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Hi everybody.

Welcome back to Top Words.

My name is Alicia

and today we're going to talk about 10 ways to express fear

and surprise.

Let's get started.

Yeah, you scared me.

The first expression is you scared me.

You scared me.

So to scare is the verb here and we're using the past tense.

You scared me.

So you caused me to be frightened.

You scared me.

We use this when we feel surprised or scared.

So your friend suddenly jumps out from be.

>> You scared me.

I thought I thought you tipped over a liquid onto the camera.

>> So you scared me.

It's like Yeah.

Oh my gosh.

You frightened me.

In other words, you caused me to be afraid.

In a sentence, ah, you scared me.

You scared the out of me.

The next expression is, you scared the something out of me.

You scared the blah blah blah out of me.

In the blah blah blah here in the space,

we can use a lot of different words.

Some of them are really, really rude words.

You might have heard a few of these on like TV shows

or in um English-speaking movies.

Um, so in this lesson I'm going to introduce like some kind of not

so rude words.

Um, you can use you scared like the be Jesus out of me.

You scared the heck out of me.

You scared the hell out of me.

So it's a more extreme version of you scared me.

So you scared the something out of me.

It like the image is I was

so frightened that something came out of my body.

And it's usually like a negative

or like a rude word we use to emphasize how frightened we were.

You scared the hell out of me.

Oh my gosh.

So that's kind of a common expression.

So in a sentence, geez, you scared the hell out of me.

That really freaks me out.

The next expression is that really freaks me out.

That really freaks me out.

So to freak someone out

or like to freak out is like to cause a strong emotion that's kind

of a negative nervous emotion

or that's just if you feel like you're kind of overflowing with either like

a nervousness or like excitement.

Uh to freak out has a couple of different meanings,

but when you say that really freaks me out,

it's kind of a negative like sort of scared emotion.

So, in a sentence, uh, cockroaches really freak me out.

So, you feel like uncomfortable.

It's kind of like this gross like creepy crawly feeling about it.

It's like, uh, that freaks me out.

So, that's one use.

H, that really freaks me out.

I'm freaking out right now.

The next expression is, I'm freaking out.

Or, I'm freaking out right now.

So, in the last expression, we saw that really freaks me out.

In this expression, we say, "I'm freaking out."

In the progressive tense, I'm freaking out, which means like,

"I'm super super super excited

or I'm like super like I have

so much energy about something."

So freaking out sounds kind of like um a nervous activity,

but we can use it for like exciting things as well.

I can say like, "Oh my gosh, I forgot my car keys.

I'm freaking out right now.

How am I going to get home?"

We can use it to express like nervousness or anxiety,

but we can also say something exciting like you got tickets to Beyonce.

I'm freaking out right now.

Like we use it in a very positive way sometimes as well.

So you can kind of choose depending on your emotion.

Are you afraid or are you excited, surprised?

Both are okay.

That really creeped me out.

The next expression is that really creeped me out.

That really creeped me out.

So creepy is a word we've talked about in a previous episode of TopWords

on the horror movie episode of Top Words.

Uh so something that is creepy causes nervous feelings

or like we we can't relax.

It's kind of unsettling or strange.

So something that causes those feelings in us,

we can describe with a a phrase that creeped me out.

That caused creepy feelings in me.

That thing creeped me out.

So like bugs creep me out for example.

More than creep me out.

I just I hate bugs.

So in another sentence, yeah, I saw the ring.

It really creeped me out.

So something that causes un uneasy feelings in you.

I was so sketched out.

The next expression is I was so sketched out.

I was so sketched out.

So here um we are using the word sketch or sketched,

which doesn't actually mean rough drawing here.

This is sort of a slang phrase

that has become commonly used throughout um different types of English. uh to be

sketched out by something means to have like nervous feelings

that something is kind of dangerous.

So creepy is just sort of unsettling like difficult to relax.

Sketchy is like is about a person usually

or like a situation

that seems it could be dangerous.

There could be something dangerous actually.

It's not just that it's kind of scary, but there's maybe some danger there.

So sketchy sketchy like we don't know what's going to happen next in a

sentence.

Then I think a car was following me today.

I was so sketched out.

Holy.

The next expression is holy something.

Holy something.

So we can say holy cow or holy other rude words.

You can check some TV and movies for other words.

You can finish this sentence with holy something.

So we use this as just an exclamation.

So when we're surprised or when we're afraid or when we're excited,

we can say holy cow

or like holy I'm not going to say other words

that people use cuz this is a family channel,

but uh holy something can mean anything depending on the situation

and the sort of tone of voice

that you use with this word.

Uh, holy cow is a pretty common expression,

but for surprise usually I would say the kind of rude expressions are more

commonly used for fear.

Oh my god.

The next expression is oh my god.

Oh my god.

So depending on your intonation,

you can kind of change the meaning of this word.

You can express your surprise with oh my god

or you can express like fear like oh my god.

So depending on the way you say this word,

you can kind of change the meaning,

but you can use this in a lot of different expressions.

I'm sure you've heard this expression before.

Oh my god.

Also, oh my gosh, too,

if you don't like to use the word god in an example sentence,

oh my god, there's a bee in the car.

What?

Okay, the next expression looks kind of funny on screen.

It's just what?

What?

So, we can use this as a very casual form of surprise.

What?

So, when someone surprises you, usually a friend, a good friend,

and you're just stunned, like you're so surprised and shocked,

but you don't feel like excited.

You're just like, it's difficult for you to kind of say anything

or do anything.

Some people react with what, like that kind of long a sound.

So it's usually used for surprise actually

or something new that you just oh my gosh I can't react to this

just what that's all just that's a simple reaction

so you might hear this

as well for surprise generally in an example a surprise party what you got

me good the last expression is you got me good you got me good

this is an expression you can use

when your friend or someone else you know plays a joke on you.

