Now as always with my vocabulary lessons, not only will I share with you what the word or expression is, but I’ll also highlight its meaning and how we use it in a sentence so that you can see a concrete example. You can say exactly what you want to say. So that when something unexpected happens to you, and you’re talking about it with friends, family members, or coworkers, you can be precise in your language. In this video today, you’re going to learn a variety of synonyms, eight to be exact, for talking about feeling surprised in English… As you know, synonyms are words that have a similar meaning, but there may be tiny, important differences among those synonyms. This is exactly where you want to be every week to get the confidence you want for your life and work in English.Īnd this week, you and I are going to play in the world of synonyms. I’m Annemarie with Speak Confident English. So how would you explain those different kinds of feeling surprised in English? Someone bought you flowers, there’s a glass of wine and dinner is ready?īy now you’ve probably noticed I keep using that word surprise, but each of those experiences and the feeling of being surprised is a bit different. What about the kind of surprise of walking home on Friday at the end of a long day, after a long week after finishing a long tiring project, you walk into the house and your kids have cleaned the house. Or was it the kind of surprise you might feel when your boss calls you into the office and says, we want to offer you a promotion and the promotion is your dream job! Was it one of those small unexpected moments that happened at the grocery store? When you accidentally bump into someone behind you? One of those, “Oh, I’m so sorry. Think for a moment about the last time you felt surprised, what kind of surprise was it?
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