#expression #idiom #advanced

Teacher: Gill
📚 Using SIMILES to improve your everyday English part 2⃣

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🔠 Vocabulary class

💥💥 egotistic /ˌiːɡoʊˈtɪstɪk/ adjective also egotistical
Ⓜ considering yourself to be better or more important than other people

✳ He is portrayed as a handsome young man, but has a rather cocky and egotistic personality.

✨ egotism noun [ U ]
✨ egotist noun [ C ]
✨ egotistically adverb
💢 synonyms: self-centered, selfish, egocentric

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💥💥 agitate /ˈædʒəteɪt/ verb [ T ]
Ⓜ to make someone feel worried or angry

✳ Because my son is a troublemaker, he likes to agitate his younger sister by hiding her dolls.

✨ agitated adjective
✨ agitation noun [ U ]

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💥💥 ardent/ˈɑːrdənt/ adjective [ before noun ]
Ⓜ showing strong feelings; eager

✳ List was an ardent, enthusiastic mountaineer and hiker.

✅ an ardent supporter of Manchester United
🔠 an ardent feminist

✨ ardently adverb
💢 synonyms: passionate, fervent, zealous

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💎 Drop

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✴️ spotlight: principles and values

🔠 Principles (usually plural) are strong beliefs that influence how you behave.
🔠 Values are beliefs about what is right and important in life.
💢 The words are almost synonymous but are used in different expressions.

🔸 Eating meat is against my principles.
🔸 I won't go there on principle.
🔹 She has a different set of values.

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Today's phrasal verbs are:

✳️ Zone out
✳️ Fall over
✳️ Wave off

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👩🏼‍🏫 Give it a go 👩🏼‍🏫

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#idiom #iv1

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☺️ Expressions for being relieved!

⚜️ Phew! 😮‍💨
⚜️ Thank God (for that)!
⚜️ What a relief!
⚜️ That was close!
⚜️ You had me worried for a moment!
⚜️ That's a weight off my mind!
⚜️ What a stroke of luck!
⚜️ I'm so relieved to hear that!

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Shape of you 💃
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2017 🎼🎧
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👩🏼‍🏫 4 slang words 👩🏼‍🏫

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😋 Other ways to say delicious!

🔸Tasty 🔸Delish
🔹Yummy 🔹Luscious
🔸Appetizing 🔸Savoury
🔹Mouth-watering🔹Heavenly
🔸Scrumptious 🔸Tasteful
🔹Well-prepared 🔹Scrummy
🔸Zestful 🔸Juicy
🔹Well_seasoned 🔹Palatable
🔸Finger licking good!
🔹Fit for a king!
🔸Out of the world!

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👨‍🏫 Be going to VS present Continuous 👩‍🏫

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♨️Today's Idioms ♨️

✅At least:
🌸Anyway, the good thing is that.

✅(To) make up my mind:
🌸To decide.

✅To put up with:
🌸To endure without complaint.

✅(To) Lose one's temper
🌸To become very angry.

✅Dead-end job:
🌸A job that won't lead to anything else.


👇🏾👇🏾 the dialogue in the photo showing you how to use these idioms.
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🌴 SLANG 🌴
✔️ Blinder

📚 British. To "pull a blinder" involves achieving something difficult faultlessly and skilfully.

The phrase is most commonly used when the individual has been lucky and the person saying it is in disbelief that the first person has managed to pull it off.

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〰🌸 "And did you see that equalising goal in the last minute of injury time? He pulled a blinder there."

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Fill in the blank with the missing word: (your reaction is your answer)

🔠 Ted's friends didn’t want to vote for Nicole, but Ted talked them --------- it.

👍) into
💖) around
👏) for

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Fill in the blank with the missing word: (your reaction is your answer)

➡️ Although Jim Greene was ---- far the more qualified candidate, he lost the election because of a scandal.

👍) way
❤️) in
👏) by

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⛔️ Be / get used to something
(I'm used to...)

➖ Read the grammar lesson carefully and try to make a sentence using the pattern

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Other ways to say: I'm tired! 😫

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remember to do 🆚 remember doing
- If you get the point, try to make an example of both forms

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‌📖 Older, Elder, Eldest, Oldest 🧐

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