So your friend tries to trick you

or your friend tries to scare you

or whatever tries to get a reaction from you usually by scaring you

or surprising you.

If the trick or the joke was effective, you can say, "Ah,

you got me good.

You got me good."

This is kind of like a uh okay, I admit like you got me.

You defeated me.

In other words, you made me afraid or you surprised me.

So you can say, "You got me good."

You got me good.

So that's the meaning of this expression.

Ah, nice job.

In other words, you got me good in a sentence.

You got me good.

Those are 10 ways to express fear and surprise.

If there's another expression you like to use,

please be sure to let us know in the comments for sure.

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Bye-bye.

Hi everybody, my name is Alicia.

Welcome back to Top Words.

In this lesson, we're going to talk about 10 contractions you should be using.

I recommend these because if you don't use the contracted forms of these words,

you might sound a little stiff.

So, to sound a little more natural,

these are some good contractions for you to use.

Let's go.

Deno.

The first contraction is den.

Deno.

Deno.

So, den is a very casual contraction.

It's not really like an official contraction.

I suppose you can write it du n o.

Um, but it means don't know.

I don't know sounds kind of stiff.

I don't know.

I do not know.

But, uh, I don't know.

It sounds much better.

Native speakers usually say don't know instead of don't know or do not know.

Don't know in a sentence.

I don't know.

What do you want to do?

Wanna.

The next expression is wanna.

Wanna.

So I used wanna in the previous example sentence

when I said I don't know what do you want to do.

Wanna is the again casual contraction of want to.

I want to do something.

I don't want to do something.

Want to becomes wanna in the kind of contracted form in in speaking.

Keep in mind that although we can use wanna in like casual text,

um it's typically better to use uh want to in more formal text. in

a sentence.

What do you want to do this weekend?

Gota.

The next one is gota.

Gota.

So gota is got to got to which means have to.

So I've got to do something and I have to do something.

But uh actually we have this expression I gota

or he's gota that we use instead of I've got to

or I have to.

So gota expresses needs like I gotta go.

I gotta go.

So um in another sentence I got to go to work tomorrow.

I've the next contraction is I've.

I've is the contracted form of I have.

I have.

And of course this vv sound can be attached to others as well.

So like I've uh she's and he's takes an s sound.

They've we've as well.

So, it's this vv sound uh in the contracted form

which refers to the have

or has ending as in the uh present perfect tense.

So, I've I've uh make sure to use this I've form instead of I

have in your speech to sound more natural in a sentence.

I've been so tired lately.

He's she's the next one.

Okay.

So the next one is he's

and she's which is the same uh he has

and she has but we can also use this

as he is and she is.

So depending on the grammar of the sentence he's

and she's could mean he is

or he has and she is

and she has.

So this means you need to pay attention to the grammar overall of the

sentence.

For example, he is funny.

That sentence can be he's funny or he's been on the phone all day.

Is he has been on the phone all day?

How do we know which is which?

In the first sentence, he's funny.

We see he is and then funny, an adjective follows that.

That gives us a big hint that probably the verb is is there,

not has.

In the other sentence, he's been on the phone all day.

We see the past participle form of be.

Be been.

He has been.

So, we understand the s apostrophe s is actually has there, not is.

So, this is a great one to help you pay attention to the grammar

of a sentence because he's

and she's uh have the same contracted form

but different meanings depending on the situation.

In another sentence, he's my best friend.

I' The next one is one that many people ask about.

I' I' I've talked about this in Ask Alicia as well too.

I' many people say they have trouble hearing I'id in a sentence like I

like beer and I'd like a beer for example.

Uh how do you hear that?

So again this is another situation where you need to pay attention to the

grammar of the sentence.

Uh if you say I like beer it's referring to your preference.

I like beer.

However, if you are ordering at a restaurant I'd like refers to I would

like.

The contracted form of I would is I'.

I would like a beer, please.

So that's a request, an order.

So I' has a very different grammatical function than I.

Therefore, you need to listen to the entire sentence to understand the difference between

I and I' and

when to use them.

So I' I'.

And of course, uh, with different subjects, weed, heed, she, they, and so on.

You as well, it's

that it's that kind of soft d sound at the end there.

So try to listen for

that and of course try to use the contracted form too in a sentence.

I'd like to order please.

Would have, could have, should have.

The next one is actually three words uh that are all very similar.

They are would have, could have, and should have.

Uh the non-contracted forms are would have, could have, and should have.

So we use these um to talk about past events.

Uh, so I would have gone to the party if I had had time,

for example.

Or I could have helped you if you called me or I shouldn't have.

Oh, that's a nice one.

The uh negative form.

Shouldn't have.

Shouldn't have is the negative form.

I shouldn't have drank so much last night.

So should have becomes should have.

Should not have becomes shouldn't.

Shouldn't.

I've talked about this in Ask Alicia as well too.

But would have becomes would have.

Uh therefore, would not have, wouldn't have.

Same thing with could have, couldn't have as well.

Uh should have, shouldn't have.

So these are all kind of contracted forms um

that sound much more natural

when you're speaking.

So these are kind of past tense examples,

but they have lots of different uses, too.

So wouldn't, could not,

and shouldn't have are the most natural ways to say these words.

Could not have, would not have.

Should not have.

Yeah.

Could not, wouldn't, shouldn't.

All right. in a sentence.

I should have worked harder yesterday.

Then I could have finished earlier today.

Lemie.

Number eight.

The next one is let me.

Let me.

Michael talked about this in an episode of English topics many years ago.

Let me is an informal contraction for let me.

Let me meaning allow me.

So let me followed by a verb.

