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Head, ear, chin, lip, arm, chest, leg, foot, back... These are some of the body parts that are used in many common expressions in English. In this English lesson, I'll teach you the meaning of useful expressions like "You're always on my back", "Keep your chin up", "raises an eyebrow", and even some strange ones such as "makes my blood boil". These sayings bring your English to life by expressing how you feel. From head to toe, all body parts are covered. Watch the lesson to learn more. I know you'll give it a thumbs up!
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E, what did I tell you about leaving your socks on the fl...? Hi. James from engVid. Little upset now. E leaves his socks all over the place. He only has one foot, but he seems to leave them everywhere. I'm always on your back? This lesson is about body parts, like the back, and how we use them to show or express our feelings, emotions, or thoughts on a situation. Stick with me, and we'll take your head out of the clouds and teach you some English. You ready? Let's go to the board.

Notice E is saying: "You're always on my back!" Well, I'm going to come over here and I'm going to show you the body parts, and then I'll show you an idiom... Or, sorry, let's say a phrase or an expression that we use to indicate our thoughts or feelings on something, or about someone. Right?

So, why don't we start with...? Well, what does it say here? Number one, your head. Okay? Your head. If someone says: "Your head is in the clouds", you're a dreamer, which means you don't really think about real things; work, eating, life. You're thinking: "One day I'm going to fly off and I'm going to visit a country, and I'm going to..." And someone will say: -"Do you have money?" -"No." You're a dreamer. Your head is in the clouds. Right? Get your head out of the clouds. Come back to reality. Come back to the real world. That's number one: "head in the clouds".

Let's look at number two: "let your hair down". This is kind of funny because I really don't have any hair. Let's just say I had hair. Okay? And my hair is up, like this. Okay? My hair is up. Okay? If I let my hair down, I'm going to relax. My hair is now relaxed. You like that? Purple. It's cool. "Let your hair down" means have fun, relax, take it easy. Don't be so serious. Okay? And that's our hair there. Just see that? Let it down, relax a bit.

How about number three? "Be all ears". Well, clearly I have only two and I cannot be covered with ears, but "be all ears" means I am focused, I am incredibly... I'm listening to you right now, incredibly focused. So when someone is all ears, it means I'm listening, you have my attention, I'm not thinking of anything but what you are saying. "Be all ears", and there are your ears. Okay?

How about this one? "Lip service". Those are little lips. Maybe you can't see them. So here are mine. Lips. Lip service is funny. "Service" means to do something for someone. But "lip service", it's actually... Because I have "insincere", but that might be a big word for you. But it means I don't really believe it or I don't really want to do it. So, when you give lip service you say: "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah", but you really aren't going to do it or you really don't believe in it. Example: Your mother comes home and said: "Okay, you know what? You put the plate over there and the cup over there. Could you do me a favour? Could you pick it up and put it away?" And you're watching or playing video games or soccer, and you're like: "Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll do it. Uh-huh. Uh-huh." You have no intention or you're not going to do it. You just say: "Yeah, yeah, yeah" to make your mother happy so she thinks you're going to do it, but you're not going to. If your boss or employer gives you lip service, they say: "Sure, we'll give you more money. Everything will be okay. Just go back to work." It's lip service. They're not going to give you any more money, but they expect you to go back to work. Watch out for lip service. Right? Lips.

Let's look at number five. Chin, this is your chin right here. If you've ever seen Superman, Superman has a chin of steel. Big chin. Okay? Now, when somebody says: "Keep your chin up", your chin is probably here and you're: "[Whines]". You're upset and they say: "Keep your chin up. Don't be sad. Be happy. Be strong, like Superman." That's your chin right here, right underneath your lips. Chin. Okay?

"Be on someone's back", that's what E was saying. Well, if you've ever had to carry something really big, I don't know, like... Hold on a second. I'm still here. This is on my back. It's really heavy and it bothers me. You know? It's a pain. It's upsetting. When something's on your back, it's always... They're always bothering you. "Oh, you're always on my back asking about giving you money" or "You're always on my back asking me to help you.

