✴️ #idiom
✳️ OUT OF SORTS
1⃣: somewhat angry or unhappy
🔺My boss is (feeling) out of sorts today.
2⃣ : somewhat ill
🔺I don't know what's wrong with me, but I'm feeling a little out of sorts.
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✳️ OUT OF SORTS
1⃣: somewhat angry or unhappy
🔺My boss is (feeling) out of sorts today.
2⃣ : somewhat ill
🔺I don't know what's wrong with me, but I'm feeling a little out of sorts.
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🔰 Phrasal Verb of the Day
✴️ bring up (1)
✍ Meaning:
If you bring somebody up, you raise them from childhood to young adulthood.
👉 For example:
🔹 bring up sb
The most important thing most of us do in life is to bring up our children and teach them to be decent, considerate adults.
🔹 bring sb up
Maria is an amazing woman. She brought up three children on her own after her husband abandoned them.
🔹 be brought up
by Emmanuel was brought up by his grandparents after his parents were killed in a car crash.
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🔘 #phrasal_verb
✴️ bring up (1)
✍ Meaning:
If you bring somebody up, you raise them from childhood to young adulthood.
👉 For example:
🔹 bring up sb
The most important thing most of us do in life is to bring up our children and teach them to be decent, considerate adults.
🔹 bring sb up
Maria is an amazing woman. She brought up three children on her own after her husband abandoned them.
🔹 be brought up
by Emmanuel was brought up by his grandparents after his parents were killed in a car crash.
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🔘 #phrasal_verb
English Language Union
🔰 Phrasal Verb of the Day ✴️ bring up (1) ✍ Meaning: If you bring somebody up, you raise them from childhood to young adulthood. 👉 For example: 🔹 bring up sb The most important thing most of us do in life is to bring up our children and teach them to…
🌟Quick Quiz🌟
Kareem and Nada have just been married, and they're already reading books on how to bring up.................. .
Kareem and Nada have just been married, and they're already reading books on how to bring up.................. .
Anonymous Poll
82%
a. their future children
10%
b. their income
8%
c. their new house
🔰 Slang of the Day
✳️ geek
✍ Meaning:
a computer and IT expert
👉 For example:
🔺Google has some of the smartest geeks in the business working for them.
🔺A lot of those computer geeks we saw in college in the 70's and 80's are incredibly wealthy now.
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✳️ #slang
✳️ geek
✍ Meaning:
a computer and IT expert
👉 For example:
🔺Google has some of the smartest geeks in the business working for them.
🔺A lot of those computer geeks we saw in college in the 70's and 80's are incredibly wealthy now.
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✳️ #slang
English Language Union
🔰 Slang of the Day ✳️ geek ✍ Meaning: a computer and IT expert 👉 For example: 🔺Google has some of the smartest geeks in the business working for them. 🔺A lot of those computer geeks we saw in college in the 70's and 80's are incredibly wealthy now.…
⭐Quick Quiz⭐
If you want to meet a lot of geeks, you should go to...............
If you want to meet a lot of geeks, you should go to...............
Anonymous Poll
12%
a. a baseball game
76%
b. a software convention
12%
c. a jazz festival
📆 Idiom of the Day
✴️ drink like a fish 🐟
❗️ INFORMAL
✍ Meaning:
For example: 👉
♦️Since he got back from the war Billy's been drinking like a fish, and we think he needs some help.
♦️ Some people might say I drink like a fish, but I don't think I drink too much.
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✳️ #idiom
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✴️ drink like a fish 🐟
❗️ INFORMAL
✍ Meaning:
If someone drinks like a fish, they drink a lot of alcohol.
For example: 👉
♦️Since he got back from the war Billy's been drinking like a fish, and we think he needs some help.
♦️ Some people might say I drink like a fish, but I don't think I drink too much.
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✳️ #idiom
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English Language Union
📆 Idiom of the Day ✴️ drink like a fish 🐟 ❗️ INFORMAL ✍ Meaning: If someone drinks like a fish, they drink a lot of alcohol. For example: 👉 ♦️Since he got back from the war Billy's been drinking like a fish, and we think he needs some help. ♦️ Some…
🍒Quick Quiz🍒
Even though uncle Barry drinks like a fish, he................. .
Even though uncle Barry drinks like a fish, he................. .
