🌜 Present Simple 🌛

He always tells the truth.

🗣 Conversation 🗣

Jesse was teaching a class lecture, and wrote down their lecture on the board.
- (Jesse) I had to give a lecture to a class today for my internship.
- Interesting. How did it go?
- I decided to write everything down on the board, so I could skip around and answer questions. It didn't go so well.
- That sounds like a lot of work. Why didn't it work out?
- The students couldn't keep track because of me skipping around and I got a lot of repeat questions.
- That's frustrating. Perhaps you should just let the students take notes while you talk next time.

🌜 Present Perfect 🌛

I have taken a photography course.

✳ talent (noun)

Sounds:
- /ˈtælənt/
- /ˈtalənt/ (UK, also)

Forms:
- talents (plural)

talent (noun) senses:
1. A marked natural ability or skill.
2. (historical) A unit of weight and money used in ancient times in Greece, the Roman Empire, and the Middle East, equal to about 30 to 60 kg in various times and places.
3. (obsolete) A desire or inclination for something.
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💡 Example 💡 plop

plop (verb): The first time I had niku udon was at a Japanese convenience store, now long closed, near Columbia University in the mid-1990s. For about $5, the attendants would plop a handful of freshly boiled udon into a Styrofoam cup and add a ladle of dashi broth seasoned with soy sauce and mirin.

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🗣 Conversation 🗣

- Who do you think is going to get the Oscar for best actor?
- I have no idea. To be honest, I couldn't care less.

🌜 Present Perfect 🌛

The scientist has published a groundbreaking paper.

✳ pile (noun)

Sounds:
- /paɪl/

Forms:
- piles (plural)

pile (noun) senses:
1. A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
2. (informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
3. A mass formed in layers.
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✳ pile (verb)

Forms:
- piles (present, singular, third-person)
- piling (participle, present)
- piled (participle, past)
- piled (past)

pile (verb) senses:
1. (transitive, often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate
2. (transitive) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
3. (transitive) To add something to a great number.
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🗣 Conversation 🗣

Sasha helped her friend Liza who was in a bad situation. Liza refused to help herself and went back to the bad situation.
- (Sasha) I'm officially done with helping Liza.
- I heard that she got in trouble again for doing the same thing.
- I know, after everything that I did to try to help out.
- Some people just aren't appreciative.
- Isn't that the hard truth.
- I'm glad you found out before you kept on being pulled along for no reason.

💡 Example 💡 ball

ball (noun): I had a ball at that concert.

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🌜 Present Perfect 🌛

I have finished knitting a scarf.