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#Tips

STOP taking it personally when people don’t understand you.

At some point, you will meet someone who, no matter how hard you try, just can’t understand you. This happens all the time.

Due to the large number of English speakers in the world, there is a wide range of accents, some of which, can be hard to understand!

Eliminating your mother tongue from your accent completely, is extremely difficult, so don’t be too hard on yourself!
#Idioms:

✏️ give someone a bum steer (US)

🔸Meaning: to provide someone with misleading information (knowingly or unknowingly).

🔹Example: "The bus driver gave us a bum steer and we ended up miles from where we wanted to go."

◈ Origin: A combination of "bum" = false; phony and "steer" = guidance, as in the steering of a car.
#Idioms:

✏️ (a) bundle of nerves

🔸Meaning: a very nervous or anxious person.

🔹Example: "Before her big test, Marie was a bundle of nerves."
#Idioms:

✏️ money burns a hole in someone's pocket

🔸Meaning: An expression decribing someone who spends money as soon as it is earned.

🔹Example: "As soon as she gets paid she goes shopping; money burns a hole in her pocket."
#Idioms:

✏️burn the candle at both ends

🔸Meaning: (Fig.) to work or do other things from early in the morning until late at night and so get very little rest. (usually in continuous tenses.)

🔹Example: "He has been burning the candle at both ends with his work and his studies. That is why he became sick."
Rachel just started a challenge for all English leaners.

To take part you need to make a video about the highlight of your year and upload it on YouTube. Than send the video to Rachel's email by December 17, 2016 :) Be creative.

More in a video below:
https://youtu.be/lS9RL0if3cU
(Phrasal Verb) Bear something out:

📗To support or confirm a story or explanation (for facts or evidence).

Examples:

💎The facts don’t bear this out.

💎Her story bears out exactly what you said.
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#Test your #listening skills

Watch the video below and try to recognize what the woman said. When you'll be ready to answer, tap on "Read" and check yourself.
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When you’re trying to figure out whether to use who or whom, it helps to know the difference between subjects and objects because you use who when you’re referring to the subject of a clause and whom when you’re referring to the object of a clause. In other words, who is a subject pronoun and whom is an object pronoun.