And there were eye-popping special effects?

That good, huh?

Damn.

Hi, James from www.engvid.com . Just having a conversation with Mr. E about the Avengers

movie.

He said the special effects - which are when you see big explosions or superpowers or the

Incredible Hulk, they're special effects.

They're done for visual and they're done to make a movie visually seem very great or stunning

or amazing.

And he said they're eye-popping.

Now, some of you might say, "What does that mean?"

Well, today, I'm going to teach you - well, what this video, why we're doing this video

is to help you express something that ordinary emotional words won't say.

It's one thing to say that something is nice or big or really good, but to say something

is eye-popping gives you a greater power.

You're able to give people a deeper understanding of what you're really feeling.

Ready?

Now, you're excited about it.

Me too, so let's go to the board and take a look.

Now, how I'm going to do that today is we're going to introduce to you some vocabulary

you may not know.

Some of you may know it.

And we're going to give you - or I'm going to give you - sometimes, you know, what is

going on in the person's head or the best situation.

And that way, I can get you to be able to express yourself properly using these particular

phrases.

Now, just for a little aside, and that means a little note, you might see a hyphen in some

of these, and some of them you don't see it.

Today, I'm actually using the Oxford model, and that means the Oxford dictionary.

But these are things that you would say.

You would never really write them.

So, some of you grammar heads are going, "Oh my gosh, there's a hyphen, or there's no hyphen!"

Don't worry about it, you're not going to be writing this down.

And if you do write it down, just look at the country you're in.

If you're in England or America, the rules might be slightly different in those dictionaries.

Follow those rules, okay?

Good.

So, let's get to the board.

Nail-biting.

What do we mean by nail-biting?

If you're like this - I don't mean typing on our nails, but - it's causing you stress

or anxiety.

When you're really nervous, you see some people - they're not eating dinner.

They're nervous or they have a lot of tension.

But you know what?

Sorry, I made a small mistake.

I want to go back.

I will go back to this, but I want to go to the vocabulary first.

Forgive me, okay?

Because if you get the vocabulary as I go through all of this, it'll be much easier

to understand, okay?

So, let's do the quick vocabulary.

Jaw - this is the lower part of your mouth, your jaw is here.

Alright, it opens up.

That's your jaw.

A jerk is a quick, sharp movement.

So, somebody jerks you or the best example is when you're on the bus and you do that,

you got jerked.

It's a quick, sudden movement.

Maybe the bus stopped suddenly.

Or if someone's jerking you around, they're pulling you around.

Pop - it's like a small explosion.

For some of you, palomitas if you're Spanish, it is a, you know, popcorn.

Popcorn goes - they pop.

Slap - bah!

There's a great song called "The Boasty" Boasty with Idris Elba.

It goes "Get a slap on the chin", right?

It's to use the open palm and hit something with the open palm.

That's a slap, okay?

So, hit something with the palm of the hand.

And clench, he clenched his fist, is to hold tightly or to make your hand and fingers come

into this position.

clench a fist, now it's in a fist.

Hold tightly or strongly.

Now that I've got this vocabulary out, you'll see how it applies to the phrases I'm about

to go through, okay?

So, if you have any problem, just quickly look over here, and that will help you clear

up the other ones.

First off: nail-biting.

As I said, when you've got a lot of tension or you're very nervous.

You'll be nail-biting.

You do that when you're worried about something.

If somebody's in an accident and you do, "I hope they're okay".

Or maybe you're scared of something happening, like, "Will I lose my job?"

There you go.

Jaw-clenching.

Remember, I said "clench" is to hold tightly?

And remember I said this is your jaw?

If you see someone clenching their jaw, usually they are very determined - we will survive!

Or, very angry.

Sometimes, we will say, "to restrain", which means when you hold yourself from doing something.

Maybe somebody is saying something to you and you don't like it, and you find - I don't

know if you can see this.

Let me get closer, closer, closer - they're like - they're holding themselves back.

I actually had a boss - a guy who employed me.

It was quite funny, because whenever I said something he didn't like, he would go - and

I didn't realize he was clenching his jaw, because I was upsetting him.

So I kept talking.

Hmm, I wonder if I still work there.

Anyway.

Okay, so someone's very angry.

They may clench their jaw.

Or very determined, okay?

Head-shaking.

Now, here's the funny thing.

We all know this means "no".

When you're like, tsk tsk tsk tsk.

That's head-shaking.

It means I disagree or, "Do you like this" "No" "Do you like this one?"

It's not just no, it's I'm rejecting something.

Or, you don't agree with somebody.

They're saying something and you're like "Nuh-uh".

So, yes, it's the "no", but it's a little bit more than "no".

It's disagreement of what you're saying or rejection of what you're offering.

Just say no.

Head-scratching.

I'm sure you've seen someone go like this.

