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📃Be about to
To be about to means to be going to do at that moment.
To be about to означает собираться что-то сделать прямо сейчас.
▫️I can’t talk anymore. We’re about to leave for the airport.
▫️Fasten your seat belt. The plane is about to take off.
📃 Pass Time / Spend Time
Итак, разберемся сегодня, когда употреблять в речи Pass Time, а когда Spend Time.
Мы используем Spend time, когда говорим о времени, потраченном на какую-либо активность.
▫️ I spend a lot of time reading.
Выражение Pass the time имеет немного другое значение - мы делаем что-то, чтобы заставить время идти быстрее. Например, когда ждем что-то:
▫️ I look at the magazines to pass the time while waiting for my appointment at the dentist’s office.
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📃 Carrot and Stick
A system in which you are rewarded for some actions and threatened with punishment for others.
Дословно это сочетание переводится «морковь и палка», то есть метод поощрения — морковь, и наказания — палка. В нашем языке эта идиома звучит — «метод кнута и пряника». В данном случае на первом месте идёт наказание — кнут, а затем поощрение — пряник.
▫️ Sometimes I just have to resort to the carrot and stick approach with my children.
📕 Stoner
by John Williams
#fiction #booksthinkenglish
📃 GIVE VS. GIVE AWAY
✏️ The verb give refers to transferring something to someone else:
Отдать кому-нибудь что-нибудь
▪️ Jen missed class yesterday – I’ll give her my notes so she can study.
▪️My best friend gave me a pair of headphones for my birthday.
✏️ The phrasal verb give away means to give for free something that would probably cost money in a normal situation:
Отдать бесплатно то, что обычно стоит денег.
▪️ When I bought a new computer, I gave away the old one. = I gave it to someone for free instead of selling it
▪️ The radio station is giving away two tickets to the rock concert.
💣 SET PHRASE
📙 in a jam
🔹Definition:
in a tight or difficult situation. (In can be replaced with into to show movement towards or into the state described by a jam. Especially get into.)
▪️ I’m in a jam. I owe a lot of money.
▪️ Whenever I get into a jam, I ask my supervisor for help.
#setphrases
💣 SET PHRASE
📙 glass ceiling
🔹Definition:
a metaphor for a that prevents people, typically women or minorities, from ascending to high positions.
барьер при продвижении по службе (чаще всего из-за дискриминации, по отношению к женщинам и меньшинствам)
▪️ She shattered the glass ceiling for female producers when she became the company's executive producer.
Она преодолела ограничивающий барьер, существующий для женщин-продюсеров, когда стала исполнительным продюсером компании.
#setphrases
📄 Use it correctly
INCORRECT: I DIDN’T SAVE MONEY ENOUGH.
CORRECT: I DIDN’T SAVE ENOUGH MONEY.
The word enough comes before a noun, but after an adjective:
Используйте enough ПЕРЕД существительным, но ПОСЛЕ прилагательного
▫️We have enough food. (food = noun )
▫️You’re not tall enough to go on the ride. (tall = adjective )
❕❕❕ Use it correctly
❌INCORRECT: HE LOVES TEAM SPORTS AS SOCCER.
✅CORRECT: HE LOVES TEAM SPORTS SUCH AS SOCCER.
✅CORRECT: HE LOVES TEAM SPORTS LIKE SOCCER.
When you want to give an example, use such as or like. Don’t use only “as.”
Such as is more formal than like.
🔎 How to say How old are you?
Не уверены, как ответить на вопрос "Сколько Вам лет?" - эта статья для Вас!
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📃 GROW VS. GROW UP
The verb grow is used when things increase in size and development:
(расти в прямом смысле)
▪️ The country’s economy is growing.
▪️ Many different kinds of flowers grow in my garden.
The phrasal verb grow up is used specifically for children becoming older and more mature (вырасти = повзрослеть):
▪️ My 5-year-old son wants to be a firefighter when he grows up.
▪️ I’m very thankful that I grew up in a loving family.
If you say an adult “needs to grow up,” it means he/she is acting immature (like a child) and should act more mature, like an adult.
