Progressive English Skills

30 Aug 2023 21:38

#grammar

Present perfect continuous

📘 Use the present perfect continuous to emphasize the duration of an action that is in progress. How long, recently, and lately are often used with the present perfect continuous.


▪️What have you been doing recently?

▫️I've been reading magazines.


▪️How long has he been writing in his notebook?

▫️He's been writing in it for about a month.


▪️Have they been talking to native speakers lately?

▫️Yes, they have.

▫️No, they haven't.


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Progressive English Skills

30 Aug 2023 18:51

#idiom

🟨 work one's tail off

Ⓜ️eaning: to work very hard.

⭐️ Examples:

He's lost one hundred dollars and works his tail off.

They work their tail off every single day for their kids!

#speaking #IELTS #TOEFL
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Progressive English Skills

30 Aug 2023 18:51

#idiom

🟨 up in the air

Ⓜ️eaning: to be uncertain.

⭐️ Examples:

Everything is up in the air at the moment because he didn't get the job.

Because the rnanagement has failed to finalize the budget, the future of the project is up in the air.

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Progressive English Skills

28 Aug 2023 20:02

#vocabulary

❇️ quandary

 /ˈkwɑːn.dri/

noun

 🔵 Definition:
a state of perplexity or uncertainty over what to do in a difficult situation.

🔻Examples:

I’ve had two job offers, and I’m in a real quandary about/over which one to accept.

As trainees strive to become "team players" their interactions with colleagues are frequent sources of ethical conflicts and quandaries.

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Progressive English Skills

25 Aug 2023 10:36

#reading

Reading passages

Dolphins are regarded as the friendliest creatures in the sea and stories of them helping drowning sailors have been common since Roman times. The more we learn about dolphins, the more we realize that their society is more complex than people previously imagined. They look after other dolphins when they are ill, care for pregnant mothers and protect the weakest in the community, as we do. Some scientists have suggested that dolphins have a language but it is much more probable that they communicate with each other without needing words. Could any of these mammals be more intelligent than man? Certainly the most common argument in favor of man's superiority over them that we can kill them more easily than they can kill us is the least satisfactory. On the contrary, the more we discover about these remarkable creatures, the less we appear superior when we destroy them.

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Progressive English Skills

24 Aug 2023 02:44

#phrasal_verb

🟪 file for

file for sth

🔸 to officially ask for permission to do something, especially from a court of law:

After 10 years of marriage, the couple have decided to file for divorce.

The country's second largest
insurance group have filed for bankruptcy with debts of over $1 billion.


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Progressive English Skills

23 Aug 2023 19:13

#collocation

Collocations with pay and keep

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Progressive English Skills

19 Aug 2023 22:01

#song_lyrics

[Verse 1]
There ain't no gold in this river
That I've been washin' my hands in forever
I know there is hope in these waters
But I can't bring myself to swim
When I am drowning in this silence
Baby, let me in

[Chorus]
Go easy on me, baby
I was still a child
Didn't get the chance to
Feel the world around me
I had no time to choose what I chose to do
So go easy on me

[Verse 2]
There ain't no room for things to change
When we are both so deeply stuck in our ways
You can't deny how hard I've tried
I changed who I was to put you both first
But now I give up

[Chorus]
Go easy on mе, baby
I was still a child
Didn't get the chance to
Feel thе world around me
Had no time to choose what I chose to do
So go easy on me

[Bridge]
I had good intentions
And the highest hopes
But I know right now
It probably doesn't even show

[Chorus]
Go easy on me, baby
I was still a child
I didn't get the chance to
Feel the world around me
I had no time to choose what I chose to do
So go easy on me

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Progressive English Skills

18 Aug 2023 10:34

#vocabulary

📘 The difference between
Double & Dual

✳️ The both mean two things that can work together or at the same time.

📍Dual is used for things that Work together and it Doesn't make difference if one of them works or Not.

📍 Double is used for things that Work with each other and the Function doesn't work Without one of them.


🔻 Examples:

🌱 A dual SIM cards mobile. (It works without one of them and it doesn't make difference.)

🌱 A double pair of wires consisting of phase and neutral charge. (The wires don't work without one of them.)


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Progressive English Skills

16 Aug 2023 19:10

#synonyms

🔶 Synonyms for 'anticipate'

🔸 Predict
🔸 forecast
🔸 foresee
🔸 prognostigate
🔸 previse

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Progressive English Skills

15 Aug 2023 12:53

سلام بچه ها 🫡

یک کانال یوتیوبی بشما 😎 معرفی میکنم که بشما رایگان انگلیسی یاد میده. دیگه نیاز نیه برای آموزش انگلیسی پول بدین.

لینکشو میزارم، حتما سابسکرایب کنید، زنگوله ر بزنید تا از ویدیو های جدیدش هم مطلع بشید.

حتما و حتما سابسکرایب کنید.

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Progressive English Skills

13 Aug 2023 22:00

#synonyms

🔷 Synonyms for 'chaos'

🔹disarray
🔹turmoil
🔹tumult

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Progressive English Skills

11 Aug 2023 21:59

#common_mistakes

📙 Write to a person, not write a person. 

