🧚‍♀ Happy International family Day!

🧚‍♀ May the fifteenth

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📌 Couch potato
🔸 Spending too much time on the internet or watching TV.
🗣️ My uncle is such a couch potato! He often spends his Saturdays watching American football on TV.

📌 Full of beans
🔸 A person who is lively, active and healthy.
🗣️ My 6 year old nephew is full of beans! He has more energy than three adults.

📌 A bad egg
🔸 Someone who is untrustworthy.
🗣️ Hey, Sue, I think your neighbour is a bad egg. He has these scary looking guys in black leather hanging around his place all the time.

📌 Down to earth
🔸 Someone who is practical and realistic.
🗣️ My aunt Karen is so down to earth. She can figure out any difficult situation, and offer a good solution.

📌 Party pooper
🔸 A person who is gloomy, and having no fun at a social gathering.
🗣️ Listen, my friend, I’m so sorry to be a party pooper, but I have to study for my IELTS speaking exam tomorrow.

📌 Eager beaver
🔸 A person who is hardworking and enthusiastic.
🗣️ My colleague drives me crazy! She is such an eager beaver that she always volunteers for overtime.

📌 Ball in your court
🔸 It’s your decision or responsibility to do something now.
🗣️ Well, my friend, the ball’s in your court. I’ll wait for your decision.

📌 Get a head start
🔸 Start before all others.
🗣️ Let’s get up early tomorrow to get a head start on our drive to Toronto.

📌 Jump the gun
🔸 Start too early.
🗣️ I think I jumped the gun by buying my friends James and Susan a wedding gift. They just called off their engagement.

📌 Give it my best shot
🔸 Try your hardest.
🗣️ This test question is really tough! I’ll give it my best shot, and I’ll get some marks for doing my best.

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🌧 It's raining cats and dogs

💦 Meaning:
☔️ To rain a lot and very heavily

⛈ Example:
☂ I think it's not safe to drive the car now - it's raining cats and dogs.

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❌ A fast shower 🚿
✅ A quick shower

❌ Respond the door 🚪
✅ Answer the door

❌ Strong rain 🌧
✅ Heavy rain

❌ Celebrate a party 🎉
✅ Throw a party

❌ Ask for a wish 🤞🏻
✅ Make a wish

❌ Strong taste 😑
✅ Big taste

❌ Lost the time ⏳
✅ Waste time

❌ Nice dreams 🛌
✅ Sweet dreams

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🌎🌍🌏 Global Edition

James D. Lester, Jr.
Pearson education limited
2015
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🤔 What is an INFINITIVE❓
📌 To + verb

1️⃣ An infinitive is the "to" form of the verb. The infinitive form of "learn" is "to learn." You can also use an infinitive as the subject, the complement, or the object of a sentence.
✍ Example:
🗣️ To learn is important. subject of sentence.
🗣️ The most important thing is to learn. complement of sentence.

2⃣ Infinitives can be made negative by adding "not."
✍ Example:
🗣️ I decided not to go.
🗣️ The most important thing is not to give up.

3⃣ Some verbs are followed by infinitives.
✍ Example:
🗣️ She wants to go to a movie.
🗣️ Mary needs to talk about her problems.

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📖 English grammar can seem quite easy compared to some languages, but a small mistake can easily change the meaning of what you want to say.

📝 So here are some important rules that you should keep in mind when you speak and write English.

1️⃣ 🔸Adjectives and 🔹adverbs:
Make sure you use adjectives and adverbs correctly.
🔸Adjectives describe, identify and quantify people or things and usually go in front of a noun.
🔸They don’t change if the noun is plural.
🔹Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives and other adverbs and usually come after the verb.

For example:
✅ He’s a slow driver. (adjective)
✅ He drives slowly. (adverb)

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2️⃣ Use the correct conjugation of the verb:
Remember to change the verb to agree with the subject. The main subjects you need to be careful with are he, she and it because they have a different form to the others.

For example:
✅ She has two cats. 
❌ She have two cats.

Remember also that when you describe something using ‘There is/are’, the verb must agree with the first item you mention.

For example:
✅ There is a sofa, some chairs and a table. [Singular]
✅ There are some chairs, a table and a sofa. [Plural]

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3️⃣ Connect your ideas with conjunctions:
If you want to connect two ideas or short phrases, you can do so by using a conjunction.

For example:
✅ I’m studying English. English is important. 👇🏻
✅ I’m studying English because English is important.

The most common conjunctions are:
and – [addition]
because – [to give the reason]
but – [to express contrast]
so – [to describe a consequence]
or – [to describe an alternative]

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4️⃣ Never use a double negative:
In English there are often two ways to express a negative concept.

For example:
If you want to say “the room is empty”, you can say:
✅ There is nothing in the room. OR There isn’t anything in the room.

The words ‘nothing’ and ‘anything’ have the same meaning, but ‘nothing’ is used with an affirmative verb, and ‘anything’ is used with a negative verb.

This rule applies to other words like:
〰️ nobody – anybody
〰️ none – any

This is also true of the word ‘never’ when you talk about experience.
You can say:
✅ He’s never been to the U.S. OR He hasn’t ever been to the U.S.

The meaning is the same but in the second sentence the use of ‘ever’ means you need to make the verb negative.
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🤔 10 Words That Can Be Confusing⁉️

1️⃣ affect / effect
affect: The bad weather affects my mood.
effect: The president effected several changes in the company.

2️⃣ alternatives / choices
alternatives: New ways to treat arthritis may provide an alternative to painkillers.
choices: Our choices come down to staying here or leaving here.

3️⃣ alibi / excuse
alibi: The police broke her alibi by proving she knew how to shoot a pistol.
excuse: I can't buy his excuse.

4️⃣ anticipate / expect
anticipate: What Jeff did was to anticipate my next question.
expect: I expect that the weather will be nice.

5️⃣ flagrant / blatant
flagrant: The judge called the decision "a flagrant violation of international law."
blatant: Outsiders will continue to suffer the most blatant discrimination.

6️⃣ chronic / acute
chronic: For those with chronic depression, she said, "keep at it."
acute: Acute dysentery wracked and sapped life from his body.

7️⃣ compose / comprise
compose: England, Scotland and Wales compose the island of Great Britain.
comprise: After the 2014 referendum on independence for Scotland, the UK still comprised England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.

8️⃣ continual / continuous
continual: “No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual war,” Madison concluded.
continuous: Continuous farming impoverishes the soil.

9️⃣ crescendo / climax
crescendo: She spoke in a crescendo: "You are a bad girl! You are a wicked girl! You are evil!"
climax: The fifth scene was the climax of the play.

🔟 decimate / destroy
decimate: Famine decimated the population.
destroy: The soldiers destroyed the village.

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📹 Speaking practice
👩‍💻 15 Awesome Expressions to talk about Working from Home!

🔺 Coach by Emma
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