Anonymous Poll
23%
a. never drinks alcohol
61%
b. never looks drunk
16%
c. never drinks much
🔰 #Idiom of the Day
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❇️ make hay while the sun shines
✍ Meaning: ⤵️
If you make hay while the sun shines, you make good use of the chance to do something while it lasts.
✍ For example: ⤵️
🔺We've got a few days off work so lets make hay while the sun shines and do some landscaping around the back of the house.
🔺Jim works too much, but he reckons he's just making hay while the sun shines. He says he'll slow down once he's made his fortune.
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✏️✏️✏️✏️✏️✏️✏️
✏️✏️✏️✏️✏️✏️
❇️ make hay while the sun shines
✍ Meaning: ⤵️
If you make hay while the sun shines, you make good use of the chance to do something while it lasts.
✍ For example: ⤵️
🔺We've got a few days off work so lets make hay while the sun shines and do some landscaping around the back of the house.
🔺Jim works too much, but he reckons he's just making hay while the sun shines. He says he'll slow down once he's made his fortune.
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#vocabulary
👩💼 👩🏻🔧 Physical Descriptions 👨🏻💼👨🔧
📌
📌 We use BE for: - height, weight, skin colour.
📌 We use HAVE for:- hair (length), hair (style), hair (colour) and facial features.
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📍 Height
Short - Medium height - Tall
📍 Weight
Skinny - Thin - Slim - Medium weight - chubby - fat - overweight - obese
📍 Skin Colour
Fair-skinned - Tanned - Dark-skinned
📍 Hair (Length)
Short - Medium length - Long
📍 Hair (Style)
Straight - Wavy - Curly
📍 Facial Features
Beard - Black Eye - Moustache - Pimples
📍 Other Features
Mole - Scar - Wart - Wrinkles
👣 Examples:
Chris is medium height.
Tanya has blonde hair.
Albert is overweight.
Donna has curly hair and is tanned.
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👩💼 👩🏻🔧 Physical Descriptions 👨🏻💼👨🔧
📌
When giving physical descriptions, the two most common verbs to use are BE and HAVE, however, they are quite specific.📌 We use BE for: - height, weight, skin colour.
📌 We use HAVE for:- hair (length), hair (style), hair (colour) and facial features.
━━━━━━━━━
📍 Height
Short - Medium height - Tall
📍 Weight
Skinny - Thin - Slim - Medium weight - chubby - fat - overweight - obese
📍 Skin Colour
Fair-skinned - Tanned - Dark-skinned
📍 Hair (Length)
Short - Medium length - Long
📍 Hair (Style)
Straight - Wavy - Curly
📍 Facial Features
Beard - Black Eye - Moustache - Pimples
📍 Other Features
Mole - Scar - Wart - Wrinkles
👣 Examples:
Chris is medium height.
Tanya has blonde hair.
Albert is overweight.
Donna has curly hair and is tanned.
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Audio
🎧 Camboida Road Trip (Part 1)
Julia talks about taking a biking trip across Cambodia for charity.
#pod
#Podcast_Transcript
Julia talks about taking a biking trip across Cambodia for charity.
#pod
#Podcast_Transcript
🇺🇸Todd: So Julia, I was looking at your website and I noticed that you did a bike trip in Cambodia.
🇬🇧Julia: Yes, that's right. I joined an organization called Pepi and we did a ride from Siem Reap to Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City.
Todd: Wow, that's pretty cool.
Julia: Thank you.
Todd: So how did you do this trip? Was it through some organization?
Julia: Well, actually it was a couple of friends of mine lived in the same town as me and it was their idea. They wanted to, they'd been to Cambodia, they wanted to go back and they wanted to do something somehow to help in some way. They recognized there was a problem with education in Cambodia, availability of education. They wanted to build a school so they went online and they found an organization through which they could, if they raised the funds, this organization would build a school for them and so we incorporated the bike ride as part of the fundraising and as part of the learning process. We wanted to actually go to Cambodia and see the country, as much of the country as possible.
Todd: So that's pretty cool. So first let's talk about the bike ride. What exactly were the details of the trip?
