Name: Learn English: 11 mind expressions
Uploaded: 2018-02-14T00:48:06.000Z
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Hello. My name is Emma and in today's lesson I am going
to teach you a bunch of new vocabulary expressions.

These expressions are all
very common and very useful.

So, the expressions we're going to learn
today all have the word "mind" in them.

I'm not even covering all of them because
there are so many expressions in English with

the word "mind", so we're only going to cover
some of them, but we're going to cover the

Okay, so, when we talk about "mind", there
are different ways we're talking about mind.

"Mind" can have to do with the brain
and with thinking or thoughts.

So, sometimes when we're talking about mind
we're talking about our brain or we're talking

Sometimes we're talking about something
totally different with mind.

Sometimes when we're talking about mind
we're actually talking about being polite.

For example: "Do you mind?" this is
something where you're being polite.

And then we also use "mind" when we're telling
somebody to pay attention to something.

For example: "Mind the
gap" or "Mind the hole".

So we have these three times where we're using
"mind" and we have a lot of different expressions

I'm going to teach you a bunch of expressions
where "mind" has to do with thought or brain,

I'll teach you a lot of expressions where
it has to do with politeness, and then I'm

going to teach you a lot of "mind" expressions
that have to do with paying attention.

But this is pretty much one way you
can look at these expressions.

When we're talking about mind,
and thoughts, and the brain.

So, first, when we talk about "mind" one meaning
of "mind" can have to do with pretty much

the brain, but it's not
exactly the brain.

So your brain is in your head
and it's a physical thing.

You can touch the brain, you can feel the
brain, you can see the brain, smell the brain,

You can't see the mind because the mind is
where your thoughts are, where your memories

are, and these are things you can't really
see or feel, but they're somewhere in here;

we just can't see them because
they're not physical.

So, for example: Einstein, very famous
scientist: "Einstein had a brilliant mind."

So this means Einstein had brilliant
thoughts, he was very smart.

So it's similar to brain, although not exactly
the same thing, it's very similar to brain.

A psychologist is a job and people who are
psychologists, they study the human mind,

meaning they look at the brain and they look
at people's memories, they look at the way

people have ideas, and they think about:
"Where do these things come from?"

So, a lot of the times when we use the word
"mind", we're talking about kind of your brain

You know, we might say: "Oh, Beethoven had
an incredible mind", or you know: "In your

opinion, which minds were the
greatest of the 20th century?

Meaning: Who had the greatest ideas,
and thoughts, and pretty much brain?

Now, let's look at another way we use "mind" and
that's in the expression: "on someone's mind".

In English we often ask:
"What's on your mind?"

Or we also say: "I have
a lot on my mind."

And make sure you have "on someone's mind",
so it can be: "on my mind", "on your mind",

"on her mind", "on John's mind", you
can pretty much put any person here.

Well, when we talk about "on our mind" we're
usually talking about problems, so we're usually

talking about problems that
we are thinking about.

These are thoughts, we're thinking
about something so it's on our mind.

I'm asking you: "What are you
thinking about right now?

And you might tell me, you know,
some problem you're having.

"You know, I had a
fight with my brother.

That's on my mind right now,
that's what I'm thinking about."

You can also say: "I
have a lot on my mind."

When somebody says this it means they're saying:
"I'm thinking about some problem I'm having".

"I have a lot on my mind", it means I'm thinking
about a lot of problems right now or a big

So you'll see often in TV or movies
somebody says: -"What's wrong?"

-"Oh, I have a lot on my
mind right now, sorry."

Meaning: "I have a lot of things I'm dealing
with at the moment" or "I have a lot of problems

So: "on my mind" has to do with thoughts,
often it has to do with problems and thinking

Now, let's look at some other examples with the
word "mind" when we're talking about thoughts

Okay, so our next expression also has to do
with thinking, thoughts, and the brain, and

So, when you have something in mind or someone
in mind, what it means is that you are thinking

So, for example: -"Who
are you voting for?"

-"I have Trudeau in mind", so I am thinking about
Trudeau for the position of Prime Minister.

Or, you know, maybe if you're following American
politics, you know, if Hillary Clinton is

running, you might say:
-"Who are you voting for?"

This could also be for
a promotion at work.

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