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An idiom is an expression whose meaning is not predictable just by looking at its words. In this lesson, I will teach you several idioms that have something in common: they all contain the word “all”. You will learn the meaning of expressions like, “I’m all ears”, “It’s all in your head”, “all shook up”, “All hell broke loose”, “know-it-all”, “pull an all-nighter”, “all in a day’s work”, “not all there”, “for all I know”, and many more. You might recognize some of these from movies or shows, as they are very common expressions used frequently by native English speakers. These will be especially useful in casual conversation with friends and family. Take the quiz on this lesson at https://www.engvid.com/15-english-exp...

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So, E, I'm going to read this passage to you and... "I'm all ears"? Hi. James from engVid. Today I'm going to use "all" in phrases and idioms, and teach you how you can use them in common speech. And I'm going to try and put them into sections that you will find most useful to help you remember. E writes... Is saying right now: "He's all ears", and I bet you want to know what that means. I'll explain that to you, and I have another seven other idioms. Let's go to the board.

So, E's all ears. Before we even start, let's talk about: What is "all"? What does it mean? Well, generally, it means as much as possible, or it can mean complete or whole. The whole thing; all thing; complete. Excuse me. Or the parts of it. Now, we understand that, what does an "idiom" mean? An "idiom" is basically... It could be a phrase or a clause, but it's a bunch of words that are together that when you hear them, they don't actually make sense by themselves; but if you have the history behind it, you get it.

One of my favourite ones to tell people is: "It's raining cats and dogs." Clearly, dogs and cats don't fall from the sky, so you have to say: "What does that mean?" Well, it means it's a lot of rain. Okay? So, there's a lot of rain coming down. Now, it has an ancient... Not ancient roots. From, like 1600/1700s that there would be so much water coming down that dogs and cats might, like, float away or, you know, be swimming down the streets, so that's: "It's raining cats and dogs."

What does that have to do with what we're doing now? Well, today, we want to look at "all" and how "all" can be used in different idioms to have different meanings. You probably won't know what they mean right away; but by the time I'm done, it shouldn't be a problem.

So, let's look at the number one, the first one: I want to talk about emotional states. So, it's a mental state or an emotional state; how you think or feel. So, number one is: "It's all in your head." That means imaginary; it's not real. If something's all in your head, you go: "Oh, I think I have, like", I don't know. I... I don't want to say it because I don't want to give myself a disease. People might say: "Oh, I think I'm growing four heads." It's like: "It's all in your head. It's your imagination. It's not real. It's not happening. It's not going to happen." Okay? Or: "I think... Oh, I think Beyonc� is going to leave her husband and meet me, because she was on a TV program and she winked twice. That was her code that she wants me." It's in my head; it's not going to happen. Okay? Your friends will say: "You're crazy. It's not happening."

What's another one? We'll go down to number two. Oh, sorry. Before we go here, we'll go here: "All shook up". Oh, yeah, yeah, I'm all shook up. Those of you who like Elvis, that's an Elvis song: "All Shook Up". What does "all shook up" mean? Well, it's to shake... "Shake" means to... To disturb something. In this case, to make it extremely excited. You could be extremely excited if you win the lottery. If I won 20 million dollars, I'd be all shook up, I'd be like: "What am I going to do? I... I... I... How...? How do I get...?" I'm excited. I can also be very worried or disturbed when I'm all shook up. If you get very bad news... My baseball team, the Boston Red Sox, they lost again - I'm all shook up; I'm emotionally disturbed. Okay? And you can be worried as well.

So that's emotional state with "all". "All in your head". Remember we said completely? It's completely in your head. "You're all shook up", it means as much as possible you've been disturbed.

