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🔺Ways to say “INTERESTING”🔻
🔸Fascinating
The dinosaur exhibition is completely fascinating.
🔹Intriguing
I find police documentaries most intriguing.
🔸Engaging
The way she gazes into the camera is very engaging.
🔹Captivating
Kori’s poems are captivating- I read all of them over and over again.
🔸Compelling
The actor gave a compelling performance and received very positive reviews.
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📍 In the event that 📍
♦️”In the event that” is used to talk about things we should do in order to be prepared for possible future situations.
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✨Examples :
➕I will take an umbrella in the event that it snows.
➕I will wait at home all day long in the event that you call me.
➕He always take a small bottle of water in the event that he should get thirsty.
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Q1. Who is in charge of making dictionaries?
A. Teachers
B. Lexicographers
C. Politicians
D. Writers
Q2. When is a dictionary finished being written?
A. Never
B. Only when a rival dictionary is published
C. On December 31
D. Until their next edition
Q3. How many words does the English language have?
A. More than 20,000
B. More than 50,000
C. More than 200,000
D. Almost 1,000,000
Q4. Where was Samuel Johnson from?
A. France
B. England
C. Spain
D. United States
Q5. Who invented language?
A. God
B. The Phoenicians
C. Humans
D. Google
Q6. Which language doesn’t change?
A. dead language
B. Portuguese
C. Baby talk
D. Mandarin
Q7. Are dictionaries objective compilations of words?
Q8. Do all languages change in the same way?
Q9. Do dictionaries control the way language changes or do they accelerate it?
Q10. Transcribe from 4.20 to 4.44.
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🟨 fly - flew - flown
🟩 flow - flowed - flowed
🟪 flee - fled - fled
🟧 float - floated - floated
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🌹Listening practice 🌹
How is your phone changing you?
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Be committed to the process without being emotionally attached to the results.
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🔔 Tips Of The Day
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🔷Cream of the crop
♦️Meaning: the best of a group, top-choice.
✨Example: This university only accepts the cream of the crop.
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🔶Sustain
♦️Meaning: Continue
✨Example: No animals or plants can sustain life without water.
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🔷Hold back
♦️Meaning: conceal, hide.
✨Example: He held back his feelings and acted as if everything was alright.
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⚜️📝Isn’t it amazing how the radio has survived? It’s been 1-....... for maybe a hundred years and is still 2-........ strong. I don’t think 3-....... ever disappear. We all listen to the radio 4-...... some point in our week. Even with all our 5-....... technology, the radio is still an important way of getting music, 6-........... . I remember my first radio. Forty years ago now. It looks pretty much the same as today’s radio. I used to listen to 7-......... on Saturdays. I still do that. I also loved breakfast radio. I love my iPod but when I’m driving, I 8-........ the car radio. I like the mix of chat, jokes and songs, 9-........ I don’t always like the songs, the jokes or the chat. And some radio 10-......... are really annoying.📝⚜️
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🔔 Phrasal Verb
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🔸Hang up : End a phone conversation by cutting the connection.
✏️”Thanks, she says, and hangs up"
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🔹Hang on : Wait for a short time.
✏️"hang on, I'm not ready yet"
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🔸Hang out : To spend time with people and do nothing in particular.
✏️What do you like to do when you hang out with your friends?
Hang onto : Wait for a short time.
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✏️"I think I’ll hang on to the documents for a bit longer.
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Push yourself because
No one else is going to
Do it for you.
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Q1. What is the average amount of time per day that people spend looking at their phones?
A. 3.6 hours
B. 4.7 hours
C. 1.4 hours
D. 5.5 hours
Q2. Time spent in front of screens had led to an increase in cases of:
A. Back tension
B. Arthritis
C. Depression
D. Myopia
Q3. What is a compulsion loop?
Q4. What is nomophobia?
Q5. How do phones interfere with sleep?
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🔔 Word Of The Day
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🔻Ways to Say Something is Interesting/Boring🔻
🔸It’s fascinating.
🔹It’s intriguing.
🔸I couldn’t tear myself away.
🔹I couldn’t put it down.
(this phrase is used for en extremely interesting book)
🔸I was so into it, I lost track of time.
🔹It does nothing for me.
🔸I was bored to tears.
🔹I was bored to death.
🔸I was dying of boredom.
🔹It’s about as exciting as watching paint dry.
(= it’s very boring)
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