Speak Better English with Harry | Episode 532｜Speak Better English with Harry

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So in this advanced English lesson we are looking at speech and we are looking at verbs of speech ways that you can improve how you speak and different verbs that you can use not just to say he said this or she said this or I told him or just different verbs that we can use to mention about speak and some of them have particular uses so I'll go through them and give you a situation an example when you can use them.

Okay so let's move on we've got 14 number one Blurt and usually we use this to blurt out something it means somebody says something very very quickly they say it without thinking and perhaps they were just trying to stop themselves but they couldn't stop themselves so they just blurted it out.

It's him, it's him, it's him, it's him.

So they blurted out the answer.

Oh if you're in a pub quiz and you're really excited as you get and you've got the answer oh yeah I know it I know it and well you give the answer and everybody around you hears it so you couldn't help yourself you blurted out the answer, you give it without stopping yourself to blurt out the answer.

Young kids often blurt out the answers and the teacher keeps saying didn't I tell you to put up your hand if you want to answer the question?

Don't just blurt it out, follow the rules.

Don't blurt it out.

To chant is number two.

Chant is almost like singing, if you go to a football match then the fans will chant the names of their favorite players.

Beckham Beckham Beckham messy messy messy.

Yeah, so they chant the name of their favorite footballer or if they go to the concert they will chant the name of their rock star.

We want Jagger. We want Jagger.

That's me showing my age.

Who's gonna go and listen to Rolling Stones anymore.

So they chant the name.

So it's almost like singing to chant.

Number three, entreat.

Well this is quite an old -fashioned word and it's quite formal.

To entreat almost means to beg.

His friends entreated him not to go on such a crazy diet.

His wife entreated him not to resign his job just because he'd had a row with his boss to think about it before you did it.

So to entreat means to beg or to really plead with somebody not to take a certain course of action, to entreat.

Now the next few words, I'll give them to you now and I'll go through them, to hiss, to whine and to snap these are ways of speaking but there are ways and there are certain ways of doing it okay, so usually we use these verbs when it's reported the way somebody spoke okay so when we hiss it's like a snake hmm who's that yeah like a snake and when we whine it's a very to whine okay and when we snap we say something very angry who said that yeah So to hiss hmm is what you want yeah to whine, I don't like that and then to snap watch what who said that yeah so hiss whine and snap.

So when we use those type of speech verbs like hiss, whine, snap it's usually conveying how somebody how the words feel okay so they can they replace the verb to say so when we're we use it in this way he hissed yeah okay or he snapped yeah or he whined okay so it's usually after direct speech okay but it's not we can use it in reported speech so I want to go home she snapped yeah so it's direct speech not reported speech we're not saying she snapped that she wanted to go home so you can't use it in the reported speech but in direct speech you'll find it at the bottom of the stairs he hissed.

So you use it that way not he hissed that you will find it at the bottom of the stairs.

I don't like orange vegetables he wined.

Not he whined that he doesn't like orange vegetables so we can only use it in that direct speech not in that reported speech but they're very good verbs for describing exactly how the person sounds.

Don't wine like a baby, yeah?

He snapped angrily, yes he hissed in a fit of anger or despair hiss hiss snap and whine Now the next one number 7, to mouth, now this is our mouth is the noun, ok but to mouth something as a verb you got a different pronunciation a different stress, but the same word with the same spelling.

So to mouth something is to show somebody the letters, to mouth the sound.

So you understand clearly what I'm saying.

Yes he mouthed, to mouth means to show and demonstrate to the person perhaps the shape of the mouth, how you pronounce a certain word, to mouth the response.

It's almost like not saying something at all mouth.

No. To mouth, no. Okay, number eight is to nag.

Okay, now nag is a very, very informal word, almost a slang word. Nag is when somebody says something repeatedly.

They ask you, could you take the bins out?

Would you mind taking the bins out?

I've asked you a hundred times to take the bins out.

When are you going to take the bin, but just stop nagging me, I'm going to do it in a few minutes.

When are you gonna collect my mother?

You said you'd go over and pick up my mother she's expected here she's waiting for you to she's probably got a coat on sitting waiting yeah okay don't nag I'll go and I'll get her now so that's nagging so when somebody goes on and on and on you say oh please don't no more nagging I hate it when you nag.

So to nag somebody is to continuously ask them or to repeat something over and over again to nag.

Number nine, retort.

Now this is quite formal to retort.

