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Well hey there! I'm Emma from mmmEnglish

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and in this lesson today, I'm going to help you to break

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some bad habits. Hopefully we can stop you from being  

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a little lazy at times with your word choice. There are so many

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interesting and intelligent ways

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of expressing your ideas in English.

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In fact, we're going to take a lot of these kind of dull

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boring English words and replace them with better ones.

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More colourful, more impressive language.

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We're going to be focused on expanding your vocabulary

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and as always, I've got a mini quiz for you at the end 

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of this video to make sure that all these exciting new words

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actually stick in your mind and become part of your regular 

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everyday vocabulary.

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So hang around till the end and test what you know.

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So we all have bad habits, don't we? And we tend to get stuck

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in those bad habits because

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they just become familiar and really easy.

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So many of my students get stuck in the habit of using

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basic vocabulary because it's easy

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and yeah you can communicate your message with

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basic English vocabulary right and that's awesome

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but there's gonna come a time when either you notice or

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other people around you start to notice that actually 

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you're just using the same words on repeat again and again.

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To be interesting, to impress and influence people,

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 you've got to keep expanding your vocabulary and it's not  

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just the vocabulary that you understand. It's the vocabulary that

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comes to you instantly as you're using it 

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as you're speaking, as you're writing so we want to activate

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that broader vocabulary today.

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And one surefire way to expand your vocabulary

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and sound more impressive as you use English is to use

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better adjectives, better descriptive words in your sentences.

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And you can train yourself to stop using

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really dull and boring adjectives just by avoiding one little word

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very.

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Very happy, very good, very bad.

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And a little hint. Some other words that you might be using with

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dull adjectives are words like so,

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such and really.

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And the cool thing is, this one simple rule will help you to become

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more conscious and more aware of the words that you choose

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when you speak and this is really important because 

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using very regularly is a habit that you need to break.

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So then I said he was very...

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Maybe it's too late to fix it in that moment but

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you will be more likely to remember next time and to change

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the words  that you're using and that's really what being conscious

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of your mistakes means. Being aware that it's happening

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and this will help you to change your behaviour.

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If you practise this skill while you're writing, you have the

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opportunity to think of a better word in that moment or even

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look one up and grow the vocabulary that you're using that way.

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So let's start with very happy.

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Now there's lots of different ways to express this idea in English,

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isn't there?

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Overjoyed.

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Thrilled.

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Ecstatic.

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Elated.

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If we look at some examples we should be able to make it

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a little clearer when to use each one.

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She just found out she's pregnant. She's very happy.

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We can add more meaning by saying:

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She's overjoyed. She's full of happiness and joy.

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We could say that she's thrilled especially if she's really happy

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and excited.

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We can say she's ecstatic or she's elated

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 and that's even stronger again. That's joyful excitement  

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you know, an overwhelming feeling of happiness

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in a really positive way.

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So if you want to add even more meaning,

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choose one of those two.

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There are so many better and more meaningful ways to say

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that you're very sad and I think this lesson is gonna be like

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a roller coaster it's gonna be full of highs and lows.

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Happy, sad, good, bad but we're just gonna ride it out okay?

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The truth is we can be sad for lots of different reasons

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and we can be sad in lots of different ways.

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So as you start expanding your vocabulary,

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you really need to become more aware of the little

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nuances between words like heartbroken, devastated,

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disappointed and dejected.

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Because all of them are more meaningful ways to talk about

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that feeling of being very sad.

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His girlfriend just left him.

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He's very sad.

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So in this context, she left him means that she broke up with him.

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So he's probably heartbroken

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and heartbroken is the perfect adjective to use when

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love is involved in sadness.

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You could also say that he's devastated too, especially if he

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wasn't expecting it you know, and it was a bit of a shock.

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So when you have sadness together with shock and surprise,

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these emotions together, devastated is a really good choice.

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Let's look at a different example.

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Sara looked very sad. She'd been so confident

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she would win the competition, but then she came fifth.

