📝 Study activity - Comprehension 📝

📖 Improve your reading comprehension;
🧠 Remember more details you read in magazines, books, and, journals.

✏️ Your task is to read a short passage and then answer the related questions to each category: Inference, Technique, and Vocab. Afterwards you can send your answers to our groups bot @EngMW_bot, admins will check and correct them if need be.

📃 In this passage, the author discusses the difficulties of learning English:

🔆 Learning English posed what felt like an insurmountable(syn: hopeless ) challenge, like climbing an infinitely high mountain. Spelling rules made as much sense as watering grass after a summer monsoon(syn: rainfall ). Silent and differently pronounced letters and arcane grammar rules made me reticent(syn: hesitant ) to utter a single word when I first arrived in London to study. But now, a decade later, homonyms, homophones, and homographs feel like old friends, and I derive such joy teaching my students the intricacies(syn: complexities ) of the language. 🔆

💠 Inference

The passage suggests that the author now understands learning English as...

1️⃣ challenging but rewarding;
2️⃣ boring but necessary;
3️⃣ straightforward but engaging;

⚙️ Technique

The phrase <...as much sense as watering grass after a summer monsoon > is an example of which literary device?

1️⃣ simile (a figure of speech that makes a comparison, showing similarities between two different things, e.g.: Our soldiers are as brave as lions);
2️⃣ onomatopoeia (— is defined as a word which imitates the natural sounds of a thing, e.g.: The buzzing bee flew away);
3️⃣ alliteration (is a stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series, e.g.: But a better butter makes a batter better);

📓 Vocab

In context, the word <arcane > most nearly means...

1️⃣ expressive;
2️⃣ absurd;
3️⃣ mysterious;
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❣Idiom quiz ❣

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Common Mistakes in English
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Miscellaneous Example

🗂 Using the subject pronoun after between.

❌ Don’t say : It’s a secret between you and I.
✅ Say : It’s secret between you and me .
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⭐️ Between is a preposition, and all preposition take the objective case after them.

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🗂Using the subject pronoun before a gerund .

❌Don’t say : Him laughing at her was what made her angry .
✅ Say : His laughing at her was what made her angry.

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⭐️When we use an_ing verb as a noun ,the preceding noun or pronoun must be possessive.
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🎧Listening practice🎧
🇺🇸 #American_accent 🇺🇸


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🔘Accept and Agree📌

🔗1. The verbs accept and agree 
have different meanings.
To express your willingness to do something, use agree with an infinitive. Accept is not possible in this case.

📝 Examples
She agreed to come. (= She expressed her willingness to come.) (NOT She accepted to come.)
They agreed to part ways amicably. (NOT They accepted to part ways amicably.)
My sister has agreed to look after my babies when I am away.

🔗2. To accept is to take something which is offered because you believe that it is true, fair or right. In this case, accept is followed by a noun or a noun clause which acts as its object.

📝 Examples
She accepted the offer. (NOT She agreed the offer.)
She said that she would accept the award with pleasure.

🔗3. Accept can be followed by a noun clause or a that-clause.

📝 Example
The majority of doctors accept that smoking can cause cancer. (= The majority of doctors recognize the fact that smoking can cause cancer.)
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There's a lesson to be learned in everything you experience.
"On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows. In every rill a sweet instruction flows."
Everything you undergo teaches you a lesson. The question is: Do you have the courage to discover what lesson was taught? Are you brave enough to make use of the wisdom you gained?
Life can be really tough, especially in times of coping with setbacks and failures. But I know from experience: everything that happens teaches a lesson – whether you like the lesson or not. Often, it took me months to let go of the (ego-based) grief, self-pity, and anger about what had happened. But once that work was done it gave way to a reflective approach to discovering the valuable insights and wisdom that were taught.
Remember that this process takes a lot of time. Wise lessons might not immediately catch your attention, but they will come as very profound realizations once you are ready to comprehend them. With the insight that time provides, you will be able to accept the situation and be courageous enough to let go of anger and bitterness. Only then, with an impartial point of view, profound but wise lessons can be drawn from the things that happened to you, hence increasing your knowledge about the important wisdom about life.
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🔻Thorn
🔹Taught
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🔹Realization
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🔹Impartial
🔻Courageous

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​​🔰 Vocabulary class
🌀 Strong feelings and reactions Part 2 Part 1

4️⃣ devastated /ˈdevəsteɪtɪd/ adjective
📖 feeling extremely shocked and sad
📌 SYN heartbroken
🏷 She was left feeling totally devastated.
🏷 The whole town was devastated by the tragedy, in which fourteen schoolchildren died.

5️⃣ lose your temper/cool/rag ↔️ hit the roof/ceiling
📖 to be very angry
🏷 I should not have lost my temper and behaved in that manner.
🏷 Ranieri returned, saw the mess, and hit the roof.

6️⃣ gutted /ˈɡʌtɪd/ adjective [British English] (informal) [not before noun]
📖 extremely disappointed, especially because you were unsuccessful
🏷 I was gutted when I lost my job
🏷 I know how gutted the players must feel

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🔤 Study activity - Spelling 🔤

📄✔️Eliminate spelling errors in your writing;
☑️ Learn to catch errors that spell-check; overlook;
📝 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 exercises 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? 📍

🔘 complet_ly

a: <no change>
b: e

🔘 tow_rd

a: <no change>
b: a

🔘 g_arantee

a: <no change>
b: u

🔘 certa_n

a: i
b: <no change>

📍Round 2. Endings📍

🔘 laz_ness

a: i
b: y

🔘 bountiful_

a: <no change>
b: l

🔘 burea_

a: u
b: <no change>

🔘 dura_ion

a: s
b: t

📍Last Round. Vowel choice📍

🔘 d_spite

a: i
b: e

🔘 apparat_s

a: a
b: u

🔘 w_rse

a: e
b: o

🔘 min_te

a: u
b: i

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​​♨️Today's Idioms♨️
🦋 #Lesson11Part1

✅ How's it going?
🌸How are you?

✅Can't complain:
🌸Things are going well; I'm fine.

✅Crunch some numbers:
🌸To perform calculations (especially Financial Calculations)


✅Out of the question:
🌸Impossible.

✅worth our while:
🌸worthy of one's effort or time.
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🔘According to & Across📌


🔗1. According to X means as stated by X or on the authority of X.

📝 Examples
•According to Jane, life is a learning process.
•According to the timetable, the train leaves at 9.30.
•According to scientists, there could be life on other planets.

🔗2. We do not normally give our own opinions with according to.

📝 Example
In my opinion, Jane Austen is a great writer. (NOT According to me ---)
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🔘Across

🔗1. The preposition across shows movement or position from one side to the other.

📝 Examples
The child ran across the road. (From one side of the road to the other)
There is a bridge across the river.
Can you jump across the stream?

🔗2. Across can also mean on/to the other side.

📝 Examples
The library is just across the road.
I live across the street.

3. Across and Through

🔗4. The difference between across and through is similar to the difference between on and in. Across is used for a movement in a two-dimensional space. Through is used for a movement in a three-dimensional space.

📝 Examples
We walked across the field. (We were on the field.)
He drove through the tunnel. (He was in the tunnel.)
We slowly walked through the wood. (We were in the wood.)
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