Julia: Well, it was, this ride has now become an annual event and obviously that was the first one so the details were a little sketchy in the beginning. We kind of were making it up as we went along. We planned for about a year in terms of preparation, physical training and planning the routes and raising the money and deciding where we'd stay, how long it'd take, all those kind of things. And we, actually we hired bikes from a company in Cambodia when we got there. They were mountain bikes. We had panniers, we actually got a company that sponsored us for those so we could carry stuff with us and we visited about seventeen organizations during the ride and other NGOs, other educational organizations, a few of the other schools that were part of the same project we also visited them and we took with us teaching materials because we did some English classes and some environmental awareness classes as we rode. So those organizations kind of were the pinpoints of where we stopped and stayed.
Todd: So for the bike ride you started in Phnom Penh?
Julia: We started in Siem Reap.
Todd: Siem Reap?
Julia: Which is near Angkor Wat which is near where the school was built.
Todd: And then from there you went to Phnom Penh?
Julia: We went, actually we set off from our school which is on a road that runs towards the Thai border in a very rural place. It was unpaved road, it was very bumpy and it was about a two hour drive north of Siem Reap. So from the school we headed down to Battambang which is the kind of third biggest city, not so famous, but it's a tourist destination and also a nice city, a very nice city and we followed around the lower edge of the Tonle Sap River, Lake sorry, and we did come into Phnom Penh. We spent a few nights in Phnom Penh. Then we headed down to the coast via a town called Kep and ended up at Sihanoukville which is one of the big coastal, it's a big tourist resort basically on the Cambodian coast. We stayed there a few nights then we looped back to Phnom Penh, spent another few nights in Phnom Penh and then we followed the Mekong River through the delta and across the border into Vietnam and into Ho Chi Minh City.
Todd: That's fantastic.
Julia: It's beautiful.
🇬🇧Julia: Yes, that's right. I joined an organization called Pepi and we did a ride from Siem Reap to Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City.
Todd: Wow, that's pretty cool.
Julia: Thank you.
Todd: So how did you do this trip? Was it through some organization?
Julia: Well, actually it was a couple of friends of mine lived in the same town as me and it was their idea. They wanted to, they'd been to Cambodia, they wanted to go back and they wanted to do something somehow to help in some way. They recognized there was a problem with education in Cambodia, availability of education. They wanted to build a school so they went online and they found an organization through which they could, if they raised the funds, this organization would build a school for them and so we incorporated the bike ride as part of the fundraising and as part of the learning process. We wanted to actually go to Cambodia and see the country, as much of the country as possible.
Todd: So that's pretty cool. So first let's talk about the bike ride. What exactly were the details of the trip?
Julia: Well, it was, this ride has now become an annual event and obviously that was the first one so the details were a little sketchy in the beginning. We kind of were making it up as we went along. We planned for about a year in terms of preparation, physical training and planning the routes and raising the money and deciding where we'd stay, how long it'd take, all those kind of things. And we, actually we hired bikes from a company in Cambodia when we got there. They were mountain bikes. We had panniers, we actually got a company that sponsored us for those so we could carry stuff with us and we visited about seventeen organizations during the ride and other NGOs, other educational organizations, a few of the other schools that were part of the same project we also visited them and we took with us teaching materials because we did some English classes and some environmental awareness classes as we rode. So those organizations kind of were the pinpoints of where we stopped and stayed.
Todd: So for the bike ride you started in Phnom Penh?
Julia: We started in Siem Reap.
Todd: Siem Reap?
Julia: Which is near Angkor Wat which is near where the school was built.
Todd: And then from there you went to Phnom Penh?
Julia: We went, actually we set off from our school which is on a road that runs towards the Thai border in a very rural place. It was unpaved road, it was very bumpy and it was about a two hour drive north of Siem Reap. So from the school we headed down to Battambang which is the kind of third biggest city, not so famous, but it's a tourist destination and also a nice city, a very nice city and we followed around the lower edge of the Tonle Sap River, Lake sorry, and we did come into Phnom Penh. We spent a few nights in Phnom Penh. Then we headed down to the coast via a town called Kep and ended up at Sihanoukville which is one of the big coastal, it's a big tourist resort basically on the Cambodian coast. We stayed there a few nights then we looped back to Phnom Penh, spent another few nights in Phnom Penh and then we followed the Mekong River through the delta and across the border into Vietnam and into Ho Chi Minh City.
