✅ English Vocabulary: Talking about BUGS and INSECTS 🦋🐛🐝🐞
This is a simple vocabulary lesson in which you will learn about different bugs and insects. In addition to the names of the insects, you will also learn about some of their actions and physical traits. The vocabulary in this lesson includes caterpillars, ladybugs, bees, spiders, ants, mosquitoes, cockroaches, and fireflies. Watch this video to increase your vocabulary and learn how to pronounce these basic insect names in English.

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✳️ Idioms based on music and song. 🎶
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🔔 a jam session 🔔

If musicians play in a jam session, they play whatever they feel like playing in an informal setting.
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🔔 blow your own horn | blow your own trumpet 🔔

If you blow your own horn, or blow your own trumpet, you proudly boast about your own talents and successes.
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🔔 change your tune 🔔

If you change your tune, you change your opinion about something or your attitude towards someone.
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🔔 face the music 🔔

If someone has to face the music, they have to accept the consequences of doing something wrong.
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🔔 for a song 🔔

If you buy or sell something for a song, you buy or sell it at a very cheap price.
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🔔 make a song and dance about something 🔔

If you make a song and dance about something, you make a big deal out of, or a fuss over, something that isn't very important.
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🔔 music to your ears 🔔

If something is music to your ears, it's just what you want to hear.
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🔔 play it by ear 🔔

If you play it by ear, you don't plan ahead but you do whatever seems best at the time depending on the situation.
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🔔 pull out all the stops 🔔

If you pull out all the stops, you do everything you can to make sure something is successful.
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🔔 ring a bell 🔔
(INFORMAL)

If something rings a bell, it sounds familiar or you think you've heard it before.
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🅾 Lie & Lay

▪️ Lie:

❌Don't say: I'm going to lay down for an hour.

✔️Say: I'm going to lie down for an hour.

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▪️ Lay:

❌Don't say: Please lie the exam papers on the desk.

✔️Say: Please lay out the exam papers on the desk.

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✅ WEDDING & MARRIAGE Vocabulary in English 👰🏻💍🤵🏻
DING DONG! Do you hear those bells ringing? It’s time for a lesson on wedding and marriage vocabulary! Do you know who the maid of honor is? What do you do at a wedding shower? And what is the meaning of the wedding rings? In this lesson, you will learn all this and more. To see if you are prepared for the big day, make sure to do the quiz and see if you’ve understood the lesson. Congratulations, and good luck!
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✅ Learn English: 8 TEST & EXAM Expressions㼀
If you have a test coming up, you are probably talking about it with your classmates to prepare for it. Describe your testing experience accurately by learning some common expressions that are often used when talking about tests and exams. Some examples include procrastinate, cram, pull an all-nighter, burn the midnight oil, pass with flying colors, flunk, and pass by the skin of your teeth. After watching, KILL THAT QUIZ with your new knowledge!

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✅ Advanced Vocabulary of CAUSE & EFFECT
Do you know what it means to wreak havoc, spell disaster, or prompt speculation? In this lesson, you will learn how to use advanced expressions that describe cause and effect. These types of expressions will certainly increase your writing score in the IELTS, TOEFL, TOEIC, or any other English test. Use any of these expressions in your writing, and you are guaranteed to impress your teacher, professor, or examiner!

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✳️ 30 Intermediate English Words (Useful Vocabulary)
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⚛ 20 Native Speaker Expressions to Use at Work

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✅ #Grammar: How to use TO with #transitive_verbs
In this grammar lesson, you will learn more about transitive verbs related to communication. Transitive verbs are verbs that use the preposition to after the verb. For example, talk to, speak to, and reply to are all frequently-used transitive verbs. But how do you know when to use to and when not to use it? Why is it that you can say “I talked to you”, but you can’t say, “I phoned to you”? Watch this video to find out, and stop making this very common mistake.

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✅ #Grammar: 6 ways to use #WILL
Is will only used to talk about the future? Yes. But there are many different contexts and uses of will that you might not be familiar with. Do you know what the difference is between will and be going to? These two are often confused, but you can learn how to use them correctly by watching this lesson. I will teach you six different ways you can use will: future intentions, promises, predictions, confirmations of place and time, order of events, and goodbyes. Take this essential lesson, and never be confused between will and be going to again.

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🎞Learn English with Movies

❗️Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire - The Yule Ball
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Shin Lim Shocks Ellen with a Magic Trick Proving Their Similarities

Magician Shin Lim returned with a trick that proved he and Ellen have a lot in common... and left her so awestruck she forgot one of the most important dates in her life!

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✳️ To get a foot in the door
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📝 IDIOM ✏️

✳️ upset the apple cart

✍ Meaning :
to cause trouble, especially by spoiling someone's plans
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✍ Examples :
✅ Look, he's not trying to upset the applecart—he just needs to meet later in the day now, that's all.
✅ Tom really upset the apple cart by telling Mary the truth about Jane. I always knew he'd tell secrets and upset the apple cart.
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🌐 Word of the Day

✅ glamorous 

[adjective]

🔰 definition of GLAMOROUS

Ⓜ️: very exciting and attractive : full of glamour

🔺She looked glamorous in her formal black gown

🔺She wore a glamorous black gown.

