SUMMER is perfect time for
water sports:
🏊🏻♂️ swimming
🏄♀️ surfing
🚣♀️ rowing
🤽♀️ water polo
🎣 fishing
⛵️ sailing
😮 and many more:
barefoot skiing, cliff diving, snorkelling, spearfishing
Click here to find out what they are!
Do you like water sports?
water sports:
🏊🏻♂️ swimming
🏄♀️ surfing
🚣♀️ rowing
🤽♀️ water polo
🎣 fishing
⛵️ sailing
😮 and many more:
barefoot skiing, cliff diving, snorkelling, spearfishing
Click here to find out what they are!
Do you like water sports?
Go, Do, Play -
Sports Collocations
Go is generally used for sports and activities ending in –ing (but not always).
🏊♀️”Let's go swimming this weekend."
Do is generally used for individual sports and fighting sports.
🥋”My son can do karate."
Play is generally used for team sports, games and ball games.
⚽️”Who wants to play football with me?"
#feelthedifference
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Sports Collocations
Go is generally used for sports and activities ending in –ing (but not always).
🏊♀️”Let's go swimming this weekend."
Do is generally used for individual sports and fighting sports.
🥋”My son can do karate."
Play is generally used for team sports, games and ball games.
⚽️”Who wants to play football with me?"
#feelthedifference
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New Words In English
🙃 sunion
noun C /ˈsʌn.jən/
a type of onion that does not make your eyes water when you slice or chop it
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Read more about *tearless* onions
#newword
Do you cry when you chop onions?
🙃 sunion
noun C /ˈsʌn.jən/
a type of onion that does not make your eyes water when you slice or chop it
Continue reading about new words
Read more about *tearless* onions
#newword
Do you cry when you chop onions?
🤔 Get = Become
The word get has many different meanings in English, such as 'receive'. However, another very common meaning is also 'become'.
For example: “I’m getting cold” means the same as “I’m becoming cold”.
The only real difference is that get is more informal and popular to use.
The structure is:
GET + ADJECTIVE.
⚠️ BUT BE CAREFUL:
For this meaning you can't use GET + NOUN.
This structure means 'receive' or 'buy'. For example: get some news means the same as receive some news and get a new car means the same as buy a new car.
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#grammarbooster
The word get has many different meanings in English, such as 'receive'. However, another very common meaning is also 'become'.
For example: “I’m getting cold” means the same as “I’m becoming cold”.
The only real difference is that get is more informal and popular to use.
The structure is:
GET + ADJECTIVE.
⚠️ BUT BE CAREFUL:
For this meaning you can't use GET + NOUN.
This structure means 'receive' or 'buy'. For example: get some news means the same as receive some news and get a new car means the same as buy a new car.
Continue reading and do the quiz
#grammarbooster
🐘 Elephant and friends
A lone elephant wandered the forest looking for friends. She came across a monkey and asked, “Will you be my friend, monkey?” “You are too big and cannot swing on trees as I do. So I cannot be your friend”, said the monkey.
The elephant them came across a rabbit and asked him if she could be his friend. “You are too big to fit inside my burrow. You cannot be my friend”, replied the rabbit.
Then the elephant met a frog and asked if she could be her friend. The frog said “You are too big and heavy. You cannot jump like me. I am sorry, but you cannot be my friend”.
The elephant asked a fox, and he got the same reply, that he was too big. The next day, all the animals in the forest were running in fear. The elephant stopped a bear and asked what was happening and was told that a tiger has been attacking all the animals.
The elephant wanted to save the other weak animals and went to the tiger and said “Please sir, leave my friends alone. Do not eat them”. The tiger didn’t listen and asked the elephant to mind her own business. Seeing no other way to solve the problem, the elephant kicked the tiger and scared it away.
She then went back to the others and told them what happened. On hearing how the elephant saved their lives, the animals agreed in unison, “You are just the right size to be our friend”.
Moral: Friends come in all shapes and sizes!
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#readingtime
A lone elephant wandered the forest looking for friends. She came across a monkey and asked, “Will you be my friend, monkey?” “You are too big and cannot swing on trees as I do. So I cannot be your friend”, said the monkey.
The elephant them came across a rabbit and asked him if she could be his friend. “You are too big to fit inside my burrow. You cannot be my friend”, replied the rabbit.
Then the elephant met a frog and asked if she could be her friend. The frog said “You are too big and heavy. You cannot jump like me. I am sorry, but you cannot be my friend”.
