Top 10 Most Common Idiomatic Expressions with ‘Like’
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⭕️ Top 10 Most Common Idiomatic Expressions with ‘Like’
💥 Sleep like a log
✅Sleep very deeply, sleep very well
💥 Sell like hotcakes
✅Sell very well, very quickly
💥 Like a fish out of water
✅Completely out of place, not belonging at all
💥 Feel like a million
✅Feel very happy
💥 Like a bump on a log
✅Do not react in a useful of helpful way to the activities around them
💥 Read someone like a book
✅Know exactly someone’s thinking or feelings without having to ask
💥 Watch someone like a Hawk
✅Watch someone very carefully, especially because you expect them to do something wrong
💥 Fit like a glove
✅It fits exactly
💥 Eat like a bird
✅Eat only small amount of food
💥 Know someone or something like the back of one’s hand
✅Know very well, in every detail
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⭕️ Top 10 Most Common Idiomatic Expressions with ‘Like’
💥 Sleep like a log
✅Sleep very deeply, sleep very well
💥 Sell like hotcakes
✅Sell very well, very quickly
💥 Like a fish out of water
✅Completely out of place, not belonging at all
💥 Feel like a million
✅Feel very happy
💥 Like a bump on a log
✅Do not react in a useful of helpful way to the activities around them
💥 Read someone like a book
✅Know exactly someone’s thinking or feelings without having to ask
💥 Watch someone like a Hawk
✅Watch someone very carefully, especially because you expect them to do something wrong
💥 Fit like a glove
✅It fits exactly
💥 Eat like a bird
✅Eat only small amount of food
💥 Know someone or something like the back of one’s hand
✅Know very well, in every detail
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✴️ jog your memory
Ⓜ️eaning:
If something jogs your memory, it helps you to remember something.
✍ For example:
🔺The song really jogged my memory and I could clearly picture the scene thirty years ago when my friends and I first heard it.
🔺The police had a sketch of the suspect drawn and showed it to people in the area in the hope of jogging their memories.
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✴️ jog your memory
Ⓜ️eaning:
If something jogs your memory, it helps you to remember something.
✍ For example:
🔺The song really jogged my memory and I could clearly picture the scene thirty years ago when my friends and I first heard it.
🔺The police had a sketch of the suspect drawn and showed it to people in the area in the hope of jogging their memories.
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I agree vs. I'm agree
AGREE is a verb, just like EAT, SLEEP, THINK and etc.
✅ I eat fruits.
❌ I'm eat fruits.
✅ I agree with you.
❌ I'm agree with you.
♻️ Alternative way to say I agree;
✅ I'm in agreement with you.
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I agree vs. I'm agree
AGREE is a verb, just like EAT, SLEEP, THINK and etc.
✅ I eat fruits.
❌ I'm eat fruits.
✅ I agree with you.
❌ I'm agree with you.
♻️ Alternative way to say I agree;
✅ I'm in agreement with you.
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🔉 As VS. Like 🔉
❓What is the difference between As and Like?
As and Like can be very confusing for many English learners. Today, I'm going to explain how they're different.
🔆 As 🔆
💮Proposition/Conjunction💮
👉 As may function as a preposition and is used when we talk about a job or function.
🔔 Example 🔔
💭 I work as a cook.
💭 He used my pen as a weapon.
👉 As may also be used as a conjunction meaning "In the same way that..."
🔔 Example 🔔
💭 She behaved as her teacher told her.
💭 Walk just as I do.
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🔆 Like 🔆
💮Proposition/Conjunction💮
👉 Like may be used as preposition meaning similar to. It is used to compare things.
🔔 Example 🔔
💭 He worked like a dog.
💭 She sings just like her mom.
👉 Like is often used in place of the subordinating conjunction "as, or as if".
🔔 Example 🔔
💭 They look like they've been fighting. = They look as if they've been fighting.
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🔉 As VS. Like 🔉
❓What is the difference between As and Like?
As and Like can be very confusing for many English learners. Today, I'm going to explain how they're different.
🔆 As 🔆
💮Proposition/Conjunction💮
👉 As may function as a preposition and is used when we talk about a job or function.
🔔 Example 🔔
💭 I work as a cook.
💭 He used my pen as a weapon.
👉 As may also be used as a conjunction meaning "In the same way that..."
🔔 Example 🔔
💭 She behaved as her teacher told her.
💭 Walk just as I do.
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🔆 Like 🔆
💮Proposition/Conjunction💮
👉 Like may be used as preposition meaning similar to. It is used to compare things.
🔔 Example 🔔
💭 He worked like a dog.
💭 She sings just like her mom.
👉 Like is often used in place of the subordinating conjunction "as, or as if".
🔔 Example 🔔
💭 They look like they've been fighting. = They look as if they've been fighting.