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She looked disappointed. She's unhappy because she wasn't 

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as good as she thought she'd be.

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But you could also say that

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Sarah looks dejected.

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Using dejected suggests that in that moment, she's lost hope that

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she'll ever compete again. It's that sad, she's just lost all hope.

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There are several other really great words that you can say  

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if you're very sad. You might use ashamed,

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melancholy, crestfallen.

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I mean you're gonna have so much fun with a thesaurus 

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but the trick with these new words is studying how they're used,

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making sure that you're using them accurately with the 

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appropriate verbs and prepositions that they often get used with.

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And the second thing you need to be aware of is the context

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in which they're used because those nuanced meanings 

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are ever so slightly different and makes one more appropriate  

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to use in one situation while another perhaps not.

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A great way to practise this is to write sentences using 

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these words down in the comments below

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so that I can check them for you,

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help you to choose the right one for the right context

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and that sentence when you're practising with this activity,

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it can be really simple. It can just be he or she looked

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with that adjective

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because and then include a short description of the situation.

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He looked devastated because

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Stop saying very good, there are so many other

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better ways of saying very good in English. 

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Very good should be banned because instead we can say

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amazing, fantastic,

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fabulous,

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magnificent,

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excellent,

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wonderful,

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splendid,

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exceptional

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and awesome. Did I say awesome already?

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All these words are so similar, you can use them in almost

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any situation.

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That's a very good idea.

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That's a marvellous idea.

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That's an excellent idea.

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I thought your performance was very good.

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Your performance was exceptional.

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Your performance was amazing.

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It was a splendid performance.

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Okay brace yourself. We're going down again,

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we're gonna think of some alternatives for very bad.

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Can you think of any because there are lots of them.

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I'm sure some are popping into your mind already.

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Horrible,

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terrible,

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awful,

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dreadful

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and atrocious.

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Can you hear that stressed syllable in those words

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when I pronounce it? I'm exaggerating the stressed syllable

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to add emphasis and even more meaning.

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Horrible. Atrocious.

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You can do that with all adjectives whether they're

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positive or negative adjectives to add even more meaning.

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It tasted very bad.

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It tasted awful! Yuck!

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It tasted disgusting!

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when something smells really bad.

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That smells disgusting!

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The weather's been very bad lately.

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The weather's been terrible lately.

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It's been dreadful!

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If you're talking about someone's behaviour and you're saying that

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they behaved very badly, you might say that their

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behaviour was atrocious. His behaviour was atrocious.

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I love that word, atrocious.

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There's not a lot of things in the world that are atrocious

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but it is a very good adjective to use

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when you're saying that something is very bad.

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The weather was atrocious.

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You have to be careful about how you use these negative

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adjectives because they have a really strong meaning

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and they can be offensive, especially if you're using them

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to talk about a person or something that they do

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or something that they care about, that can hurt.

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Can you think of any other ways to say very bad?

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This is a really good activity to practise, 

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to activate words that you don't use so often.

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So if you can think of some other ways to say very bad

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add them down in the comments below.

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If you catch yourself talking about something that is very big

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then you can replace this kind of average adjective with a more

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sophisticated one like huge, obviously,

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enormous, massive,

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gigantic and monstrous.

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We walked through a very big gate at the entrance.

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It was an enormous gate.

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The gate that we walked through was massive.

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Gigantic and monstrous are very, very big - exceptionally large.

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Some of the ships that pull in and out of the port

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near my house are monstrous.

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When I'm walking past these gigantic ships,

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I feel very small.

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Can you think of a better way to say very small?

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Tiny,

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minuscule,

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minimal.

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Paul was quite angry about the damage even though the scratch

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on his car was very small.

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It was tiny,

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minuscule.

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We could hardly see it.

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The chances of losing all our money are very small.

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They're minimal.

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The chances are minimal.

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Let's keep going. What can you think of that's very dirty?

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Your kitchen,

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your dog after it's rolled in dirt.

