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📍3 useful collocations with bring

Bring life = put the energy back into something
🎊 As soon as she entered the room with the music speaker, she brought life to our party.

Bring change = refers to the fact that something will be different
👩‍⚖️ Every government candidate promises that they will bring change to people’s daily lives.

Bring together = connect people or things emotionally, intellectually, or physically
💭 After listening to each other’s arguments, we brought our sides together and found a compromise.

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Listen to Jo’s experience in an unusual restaurant that she had to book a year before the actual date!

Check out “a special restaurant” episode from British Council here: https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/general-english/audio-zone/a-special-restaurant

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😤 Haughty = arrogant, full of pride

After acting in that TV show, Max became haughty. He never really talks with anyone but his show-mates.

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Scrape the barrel = making the best out of the worst situations

🤔 I was thinking about what to write in my college essay for 3 days, and it’s only 5 sentences long. I’m really scraping the barrel.

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“In My Skin” is a coming-of-age story about a teenage writer Bethan who is sectioned in a psychiatric ward.

🎭 Bethan is trying to live a double life when school troubles, friendships, and her mother’s mental illness come into play.

Check out “In My Skin” if you want to practice listening and learn advanced English vocabulary!

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🤝 Take charge of = be responsible for something
Being a leader means taking charge of decisions others aren’t willing to make.

🧐 Take notice = pay attention or show interest
We all took notice when our friends spoke on stage.

⏳ Take your time = you can spend as much time as you need
Next time, take your time before submitting a response. There is no rush in being first.

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🙊 Confidant = a person who you share private information with.

Mark is my closest friend and a confidant. He knows me more than anyone does.

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🏈 “I think my football team will win hands down this time.”

What does “hands down” mean?

Check out the 2-minute podcast with The English We Speak:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0dhxsrx

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🧠 How can your curiosity get you farther than your ambition?

Check out the perspective of an American stand-up comedian, Drew Lynch, with his relatable life path.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow-0P3SyZpM

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🧑‍⚖️ To be shorn of something = to have something taken away from you

The government official was shorn of his powers but still had the resources to set up a new campaign.

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We need help making some improvements to our Wix website. You should have experience with complex Wix functionality, including multilingual websites, contact forms, graphics, etc. Email your resume and examples of your prior work to katerina@enginprogram.org

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We are looking for mid-level or senior developers to help with our online platform. Full-stack, front-end, and back-end developers welcome to apply - you should have extensive experience with our stack (Java/Kotlin/Angular/TypeScript) and be available full-time. Email your resume and a short note of interest to katerina@enginprogram.org

🤯 Stress management has become one of the most popular topics to research.

In this TED Talk, a neuroscientist Daniel Levitin shares about his ways to stay calm when he knows he will be stressed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jPQjjsBbIc

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Go bad = something is no longer fresh enough to drink or eat
🥛 I can smell that your milk from three weeks ago already went bad.

Go bald = lose hair
🧑‍🦲 It’s common for men to go bald after their 40s.

Go mad = become unwise or insane
🤪 Sometimes I think that the entire world went mad! Everyone is glued to their phone screens.

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