Let's Learn English! Topic: Facial Expressions 😉😒😑 (Lesson Only)

Well, hello and welcome to this English lesson about facial expressions. Facial expressions are when we use the muscles in our face to make different expressions that mean different things. Now, I do have to say that these facial expressions will be connected to English words and the emotions and feelings we have or what we're experiencing that causes us to make that expression.

And it might be different in your part of the world. So not only will you be learning about facial expressions, um, and what we call each one, but what it means if you are in my part of the world. I think most of them will be the same.

I think a smile is a universal facial expression. But there's a few other ones that might be a little bit different, and we'll. We'll find out as we go along.

So, once again, welcome to this English lesson about facial expressions. A smile. So you'll notice I said a smile, but you can also decide to smile.

So you can use it as a noun or a verb. This guy has a really nice smile. He looks really happy.

I wasn't planning on doing all the facial expressions myself, but I am smiling. Well, um, so when you smile, it usually means you are experiencing joy. It means you are happy.

It usually means that whatever you are doing is a lot of fun. And so you smile. And this shows the people around you that you are experiencing that emotion, that you are very, very happy.

So I smile a lot as I go through the day. I'm usually in a good mood. And I think a smile is an.

An important. Would I say tool. I guess it's an important thing I use as a teacher.

I think smiling communicates to students and viewers like you that I'm in a good mood and maybe it will be pleasant and enjoyable to learn some English from me or something else. So smile, show you are happy. A frown.

A frown is something we use to express dissatisfaction. If I see a student using their phone and class, I might look at them and frown. So I'm saying to them, I don't like what you're doing.

If I went to a birthday party and they served food I didn't like, like, let's say there was a party for me and let me think of a food I don't like. I can't think of one. But let's say they serve pie and I really wanted cake, I might frown to show my dissatisfaction.

When you are satisfied or when you express satisfaction, you're happy with something. When you express dissatisfaction, it means you not happy, you are disappointed, you are not satisfied. A scowl.

So a scowl. It's kind of like trying to mimic the person in the picture here. A scowl also has a little bit of anger to it.

So it's dissatisfaction, but you're also a little bit angry about the situation. Like, just a tiny bit. Like if someone tells me, um, there's a mess on the floor, you have to mop it up, I might scowl because I'm, like, angry that I have to do that job.

I might be annoyed or angry, or I might be thinking, I do not want to do it. So a scowl is like, you know, it's hard for me to scowl. I'm not a natural scowler.

But it's a look of dissatisfaction with a little bit of anger mixed in. At least annoyance mixed in a grimace. Have you ever hurt yourself, twisted your ankle, maybe stubbed your toe?

Uh, maybe you have. When you're cutting your fingernails, you accidentally clip a little too close to the skin, and you might go. You might grimace.

Generally when we grimace, it's in response to being injured, even maybe seeing someone getting injured. If I saw someone driving their car and they hit another car, I might go, because I feel like, oh, maybe people got hurt. So a grimace.

Probably the most common grimace for me would be if I stub my toe. Um, or let me see, how else do I hurt myself? Sometimes, I guess, just playing a sport.

And you twist your ankle, maybe. I played volleyball once, and the volleyball hit the ends of my fingers and jammed my fingers in a bit. And I was like, I grimaced when that happened.

So to grimace, to make a facial expression because of pain, a grin, same as a smile. There is literally no difference when you grin from ear to ear. Sometimes we say, he was grinning from ear to earth.

So your smile or grin is so big. Um, we say it's from ear to ear. But a grin is, again, simply an expression of happiness, an expression of joy, an expression of contentness.

You are very content and happy. So hopefully you grin and smile a lot today. Again, no difference between the two.

You know, he had a large smile on his face. He had a large grin on his face. They mean the same thing, disgust.

So we've shifted a bit in terms of the words I'm using. This, I would say, is a look of disgust. So he is expressing a feeling of disgust.

Probably the best example I can think of is if food has gone bad and smells funny. If I smell the milk container, I might do that. I just saw myself on the screen.

I might express disgust, like. Like, oh, that smelled gross. That would be another word we would use in English.

Um, an expression of disgust or that something is gross. You can also express disgust at what people are doing. You might see someone.

I. The only thing I can think of is you're walking home late at night and you see someone who's intoxicated and they've decided to. Yeah, in English we would say take a pee on the side of the road.

And you might be like, can't they find a bathroom? Um, so anyways, you might have an expression of disgust or a look of disgust. And then, of course, sometimes you have surprise.