❌ Don't say: I'll write her tomorrow. 

✅ Say: I'll write to her tomorrow.

👉 Note: When the direct object of write is expressed, omit the preposition: I'll write him a letter.

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Progressive English Skills

11 Aug 2023 21:59

#common_mistakes

📙 Wait for a person or thing, not wait a person or thing. 

❌ Don't say: I'll wait you at the cinema.

✅ Say: I'll wait for you at the cinema.

👉 Note: Await takes no preposition: I'm awaiting your reply.

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Progressive English Skills

10 Aug 2023 16:48

#quote

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

- Robert Frost

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Progressive English Skills

30 Aug 2023 18:52

#idiom

🟨 to wine and dine

Ⓜ️eaning: to entertain someone with food and drink, usually at a fancy restaurant. 

⭐️ Examples:

He bas not had a chance to wine and dine with her yet.

The company wined and dined the prospective clients.

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Progressive English Skills

30 Aug 2023 18:51

#idiom

🟨 under the weather

Ⓜ️eaning: do not feel well; feel sick.

⭐️ Examples:

Tom was feeling a bit under the weather today so he chose to take the day off.

I'm feeling a bit under the weather. I think I've caught a cold.

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Progressive English Skills

28 Aug 2023 20:02

#synonyms

🔷 Synonyms for 'quandary'

🔹 dilemma
🔹 predicament
🔹 plight
🔹 pickle

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Progressive English Skills

25 Aug 2023 20:25

#video

Will vs. Be going to

BBC Learning English
#English_In_A_Minute
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Progressive English Skills

24 Aug 2023 02:44

#phrasal_verb

🟪 fill out


1⃣ fill out sth, fill sth out

🔸 to write all the necessary information in the empty spaces on an official document:

If you want to join the library, you'll need to fill out an application form.

The patients all had to fill out a questionnaire which asked them
about their previous medical history.

✴️ SIMILAR TO: fill in (especially BrE), complete (formal)


2⃣ fill out

🔸 if your body fills out, it becomes fatter or bigger - used especially about thin people who have become fatter or bigger:

Noah used to be a skinny little guy, but he's really filled out in the past year.

By age 13, her body had already started to fill out.


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Progressive English Skills

24 Aug 2023 02:44

#phrasal_verb

🟪 figure out

figure out sth/sb, figure sth/sb out

🔸 to understand something or someone, or find the answer to a question, problem etc, after thinking about them carefully:

I've known Zack for years but I still can't figure him out.

It took her a few minutes to figure out what he was trying to say.

I'm trying to figure out a way of paying him back the money I owe him.

✴️ SIMILAR TO: fathom out (BrE), work out (especially BrE)


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Progressive English Skills

22 Aug 2023 02:55

#conversation


📍Informal Contractions


✳️ Lemme: (Let + me)

💧 Lemme go.


✳️ Gimme: (Give + me)

💧 Oh, gimme a break.


✳️ Wanna: (Want + to)

💧 I wanna hold your hand.


✳️ Kinda: (Kind + of)

💧 Kinda outta luck.


✳️ Hafta: (Have + to)

💧 I hafta do it.


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Progressive English Skills

19 Aug 2023 21:58

#song

🎼 Easy On Me

Song by Adele

Learn English with music
#music
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Progressive English Skills

17 Aug 2023 06:01

#picture_dictionary

Some relevant verbs

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Progressive English Skills

16 Aug 2023 19:10

#vocabulary

❇️ anticipate

 /ænˈtɪs·əˌpeɪt/

verb

🟣 Definition:
to imagine or expect that something will happen, sometimes taking action in preparation for it.

🔻Examples:

We had one or two difficulties along the way that we didn't anticipate.

No job cuts are anticipated under the new ownership.

We anticipate criticism but plan to go ahead anyway.


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Progressive English Skills

15 Aug 2023 12:52

#vocabulary

Especially 🆚 Specially

#Similar_words
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Progressive English Skills

13 Aug 2023 22:00

#vocabulary

❇️ chaos

 /ˈkeɪ.ɒs/

- noun

 🔵 Definition:
A state of utter confusion or disorder.

🔻Examples:

Snow and ice have caused chaos on the roads.

Ever since our secretary walked out, the office has been in a state of total chaos.

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Progressive English Skills

11 Aug 2023 21:59

#common_mistakes

📙 Wish for a thing, not wish a thing.

❌ Don't say: He doesn't wish any reward.

✅ Say: He doesn't wish for any reward.

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Progressive English Skills

11 Aug 2023 10:35

#grammar

How to Write and Say the Date in English

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Progressive English Skills

09 Aug 2023 21:47

#reading

Reading Comprehension

New research suggests that among smokers who get lung cancer, women are nearly twice as likely as men to develop the most deadly form of the disease. Experts say that the British study represents the first time scientists have discovered a significant difference between the sexes in the risk of small-cell lung cancer. Virtually always caused by smoking, it is the hardest form of lung cancer to treat successfully. The study showed that women under 65 were 1.7 times more vulnerable than men to small-cell lung cancer, which spreads so rapidly that by the time it is diagnosed, it is usually too late to operate.

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