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SBE: tips for learning English: April 2012
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Wednesday, 25 April 2012. I do hope you are well and feel inspired to learn some English. I am feeling particularly inspired today, after Chelsea's incredible win over Barcelona last night. Today, I thought we could cover some more idioms (expressions) that we use in English, as these are generally harder to fi nd explainations for. 1 the icing ( North American. An attractive but inessential addition or enhancement:. One more goal from Chelsea last night would have been the icing on the cake.
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SBE: tips for learning English: August 2013
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Wednesday, 21 August 2013. Today's post will be looking at idioms or expressions that include the word BACK. So, let's go forward (without looking back), to our first example. 1 To get back to someone. To contact someone in response to a previous contact or request. A (on the phone) I can't speak to you at the moment, as I am in a meeting. Can I get back to you. B I don't have that information at the moment, but I will later. I will get back to you. As soon as I have it. 2 I've got your back. Take (anoth...
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SBE: tips for learning English: June 2014
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Thursday, 5 June 2014. PHRASAL VERBS with more than one meaning. I hope you are all well and ready to learn some new phrasal verbs. Today I have chosen some phrasal verbs with more than one meaning. A reverse, go backwards. Eg Your car is blocking my way, could you back up. A little so my car has space to pass, please? When she decided to run the next marathon. Training with her was hard, but she appreciated my support. Eg Before I formatted the hard drive on my PC I backed up. All the important files.
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SBE: tips for learning English: July 2013
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SBE: tips for learning English: Take on and Take off - Phrasal verbs
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Friday, 14 June 2013. Take on and Take off - Phrasal verbs. Whilst giving a class to a student this week two phrasal verbs came up (appeared). Like most phrasal verbs they don't give us a good idea of what they really mean. So let us look at them, one at a time. First;. This is used in two different ways. 1 To leave the ground, as an airplane does on departure. To leave the airport runway it takes off (he/she/it: takes). To return to an airport, it lands. Returns to the runway and stops). THOUGH, THROUGH...
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SBE: tips for learning English: January 2013
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Thursday, 10 January 2013. Idiom of The Day: In a nutshell. Today's English idiom is (in a nutshell), In a nutshell. When we want to say something in a very direct, basic and concise way, we can use the idiom in a nutshell. Imagine something fitting into a nutshell. It would have to be very small in order to fit inside. So if we want to say something, being economic with our words, and only saying the absolute basic details this would be the idiom to discribe it. Sometimes less is more! A continuous, typ...
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SBE: tips for learning English: May 2013
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Wednesday, 15 May 2013. This is one of those cases where native speakers of English don't think about these prepositions, they come automatically to the speaker. So, in order to answer I really had to think about the criteria for the use of each of these prepositions. I came to the following conclusion. First, let's take an example sentence for each preposition;. 1 Could you please send the e-mail for. 2 Could you please send the e-mail to. In the first example, for. Is used to express in my place. Origi...
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SBE: tips for learning English: June 2013
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Tuesday, 25 June 2013. THOUGH, THROUGH and THOUGHT. Recently in many of our classes, we have explained the different meanings and pronunciations of THOUGH, THROUGH and THOUGHT. They can be very confusing because of the similar way they are spelt, but are all pronounced differently. THOUGH: sounds like snow, go, no and know. THOUGH: sounds like snow, go, no and know. It wasn't a hot day, we went to the beach. THROUGH: sounds like blue, new, who and glue. THOUGHT: sounds like sport, court and sort. 1 To le...
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SBE: tips for learning English: February 2012
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Monday, 27 February 2012. Thanks for stopping by and taking a look at my the latest post. Last week a student of mine (who is a constant source of inspiration for my blog post) asked me the following question;. What is the difference between WAIT an EXPECT? So, today we will deal with that question. WAIT - is a VERB and a NOUN. As a VERB it means: stay where one is or delay action until a particular time or until something else happens. In it's verb form we can use it as in the following examples. I hope...
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