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Don't let that dog inside, it's very dirty!

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It's filthy!

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Filthy is a great word for very dirty.

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Your bedroom is filthy.

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If you're talking about a room or maybe a car

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that is very clean,

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you could say it was spotless or

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immaculate,

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perfect,

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not a single thing was out of place.

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We were so impressed when we got home,

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the house was very clean.

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The house was spotless.

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It was immaculate.

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They must have spent hours cleaning it.

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And we can definitely improve on very pretty, can't we?

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And I'm sure, absolutely certain that you have at least one  

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alternative in mind.

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Hopefully, it was beautiful but we can also use stunning,

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elegant or even exquisite.

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She looked very pretty as she came down the stairs

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in a blue dress.

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She looked stunning as she came down the stairs.

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And lastly, as we come off the high of very pretty

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of course we need to have very ugly right.

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So instead of very ugly, you could say hideous.

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So it's not heidis which is a common mistake

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that I often hear my students make. It's hideous.

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And you can also say grotesque.

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Now obviously, I don't need to remind you again but

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I feel like I have to, these adjectives are extremely strong

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and negative so please don't use them to describe people.

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That's awful!

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Some of the big houses up on the hill

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are very ugly. They're grotesque.

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Their driveways are lined with very ugly statues.

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The statues are hideous.

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They're hideous.

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Just because people have lots of money, doesn't mean

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they have good taste, right?

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Grotesque houses and hideous statues.

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Okay so it's time to test everything you know

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with a little quiz, I'm going to read out a sentence

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and you need to improve the words

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that are highlighted in the sentence.

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There might be more than one option that you can choose from

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so that makes it a little bit easier

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but I'm going to go through them quite quickly because I want to

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test your recall, I want to test how quickly are these new words

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popping into your head all right?

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So we're going for speed this time.

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Usually your car's full of rubbish, but today it's very clean!

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Today it's spotless. Today it's immaculate.

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A very ugly monster emerged from the cave.

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A hideous monster.

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A grotesque monster.

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Have you seen her engagement ring? It's very pretty.

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It's beautiful.

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It's elegant.

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It's stunning.

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It's exquisite.

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We were very sad to hear the fire destroyed their family home.

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We were devastated to hear that. 

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They're getting married this afternoon but unfortunately,

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the weather looks very bad!

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The weather looks awful.

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Terrible.

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Dreadful.

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Atrocious.

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Look at the queue of people waiting to get in, it's very big!

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It's huge.

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It's enormous.

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The queue is massive.

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Monstrous.

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Gigantic.

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It rained the entire weekend we were away camping,

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so when we got home on Sunday, everything was very dirty.

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Everything was filthy.

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They suggested we meet them in France which,

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I thought, was a very good idea!

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Was a marvellous idea.

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An excellent idea.

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An exceptional idea.

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A splendid idea.

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John and Kate were very happy when they found out they

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won the grand prize!

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John and Kate were overjoyed.

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They were thrilled.

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They were ecstatic.

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They were elated.

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Let me know how you went with the quiz down in the comments

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below. If there are a couple of words that you got wrong or 

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maybe they took you a little while to think of,

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hit the pause button now and practise writing a few more

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sentences like these down in the comments below.

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Another really great way of practising these adjectives is if you

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have a speaking partner that you practise speaking

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English with regularly

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or maybe you have a tutor or someone else you meet up with

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ask them to listen out for very. Every time you use very

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when you're speaking, ask them to stop you 

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and let you know that you've used very and give you the chance

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to think of a better word to describe

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that situation or that thing.

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There is no better way to improve your vocabulary

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and the way that you're using it than to stop in that moment

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and get you to self-correct, correct that or improve

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that adjective as you're using it.

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I hope that you enjoyed this lesson. If you did, make sure you 

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subscribe by hitting the subscribe button just down there.

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I make new mmmEnglish lessons every week.

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In fact, here's a couple that I prepared earlier.

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Bye for now!