Expressing Love, Pleasure and Relief

DESCRIPTION

Basic Competence: Responding to the meaning in transactional conversation (to get things done) and formal interpersonal (social) and continued (sustained) that uses spoken language accurately, fluently and acceptable in daily life context and involves showing attitude towards something, expressing love.

LESSON

In this lesson, you will learn about how to say and respond love, pleasure, and relief both formally and informally in daily life context.

Expression of Love

Love is kind of strong feeling or emotion which is expressed to show that someone cares. It also means having a happiness feeling. This kind of feeling will show a good attitude. It is not only showed to a special person whom really mean for you, but you can also express it to your relatives or friends. People commonly express their love by various ways such as telling by words, giving a gift or card, making a poem, singing a song, and writing a letter. However, in this lesson, you will only focus on expressing love in words.

Saying Love

There are several phrases to express love. But, when you want to express love you should pay attention to these situations:

People usually express their affection formally through a letter, poem, or song. Here are some phrases you can use:

§   I do love you.

§   Let me be with you.

§   You're just adorable.

§   I’m falling in love with you.

Example:

“Because I'm falling in love with you

It's the easiest thing for me to do

Yes, I'm falling in love with you, it's true”

(Song writer: Moore, Gary)

When you are falling in love to a boy or a girl, you can use short phrases informally as follows:

§   I love you.

§   I adore you.

§   I think I love you.

§   I will always love you.

Some people also call their beloved person by using these phrases:

§   My dear

§   My love

§   My darling

§   My dearest one

Example:

Conversation

(Situation: Julian expresses his love to his girlfriend)

Julian       : “My dear, I have something for you.”

Vinie        : “What is it?”

Julian       : “Just open it.”

Vinie        : “A bar of chocolate. Wow..thank you darling. I love you.”

Julian       : “Your welcome, honey.

Sometimes people use exaggerated words to express their feeling as follows:

§   My heart is in your hands.

§   I'm absolutely crazy about you.

§   I cannot stop thinking about you.

§   My heart can’t stop beating when I see you.

Expression of Relief

When you are in a bad situation because of facing problems, you will feel worried, won’t you? But, after solving those problems you will feel relief.

Relief is a situation where you can end your bad feeling such as pain and worry. This kind of expression that something terrible has not happened anymore or it has ended is called expression of relief.

Here are some short phrases you can use to express relief:

• Oh, good!
• What a relief!
• That's a relief!

§  Oh, marvelous!,

§  I’m glad it was done.

Example:

(Situation: Tiara is almost late to take the airplane)

Tiara                  : “What time does the airplane take off?”

Jovan                : “It should be on 4.30.”

Tiara                  : “Ah, it’s 4.45. I’m late.”

Jovan                : “Don’t worry. The departure is delayed for an hour because of bad weather.”

Tiara                  : “What a relief!”

Another phrase that usually used formally as follows:

§  Thanks my goodness!

§  Thank goodness you're safe.

§  I'm glad everything's running well.

§  Thank God for .... (mention your problem)

§  It’s a relief to know that .... (mention what you have solved)

Example:

Conversation

(Situation: Arfin has just got an accident, but he is safe)

Dina                   : “What happen to you? Your hand is bleeding.”

Arfin                  : “I just got an accident when I was going to school.”

Dina                   : “Oh..poor you.”

Arfin                  : “The rider who hit me passed away in that accident, but I’m still alive.”

Dina                   : “Thank goodness you're safe.”

Conversation

(Situation: Rendi has just passed the exam and it was running well)

Renata              : “What’s going on? You look so happy.”

Rendi                : “I have just passed the exam. I’m glad everything’s running well.”

Renata              : “That’s good. Congratulations!”

Rendi                : “Thanks.”

Expression of Pleasure

Expression of pleasure is an expression to show happiness feeling because of something happen.

Here are the following phrases you can be used:

§  That’s great.

§  It is really delightful./I am delighted.

§  It’s really a great pleasure.

§  I am pleased.

§  That’s wonderful.
§  It’s a pleasure!



Written by Windi Asariastika