Usually it's somebody saying something in response to a comment or a question and it's usually an angry retort or it's a witty retort so that could be a politician for example, he's on stage, he's talking about the forthcoming election and somebody in the crowd shouts something out, ah, you're useless, yeah?

And so he retorts, not as useless as you, yeah?

So that would be a retort, maybe it's a witty remark and the audience laugh, or perhaps some reporter asks some particular question and it's really deep question.

So what about the corruption charges that been talked about and the politician might say that's nothing to do with me so they really retort in an angry way.

Okay so to retort means to answer something but not just a polite way usually harsh or in a snappy way or in an angry way or in a witty way so it's formal to retort.

So it's about answering, responding to questions.

To scold somebody. Well this is what our mothers, grandmothers, teachers used to do.

They scold us when we do something wrong.

Yeah, so if you break the glass or you drop the glass and it shatters all over the floor.

What did you do that for?

You're stupid boy. Oh what a stupid child!

What did you do that for?

Yeah or you cut yourself and something you're so stupid so they scold you for something that you have done or something that you did or if you didn't do the homework properly or perhaps when you're 4 or 5, you peed your pants in the classroom I think I did that once or twice certainly I remember my brother doing it when we were in school so the teacher would scold you and then you'll be sent home to clean up and your mother would scold you when you get home okay so to scold somebody is to give out to them, to complain or to be really annoyed or angry with them.

To scold. Number eleven is to snivel.

Snivel usually involves crying and whinging.

Just snivel, don't snivel.

Yeah, speak clearly.

So if son or daughter comes home from school and they're a little bit upset maybe they've had an argument with their best friend, maybe the teacher has given out them maybe they've got bad marks and the and you say look come on don't sniffle tell me exactly what happened I can't hear you when you're sniveling yeah you have to be careful and clear and so I can understand you and perhaps then I can help you so you try to calm down the sniveling child to snivel squeal we usually squeal with delight oh yeah okay to squeal with the light like a little mouse okay so perhaps you bring home a beautiful

present that your partner wasn't expecting and when she opens the box there's the most beautiful pair of earrings that she's been waiting for that bracelet or whatever it was and she should oh you really haven't forgotten I thought you'd forgotten our anniversary or you'd forgotten my birthday oh you're such a doll this is wonderful is great so to squeal with delight or somebody wins some money on the lotto and they squeal with delight so any time you got some really really good news something exciting happens then perhaps it's not just a question of laughing or whoa it's squealing with delight

to tease somebody when we tease somebody we make fun of them yeah sometimes we do it in a joking way and everybody laughs or don't tease me don't tease me yeah okay oh if you're planning a holiday and your partner wants to know well where we going oh well it's a really nice place it could be a tropical island then again it could be an adventure holiday Oh stop teasing, tell me where we're going to go, so that's about teasing but of course some people take it a little bit too far and in school kids often tease other kids, perhaps because they wear glasses, perhaps they've got these train tracks

or wires on the teeth, or perhaps they just behave a little differently than other people behave. When I moved from the UK, many, many, many, many decades ago I used to get teased because I had a very English accent.

And of course, then that would cause a little bit of problems, eventually you get over it.

But to tease somebody might not be so nice and you have to be careful how far you take it, so to tease.

And then finally, number 14, to yell, to scream and yell, to shout.

So yelling is about shouting, raising your voice, or screaming, to yell, to yell out loud when something happens, yeah?

So yell, go and get your brother, tell him his dinner is ready.

So the young David stands at the bottom of the steps shouts, your dinner is ready.

Don't yell go up and get him.

Everybody will hear you you just be careful about the neighbors okay don't make so much noise to yell, yell out loud.

Okay there are 14 verbs of speech. Different verbs that you can use to explain how somebody speaks and in certain ways and why they speak in a certain way and some of them there those hiss and whine and snap are very specific because they can only be used in direct speech, and not in reported speech. So, he's hissed.

He snapped. He whined.

Okay, so just remember those, so as always, practice them.

See which ones you like, see which ones you understand.

If you need some more examples, come back to me.

I will help you, and you'll get me on www .englishlessonsbyscipe .com So, as always, this is Harry, thanking you for watching, thanking you for listening.

don't forget the next lesson!

[영어 회화 실력을 높여주는 14가지 상황별 화법 동사]-[Speak Better English with Harry | Episode 532]

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영어 회화의 품격을 높이는 화법 동사 가이드

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2. 특정 감정과 태도를 담은 화법

3. 상호작용과 권유의 표현

4. 비언어적 표현

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