If I walked into a room the night of my birthday and turned on a light and there were 50 people in the house and they all yelled surprise. I would have a look of surprise. I'd be like.

I would be like, what is going on here? And then maybe Jen would say, it's a surprise party for you. Sometimes people will give you a gift and you weren't expecting a gift.

And then you would have. You'd be like, you would have a look of surprise. Notice his eyes are open, his mouth is open a little bit.

A look of surprise because he has received a gift, maybe unexpectedly, but he already has a party hat on. So I'm assuming he kind of knew this would happen. Anger.

So you can have a look of anger on your face. You can see this guy does not look happy. Anger is associated with the emotion of being angry, being mad at someone.

Um, I'm going to try and make an angry face that kind of looked like. I don't know if that's like. I like to.

I guess I sounded like a pirate there. Like, arrr. Like, you're, You're.

It's almost like a scowl. And you, you kind of scrunch your forehead together. You see how, like, when you draw an angry person, you put like a little line above their eye so it looks like there's like.

Yeah, I don't know. I'm not an artist. Anger is used.

An angry expression is used to let people know that you are upset, you are annoyed, you are out angry. You just do not like what they said or what they're doing. Or even in a situation, you might come home and your house is flooded because it rained all day.

Yet you might be angry about that. So you're. You're not angry at a person, but you're angry at the situation.

Sadness. So this is a feeling that you can see on people's faces. You know, I'm trying to be as sad as the guy in the picture.

Let me make it bigger for a sec. Just. I Just look tired.

When I try to look sad, I just look. I shouldn't laugh about this. Sadness is a real thing.

If you are feeling sad, maybe something bad has happened in your life. Maybe you've lost your job. Um, maybe even something more serious.

Maybe someone in your family was hurt. Maybe someone has passed away. You will feel sad and you will have a facial expression like this.

Definitely not much expression. But also you can just see there's a look of concern, there's a look of just not a lot of energy. Um, feeling sad because something happened in this person's life that makes them sad.

Fear. If you have a look of fear, it generally means you have big. Your eyes are open really big.

Um, if someone jumped out from behind a wall at night and. And said boo and tried to scare me, by the way, it was Halloween last night. It would probably look similar to the look I gave of shock.

Like. Like, I would probably jump back. I would probably move my hands as well.

It's because you. You might want to. You might think, oh, what's happening?

I better put my hands up to defend myself. And then you would have, like, your eyes really wide open. And you would of course, be experiencing fear.

You would be afraid of whatever's happening. Your heart rate would go up. You would be ready to run away because you're not sure what's happening and you are afraid.

A smirk. So a smirk is a kind of half smile. A smirk is not always good thing.

So someone might. Someone might smirk if you do something wrong. Like, let's say I was a mean person and I was in an English class and someone else was speaking English and they were making lots of mistakes.

I might smirk and I might think, huh, I. I'm way better than them. Like, I'm way better than them.

Um, so it's not always a nice thing. It's a little bit of arrogance, like, feeling like you're better than someone else. Um, it can be more passive as well.

Like, if someone tells a joke and it's not really that funny, you might be like, you might smirk a little bit. So in that sense, it's more of a positive thing. But to smirk means to, you know, just kind of smile a little bit.

Sometimes just with one corner of your mouth. Like this person here is doing to smirk. And it's also a smirk.

So he has a smirk on his face and he is smirking. It's both a noun and a verb. A sneer.

So a sneer is interesting because it. It signals aggression a little bit. Like, it's like, it's like you're saying, really?

Hmm. Yeah. I'm not very good at making a sneer, but in this case, I think maybe this person was just insulted and they're about to give an insult back.

Like, if someone said to me, bob, you're. You're. You're dumb.

I might be like, really? And then, like, you're starting to get maybe a little bit angry. So a sneer is not a positive facial expression.

It is definitely communicating a negative emotion. Tiny bit of anger, tiny bit of annoyance, and maybe a little bit of aggression. Like, if you see two boxers meet before a boxing match and they shake hands, and then they might be like, they might say a few things, and then they might sneer at each other a little bit just to let the other person know that they're ready and willing to fight in the boxing match.

To wince. Very similar to grimace. Um, you can wince.

I know the last time I winced was because a bee was flying at my head and then it didn't turn. Also, I saw something out of the corner of my eye, and I was like, I kind of closed my eyes a bit and turned away. You can wince when you.

If you go see a movie and there's a really violent scene, um, and you might just wince because you kind of don't want to look at it. Um, you might wince if you. Let's say two of your friends started fighting.