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🎧 Boxing as a Sport
Mike talks about how he started boxing and why he chose it as a sport.
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Mike talks about how he started boxing and why he chose it as a sport.
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🇯🇵Erina: So Mike, I heard that you box?
🇨🇦Mike: Well I don't box any more but I was boxing, mostly kick boxing for a while.
Erina: Wow, that sounds crazy. How did you get into it?
Mike: Well, from a young age, from about the age of twelve, I started doing karate in Vancouver and I was training in karate for about seven or eight years and then once I graduated from high school I moved and I moved to Japan and there I continued and didn't have much time to do training but I got involved in the kick boxing circle with some friends that did a lot of kick boxing and different types of martial arts.
Erina: Wow, kick boxing, so I assume the training is pretty hard too, right?
Mike: Yeah, the training was brutal.
Erina: What kind of training do you do?
Mike: Well, I was never professional but I had a couple of amateur fights and I don't think people quite understand how much goes into one fight because leading up to the fight, a couple of months before the fight, a friend of mine and I would be training at least five times a week.
Erina: Wow.
Mike: And we would do really brutal sprintsup a hill over and over again and we'd do interval training on the sand and in addition, of course, we were doing lots of sparring and lots of conditioning and stuff that would just really push your body to the limit and really test you.
Erina: Wow, that must have been very tough. So were you ever worried about head injuries?
Mike: Well, especially with boxing, you get a lot of head injuries and more so over time because unlike other martial arts, boxing is designed to keep you standing and taking hits and that's why you see a lot of professional boxers as they get older and near the end of their career or even after their career, a lot of them have severe brain damage. Their speech is impeded and you can tell that they've really done some damage to their head over the years.
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🇨🇦Mike: Well I don't box any more but I was boxing, mostly kick boxing for a while.
Erina: Wow, that sounds crazy. How did you get into it?
Mike: Well, from a young age, from about the age of twelve, I started doing karate in Vancouver and I was training in karate for about seven or eight years and then once I graduated from high school I moved and I moved to Japan and there I continued and didn't have much time to do training but I got involved in the kick boxing circle with some friends that did a lot of kick boxing and different types of martial arts.
Erina: Wow, kick boxing, so I assume the training is pretty hard too, right?
Mike: Yeah, the training was brutal.
Erina: What kind of training do you do?
Mike: Well, I was never professional but I had a couple of amateur fights and I don't think people quite understand how much goes into one fight because leading up to the fight, a couple of months before the fight, a friend of mine and I would be training at least five times a week.
Erina: Wow.
Mike: And we would do really brutal sprintsup a hill over and over again and we'd do interval training on the sand and in addition, of course, we were doing lots of sparring and lots of conditioning and stuff that would just really push your body to the limit and really test you.
Erina: Wow, that must have been very tough. So were you ever worried about head injuries?
Mike: Well, especially with boxing, you get a lot of head injuries and more so over time because unlike other martial arts, boxing is designed to keep you standing and taking hits and that's why you see a lot of professional boxers as they get older and near the end of their career or even after their career, a lot of them have severe brain damage. Their speech is impeded and you can tell that they've really done some damage to their head over the years.
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Vocabulary from the lesson
▪️Get into
How did you get into kickboxing?
When you 'get into' something, you either begin to like it or begin to do it. Notice the following:
▫️How do people get into ceramics and jewelry making?
▫️I was about 5 years old when I started getting into tennis.
▪️Kickboxing circle
I got involved in a kickboxing circle with some friends.
A 'kickboxing circle' is an informal association or group of people who like to do kickboxing. Notice the following:
▫️There is a women's reading circle that I meet with every week.
▫️Every place that he moves he quickly gets involved with the music circle.
▪️Brutal
The training was brutal.
Here, 'brutal' just means that the training is something that is really difficult or tiring. Notice the following:
▫️That workout video is brutal. You will be sore for days after doing it.
▫️I'm exhausted. Today was a brutal day at school.
▪️Sprints
We were doing brutal sprints up a hill.
When you 'sprint' your run as fast as you can for a short period of time or a short distance. Notice the following:
▫️Playing baseball doesn't require lots of running training, because all you do is short, little sprints.
▫️As part of basketball practice, we usually do sprints around the gym.
▪️Sparring
We were doing lots of sparring.
Two boxers 'spar' to practice their movements for defense and attack. Notice the following:
▫️They aren't really fighting, just sparring.
▫️Most of what we do in class is just sparring, so I don't know what it would feel like to really get hit.
▪️Push to the limit
You do lots of conditioning that pushes your body to the limit.
Doing an activity that 'pushes your body to the limit' means that it is very difficult and you get to a point where you can't do any more. Notice the following:
▫️Do you ever feel pushed to the limit in your job?
▫️Having a personal trainer will push you to the limit in your workouts.
