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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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We can ‘answer’ and ‘charge’ our phones 📱 , but what other verbs can we use with ‘phone’? 🤔 In this video, George will tell you 5 things you can do with a phone. Can you think of any more? Write a comment! 😃
‘to’ and ‘too’ have the same pronunciation, but they aren’t used the same way! 😱 Do you know how to use them correctly? Swipe through our grammar carousel and see if you can do our ‘to’ vs ‘too’ quiz. ☺️

After you’ve finished, give us a sentence with ‘to’ or ‘too’ to show off your skills!💪

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