So, let me buy you a drink

or like let me go to sleep

or let me hang out

and play video games,

whatever.

So, allow me to do something.

Let me let me We can use this with other subjects like ah just

let him work or ah just let her sleep.

So, that same sort of uh le sound is preserved. let him

or let her uh

but the middle sound is kind of cut a little bit is sort of

contracted somewhat but let me becomes let me let in a sentence uh let

me make you dinner.

The next expression is gimme.

So similar to let me

which uses me at the end we have gimme

which means give me give me something.

So give me a moment of your time could be give me a moment

of your time.

So the contraction there uh it decreases the distance between those two words.

The vv sound disappears.

Give me from give me in a sentence.

Give me a few hours.

I'll get back to you.

Its.

The last contraction is its.

Its.

So similar to he's and she's which we talked about before.

Its with the apostrophe s here I should note uh can refer to it

is or it has.

Again, we need to pay attention to the grammar overall of the sentence.

So like it's a dog is it is a dog

or it's been a long day.

That case is it has been a long day.

So again, we need to look to the verb

that follows the expression to determine is it a has

or an is.

So in my first example, it's a dog.

We see a noun there.

Dog is a noun.

It's a dog.

Uh, in the second example, it's been a long day.

We see a verb there.

So, we know it should be has.

That past participle is a great hint.

So, uh, please pay attention to its as well.

Try to use its instead of it is.

It's my favorite song.

All right, that's it.

So, those are 10 contractions that you should be using.

I hope that you can use these and listen for these as well.

Uh, if you have some other contractions

that you think are useful

or that you try to use a lot yourself,

please let us know in the comment section below this video.

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Bye-bye. snowboarding and that inspired today's lesson.

Sprain.

The next word is sprain.

Sprain.

To sprain something refers to a refers to hurting or to injuring a ligament.

So a ligament are these sort of like fibrous things like kind of uh

they connect they're the parts of the body inside your body they connect bones

to muscles or bones to

or to like organs they hold the parts of the body together inside.

So a sprain is damage to a ligament a sprain.

So we can say um for example to sprain a part of the body,

a specific part of the body.

Um some common examples come from sports injuries like he sprained his ankle playing

basketball last week or I sprained my wrist uh working in the garden

or something.

I don't know.

But I think a sprain happens

when you push the like the joint

or you push that part of the body beyond the possible

or the reasonable range of motion.

So my example sentence, I already said it,

but he sprained his ankle at the basketball game last week.

Bruise.

The next word is bruise.

Bruise.

So, a bruise refers to taking like a taking an impact,

something that's not a sharp impact.

It's usually like a blunt impact, I suppose.

I don't know.

It kind of depends.

But anyway, a bruise,

we can use it as a noun or as a verb, actually.

Uh to bruise something means you damage usually like a this the a certain

area of skin and blood collects under the skin creating like a black

or blue or maybe even like greenish color purple maybe.

To use it as a noun we can say

that that spot is a bruise.

We refer to that damaged area

as a bruise. to use it

as a verb.

However, we can say I bruised my arm or I bruised my leg.

So, to bruise something means to cause damage, but it's like under the skin.

We can see the color change uh because of the damage,

the blood collecting there.

So, that's to bruise something in a sentence.

I bruised my arm when I ran into the door.

Cut.

The next word is cut.

Cut.

So cut is done with a sharp object.

A cut, a cut refers to an injury which causes blood to emerge usually,

unless it's a very shallow cut.

Shallow is the opposite of deep.

So a cut is caused by a sharp object.

So a knife is probably the most common thing

that comes to mind

when talking about cuts.

Um though another very common type of cut is is called a paper cut

as a noun.

So uh if you've ever tried to take a piece of paper

and the p the piece of paper has kind of made a small cut

on your hand that's called a paper cut.

A paper cut.

So it's that kind of slice motion that injures the body is a cut.

All right. in a sentence.

Be careful not to cut yourself when using a knife.

Wound.

The next word is wound.

Wound.

So, a wound is just a place of injury on the body.

Um, we have a couple of different words we can use to be specific

about wounds.

They're like an open wound and a closed wound, I suppose you could say.

But, um, usually people say things like, "Don't touch open wounds."

So an open wound is usually like a fresh wound.

So something has been recently damaged on the body,

recently injured and the wound is fresh.

Maybe we can see blood

or maybe we can see into the body

or something.

That's considered an open wound.

So a closed wound would be perhaps a wound

which has been fixed by a doctor.

Or for small wounds like uh maybe the body has created a a new

layer over the top of the wound.

That's called a scab.

Ew.

Ew.

Scabs.

Ew.

Uh but that's that's not an open wound then,

but we should still care for it.

So a wound is a place on the body

that is injured in some way.

A wound.

Um that's used as a noun.

We can also use wound

as a verb which means um to hurt something like um I wounded my

arm but wound is not

so common I think in everyday speech.

Instead we use the verb hurt.

I hurt my arm but I'll talk more about this later.

So in a sentence don't touch open wounds.

Injure.

The next word is injure.

Injure.

So I've been talking a little bit about the word injure.

To injure means to hurt a part of the body.

So to injure your arm, to injure your head, to injure your neck.

These mean uh to take damage on that part of the body,

to injure something.

Um so it's typically a bad thing to injure something.

Uh the noun form of this word is injury.

Injury.

So I have an injury.

We use this word more with uh like perhaps sports I guess military.

Yeah, I guess so.

Um but for for everyday like just small I don't know for small injuries

I suppose like paper cuts for example

or like maybe a cooking accident.

Um I suppose we don't really say injury.

We will say we'll use the verb um hurt actually.

Again I'll talk about that word a little later.

But injury, injury is damage, taking damage to a part of the body.

In a sentence, she injured her shoulder this morning.

