Placeholder Image

Subtitles section Play video

  • So I was wondering if you knew what lemons were.

  • I'll put a picture of a lemon right here.

  • We have an expression in English,

  • when life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

  • Lemonade is a really yummy drink

  • that you make from lemons.

  • I'll put a picture of a pitcher of lemonade right here

  • so you know what I'm talking about.

  • As some of you know, this morning I tried

  • to do a livestream and it failed.

  • The technology didn't work.

  • I still don't know what the problem is,

  • but I think that we will figure it out this week.

  • And I will be back doing livestreams this coming Friday.

  • But I thought, since life gave us lemons this morning,

  • I should make lemonade.

  • And the lemonade that I will make

  • will be a small lesson on English phrases

  • that you can use to express disappointment.

  • I think I did a video on this a long time ago,

  • but I thought since I was feeling disappointed,

  • I should do just a little English lesson for you

  • to kind of review the ways to express disappointment.

  • And then also at the end, I'll give you a few phrases

  • that you can use when you are disappointed

  • to just kind of relax a little bit.

  • So, how do you express disappointment?

  • Well, this morning when the livestream didn't work,

  • I was frustrated.

  • So if I was to talk in the present tense,

  • and if I was to still be frustrated now,

  • the first way you would describe frustration

  • is to say, "I'm frustrated."

  • You might also say, "I'm aggravated."

  • You might say, "I'm annoyed."

  • You might say, "I'm angry, I'm disappointed,

  • "I'm discouraged," or here's one that's

  • a little bit of slang, you could say,

  • "I'm bummed out."

  • All of those are different degrees

  • of feeling not happy, let's put it that way.

  • Some are a little more, I would say,

  • serious than others.

  • If you say, "I'm angry," that's fairly extreme.

  • If you say, "I'm frustrated,"

  • that's a little bit less so.

  • And discouraged, if you say, "I'm discouraged,"

  • it's a little more sad than angry.

  • So they all have a slightly different meaning,

  • but they would all be phrases that you would use

  • if you were frustrated or disappointed.

  • And I used some of them this morning.

  • Now, let's say we want to make those phrases

  • a little more, how would I say it?

  • If you want to emphasize them a little bit more.

  • There's four words in English

  • that you can add to those phrases.

  • You can add the word so, very, pretty, and really.

  • So I could say, "I'm so frustrated."

  • And that would be probably exactly what I said

  • when I went in the house this morning.

  • I said to Jen, "I'm so frustrated,

  • "I just wanted to do a livestream."

  • I could have said, "I'm very frustrated right now."

  • I could've said, "I'm really frustrated right now."

  • And I could've also said, "I'm pretty frustrated right now."

  • All of those emphasize the feeling that you are expressing.

  • So you could use them with the other sentences, too.

  • You could say, "I'm so angry," "I'm very angry,"

  • "I'm pretty angry," or "I'm really angry."

  • All of those also emphasize the emotion

  • or the feeling that you're having.

  • And even the slang phrase, "I'm bummed out,"

  • you could say, "I'm so bummed out."

  • You could say, "I'm very bummed out,"

  • "I'm really bummed out," or "I'm pretty bummed out."

  • But maybe you're not feeling those emotions strongly,

  • you're just feeling them a small amount.

  • You could say, "I'm a little frustrated."

  • So you could add the little phrase, "a little," there.

  • So, "I'm a little frustrated, I'm a little aggravated,

  • "I'm a little annoyed, I'm a little bummed out."

  • But then I think to myself, why?

  • Why be frustrated?

  • Why be annoyed?

  • Why be bummed out?

  • What are some phrases that we would say in English

  • just to kinda relax a little bit?

  • And there's a few that I have here.

  • One is the phrase, "Well, that's the way it goes sometimes."

  • It's such a simple phrase,

  • and it kind of sums up my feeling this morning.

  • I was disappointed, but then very quickly I just thought,

  • "Well, that's the way it goes sometimes."

  • I've been having a really good string

  • of doing livestreams where the technology worked perfectly

  • all the time, and this morning was one of the first times

  • where there was a small glitch.

  • So, that's the way it goes sometimes.

  • Another phrase you could use is,

  • "It's not the end of the world."

  • The end of the world would be

  • a whole lot more horrible than a livestream not working

  • on a Saturday morning.

  • So again, that's the way it goes sometimes.

  • It's not the end of the world.

  • Another phrase, and this is something Jen mentioned to me,

  • she just said, "There's nothing we can do about it."

  • I'm not sure what was broken.

  • I did call my internet service provider

  • because my son and I noticed there were some problems

  • with our network and with our internet connection

  • earlier today, after the livestream.

  • So, to say there's nothing we can do about it,

  • it's just, there's no sense in me spending

  • the rest of the day being annoyed

  • and trying to figure out if I can still

  • do the livestream today.

  • There's nothing I can do about it.

  • I've called my internet service provider.

  • I'm sure they will come out later this week

  • and fix something and that will be great.

  • And then there's another phrase, "Tomorrow's another day."

  • By the way, I'm not livestreaming tomorrow.

  • It's more of a...

  • It's not really a literal phrase, it's more figurative.

  • Like, "It's not the end of the world,

  • "and tomorrow's another day."

  • Basically it means that, by next Friday,

  • hopefully everything is fixed and working perfectly.

  • Sometimes when things break,

  • it's actually good because you figure out other things

  • that are wrong and you get them fixed.

  • So, this was just a little bit of a lesson for you

  • on ways to express frustration, disappointment,

  • and annoyance.

  • Hopefully you learned some new phrases today

  • and hopefully you understood the phrase,

  • when life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

  • So, I'm not sure why we call bad things lemons.

  • Just another little tip for you.

  • When you buy a car that breaks a lot after you buy it,

  • we also call that a lemon.

  • But yes, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

  • So I thought, after my initial frustration this morning,

  • I thought, "You know what?

  • "It's early in the day for me, I don't have

  • "a lot else planned for the day,

  • "why don't I take the lemons that life handed me

  • "this morning and make a little bit of lemonade

  • "for me and you?"

  • So I get to make a video, which I love doing.

  • And you get to watch a video

  • and learn a little bit more English.

  • Anyways, Bob the Canadian here.

  • Thanks for hanging in there this morning

  • when we were trying to get things working.

  • Thanks for coming and watching this video

  • and learning a few more English phrases.

  • I hope the rest of your weekend goes really, really good.

  • And I really hope to see you Tuesday,

  • when I will put out a new video.

  • And I really hope everything's working by next Friday

  • when I do my next live lesson.

  • Anyways, I missed hanging out with all of you this morning

  • who regularly attend the livestreams.

  • Again, hope you're having a good day,

  • and I'll see you in the next video.

So I was wondering if you knew what lemons were.

Subtitles and vocabulary

Click the word to look it up Click the word to find further inforamtion about it