🗣 Conversation 🗣

- Is this the right counter to check in for this flight?
- Yes, it is. Please put your luggage on the scale.
- Your luggage is overweight. The free allowance for luggage is 20 kilos.
- Oh, can I keep this little suitcase as hand-luggage?
- OK, in this way it's just below the limit.
- Here's your ticket and your boarding card.
- All right. I will begin boarding soon.

🌜 Present Continuous 🌛

We are watching a thrilling movie at the cinema.

✳ fabric (noun)

Sounds:
- /ˈfæb.ɹɪk/

Forms:
- fabrics (plural)

fabric (noun) senses:
1. (now rare) An edifice or building.
2. (archaic) The act of constructing, construction, fabrication.
3. (archaic) The structure of anything, the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship, texture, make.
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✳ fabric (verb)

Forms:
- fabrics (present, singular, third-person)
- fabricking (participle, present)
- fabricked (participle, past)
- fabricked (past)

fabric (verb) senses:
1. (transitive) To cover with fabric.

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💡 Example 💡 loo

loo (noun): I asked my loo to let me escort you in. I wanted a moment to thank you personally.” “There's no need.” “So you said before, but there is. And was. I'll take you in to Lieutenant Ricchio.”

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🌜 Present Perfect 🌛

He has painted a beautiful portrait.

🗣 Conversation 🗣

- everyone likes him.
- he's a good speaker.

✳ yard (noun)

Sounds:
- /jɑːd/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /jɑɹd/ (General-American)

Forms:
- yards (plural)
- yard (UK, colloquial, plural)

yard (noun) senses:
1. A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
2. (US, Canada, Australia) The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn.
3. An enclosed area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
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✳ yard (verb)

Forms:
- yards (present, singular, third-person)
- yarding (participle, present)
- yarded (participle, past)
- yarded (past)

yard (verb) senses:
1. (transitive) To confine to a yard.
2. (intransitive, humorous) To move a yard at a time, as opposed to inching along.

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🌜 Present Simple 🌛

We listen to music in the car.

💡 Example 💡 thermopane

thermopane (noun): There was nothing odd, or futuristic, or exotically “eco” about the house — no solar panels to be seen, no giant arrays of thermopane windows passively drinking up light and heat; yet here, I’d been told, in the Sourland Mountains in New Jersey, an hour from Manhattan, was a house that had the potential — not long from now, not 20 years from now, but maybe within 5 to 10 years — to help turn millions of American homes into fully self-sustaining power plants, each one capable of producing hydrogen to fuel cars as well.

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🗣 Conversation 🗣

While Casey was interested in learning to play the piano, asked the pianist for lessons.
- (Casey) I met with a pianist yesterday and will be having piano lessons starting tomorrow!
- Oh that's great Casey! Are you excited?
- Very! I've always wanted to learn to play the piano.
- That's great news! Let me know how your first lesson goes.

🌜 Past Simple 🌛

We hiked to the top of the mountain.