✅ IELTS Listening – Top 14 tips!
Improve your IELTS score with these quick tips! In this lesson, you will learn about the Listening module of the IELTS exam. I will teach you the most common mistakes people make and how to avoid them. Watch this free video, so that you know how to practice for the IELTS Listening test. I want you to be prepared and confident on your test day, so that you can get the best results on your IELTS!
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✅ How to talk like the boss
Are you a manager? Do you want to be a manager? This English lesson will teach you how to sound like one! When you’re the boss, you need to communicate effectively with your colleagues, clients, and other office workers. In this lesson, I teach you several expressions to use in a professional English-speaking environment, so that you can sound like the boss. Can I 'count on you' to learn this? I know you can 'fit it into' your schedule. If you can 'pull it off', you should 'follow up' by taking the quiz!
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✅ Business English: Mixing Business with Pleasure!
Business isn’t all business! In reality, business and pleasure mix. Are you prepared? Learn the best phrases to make social conversation with your associates. Equally important, find out which topics to avoid! You’ll also learn how to eliminate awkward silences, and how to make your clients or colleagues comfortable when speaking with them. Many business decisions and deals are made outside the office or meeting room. Whether you’re going for dinner with clients, or you’re on a business trip, watch this lesson to learn how to be confident in social situations!
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✅ Learn English with DRUNK Justin Bieber? 🎤
Love him? Hate him? All are welcome in this lesson about Justin Bieber’s Miami racing arrest. Learn English with the news! You will learn vocabulary such as DUI, sobriety, bail, impounded, belligerent, and more. I also teach you two ways to discuss the news — depending on your level of English. So grab your baby or your boyfriend, and watch this fun English lesson ft. RebeccaESL! I am confident you’ll enjoy it!
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✅ Negative Questions in English
Do you want to learn English? Don't you want to learn English? Negative questions can be very confusing, even for native speakers. In this lesson, I teach you how to ask these questions, and how to answer them. Aren't you glad that I can teach you these things?! Of course you are.
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✅ How to Give Advice in English – recommend, suggest, advise, encourage…
I’ve got some advice for you! This lesson is all about giving advice using correct sentence structures. Watch this English lesson to learn how to give advice using the verbs: suggest, recommend, propose, and urge. I also teach you about a very common mistake that ESL students make, and how to correct it. If you want to learn how to give formal advice in English, I highly recommend that you click on this video!
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✅ How to be an effective speaker: BE SPECIFIC!
Is your opinion never taken seriously? Do people always question what you say? This lesson is for you! I will teach you how to eliminate the five words that stop you from being an effective speaker. Learn what to say instead, so that you can be just as confident as a native English speaker.
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🌴 Have A Lot On One's Plate 🌴
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📨 Difference between:

✅Expect
✅Wait
✅Hope

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🎧Episode 22b: Turtles in Panama (Part 2)🔝 English in 10 Minutes

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🎧Personal Finance

Anitia talks about savings, retirement, and sharing money in a marriage.

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🇺🇸Todd: Anita, I thought we would talk about money and investments.

🇨🇿Anita: OK.

Todd: So, you're pretty young.

Anita: Yes.

Todd: And how old are you?

Anita: I am 23.

Todd: 23, so that's very young. So as a young person, do you think about your future and saving and retirement?

Anita: I think about my immediate future. I'm not too worried about my retirement just yet, simply because I think you never know : will you retire? will you not retire? I mean, sometimes people get so caught up planning for retirement and saving money for retirement and they don't get to enjoy their life.

Todd: Right. But I think, like, I'm getting older. I'm 37 right, so...

Anita: That's still young.

Todd: It's still fairly young, but I think everybody that's my age wishes we had started saving when we were your age.

Anita: I agree. I agree. I'm not thinking about retirement but I'm definitely thinking about my immediate future. What will I do after university? Because right now, I'm a graduate student. When I was an undergraduate, I never thought about saving. I just was worried about paying monthly bills, paying my rent, things like that, so I was worried about having enough money to pay the current expenses. I wasn't worried about savings, but now that I'm a graduate student and I'm about to finish my education, I have to think about what will I do after university. Where will I go? If I look for a job, maybe I will have to travel somewhere. Maybe there will be a period of time when I will not have a job, so that, yes, I am worried about, so right now I'm thinking about savings for that part of my life.

Todd: Now, Anita, you're married, correct?

Anita: Yes.

Todd: So is finances something that you normally talk with your husband or is it something that you still are used to doing separately and independently?

Anita: No, no, no. We have joint accounts. Any financial things we discuss.

Todd: Right, yeah, cause I think especially with marriage, that's probably always one of the main things is money.

Anita: You see, for me personally, I don't think how I could... I cannot imagine that I would be married to somebody and have two separate bank accounts: one for him and one for me. I don't think that would work for me personally.

Todd: Yeah, it does actually sound strange.

Anita: Because then, think about it, if you go for dinner with your husband, who pays?

Todd: Right.

Anita: And if it's him paying all the time, well that's not fair towards him, so I think once you're in the marriage together, once you're doing everything together, you might as well be saving and spending together as well.

Todd: You're right. That makes perfect sense, but I think in the U.S. nowadays it's common now for couples to have separate checking accounts.

Anita: It is and, even my parents had that for awhile. I personally don't like it because to me it seems like a back door. If somebody had two accounts and their married to me it's a way of saying, "I love you and I'm married to you, but just in case something happens to us, I've got my own account to depend on.

Todd: Great point.

Anita: And to me, personally, I will do my upmost best for my relationship not to get to that point, so because I am not even taking that into consideration, I'm not acting that way right now.

Todd: Well said.
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🎧 Learn vocabulary from the lesson!


▪️ Immediate future

I think about my immediate future.

The 'immediate future' is the term that is used to describe what is about to happen very soon. Notice the following:

▫️I never really plan too far ahead. I tend to think only about my immediate future.

▫️The immediate future seemed bleak.


▪️ Just yet

I'm not too worried about my retirement just yet.

'Just yet' is another way to say 'now' or 'right now.' Notice the following:

▫️I can't go to school just yet, as I need to make sure that I have all the grades I need to get in

▫️I can't go out just yet, as I have lots of work that I need to do first.


▪️ Get so caught up

Sometimes people get so caught up planning for retirement and saving money for retirement and they don't get to enjoy their life.

When you 'get caught up' doing something, you are so focused on what you are doing that you don't pay attention to other things around you. Notice the following:

▫️I get so caught up on the phone with my friends that I often forget about the phone bill.

▫️I got so caught up at dinner that I was late meeting my friend.


▪️ Current expenses

I was worried about having enough money to pay the current expenses.

'Current expenses' are the bills and living costs that you have to pay for right now, not in the future. Notice the following:

▫️I have to work out all of my current expenses, and then I will be able to sort out a budget.

▫️Do you have a list of the businesses current expenses?


▪️ Joint accounts

We have joint accounts and any financial things we discuss.

When people have 'joint accounts,' it means that they share a bank account and pool all of their money into it. Notice the following:

▫️I do not agree with joint accounts.

▫️I am not sure if I would like a joint account again, as I do not like anyone knowing what I spend my money on.
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✳️ An eyesore (noun)

Ⓜ️= really ugly to look at - typically used to describe buildings.

🔹The modern apartment block is an eyesore among the classical architecture.

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English #Pod 352 #audio
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🎥 #TheEllenShow

Demon Wayans Jr. explained to Ellen what holiday get-togethers with his famous extended family are like, and why they don't really get along.
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