I'm just gonna doze off here for a sec
do you know what that means
doze off doze off means to fall asleep
and SEC is short for second well
actually it doesn't really mean second
if I say I'm gonna doze off for a sec
it's gonna be more than a second right
it's gonna be for a few minutes or maybe
even half an hour right we usually use
the phrasal verb doze off hey that's one
of the phrasal verbs in my intermediate
phrasal verbs book you might have seen
it if you've been using my phrasal verbs
book to learn phrasal verbs but if I say
I'm gonna doze off for a sec that means
I'm going to fall asleep for a few
minutes and usually we use the phrasal
verb doze off when we talk about
sleeping in the daytime we don't really
use that at night you could use it at
night but I think most of the time we
use it to mean we're going to take a
short nap and it sort of has the idea
that you're going to lie down and maybe
sleep but you're not really planning on
sleeping you're you're just going to to
lie down and see what happens right
you're not really planning to sleep but
if it happens you're okay with it right
I'm just going to lie down and just see
what happens right just stretch out a
bit ah just gonna just gonna doze off
here for maybe a few minutes right like
I just it sort of means take a nap right
it's another way to say you're just
gonna you're gonna take a nap and you
know maybe you don't even want to take a
nap but maybe sleep just just comes to
you when you don't even want it to come
right then you can also use the
phrasal verb doze off right you could
say oh I dozed off during the movie what
happened I didn't see the end of the
movie I dozed off that means you you
know you wanted to watch the movie
but you got tired and you you fell
asleep so you know you missed the end of
the movie and you weren't you weren't
planning to but it just happened because
you know sometimes we get a bit tired
right now my last video was on the
phrasal verb nod off nod off do you know
what that means well I'll tell you what
that means okay to nod off means that
you fall asleep a little bit in an
upright position okay so you're not
lying down when you nod off so this is
what it means to nod off you're nodding
off when you're sitting up maybe you're
you're sitting on a bus somewhere and
you get a bit sleepy and you start to
nod off nod off that means your head
moves to one side and you you fall
asleep a little bit okay so it's it
means like when you fall asleep without
something to support your head right
your head just sort of falls over like
that and and you can't you know it's
probably not comfortable because there's
nothing to support your head right and
then maybe suddenly you'll jolt awake
jolt jolt means a sudden movement okay
so if you start nodding off you might
jolt awake
maybe suddenly the bus slams on the
brakes right if someone slams on the
brakes and the bus stops really suddenly
and then you Joel - wait what was that
are we okay oh I must have fallen asleep
I didn't mean to fall asleep I just I'm
so tired I just I was just nodding off
okay so that's what nodding off means so
there's a there's a little difference
between nod off and doze off you could
say doze off as well if you're sitting
on the bus I just dozed off for a bit I
dozed off but you know the difference is
that nah
off is always in an upright position
right where is dough is off could be in
a lying position or or in an upright
position right you could use doze off
for that too now if you're sitting in a
car right and let's say you're sitting
in the backseat of a car right and
you're feeling sleepy so you you fall
asleep with your head against the window
then you could say I'm just gonna doze
off for a few minutes here I'm just
gonna doze off there you wouldn't really
say nod off because your head has
something to rest against right it has
like a support so in that case I think
it would be better to say doze off or
you could say I'm gonna take a quick nap
so you can see there are just some small
differences between these different
terms in English they all basically mean
the same thing but there are some small
differences like nod off doze off what
are some other ones here I wrote down
some ones that I wanted to teach you
drift off you could say drift off now I
think drift off is almost the same as
doze off I think that they're basically
the same you know if if you lie down on
your couch you could say I'm gonna drift
off for a few minutes I'm just gonna
drift off right drift off I think that
means exactly the same as doze off or
you could say snooze I'm gonna take a
quick snooze or I think you could use it
as a phrasal verb I'm going to snooze
off I think you could say I'm gonna
sneeze off for for a few minutes right
they all basically mean the same thing
or another one is catnap have you ever
heard that before a catnap a catnap is
just a short nap actually when I was a
kid I had some British friends and they
would say Kip I'm gonna take a quick Kip
I'm just gonna go for a Kip Kip means a
nap right so I mean there are different
ways to say there's probably you know a
lot of different ways that you could you
could describe falling asleep but if you
want to take a nap you know maybe next
time you should try using one
these one of these other words right you
could say I'm gonna doze off for a few
minutes or I'm gonna lie down on the
couch and drift off for a sec remember
SEC doesn't actually mean second it
means a while just a little while I'm
gonna I'm gonna drift off for a sec I'm
gonna I'm gonna take a snooze I'm gonna
take a catnap
I'm gonna take a nap I'm gonna take a
Kip or if you just want to be boring you
could say I'm going to fall asleep for a
little bit right I'm just gonna fall
asleep you can use that too sometimes
it's okay to use the most basic word
just the easiest word you can do that
too but it's good to try new things in
English right that's how you improve
your English vocabulary if you you know
take some risks try some new things use
some new phrasal verbs so the phrasal
verb nod off is in my advanced phrasal
verb book and the phrasal verb doze off
is in my intermediate phrasal verb book
so if you want to learn new phrasal
verbs like this I think both my books
will really help you take your English
to another level a whole new level I
hope so anyway
thank you to everyone who has bought my
books I really appreciate it and right
now I'm starting to work on some idioms
books idioms are fun too so I'll let you
guys know when those books are ready but
anyway I just wanted to teach you some
other ways to say sleep hope you're
having a great day or a great night
maybe you're watching this at night and
I'll see you guys over in the next
episode of Mad English TV have a good
snooze
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