Let's look to the other ones. So, we talked about mental state, your emotional state; let's look at knowledge - how much you can know. All right? So, if "somebody's not all there", you're not all there, it means it's not working properly. Imagine if you had a car with four wheels, but only three tires. They're not all there; something's missing. You need one more tire to make four tires, four wheels. Makes sense. When somebody's not all there, something's wrong in the cabeza. In the head, there's something missing. Maybe half a brain. You know? You got to be careful. […]

Apostrophes are used for many purposes in English writing. Today, I will talk about two ways we use apostrophes to show missing letters: for informal speech and for writing accepted contractions. English is confusing enough when we can read all the letters! When letters are removed and replaced with apostrophes, how do you know how to say these words? I’ll teach you how to pronounce common contractions so there’s no confusion, and then we’ll practice together with some example sentences.

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Hmm. A license to print money. [Laughs] I wish. Hey, E. How ya doin'? Hi. James from engVid. I was reading an interesting book on making money, but I noticed E's up to something. He's praying... He's playing detective, as you can see - Sherlock E. And I want to know: What's he up to? And he says: "How you doin'?" And I noticed that he's looking at this strange thing, it's called an "apostrophe". Why don't we find out what he's doing, and what is the case of the missing letters? And before I even go there, I would like to say: Thank you to Francisco from Paraguay-yay!-for this brilliant shirt. Thank you. And Paraguay, thank you for watching. Okay?

Anyway, let's go to the case for the missing letters. We're going to talk about apostrophes. Now, apostrophes are part of our... Well, we have... Sorry. Periods, question marks, exclamation marks - these are all markings we put in our language to tell us that something is interesting about that sentence or something is missing in the sentence. In this particular case, we're talking about the apostrophe. There are a couple of other things it's used for, but right now I wanted to talk about missing letters. You know? Like: "Has anybody seen my letter? My letter 'g' - it's missing since this morning at 9am." You go: "What are you talking about?"

Well, let's start here. Missing letters. Sometimes at the end of a present continuous verb... And, you know, verbs are: "run", "do", "go", "stop". Okay? And the continuous form would be: "running", "doing", "going", "stopping". Okay? The letter "g" is dropped. Now, this isn't necessarily in writing; it's in spoken English, so I want to make sure you understand that. You may see it in, you know, like songs' lyrics or modern works of literature, you know, or in conversation when they're writing, you know, paragraphs, like: "What are you doin', Johnny?" But it's not supposed to be written in formal language.

So, if you're doing an essay or a government document, please do not use these forms that I'm about to teach you. Okay? Understand them when you read them and when someone is speaking, and you can understand why they're saying: "What are you doin'?" instead of "doing". That it's the same word, same meaning, but just a different pronunciation. Okay? And this is what we said here, right? The "g" is dropped, causing a change in the pronunciation. The meaning of the verb, however, stays the same. I can say: "How are you doing?" and "How you doin'?" Same word, same meaning, different pronunciation. Just... We call it colloquial usage.

Here are some examples. "Are you goin' to the party? Are you going to the party? Are you goin' to the party?" Okay? There you go. The dropping the "g" is shown by the apostrophe. And sometimes when you read a comic book, or a book, or a novel, you know, a romance novel, and they're saying: "He's goin' to help us." That's what this is. So you don't have to go: "What is this new word in English I've never seen before?"

"What is she sayin'? What is she sayin'?" Instead of: "What is she saying? What is she saying?" where our tongue drops to the bottom of our mouth. "What is she saying? Saying", tongue down here. "Sayin'", tongue goes to the top of the mouth. "n" sound is at the top; "ing" sound is at the bottom.

"He is doin' it for you." Sorry. "He is doin' it now for you. He is doin' it". I have a hard time saying these things. Okay? This is... So, it's not in my language. It's not in my vernacular. Not in my vocabulary, so for me to say it, I actually have to think about it. So I really do when you understand when you have a problem with it. Okay? So: "He is doin' it now for you."

And to be honest, this is not even right. This is an incorrect sentence. Nobody who would say this would say "for you". He would say: "He is doin' now for ya. He's doin' it now for ya, and that's how it's going to go." So, if you don't like it, I'm like: I'm sorry, but this is how you would normally speak with that. This kind of contraction will lead to this kind of English, and "ya" means "you", and that's why I have a hard time saying it… […]