English with Mike

🔴Technology 👩‍💻 📲

🔵Technophile.  (Someone who is really into technology)

• We live in a world filled with technophiles, who would love to buy every new gadget on the market

🔵Technophobe (Someone who dislikes new technology or has a phobia of it)

• The new century does not belong to technophobes

🔵Tech-savvy (Someone who knows a lot about modern technology)

• The young generation is far more tech-savvy than the previous generation

🔴Bad news

👉🏻I hate to tell you this, but we don’t have any vacancies

🔴Criticism

👉🏻I hate to say this, but your report isn’t good enough

👉🏻 With all due respect, I don’t think it’s appropriate to wear causal clothes at a formal party

👉🏻 Don't take this the wrong way, but your report is not good.

Making invitations

🔴would you like to do something

* When would you like to com

* Would you like a cup of coffee?

🔴Be up for doing something

* Are you up for watching a movie?

* I'm up for some Chinese food

🔴Feel like doing something

* Do you feel like grabbing a bite to eat?

* I feel like some ice cream

Sleep 💤

🔴Sleepy

🔵Sleepy/drowsy

• The room is so warm it’s making me sleepy/drowsy

🔵Can barely keep my eyes open

• I haven’t slept for 2 days. I can barely keep my eyes open

🔴Going to bed

🔵Hit the sack/hay (old-fashioned)

• I’ve got a busy day tomorrow, so I think I’ll hit the sack now.

🔵Turn in (old-fashioned)

• I’m pretty tired. I think I’ll turn in early tonight

🔴Sleeping well

🔵Sleep like a log/baby

• I was exhausted last night. I slept like log/baby. I didn’t even hear the thunderstorm.

🔵Be out like a light

• As soon as my head hit the pillow, I was out like a light

🔴Sleep deprivation

🔵Toss and turn

• I couldn’t sleep last night. I tossed and turn for hours

🔵Not sleep a wink

• There was so much noise last night. I didn’t  sleep a wink. Now I can’t function well

🔵Insomnia

• He can’t sleep at all. He suffers from insomnia

Nuts 🌰 🥜

🔵Nuts about something/someone (be very enthusiastic about sth/sb)

👉🏻 Sophie's nuts about dinosaurs

👉🏻I'm nuts about this band

🔵Drive someone nuts (make someone angry)

👉🏻 All these phone calss are driving me nuts

🔵nuts (crazy , strange)

👉🏻 You must be nuts to go climbing mountains in the winter

🔴Dislike

🔵Not my cup of tea

👉🏻Thanks for inviting me, but ballet isn't really my cup of tea

🔵Not my thing (not my favorite)

👉🏻I'm afraid pubs and clubs aren't really my thing. I'd prefer to go to a restaurant with a few friends

🔵Not for me

👉🏻I’ve tried sushi, but... it just isn't for me

Peckish (slightly hungry)

• By noon, I was feeling peckish although I had had a large breakfast

Starving (extremely hungry)

• Let’s grab some lunch. I’m starving

could eat a horse (extremely hungry)

• I haven’t eaten the whole day and now I could eat a horse

Hangry (so hungry that you’re getting angry)

• Where’s the waiter? I’m getting hangry

Growl (because of indigestion or hunger)

• My stomach growled in the middle of the exam

Full/stuffed (can’t have another bite, have eaten so much)

• No more cake for me. I’m full

Bloated (feeling too full after eating too much)

• I felt bloated after eating too much for lunch

A foodie (someone who’s interested in different kinds of foods, restaurants and cooking)

• I’m a foodie. I love going to restaurants

Baby

• Don’t be such a baby. It didn’t hurt that much

 

Newborn

• Newborns are given hearing tests

 

Infant

• This illness can affect infants

Toddler

• Parents should encourage their toddlers to walk more

 

Child/kid

• As a child, I didn’t eat vegetables

• I’m off to pick up the kids from school

 

Teenager/adolescent

• Parents should try to understand the emotional problems of adolescents

 

The awkward/difficult age

• He’s a very quiet boy. He’s at that awkward age. He’ll soon grow out of it

 

Underage

• We should stop underage drinking

 

Adult

• Some children find it difficult to talk to adults

 

Middle-aged

• The company is run by middle-aged men

 

Senior/elderly

• The government should provide more facilities for senior citizens

Cheapskate (negative)

• My dad is such a cheapskate that he cuts his hair himself

Frugal (positive)

• As a student, he needs to be frugal, so he hardly ever goes to fancy restaurants.

 

Generous (positive)

• That’s very generous of you to lend me money this month

A ballpark figure (an estimate, a guess)

• How many people were at the concert? Give me a ballpark figure

• I think Apple co. makes 100 million dollars a gray. That’s just a ballpark figure, of course.

Out of left filed (unexpected, sudden)

• His comment came out of left field

• He offered me the job out of left field

• He proposed to her out of left field

Hit a home run (to succeed)

• I think I hit a home run on my math test yesterday

• I really hit a home run at my job interview

• That presentation was amazing. You hit a home run!