Like, actually punching each other would hope you tried to break up the fight. But you might wince because you might be like. When you see violence, sometimes you.

You don't want to look at it. So to wince, to close your eyes and kind of. You can see how there's, like, a speed to it.

Like, kind of look away. Bees trying to fly into my face. Not a very nice thing to stare.

So to stare means I'll. I'll do a stare for a sec. When you stare at someone, you look at them intently.

You don't look away. And then you often don't blink very much either. I mean, you do blink, but this, to me, is a perfect example of a stare.

I'm trying to do it right now. I'm trying to look intently at the lens. It can be a little bit strange.

Like, if you're in a public place and someone you don't know stares at you, you kind of feel like, oh, why are they staring at me? I did have this at the train station a few months ago where someone was staring at me. And then eventually they came up and asked if I was bob The Canadian.

And I said, yes. But to stare at someone means to look at someone and to hardly blink and to not look away either. Because now there's a number of reasons for a stare.

You might stare at someone because you think they're attractive. It's rude to do that. But you might stare at someone because you think they're attractive.

I might stare at a student so they behave. If a student is talking in class when they're not supposed to, I might look at them instead of saying, hey, Johnny, stop talking. I might try to catch their eye and I give them a look.

But it's kind of a stare, trying to communicate that they should behave. So there's a number of reasons to stare. An eye roll or to roll your eyes.

This is something you do. Maybe you're watching a movie and someone says something. That's just what we would say.

Silly or corny or it doesn't make sense. You might be like, you're basically saying you don't think that was funny. Maybe a person you're talking to says something and you.

You just think, oh, really? Like, you roll your eyes because either you don't agree with them, you think what they said was silly, or you can't believe it. Like, maybe they say, oh, my mom got in a car accident for the fourth time this week.

You might be like, are you serious? Like, you're. You're kind of like, yeah, you're not excited about the situation.

So it's an eye roll. Teenagers do this a lot. If you say, this homework is due tomorrow.

You might see a few students go where they just roll their eyes, expressing dissatisfaction at what you said. So I think we've done wink before. In another lesson.

I can wink with one eye. I can kind of wink with the other eye. I'm not very good at it.

Um, you can wink at someone for a number of reasons. It can have, like, there can be a romantic element to it. You know, if you see someone who you think is attractive, you might wink at them, but it is considered a little forward and a little inappropriate.

Maybe, like, you're. If you see someone or meet someone who you are compatible with, who you might have a romantic interest in, I highly recommend that you just have a conversation. Uh, winking is kind of.

Kind of strange and weird. Like, if, if. If there was someone.

Like, let's say when I was in university, there was someone I liked. If I was like, hi, that's just weird. Don't.

Don't do that. But in movies, you might see people do that. You might give a wink if something's funny.

Like, if someone says to me, I'm trying to think of an example. Oh, if I brought donuts to work and one of my colleagues was like, hey, thanks for the donuts. I might be like this.

I might be like, no problem. Like, it kind of communicates, hey, we're on the same team. We're friendly.

I did something nice for you and you thanked me. So it's kind of like, you're welcome. I'm not sure why he's doing the.

I guess I pointed too, didn't I? Like, you're welcome. No problem.

I don't wink very often. You could probably tell puppy dog eyes. So this is obviously a puppy, a small dog.

A baby dog is called a puppy. And we have something called puppy dog eyes. This is a facial expression that young children will often use in order to get their parents to agree to something.

So if my kids were much younger, and if they said, can I have some ice cream? And I said no, they might say like, please. And they might try to make p.

I can't do it. I'm old. I'm in my 50s.

I can't make puppy dog eyes. But it's like, please. You'll probably have seen this in movies or in cartoons or with children that you know in your life.

Either your own kids or nephews and nieces or even younger siblings. When children really want something, sometimes they will do that to squint. So this is an interesting one.

Often when I make a video when it's really sunny outside, if I don't have my sunglasses, I need to squint. It's too bright. And I.

Here, I can mimic it for a sec. Let's do this. So it's going to be dark, and then it's going to be really bright.

So then I have to squint until. Because I can't, um, it's too bright for me to see. My eyes can't adjust.

So you can see this guy. Not sure where he is, but he's squinting a little bit with one eye, maybe with both eyes. Sometimes you need to squint when it is too bright outside.

A good example would be sometimes at the movie theater when the movie's done, they turn the lights on full brightness at the end of the movie. And then your eyes are used to the dark, and then you're like, oh, it's really bright. Like, and then you squint a little bit.

So to squint means to close your eyes slightly because it is too bright. Glare. So this is very similar to stare.

