​​​​🔰 Vocabulary class
🌀 Judging character Part 2

4️⃣ virtue /ˈvɜːtʃuː $ ˈvɜːr-/ noun [countable]
📖 a particular good quality in someone’s character
📌 OPP vice
🏷 Among her many virtues are loyalty, courage, and truthfulness.
🏷 They believed in the virtues of culture, civilization and reason.

5️⃣ cunning /ˈkʌnɪŋ/ adjective
📖 someone who is cunning is clever and good at deceiving people in order to get what they want
📌 SYN crafty
🏷 But the wicked creature was very cunning, and she finally thought of a trick that would give her what she wanted.
🏷 She's a cunning little devil! She left for school as usual, and then went into town instead with her friends.

6️⃣ impulsive /ɪmˈpʌlsɪv/ adjective
📖 someone who is impulsive does things without considering the possible dangers or problems first
🏷 Rosa was impulsive and sometimes regretted things she’d done.
🏷 In a burst of impulsive generosity, I offered to pay.

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Listening practice
🇺🇸 #American_accent 🇺🇸

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🔤 Study activity - Spelling 🔤

📄✔️— Eliminate spelling errors in your writing;
☑️ — Learn to catch errors that spell-check overlooks;
📝 — Write more efficiently and confidently

⭕️ The activity has 3 rounds, for each round is given relevant task, and your task is to decide for the proper use of spelling in following tasks and send your answers to our group's bot: @EngMW_bot Admins will check them and send the correct answers.


📍Round 1. Add a letter or OK? 📍

🔘 Wedn_sday

a: e
b: <no change>

🔘 uniqu_ly

a: e
b: <no change>

🔘 undou_tedly

a: b
b: <no change>

🔘 mak_ing

a: <no change>
b: e

📍Round 2. Flip-flop📍

🔘 ach__ve

a: ie
b: ei

🔘f__ndish

a: ei
b: ie

🔘 d__f

a: ea
b: ae

🔘 bel__f

a: ei
b: ie

📍Last Round. Double or single letter?📍

🔘 mad_er

a: <no change>
b: d

🔘 pos_ible

a: s
b:<no change>

🔘 commis_ion

a: s
b:<no change>

🔘 throt_le

a: <no change>
b: t

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🌊 Sun, sea, sand and some useful beach #expressions

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🔘About📌

🔗1. To indicate movement or position

📝 About indicates movement or position in various directions and places.

We walked about the old city.
The princes went riding about the country.
Children were running about everywhere.
Men were standing about the street corners.

🔗2. To mean 'near to'

📝 About can mean 'near to.'
They are living somewhere about here.

🔗3. To mean approximately

📝 About can mean a little more or less, a little before or after and similar ideas.
She is about 10 year old.
It is about 5 o’ clock.

🔗4. How about, what about

📝 How about and what about are used to seek an opinion and/or propose a plan.
How about having a drink? (Propose a plan.)
He is a handsome fellow, but what about his character? (Seeks an opinion.)

🔗5. About and On

📝 About and on can both mean in connection with. However, there is a slight difference between them.
Compare:

This is a book on African history.
This is a book for children about the festivals of India.

📝 On used in the first sentence suggests that the book is serious or academic. It fits specialists. 
📝 About used in the second sentence suggests that the book only gives some information.

This is a movie on the life of Gautam Buddha. (A serious work on his life)
This is a movie about Gautam Buddha. (Only gives some information about him)

🔗6. About to

📝 About to means on the point of doing something.

We were about to go to bed when the telephone rang.
The show was about to start when the lights went out.

🔗7. Not about to can mean unwilling to.

📝 I am not about to lend him my car.
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📍Stable

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​​🔰 Vocabulary class
🌀 Judging character Part 3 Part 1 Part 2

7️⃣ naive /naɪˈiːv/ adjective
📖 not having much experience of how complicated life is, so that you trust people too much and believe that good things will always happen
🏷 Jim can be so naive sometimes.
🏷 It would be naive to think that this could solve all the area’s problems straight away.

8️⃣ cynical /ˈsɪnɪkəl/ adjective
📖 unwilling to believe that people have good, honest, or sincere reasons for doing something
📌 cynical about
🏷 The public is cynical about election promises.
🏷 I think movie stars just do charity work to get publicity - but maybe I'm too cynical.

9️⃣ be cruel to be kind phrase
📖 to do something to someone that will make them upset or unhappy in order to help them in another way
🏷 George did not like being firm with Lennie but he knew that he had to be cruel to be kind.
🏷 You've got to be cruel to be kind, and dismantling the Dome would be the best solution for everybody.

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Daily Dare №44. 40 Climbers

Work out daily with masters and learn words and expressions connected with sport.

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💬Description: What is the true object of Don Quixote’s quest? I find that unanswerable. What are Hamlet’s authentic motives? We are not permitted to know.

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📄Title:Don Quixote (Miguel de cervantes
📝By:Harlod Bloom

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🎧Listening practice🎧
🇺🇸 #American_accent 🇺🇸

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♈ Vocabulary class

💥💥 jovial /ˈdʒoʊviəl/ adjective

Ⓜ (of a person) friendly and in a good mood, or (of a situation) enjoyable because of being friendly and pleasant

✅ a jovial time/evening/chat

✳ He seemed a very jovial guy.

✨ joviality noun [ U ]
✨ jovially adverb

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💥💥 stoic /ˈstoʊɪk/ adjective also stoical

Ⓜ determined not to complain or show your feelings, especially when something bad happens to you

✳ We knew she must be in pain, despite her stoic attitude.

✨ stoic noun [ C ]
✨ stoically adverb
💢 Synonyms: forbearing, long-suffering, patient, tolerant

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💥💥 hideous /ˈhɪdiəs/ adjective

Ⓜ extremely ugly or bad

✳ She wears the most hideous colour combinations you could ever imagine.

✨ hideousness noun [ U ]
✨ hideously adverb
💢 synonyms: ugly, unsightly, disgusting

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📜Here you are the script


A: "Life's so boring."

B: "Well, most of the time it is, I guess."

A: "What do you think will make you happy?"

B: "I think money will make me happy."

A: "You heard people say that money doesn't guarantee happiness."

B: "It will for me. Then I can do all the things I want to do."

A: "You'll get bored eventually."

B: "Then I can find something new to do. If I don't have to worry about money, then I don't have to work."

A: "That's true, I guess. If I didn't have to work, I think I would be happy."

B: "You see... money doesn't equal happiness, but it takes away a lot of responsibilities."
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​​♨️Today's Idioms♨️
🦋 #Lesson10Part3
Part1
Part2

✅(To) Roll up one's sleeves:
🌸To prepare to work.


✅ (to) jump the gun :
🌸to start doing something too soon or ahead of everybody else.


✅(to) figure out:
🌸to solve; to determine.


✅ballpark figure:
🌸an approximate number.


✅(to) sit tight :
🌸 to wait patiently.
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#lesson10Part3
❤️the pronunciation of today's idioms❤️
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❣️ Here you are the answers:
1/ b) on
2/ a) back
3/ b) around
4/ c) cold
5/ a) into
6/ c) by
7/ b) of
8/ a) give
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