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hello guys so today we are going to take

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a look at some phrases that we can use

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to describe when a person has had too

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much of something well what does that

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phrase mean too much uh or in the

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correct countable or uncountable form uh

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too many too much we use when we're

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describing an uncountable known too much

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water too much rice uh too much money

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and too many we use with countable nouns

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too many friends too many biscuits too

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many students for example um so too much

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and too many their function is to as you

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know at this level their function is to

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uh

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Express when there

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are a very very high High number of a

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particular thing and in fact there are

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more than we actually require there is

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more than we actually need or even want

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um there are many phrases in the English

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language which we can use in different

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uh situations to express this feeling of

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there being too many or too much and

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it's nice if you can start to use some

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of these phrases I often hear my

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students oh I don't have too much time

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oh I have too many things to do I have

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too much too much too much too many too

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many too you use them too much so let's

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try and find you some

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phrases which also give this idea this

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feeling of extra than is required but

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not using too much or using too many

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so overrated H we'll come back to that

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over rated in excess of in excess of

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bombard with bombard with take it to

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extremes take it or take something to

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extremes so just take a moment to read

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uh these four words or

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phrases uh can you can you guess the

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meaning or the situation in which we

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wouldn't use

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them so

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overrated if something is overrated it

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is not as good as somebody or as people

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have said it is so using this word in a

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particular example uh all of my friends

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told me to go and see the new

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Ghostbusters film uh they told me it was

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fantastic fantastic they told me it was

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amazing I went it was okay I think the

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film is a little bit

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overrated it is receiving more positive

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feedback than it really deserves we can

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use this to describe restaurants okay

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which are not as good as we expect them

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to be we can use it to describe any

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experience which does not

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match uh the information that we have

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previous been given about how good this

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thing is the opposite of overrated of

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course underrated over and

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underrated this is a really good one and

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if you can use it uh it's a nice a nice

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expression in excess of in excess of we

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use this to again Express that there is

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too much of a particular thing often we

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use it to talk about things related to

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numbers so using it in an example

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um there was an excess of 500 students

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waiting outside the school to come in

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there was an excess of 500 students

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waiting outside the school to come in

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meaning that there were more than 500

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okay so we use in excess of when we we

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have an idea of the number but then

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we're predicting that actually there are

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or there were more than that actual

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number that we have uh predicted so um

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politicians earn in excess of £50,000

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per year in the United Kingdom okay

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£50,000 is a prediction which I have

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that they make but they're making more

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than too much money basically uh so in

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excess of more than what we think

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bombard with I love this one bombard

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with if you

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bombard somebody with something you are

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well bombard if you look up in the

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dictionary means to repeatedly hit okay

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so you would talk about uh if there was

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a war in a country that country was

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bombarded with bombs meaning these bombs

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just did not stop coming it was

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repeatedly being hit um but we can use

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it to describe uh common one in today's

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uh time of Technology we talk about

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bombarding a person with emails or

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bombarding them with text messages or

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calls it's a very common uh way of using

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this phrase uh to bombard with to

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repeatedly send or hit somebody with

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something again too much in ex sense

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take it to extreme

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something which I am famous for to take

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it to extremes if you take something to

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extremes or if you took something to

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extremes it means you reached the limit

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and then you went way over what the

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limit was so uh me and my friend were

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having an argument and then I took it to

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extremes I I I raised the level of the

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argument too much or um me and my little

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brother were playing fighting we were

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pretending to have a fight and then my

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brother took it to extremes and really

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knocked me out he went too far he uh he

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enjoyed the fighting too much so these

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are uh four different phrases that we

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can commonly use to describe when we

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have extra more than needed of something

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play around with them try to use them

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it's really going to to help to improve

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uh your vocab when you are speaking

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about excess good luck guys don't forget

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space below and I look forward to

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speaking to you again soon

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bye-bye