Tear.

The next word is tear.

Tear.

Be careful.

This word is spelled te e a r.

It looks like tear uh but used as a verb.

It is tear.

Tear to talk about an injury.

So a tear if you can imagine like a piece of paper

when we want to uh separate it into two pieces we can tear the

piece of paper.

Now imagine that same idea but with a muscle in the body.

So a muscle tear refers to that kind of damage to the muscle.

So quite painful I think you can imagine.

So to tear a muscle uh requires yeah some serious recovery time I imagine.

I have never torn a muscle.

Yeah, that's a good point.

The past participle form is torn.

Torn.

Have you ever torn a muscle?

Uh, or the past tense, the past tense is tore.

I tore my shoulder muscle last week.

I don't know.

>> Awful.

Awful.

In a sentence, tearing a muscle is painful.

Pull.

Pull.

Pull.

So, we use pull again with muscles, but this is different from tear.

So to tear a muscle refers to this kind of break motion.

So to pull a muscle means to stretch a muscle too much.

So it the muscle is like just taken beyond uh its limits essentially

and so it kind of causes some discomfort.

There's kind of a bad feeling in the muscle.

Uh in a sentence I think I pulled a muscle.

Ouch.

Dislocate.

Dislocate.

Dislocate.

So here we see the word locate referring to location

and dis this which means not in other words.

So to dislocate something refers to removing a part of the body from its

correct position and shifting it slightly.

So this is something that you hear uh with joints.

So a joint is a part of the body where two things come together.

So for example um a shoulder we can talk about the shoulder

and dislocate together.

So if we say a sentence like I think I dislocated my shoulder maybe

the correct position of part of the shoulder is to fit into another bone

like this.

But maybe dislocating the shoulder means like it moved this way

or I don't know how to dislocate a shoulder.

But either way the correct position is here.

The dislocated position is maybe here or here.

I don't know.

But so the bone is not broken.

There's no crack.

There's no break there.

It's just a shift in position.

So, the word we use is dislocate.

To dislocate something in a sentence,

he dislocated his shoulder and popped it back into place.

H hurt.

H hurt.

To hurt something.

I've talked about this verb a few times already in this lesson,

but to hurt means to injure or to wound.

It's like the very general verb

that we can use to describe all damage to the body.

So hurt generally means kind of a small injury like ah I hurt my

finger.

I I slammed it in the door

or I think I hurt my arm playing tennis last week.

We usually use this for kind of minor injuries, not such big injuries.

So in this case, for example, if I say I hurt my wrist,

it sounds a little too minor.

Actually, this is probably a more severe injury.

I would probably say, yeah, I uh I broke my wrist.

I would use something very specific.

Instead of hurt to refer more generally to just small everyday damage to the

body,

you can say hurt.

Um, we also use this word to refer to pain in the body too,

like ow, my arm hurts.

Ow, my wrist hurts.

Instead of saying painful, we use the verb hurts more often.

So, it's less natural to say my wrist is so painful.

Instead, we say my wrist hurts.

It hurts is better than painful.

So try that out in a sentence.

I hurt myself a lot on accident.

So those are 10 words you can use to talk about injuries.

I hope that that's helpful for you

and now you have some specific vocabulary to talk about the various ways we

can damage our body.

If you have any questions

or comments or if you want to share about a time you were injured,

please let us know in the comments section below this video.

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Bye-bye.

It's kind of a terrible image.

A terrible image.

I'm very sorry.

Okay, we can call that a noun.

What?

We can call that a noun.

This is a noun.

>> No, >> it's a purple noun.

>> I gave myself a purple noun when I ran into the door.

>> Hi everybody, my name is Alicia

and today we're going to be talking about the top 25 English phrases.

So, let's get started.

The first phrase is hello.

Hello, of course, is used as a greeting.

You can greet your friends.

You can greet your co-workers, your family with this phrase,

just by saying hello.

Hey, hi.

What's up?

Hello.

Sup.

Yo.

Pretty much any time of day, you can use hello.

Hello.

The next phrase is good morning.

Good morning is used as a greeting in the morning.

You can kind of feel when morning ends for you.

Good morning is nice

and polite or even just morning with your close friends

or close co-workers.

The next phrase is good night.

Good night is fine.

We don't use this to greet other people.

We use it when we're saying goodbye to other people at night.

Family members, particularly mothers and fathers,

to say good night to their children before they put them to bed.

You can say it to your friend in a text message

or in an email

if you've been talking for a

while.

Good night.

So, the next word to talk about is goodbye.

Uh, use it when you say goodbye to your friends,

when you leave your friends.

Goodbye.

Bye. of course.

Take care.

Have a nice day.

Peace out.

That's another way to say goodbye.

Okay.

Okay, the next phrase is I'm plus your name.

Of course, this is a way to introduce yourself.

You can use I'm in my case Alicia.

I'm Alicia to introduce yourself in any situation.

New friend, I'm Alicia.

Okay, the next phrase is what's your name?

What's your name is used to ask someone else what their name is.

So, what is your name?

Sounds a bit tried to use what's your name.

If you forget someone's name, you can say sorry, what's your name?

Or sorry, what's your name again?

Next phrase is nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you.

Anytime you meet someone new, nice to meet you is fine.

Good to meet you is a little more casual.

Great to meet you sounds very excited.

Pleasure to meet you sounds like uh maybe a formal situation

or a business context.

Okay, the next phrase is how are you?

How are you is it's just a friendly way to check in with the

other person.

You can use it with friends, your family, your co-workers,

maybe even your boss to a certain degree.

Uh how are you?

How you doing?

The next phrase is I'm fine,

thanks. and you uh if you saw English in 3 minutes,

we talked a lot about this phrase.

Uh instead of I'm fine, thank you.