▪️Impeded
You see a lot of professional boxers with impeded speech.
Here, 'impeded speech' refers to boxers talking in a slower manner because of the number of head injuries they have had.
▫️Older people have more impeded recoveries from injuries.
▫️Young children who are not given enough food will frequently have impeded physical abilities.
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▪️Get into
How did you get into kickboxing?
When you 'get into' something, you either begin to like it or begin to do it. Notice the following:
▫️How do people get into ceramics and jewelry making?
▫️I was about 5 years old when I started getting into tennis.
▪️Kickboxing circle
I got involved in a kickboxing circle with some friends.
A 'kickboxing circle' is an informal association or group of people who like to do kickboxing. Notice the following:
▫️There is a women's reading circle that I meet with every week.
▫️Every place that he moves he quickly gets involved with the music circle.
▪️Brutal
The training was brutal.
Here, 'brutal' just means that the training is something that is really difficult or tiring. Notice the following:
▫️That workout video is brutal. You will be sore for days after doing it.
▫️I'm exhausted. Today was a brutal day at school.
▪️Sprints
We were doing brutal sprints up a hill.
When you 'sprint' your run as fast as you can for a short period of time or a short distance. Notice the following:
▫️Playing baseball doesn't require lots of running training, because all you do is short, little sprints.
▫️As part of basketball practice, we usually do sprints around the gym.
▪️Sparring
We were doing lots of sparring.
Two boxers 'spar' to practice their movements for defense and attack. Notice the following:
▫️They aren't really fighting, just sparring.
▫️Most of what we do in class is just sparring, so I don't know what it would feel like to really get hit.
▪️Push to the limit
You do lots of conditioning that pushes your body to the limit.
Doing an activity that 'pushes your body to the limit' means that it is very difficult and you get to a point where you can't do any more. Notice the following:
▫️Do you ever feel pushed to the limit in your job?
▫️Having a personal trainer will push you to the limit in your workouts.
▪️Impeded
You see a lot of professional boxers with impeded speech.
Here, 'impeded speech' refers to boxers talking in a slower manner because of the number of head injuries they have had.
▫️Older people have more impeded recoveries from injuries.
▫️Young children who are not given enough food will frequently have impeded physical abilities.
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☑️ vocabulary
💮 Height & Weight
❇️ Height
🔹tall, very tall, quite tall; six feet tall; not very tall; short;
🔹he is tall; he is taller than his mother; she isn't tall; she isn't as tall as he is;
🔹average height; medium height; middle height;
🔹he is average height; she is of medium height; she is of middle height.
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❇️ Weight
🔸thin, quite thin, slim, slender; skinny, underweight; a thin girl; she is thin; she is slim;
🔸plump, chubby, stout, overweight, obese, fat; a stout woman; he is overweight;
🔸medium-build; heavily built; thickset; broad-shouldered; he is medium-build;
🔸a slender young girl; a slim figure; a delicate figure; delicate constitution;
🔸strong, muscular, athletic; weak, feeble.
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💮 Height & Weight
❇️ Height
🔹tall, very tall, quite tall; six feet tall; not very tall; short;
🔹he is tall; he is taller than his mother; she isn't tall; she isn't as tall as he is;
🔹average height; medium height; middle height;
🔹he is average height; she is of medium height; she is of middle height.
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❇️ Weight
🔸thin, quite thin, slim, slender; skinny, underweight; a thin girl; she is thin; she is slim;
🔸plump, chubby, stout, overweight, obese, fat; a stout woman; he is overweight;
🔸medium-build; heavily built; thickset; broad-shouldered; he is medium-build;
🔸a slender young girl; a slim figure; a delicate figure; delicate constitution;
🔸strong, muscular, athletic; weak, feeble.
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No matter what, no matter when, no matter where…Learn the meaning of this very common expression, and practice how to use it in lots of ways to express different ideas. Each time you learn a new expression, you get closer to becoming a fluent English speaker! No matter what your level of English now, you can improve by watching lessons and practicing.
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No matter what, no matter when, no matter where…Learn the meaning of this very common expression, and practice how to use it in lots of ways to express different ideas. Each time you learn a new expression, you get closer to becoming a fluent English speaker! No matter what your level of English now, you can improve by watching lessons and practicing.
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ℹdiom of the day :
✳ A breath of fresh air.
Meaning ↔Said about a new, fresh and imaginative approach; a change that feels good.
Example ↔president says that the country needs a breath of fresh air.
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✳ A breath of fresh air.
Meaning ↔Said about a new, fresh and imaginative approach; a change that feels good.
Example ↔president says that the country needs a breath of fresh air.
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▫️ Fluency and Coherence
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▫️ Fluency and Coherence
▫️ IELTS Speaking Part 3
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▫️ (Lecture 13)
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