⏰❻ Minute English⏰

Many of the English words we use today like beer, hand, mother and love have all survived from Old English. Neil and Georgina discuss where the English language we use today really comes from.

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Guidelines for writing

TYPES OF COMPOSITION

When you write a composition you need to understand the type of writing required. Your piece of writing can be in the form of a letter, an article for a magazine/newspaper or a report.

LETTERS are written to a person (e.g. your pen friend, a newspaper editor, etc.) or a group of people (e.g. the students ' society, the local football club, etc.) for a specific reason (e.g. to give advice, to make a complaint, etc.). They include:

Informal letters to people you know well, written in a personal chatty style. Below is an example of an informal letter:

Formal letters to managers/officials etc., written in a polite formal style. Below is an example of a formal letter:

/*Semi formal letters** to people you do not know well or people you know but you want to sound polite and respectful e.g. a teacher of yours, your pen friend's parents, etc., written in a polite and respectful style.

ARTICLES are found in magazines and newspapers. The following can be found in the form of an article:

Descriptions of people, places, buildings, objects, festivals, ceremonies etc.

Narratives about real or imaginary events which happened in the past. They can be written in the first person (first-person narratives) when the writer is the main character of the story or in the third person (third-person narratives) when the writer is describing

News reports about current/recent events (e.g. fires, accidents, etc.) written in impersonal style. News reports present facts objectively and unemotionally.

Reviews discussing a film, TV program, book, restaurant, etc. and recommending
it or not to the reader.

Discursive essays about arguments concerning particular subjects. They include:

"For and Against" essays which present the pros and cons on a specific topic

Opinion Essays which present the writer's personal opinion on a specific topic

Providing Solutions to Problems which discuss a problem and its causes, making suggestions and mentioning the expected results and consequences

Letters to the Editor which present the writer's personal opinion on a specific topic or the writer's suggestions on a specific problem.

REPORTS are formal pieces of writing and have a specific format and features. They include:

-Assessment reports discussing the suitability of a person, place, plan, etc. for a particular purpose, job, etc.
-Proposals reports discussing suggestions or decisions about future actions.

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‍ 🔥 collocations relating to fire (Part II) 🔥

6️⃣ Go up in flames
📖 to suddenly begin burning in a way that is difficult to control

🏷 The helicopter burst into flames after hitting a power line.
🏷 The cottage went up in flames.

7️⃣ die down phrasal verb
📖 if something dies down, it becomes less strong, active, or violent
🏷 The barbecue won't be ready until the flames have died down.
🏷 The fire/ flames soon died down.

📌 go down phrasal verb
📖 to become lower in level, amount etc
🏷 The fire went down last night.

8️⃣ put out phrasal verb
📖 to make a fire etc stop burning
📌 SYN extinguish [formal]

🏷 The rescue services are still trying to put out the fires.
🏷 They managed to put out the fire

9️⃣ light verb (past tense and past participle lit or lighted)
📖 [intransitive, transitive] to start to burn, or to make something start to burn

🏷 He stopped to light a cigarette.
🏷 I lit the fire and poured a drink.

collocations relating to fire (Part I) 👇👇
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🦜This wee puffin is ready to breed – and is searching for a mate.🕊

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‍ ⚠️CONFUSING WORDS⚠️

🔘vain

🔘vein

🔘whine

🔘wine

🔘win

🔘when

🔘wean

🔘van

🔘vine

🔘vane
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‌📖 Context: a story about lying

🔘 Today's WORDS are:
🟡 economical with the truth
🟡 talk something ↔️ up
🟡 em‧bel‧lish

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​ The Perfume Collector
A remarkable novel about secrets, desire, memory, passion, and possibility.
Newlywed Grace Monroe doesn’t fit anyone’s expectations of a successful 1950s London socialite, least of all her own. When she receives an unexpected inheritance from a complete stranger, Madame Eva d’Orsey, Grace is drawn to uncover the identity of her mysterious benefactor.

Authors: Kathleen Tessaro
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🌼Today's Idioms🌼

♨️Over my dead body♨️


✅Meaning:
Under no circumstances, absolutely not🌻

✅Example
He wants to get all the money for himself, well, it will be over my dead body! 🌻

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‍ ♨️Have a whale of a time♨️

✅Meaning:
To have an exciting or fun time🌼

✅Example:
We had a whale of a time at the party Saturday night🌼


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♨️Back the wrong horse♨️

✅Meaning:
To support someone that can't win🌻

✅Example :
Tom backed the wrong horse at the meeting 🌻
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Today's words are:

1⃣ Torrential rain
2⃣ Considerable difficulty
3⃣ Widespread damage
4⃣ Great honour

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🎀 As If 🆚 As Though 🎀

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🎀 Double whammy 🎀

Have you ever been in a double whammy situation?
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​​Today's phrasal verbs:👇

🧶Juice something up
to make something more exciting or interesting

Juice up your presentations with colorful graphics.
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🧶 bring something up
to mention a subject or start to talk about it
Synonym raise

Bring it up at the meeting.
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🧶 Go away
If you go away, you leave a place and spend a period of time some where else, especially as a holiday.

When you go away on holiday, you need to take extra security precautions. 
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🎀 Either ... or 🎀

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