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🔰Sounds change (assimilation)2️⃣ #Pronunciation_tips @PMPerfect1
🔰Sounds change (assimilation)3️⃣
Sometimes more than one feature of connected speech happens at the same time. Here, we’ll hear about ellision, when the sounds /t/ or /d/ occur between two consonant sounds, they will often disappear completely from the pronunciation. This means that the last sound of the word will be different and can be changed by the following word.
✨Hand bag. She couldn't find her handbag. (hambag)
✨Saint Paul's. I'm going to visit Saint Paul's Cathedral today. (Sem Paul's)
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Sometimes more than one feature of connected speech happens at the same time. Here, we’ll hear about ellision, when the sounds /t/ or /d/ occur between two consonant sounds, they will often disappear completely from the pronunciation. This means that the last sound of the word will be different and can be changed by the following word.
✨Hand bag. She couldn't find her handbag. (hambag)
✨Saint Paul's. I'm going to visit Saint Paul's Cathedral today. (Sem Paul's)
#Pronunciation_tips
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🍿Snackable
= Snackable describes short online articles, videos and other content that are quick and easy to read or watch.
🔻Because my free time is short, it's good to find some snackable videos I can watch on my smartphone while I wait for the bus.
🔻The short city guides I found on the internet are very snackable and great for planning my trip around Africa.
🔻These days videos are often less than a minute long so that they're snackable and appeal to a younger audience.
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= Snackable describes short online articles, videos and other content that are quick and easy to read or watch.
🔻Because my free time is short, it's good to find some snackable videos I can watch on my smartphone while I wait for the bus.
🔻The short city guides I found on the internet are very snackable and great for planning my trip around Africa.
🔻These days videos are often less than a minute long so that they're snackable and appeal to a younger audience.
#Vocabulary
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🔴 Ought to or should?
Ought to and should are similar in meaning. Should is more common than ought to. Ought to is more formal than should:
🔹There ought to be more street lights here.
(means the same as There should be more street lights here.)
🔹I really ought to walk my dog more. He’s so fat.
(means the same as I really should walk my dog more. He’s so fat.)
✨#Spoken_English:
In speaking, we normally use should as a tag for clauses with ought to:
🔸There ought to be a speed limit here, shouldn’t there?
(preferred to There ought to be a speed limit here, oughtn’t there?)
🔸We ought not to have to pay for basic medicines, should we?
(preferred to We ought not to have to pay for basic medicines, ought we?)
#Grammar
#Modality
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Ought to and should are similar in meaning. Should is more common than ought to. Ought to is more formal than should:
🔹There ought to be more street lights here.
(means the same as There should be more street lights here.)
🔹I really ought to walk my dog more. He’s so fat.
(means the same as I really should walk my dog more. He’s so fat.)
✨#Spoken_English:
In speaking, we normally use should as a tag for clauses with ought to:
🔸There ought to be a speed limit here, shouldn’t there?
(preferred to There ought to be a speed limit here, oughtn’t there?)
🔸We ought not to have to pay for basic medicines, should we?
(preferred to We ought not to have to pay for basic medicines, ought we?)
#Grammar
#Modality
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✨Over the top
🔻مُبالغ فيه/ زيادة عن اللزوم
= You can say something is over the top if you think it's too extreme or it's more than a situation needs or deserves.
🔸I know you love your daughter, Bill, but don't you think giving her a Ferrari for her birthday was a bit over the top?
🔸After he'd calmed down, Brad admitted that punching the photographer and smashing his camera was a little over the top.
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🔻مُبالغ فيه/ زيادة عن اللزوم
= You can say something is over the top if you think it's too extreme or it's more than a situation needs or deserves.
🔸I know you love your daughter, Bill, but don't you think giving her a Ferrari for her birthday was a bit over the top?
🔸After he'd calmed down, Brad admitted that punching the photographer and smashing his camera was a little over the top.
#idiom
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🔹Prepositions with “SEE”
🔻See about:
= attend to; take steps to do or to bring about something.
(Not used often in the passive.)
➖I must see about getting that television set repaired.
✨Often followed simply by a noun, the verbal notion being understood from the situation or the circumstances.
➖Have you seen about the railway tickets ? (i.e. have you bought them ?)
🔻See into:
= The same meaning as look into, i.e. investigate, inquire into.
🔻See over:
= The same as look over, i.e. inspect (see over a house, a factory, etc.).
🔻See through:
1️⃣ Detect the trickery, deception, duplicity, etc., in a scheme, a proposal or a story.
➖Anyone but a fool could see through that story.
2️⃣ Detect the real character or motives of a person as distinct from those which he professes or displays to the world.
➖For all his pious pretentions, it did not take us long to see through him.
