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📍To Hang

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❤️the pronunciation of today's idioms❤️
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♨️the previously post: https://news.1rj.ru/str/EngMasters/3094

🍎Anytime u felt stressed try to have some gum!it gives calm signals to your brain to cool it down and make it feel like all is fine and everything is in peace!🍏

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💮 Study activity - Brevity 💮

🗣✔️ Express yourself clearly and concisely;
📝✖️ Avoid redundancies in your writing;
❗️👁 Keep your reader's attention by writing more directly.

🔖 Your task is to remove an unnecessary word, for example:

🔘 The project's approval hinged on the owner's personal opinion.

❓— personal ✔️ (Personal means belonging to a single person, and opinion means a view or judgment belonging to a person)

📍Now decide for the following tasks and send your answers to our group's bot: @EngMW_bot Admins will check them and send the correct answers.

1️⃣ The anonymous stranger sent me another gift.

2️⃣ My parents consider music lessons absolutely essential to my education.

3️⃣ We were the only entrants in the contest, so we won by virtue of default.

4️⃣ I built a machine that can run forever and ever on sunlight.

5️⃣ He yelled loudly when he hurt his hand.

6️⃣ The actor was unrecognizable in his cameo appearance.

7️⃣ We were surrounded on all sides by traffic.

8️⃣ His past experience had shown it wasn't worth arguing with his boss.

9️⃣ Is he from London or from Paris?

🔟 With a little prior planning, Jan could take the bus to work.

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Daily Dare №43. 2 Minutes March Steps

Work out daily with masters and learn words and expressions connected with sport.

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🔘Acronyms and initialism📌

🔗1. An acronym is an abbreviation that is formed by combining the first letter or letters of several words. Acronyms are pronounced as words and are written without periods.

📝 Example:
Radio detecting and ranging (radar)
Common Business-Oriented Language (COBOL)
Self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (scuba)

🔗2. Write acronyms in capital letters without periods. The only exceptions are those acronyms that have become accepted as common nouns, which are written in lowercase letters.

📝Examples:
laser, radar, scuba

🔗3. An initialism is an abbreviation that is formed by combining the initial letter of each word in a multiword term. Initialisms are pronounced as separate letters.

📝Examples:
End of month (e.o.m.)
Cash on delivery (c.o.d.)

🔗4. Initialisms may be written either uppercase or lowercase. Periods are not generally used when they are upper case.

📝Examples:
EDP or e.d.p.
EOM or e.o.m.
OD or o.d.

🔗5. Form the plural of an acronym or initialism by adding an s. Do not use an apostrophe.

📝Example:
MIRVs, CRTs
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#Word_of_the_day

📍To call it a day

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​​​​🔰 Vocabulary class
🌀 Judging character Part 2

4️⃣ virtue /ˈvɜːtʃuː $ ˈvɜːr-/ noun [countable]
📖 a particular good quality in someone’s character
📌 OPP vice
🏷 Among her many virtues are loyalty, courage, and truthfulness.
🏷 They believed in the virtues of culture, civilization and reason.

5️⃣ cunning /ˈkʌnɪŋ/ adjective
📖 someone who is cunning is clever and good at deceiving people in order to get what they want
📌 SYN crafty
🏷 But the wicked creature was very cunning, and she finally thought of a trick that would give her what she wanted.
🏷 She's a cunning little devil! She left for school as usual, and then went into town instead with her friends.

6️⃣ impulsive /ɪmˈpʌlsɪv/ adjective
📖 someone who is impulsive does things without considering the possible dangers or problems first
🏷 Rosa was impulsive and sometimes regretted things she’d done.
🏷 In a burst of impulsive generosity, I offered to pay.

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Listening practice
🇺🇸 #American_accent 🇺🇸

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🔤 Study activity - Spelling 🔤

📄✔️— Eliminate spelling errors in your writing;
☑️ — Learn to catch errors that spell-check overlooks;
📝 — Write more efficiently and confidently

⭕️ The activity has 3 rounds, for each round is given relevant task, and your task is to decide for the proper use of spelling in following tasks and send your answers to our group's bot: @EngMW_bot Admins will check them and send the correct answers.


📍Round 1. Add a letter or OK? 📍

🔘 Wedn_sday

a: e
b: <no change>

🔘 uniqu_ly

a: e
b: <no change>

🔘 undou_tedly

a: b
b: <no change>

🔘 mak_ing

a: <no change>
b: e

📍Round 2. Flip-flop📍

🔘 ach__ve

a: ie
b: ei

🔘f__ndish

a: ei
b: ie

🔘 d__f

a: ea
b: ae

🔘 bel__f

a: ei
b: ie

📍Last Round. Double or single letter?📍

🔘 mad_er

a: <no change>
b: d

🔘 pos_ible

a: s
b:<no change>

🔘 commis_ion

a: s
b:<no change>

🔘 throt_le

a: <no change>
b: t

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🌊 Sun, sea, sand and some useful beach #expressions

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🔘About📌

🔗1. To indicate movement or position

📝 About indicates movement or position in various directions and places.

We walked about the old city.
The princes went riding about the country.
Children were running about everywhere.
Men were standing about the street corners.

🔗2. To mean 'near to'

📝 About can mean 'near to.'
They are living somewhere about here.

🔗3. To mean approximately

📝 About can mean a little more or less, a little before or after and similar ideas.
She is about 10 year old.
It is about 5 o’ clock.

🔗4. How about, what about

📝 How about and what about are used to seek an opinion and/or propose a plan.
How about having a drink? (Propose a plan.)
He is a handsome fellow, but what about his character? (Seeks an opinion.)

🔗5. About and On

📝 About and on can both mean in connection with. However, there is a slight difference between them.
Compare:

This is a book on African history.
This is a book for children about the festivals of India.

📝 On used in the first sentence suggests that the book is serious or academic. It fits specialists. 
📝 About used in the second sentence suggests that the book only gives some information.

This is a movie on the life of Gautam Buddha. (A serious work on his life)
This is a movie about Gautam Buddha. (Only gives some information about him)

🔗6. About to

📝 About to means on the point of doing something.

We were about to go to bed when the telephone rang.
The show was about to start when the lights went out.

🔗7. Not about to can mean unwilling to.

📝 I am not about to lend him my car.
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