Name: Expand Your Vocabulary: Say More Than “HAPPY” & “SAD”
Uploaded: 2025-06-18T11:10:58.000Z
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If I was the richest man in Babylon, if I was the richest man in...  James from engVid, reading a book about being the richest person.

I have feelings about that, and I'm sure you do.

Future simple

Some of you will say, I'm happy, I would be very happy, I'd be extremely happy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

And if you look at our picture, I almost forgot, this is the good side.

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?

I got too excited and I put an extra I in there.

Something has happened that gives you great pleasure.

Well, when you feel good, it's kind of funny, 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.

So, I like this word because it's delighted.

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.

This is going to give you great pleasure.

So when you're delighted, you get great pleasure.

We said we're content, you're just peaceful.

You're happy just being you, like a rock, no extra i.

When you're grateful, someone has done something for you to make you feel good, or you have done something for someone else and they are grateful.

But when something makes you delighted, it brings you pleasure.

So something, once again, on the outside is coming to give you pleasure.

A visit from a friend, if someone invites you somewhere, could you come to my house?

We look at pleasure, it has the word please, pleasing, to make you happy.

We say please, using our manners, to say, you know, work with us, yeah?

Pleasure, we get pleasure from doing whatever it is, visiting someone, getting a gift, going on vacation, being asked out on a date.

So, we're happy being alone, we're happy when people do something for us, we're happy when something gives us pleasure.

But this word is very interesting, because it says here, intense pleasure, so you go, this is great pleasure?

When I have a light and I shine a light on you, that's bright, you know, like if I have a light, I shine it on you, like Doctor Who.

But when you look into the sun, don't do it during an eclipse like some people, but when you look at the sun, it's very intense, and you have to kind of close your eyes because the light is too much.

So when something's intense, it's got lots of power, yeah?

Some people are intense when they talk to you, they don't close their eyes ever, they just stare at you.

I'm not just happy, I'm just not delighted.

It means I've got the sun blowing out of me, I've got light coming.

I'm having a hard time with this word because many people use it in religion to feel ecstasy, and it means great pleasure or delight, yeah?

So, you can be ecstatic to see someone, it means extremely happy.

You could be ecstatic to get on a vacation, right?

A vacation, going someplace, because it's a place you've never been, it would be ecstatic.

You could be ecstatic to have a child, you probably are, or hear great news that someone's being born or you got a new job.

So we've gone up here, we've gone from simple to lots of energy, but you know what?

Even though we're learning how to express our emotions, because these are really cool.

You say I'm delighted, it's so much better than I'm very happy.

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