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hello I’m Emma from English now I have
to say I’m extremely excited about this
lesson today because I know that you’re
an exceptionally dedicated student so
this incredibly useful lesson it’s going
to help you to take your English
speaking skills to the next level the
tips that I share today are going to
help your speaking and your writing
skills sound much more powerful so how
are we going to do that we’re going to
use intensifiers we’re going to use
intensifiers to make your language more
powerful when you’re talking about
extremes so intensifiers are words that
are added before an adjective to make it
stronger it’s simple you take any old
boring adjectives like boring and then
you add an intensifier to it the lecture
was really boring see I bet you didn’t
even know that you already know how to
use some adjectives intensifiers but
really and very a pretty stock standard
intensifiers you know they’re not really
showcasing your English skills let me
show you what I mean that shop assistant
was rude that shop assistant was really
rude that shop assistant was extremely
rude did you notice how the tone of each
sentence changed it suddenly became much
stronger as we got to the end so the
role of an intensifier in your sentence
is exactly what it sounds like it’s
there to intensify the adjectives to
make the meaning stronger and that my
friends allows you
to introduce more emotion and more
feeling into your English using
intensifiers is going to help you to
enhance the meaning of an adjective to
emphasize a point they’ll also help you
to sound really impressive
definitely when you’re speaking but
these intensifiers
will help you to write more compelling
essays and reports too so this lesson is
definitely worth sticking around for
now there are intensifiers
that show high intensity medium
intensity and low intensity and
intensity is talking about strength
so there are intensifiers that are high
in strength that are medium in strength
or that are low in strength so we’ll
start with intensifiers that are high
intensity so these intensifiers are
going to take your adjective to the
extreme upper limits of the meaning of
your adjective they’re very strong and
there are quite a few of these strong
intensifiers to choose from
extremely completely absolutely utterly
totally entirely exceptionally insanely
and incredibly okay so let’s test these
out her daughter is intelligent so this
sentence is okay but to emphasize the
point we can use an intensifier to make
it stronger her daughter is
exceptionally intelligent wow she is
very very very very smart she’s been
stressed lately she’s been incredibly
the exam was difficult the exam was
extremely difficult the sound was
deafening the sound was absolutely
deafening we’re exhausted we are utterly
exhausted so all of these intensifiers
are at the high extreme top end of the
meaning of the adjective so I have a
question for you if you’ve just eaten
lunch an hour ago can you use any of
these adjectives to say that you’re
feeling hungry again
no they’re much too strong but what
about if you hadn’t eaten since
yesterday morning and that was over 24
hours ago
could you use any of the men probably
because I think you’d be pretty hungry
so write this sentence for me in the
comments below this video use one of the
intensifiers to explain how you feel you
haven’t eaten for over 24 hours
you’re quick right but please be careful
it is possible to overuse intensifiers
particularly these high extremes so your
sentence can really quickly become too
full of strong emotions and you’ll start
to sound a little insincere if this
sentence was a person it would sound
like this the most unbelievably
phenomenal thing has happened my
incredibly brilliant and utterly amazing
brother just met an extremely wealthy
man who owns an exceptionally successful
company oh that’s a bit too much so just
take it easy okay with intensifiers less
is more it’s better to have one or two
really appropriate intensifies than to
have too many in your sentence right now
not all intensifiers
are high-intensity not everything in
life is so extreme right so we also use
intensifiers to show medium and low
intensity for medium intensity these are
really common ones really very pretty
quiet and particularly so these
intensifiers are not quite as strong and
they’re not quite as intense but they
are good to use if you want to emphasize
a point a little but not too much your
resume is impressive your resume is
quite impressive
those desserts are good those desserts
are particularly good the movie was okay
but it got pretty violent towards the
end and for low intensity you could use
mildly relatively or somewhat so these
are low strength intensifiers they
useful to emphasize that the adjective
is not strong so imagine that you went
to a comedy show last night and it was
okay it was kind of funny definitely
wasn’t as funny as you thought it would
be though so the show was mildly amusing
not much of a compliment for a comedy
show if it was mildly amusing so let’s
compare intensifiers she’s been stressed
lately she’s been mildly stressed lately
she’s been pretty stressed lately she’s
been incredibly stressed lately see how
we can add meaning and emphasis to our
sentence just by adding these
intensifies learning to use them is
definitely going to help your English to
sound more powerful and confident so
it’s time for your homework it’s your
turn to write some sentences in the
comments below this video
we’re expecting serious weather
conditions tomorrow so can you see the
adjective in that sentence they’re
serious right so I want you to take this
sentence and rewrite it three times in
the comments with a high medium and low
intensifier let’s see how many different
sentences we can get in the comments
together well that’s it for this lesson
and now you know how to add more emotion
into your English and how to express
yourself clearly and naturally using
intensifiers
so please do write even more sentences
in the comments below this video I read
them I see them and I love giving little
tweaks and corrections to make sure that
you’ve understood my lesson correctly
and if you did enjoy the lesson please
give it a like and subscribe to the
English Channel
I make new English lessons here every
week so don’t be a stranger come say
hello
and come and check out some of my other
lessons right here thanks for watching
and I’ll see you in the next lesson bye for now
