Showing surprise

What’s surprise? To quote Wikipedia, surprise is a short emotional state, which we feel because something unexpected (неожиданное) happened.
Different people express it in different ways:

So how do we express surprise in English?

Here’s how:

• Unbelievable! – невероятно!
• Incredible!
• Amazing!
• No!.. (falling intonation) – да ладно…
• I’m speechless! – я потерял(а) дар речи!
• That's the last thing I expected. – это последнее, чего я ожидал
• What a surprise! – Какой сюрприз! Как неожиданно!
• Really? – Правда?
• How nice! – как классно!
• That’s stunning!

And here are some slang phrases for showing surprise:

• No way! = I don’t believe you
• Wow! – Вау!
• Get out of here!
• Blimey!
• Holy cow!
• You don’t say! – да что ты говоришь
• You’re kidding!
• Well, I never… - не, ну я никогда (даже и не думал)
• That’s a real blower! = This is a big surprise.
• Whoa! = Wow
• OMG = Oh my God! – show that you’re surprised
• What a load of tosh! – Какая чушь!

I invite you to watch this video and experience a great surprise! Use one of the phrases above to express it and then you can see how the three judges show their own surprise at the end of the video!