How to Talk About Your Emotions in English: Anger, Fear, Happiness...

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Hi, everybody, welcome back to our weekly live stream.
My name is Alicia, and today we're going to talk about how to express emotions.
This is going to be a good lesson for beginners.
I'm going to talk about a lot of vocabulary words you can use to, like, specifically destroyed.
Describe your emotions, and I'm also going to talk about some very basic sentence patterns you can use.
At the end of today's lesson.
I'm going to talk about some idioms relating to emotions and some kind of interesting phrases you can use so as you join.
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Especially ah, lot of vocabulary to cover.
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We're going to begin today by talking about some basic grammar structures.
I'm going to review some very, very basic grammar that you can use to express your emotions to express your feelings.
So let's begin with basic grammar patterns.
All right, uh, let's start over here very, very simply and please.
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I will try to check live, eh?
So let's start over here.
The first grammar pattern is the most basic sentence structure.
Most basic sentence for today.
It's I'm plus adjective.
I'm plus adjective.
So this I'm is the reduced form, the short form of I am?
Yeah.
So I read your comments all the time.
I read your comments almost every day.
Lots of people forget this.
Lots of people, right?
I plus adjective like I happy or something like that.
Please don't forget this.
I'm I'm I'm plus adjective, so we'll talk about vocabulary words to use here.
A reminder.
An adjective is a word that describes a noun or described an advert.
So adjectives, for example, more later, happy I'm happy or I'm angry or I'm sad and so on.
So use an adjective at the end of the sentence to describe your emotions.
Okay, Uh, then to make the negative form, you would just use, Not after I'm so I'm not plus your adjective, so very, very basic sentence structure to be a little more specific.
Then you can use something like this.
I'm a bit or I'm a little plus your adjective.
So this means the level is kind of down.
So I'm happy and I'm a little happy.
That's kind of a slight difference there.
It's not such a natural thing to say in that case, but if you want to be more specific about the level of your emotion you can use, I'm a bit or I'm up little again.
Don't forget this article here.
I'm up it.
I'm a little here already.
Uh, next What is I'm feeling?
I'm feeling so we're using the progressive that continuous form here I am feeling adjective.
This is commonly used when we are sick.
I'm feeling sick or I'm feeling bad or I'm feeling better.
So again, these are very, very basic sentence structures we can use for to do use lesson on that you can use in your everyday life to describe or to think about your condition or your emotions.
I want to continue to a couple more, uh, patterns A specifically, uh, patterns We used to describe the cause of something eso for this Maybe.
I think many of you know, about the verb to make to make So here, when we say, for example, he she or it makes me this makes means causes causes.
So we're not talking about creating something this sentence pattern mean causes me to feel adjective.
So, for example, he makes me angry.
Means he causes me to feel angry.
This is another very common way that we express emotions.
Ah, specifically relating to the cause of the emotion.
Or she makes me happy.
If you want to change the subject and use you as the subject like you make me adjective.
So please note when your subject is you.
It's kind of hard to see on the screen.
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Uh, you There's no es Here.
You make a reminder.
When your subject is he she it or that as well?
Uh, yeah.
Uh, this s has to be You have to use.
This s at the end of make.
So he makes me She makes me and so on.
But you make me so please don't forget these little points.
Well, they're not little.
I know they seem little.
It's one letter, but they're very important.
So again, don't forget, this s Don't forget your article and expressions like this.
And don't forget your apostrophe m here.
So these little points, uh, they sound like little points.
So these structures thes sentence patterns are going to be like the foundation those air going to be the patterns we use for today's lesson.
So, uh, yes.
Send me your example.
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Says she makes me happy.
For example.
Very nice.
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Ah, Leah says you make me feel like a 1,000,000 bucks.
Nice one, Leah.
Okay.
Uh, distrust here says again, you make me laugh.
Good, Good, good, good.
Uh, Huhn.
Hi.
Sorry if I mispronounced your names that I'm feeling strong, Jack says.
I'm feeling so stressed, stressed, so I'll add that to a list of words later stressed e d.
At the end, stress is a noun.
Sam says, Why did you add s after makes?
This is a, uh, present tense grammar point.
