This is Elliot from E.

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English.

And today we're talking about some expressions, but not the usual expressions we talk about on this channel.

These are going to be a little bit more formal.

So my previous videos about expressions have been really, really popular, especially one of the early videos I made about common British English expressions.

However, most of these were informal.

So today we're going to be focusing on some more formal expressions because loads of you have been requesting it.

So today's the day, so we're gonna go straight into it.

And, of course, I am a pronunciation teacher.

So when we are going to be talking about the pronunciation of some of these things as well, I think first impressions are the most important, which is why we're going to start with introductions.

So how do you introduce yourself formally many, many different ways?

I always recommend a handshake, whether you are male or female.

Handshakes are widely accepted here in the UK, and it's how we introduce ourselves.

People have their own different ways of greeting people.

Maybe that they first met.

Maybe it's for a business meeting or something uh, some people might just say hello or others might say good morning or good afternoon.

It's really up to you.

So let's just talk about the intonation with these words.

Hello?

Okay.

Hello?

Now what we're doing there is We are We have two syllables in the word.

Hello?

Hello.

Right.

What we want to do is to show that we're a friendly person by doing this mixture of a rising falling tone.

Hello.

And what that does is it just adds a friendliness to our voice.

A little bit of emotion shows that were a friendly, approachable person.

So practice taking that tone up.

Down, up, down.

Hello.

It really, really helps.

In England.

We really rely on Internation to show what kind of a person we are Really the same thing with Good morning.

Good morning.

Good morning.

We're just rising, rising, rising and then falling to show.

We finished.

Good morning myself.

I would say hello, Elliot.

Nice to meet you.

Okay.

Hello, Elliot.

Nice to meet you.

And all we do is show the hand for a shake.

When we introduce our name to show this is my name.

I'm a friendly person.

Nice to meet you going down.

Nice to meet you.

Or if you want to create the t sound.

Nice to meet you.

Meet you or nice to meet you.

So there are three different ways.

Meet you, meet you or meet you three different ways.

They are all British.

And then I would usually follow up with a nice friendly.

So how's your day been so far?

So how's your day been so far?

Now, if you've watched my videos about Internation, I have explained before that an open question we will usually use a falling tone.

So how's your day been so far?

Going down in another one of my expressions videos.

I talked about how we'd say all right to say hello to people informally right now This we would use a rising tone because it's a yes, no question.

Yes, I'm all right.

No, I'm not all right.

And that's how it works.

And now that we've spoken about greeting people, what about if we need to apologize to these people?

It's really difficult to sound friendly and formal at the same time when we're actually apologizing, right?

You could just say sorry.

Sorry, but I always find that the word sorry doesn't have enough.

Mm.

That's the only way to explain it.

So you need to kind of show how sorry you are.

If you've done something really bad, you've made a mistake.

Maybe it's your first day at work.

You need to show how sorry you are.

And if you need to be formal, let me tell you, I apologize for any inconvenience caused.

I apologize.

Apologize.

Starting with a nice, uh, sound that I apologize for.

Any inconvenience caused.

Meaning?

I'm sorry for any problem I may have caused.

You could even say I'm awfully sorry.

Now again, there are different ways of pronouncing the word awfully.

Some people will not pronounce the Schwab sound like I did just then.

And it would be awfully awfully.

Or you could say awfully.

I'm awfully sorry.

Entirely up to you.

Most people would say Awfully, awfully.

I'm awfully sorry.

Now, Internation, with this we want to stress the word that makes it bigger.

And that's awfully right.

So we need to give more power to that word to show how really sorry we are.

I'm awfully sorry.

And of course, falling tone at the end to show that we finished.

So let's just practice all flee Awfully and very important word.

Sorry.

Sorry.

Saw round shape with the mouth.

Sorry, because an American would say sorry.

We want the law to make us sound nice and British.

Now you can just say I'm really sorry or I'm so sorry.

Just remember to add more pressure into that.

Really?

Or so just to show that you really are.

I'm really sorry.

I'm so sorry.

Sometimes you might even just say my mistake.

I'm sorry.

So there's many different ways of doing it.

I would always say, if you're saying the word Sorry.

Add a few more words in the beginning to quantify how sorry you are about something.

How about if we need to request someone to do something for us?

Maybe you've just got a really good managerial job in an office.

And now you need to boss people around to tell them what to do.

Right?

Well, let's try and find some ways to say it politely.

I'm going to tell you about three really important words.

These are used so much in England, especially, Could you just I need someone to do some paperwork for me.

Could you just fill out this paperwork for me, please?

Could you just could just you becomes a weak form?

Yes.

Could you just fill out this paperwork for me, please?

And it's just making it sound really polite.

We don't want to sound rude, so we're just asking them if they could possibly just do this for us.

So remember those words?

Could you just and also for me?

So could you just do this for me?

For for me?

Please don't forget the police.

The reason we say for me is to say, this is a request from me to you formal.

Okay, We're being friendly now.

If we were being informal, we'd probably just say, Can you do this for me, please?

We can also say, Would you mind?

Would you mind filling out some paperwork for me again?

Finished with for me?

And please, could you possibly when we're asking someone to do something, especially when we're using the word could we're going to start quite high with our tone.

Could you just now my favorite one?

If you're really annoyed with someone I've told you in one of my previous videos, you could tell someone to piss off or tell someone that you are pissed off.

Oh, I'm so pissed off.

But that's very informal.

It's rude and it's very British.

We are quite rude people.

We can be at times, I mean, just look into our history were dreadful people.

But if you are annoyed and you want to express how annoyed you are, your frustration, then here are just a couple sentences that can help you sound formal.

When you do this, it's quite an inconvenience.

It's quite nice stress, quite an inconvenience.

It's quite an inconvenience that our system broke down yesterday.

It's quite an inconvenience, this one.

I use quite a lot.

I'm not particularly happy with it now.

This word.

Let's talk about the word, particularly.

There are different ways of pronouncing it.

When we're talking fast, most people will probably just say, particularly particularly, and that's just us being lazy.

It's us avoiding saying a long word, particularly.

But really you should be saying particularly particularly, and that just means well, I'm kind of annoyed.

I'm not very happy with this situation, so I'm not particularly happy with your course work.

I'm not particularly happy with your homework it could have been better.

And that's your lot.

It's only a few sentences, but it turns out that you can explain one sentence in so much detail, especially when it comes to pronunciation.

Now, if pronunciation is your thing, that thing you're focusing on, well, don't worry, because it's my thing, too.

And I have an online course, the links in the description box below, and it basically teaches you everything you need to have a perfectly clear, confident and British sounding accent.

You'll also have me on WhatsApp providing voice messages, and we kind of chat to each other, and I give you feedback and advice throughout.

So if you're interested, just go to the link below and you can join my online course anyway.

If not, I will see you in the next video.

As always, it's been a pleasure.

Thank you very much for watching Cheers, guys.