✴️ Medicine
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📚 Key Words for IELTS

♻️ Comparing

🔹Similar to
🔹As…as
🔹in common
🔹also
🔹Either…or
🔹In the same way,
🔹Neither…nor
🔹At the same time
🔹Just as
🔹resemble

♻️ Contrasting

🔹However,
🔹But
🔹On the contrary,
🔹On the other hand,
🔹Differ from
🔹Nevertheless
🔹Although
🔹Though
🔹Otherwise
🔹Instead
🔹Alternatively,
🔹Even though

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📚 Key Words for IELTS

♻️ Stating Your Opinion

🔹In my opinion,
🔹According to me,
🔹In my view,
🔹To me,
🔹From my point of view,
🔹I think
🔹It seems to me that
🔹I believe
🔹From my perspective
🔹To my way of thinking
🔹It appears that
🔹I suppose
🔹I realize
🔹I understand
🔹I imagine
🔹I feel

♻️ Giving Examples

🔹For example,
🔹For instance,
🔹such as
🔹In other words,
🔹as
🔹like
🔹that is
🔹namely
🔹To illustrate
🔹To paraphrase

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📗 Confusing words

➕ wake / awake
➕ sleep / asleep

▶️ Sleep and wake are verbs (although we usually use “wake up” for when you stop sleeping ,and “go to sleep” for the moment when you begin sleeping):

🅾️ Example:

🔺 My kids go to sleep at 10 PM.
🔺 I slept during the 6-hour flight.


▶️ Awake and asleep are adjectives. Use them with the verb to be:

🅾️ Example:

🎈 He’s awake. = He isn’t sleeping.

🎈 He’s asleep. = He is sleeping.

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📕 present perfect

📙 Grammar

#Grammar #present #perfect
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🔴 Overrated

#Vocabulary #overrated #video
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📚 #Vocabulary


🔶 Oblivion (n.) [əˈblivēən]

❗️Meaning:
Forgetfulness; neglect

❕Example:
After his death, his name sank into oblivion.


🔷 Acquaintance (n.) [əˈkwāntns]

❗️Meaning:
A person's knowledge or experience of something.

❕Example:
The students had little acquaintance with the language.

#Vocabulary #Vocab #oblivion #acquaintance
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🔺The expression of today is:

🌈 Ins and outs

#exprssion #Ins #outs #idiom
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📚The difference between the pronunciation of these three words below:

🔺life
🔺live
🔺live

#Pronunciation #life #live
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✅ What is St. Patrick's Day?

St. Patrick was not Irish! So why do we celebrate Irish culture on St. Patrick’s Day? What is Lent? Learn why people drink beer and wear green on March 17th, and how you can celebrate St. Patrick’s Day too! What is Ronnie drinking?!
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✅ How to say -ed endings in English

Past or passed? These two words sound the same! In this quick lesson, you will hear how words ending in -ed sound. This will help get rid of pronunciation confusion with similar sounding words.
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✅ Conversation Skills – How to END a conversation politely

Saying goodbye is as easy as 1-2-3, once you know how! Learn an easy three-step method for ending any conversation — formal or informal. Never be stuck in a conversation longer than you want. This simple exit strategy works on the phone or in person, in both social and business situations.
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✅ American English & British English – 8 Grammar Differences 🇺🇸 🇬🇧

American English or British English? Accent and pronunciation are not the only differences! I’ll show you 8 grammatical differences between these two styles of English. Once you understand the differences, you can choose which style you prefer to use. The choice you make will influence your speaking and writing. So pay close attention to this lesson, and choose the style you find most comfortable with! Do you want to speak like an American, or like a Brit?
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🎧 Vision Concerns

Mike talks about why he has limited eyesight and steps he has taken to fix it.

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🇺🇸Todd: Hey, Mike, I heard that you went back to Canada and you had surgery.

🇨🇦Mike: That's right. I went back to Canada and I had an eye operation.

Todd: Get out of here!

Mike: Yep. I'd had complications. I'm diabetic, and I had complications with my vision, and so...

Todd: With both eyes?

Mike: Well, yes. Originally, seven years ago, I had an operation on my left eye, and following that operation, they couldn't save the eye so basically, I can't see anything out of my left eye.

Todd: Really.

Mike: Yeah.

Todd: I've known you for like five years. I had no idea.

Mike: Yeah, yeah. Well you can't really tell. yeah.

Todd: You don't have a patch or anything. You know.

Mike: Yeah, I don't have a hook on my right arm either. But, yeah, I'd lost my vision seven years ago but you can't tell.

Todd: I'm sorry. Man, I had no idea.

Mike: No, hey. It's all good. In fact, I was rather lucky because I lost my vision because of diabetic complications. As I said, I'm diabetic, and I was lucky because the vision in my left eye went but the vision in my right eye, the right eye was fine, so in fact they couldn't save my left eye but I still have completely good vision in my right eye and so this summer I went back to Canada to do an operation on my right eye and that operation was basically just to save the retina, the part of the eye that was affected, to save it from complications and the same thing happening that happened in the left eye.

Todd: Oh, well good to hear that things went well.

Mike: Yeah, things went great actually. LIke I said, I was really lucky I think in many ways, but yeah, so now I can see, you know, according to the doctors, my vision with my right eye will be fine. There might be minor things. I might need to get, you know, whatever, adjusted or whatever, but in general, my eyesight will be here to stay, so I'm really lucky.

Todd: Wow, that's good news.

Mike: Yep.
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🎧Learn vocabulary from the lesson!


▪️Get out of here!

Todd said "Get out of here!" when Mike told him about his operation.

'Get out of here!' Is a phrase that you say when someone tells you something that is unbelievable. Notice the following:

▫️Get out of here! I can't believe you're moving to Hawaii.

▫️I didn't know he was married. Get out of here!


▪️You don't have a patch or anything

I had no idea, you don't have a patch or anything.

If you 'don't have a patch or anything,' you have no eye patch or anything covering your eye. Notice the following:

▫️When you have laser eye surgery the procedure is so quick that you don't have a patch or anything.

▫️You don't have a patch or anything, so you can't even tell that you have had anything done.


▪️I don't have a hook on my right arm either

I don't have a hook on my right arm either, but yeah, I'd lost my vision seven years ago but you can't tell.

'I don't have a hook on my right arm either,' in this instance, is making a joke about how a stereotypical pirate wears an eye patch and has a hook for a hand. Notice the following:

▫️I don't wear an eye patch and I don't have hook on my right hand either.

▫️Even though he is a pirate he doesn't wear an eye patch and he doesn't have a hook on his right hand either.


▪️As I said

As I said, I'm diabetic.

'As I said' refers to something that you have spoken about previously. Notice the following:

▫️As I said before, I don't eat meat.

▫️As I said, I think I will meet you there.


▪️Minor things

There might be minor things I might need to get adjusted.

'Minor things' are things that are not of major significance. Notice the following:

▫️There are lots of minor things that you can worry about, but I try not to.

▫️I tried to get lots of minor jobs done today. You know, those little ones that you never seem to get round to doing?
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To be kept in the dark about something

Ⓜ️eaning=

to be uninformed about something.

✅ #Idiom #video
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What’s the difference between GET & TAKE?
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