When your subject is he she or it The verb make takes an s at the end.
This is true for regular verbs in English.
If your subject is you, there is no change to the vert.
So your subject changes the verb conjugation.
That's why there's an s here.
Okay, Other example.
Sentences.
Oscar says she makes me feel comfortable.
Good.
Carlo says she makes me sick.
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Uh, let's take a quick break, and then we'll go to may be the biggest part of today's lesson, which is about vocabulary.
I've chosen a lot of vocabulary words, uh, to expand your vocabulary.
I hope break and then we'll go on.
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Our vocabulary part for today's lesson.
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We covered basic grammar pattern so you can use these basic grammar patterns with the vocabulary words I'm going to share or your own vocabulary words.
I will try to check throughout the lesson, So let us begin.
Let's take a look.
So I've used very small of small version of adjective wheels, which I've shared in these live streams before.
Basically, what's happening here.
I have one core adjective, one main adjective and other adjectives that share like the core meaning of this words.
They're here.
Let's begin.
I'll share with this is, uh, let's start with this one.
Happy, happy.
So when you want to express a happy emotion, you can say I'm happy.
That's fine.
But how do you be more specific?
How can you more specifically express the type of happy you feel?
So, for example, we have excited, excited, so excited is a very positive word.
Generally, we have happy feelings and lots of energy about something before an activity like I'm excited.
I'm going to Disneyland or I'm excited.
I'm going to a concert, so it's like happy plus energy, this one.
I've chosen this kind of slang word this rough word stoked.
I'm stoked.
We use this or some people use this to express like that.
We're happy about a past activity Like I was stoked.
I got, like, a good job offer, or we can use it for a future activity.
It usually is used for something very casual, like I'm going to the beach with my friends this weekend.
I'm stoked.
So stoked is like is like the same idea as excited, but we can use.
We use stoked, Ah, lot to talk about, like our past feelings, too.
And it tends to sound quite rough rough, but not in like a bad way.
But it's just a kind of, ah cool, laid back word that some people choose to use Stewart stew.
Uh, next word is thrilled.
Thrilled?
This is maybe a good pronunciation point for lots of you.
Thrilled.
I am thrilled we use this in a more formal situations.
We might use this before an announcement.
So thrilled means you're happy.
Yes, of course, you're happy, but you're also like happy in a formal way, maybe like it's kind of more polite.
So this is a vocabulary word you can use at the beginning of an announcement or a the beginning of a speech, something like that.
So, like if I have something I want to share, like on Social Media, for example, I want to share a new project.
I have said in the past two.
I'm thrilled to share this project, so it means happy and excited, and it sounds kind of formal.
I'm thrilled.
I'm thrilled.
Uh, this next one here is elated, elated.
This is another very more formal word.
We don't use this very often in everyday conversation.
You might see this more in writing, especially in somewhat more old fashioned writing.
Elated, it means just like very, very happy and cheerful, elated, elated.
Uh, finally ecstatic, ecstatic, so ecstatic is like excited, very, very excited, plus very cheerful.
So that's ecstatic.
We're very happy, very excited and also quite cheerful.
So these are all words that can mean happy in some way, but more specific.
So you're not con sorry if I said that wrong, says, What about jubilance?
Yes, you can use jubilant, but it's not really like an everyday word.
We don't use it so much in conversation.
Jubilant, I guess, would be kind of like a lead here, so we don't use it so much in everyday conversation.
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How do you use elated in a sentence just like this?
I'm elated.
I am not elated.
So these are all sentence patterns we can use with these expressions today.
So we use elated again for, like, formal situations.
Formal situations.
Okay, let's move on.
There's a lot to cover.
Let's change adjectives now.
So next core adjective here is sad.
Sad.
So let's talk about some other words.
Uh, and phrases that means something similar to sad First is down, down, so down, of course Means like you know this motion.
Yeah, down or also low.
I feel low.
I'm low.
I'm down Means my mood is down.
We don't use Hi.
By the way, I has a very different meaning.
I won't talk about in this lesson.
But when you talk about your mood, your emotions I'm down.
I'm feeling down.
It means your of your mood or your emotions are low.
Next one is disappointed.
Disappointed?
This is a very, very useful word.