If you've been to Ikea and you have to put something together from Ikea, you know this

one, and you're like, "The A part goes with the B part that goes with the C, add on the

Z, what the hell and tarnation?

And I have 15 parts left!"

Why am I so confused?

When you're scratching your head, it's because you're confused or puzzled.

Interesting fact: Scientists say that we scratch our head because it relieves the tension.

So, when we're puzzled or confused, we scratch and it's like Mom going, "Massage, relax."

So, you can relax your brain.

You didn't know that, did you?

Now you do.

So, head-scratching.

Knee-slapping.

This is a funny one.

Heh, funny.

It is a funny one, because knee-slapping is if someone tells a joke and you're like, "Hahahaha!",

it's knee-slapping.

You slap - palm of your hand - your knee.

It's funny.

But you can also do it like this, "Hahaha", it's not funny, it's not funny at all.

Because you're being sarcastic.

So, people will also slap their knee and go, "Hahahaha", what a joke.

It's not a good joke.

So, you actually have to pay attention, if they're laughing and falling over, that knee-slapping

is real.

Or, "Hahaha, funny joke, pal".

Not funny.

Okay?

Now, remember when I said the interesting thing about each of these is you have an emotion,

but it actually takes it to another level.

So, in the case of knee-slapping, when someone's doing this, it's so funny it almost hurts.

You have to hit your legs to control yourself.

And when you're "Hahaha", it's not that I don't even find it funny, I don't find you

funny.

I don't find your face funny, I don't find your mother funny, I don't find anything funny

about you.

Hmm, okay?

Now, if you notice, I've gone from anxious to angry to disagree - and we're kind of going

up, see?

We're kind of going up here.

Heart-warming.

*Thump-thump* and warm, like a blanket, when you're eating toast, hmm.

Sorry, I just went crazy there.

Heart-warming.

Heart-warming makes you feel good.

You can feel your heart getting warm and your chest getting warm because it's a lovely situation.

Watching a mother with her baby for the first time smiling and the baby's smiling back.

It's - you know what I'm saying?

Okay.

Tear-jerking is, on the other hand, it's the exact opposite.

It's like somebody remember, I said "jerk" is to suddenly pull?

It's like you're happy and someone pulls the water - tears - from your eyes and makes it

into a real tear-jerker.

Tear-jerking is something sentimental, it makes you think about the importance of something

to you.

Like a watch your granddaddy gave you.

Maybe before your granddad died, across the seas, he gave you his old watch.

And you've kept it in your family for seventy-five years.

And if that watch gets lost in the seas on a storm, it's going to make you cry because,

"The grandfather brought it from a country far away, years ago, blah blah blah", okay?

Or heart-ache, tear-jerking.

"The man and the woman finally got together in the movie and then he dies from cancer?"

It's a real tear-jerker, seriously.

I'm not joking.

Not heart-warming, it's the exact opposite.

Now, how about mouth-watering?

Well, have you ever gone - have you ever been really, really, really hungry and then you've

gone by a really nice restaurant and they have, I don't know, a steak you can smell

the steak from across the street and you go - it's got some mashed potatoes and some asparagus

and it's - you can just - mmm I'm hungry right now just thinking.

That's mouth-watering.

When your mouth gets actually water in it and you have to wipe your mouth.

Now, it doesn't just mean for delicious food.

Some people find cars mouth-watering.

It means it's so exciting that you lose control of your body and your mouth starts to water

and you have to wipe it away.

You could say, "That woman - she's got a mouth-watering body."

It's like Oh, look at her, oh.

Or ladies, for you, that guy with that chest, oh yeah, you know.

Mouth-watering.

Not me.

Not me.

But other guys.

That Thor, the Thor guy, Chris Hemsworth.

Mouth-watering, right, women?

Okay.

Yeah, delicious, I guess you could say.

And jaw-dropping.

Have you ever seen something and you're like "Ahh!"

And I'm not talking about stupid people who walk like this all the time.

I'm talking about something that's so amazing you go "What the hell?" and your mouth just

opens up and stays down.

Remember, I told you "jaw" over here?

Now you know why I explained it.

If something's jaw-dropping, it's so amazing that you lose control of your body once again

and your mouth just falls open, okay?

So, if you heard the price - if I said, "I will give you a brand new 2020 Mercedes-Benz

for $1", you'd go "Whaaaaaaaaaaat!?"

Jaw open, cool?

Now, eye-popping means astonishing or amazing.

You're like "Whoa!"

One good way to think about it is imagine if your partner.

If you're a girl, it's a boy; if you're a boy, it's a girl - came home with bright orange

hair.

I mean bright orange, you'd be like "Whoa!".

If you look at my expression, my eyes are like "Ahh!"

It doesn't mean it's bad, it's really, really astonishing.

It can be impressive.

It can actually also be bright.

Some people have eye-popping colors on their cars.

You can see the car a mile away because it's really impressive, okay?

So, it's not necessarily a bad thing.