🔻See to:
1️⃣ Attend to.
➖There is something wrong with this washing-machine. I must get someone to see to it. (Or 'I must get it seen to’)
➖I'm busy at the moment. I'll get one of the assistants to see to you.
2️⃣ Attend to something in order to make sure that it is done or comes to pass.
➖You won't be disturbed by their rowdiness again; I’ll see to that.
⚠️Note also the expression see to it that, followed by a clause. The meaning is similar to that given above.
➖See to it that you are not late again.
➖I'll see to it that there is no repetition of this delay.
#English_prepositional_idioms
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🔻See about:
= attend to; take steps to do or to bring about something.
(Not used often in the passive.)
➖I must see about getting that television set repaired.
✨Often followed simply by a noun, the verbal notion being understood from the situation or the circumstances.
➖Have you seen about the railway tickets ? (i.e. have you bought them ?)
🔻See into:
= The same meaning as look into, i.e. investigate, inquire into.
🔻See over:
= The same as look over, i.e. inspect (see over a house, a factory, etc.).
🔻See through:
1️⃣ Detect the trickery, deception, duplicity, etc., in a scheme, a proposal or a story.
➖Anyone but a fool could see through that story.
2️⃣ Detect the real character or motives of a person as distinct from those which he professes or displays to the world.
➖For all his pious pretentions, it did not take us long to see through him.
🔻See to:
1️⃣ Attend to.
➖There is something wrong with this washing-machine. I must get someone to see to it. (Or 'I must get it seen to’)
➖I'm busy at the moment. I'll get one of the assistants to see to you.
2️⃣ Attend to something in order to make sure that it is done or comes to pass.
➖You won't be disturbed by their rowdiness again; I’ll see to that.
⚠️Note also the expression see to it that, followed by a clause. The meaning is similar to that given above.
➖See to it that you are not late again.
➖I'll see to it that there is no repetition of this delay.
#English_prepositional_idioms
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🚩by/through/out/from force of habit
= because you have always done a particular thing and it is difficult to change
🔹I get up at 6 o'clock every day out of force of habit.
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= because you have always done a particular thing and it is difficult to change
🔹I get up at 6 o'clock every day out of force of habit.
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🔻Ambivalent = unable to decide something because you have two different feelings.
🔻Ambiguous = unable to understand something because it has two or more different meanings.
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🔻Ambiguous = unable to understand something because it has two or more different meanings.
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🔻Force #verb [transitive] #Metaphor
Forcing someone to do something is like putting physical pressure on them, or pulling or pushing them. The following phrases convey this figure of speech:
💭They put pressure on him to go.
💭I was under a lot of pressure.
💭I felt very pressured.
💭She pushed me into agreeing.
💭He was hauled in by the police for questioning.
💭They squeezed a confession out of him.
💭The country was dragged into war.
💭They kept pressing me for an answer.
💭I didn’t want to do it, but they twisted my arm.
💭She managed to twist/ wrap me around her little finger.
#phrases
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Forcing someone to do something is like putting physical pressure on them, or pulling or pushing them. The following phrases convey this figure of speech:
💭They put pressure on him to go.
💭I was under a lot of pressure.
💭I felt very pressured.
💭She pushed me into agreeing.
💭He was hauled in by the police for questioning.
💭They squeezed a confession out of him.
💭The country was dragged into war.
💭They kept pressing me for an answer.
💭I didn’t want to do it, but they twisted my arm.
💭She managed to twist/ wrap me around her little finger.
#phrases
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✨A force of nature
(is one, not has one) means the person is a very strong personality or character - like a hurricane or a tsunami are also forces of nature, full of energy, unstoppable, unchallengeable, unforgettable. In short, a person to be reckoned with.
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(is one, not has one) means the person is a very strong personality or character - like a hurricane or a tsunami are also forces of nature, full of energy, unstoppable, unchallengeable, unforgettable. In short, a person to be reckoned with.
#idiom
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✨It’s not your daddy’s/dad’s
= Very modern or updated; no longer what an older generation would expect or be used to.
🔹With every building now featuring wireless Internet and touch-screen monitors integrated into the desks in each classroom, this is certainly not your daddy's high school anymore.
🔻This can also use other family members in place of "father." "Mother", "Grampa", or "Grandma" are the most common. Also appears as "isn't your father's."
#idiom
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= Very modern or updated; no longer what an older generation would expect or be used to.
🔹With every building now featuring wireless Internet and touch-screen monitors integrated into the desks in each classroom, this is certainly not your daddy's high school anymore.
🔻This can also use other family members in place of "father." "Mother", "Grampa", or "Grandma" are the most common. Also appears as "isn't your father's."
#idiom
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