And you say, I'm good, thanks.

How are you?

Just shorten it, make it a little bit more natural.

How are you?

Good.

How are you?

Great.

How are you?

Not so good.

How are you?

Okay.

And so on.

So when someone says, "How are you?"

Offer.

I usually say, "I'm good.

This week I blah blah blah."

Give some information about what you've been up to.

Maybe a hobby, something that you did recently, an event, something interesting you saw,

whatever.

People want to make

that connection with you

and it's a good chance for you to continue speaking.

The next word is please.

Please is a polite phrase used when you want something from someone else.

You can use this as a response when someone offers you something,

like in a restaurant, for example.

Would you like more water?

Would you like something to drink?

Oh, please.

The next phrase is thank you.

Thank you is used to express your appreciation.

You can use thank you with everybody.

The next phrase is you're welcome.

You're welcome.

When someone says thank you, you can say you're welcome.

No biggie.

I use no biggie as in no biggie is short for no big problem.

The next word is yes.

Yes, of course.

Yes means is any positive expression.

Someone asks you a question and the answer is a positive answer.

You say yes.

Yep.

Uh-huh.

Yeah.

We no.

Next.

I'm guessing I know it.

Yep.

The next word is no.

No is a negative response to something

when you have to give a negative answer.

So, as you can probably guess, um the long form of no is negative.

I like to use nope.

It's very, very casual.

Not going to happen.

My parents would use that with me to soften that a little bit.

If you want to show a negative response to something, like,

let's go out for dinner tonight.

What do you want to do?

Like, do you want to go out?

Not really.

No, I don't think so.

To soften it.

The next word is okay.

Okay.

This word comes from copy editors.

Okay.

When they had to check a manuscript,

um they had to label the manuscript all clear.

A C.

But because they were copy editors

and they have a very very sick sense of humor,

they thought they would mark it okay for all clear to make a joke

because O and K do not start all

and clear.

But it caught on among everybody in the world.

Anyway, okay. uh is used to agree with somebody else.

Well, it can be used actually to express a positive

or kind of a slight negative.

I feel transitioning in your conversation.

You can say, "Okay, now we're going to talk about blah blah blah."

Okay.

The next phrase is excuse me.

Excuse me.

It's used to get someone's attention in English

when you don't know the other person.

For example, in a store, a supermarket, maybe a stranger on the street,

you need to ask directions.

You can use excuse me.

You can use excuse me in the supermarket.

Excuse me.

Can you tell me where the hot sauce is?

If you've done something rude in public, you can use excuse me.

I personally do not do rude things in public ever.

I'm sorry is the next word we're going to talk about.

I'm sorry is used to apologize.

When you have made a mistake

or someone you know has made a mistake

and you're connected to it

or you just feel bad,

you can use I'm sorry.

You made a mistake at work.

I'm sorry.

You forgot to feed your cat.

I'm sorry.

Sorry about that.

You bumped someone next to you.

Oh, sorry.

What time is it?

is the next phrase when you need to check what time it is.

What time is it?

When you ask someone else what time it is.

Maybe you say this to yourself, too.

Check your watch.

Check your phone.

Check a clock.

Pretty straightforward phrase.

There aren't really any short versions.

So, that's an easy one.

Where is the plus a location.

So, you can use this for um a building or a store.

We don't we're not going to use this where isthe for a place,

a city name or a state name or a country name.

To do that, you would need to remove the.

But where is the bank?

Where is the post office?

You can use this to ask directions,

to ask for help in your house or at work.

Where is the copy machine?

Where is the file I need?

Where is the blah blah blah.

Where is the bathroom is perhaps a very important question to know.

The next one is, may I use the restroom?

May I use the restroom is a polite uh

and soft expression that you can use

if you need to use the toilet,

you need to use the washroom.

When you're at someone's house for the very first time,

when you're in a place that you're that is new to you,

you can ask, "May I use the restroom?"

More casually, can I go to the bathroom?

To be very polite, you can say, "May I go to the bathroom?"

The next phrase is, "I would like to order something."

You can use this at a restaurant probably,

or in any situation where you need to place an order.

I'd like a pizza.

I'd like a beer.

Can I get the check, please?

This will be used at a restaurant

when you've finished your meal

and it's time to go.

Can I get the check please?

In a very very casual situation, you can just say check please.

That's fine.

The next phrase is see you soon.

See you soon is used with friends and family members perhaps.

Uh when you expect to see them again soon after saying goodbye to them.

This is used at the end of the conversation.

You're going separate directions.

You say see you soon.

See you is also good or just see you.

To make it a little more formal,

you can say I'll see you again soon.

Make a full sentence out of it that way.

The next phrase is see you later.

See you later is very similar to see you soon,

but the point is with see you later is

that you're probably going to meet

that person again later on in the same day.

The last phrase is really.

Really is a very useful word

because you can use it to show you interested in a conversation with upward

intonation.

Really, really, tell me more.

Or to show that you're not so interested in the conversation with downward intonation.

Really.

So there are many other words

that you can use similar to really in this way like seriously

or oh and so on.

So it's a really good practice for your intonation.

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Hi everybody.

My name is Alicia

and today we're going to be talking about the top 25 English adjectives.

So these are the top 25 English adjectives in terms of how often they're

used.

So let's get right into it.

Okay, the first adjective is the word good.

Good can be used to refer to anything

that you think is good

or great or positive.

In the comparative form, it is better.

In the superlative form, it is best.

So I think pizza is good.

I think that sleep is good.

I really think that sleep is good.

Baseball is good.

Playing sports is good.

Video games are good.

The next word is new.

Comparative form newer.

Superlative form newest.

I have a new haircut.

Do you want a new bike?

I need to get a new job.

Not true.

Sorry.