In fact, you can see that they rhyme. But when you glare at someone, it means you don't like what they're doing. In fact, the example I gave of staring at a student so they stopped talking, um, I would probably glare at the student.

Let's say all the students in my school were in the gym and we had a speaker up front talking. And a two students were. Were talking in the back row.

Instead of going over to tell them to stop talking, I might glare at them. I might be like, I might just stare intently at them so that they stop talking. Hopefully they look at me so they can see that I'm glaring.

This. This lady is definitely glaring. That is a glare.

It. It's. It's just more intense than staring.

So when you stare at someone, when you glare at someone, you might open your eyes a little bit more and look at them very, very intently to beam. When you beam, it means it's. You're going to be smiling, but it's like your whole face is smiling.

I tried to find a picture of people beaming. I feel like these people are beaming with joy. We often say that people beam with joy.

Um, it's where, like the day when you have a baby, you're usually beaming for joy. Like, even if you weren't smiling, people would be able to tell from your eyes and everything about you that you are just super happy. So here's a smile.

And then I'm going to try being. I'm o. I don't even know what that looked like, but you're just so happy that people, like, within a split second of looking at you, they can see that you are full of joy for some reason.

And having a child would be a good example. Someone has a. If someone at work has a baby the next day when they come to work, they're usually beaming.

They're super happy because they had a baby to pout. So kids often pout when they don't get what they want. It's to express that you are not happy.

So if. If I was a kid and I said to my mom, can I have a candy? And my mom said, no, I might pout.

You stick out your bottom lip, you look a little bit sad. You're annoyed. Um, I used to pout when I was a kid.

Adults sometimes pout as well. It doesn't look quite as strong as a child. Like, maybe, but definitely kids sometimes pout when they don't get what they want.

So a pouting child, it's not always A good way to get what you want. Sometimes your parents just don't care. But sometimes kids will pout to raise your eyebrows.

We sometimes raise our eyebrows when we're surprised. Like, you can see my eyebrows are going up. We sometimes raise our eyebrows when we're like, we kind of don't agree with someone.

Like, if someone said, messi's the best football player in the world, I might be like, really? Like, I might raise my eyebrows and then I might start to disagree with them. Uh, in my short lesson on my other channel, I did the phrase I beg to differ.

This would be a facial expression you would give. If someone said, baseball is better than football, I might be like, I beg to differ. I might raise my eyebrows, showing that I disagree a little bit.

Then I might say, I beg to differ. I think baseball is better than football. I don't.

I don't actually have a choice. I mean, I don't have a preference, but you could use that. It.

It's equivalent to the English phrase oh, really? Like, oh, really? Oh, really?

Meaning that you kind of disagree with the person. A dirty look. So this is the best dirty look I could find.

You give someone a dirty look when you don't like what they're doing. Moms and grandmas are good at giving dir looks. Parents are good at giving dirty looks.

It means you don't like what the child is doing. So my dirty look would be like. It's similar to the glare that I would use.

But a dirty look basically means I don't like what you're doing and you should stop doing that. Um, you might do this in public. Although we.

It's. It's kind of aggressive. So you wouldn't really do this to someone you don't know.

Um, but certainly within a family, um, if your brother tells an inappropriate joke at the supper table, you might give him a dirty look because you're like, don't upset. Um. Oh, what's a good example?

A good example would be, let's say a girl brings a boyfriend home for the first time to meet her parents, and then he says something that she knows the parents won't like. She might, like, hit him with her elbow and give him a dirty look. Like, don't say that.

So it basically is a way to tell people you don't like what they're doing and they should stop doing it. Confused. I see this sometimes at school.

Sometimes students are confused. A confused look is kind of like, like, it can be like, it looks a little bit like sadness mixed with just not knowing what's going on. This person definitely looks confused.

Like, they're like, oh. Like when I look at the screen that shows all the trains that go to Toronto and when they leave, I look like this. I'm like.

I'm kind of. I just. I don't.

Which one do I need to go on? What direction am I going? What time does it leave?

And then some people looking at the train schedule are like this. They're just thinking. They're like, I do this sometimes in my videos.

People have commented where I'm like. And I even put my little. My finger there.

Not my little. This is your little finger. My pointer finger.

I'll be like, hmm. Do you know the names of the fingers? I don't know if I know them all.

Thumb, pointer finger, middle finger, ring finger, little finger, pinky. We call it a pinky as well. Anyways, thinking.

Sometimes you're like, hmm, I don't know about that. Hmm. And you think a little bit about it.