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💥💥 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♨️
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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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Common Mistakes in English
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Miscellaneous Example
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🗂using the objective case after the verb to be .
❌Don’t say : It was him .
✅ Say : It was he .

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⭐️ The pronoun coming after the verb TO BE must be in the nominative case ,and not in the objective in written composition . However ,the objective case is now usually used in conversation ; IT’s me ,It was him/her/them,etc .
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‍ 🌼Today's Idioms 🌼

♨️Leopards never change their spots♨️

✅Meaning:
❗️People can't change basic aspects of their character, especially negative ones.❗️

✅Example:
❗️I doubt very much that marriage will change Chris for the better. A leopard can't change its spots.❗️
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‍ ♨️Bull in a china shop♨️

✅Meaning :
❗️To be extremely clumsy.

✅Example :
❗️Whenever Roy is in the kitchen he breaks
something, so his mother says that he's
like a bull in a china shop❗️
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‍ ♨️crocodile tears ♨️

✅Meaning :
❗️False or fake tears.❗️

✅Example :
❗️Peter felI down but did not hurt himself. He
cried crocodile tears only because he wanted his dad to buy him something.❗️
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🍏The amount of iron in Green beans is same as this amount in the Meat!
It is the best thing to provide the necessary iron of body specially for pregnant women🍎
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🔘Above and over📌

🔗1. Above indicates a position higher than something.

📝 Examples
The birds flew up above the trees.
The sun rose above the horizon.
There is a mirror above the washbasin.
We have rented a room above the shop.
She is above average in intelligence.
Your name comes above mine on the list.

🔗2. Above and Over

Above and over can both mean higher than.

📝 Examples
The helicopter hovered above/over the building.
The water came up above/over our knees.

🔗3. Above is preferred when we want to mean that one thing is not directly over another.

📝 Example
There is a small cottage above the lake. (The cottage is not directly over the lake.)

🔗4. Above is also used in measurements of temperature, height, intelligence etc., where we think of a vertical scale.

📝 Example
The temperature never rose above 10 degree Celsius.

🔗5. Over is preferred when one thing covers and/or touches another.

📝 Examples
He put on a coat over his shirt.
There was cloud over the city.

🔗6. Over is also used to talk about ages and speeds, and to mean more than.

📝 Examples
You have to be over 18 to see that film.
There were over 50 fifty people at the meeting.
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Work out daily with masters and learn words and expressions connected with sport.

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Common Mistakes in English
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Miscellaneous Example
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🗂Using the objective case after the conjunction Than .
❌Don’t say : My sister is taller than me .
✅ Say : My sister is taller than I(am) .
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⭐️ The word Than is a conjunction, and can only be followed by a pronoun in the nominative case, The verb coming after the pronoun is generally omitted .

📍Note; Use the objective case in spoken English; You’re much taller than me .

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​​🍕 Eating Junk Food 🍟

Frank: Hand me that bag of potato chips.

Katie: Here. You mean you're still hungry after two burgers and French fries?

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