It means you had an expectation, and the expectation was not met.
So, for example, you had a plan and the plan did not happen.
You would say I'm disappointed.
I'm disappointed.
Parents like to use this with kids a lot.
They say, I'm disappointed in you.
I'm disappointed in you.
We use the proposition in In that case, disappointed.
The next one here is miserable, miserable.
I'm miserable.
That means like I'm very sad.
I don't want to do anything like I don't want to leave my house.
The situation is terrible.
We can use miserable to describe our emotions, our feelings.
We also often use miserable to describe the weather, the weather.
So when it's like really cloudy, it's raining.
It's really, really ugly outside.
We often say the weather is miserable, so we can use this for emotions and to talk about the weather.
The next one is heartbroken, heartbroken so literally.
If you imagine.
Ah, heart like, you know, like a romantic relationship and your heart is broken.
So we use this when we end relationships to describe a sad feeling.
We also use this word when something we were very excited about, like doesn't happen like we were really really, like emotionally invested.
We had a lot of expectations.
Emotional expectations for something.
It didn't happen.
So, like something we really wanted to get we didn't get.
We might describe that feeling as being heartbroken, heartbroken, finally burned out, burned out, burned out is an interesting word are interesting expression.
Rather, when we say I'm burned out, it means I've been doing too much.
And now I have no energy.
So burned out sometimes means sad Like I did too many things.
I was too busy.
I used too much energy.
Now I have no energy and I feel bad That's burned out.
I'm burned out or he burned out So we can use this, uh, in a couple of different situations.
We might also use this word to me tired as well.
So kind of depending a little bit on the feeling burned out can mean sad or tired.
I'm burned up.
Okay.
Questions.
Uh, good shoot is a counter.
Yes.
Hi.
The word.
Hi.
I talked about the opposite.
Here.
Hi is not related to emotions.
Yes, hi is related to drugs, so that's completely different.
That's a different experience here.
Uh, okay.
Uh, let's continue on other questions.
I don't see other questions, so let's go on to the next one, which is tired.
So I just said, Tired, burned out is used for tired as well.
So tired.
Let's talk about some adjectives that mean tired.
1st 1 is exhausted.
The pronunciation here is exhausted, Exhausted.
It's not ex hostage, exhausted, exhausted means very, very tired.
We use this at the end of a day where we did a lot of physical activity.
So I went hiking today I'm exhausted or I ran a marathon.
Today I'm exhausted, so please keep in mind.
Exhausted is used like when you are physically tired.
You might also hear people use it when they're emotionally very tired.
Like I'm exhausted from thinking about something.
You could use that as well.
Next is beat.
I'm beat.
Beat is tired, but it's a more casual word.
We use this word a lot of the end of a work day.
So at the end of a regular workday, that kind of regular, normal tire feeling.
I'm beat, I'm beat.
Okay.
Uh, okay.
Uh okay.
Monday, Lou, I've drained.
You could say I'm drained, I'm drained out, but I'm drinking.
I'm drinking That's another good one.
So drained means I'm drained of energy and drained of energy.
I have no energy.
Okay, Uh, next one for this is worn out.
I'm worn out.
So the idea with this expression is like a closed.
For example, when you wear a, like a shirt a lot and it becomes kind of old, it may be the fit.
It becomes loose or there's a hole or something.
That condition is warren out.
My shirt is worn out.
We can describe our emotions with worn out as well.
So we're very tired, and we kind of feel like we're falling apart a little bit.
Warren out.
We're worn out.
Okay.
On to you the next one.
Sleepy.
So you sleepy specifically when we want to go to sleep?
I'm sleepy.
So please don't use like it's kind of strange to use sleepy when you just mean, like, tired.
So you sleepy when you want to talk about going to bed specifically.
All right.
Uh, is it possible to you shattered instead of exhausted?
I guess Shattered I personally don't use shattered to express.
Like a tired feeling I use shattered more for sad feelings.
So if I feel sad and tired at the same time.
Like, really disappointed and tired, I might say shattered, I guess.
Depends on the person too.
Okay.
Other don't see others, so last one here is out of it out of it.
So this is a set phrase.
I'm out of it.
He's out of it today.
