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Adjective order is one of those tricky things in English that we must master to become more natural! 👍 Do you think this sentence is correct? 🤨 Swipe through the images to find out! You’ll be using adjectives in the correct order in no time. 🥰

Want more practice? Click the link in our bio to watch a video about adjective order with Catherine and Neil.⁣

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The English word ‘musician’ 🎸 has three syllables but do you know which syllable you need to stress (say louder and with more emphasis)? 🎤 👨‍🎤

We’ll tell you the correct answer later. Who is your favourite musician? 👩‍🎤

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🤓 CHALLENGE TIME! 🤔 Can you fill the gap? We’ll 🗣️ tell you the answer later!⁣

🤩 EXTRA: For a course unit all about relative clauses, click the link in our bio!⁣

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👂 Can you hear the difference in pronunciation between ‘ship’ 🚢 and ‘sheep’ 🐑? To some learners, words with /ɪ/ and /i:/ can almost sound the same. Listen carefully to Nicola and practise saying the words yourself! Make sure you watch to the end for a short quiz. What other words with /ɪ/ and /i:/ sounds do you know?

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🤔 Do you know someone who always thinks that everyone else has a better 🌞 life than them?! Scroll through the images to find out how to use ‘the 🌱 grass is always greener on the other side’ and don’t forget to ✍️ answer the questions on the last slide! ⁣

🤩 Click on the link in our bio for more English proverbs!⁣

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Sometimes, you want to 🗣️ talk about something, or you want to try to 🔧 fix a problem, but you know that if you do, you’ll be entering a whole world of pain! 🤓 English speakers might say something like ‘Don’t talk to her about the reason she left her last job – you’ll be opening a can of 🪱 worms.’ 🤔 Do you have a similar idiom in your language?⁣

🧐 Could worms be the solution to our plastic problem? 🤩 Click on the link in our bio to find out!⁣

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🌦️ Does the weather change your plans? 🎧 In our easy podcast Neil and Beth talk about the weather using the first conditional.⁣

Swipe to learn how to use the first conditional and then listen to the podcast to hear Beth and Neil use it.⁣

Click on the link in our bio to listen on our website.⁣

And follow the Learning Easy English podcast on your podcast app so you don’t miss an episode!⁣

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