10 English Expressions and phrases we use daily: Improve your English speaking/reading/writing

These are 10 common English Expressions and phrases we use daily, that will be sure to improve your English speaking, reading and writing. There are many, many ways people greet each other or ask each other questions in conversational English. This can mean a simple “How are you?” to asking a friend “What’s up?” These simple expressions are a great conversation starter and easy to use in the English language. ------- • Check out this blog post for more details about improving your English: https://eslspeaking.org/english-expressions/ • If you liked this video, find my teaching playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL0Q8kr18oQL0LK1srZoAEjknn4BvePNh ------ 1001 English Expressions and Phrases: https://amzn.to/3oZDZU5 https://www.facebook.com/eslspeaking https://www.pinterest.ca/eslspeaking/ https://www.instagram.com/jackie.bolen/ https://www.tiktok.com/@englishwithjackie?lang=en #esl #teachingenglishwithjackie #eslactivities ------------------------------------------------------- Even more Ideas for the TEFL Classroom: https://eslspeaking.org/ -------------------------------------------------------- Timestamp for this English Expressions and Phrases video 0:00 Intro 0:23 #1 Excuse me 0:48 #2 What do you think? 1:10 #3 Can you help me? 1:34 #4 What's up? 2:30 #5 How are you? 3:13 #6 What have you been up to lately? 3:34 #7 I should get going 4:08 #8 For sure 4:27 #9 I need to hit the sack 4:53 #10 Thank you! Transcript for useful daily life English expressions: Here are the 10 phrases that are very helpful in daily life. Number one is excuse me. This is a way to be very polite. I'm from Canada and all Canadians are polite. If you bump into someone accidentally or step on somebody's toe. The second one is, "What do you think?" This is a question you can ask to get somebody's opinion about something. So for example, you could say to your friend, hey let's get pizza after work or, let's get pizza for dinner. What do you think? And your friend could say, sure that sounds great. Number three is, Can you help me? This is such a useful phrase. Can you help me? You could ask your teacher, your friend, your doctor, literally almost anyone that you need help from. The fourth phrase is, "What's up?" This is a little bit informal. It's kind of a slang thing. You could say it to your friend, "Hey what's up?" That just means what's happening, what's going on, what are you doing now. A good answer to this is, "Not much!" Or, "I've been working lots lately." The next one I'm sure you know is, "How are you?" It's asking how somebody is doing. Why I included this one is because of the answers in Korea. Students are often taught the answer, I'm fine, thank you and you? It sounds so ridiculous though. So if someone says to you, "How are you?" A great answer is, "I'm good" or, "I'm not bad." The next saying you can use in daily life is, "What have you been up to lately?" That's just asking someone what's new, what's happening with them. If someone says that to me I could say, I'm writing a book or, I'm playing tennis a lot these days. Okay, the next daily life phrase is, "I should get going." Or, "I should get back to work." You know at work or at school or in your family, there's always someone that talks too much. So you're at work and you see this person and they just keep talking and you don't want to talk to them. You could say, "Sorry, I should get back to work." Or, if you're at school and they're just talking to you and you have to go you say, "Oh excuse me, I have to get going." The next one is, "For sure." This is one of my favourite ways to agree or to say yes. If my friend says to me, "Hey let's get a beer after work." I could say, "For sure." Or if someone says, it's so hot out. Oh yeah, for sure, it's so hot. Something like that. The next one is, "I need to hit the sack." This is a funny way to say, I need to go to bed or I'm going to bed. If I'm hanging out with my friends and it's getting late. For me, 10 o'clock is late and I'm getting tired, I could say to my friends, "I need to hit the sack." That means I need to go to bed. The final daily life phrase that I like to use is thank you. I'm sure you know thank you already but it's just a very polite thing. Everyone is always saying thank you so if you don't say thank you, you'll actually sound rude. Say thank you when someone gives you some food at the restaurant or when someone gives you a ride somewhere like in a taxicab. Say thank you to the bus driver, and say thank you to your teacher. Tags: 10 common English Expressions and phrases, common English phrases, common English expressions, daily