Out of it means like out of someone's normal conditions so different from the normal condition, so usually because they are tired.
So if I say I'm out of it, it's like I can't focus on my work or I'm I'm not doing a very good job because I feel tired or because my mind is somewhere else.
I'm out of it today.
So I might say this if I'm just like on one day, I'm just not very, uh, focus.
Or it's hard for me to do my job or to study exactly as I always do.
Okay, Uh, that's the last one for tired.
Let's go quickly, then to the final group, angry over here.
And then we'll talk about some idioms and slaying to finish today's lesson, eh?
So angry.
Let's talk about angry, angry.
1st 1 is frustrated, frustrated.
We use.
Frustrated when way are trying to do something.
We're trying to complete a task.
We're trying to finish something and were unable to do that thing.
We continue to try and continue to try and fail over and over and over again.
So, like when you have computer problems like you always have computer problems, you try and try and try to fix your computer and you cannot do it.
You could describe that feeling with I'm frustrated.
I'm frustrated.
Another one that's very similarly is exasperated.
I chose this because I hope many of you don't know this word.
Exasperated, exasperated, a similar to frustrated.
But you tend to use this one more with, like, annoying situations.
So it's like maybe you're like having a fight like kids were having a fight and you're the parent and you tell them, like stop fighting, stop fighting, stop fighting and they're very annoying.
But you don't feel like angry so much.
It's just kind of annoying, and you can't get them to stop.
You might feel exasperated, so it's like you're trying and trying to, like, fix this annoying thing.
On that feeling, we can describe with the word exasperated exasperated.
Okay, um, some other ones.
Uh, Okay, uh, someone says I'm frustrated and exasperated right now.
Really?
Why?
Okay, let's go to outraged.
Outraged?
I am outraged.
So, uh, may be helpful to break this word down, out and rage.
So rage is a noun.
Rage means a very high level of anger.
Rage eso When we say outraged, it's like you're putting your rage, your high level of anger out.
So someone who is outraged is probably very noisy about their anger on their Very like, I say, they use very strong words to describe it.
So someone who is very, very upset and is expressing themselves, like often loudly that someone who is outraged.
So he was outraged.
Or she was outraged about something that is called outrage as a noun and outraged here as an adjective.
Next.
I saw this in the chat a few minutes ago.
Someone shared the word I write.
I rate I rate means very angry, very angry, but it tends to it.
It differs from outrage.
The difference here between irate and outraged I rate sounds a little more formal.
Outraged.
Sounds more like you're putting your anger out like that As I said, the out is kind of a good hint.
Here I rate is someone who is extremely angry, but maybe they're Maybe they're not putting their emotions out, but you can sense that they're very, very angry.
So this word sounds a little bit more where we can use it more often in polite situations.
Like you might say, my boss was irate when she learned the news.
Or like the CEO.
Was I right about the problems in the company?
So you might hear that Maurin like professional or business related situations.
I rate final, annoyed, annoyed.
So I used annoyed earlier to talk about like little kids fighting.
So we use annoyed for every day small things that bother us.
It's like I'm so annoyed right now.
So those kids are fighting are like, you know, maybe my co worker keeps clicking their pen.
That's another common one.
So I'm annoyed s.
So please keep the differences between like, annoyed and frustrated in mind.
So frustrated sounds kind of angry.
You're trying to fix something and you can't annoyed is like, there's this small thing that's kind of bothering me right now.
Okay, that's all the vocabulary words I wanted to cover.
In today's lesson, we'll take one quick break.
What's the difference between exasperated and exacerbate?
Exasperated is an adjective one exacerbate is a verb.
To exacerbate a situation means to make a situation worse so exasperated is quite different from this.
Okay, one more quick break and then we'll go to just a few a few short expressions and idioms you can use.
Uh, Gertrudis says, Can I say I'm feeling Thorn because my mom passed away?
Yeah, you can say Thorne, but Torrente is usually used.
If you're like, so imagine like carrying a piece of paper.
Imagine, this is one piece of paper.
I tear it in half.
It's like you're going in two directions, like you feel you could go this way and you could go this way.
Tauron is used when you're trying to make a decision about which way to go.