🔺glamorous movie stars

🔺A private investigator’s job isn’t as glamorous as people think.

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🎧Good Job!

Julia and Todd look at praising students and it criticism is a good thing.

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🇺🇸Todd: Talking about kids and school, what do you think about failure? Like it seems like we're moving to where we're not allowed to tell kids that they're not doing well, that everybody has to be a winner. You know, everybody gets a good grade. What do you think about that especially as a teacher and a parent?

🇬🇧Julia: As a teacher, I think, I read something recently that the chastising a student, telling them they did bad, has no motivational value whatsoever but praise does. So definitely I think it's important to always praise. If you have a really bad student and you can't find anything to praise them on then I don't know what the answer is really. But I'm sure you can always find something to praise someone on.

Todd: Yeah.

Julia: So I think it's important to focus on the positives all the time.

Todd: See actually I kind of disagree.

Julia: Do you?

Todd: Yeah. I think that, you know, that your score is or your progress is absolute. Like either you pass or you fail, either you get high marks or low marks but that's the motivation. Like if you get, if you don't do well, then you want to try harder. You know, like if you're a fat kid and you don't want to be fat then you, you know, you're motivated to lose weight or if you aren't a star in the baseball team you need to practice harder so you move up. But if you tell kids that they're doing great when actually they're not exceptional then maybe that actually does harm.

Julia: OK, well maybe I misexplained that. I don't mean give a false, I don't mean say they're doing well when they're not doing well but what I mean is focus more on the successes than the failures.

Todd: Oh, I see. Like confidence building?

Julia: Yeah, I guess that's what I mean more. But I guess we're talking about motivation rather than an end result like, of course, yeah, you're going to fail some things. I don't know. I never failed that many things at school and later on in life when I did encounter failure, I took it pretty bad so perhaps it would have been healthier for me to have failed a few things. I don't know.

Todd: Well that's the question, isn't it? Like when you fail or you do bad I think that maybe that's the eye-opening moment you need to see. Like you need to see the truth rather than just tell somebody that they're doing well when actually maybe they're not or that they're exceptional and talented when maybe they're not.

Julia: When they're not, that's true. Yeah, there was another thing that I read as well about telling, praising children for their intellgence, you should never, you should never tell a child they're smart because they get a false image of what intelligence is. You should always praise effort.

Todd: Ah, right.

Julia: As opposed to some sort of innate, what we believe to be an innate quality that you can never have if you don't have it. So telling a child yeah you're really smart, when the child faces a problem that requires them to apply themselves and maybe fail they're afraid.

Todd: Mmm.

Julia: Because then they may think no I'm not intelligent after all. So it should always be about praising effort and actually the result is not so important.
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🔍Learn Vocabulary from the Lesson!


▪️Chastise/ praise

I read recently that chastising a student has no motivational value, but praise does.

When you strongly criticize someone, you are 'chastising' him. 'Praising' someone involves making positive comments about his actions. Notice the following:

▫️His boss chastised him for his low sales.

▫️It's important to praise your animals when act the way they should.


▪️Exceptional

If you tell kids that they're doing great when actually they're not that exceptional, maybe that does them harm.

Someone is 'exceptional' if he is excellent or extraordinary. Notice the following:

▫️They have an exceptional public transportation system.

▫️She has been an exceptional athlete ever since she learned to run.


▪️Confidence building

You should focus more on the successes than failures for confidence building.

'Confidence building' involves saying or doing something that makes another person or yourself feel better about specific abilities. Notice the following:

▫️The convention focuses on confidence building in young women.

▫️Keeping a journal of what you do at the gym is good for seeing your personal improvements and confidence building.


▪️Take it

Later in life, when I did encounter failure, I took it pretty bad.

Here, how you 'take something' refers to your reaction to an event. It is how you manage or cope with it. Notice the following:

▫️I'm surprised how well he took the news.

▫️She is taking the death of her dog really hard.


▪️Eye-opening

Maybe failing is an eye-opening moment you need to see.

An 'eye-opening' experience is one that makes you see things as they really are, instead of what you thought they were. Notice the following:

▫️An internship will give you an eye-opening experience and show you what it is really like to work in this business.

▫️Traveling to poor countries is a very eye-opening experience.


▪️As opposed to / innate 

Intelligence can be something gained over time, as opposed to being an innate quality that you can never have if you don't have it now.

'As opposed to' is used to present an idea that contrasts with one that was originally listed. Something 'innate' is a quality or capability that you are born with. Notice the following:

▫️It appears that happiness is just innate in some people.

▫️I would prefer to eat something healthy, as opposed to eating pizza again tonight.
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✳️ Word : illustration

👉 meaning ( 1 ) :
a picture in a book, article etc, especially one that helps you to understand it

👉 Examples :
✅  The book contains 62 pages of illustrations.
✅  a striking illustration of 19th-century attitudes to women
✅  For the purposes of illustration, some of the more important symptoms are listed below.

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