Expand Your Vocabulary: Say More Than “HAPPY” & “SAD”

How do you feel? “Happy?” “Bored?” How about using words that are more precise and expressive? You’ll be sharing more of who you are when you speak, and you’ll sound smarter, too! In this vocabulary class, you’ll learn 11 words you can use to describe how you feel more accurately. We’ll talk about words like “delighted”, “ecstatic”, “grateful”, “content”, “frustrated”, “fed up”, “depressed”, and more. Learn these words and try to make sure to use them yourself when it makes sense. Express yourself with a rainbow of words! https://www.engvid.com/expand-your-vocabulary-say-more-than-happy-sad/ Keep expanding your vocabulary with these videos: Improve Your Vocabulary: Stop Saying "Bad" https://youtu.be/dM_1lc32SsI Improve Your Vocabulary: Stop Saying "Sorry" https://youtu.be/Vf0on6KQP2Y In this lesson: 0:00 11 words to use instead of "happy" & "sad" 0:56 content 2:07 grateful 3:18 delighted 5:17 ecstatic 7:59 discontent 9:11 fed up & sick and tired 9:36 frustrated 11:00 depressed 12:43 confused & mixed up TRANSCRIPT: If I was the richest man in Babylon, if I was the richest man in... Hi. James from engVid, reading a book about being the richest person. I have feelings about that; I'm sure you do. Some of you will say, "I'm happy. I would be very happy. I'd be extremely happy." Hmm. Well, that's kind of limited. Some people also say "sad" or "tired" or "bored", and I want to give you a rainbow of words to use to express how you feel, because learning a language is great, but being able to express yourself is even better. So I want to do a lesson today, or Ian and I want to, on how you feel, and I'm going to try to introduce to you other words that can help you express your emotions so people can really know you. Cool? And besides, you'll sound smarter, too. Let's go to the board. The first one we're looking at is "peaceful" and "satisfied". You probably don't know this word, but it's a word you've seen many times for different reasons, and it means, you know, you're generally happy. Everything's kind of going okay for you. Now, this word is "content". You've probably seen it before, like "contents of the bottle", "content this and that", but it just means you're content because if you were a bottle, everything is okay. Imagine a bottle of Coke, if you shake it, it explodes. Right? The contents, what's inside comes out, explodes. But if you keep it just nice and, oh, calm, the contents stay stable, nice, little bubbles floating up. It's very pretty to look at. That's you when you're content, sitting at home, watching a soccer game with a beer, or a Coke and a piece of pizza with your favourite friend, content. But let's move it up a notch. You're content, which is great, but you know what makes me feel better? When someone does something nice for me. Right? Or you do something nice for someone else. You get a feeling, a different feeling than content, because it makes you a little bit happier because you're not just happy because you're happy, you're happy because another person has come into your life, or you've gone into their life, and you've given them something to make them happy. When that happens, you get to be grateful. It's like saying "thank you", but in your heart you feel the thank you. So you're grateful if someone makes a meal for you and you're sick. You're sick, you've got to take care of yourself, your mother makes some soup for you, or your dad makes some bread for you and brings it to you, you're like, "Oh, thank you, I needed it so badly. You did it for me." And that is a step above being content, because content is just happy with yourself. Now you're happy because someone has done something for you. Isn't that cool? Right? Grateful. And if you look at our picture, I almost forgot, this is the good side. There's always a bad side. Okay. So... Okay. Now, what could be better than being grateful and, you know, being content? Do you remember I said when you're content it's about you or I, right? And I got too excited and I put an extra "I" in there. Okay? It's not always about me and I. Right? But let's move down to number three. Something has happened that gives you great pleasure. Right? What would that be? Well, when you feel good, it's kind of funny, you feel light. Right? You feel light. You feel like there's no weight on your shoulders, everything feels good. You feel like you could just fly away, it feels so good. Right? So, I like this word because "delighted". And you can use it in so many ways. If your friend comes over to your house or says, you know, "I'm coming to Toronto, I want to visit you", you say, "I would be delighted, that would make me feel so good, it would make my heart just sing and raise up" […]