Like if you have two job offers, you say I'm tourney, so that might be a more common way to say.
Monday, my boss blew up at me.
My boss blew up to blow up means to explode with anger.
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Let's go, Thio.
The last part.
Let's go to the last part for today's lesson idiom, slang, expressions.
Uh, I forgot what I was gonna say.
Oh, yeah, If you're just joining us today, we're talking about how to express emotions.
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So last couple of expressions, I wanted to give you some kind of fun expressions you can use instead of using an adjective.
So these will help you sound a bit more natural.
1st 1 to express embarrassment, you can use the expression.
In this case, let's use the subject.
I I wouldn't be caught dead verb in the progressive form, or I wouldn't be caught dead with person, so this means I wouldn't I don't want to be seen even dead.
So that means even if I died, I don't want someone to see me doing this activity.
Or even if I were dead.
I don't want someone to see me with this person.
So this is an expression for shame.
For like Sorry, not shame.
Embarrassment, embarrassment.
So, for example, like, I wouldn't be caught dead, uh, with that person in public, like they're so I like, I really don't like that person.
I wouldn't be caught dead doing some crazy activity.
I wouldn't be caught dead dancing in public.
I don't know.
So something that causes you to feel embarrassment.
You can express that here I in this case, I wouldn't be caught dead.
Bourbon.
The i n G form or with a person was a good one for embarrassment.
This one too close to home too close to home.
This has nothing to do with your house.
It has nothing to do with the placement of your house when we say too close to home.
Like for example, Uh, what you said that that thing you just said that's too close to home.
It means that statement is so real to me, it makes me uncomfortable.
So you can use this when you talk about, like movies, media, TV shows, some conversation topic or a discussion topic That is very, very true for you.
And it makes you feel uneasy like a little uncomfortable.
Like, uh, did you see that episode of the TV show last night like that was too close to home.
So something that makes you feel uncomfortable because it's very realistic.
Too close to home.
Okay, Leah, I wouldn't be caught dead dancing around in my apartment, so that does that mean you don't want to do it?
I'll ask you later.
Okay.
Uh, next is to get something out of your system and to get something off your chest.
These are quite similar.
So I want to talk about them together again to get something out of your system and to get something off your chest first to get something out of your system.
So your system here means your body or your mind to get something out of your system.
We use this when we need to let goes to like to release energy, like like a little kid with a lot of energy.
Maybe they ate a lot of sugar or something.
I don't so, like they're running around and the parents might say, Let him get it out of his system.
Meaning let him release what's in his body.
Like, let him get that energy out.
So we use this for energy a lot, or we use this for stuff we're thinking about to.
I need to get this out of my system.
So, uh, like energy, Or maybe when you feel sad, maybe you go jogging, like to get something, Get bad feelings out of your system.
I need to get it out of my system.
When you use this expression to get something off your chest or to get something off of your chest, you might also here it means to say something you have been thinking about for a long time.
So this expression we don't really use for, like, energy we don't really talk about releasing energy.
We talk about releasing our thoughts with this.
Talk about releasing our thoughts with this so you might start a deep conversation with I need to get something off my chest to chest here is kind of like your heart.
Really?
So you need to express something from your heart.
Okay.
Finally, No hard feelings, no hard feelings.
We use this at, like the end of an uncomfortable situation.
So maybe you have to decline an offer or you have to reject something or someone asks you on a date or something like that and you say no.
So it's kind of an uncomfortable situation, but you want to make sure the relationship is still okay.
You can say no hard feelings.
Hard here means bad.
No bad feelings.
So, like I said, no, thank you, but no hard feelings.
Okay, So that means I don't want there to be bad feelings between us.
No hard feelings Yeah, Okay, I'm late as usual.
So let's finish up there.
So these air, I think some interesting and useful idioms you can use, I guess I did mostly idioms.
I thought I would include some slang, but alas, uh, we'll end there for today.
So I hope that this was helpful for you.
I hope you found some new adjectives that you can use and one final parting points.
Please remember your Hedy adjectives and I n g ending adjectives.
You're I n g like That's annoying is used for a thing outside you annoyed e d rivers to your own emotions.
There is a video about this on the English class one on one.
You do, general, you can check out for more.
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