No, just an example.

So, next one is first.

First just refers to um the number one of something.

Yeah, the original of something.

You could say the first silent film

or the first movie I ever watched

or the first CD I ever bought.

The first seat I ever bought was Michael Jackson's bad.

The next word is last, the final of something.

We use last to refer to the most recent of something as well,

as in the last time I went to the beach

or the last time I went to the forest

or the last time I saw my friend.

Have you ever eaten the last piece of pizza when you weren't supposed to?

What was the last word we talked about?

It was first.

The next word is long.

Uh, long anything that you feel is lightsabers are long.

Subway sandwiches are long.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I I'm not supposed to laugh for long.

The next word is great.

Great can be used to express any positive emotion.

Somebody gives you new information and you think it's good, uh,

but you want to express that it's even better than good,

you can say it's great.

Greater is the comparative form.

Greatest is the superlative form.

The greatest invention of all time was the light bulb, for example.

What do you think is your greatest achievement?

One of life's greatest pleasures is finding people to be good friends with is

great.

The next word is little.

This is a very common uh word

that gets used in an expression like

when I was little,

referring to when you were a kid.

So, when I was little, I really liked to play outside.

Or, when I was little, I was really into Pokemon.

I have said very little about the word little.

The next word is near.

Near, nearer, nearest.

You probably know the location of the nearest maybe supermarket to your house

or the nearest post office.

I live near a very fashionable store.

The next word is big.

Big is used for anything that is large in size or large conceptually.

So for example, you can say an elephant is a big animal

or in terms of concept,

you can say um let's see

that fashion is really big right now

or that artist is really big right now.

And that refers to popularity.

Big movies are exciting to watch with friends.

Do you have any bigger sandwiches?

I'm really hungry.

Next word is other.

Other just refers to something else, something different from what is currently happening.

The other thing, the other person.

My other friend is a DJ.

My other friend is a cook.

My other friend is a dancer.

My other friend I have very interesting friends.

What other things have you done with your life?

The next word is old.

Old.

It can be used to refer to people.

It can be used to refer to animals, to art,

anything that has a long history.

So maybe I like old movies

or I don't like old art

or I think my grandpa is really really old.

This is getting old.

The next word is right.

This can be used to refer to the direction right

as in the opposite of left

or it can be used to refer to something

that is correct.

So in a sentence like you're right, it means you're correct.

That is the correct answer.

It can also be used to mean right as in make a right turn.

Uh but you'll have to listen to the context to decide

which meaning is the true meaning.

This is not right. could mean something that's not fair

or that you disagree strongly with.

This is not right.

The next word is high.

High refers to something that is very tall, very way up somewhere.

So many people might say like I have a fear of high buildings

or I have a fear of high places.

It can also in the comparative form just refer to something higher

or taller than something else.

Highest meaning the most high.

Squeaky level is high.

I like high volume uh music.

The next word is different. not the same as something else is different.

I think that having many different friends is a lot of fun.

Do you enjoy listening to different kinds of music?

The next word is small.

Small, smaller, smallest.

Small and little are extremely similar.

I would pretty much use them in the same way.

Uh, however, we don't say when I was a small kid.

We say when I was a little kid

or you can say

when I was small.

The next word is large.

Large and big are very much the same.

I will say though that large is used on clothing sizes.

Big is not.

When we talked about big,

we talked about how big can be used to refer to something that's very

popular.

Large is not used to refer to something that's popular.

Large is used for for sizing I feel only.

So like a house can be large,

but it's used to refer to like the physical size of something.

Uh large and in charge.

Large larger largest.

This is the largest.

The bottom is in the zoo. have to go.

The next word is easy.

Easy is the next word.

Easy.

Easier.

Easiest.

This is a good one

that you can use anytime something seems very simple for you.

For example, this test is easy.

Or that was the easiest thing I've ever done.

Or I hope this test is easier than the last test.

You gosh, don't call a person easy, Leisa.

Uh, don't ever call a person easy unless you're trying to be really rude.

My driving test was really easy.

Or what's the easiest language you've ever studied?

The next word is difficult.

Uh, difficult is something that seems hard to do.

What is the most difficult thing you've ever had to do?

The most difficult thing I've ever had to do was move to a different

country.

The next word is young.

Young, younger, youngest.

Come on, guys.

Uh, younger.

Younger generations have a lot of uh new technologies to experiment with.

Young.

The next word is important.

Important.

More important, most important.

What is important to you?

I think that practicing another language is more important than playing my banjo.

I don't have a banjo.

You can find something that's important to you and put your time into it.

I think drinking a lot of water every day is important.

Putting on your shoes before you leave the house is very important.

I have to go.

It's very important that I go.

Next word is interesting.

Interesting.

Anything that you think is cool, anything that you find that makes you go,

"Ooh, is something that's interesting."

I think that this type of music is the most interesting type of music.

Your mom is interesting.

The next word is short.

Short.

Shorter.

Shortest.

I am the shortest person in my class.

I'm the shortest person in the room.

Short just refers to something that is not long.

So it can refer to a size

or it can also refer to a concept.

Um as in a length of time.

So like I'm going to travel abroad for a short period of time.

Bad.

You know I'm bad.

I'm bad.

You know it. bad.

Something that is not good.

Bad food will give you bad feelings in your stomach.

You're a bad dog.

Who's a bad dog?

You're a bad dog.

The next one is boring.

Something that is not interesting.

Something that does not make you go, "Ooh, but something that makes you go."

The most boring story I've ever heard was a story about a tomato.

If I don't do anything, this will be really boring.

Oh, far referring to distance.

Something that is not near to you is far.

How can I go farther?

Far.

The farthest I've ever run is 7 km.

I'm not a runner.

Okay, that's the end of the top 25 English adjectives.

