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  • Picture yourself sitting in a flight, ready to take

  • off and it's a four hours long flight, you have your newspaper in place and you even

  • have a neck pillow to rest and relax for four hours, so you're sitting on the seat and the

  • flight has taken off and you open up your newspaper to read and you're in a mood to

  • relax and then there is this kid behind you screaming, howling and pushing your chair

  • with their feet, what a surprise, no, not a surprise? Okay, what a nightmareyes,

  • such a nightmare, as bad as a bad dream. Well this is a word that you can use to talk about

  • difficult situations and today in this lesson I'm going to teach you words and phrases that

  • you can use to talk about a difficult situation. Well after this lesson your problems are not

  • going to end but you can definitely talk about the difficult situations that you are having.

  • So keep watching with me my name is Michelle and you're watching me on your favorite Channel

  • Let's Talk. Great! Now let's start with the first word that we have, we are firstly going

  • to look at words and then some phrases, so the first word that we have aspredicament”.

  • Yes you say it like predicament. So predicament is a problem which is very hard to get out

  • of. So think divorce, is it easy to get out of divorce? No. Think of a financial problem,

  • can you easily get out of a financial problem? No. So both of these are examples of predicaments,

  • which means problems that are hard to get out of. Let's write it, ‘problems hard to

  • get out of’. So to use it in a sentence you could say that, “Bella is trying to

  • come out of her financial predicament”, which means financial crunch or financial

  • problem. Now let's look at the next word that we have to talk about difficult situations

  • dilemma”. So dilemma is a problem when you have to choose between two options, right

  • or left, here or there, John or William, oops! So when you have to choose between two options

  • you're in dilemma. Let's write itto choose between two’. So when it's very hard or

  • very difficult to choose between two situations or two options you use the word dilemma. Think

  • of a friend who has a job and then he got another offer, so this person got a new job

  • and they have also got another new offer which appears to be better. So that person is in

  • a dilemma you could say thatRosh is in a dilemma because he doesn't know which job

  • to pick.” Okay with this we move on to the next word, “ordeal”. So ordeal is a very

  • very very bad experience which goes on for a long time, okay? ‘A bad experience that

  • goes on for a long time’. This word is used for very serious situations, likewhen

  • terrorists capture some people, that's an ordealorwhen someone is suffering

  • from a long-term sickness that's an ordeal”. So the worst disease that can come to my mind

  • is cancer. So a person suffering from cancer is going through an ordeal, an extremely difficult

  • situation and you use this word for serious situations. With this we move onteething

  • trouble”. So have you seen a child who has his or her teeth coming out and they always

  • want to chew on something that's because it's paining in their mouth, when the teeth are

  • trying to come out, okay? So that is teething problem. Whenever you start a project or something

  • new there are always initial problems. So the first problems, first few problems when

  • you start something new are called teething problems or teething troubles. So you could

  • say that, “when we started the project we had the usual teething problems as expected.”

  • Which means the problems that come up when you start something. Now the next kind of

  • problem is a “juggling act”. So when you have to deal with too many things at one time

  • that's a juggling act. Basically too many problems at one time so think of a parent's

  • life, they have to deal with work and family as well so that is a juggling act. The life

  • of a parent is a juggling act and to use it in a sentence you could say that, “my life

  • is a juggling act between work and home”, this means you have to deal with too many

  • problems at once. ‘Deal with too many problems at once.’

  • Let's move forward the next word isdead end”. So dead end means something to which

  • there is no progress. So for something where there is no progress you use the word dead

  • end. Let me tell you where this word comes from so when you're going in a car and you're

  • on your way to someplace and you see that there is one way for which there is no exit,

  • you mean it's closed, you can't get out of that way, the way is only till there, you

  • can't see what's ahead because there is nothing ahead of it. So when there is no progress

  • and you cannot go ahead in a problem that is a dead end. So to use it in a sentence

  • you could say that, “they have reached the dead end of their marriage”, which means

  • they can't go on anymore and there is not going to be any progress in the future. Okay,

  • now let's look at some more options this world is, “impasse”, yes! We do not pronounce

  • the last ‘E’, we only say impasse, so what is impasse? Impasse is also another kind

  • of problem, okay? It is a kind of problem to which there cannot be any agreement. So

  • when the people involved, cannot agree on anything that's an impasse. ‘Cannot agree’.

  • So to use it in a sentence you could use it in a more written way or when you're writing

  • something you could use the word impasse, you could say that, “the two countries have

  • reached a political impasse”, which means a political disagreement which is definitely

  • a very difficult situation. Now let's look at the next word this is pronounced asstalemate”.

  • Yes! I'll repeat it for you stalemate. Now stalemate has a very similar meaning as impasse.

  • It means that a situation where no one can win, okay? ‘No one can win’. With this

  • one also you can use the verbreach’, as you can use it with impasse. You could

  • say that, “the two countries have reached a stalemate”, which means none of them can

  • win from each other. Okay, so both of these words are used when you're writing an essay,

  • especially a political essay. Okay, now let's look at some very easy and fun words the first

  • one is a “headache”. So a pain in your head. When something is very boring to do,

  • it's called a headache. So you could say that, “filling the forms was a real headache”,

  • okay? Fine! Now let's look at the next one which ispain”. Pain means something

  • which is very hard to do, okay, for which you need to put in a lot of effort. Something

  • which is hard to do. So what do you think is hard to do? Do you think it's easy to get

  • a visa for US? Not so easy. So you could say that, “getting the visa for US or for any

  • other country was a pain”, okay? Getting the visa for US was a pain or you could also

  • replace it with the word drag. Drag could also be used for something which is either

  • boring or something that is hard, so you could say that, “filling the forms was such a

  • drag”, it was so boring and so hard. Now we have the final word with which I started

  • the lesson I said, what a “nightmare”, which meanswhat a bad experience’. So

  • if you had a bad experience when going somewhere you could say that, “I hope the journey

  • back, would not be a nightmare”, which means I hope it would not be bad. Well I hope the

  • day is coming ahead for you would not be a nightmare and you will have a stress-free

  • easy and good time. I hope you get rid of your difficulties and if you can't then be

  • strong, deal with them, use all these vocabularies to talk about difficult times. So thank you

  • so much for staying with me till the end of the lesson, I'll see you guys very soon with

  • another lesson till then you take care bye-bye and have fun

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