very very unhappy
emotions disconsolate then too
the root here is console so to console
someone means to make them feel better
to cheer someone up
disconsolate describes an emotion
describes someone who we cannot cheer up
so there’s no way to cheer up that
person
so disconsolate these are words you
might use to talk about another person’s
emotions if you feel despondent or
disconsolate
you might not express it yourself
because they’re very serious
feelings okay all right
onward andre says i’m tickled pink to
see you on live for my first time cool
nice expression there too excellent okay
let’s go to hungry expressions okay
first one this expression
is a slang expression got the munchies
we usually say
i’ve got the munchies
the munchies refers to wanting to eat
snacks so again not like a meal
not like i want breakfast i want lunch
it’s snacks i want snacks
we say in a sentence i’ve got
the munchies i’ve got the munchies
the next expression i want to talk about
is something something
on an empty stomach on
an empty stomach we use this with a verb
to do something on an empty stomach
means to do an action to do an activity
without eating anything so it sounds
like your energy might be low
for example i went to my test or i took
my test
on an empty stomach which means i did
not have
energy in my body to do it or maybe i
exercised on an empty stomach
i felt bad so we use on an
empty stomach to express that
okay next one is
this one angry so we’re going to talk
about
angry expressions i have indignant
indignant and fuming
indignant refers to a very angry emotion
because something is unjust so
unjust means it’s not fair it’s not a
reasonable we feel angry because of
something that is unfair or
unreasonable we can express that with
indignant
indignant finally here
fuming fuming maybe you know the word
fume
it’s like the smoke or the steam that
comes from the top of something that’s
very very hot like a pot
in your kitchen to fume we want to
express
a lot of anger we’re so angry we
are so hot like there’s steam or fume
coming from us
we express that with fuming i am
fuming interestingly this one does not
end in ed we do not say i
am fumed you probably will hear i’m
fuming
someone says what does can’t stomach
mean means i can’t stand something i
can’t stand some
food okay liliana says i use i’m down
when i agree with a plan
is that correct yes there is also the
expression i’m down or i’m down to do
something i’m down with something
that means i agree yes you are correct
all right onwards um next
tired two words that mean tired
overtaxed
and burned out overtaxed means you used
too much of your energy burned out
means you used too much energy for a
long time
now like a candle there’s nothing left
nothing left all right i’m almost out of
time so we’re gonna go quickly to the
next one
in the dumps in the dumps means sad i’m
down
in the dumps you might also hear in the
dumps refers to a sad feeling for a long
time
but it’s not so serious so maybe after a
breakup
like a small breakup in a relationship
okay next one excited excited this
excited very very excited
thrilled you use this i use this like on
instagram sometimes for an announcement
i’m thrilled to share
means i’m super excited to share
something
okay uh bored there are two words
here disinterested and uninterested
they have different histories these two
words today they both mean
bored bored disinterested
i feel like i use uninterested more
often
than disinterested it means having no
interest
in something okay next one
is um sleepy this is an interesting word
sleepy uh very very sleepy comatose
comatose a coma is a medical condition a
person cannot wake up
so we say they are comatose to express
that someone
is so like asleep they’re sleeping very
very hard
you can say wow he’s comato he’s
sleeping really really hard
okay oh i’m very late i’m very late
let’s go quickly
nervous we have apprehensive and on edge
so think of apprehensive as like just
super super nervous
on edge is like at any moment
that person might like be really upset
or that person might cry
because they’re so nervous okay
last group four scared petrified
and panic-stricken petrified means i’m
so scared i cannot move
i’m petrified panic-stricken
means i feel panicked and that’s causing
me
to be like scared or to act differently
panic stricken panic stricken
for thirsty i have dehydrated
dehydrated and cottonmouthed
cottonmouthed
dehydrated means my body does not have
enough water it’s like a science
kind of expression i’m dehydrated i need
water after i exercise
cotton mouth is like my mouth feels like
cotton it’s very unpleasant
okay all right last group
cold we use the expression num
to talk about a body part this is
n-u-m-b
num from cold my fingers are numb i’m
num means i cannot feel this
and we use this expression to have
goosebumps to have
goosebumps means your body has tiny
little bumps
because you are cold finally sweltering
means
so hot i am sweltering or the weather is
sweltering
and we use kitchen terms like boiling
cooking broiling and baking we can use
all of these to express that we are very
hot
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