Progressive English Skills

10 Oct 2024 19:39

#vocabulary

❇️ Some of the abbreviated form of words and acronyms:

💧&=and
💧2=two, to or too
💧2day=today
💧2morrow=tomorrow
💧BTW= by the way
💧CU= see you
💧B=be
💧B4=before
💧Bf=boyfriend
💧Bro=brother
💧Bt=but
💧C=see
💧Gf=girlfriend
💧Gr8=great
💧Pls=please
💧Sis=sister
💧U=you
💧Ur=your
💧ASAP=as soon as possible
💧CUL=see you later
💧HAND=have a nice day
💧HRU=how are you
💧LOL=laughing out loud

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Progressive English Skills

06 Oct 2024 13:04

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Progressive English Skills

05 Oct 2024 14:20

#proverb

🟩 Once bitten, twice shy.
 
Ⓜ️eaning: After an unpleasant experience, people are careful to avoid something similar.


#saying
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Progressive English Skills

04 Oct 2024 18:40

#expressions

☔ RAIN  EXPRESSIONS

❇️ It's drizzling: very light rain

❇️ It's raining: normal rain

❇️It's pouring: heavy rain

❇️ It's raining cats and dogs: heavy rain

❇️ It's lashing down: very heavy rain

❇️ It's bucketing down: very heavy rain - bucket of rain


#idiom
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Progressive English Skills

03 Oct 2024 20:23

#conversation

✳️ Ways to say “Goodbye"


🟣 See you

See you, I’ll be back next week.


🟣 Farewell

Today we’re saying farewell to a lot of people.


🟣 I’ll catch you later

You’re going now? I’ll catch you later.


🟣 Take care

Take care, I’ll see you when you are back.


🟣 Cheerio

We’ll see you tomorrow, but cheerio for now.


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Progressive English Skills

02 Oct 2024 20:30

#Merriam_Webster's Word of the Day:
October 2, 2024

fret

#vocabulary
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Progressive English Skills

27 Sep 2024 19:36

#conversation‌

✳️ 10 Ways to ask "How someone is?"


🟡 How are you?

🟡 How’s it going?

🟡 How ya doin’?

🟡 How are things?

🟡 How’s life?

🟡 How have you been?

🟡 How’s your family?

🟡 What’s up?

🟡 What’s new?

🟡 What have you been up to lately?


#speaking
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Progressive English Skills

05 Sep 2024 19:11

#picture_dictionary

Types of Houses


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Progressive English Skills

16 Aug 2024 17:55

#grammar

Prepositions of Time AT-ON-IN

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Progressive English Skills

07 Aug 2024 18:22

#common_mistakes

📙 Misuse of the infinitive

Use the gerund and not the infinitive after After certain verbs:


🌱 Mind+-ing

❌ Don’t say: Would you mind to open the door?

✅ Say: Would you mind opening the door?


🌱 Practise+-ing

❌ Don’t say: you must practice to speak English.

✅ Say: You must practise speaking English.


🌱 Remember+-ing

❌ Don’t say: I don’t remember to have seen him.

✅ Say: I don’t remember seeing him.
Or: I don’t remember having seen him.


🌱 Risk+-ing

❌ Don’t say: We couldn’t risk to leave him alone.

✅ Say: We couldn’t risk leaving him alone.


🌱 Stop+-ing

❌ Don’t say: The wind has almost stopped to blow.

✅ Say: The wind has almost stopped blowing.

👉 Note: Also give up (=stop): ”He gave up smoking.”


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Progressive English Skills

05 Aug 2024 19:07

#video

- Two helpful tips to get a higher score on the TOEFL speaking exam

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Progressive English Skills

01 Aug 2024 17:26

#Merriam_Webster's Word of the Day:

July 28, 2024

dulcet

adjective 

/DUL-sut/


What It Means:

Dulcet is a formal word used to describe sounds that are pleasant to hear. It is often used in the phrase “dulcet tones.”


Example:

Jolie recalled warm memories of falling asleep to the dulcet tones of her grandmother’s lullabies.


DULCET in Context:

“It’s an understatement to say that Paris Is Burning was everything to me. Seeing it finally put a name on what I had somehow known existed perhaps through family conversations, run-ins in the city, and pop cultural dots connected over a couple decades of life—BALLROOM. I was finally able to say, ‘There it is!’ My takeaways from that cult classic are numerous: The dulcet tones of Pepper LaBeija, draped in silk in a lamplit corner, chain-smoking and unravelling the yarn of how she became the next mother of the very first house in Ballroom, the House of LaBeija.” — Ricky Tucker, And the Category Is… : Inside New York’s Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community, 2021


Did You Know?

Some of the most dulcet tones in American folk music are said to come from the dulcimer, a fretted stringed instrument traditionally played on the lap and integral to the work of such sweet-voiced musicians and song collectors as Jean Ritchie, Loraine Wyman, and Margaret MacArthur. The essence of dulcet, after all, is sweetness; the word has been in use in English since the 1400s describing not only desserts and other confections that are pleasing for their literal sweetness, but figuratively sweet things such as smiles and even balmy weather. Dulcet is today used most often, however, to describe sounds, including melodies, voices, and especially tones with a notably honeyed quality. Fittingly, dulcet comes from the Latin word for “sweet,” dulcis, an ancestor of many musical English words, including the musical direction dolce (“to be played sweetly”), Dulciana (a type of pipe organ stop), dolcian (a small bassoon-like instrument), and, of course, dulcimer.


