📹 Speaking practice

💠 Learn words together in chunks

✅ Fifteen common collocations with "keep"

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Level: Elementary~Intermediate
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#Collocation #Chunks #Keep
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🤔 What is a GERUND❓
📌 Verb + İng

1️⃣ A gerund is a noun made from a verb by adding "-ing." The gerund form of the verb "read" is "reading." You can use a gerund as the subject, the complement, or the object of a sentence.
✍ Examples:
🗣️ Reading helps you learn English. subject of sentence.
🗣️ Her favorite hobby is reading. complement of sentence.


2⃣ Gerunds can be made negative by adding "not."
✍ Examples:
🗣️ He enjoys not working.
🗣️ The best thing for your health is not smoking.


3⃣ Some verbs are followed by gerunds as objects.
✍ Examples:
🗣️ She suggested going to a movie.
🗣️ Mary keeps talking about her problems.

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❌ A fast shower 🚿
✅ A quick shower

❌ Respond the door 🚪
✅ Answer the door

❌ Strong rain 🌧
✅ Heavy rain

❌ Celebrate a party 🎉
✅ Throw a party

❌ Ask for a wish 🤞🏻
✅ Make a wish

❌ Strong taste 😑
✅ Big taste

❌ Lost the time ⏳
✅ Waste time

❌ Nice dreams 🛌
✅ Sweet dreams

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#Common #Mistakes
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🩵 Happy Valentine's Day!

💙 February the fourteen

💚 Free Printable Valentine's Day Grammar Worksheet

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💚 Idioms about love and affection

💜 As we have just passed Valentine's Day, let's learn a few sentences to express love and affection

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💚 Defining love 🆚 Passionate love

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📹 Speaking practice

4⃣ Words not appropriate for informal conversations!

🙅‍♀ DON'T USE These Words in Casual English Conversations!

🔺 Coach by Emma
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Level: Intermediate~Advanced
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#Context #Register #Furthermore #Moreover #Therefore #However
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📌 Cut corners

🔸 Meaning:
✍ Doing something quickly or poorly to save time or money.

💇‍♀ Example:
✍ If I cut corners, I have something left on Saturday to go shopping with.

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#Idiom #Cut #Corners
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🌧 It's raining cats and dogs

💦 Meaning:
☔️ To rain a lot and very heavily

⛈ Example:
☂ I think it's not safe to drive the car now - it's raining cats and dogs.

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#Idiom #Rain #Cat #Dog
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📹 Speaking practice

💠 Advanced English Expressions for Casual Conversations

🔺 Coach by Emma
🇦🇺 Accent: Australian

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Level: Intermediate~Advanced
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#Expression #Idiom #Conversation #Phrasal_Verb
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❤️ Young at heart

🫀 Meaning:
💞 Thinking and behaving as if you are younger than you really are

🤾‍♀ Example:
💖 Dad may be nearly 90 but he is still young at heart.

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#Idiom #Young #at #heart 🫀
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🧚‍♀ Happy International Women's Day!

🧚‍♀ March the eighth

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🛳 Miss the boat

🛥 Meaning:
🚤 To lose the chance or opportunity to do something

⛵️ Example:
🛶 If you don't buy the tickets now, we will miss the boat to go to the cinema.

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#Idiom #Miss #the #boat
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📹 Speaking practice

❤️ How to Say "I Love You" in English

🔺 Coach by Emma
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Level: Intermediate~Advanced
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#Expression #Idiom #Love
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📜 A list of idioms to help your IELTS Speaking Exam

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#Expression #Idiom
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📌 Couch potato
🔸 Spending too much time on the internet or watching TV.
🗣️ My uncle is such a couch potato! He often spends his Saturdays watching American football on TV.


📌 Full of beans
🔸 A person who is lively, active and healthy.
🗣️ My 6 year old nephew is full of beans! He has more energy than three adults.


📌 A bad egg
🔸 Someone who is untrustworthy.
🗣️ Hey, Sue, I think your neighbour is a bad egg. He has these scary looking guys in black leather hanging around his place all the time.


📌 Down to earth
🔸 Someone who is practical and realistic.
🗣️ My aunt Karen is so down to earth. She can figure out any difficult situation, and offer a good solution.


📌 Party pooper
🔸 A person who is gloomy, and having no fun at a social gathering.
🗣️ Listen, my friend, I’m so sorry to be a party pooper, but I have to study for my IELTS speaking exam tomorrow.


📌 Eager beaver
🔸 A person who is hardworking and enthusiastic.
🗣️ My colleague drives me crazy! She is such an eager beaver that she always volunteers for overtime.


📌 Ball in your court
🔸 It’s your decision or responsibility to do something now.
🗣️ Well, my friend, the ball’s in your court. I’ll wait for your decision.


📌 Get a head start
🔸 Start before all others.
🗣️ Let’s get up early tomorrow to get a head start on our drive to Toronto.


📌 Jump the gun
🔸 Start too early.
🗣️ I think I jumped the gun by buying my friends James and Susan a wedding gift. They just called off their engagement.


📌 Give it my best shot
🔸 Try your hardest.
🗣️ This test question is really tough! I’ll give it my best shot, and I’ll get some marks for doing my best.

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