Extreme English!

Extreme

Nowadays is very common to talk extreme things. We hear about extreme fittness, extreme sports, extreme weather...Well today's lesson is about extreme english..What I mean by extreme English? Well often...in informa conversation...people use a lot of exagereted expressions, to express their feelings...and that's what we are going to learn here.You should try your best   not to uses in formal situations , cause is really not  meant for that, but you will hear a lot of people using it in regular conversations So...Let's have a look  So...The examples...that I have on the board...show you verbs wich can be exagerated.., adjectives tha can be exagereted, , and adverbs OK?  OK? Let's look at some examples...So for example, you are hungry...Right?...            I'm really hungry, people tend to say: ...Oh my god I'm starving...and doesn't mean actually starving?..No...of course not.. Not the person  isn't saying that..the person is porbably actually starving doesn't have to strenght  to say they're starving but..so we say I'm starving  Let's get something to eat...or It's really cold..and you say: I'm freezing..ok?  This is the extreme xxxx...or ...my shoes are killing me. Of course you xxxxIt's just a way of speaking ..xxxxxadjectives...Let's   how we can use extreme  xxxxxOh My God there is a gigantic spider on my bed...It's probably not a gigantic spider but is a large spider xxxxx for your concern ...So...That's where the exageration takes place...or I have a million e mails to answer...probably not a million but We mean a lot of e mails...Ah..Adverbs..I'm totally exhausted today...It would have been enough to say that you're exausted because after that, It's kind of repetitive or redundant. But sometimes people add that just to exaggerate it. Or: She's absolutely gorgeous.Or: He's absolutely gorgeous Right? So..that's how we can have the extreme part of it, the exaggeration. We offen apply these  also to certain area such as we are going talking about numbers or amounts,or time, or space. For examplue,the word hundreds of people in line outside the store. Now, It's extreme or exaggerated only if te word actually hundred just meant a lot, but you say hundreds, because hundreds represents a lot., or I have thousends of things to do before I leave next week, OK? Again you probably don't        have thousends of things to do but you've got a lot of things to do. Amounts...xxxxtons of homework xxxOr there were a piles of paper everywhere OK? Exaggeration again...Sometimes when we exaggerate time ..We can exaggerate xxx intwo directions  We can make it shorter than It actually is, or we can make ti longer than actually is. For example...Can I talk to you for a minute..I know you are busy IT'll just take five seconds..Now..Is it  an exaggeration   xx? Cuase It's gonna take more than five seconds But you're exaggerating in another way xxxxxxx    Or Oh my God I met my friend I haven't seen her in years...oK? And maybe is truth , but It could be an exaggeration , or you can say... in ages...is another expression where you exaggerate the amaunt of time.right  Or.. Oh my god..I can't leave you..This is such   a tiny closet  I need a big closet ...all right?  xxxno tiny but in your view ...from your perspectiv It's tiny..or.. This a huge bedroom  Ok? Again ...These are relative terms but we're also exaggerating it to express our emotions as well as our objectibe reality  Ok? Agai The objective reality..was not a gigantic spider , just a large one...and not a tiny closet just as small one, Ok? But by using this kind of extreme English...You sound a little more like a native speaker when you are speaking in informal situations Ok? If you like to do a little quizz on this, to master it, please go to our web site: XXX Thanks very much for watching , and good luck with your English...By for now..