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Progressive English Skills

29 Jul 2024 17:06

#phrasal_verb

Five phrasal verbs about shirt

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Progressive English Skills

27 Jul 2024 19:32

#vocabulary

❇️ adolescent

 /ˌæd.əˈles.ənt/

- noun/adjective

🔵 Definition:
(noun)
A young person who is developing into an adult


🔻Examples:

He looked uncomfortable, like a self-conscious adolescent who's gone to the wrong party.

She doesn't understand the emotional problems of adolescents.


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Progressive English Skills

25 Jul 2024 21:05

#phrasal_verb

🟪 flake off

flake off, flake off sth

🔸 to break away from a surface in small, very thin pieces - use this especially about old paint or dry skin:

The walls were damp, and some of the white paint was flaking off.

✴️ SIMILAR TO: peel off


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Progressive English Skills

07 Oct 2024 19:45

#quote

Be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe
No less than the trees and the stars.
In the noisy confusion of life
Keep peace in your soul.

- Max Ehrman


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Progressive English Skills

05 Oct 2024 14:23

#proverb

🟩 One today is worth two tomorrow.
 
Ⓜ️eaning: What you have today is better than what is promised or hoped for.


#saying
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Progressive English Skills

05 Oct 2024 14:19

#proverb

🟩 No man is an island.
 
Ⓜ️eaning: We all need other people.


#saying
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Progressive English Skills

04 Oct 2024 10:40

#grammar

Correlative Conjunctions


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Progressive English Skills

02 Oct 2024 20:30

#Merriam_Webster's Word of the Day:

October 2, 2024

fret

verb  

/FRET/


What It Means:

To fret is to worry or be concerned.


Example:

I was sure we wouldn’t get there in time, but they told me not to fret.


FRET in Context:

“Many communal laundry spaces have rules posted, but over time, they can get lost, forgotten or ignored. If you find yourself in uncertain waters about how to be a good neighbor, don’t fret. We asked laundry and etiquette experts for their best tips on how to handle some of the most common faux pas.” — Sophia Solano, The Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2024


Did You Know?

Fret not about being unfamiliar with the history of the verb fret; we’ve got something for you to chew on. While fretting today usually involves a concern that is figuratively eating at someone, fret has older senses that apply to literal eating. Fret comes from the Old English verb fretan, “to devour,” which shares an ancestor with another verb, etan, the ancestor of eat. In centuries past, animals—or monsters, in the case of Grendel—were said to fret, as were substances that corrode, or eat away, at other substances. But it wasn’t long before fret was also applied to emotional experiences, as when someone frets over an all-consuming thought or trouble. While fret still carries the meanings of “to corrode,” “to fray,” and “to chafe,” among others, one is most likely to encounter its more angsty sense of “to worry or be concerned.”


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Progressive English Skills

28 Sep 2024 21:07

#phrasal_verb

🟪 hold out for


Meaning:

🔸 to wait until you get what you want, especially when negotiating:

The workers held out for a better wage deal and, after another round of negotiations, they got it.

We held out for a better contract, and we got it after some hard bargaining.


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Progressive English Skills

16 Sep 2024 22:37

#proverb

The grass is always greener on the other side

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Progressive English Skills

03 Sep 2024 18:16

#idiom

Ways to say it's raining

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Progressive English Skills

14 Aug 2024 16:35

#grammar

Would you mind +-ing form

📙 This is a way to politely ask for something that isn't too much trouble for the other person.

🌱 Would you mind passing me that bottle over there?

🌱 Would you mind watching my bag for a few minutes?

🌱 Would you mind sending me a list of everyone who's coming?


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Progressive English Skills

06 Aug 2024 17:07

#reading

Reading passage

The central Arctic is an ice mass formed from part of the ocean, whereas the Antarctic is continental. Surrounding the Arctic are land masses which, in most cases, extend southward to the tropics. The Antarctic, on the other hand, is the only continent entirely set off from the rest of the world by great oceans. Furthermore, at some point of man's history, all of the other continents, except Australia, were joined by land bridges. Even Australia had been easy to reach by canoe. However, the only place Antarctica even approaches another continent is the long finger of the Antarctic Peninsula, reaching within 600 miles of Cape Horn, the southernmost tip of South America. In addition to distance, ice and stormy seas kept anyone from seeing this continent until about 1820.


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Progressive English Skills

02 Aug 2024 19:37

#slang

Short form of words


#vocabulary
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Progressive English Skills

01 Aug 2024 17:22

#Merriam_Webster's Word of the Day:
July 28, 2024

dulcet

#vocabulary
@progressiveenglish

Progressive English Skills

27 Jul 2024 19:32

#synonyms

🔷 Synonyms for 'adolescent'

🔹 teenager
🔹 juvenile
🔹 youngster
🔹 young-adult
🔹 stripling (male)


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Progressive English Skills

25 Jul 2024 21:16

#phrasal_verb

🟪 flake out


1⃣ flake out

🔸 (BrE informal) to suddenly fall asleep because you are very tired:

He was so exhausted that he just flaked out on the sofa.

✴️ SIMILAR TO: crash out (spoken informal)


2⃣ be flaked out

🔸 (BrE informal) to be extremely tired:

I'm flaked out now. Could we talk about this in the morning?

✴️ SIMILAR TO: be shattered, be exhausted


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Progressive English Skills

23 Jul 2024 18:47

#video

journey and trip

BBC Learning English
#English_In_A_Minute
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