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To feel

IMPORTANT REMINDER: vocabulary and irregular verbs too, must be known AT YOUR

FINGERTIPS!

Here is: to feel, I felt, felt  which is different from: to fall, I fell, fallen... 

1) First meaning of FEEL: experience a physical or emotional reaction, a feeling

an emotion, a sensation.

- By midday, we were really feeling the need to eat a little.

(feel+ noun)

Feel may be followed by a noun, an adjective, a clause

To feel tired and irritated (adjectives)                                                To feel free (adjective)

2) To THINK: to have an opinion, or an attitude towards something: feel + that

-  I feel (that) I should help her more. 

(feel + clause including here a modal auxiliary)

3) FEEL LIKE: to have the impression of being.../ to wish to do something [ or to wish

to do something that you won't/ can't/ do! ] (To feel like +V -ing)

- I feel like having a swim, it's so hot! 

- She was so unruly that I was feeling like slapping her!

     To feel like singing                                                              To feel like dancing

* examine something by touch: "it feels (and looks) as if it were..."

- Touch it: it really feels like velvet... 

4) EXPRESSIONS and idioms: 

* a) You can feel the pinch: (experience financial hardships or difficulties)

* b) I don't feel my age: (to feel younger than one's chronological age)

"Age is just a number"!  Age doesn't determine your vital energy...

* c) I feel it in my bones (believe something strongly although you cannot explain why.)

*d)  "I feel you!"(I understand you! I sympathise with you!) (informal)

*e) I can feel your pain (understand why someone is upset and that you feel sorry for them;)

  He can feel no pain! (He's drunk!)

*f) I can feel the weight of... (have a lot of things to feel worried or sad about...)

*g) "Feel your way!" (Choose carefully where you're going and what you're planning to do!)

Yes, it's true!  Here, there are many idioms... but they are quite different, and therefore not easy

to mix up... The FORCE will be with you for the test! Go for it! 

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1. 'My mum’s operation was a month ago, but she still feels like weakfeels very weakfeel like wokenI don't know, especially when she walks for more than ten minutes…'



2. 'When you saw Ben walking, you’d have thought he was feeling the pinchnot feeling his agefeeling the weight of the worldI don't know on his shoulders. He looked exhausted.'



3. 'I had breakfast at 6 this morning and really I feel starvingfeel like starvingfeel like starvedI don't know just now. Where can we stop to have a bite?'



4. All over the world, because of the crisis, families have begun to feel like dancingfeel their agefeel the pinchI don't know especially when their wages are stagnating and prices increasing so much.



5. 'As soon as he spoke, I felt the pinchfelt hostilityfelt starvingI don't know in his voice and I knew he was looking for trouble!'



6. 'I know how much you loved your friend. I do feel the pinchfeel your painfeel the weightI don't know and am sorry for your loss…'



7. 'I’m so happy that I feel dancingfeel like kissingfeel laughingI don't know the whole crowd! Please, hold me back!'



8. 'In spite of what the saleswoman had said, as soon as I felt strongfelt the clothfelt the pinchI don't know, I knew it wasn’t organic cotton.'



9. Though his own son was responsible, he fell compelledhe felt tiredfelt compelledI don't know to report the incident.



10. 'I know you don't feel laughingfeel your agefeel dancingI don't know, but running a Marathon and wanting to win is really too much.'