hello I’m Emma from English now I have
to say I’m extremely excited about this
lesson today because I know that you’re
an exceptionally dedicated student so
this incredibly useful lesson it’s going
to help you to take your English
speaking skills to the next level the
tips that I share today are going to
help your speaking and your writing
skills sound much more powerful so how
are we going to do that we’re going to
use intensifiers we’re going to use
intensifiers to make your language more
powerful when you’re talking about
extremes so intensifiers are words that
are added before an adjective to make it
stronger it’s simple you take any old
boring adjectives like boring and then
you add an intensifier to it the lecture
was really boring see I bet you didn’t
even know that you already know how to
use some adjectives intensifiers but
really and very a pretty stock standard
intensifiers you know they’re not really
showcasing your English skills let me
show you what I mean that shop assistant
was rude that shop assistant was really
rude that shop assistant was extremely
rude did you notice how the tone of each
sentence changed it suddenly became much
stronger as we got to the end so the
role of an intensifier in your sentence
is exactly what it sounds like it’s
there to intensify the adjectives to
make the meaning stronger and that my
friends allows you
to introduce more emotion and more
feeling into your English using
intensifiers is going to help you to
enhance the meaning of an adjective to
emphasize a point they’ll also help you
to sound really impressive
definitely when you’re speaking but
these intensifiers
will help you to write more compelling
essays and reports too so this lesson is
definitely worth sticking around for
now there are intensifiers
that show high intensity medium
intensity and low intensity and
intensity is talking about strength
so there are intensifiers that are high
in strength that are medium in strength
or that are low in strength so we’ll
start with intensifiers that are high
intensity so these intensifiers are
going to take your adjective to the
extreme upper limits of the meaning of
your adjective they’re very strong and
there are quite a few of these strong
intensifiers to choose from
extremely completely absolutely utterly
totally entirely exceptionally insanely
and incredibly okay so let’s test these
out her daughter is intelligent so this
sentence is okay but to emphasize the
point we can use an intensifier to make
it stronger her daughter is
exceptionally intelligent wow she is
very very very very smart she’s been
stressed lately she’s been incredibly
the exam was difficult the exam was
extremely difficult the sound was
deafening the sound was absolutely
deafening we’re exhausted we are utterly
exhausted so all of these intensifiers
are at the high extreme top end of the
meaning of the adjective so I have a
question for you if you’ve just eaten
lunch an hour ago can you use any of
these adjectives to say that you’re
feeling hungry again
no they’re much too strong but what
about if you hadn’t eaten since
yesterday morning and that was over 24
hours ago
could you use any of the men probably
because I think you’d be pretty hungry
so write this sentence for me in the
comments below this video use one of the
intensifiers to explain how you feel you
haven’t eaten for over 24 hours
you’re quick right but please be careful
it is possible to overuse intensifiers
particularly these high extremes so your
sentence can really quickly become too
full of strong emotions and you’ll start
to sound a little insincere if this
sentence was a person it would sound
like this the most unbelievably
phenomenal thing has happened my
incredibly brilliant and utterly amazing
brother just met an extremely wealthy
man who owns an exceptionally successful
company oh that’s a bit too much so just
take it easy okay with intensifiers less
is more it’s better to have one or two
really appropriate intensifies than to
have too many in your sentence right now
not all intensifiers
are high-intensity not everything in
life is so extreme right so we also use
intensifiers to show medium and low
intensity for medium intensity these are
really common ones really very pretty
quiet and particularly so these
intensifiers are not quite as strong and
they’re not quite as intense but they
are good to use if you want to emphasize
a point a little but not too much your
resume is impressive your resume is
quite impressive
those desserts are good those desserts
are particularly good the movie was okay
but it got pretty violent towards the
end and for low intensity you could use
mildly relatively or somewhat so these
are low strength intensifiers they
useful to emphasize that the adjective
is not strong so imagine that you went
to a comedy show last night and it was
okay it was kind of funny definitely
wasn’t as funny as you thought it would
be though so the show was mildly amusing
not much of a compliment for a comedy
show if it was mildly amusing so let’s
compare intensifiers she’s been stressed
lately she’s been mildly stressed lately
she’s been pretty stressed lately she’s
been incredibly stressed lately see how
we can add meaning and emphasis to our
sentence just by adding these
intensifies learning to use them is
definitely going to help your English to
sound more powerful and confident so
it’s time for your homework it’s your
turn to write some sentences in the
comments below this video
we’re expecting serious weather
conditions tomorrow so can you see the
adjective in that sentence they’re
serious right so I want you to take this
sentence and rewrite it three times in
the comments with a high medium and low
intensifier let’s see how many different
sentences we can get in the comments
together well that’s it for this lesson
and now you know how to add more emotion
into your English and how to express
yourself clearly and naturally using
intensifiers
so please do write even more sentences
in the comments below this video I read
them I see them and I love giving little
tweaks and corrections to make sure that
you’ve understood my lesson correctly
and if you did enjoy the lesson please
give it a like and subscribe to the
English Channel
I make new English lessons here every
week so don’t be a stranger come say
hello
and come and check out some of my other
lessons right here thanks for watching
and I’ll see you in the next lesson bye for now
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