The elephant asked a fox, and he got the same reply, that he was too big. The next day, all the animals in the forest were running in fear. The elephant stopped a bear and asked what was happening and was told that a tiger has been attacking all the animals.
The elephant wanted to save the other weak animals and went to the tiger and said “Please sir, leave my friends alone. Do not eat them”. The tiger didn’t listen and asked the elephant to mind her own business. Seeing no other way to solve the problem, the elephant kicked the tiger and scared it away.
She then went back to the others and told them what happened. On hearing how the elephant saved their lives, the animals agreed in unison, “You are just the right size to be our friend”.
Moral: Friends come in all shapes and sizes!
Continue reading
#readingtime
🤔 Altogether or all together?
Altogether means ‘completely’ or ‘in total’:
📖➕📕
The book was €13.50 and the magazine was €5.25, so it was €18.75 altogether.
All together means ‘with each other’, and is similar to together:
👯♀️➕🕺➕🕺➕🕺
A group of five people are waiting at the entrance to a restaurant.
Waiter:
Are you all together?
Customer:
Yes. Can you do a table for five?
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#feelthedifference
Altogether means ‘completely’ or ‘in total’:
📖➕📕
The book was €13.50 and the magazine was €5.25, so it was €18.75 altogether.
All together means ‘with each other’, and is similar to together:
👯♀️➕🕺➕🕺➕🕺
A group of five people are waiting at the entrance to a restaurant.
Waiter:
Are you all together?
Customer:
Yes. Can you do a table for five?
Continue reading
#feelthedifference
😲 Multiple Meanings Words
📚 a book - noun
I love reading books!
🏨to book - verb - to reserve, buy in advance.
I have booked a hotel in London.
📆 last - adjective, adverb
Today is the last day of the week.
When did you last go on holiday?
🕥🕦 to last - verb - to continue for a specified period of time
🇬🇧How long does your lesson last?
It lasts for 50 minutes.
#feelthedifference #homonyms
📚 a book - noun
I love reading books!
🏨to book - verb - to reserve, buy in advance.
I have booked a hotel in London.
📆 last - adjective, adverb
Today is the last day of the week.
When did you last go on holiday?
🕥🕦 to last - verb - to continue for a specified period of time
🇬🇧How long does your lesson last?
It lasts for 50 minutes.
#feelthedifference #homonyms
How to Improve Speaking Skills?
👍Play Taboo with your friends!
Taboo is a classical card game. Your teammates have to guess the words your are describing, but there’s the list of words you can’t say.
For example:
🦈SHARK
teeth
ocean
blood
jaws
✔️You can say: it’s a big dangerous fish, I’m afraid of it
✖️You can’t say: it’s a fish which has got a lot of teeth, it’s the main character of the film “Jaws”.
Speak English and Have Fun!
Read about the rules of the game
Play Taboo online
Download printable Taboo Game Cards
👍Play Taboo with your friends!
Taboo is a classical card game. Your teammates have to guess the words your are describing, but there’s the list of words you can’t say.
For example:
🦈SHARK
teeth
ocean
blood
jaws
✔️You can say: it’s a big dangerous fish, I’m afraid of it
✖️You can’t say: it’s a fish which has got a lot of teeth, it’s the main character of the film “Jaws”.
Speak English and Have Fun!
Read about the rules of the game
Play Taboo online
Download printable Taboo Game Cards
#quote
The most successful people are those who do all year long what they would otherwise do on their summer vacation.
Mark Twain
Do you wanna be that successful?
The most successful people are those who do all year long what they would otherwise do on their summer vacation.
Mark Twain
Do you wanna be that successful?
🤔Confusing Words
A recipe /ˈrɛsɪpi/ is a set of instructions for cooking something.
🥗 Could you give me the recipe of this salad, please?
A receipt /rɪˈsiːt/ is a piece of paper you are given after you pay for something.
💸Always make sure you get a receipt when shopping.
A prescription /prɪˈskrɪpʃ(ə)n/ is a piece of paper a doctor gives you to get the medicine you need.
👩🏻⚕️ Take this prescription and get the medicine from the pharmacy.
#feelthedifference
A recipe /ˈrɛsɪpi/ is a set of instructions for cooking something.
🥗 Could you give me the recipe of this salad, please?
A receipt /rɪˈsiːt/ is a piece of paper you are given after you pay for something.
💸Always make sure you get a receipt when shopping.
A prescription /prɪˈskrɪpʃ(ə)n/ is a piece of paper a doctor gives you to get the medicine you need.
👩🏻⚕️ Take this prescription and get the medicine from the pharmacy.
#feelthedifference