Hello, everybody. My name is Coach Shane.
And welcome to Easy English Expressions.
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English. Hello, everybody.
Welcome back to daily easy English expression.
I need to say hi to somebody.
Viren, I hope my pronunciation is okay.
Hi Viren in India. I have not too many people in India leave me messages.
And, of my students, DDM and Perf, I think I only have three students from India, so not too many.
So I want to say a special thank you to Vyran and my Indian listeners.
Say hi to me. Leave me a message on Twitter or something and join DDM and Perf.
Okay, today's expression is great.
Listen, see if you can spell the word. Are you ready?
Here we go. Pizzazz.
I'll say it again. Pizzazz.
Can you spell that?
P -I -Z -Z -A -Z -Z. That's a lot of Z's.
That's right. Pizzazz.
Pizzazz. What is pizzazz?
Well first of all, this is how how we use it.
We need some pizzazz.
I want to add a little pizzazz.
This doesn't have any pizzazz.
So pizzazz is a noun, a non -count, an uncountable noun.
We never say pizzazz, This is, it's only pizzazz.
And what does it mean?
It basically means excitement or interest. So if you want to add excitement to something, if you want to make something more interesting, you need to add pizzazz.
So I'll give you an example.
Yesterday, I cooked some meat.
And it was good. But I talked about it yesterday in my podcast, actually.
You know, meat is good, meat is fine.
You can barbecue it, you can cook it on the stove, you can bake it in the oven, you can put it in a soup.
It's always good. But you know, I wanted to try something interesting.
So I took balsamic vinegar and rosemary, the spice or the herb, H -E -R -B, American pronunciation, herb, and I sauteed it.
I cooked it a long time in this heavy, you know, vinegary, rosemary tasting soup kind of thing and I cooked it that way.
Something really unique for me.
I think it's a little bit European.
Wow! That completely added pizzazz to the meat.
It became much more exciting, much more flavorful, much more interesting it was great.
Let's give another example.
I can only think of food.
What about ice cream?
I love ice cream. My favorite ice cream is vanilla, but just vanilla ice cream is sometimes boring.
Yeah, so what can we add to ice cream to it more exciting.
Can you think of something?
Uh -huh. Yeah. You guys send a tweet.
That's right. I'm not gonna give you my ideas.
You tell me your idea and if you tweet me your idea, I will retweet you so follow me on Twitter everybody.
At coachshane. I got another example in the dialogue it's about food and I'll give you some other examples after we check it out.
Here we go. How's the stew?
Eh, it's ok. A little bland.
Ugh. I should have added cumin.
Yeah, that would've given it some pizazz.
Stew! S -T -E -W. Stew is like a soup.
It's a heavier soup.
But the soup, the stew, rather, was a little bland.
B -L -A -N -D. Not a lot of flavor.
It's good, it's healthy, but, you know, kinda boring.
so this guy says I should have added cumin c -u -m -i -n that's a spice and it's actually very hot if you add cumin to food who it gets very spicy that would have given the stew some pizzazz definitely made it more exciting made it more interesting made it more flavorful made it more colorful even so let me Another example, how about a resume?
R -E -S -U -M -E. So, when you apply for a job, you need to send the company a resume.
It has your name, your address, your education background, your work experience, things like that.
Right? Now, there are many ways to write a resume, but how can you add some pizzazz to your resume?
Now if you're sending a resume to a bank, do you want to add pizzazz?
Not regarding design or color or font, right?
You want to keep it very standard. However, by choosing very accurate and active verbs in your resume, you can add some pizzazz.
Let's say you're sending a resume to a design company.
Now, you can add color and little special designs and different fonts to your resume, giving it some pizzazz.
Giving something pizzazz is not always good, but it's usually okay.
It is making something more exciting, making it more interesting, giving it some flavor, giving it some color that's the idea so my podcast if you listen to my podcast I've got music in the beginning music at the end you know some silly sounds sometimes here and there why do I do that to give my podcast a little pizzazz okay everybody so once again vanilla ice cream delicious ice cream I do like it plain, but sometimes we might want to add a little pizzazz.
So what can we add to vanilla ice cream to give it some pizzazz?
I want you to leave a message on Facebook, of course, or send me a tweet, at coachShane, and if you tweet me and tell me how to do it, I'll retweet you to millions of other people.
Yeah, it's not millions, a couple thousand.
Thank you very much guys.
Listen to the dialog two more times and together let's master English!
How's the stew? Ehh, it's ok.
A little bland. Ugh!
I should have added cumin.
Yeah, that would have give it some pizazz.
How's the stew? Ehh, it's ok.
A little bland. Oh I should have added cumin.
Yeah, that would have given it some pizzazz