Todd: That's fantastic.
Julia: It's beautiful.
Vocabulary from lesson
▪️Fundraising
We incorporated the bike ride as part of the fundraising and as part of the learning process.
When you are 'fundraising, you are trying to collect money for a particular cause or event. Notice the following:
▫️They whole group is busy fundraising for the trip now.
▫️We have some great fundraising ideas for next year.
▪️Annual
This ride has now become an annual event.
Something that is 'annual' happens every year. Notice the following:
▫️This competition is an annual event.
▫️Tomorrow is the annual holiday party for the company.
▪️Sketchy
So the details were a little bit sketchy in the beginning.
In this case, 'sketchy' refers something that is not completely planned. Notice the following:
▫️We have kind of a sketchy idea of party plans right now.
▫️All of the details are still a little sketchy, so I will let you know when we have made some decisions.
▪️Panniers
We had panniers, so we could carry stuff with us.
Used in cycling, a 'pannier' is a bag on both sides of the rear wheel for transporting things. Notice the following:
▫️It's more difficult to ride with these panniers on my bicycle?
▫️I can't buy anything else, because my panniers are already full.
▪️Set off
Actually, we set off from our school, which is on a road that runs toward the Thai border.
The place where you 'set off' is the place where you start or leave from. Notice the following:
▫️I feel really stressed when I set off late in the morning.
▫️What time would you like to set off tomorrow?
▪️Delta
Then we followed the Mekong River through the delta.
A 'delta' is an area where a river separates and flows into the ocean. Notice the following:
▫️Heavy rains can cause big problems in delta areas.
▫️Many people fish in the delta area.
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▪️Fundraising
We incorporated the bike ride as part of the fundraising and as part of the learning process.
When you are 'fundraising, you are trying to collect money for a particular cause or event. Notice the following:
▫️They whole group is busy fundraising for the trip now.
▫️We have some great fundraising ideas for next year.
▪️Annual
This ride has now become an annual event.
Something that is 'annual' happens every year. Notice the following:
▫️This competition is an annual event.
▫️Tomorrow is the annual holiday party for the company.
▪️Sketchy
So the details were a little bit sketchy in the beginning.
In this case, 'sketchy' refers something that is not completely planned. Notice the following:
▫️We have kind of a sketchy idea of party plans right now.
▫️All of the details are still a little sketchy, so I will let you know when we have made some decisions.
▪️Panniers
We had panniers, so we could carry stuff with us.
Used in cycling, a 'pannier' is a bag on both sides of the rear wheel for transporting things. Notice the following:
▫️It's more difficult to ride with these panniers on my bicycle?
▫️I can't buy anything else, because my panniers are already full.
▪️Set off
Actually, we set off from our school, which is on a road that runs toward the Thai border.
The place where you 'set off' is the place where you start or leave from. Notice the following:
▫️I feel really stressed when I set off late in the morning.
▫️What time would you like to set off tomorrow?
▪️Delta
Then we followed the Mekong River through the delta.
A 'delta' is an area where a river separates and flows into the ocean. Notice the following:
▫️Heavy rains can cause big problems in delta areas.
▫️Many people fish in the delta area.
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☑️ #Idiom the Day
✳️ keep track of
◼️ Meaning:
If you keep track of something or someone, you continue to know what's happening with them.
◼️ For example:
♦️When I'm travelling I keep track of my football team by checking out their website.
♦️Rosie has so many grandchildren and great grandchildren that she has trouble keeping track of them all.
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✳️ keep track of
◼️ Meaning:
If you keep track of something or someone, you continue to know what's happening with them.
◼️ For example:
♦️When I'm travelling I keep track of my football team by checking out their website.
♦️Rosie has so many grandchildren and great grandchildren that she has trouble keeping track of them all.
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English Language Union
☑️ #Idiom the Day ✳️ keep track of ◼️ Meaning: If you keep track of something or someone, you continue to know what's happening with them. ◼️ For example: ♦️When I'm travelling I keep track of my football team by checking out their website. ♦️Rosie has…
⭐Quick Quiz⭐
Which person usually keeps track of a company's income and expenses?
Which person usually keeps track of a company's income and expenses?
Anonymous Poll
14%
a. a security guard
79%
b. an accountant
7%
c. a receptionist