English Lesson - 10 Ways to Respond to Bad News in English

Here is an English lesson to help you learn how to respond to bad news in English. After all, life isn't always good. Sometimes as you are learning English people will share something with you that disappointed them or is just plain bad news. In this English lesson I'll help you learn how to respond in English to bad news in 10 different ways! Enjoy! ⌛ Remember: Always watch the video three times. Twice today with English subtitles on, and once tomorrow with the English subtitles off. This will reinforce the English you have learned! -- SEND ME A POSTCARD: Bob the Canadian P.O. Box 419 Smithville, Ontario Canada L0R2A0 -- TAKE YOUR ENGLISH CONVERSATIONS TO THE NEXT LEVEL: ✅Talk to a real English tutor / teacher at preply: http://tracking.preply.com/SH2X (This is an affiliate, signing up for this service helps support my channel). -- FOLLOW ME: ✅ Join me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/engbobthecanadian/ ✅ Sign up for my email list and receive exciting free tips to improve your English: http://eepurl.com/dmbDYX ✅ Ask me questions on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bobthecanadian -- ✅ TRANSCRIPT: Hi Bob the Canadian here. In this English lesson I'll help you learn 10 ways to respond to someone in English if they share news about their life that's kind of disappointing. So I'll look at 10 different scenarios, 10 different examples and then I'll give you an English phrase for each of those 10 that you could use in that situation. The first thing you could say if someone shares disappointing news with you is, "That's too bad!" So let's imagine a situation where you have a friend who, they applied for a job, they went and interviewed for that job and they've been waiting to hear back whether they got the job or not, and then they just called you and said they didn't get the job. It would be very nice of you to say, "Ah that's too bad!" When you say, "That's too bad!", especially in that situation it makes them feel, of course, that you're their friend and it makes them feel that you are being sympathetic to them. So number one you could say, "That's too bad!" The second thing you could say if a friend shares disappointing news with you is, "That sucks!" It's kind of a little bit of English slang, but let's imagine a situation where a friend of yours has been fired from a job. So they had a job and they weren't doing a very good job and now they have been let go. So when you say someone's been let go it means they've been fired. Maybe they phoned you up and they say, "Oh, I just got let go from my job today!" You could respond by saying, "That sucks!" Which is actually a perfect response in that situation to say, "That sucks!" because you like your friend, you think your friend's probably a good worker and you really feel like the situation sucks for them. So, "That sucks!", is the second way that you could respond. The third way that you could respond to disappointing news is to say, "That's a shame!" or "What a shame!" So let's imagine again that you have friend and they call you and they say, "My son just got kicked out of his school for doing bad things." You could say to them, "Ah, what a shame!" Because maybe in this situation you know the kid. Maybe you know this person's son and maybe he's really smart and you feel like even though he did something bad it would of been better if he stayed in school. So you could say to them, "Ah, that's a shame!" or you could say, "What a shame!" A fourth thing that you could say to someone if they express something disappointing to you is just say, "Oh, that's so disappointing!" So we're, we're using the actual word here. Maybe your brother is talking to you and he says, "Yeah I went to a party the other day, and when I got there all the food was already gone. I got to the party late." That would be a great time to say, "Ah, that's so disappointing!" or "That must have been so disappointing!" because no one likes to get to a party late and not get any snacks. A fifth way to express that you agree with someone that something's disappointing is to say, "What a bummer!" And this is a little bit of slang again, but let's imagine a situation where a friend of yours plays on a football team and they almost won the championship. They lost by one point. That would be a, a great time when they tell you that, that would be a great time to say, "Ah, what a bummer!" or "You must have really been bummed out!" Because it's pretty disappointing to be one point away from winning a championship. #englishlesson #learnenglish #speakenglish **Note: All images used under: CC0 License ✓ Free for personal and commercial use ✓ No attribution required From pexels.com or pixabay.com