You've probably used these if you're studying English.

Uh, and if you haven't,

try to experiment with them um

and see what kind of interesting sentences

that you can make up.

Try to use the uh the normal form

and the comparative form

and the negative form

and the superlative form.

You can express a lot with just these 25 words,

so give them a try.

Thanks very much for watching us in this lesson

and we'll see you again soon.

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Hi everybody, my name is Alicia

and today we're going to be talking about the top 25 English nouns.

These are the top 25 most commonly used nouns in English.

So let's get started.

The first noun is the word name.

Name of course is used in common questions like what's your name?

My name is and so on.

My favorite actor's name is Harrison Ford.

Something like that.

Say my name.

Say my name.

The next word is time.

Time is used, of course, to express the point in the day.

Is used in questions like, "What time is it?

Can you tell me what time it is?"

I don't have any time lately if you're really busy.

Have you any time?

It's time for my favorite show, House of Cards.

Kevin Spy is cool.

The next noun is man.

Please be careful.

Man is one of those words that has an irregular plural form.

When you need to use the plural of the word man,

you should say men.

Do not say man's.

It's very funny, but uh don't say it who's

that man or what's up man.

You can use man with men or women.

Interestingly enough, the next word is woman.

Woman also has an irregular plural form.

Please say women when referring to more than one woman, not women's or woman's.

Even though the uh the singular

and the plural form of women

and woman have the same spelling at the beginning w the pronunciations are different.

Woman women.

So watch out for that when you say this pretty woman.

The next word is person.

Person.

You can use it to refer generally to either a man or a woman.

Please be careful.

Person's uh plural form becomes people.

When you want to talk about another culture, for example,

you can say such

and such country's people

or the people in

that country speak blah blah blah language.

The next word is thing.

Generally, an inanimate object, something that is that just doesn't move,

like a water bottle or, you know, a sweater, a thing.

You can use it when you don't know the word for something.

So, thing is very, very useful.

What is this thing?

Uh, I like many things.

For example, Where the Wild Things Are,

is a movie that's already out that I totally knew about.

The next word is mother.

Mother is the person, the woman who gave birth to you.

Isn't that exciting?

Mother is commonly shortened to mom or mama or mommy.

Ma madre if you speak Spanish.

M.

Mamba if you're me.

Mamaita.

The next word is day.

Of course, day is used in all of the days of the week.

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

Time period when the sun is out. the day or the daytime.

Have a nice day.

The next word is world.

World just refers to the entire planet Earth.

I like to travel all around the world.

Or I like trying foods from all around the world.

In the world of science, this is an upcoming technology.

Or in the world of literature, he's one of the most famous authors.

So worlds can be used to refer just just to um kind of a

more specific hobby or a specific interest

or just a specific person's life.

War of worlds.

Father, father is your dad.

Um other other common words used for father are dad, papa, pop, daddy, pa,

faja.

I use that one with my dad.

While mother is used to refer to kind of like nurturing kind of like

you know the earth

or things that like kind of give life to others. father.

At least in my mind,

there's kind of this image of um someone who's a little bit more strict

in your life.

The next word is sister.

A female sibling is your sister.

You can also use sister for a female person

that you feel very very close with.

So I might call my female friend who's I'm very close to my sister.

My brother likes to shorten it to sis.

You might also hear sister as well if you are silly.

Sister.

Whoopy Goldberg was in a famous movie called Sister Act.

The next word is brother.

Brother is a male sibling.

Uh you can also use brother to refer to a close male friend.

Common variations of brother are brother, bro, bra, bro, broki.

Depending on what kind of person you are,

you can choose to use any number of those.

Like I might sarcastically say to my friend, "Cool story, bro."

Like if he's told me a story that's not very exciting.

In Mario, for example,

the name of the Mario games is actually Super Mario Brothers,

but Brothers is abbreviated as B R O S.

Super Mario Bros.

Yeah.

Just be careful about your use of bro

because it sounds a little bit like a college age boy.

Uh that's kind of the kind of the feeling of the word bro.

Oh brother, where art thou?

The next word is daughter.

Daughter is a female child.

Daughter.

Do you have a daughter?

I have a daughter.

I don't have a daughter.

Taken.

It's son.

A male child is someone's son.

Son s o n is pronounced exactly the same as s u n son.

What are you talking about, son?

The next word is I.

E.

Y E.

I I.

Your eye is the round thing that you use to see with.

I is used in a lot of expressions

and idioms in English

as in I've got my eye on you,

meaning I'm watching you or keep your eye out for something,

meaning please look for something or please pay close attention.

I'm waiting for something to happen.

The next word is hand.

Body part. give me a hand

or can I give you a hand means please help me

or can I help you to give someone a hand.

Head, this thing on the top of your body, your head,

we use head to refer to the top of things

as in the head of a company,

the head of a group, the head of the line.

So, whoever is first in the line, whoever is top at the company,

they are the head.

If you have a head, dance.

If you have a head, then dance.

The next word is foot.

This is another word that has a weird plural form.

One foot, two feet.

Foot, interestingly enough, foot is used, of course, to refer to your body part.

Uh, a foot also is a unit of measurement

if you are from America

or I believe one other country in the world uses this system.

Sorry, we're not on board with the metric thing in America,

but foot uh is 12 in about this long.

So, if head refers to the top of things,

foot is used to refer to the bottom of things.

If you've written a paper on Microsoft Word, for example,

um at the very bottom of the page,

there will be a space called the footer, meaning the bottom,

where you can put little notes uh to your reader.

The next word is place.

Place can be used to refer generally to a location.

Commonly to refer to friends homes or apartments.

Let's go to your place

or can we have the party at your place is a little bit more

natural than I want to go to your house.

The next word is work.