🗣 All or every?
Still confused when to use all or every? I prepared for you an article that shows the difference between these 2 words and how to use them correctly.
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📓 50 Illustrated English Expressions
The English language has a lot of informal expressions that native speakers use in daily life. These expressions can be confusing for English learners.
It’s good to learn new phrases and expressions in context. This makes them much easier to understand and remember.
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📃 To pull someone’s leg
To tell someone something that is not true as a way of joking with them (usually in continuous tenses)
Данное выражение означает не «тянуть кого-то за ногу», а «подшучивать, морочить голову». Связано это тоже с историей. Происхождение этого выражения относится к 18 веку, когда улицы городов были очень грязными, и англичане «в шутку» подставляли палку с крюком под ноги объекту такого незатейливого юмора.
▫️ Don’t believe him. He’s just pulling your leg. – Не верь ему. Он просто морочит тебе голову.
📕 The Old Man and The Sea Paperback
by Ernest Hemingway
#fiction #booksthinkenglish
📃 I’ll bet
I’ll bet указывает на искреннюю веру в то, что вы собираетесь сказать, даже если у Вас нет никаких доказательств.
▫️ What’s Maria up to? - I’ll bet she’s making a lot of money.
Однако если вы отвечаете на чье-либо высказывание фразой I'll bet, это означает что вы не верите тому, что Вам сказали.
▫️ I hear Maria’s making a lot of money. - I’ll bet.
📃Common Errors In English: Actually And Currently
👎🏻Don’t Say: "Actually, I Work At The University."
👍🏻 Say: "Currently, I Work At The University."
Currently means “now, at the present moment.” - сейчас, на данный момент
Actually means “in reality,” - на самом деле - and it is often used to make corrections:
▪️“You’re from Brazil so you speak Spanish, right?”
▪️“Actually, Portuguese is spoken in Brazil.”
📃 NEVER USE “TO” AFTER “ARRIVE”
Don’t say: We arrived to the airport.
Don’t say: When will you arrive to Rome?
The correct sentences are:
◾️We arrived at the airport.
◾️We got to the airport. (more informal)
◾️When will you arrive in Rome?
“Get to” is an informal way to say “arrive”… but don’t use “to” with the previous exceptions:
◾️I got home at midnight.
◾️What time did you get there?
◾️The dog got outside again.
📃 Team up with
Meaning: To join together to work as a team
Sample sentence: Sometimes on a big project, you may need to team up with other companies.
📃 21 English Words And Expressions For The Bar
Many meetings with friends and business colleagues happen at the bar. It’s a good place to be social and have fun.
In the United States, the legal drinking age is 21. If you are younger than 21 years old, it is illegal to drink alcohol.
So going along with that theme, here are 21 vocabulary words and phrases related to drinking alcohol at a bar or pub.
Read the article
📃 SPECIAL CASES: WHEN NOT TO USE “TO” AFTER “GO”
With most places, we use “go to”
Чаще всего после go мы ставим предлог to
▪️ I’m going to the party
▪️Let’s go to New York.
▪️He went to work.
…but there are exceptions! Don’t use “to” after “go” with these words:
Не используйте предлог to перед следующими словами:
▪️I’m going home.
▪️Let’s go downtown.
▪️He went there.
▪️I want to go somewhere nice.
▪️I’m going abroad next semester.
▪️Let’s go upstairs/downstairs.
▪️He went inside/outside/out.
📕 The Shack by William P. Young
#fiction #booksthinkenglish
🔎 FIND VS. FIND OUT
Сегодня разбираем разницу между regular verb FIND и phrasal verb FIND OUT
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📃 Dude
✏️ Dude is an informal, friendly way of calling a male friend or acquaintance instead of using his name.
▪️ Dude, what time are we leaving tomorrow?
🎬 Edward Scissorhands (1990) with subtitles
#Drama, #Fantasy, #Romance
Stars: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest
An uncommonly gentle young man, who happens to have scissors for hands, falls in love with a beautiful girl.
