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Today's idioms are:

🔘 mend your ways ✏️

☑️ Meaning: If you mend your ways, you improve your behaviour and stop doing things that cause trouble.

✳️ Terry had better mend his ways or Rosie will leave him forever.

✳️ It took him a long time to mend his ways, but these days Jack is a good father and husband.

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🎚️ set your sights on 👁

☑️ Meaning: If you set your sights on something, or set your sights on doing something, it becomes the target of your ambition or the object of your attention.

✳️ Stanley has set his sights on coaching Liverpool, so he'll start getting to know people who have influence in the club.

✳️ Microsoft has set its sights on one of the biggest search engine companies, so I wouldn't be surprised if the company's shares go up.

🎯 Note: This idiom can also be expressed as "has its sights set on", "has her sights set on", "have their sights set on", and so on.
🎯 Origin: Metaphorical, and related to the fact that a person using a gun looks through the gun's sights in order to aim, and will have his sights set on the target before shooting at it.

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🔘 a dark horse 🐴

☑️ a person about whom little is known

✳️ Mary's a bit of a dark horse. Do you think she's got any chance of being elected?

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Common Mistakes in English
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Using the wrong preposition


💬 Succeed in, not at.
❌ Don’t say: I hope he’ll succeed at his work.
✅ Say: I hope he’ll succeed in his work.
🔔 Note: A person succeeds to a property, a title, or an office ;
Queen Elizabeth succeeded to the throne in 1952. Also one person can succeed another .

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💬 Superior to, not from or than
❌ Don’t say: This is superior from ( or than) that .
✅ Say: this is superior to that .
🔔 Note: Also inferior to , junior to , subsequent to, prior to .

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💬 Sure of, not for .
❌ Don’t say: Im quite sure for her honesty.
✅ Say: Im quite sure of her honesty.
🔔 Note: Also certain of ; I am quite certain of it.

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💬 Surprised at or by, not for
❌ Don’t say: Harold was surprised for the loud bang.
✅ Say: Harold was surprised at/ by the loud bang.
🔔 Note: Also astonished at/ by.Amazed at/ by. Alarmed at/by. Puzzled at/by.Shocked at/by.

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🧐 Confusing words 🥦

Person 🆚 Persons
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People 🆚 Peoples

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😕🤕 Verb confusion🤕😕
(Know, Learn, Study and take)

💎 know is used to show that you have memorized something or that you are certain of something :
🔅I know all of the irregular verbs.

▪️know described a state, not an activity ( not I'm trying to know my irregular verbs. )

▪️we can't use it in the continuous form (not I'm knowing my irregular verbs.)

💎 Learn describes an activity.
We learn facts when we try to memorize them.
🔅I am learning irregular verbs for the test.

▪️we can also learn a skill:
🔅I'm learning to play the piano.

▪️we can't use learn by itself ( not I'm learning for the test. )


💎 Study is usually used to talk about a whole subject area rather than individual skills or facts:
🔅my daughter is studying economics at university. (not I am studying how to play the piano. )

▪️We can use study by itself:
🔅I'm studying for the test on Friday

‼️Note that we can say learn about not study about:
🔅We are learning about World War I this term.
(not we are studying about)

💎 Take can be be used in a similar way to study to refer to subject area :
🔅I am taking a course in Marketing.

▪️it's also used to refer to the individual subjects within a course :
🔅I have to take at least 3 marketing subjects to get the diploma.

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Are McDonald’s and Starbucks “ubiquitous” in your city?
What does it mean? 🤔

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Teacher: Gill
📚 Using SIMILES to improve your everyday English part 2⃣

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🔠 Vocabulary class

💥💥 egotistic /ˌiːɡoʊˈtɪstɪk/ adjective also egotistical
Ⓜ considering yourself to be better or more important than other people

✳ He is portrayed as a handsome young man, but has a rather cocky and egotistic personality.

✨ egotism noun [ U ]
✨ egotist noun [ C ]
✨ egotistically adverb
💢 synonyms: self-centered, selfish, egocentric

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💥💥 agitate /ˈædʒəteɪt/ verb [ T ]
Ⓜ to make someone feel worried or angry

✳ Because my son is a troublemaker, he likes to agitate his younger sister by hiding her dolls.

✨ agitated adjective
✨ agitation noun [ U ]

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💥💥 ardent/ˈɑːrdənt/ adjective [ before noun ]
Ⓜ showing strong feelings; eager

✳ List was an ardent, enthusiastic mountaineer and hiker.

✅ an ardent supporter of Manchester United
🔠 an ardent feminist

✨ ardently adverb
💢 synonyms: passionate, fervent, zealous

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✴️ spotlight: principles and values

🔠 Principles (usually plural) are strong beliefs that influence how you behave.
🔠 Values are beliefs about what is right and important in life.
💢 The words are almost synonymous but are used in different expressions.

🔸 Eating meat is against my principles.
🔸 I won't go there on principle.
🔹 She has a different set of values.

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Today's phrasal verbs are:

✳️ Zone out
✳️ Fall over
✳️ Wave off

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👩🏼‍🏫 Give it a go 👩🏼‍🏫

#BBC_Learning_English
#idiom #iv1

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☺️ Expressions for being relieved!

⚜️ Phew! 😮‍💨
⚜️ Thank God (for that)!
⚜️ What a relief!
⚜️ That was close!
⚜️ You had me worried for a moment!
⚜️ That's a weight off my mind!
⚜️ What a stroke of luck!
⚜️ I'm so relieved to hear that!

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Shape of you 💃
Ed Sheeran 🎤👨‍🎤
2017 🎼🎧
Album: ➗🥁🎸

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👩🏼‍🏫 4 slang words 👩🏼‍🏫

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😋 Other ways to say delicious!

🔸Tasty 🔸Delish
🔹Yummy 🔹Luscious
🔸Appetizing 🔸Savoury
🔹Mouth-watering🔹Heavenly
🔸Scrumptious 🔸Tasteful
🔹Well-prepared 🔹Scrummy
🔸Zestful 🔸Juicy
🔹Well_seasoned 🔹Palatable
🔸Finger licking good!
🔹Fit for a king!
🔸Out of the world!

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👨‍🏫 Be going to VS present Continuous 👩‍🏫

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♨️Today's Idioms ♨️

✅At least:
🌸Anyway, the good thing is that.

✅(To) make up my mind:
🌸To decide.

✅To put up with:
🌸To endure without complaint.

✅(To) Lose one's temper
🌸To become very angry.

✅Dead-end job:
🌸A job that won't lead to anything else.


👇🏾👇🏾 the dialogue in the photo showing you how to use these idioms.
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🌴 SLANG 🌴
✔️ Blinder

📚 British. To "pull a blinder" involves achieving something difficult faultlessly and skilfully.

The phrase is most commonly used when the individual has been lucky and the person saying it is in disbelief that the first person has managed to pull it off.

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〰🌸 "And did you see that equalising goal in the last minute of injury time? He pulled a blinder there."

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