- take / make notes

- note-taking versus note-making

✳️“All but” =

1. everything except for: I’ve eaten ALL BUT two doughnuts. 🍩🍩

2. almost: The match is ALL BUT over; we’re going to win! ⚽️🏆

#Vocabulary

➡️ interest (noun)
► interest in something:
- My parents encouraged my INTEREST IN science. ✔️
► interest in doing something:
- What makes these footballers LOSE INTEREST FOR PLAYING in their own countries? ❌
- What makes these footballers LOSE INTEREST IN PLAYING in their own countries? ✔️

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📌🛠🔐INTERESTED IN versus INTERESTED TO 📌🛠🔐

➡️ interested (adj.) - wanting to know about or take part in something
► interested in something:
- Joe’s always been INTERESTED IN politics. ✔️
► be interested to hear/know/learn/see/ find out etc:
- I’d be INTERESTED TO HEAR what you think. ✔️
🚫 Don’t use ‘interested to’ with verbs such as ‘have’ or ‘buy’. 🚫

#Grammar

▶️ Showing order of events – which happened first - past perfect + simple past ◀️

🆘 Tag questions - Under falling intonation on the tag question, negative sentences take affirmative tags, and vice versa:

✳️ 1. Tom is happy about his job, isn’t he? [ NOT is he? ]
✳️ 2. Tom is unhappy about his job, isn’t he? [ NOT is he? ]

✴️ 3. Tom is NOT happy about his job, is he? [ NOT isn’t he? ]
✴️ 4. Tom is NOT unhappy about his job, is he? [ NOT isn’t he? ]

#Grammar

- phrases - 1a) not the least - not in the least - not the least bit 1b) in the least 2) to say the least 3) least of all 4) not a bit = not one bit 5) not a bit of it

🖌 - idiom - ruffle someone's feathers🦉

▶️ Conditional words and expressions - IF, SUPPOSING, IF ONLY, WHAT IF + 1. simple past / 2. past perfect ◀️

🐬 WISH + 1. simple past / 2. past perfect / 3. would+infinitive 🐳

🆘 mistakes with "WISH" 🚫

Confident = optimistic 🙌; self-assured

Confidant = man you trust with your secrets

Confidante = woman you trust with your secrets.

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#Vocabulary

🖍 🐃 - be like a red rag to a bull / a red flag to a bull / like waving a red flag in front of a bull 🐂 🖍

= An object, utterance, or act which is certain to provoke someone.

~ Just mentioning his poor marks to him was waving a red rag to a bull.