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❗️Funny Phone Calls Between Trump and Obama

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📽Learning English With Famous Speeches

🗣Bono U2 | What Is Your Big Idea?
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✅ Grammar: Active and Passive Gerunds

Did you know that you can use gerunds in active AND passive forms? Did you know you can actually use gerunds in past forms as well as present and future? This grammar lesson is for advanced students, so if you’re having a hard time understanding the constructions, get yourself prepared by checking out my lesson on the uses of gerunds, and my lesson on common verbs followed by gerunds. Once you feel confident, come back here and challenge yourself even more!

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📅 Word of the Day

✴️ definition of BLAZING]

1⃣ very hot, fast, or powerful

✅ the blazing heat/sun

✅ She runs with blazing speed.

✅ blazingly hot/fast

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🎞Learn English with Movies

❗️Joker and Batman
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The pronunciation of breath (noun) vs breathe (verb). Can you make us a sentence using both these words? Then practise saying it out loud!

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🔊 Grammar Lesson 🔊

⚜ Fewer Vs. Less ⚜

Fewer and Less are both used for comparison; However, they're used differently.

🔆 FEWER 🔆

Fewer is used with countable nouns (such as friends, books, shelves)

🔔 Example 🔔

➕ There are fewer books on the shelf now.
➖Eat fewer candies please.
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🔆 LESS 🔆

Less, on the other hand, is used with uncountable nouns (Like bread, money, water)

🔔 Example 🔔

➕ I have less money than you.
➖You should spend less time playing around.

🔴 EXCEPTIONS 🔴

Less is used with uncountable and Fewer is used with countable nouns; However, less could also be used with countable nouns ONLY WHEN the noun refers to some sort of a distance, amount or time.

🔔 Example 🔔

➕Less than two weeks
➖Less than two miles
➕Less than three grams.
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Can robots care for us?

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6 Minute BBC Podcasts
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Robots can perform many tasks, but they’re now being introduced in social care to operate as carers, to look after the sick and elderly. But is a robot carer able to have empathy? We’ll be discussing the positive and negative issues around this and teach some new vocabulary.

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6 Minute BBC Podcasts
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📅 Idiom of the Day

✳️ if all else fails

📚 Meaning:

You can say "if all else fails" before saying what you'll do if your plans don't work out as well as you'd like.
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✍ For example:

🔷 If all else fails, I can get there by train. It's never fully booked.

🔷I'm not sure where we'll eat, but if all else fails we can go to McDonalds.
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🌎 “To have the best of both worlds”
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Ⓜ️eaning = to have the advantages / benefits of two different things.
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🔹”I would love the freedom of being able to travel for my job but I also like the comforts of home, I wish I could have the best of both worlds.”
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📅 Idiom of the Day ✳️ if all else fails 📚 Meaning: You can say "if all else fails" before saying what you'll do if your plans don't work out as well as you'd like. 〰〰〰〰〰〰 ✍ For example: 🔷 If all else fails, I can get there by train. It's never fully booked.…

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We normally travel in business class, but if all else fails I guess we can go in

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📅 #Phrasal_Verb of the Day

✳️ take away

🔎 Meaning:

If you take something away, you take it somewhere else.

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🔺 take away sth: The waitress took away the dirty dishes and then brought our coffee to the table.

🔺 take sth away: Would you like to eat your pizza here or take it away?
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📅 #Phrasal_Verb of the Day ✳️ take away 🔎 Meaning: If you take something away, you take it somewhere else. 〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰 ✍ For example: 🔺 take away sth: The waitress took away the dirty dishes and then brought our coffee to the table. 🔺 take sth away: Would…

🔰 Quick Quiz 🔰

One of the things our local council has to do is take away our

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✅ Business English – 6 common idioms
Do you need to communicate in the business world? Face the facts, you need to learn some common business English idioms if you want to head a team. Improve your communication skills in professional environments by watching this lesson and learning these phrases. When you finish the lesson, take our quiz to make sure you understand the correct usage of each #idiom. Then, you can test them out at work by speaking with your colleagues and clients!
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✅ English #Grammar: Negative Prefixes – “un”, “dis”, “in”, “im”, “non”
Unsure when to use insure? This grammar lesson on prefixes will help you understand some of the prefixes that are common in English. What is the difference between disinterested and uninterested? What about discover and uncover? All are correct but mean different things. Find out now.
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🎞 Learn English with Movies

❗️ Frozen 👩🏼
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🎞 Learn English with Songs

❗️ Rap | Eminem 🎙
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