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#phrasal_verb

🟪 hold out for

🔸 to wait until you get what you want, especially when negotiating:

The workers held out for a better wage deal and, after another round of negotiations, they got it.

We held out for a better contract, and we got it after some hard bargaining.


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#quote

To enjoy life, we must touch much of it lightly.

- Voltaire


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#Idiom

✳️ Widely Used Idioms
 

🟨 A blessing in disguise

Ⓜ️eaning: A good thing that initially seemed bad.


🟨 A dime a dozen

Ⓜ️eaning: Something that is very common, not unique.


🟨 Adding insult to injury

Ⓜ️eaning: To make a bad situation even worse.


🟨 Beat around the bush

Ⓜ️eaning: Avoid sharing your true viewpoint or feelings because it is uncomfortable.


🟨 Beating a dead horse

Ⓜ️eaning: giving time or energy to something that is ended or over.


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#grammar

Past tense modals
could have & would have


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#vocabulary

📒 Signs and symbols with their names in English.

▫️ , comma  

▫️. period, decimal point

▫️ ; semicolon

▫️: colon 

▫️ ! exclamation mark

▫️ ? question mark

▫️ ' apostrophe, prime

▫️ " quotation mark 

▫️ ( ) parenthesis

▫️ [ ] square bracket, bracket

▫️ { } brace

▫️ < less-than sign 

▫️ > greater-than sign

▫️ / slash

▫️ % percent 

▫️ - dash, hyphen 

▫️ # number sign 

▫️ & ampersand, and

▫️@ at sign

▫️ * asterisk

▫️ # hash

▫️ • bullet

▫️ _ underscore


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#phrasal_verbs

🟪 see sb off

🔸 to go to the airport, train station, etc to say goodbye to someone who is leaving:

Carlo and I saw him off at the 34th Street bus station.

My best friend Judy came to the
airport to see me off.

✴️ SIMILAR TO: wave off, say goodbye to sb


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#phrasal_verb

🟪 gloss over

🔸 to try to hide; to cover up a mistake or a crime; to hush up or whitewash:

They glossed over the problem, hoping that the customers wouldn't notice.

She glossed over the details of her accident.


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#picture_dictionary

Body Parts


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#video

How to start your talk for IELTS speaking part 2


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#song_lyrics

Watching the mirror stare at me
Watching the future spit on me
Watching me going down
It was hard watching you walk away

Sitting here all alone
Comes tomorrow I'll be gone
Even my neighbour Jerry the nun
Hasn't got a clue what's going on

Getting high all alone
All our lives pretending clones
What is wrong with a bit of shame?
When you know you're the one to blame
Whispers will turn to louder screams
My life will fall like an autumn leaf
Shadows of the past haunting our dreams
Tonight is the night and I'm so pleased

Sitting here all alone
Comes tomorrow I'll be gone
Even my neighbour Jerry the nun
Hasn't got a clue what's going on

Hey, hey pain
Sitting here all alone
Resting on the table a little gun
Even my neighbour Jerry the nun
She hasn't got a clue
She hasn't got a clue what's going on


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#song

🎼 All Alone

Song by The Beautified Project

Released: 2010
Album: Beyond the Butterfly...
Genre: Rock

Learn English with music


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#interjection

📙 widely used interjections


🟧 ah

💧expressing pleasure:
Ah, that feels good.

💧expressing realization:
Ah, now I understand.

💧expressing resignation:
Ah well, it can't be helped.

💧expressing surprise:
Ah! I've won!


🟧 alas

💧expressing grief or pity:
Alas, she's dead now.


🟧 eh!

💧asking for repetition:
A: It's hot today.
B: Eh?
A: I said it's hot today.

💧expressing enquiry:
What do you think of that, eh?

💧expressing surprise:
Eh! Really? Let's go


🟧 er!

💧expressing hesitation:
Lima is the capital of...er...Peru.


🟧 hey!

💧calling attention:
Hey! look at that!

💧expressing surprise, joy etc:
Hey! What a good idea!

💧used as a greeting:
Hey, Kate. How is everything?


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#Idiom 

🟨 Get the hang of something

Ⓜ️eaning: to learn to handle sth with skill, become good at sth, become proficient at sth.

⭐️ Example: Driving feels awkward when you are new to it, but it's easy once you get the hang of it.


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#vocabulary

American 🆚 British Vocabulary

🇺🇸 line
🇬🇧 queue

🇺🇸 yard
🇬🇧 garden

🇺🇸 cotton candy
🇬🇧 candyfloss

🇺🇸 takeout
🇬🇧 takeaway

🇺🇸 corn
🇬🇧 maize

🇺🇸 drugstore
🇬🇧 chemist

🇺🇸 clothespin
🇬🇧 clothes peg

🇺🇸 janitor
🇬🇧 caretaker

🇺🇸 truck
🇬🇧 lorry

🇺🇸 bill
🇬🇧 note

🇺🇸 cookie
🇬🇧 biscuit

🇺🇸 candy
🇬🇧 sweets


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#vocabulary

❇️ Some of the abbreviated form of words and acronyms:

💧&=and
💧2=two, to or too
💧2day=today
💧2morrow=tomorrow
💧BTW= by the way
💧CU= see you
💧B=be
💧B4=before
💧Bf=boyfriend
💧Bro=brother
💧Bt=but
💧C=see
💧Gf=girlfriend
💧Gr8=great
💧Pls=please
💧Sis=sister
💧U=you
💧Ur=your
💧ASAP=as soon as possible
💧CUL=see you later
💧HAND=have a nice day
💧HRU=how are you
💧LOL=laughing out loud

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#quote

Be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe
No less than the trees and the stars.
In the noisy confusion of life
Keep peace in your soul.

- Max Ehrman


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#proverb

🟩 One today is worth two tomorrow.
 
Ⓜ️eaning: What you have today is better than what is promised or hoped for.


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#proverb

🟩 Once bitten, twice shy.
 
Ⓜ️eaning: After an unpleasant experience, people are careful to avoid something similar.


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#proverb

🟩 No man is an island.
 
Ⓜ️eaning: We all need other people.


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#expressions

☔ RAIN  EXPRESSIONS

❇️ It's drizzling: very light rain

❇️ It's raining: normal rain

❇️It's pouring: heavy rain

❇️ It's raining cats and dogs: heavy rain

❇️ It's lashing down: very heavy rain

❇️ It's bucketing down: very heavy rain - bucket of rain


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