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Do you want to know more phrases with 🟢 ‘green’? Don’t feel 🤢 ‘green around the gills’! All you need to do is scroll through the images to learn 7 phrases with ‘green’. ✍️ Let us know how you get on in the comments below!⁣

Click on the link in our bio to learn some more green idioms with 👨‍🏫 The Teacher⁣

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🫖 Sian would like to make you a cuppa! 😀 Watch this short video to learn some useful phrases for offering to make someone a cup of tea and for answering questions about how you take your tea!

🫖 ☕️ Do you like tea? How do you take it?
🏃🏻‍♂️ Go on Abu! 💪 Can you find the mistake in this sentence?⁣

EXTRA: In this short video, you'll learn all about the difference between 'hard' and 'hardly'. Click on the link in our bio.⁣

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😠 😤 Here’s an expression to use when you’ve upset someone – and they’re letting you know how they feel! ⁣
For example: “I didn’t return my brother’s car on time and now I’m in the doghouse. He hasn’t spoken to me for three days.” ⁣

🗣️ When were you last in the doghouse? Tell us about it! Do you know any more animal idioms?⁣

EXTRA: 🐳 🐑 🐶 Learn lots more animal idioms on our website! Click on our link in bio!⁣
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💝 We've prepared these slides specially for you! 😊 Scroll through the slides to learn the difference between ‘specially’ and ‘especially’ – and don’t forget to answer to the question on the last slide in the comments 👇🏻👇🏽👇🏿👇🏻👇🏽

EXTRA: Find out more about the difference between these words by clicking on the link in our bio!⁣
🗞️ Do you follow the news?🎧 In our NEW easy podcast Neil and Beth have a real conversation in easy English about their news habits⁣

Learn how to talk about how much you follow the news.⁣

🎧 Listen on our website - you'll find the link in our bio.⁣

📱 And follow the Learning Easy English podcast on your podcast app so you don’t miss an episode!⁣
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We drink 🥤 water and wash with water, but what other verbs can we use with 💧‘water’? In this video, George will 🗣️ tell you 5 things you can do with water. 🤔 Can you think of any more? ✍️ Write a comment!
'since' and 'for' are two words that often get confused! 😵‍💫 Do you know how we use them? 🫵 Write which one of these sentences is correct in the comments! We will tell you the answer later. 😊

Want to learn more about 'for' and 'since'? Click the link in our bio! 😄

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😱🗣️Conversations between native speakers can sound very fast and difficult to understand. In this short video, 👩‍🏫 Sian will help you understand a very common conversation starter in English – and you’ll learn some tips to help you understand connected speech.
Don’t forget to have a go and ✍️ share you answers – you’ll find the answer to the second sentence in the comments!

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👋 Sometimes it’s hard to leave people behind, but if you have to, here are 5 alternatives to saying ‘goodbye’.⁣
(‼️ These words may not apply to all situations.)⁣
EXTRA: in this short video, Tom shares 5 ways to say goodbye just like the British! Link in bio.⁣
🤔 Have you ever seen an advert with BOGOF written on it? What does it mean? And who or what is POTUS? 🤨

Learn the meanings of some common acronyms in this handy table!⁣

Do you know any others?⁣

EXTRA: Here's a fun quiz all about acronyms and how to pronounce them. Link in our bio.⁣

🥰 Family is important to many of us, and there are a lot of words we can use to talk about our families in English! Take our vocabulary challenge and start using these words TODAY. Bonus points if you can use one of these words in the comments!⁣

👋 MORE: Want to learn some family idioms like ‘child’s play’ and ‘a home truth’ in under 4 minutes? Check out Dan’s video by clicking the link in our bio. ⁣

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