Be careful about using work as a noun and work as a verb.

Your work refers to your job, your responsibilities,

your tasks at your office or your work place.

You can use it in a phrase like I have a lot of work

to do or please help me with my work.

I like to go to work.

It can be used to just refer to anything artistic in general.

So it can mean it can be a painting, it can be a building,

it can be a sculpture,

it can be I don't know whatever anything artsy can be referred to

as work as in I really like

that new work by

that artist or did you see

so and so's new work?

Twerk.

The next word is week.

Uh week refers to the 7-day period

that we have decided is one week here in the modern world. commonly used

in expressions relating to your activities

as in I go to the gym once a week

or I see my friends twice a week

or I have to work every day of the week.

Monday through Friday is referred to as uh weekdays, Saturday and Sunday weekend.

Next word is month.

Month is um there are 12 months in a year.

My favorite month depending on which country I'm in,

I generally like uh autumn months like uh October.

I think I usually like the month of October.

September, October is good

because it's not too hot

and not too cold

and Halloween is coming

and that's my favorite holiday.

Hannah month, Tana, the next word is year.

Year refers to the time period, usually 365 days.

There are leap years where there is an extra day in the month of

February.

What year were you born

or I was born in the year of the rabbit?

uh depending on which calendar you like to use.

It can be used to introduce a story

as in many years ago I went to blah blah blah year of the

platypus.

Next is the word one.

The number one the first number one of something to refer to somebody who

you loved and who left your life.

You can say oh he or she was the one that got away.

The next one is the word number,

but it can be used in a number of expressions like what's your phone

number or give me your number

or here's my number.

It means phone number, but we don't always say phone.

That's the end of the top 25 most common nouns in the English language.

Maybe you've used some of these.

You probably have.

Keep them in mind and uh have fun with them.

Thanks very much for watching this episode and we'll see you again soon.

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Hi everybody.

Hey, my name is Alicia

and today we're going to be talking about the top 25 English verbs by

frequency.

So, let's get into it.

Be is the first English verb.

Be refers to existence.

I want to be an astronaut.

I think you would be a great person for this job.

Be yourself.

Let's be friends.

I could have been a writer if I wanted to be.

The next verb is have.

I have a dog.

I have an idea.

What do you have?

How many do you have?

How much money do you have?

Do you have any friends?

How have you been?

Have you seen my mom?

I can't find her.

Have yourself a merry little Christmas.

The next verb is do.

Do you want some pizza?

Do you have a dog?

Doobydoo.

If you're Frank Sinatra, I do the things that you do better.

Say, say, say, say, say what you want.

Say my name.

Say my name.

Say you love me.

Do you know what I'm saying?

Know what I'm saying?

The next verb is get.

Get a life.

Get a job.

Get a haircut.

Get a better suit.

Stevens.

What you got?

I could have gotten pony, but I went with a lizard instead.

I'm getting tired.

That's not true.

The next verb is make.

Make a cake.

Make your mother proud.

Someone outside is making a strange face at me through the window at the

moment.

That is a true story.

Make a living through legitimate means.

The next verb is go.

Go big or go home.

I'm going to the beach.

You should go to the beach.

You should go to the forest.

Go to a baseball game with me.

Past tense of go is went.

I went spelunking on my holiday.

The next word is no.

This is an interesting word

because no is actually not commonly used in the progressive tense.

No is commonly used in present tense uh to refer to your mental state

or your emotional state.

So we don't really say I am knowing really

but we can say I know.

I know the answer.

What do you know about this issue?

He couldn't have possibly known the location of the treasure.

How many people do you know?

I knew it.

The next verb is take take a cake.

Take a break.

Take your self to bed.

You should take a vacation.

Have you ever taken a bath?

The next word is see.

We'll see.

I'll see you later.

Uh, the next verb is come.

Come is the next verb.

Please come to my house.

Come to a party.

I'm gonna come over to your place later.

The next word is think.

Think.

I think you're great.

He thinks pizza is the best food.

I'm thinking about lunch.

I'm thinking about coffee.

What are you thinking about?

I've been thinking about something.

That's a Hansen song.

Uh, have you ever thought about the meaning of life?

Look, look is the next verb.

Please look at the camera.

Look over there.

Look over here.

Look, a dog.

Look at your mom.

Oh my gosh.

Would you look at that?

Look at the time.

Look, it's a bird.

It's a plane.

It's actually a bird.

Look at that.

Is it me you're looking for?

Hello.

Next word is want.

Want.

What do you want?

I want food.

How many coffees have you ever wanted?

I wanted to go to the dry cleaners this morning,

but I ran out of time.

That's true.

The next verb is give.

Give me a break.

I'm going to give you a raise.

Stevens, I'm giving you the axe.

Fired.

Give me a break.

Give me a break.

Ray face her.

>> I have given you everything I have.

Go onto Mordor Frodo.

I could have given you the world and instead I gave you a carpet.

Use is the next word.

Use.

Don't use a pen.

I like using chocolate when I make food.

Are you using me for my brain?

Next is find.

We could have found buried treasure last weekend.

I'm finding Nemo.

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Tell is the next verb.

Tell me a story.

Tell me lies.

Tell me sweet little lies.

Tell me the truth.

The whole truth.

And nothing but the truth.

I'm told that you are an extremely good opera singer.

I'm telling you to leave.

Tell lies every day.

Don't tell lies.

The next word is ask.

Ask.

Please pronounce this correctly.

It is not axe.

Many native speakers make this pronunciation mistake and it really bothers me.

Ask.

Ask me about my collection of rare doughnut recipes.

Ask your mom about her life.

Why don't you ask your boss to the party?

How about you ask your coworker for some advice about this issue?

I should have asked for help, but I didn't.

The next verb is work.