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Meet previous week's top speakers

@Azizamukhametova
@dr_tumurov
@anasteisha1k
@anton_sytin

who consistently open up schedule for speaking practice, attended sessions on time, showing their commitment to mastering English speaking skills

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Routines

For Russian speakers, ‘routine’ is associated with something boring and tiresome. In the English speaking world, ‘routine’ doesn’t carry this negative meaning. It’s a neutral word to speak about everyday actions that help you to start or finish your day or an activity. There are morning routines, evening routines, end of the lesson routines, and bedroom routines — to each his own.

This week, we learn to speak about those rituals that help you stay cool and grounded 😎 no matter what else is going on around you. You’ll pick up key vocabulary and sharpen your pronunciation.

🔠ext >>

🔉 Play the video above sound on to learn more about Jack Dorsey’s (ex CEO of Twitter) routine. Do you buy into it? Or think it’s for hype only?

🌠 Drop an emoji to show you're in for the week of exchange, practice, and growth!

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Hey, it’s Tuesday #s2s_vocabulary time! Speed up your learning of this week’s Routine phrases and earn rewards!

Word of the day >>

TO 🫡AST — to fast means to NOT eat food for a certain period of time.

Example:

Fasting, especially intermittent fasting (IF), has been quite popular in Silicon Valley for years. Many tech entrepreneurs and biohackers see it as a way to improve focus, energy levels, and longevity (living longer).

Want extra points, great karma, and, most importantly, stellar English? It’s so simple:

1 Do the quizz below
2 Tell us about your fasting preferences in comments

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Hey, hey, It’s Wednesday — time to sharpen your pronunciation! Boost your speaking skills and earn rewards for the hall of fame while mastering this weeklytopic's Routine phrases

Phrase of the day

🧐 TO STAY ALERT — to stay alert means to be awake and pay attention to what is happening around you.

Example:

Taking sleep aids such as Ambien doesn’t help staying alert.

Back in 2018, Musk admitted that he was taking Ambien, which some people speculated led to his late-night, chaotic tweets — like the time he tweeted he was taking Tesla private at $420 per share. This caused a massive stir, got him in trouble with the SEC, and even led to Tesla’s board reportedly trying to limit his Twitter use.

It’s a classic case of not staying alert when it matters most. Moral of the story? Maybe don’t mix business with Ambien… or at least stay away from Twitter while doing it.

Do the task below ⤵️

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Learning the phrase above: 3️⃣ things that help me to STAY ALERT (fasting like Jack Dorsey is not one of them)

Discussing Routines

DO the task above ⬆️ to memorise the phrase

Hey! It’s Thursday vocabulary time! Speed up your learning of this s2s_weeklytopic’s Routine phrases and earn rewards for the hall of fame

Phrase of the day

To 🔠EAVE LITTLE ROOM FOR (chilling) — not to have time/patience/resources for (chilling)

Example:

Tech giants thrive on data, but their own privacy? They leave little room for their own privacy. Employees at big firms have shared stories of company surveillance, where even their Slack messages or badge swipes are tracked. Ironically, the people building privacy tools sometimes have the least of it themselves!

Want extra points, great karma, and, most importantly, stellar English? It’s so simple:

1 Do the quizz
2 Tell us what you leave and don't leave room for in comments

#s2s_vocabulary Routine

Enjoying this week’s phrases but still not sure you can use them in speech?

3️⃣things S2S users do that help them put the new phrases straight into action:

🔠 get scheduled 45 min one-to-one speaking meetings with other high level learners
🔠use speaking plans with high level topics and phrases
🔠check personalised feedback reports that help them to get rid of frequent erros


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Text 's2s trial' to @ybeymlina

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Hey, hey! It’s Friday — time to sharpen your pronunciation!

Boost your speaking skills and earn rewards for the hall of fame while mastering this weekly topic’s Routine phrases

Focus word >>

😵‍💫 GROGGINESS — the feeling of being sleepy, confused, or not fully awake, especially when you just wake up.

Example:

After a tight deadline, I felt so groggy and sleep-deprived that I mixed up scheduling posts here

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Tongue twister challenge Good luck saying it without tripping up

GROGGY Greg grabs green grapes GROGGILY at gray dawn 💤

You’ve got this, hall of fame awaits you — drop your audios in the comments

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🔠 On Saturdays we share - and correct - frequent errors we see S2S users make during sessions. We help you not to repeat their mistakes

😒 The Wish is a grammatical trick to say you don't believe something is realistic. You want something so much (eg, to lose weight to become healthier), but think it's impossible

Formula: [wish + Verb in the past (-ed/2d irregular)]

Good and bad examples of how to use the wish formula

✔ I wish I could lose weight (but I think I can't)
NOT I wish I can lose weight

✔ I wish I had more comments (but I think I cannot have more comments)
NOT I wish I have more comments

😏 BUT: We use hope, not wish, when we believe something can really happen in the future

✔ I hope the weather will be fine tomorrow.
NOT I wish the weather will be fine tomorrow.

Do the quizzes below to memorise the pattern

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🪿 We wrap up our #s2s_weekly_topic about Routines with a video about a coder and his pet duck, Bubbles 🫧

In this video, a web dev from the USA shares what his day's like, from dawn (early morning) till dusk (evening).

What do you think, is it an exaggeration or modern reality? Is this sort of routine inevitable (=unavoidable) or pure laziness?
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Wrap up

This week you, attentive readers of S2S channel, have >>

— read and listened to a summary of Jack Dorsey's (Twitter founder) routine
— learned 4 high level phrases
— reviewed an important grammar point: difference between 'wish' and 'hope,' in meaning and form of use
— have done 6 exercises
— improved pronunciation with a tongue twister

😍 Well done! Unmute the channel and keep up the great work. Your English will say Thank you

Meanwhile, this week S2S users have >>

— practiced speaking for 45-90 minutes with 1 or 2 speaking partners
— have received study materials in Notion with an indepth explanation and examples of 10 Routine related phrases
— received personal feedback with strong points and error corrections in their inbox after speaking practice

😉 You can learn more about S2S here

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