5 Phrases for Promises and Resolutions

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Hello everybody, are you tired? Why? Sometimes you feel tired and you want to express your feeling about tiredness. But you can't but don't worry. In this lesson we are going to teach you 10 ways to say you are tired. Do you are tired?

Do you have no energy? Okay, let's start. Number one is I'm exhausted, exhausted, exhausted is a synonym for tired. I'm tired. I'm exhausted. I have no energy.

I'm exhausted. Number two. I'm dead tired. I'm dead. Tired, which means very, very tired. I'm dead tired.

It means that I cannot walk. I cannot actually do any activity. I should go to bed. Number three is arm pooped. This is another way to say that to you. are tired, I'm pooped, pooped, which means also very tired.

Number four is I spent. This is how american people sometimes speak about tiredness spent. This means that there is no energy left in my body and I should go to bat. I'm beat. I'm beat. I'm exhausted.

Number six is I'm running on fumes or I'm running on empty. Have you heard this phrase? Some students have problem understanding and using this phrase I'm running on fumes. If someone has used all their energy on something, but must continue, they are running on fumes. It is an expression used when driving a car when the needle is on empty, but still around. So now we can understand.

When do we say and when do we use, I'm running on fumes or I'm running on empty. And the next one is I can hardly keep my eyes open. I can hardly keep my eyes open. It means that I'm very, very tired. I'm sleeping right now I have no energy and I should go to bed. I can hardly keep my eyes open.

I'm off to bed. I'm off to bed. We use this phrase a lot in different movies. It means I must go to bed. You'd say this when you are tired. Or if you know that you need to sleep because you have to get up early in the morning.

I'm off to bat off to bed. I'm asleep right now because I should get up early and the Morning. Next one is I'm going to hit the sack. I'm going to hit the sack. I'm going to hit the sack, hit the sag means go to bed. This is another idiom, expiration to speak about.

Going to bed because you feel tired. And the last one is, it's bedtime for me. It's been done for me. This is easy. Sometimes we use it for children like, john, come on. It's bedtime for you means that you must go to bed right now.

This is a bedtime and this is very late to stay up. Okay, let's use some of these expressions and idioms and phrases in real situations. Here there is a conversation between Sarah and Lily. They are speaking Sarah says let's go shopping now Lily. Lily says Oh, knots now. I just finished work.

I can hardly keep my eyes open. I'm beat. I'm tired. I'm pooped. I'm spent. I have no energy.

Okay, and here you can see the driver. He's feeling really sleepy and it's really dangerous to drive and, and these kinds of situations because you're going to have an accident or maybe you're gonna hit somewhere. So he's running on fumes. He's running on fumes. We use this as your car. Remember, you're tired, but he must continue especially for driving.

He must hit the bed, and he's dead tired. He's extremely tired.

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