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Why has Phil been doing lots of washing this week? Neil and Beth tell us what they've been up to recently, and our grammar guru Georgie teaches us about the present perfect simple and present perfect continuous tenses.TRANSCRIPT AND WORKSHEET: Find a full transcript for this episode and a worksheet ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/learning-english-grammar/260203 BEATING SPEAKING ANXIETY: ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/beating_speaking_anxiety FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE:
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1Sometimes we need people to do things for us. Beth and Neil talk about mechanics, hairdressers, doctors and opticians and grammar guru Georgie explains the causative.TRANSCRIPT AND WORKSHEET: Find a full transcript for this episode and a worksheet ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/learning-english-grammar/260127BEATING SPEAKING ANXIETY: ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/beating_speaking_anxietyFIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE:
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What kinds of films do you like? Neil and Beth talk about film genres and grammar guru Georgie explains the quantifiers, 'both', 'every', 'all', 'most', 'all' and 'any'.TRANSCRIPT AND WORKSHEET: Find a full transcript for this episode and a worksheet ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/learning-english-grammar/260120 BEATING SPEAKING ANXIETY: ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/beating_speaking_anxiety FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE:
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Was Pippa's date with her friend a success? Neil and Beth talk about dates and teach some phrasal verbs like 'get on', 'hit it off' and 'settle down', with grammar guru Georgie.TRANSCRIPT AND WORKSHEET:
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What possession was stolen from Neil, and who stole it? Neil and Pippa talk about crime, and Beth and Phil discuss the passive, e.g. 'was stolen', with our grammar guru Georgie.TRANSCRIPT AND WORKSHEET:
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Do you enjoy climbing mountains and swimming in lakes? Beth and Phil talk about being outdoors, and our grammar guru Georgie explains how to use articles like 'a', 'an' and 'the'. TRANSCRIPT AND WORKSHEET:
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What's the most unusual food you've ever eaten? Or the furthest you've travelled in one day? Beth and Phil answer questions like this and our grammar guru explains how to form and use superlatives.TRANSCRIPT AND WORKSHEET:
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Are you the kind of person who plans a trip last minute? Or do you prefer to build a spreadsheet months in advance? Pippa and Phil talk about what they tend to do when they're planning a trip, and our grammar guru Georgie explains how to use the phrase 'tend to' and modal verbs 'will' and 'might' to talk about usual behaviour.TRANSCRIPT AND WORKSHEET:
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What language can you use when you're gossiping? Pippa and Phil talk about some office gossip, and our grammar guru Georgie explains language we can use when we're speculating about something which may or may not be true. Learn about reported speech, and how to use 'may' or 'might' to speculate.TRANSCRIPT AND WORKSHEET:
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What did you know how to cook before you learnt properly? Maybe it was a simple cake, or you could boil an egg and put bread in a toaster! Pippa and Phil talk about how they learnt to cook, and our grammar guru Georgie explains how to use adverbs like 'finally', 'previously' and 'once before' with the past perfect tense.TRANSCRIPT AND WORKSHEET:
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What language can you use when you notice or see something suspicious? Pippa and Phil talk about surprises they've had in their life, and our grammar guru Georgie explains language we can use when we're curious about what's happening.TRANSCRIPT AND WORKSHEET:
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What's the best advice you've been given? Learn some grammar for giving advice and making suggestions.TRANSCRIPT AND WORKSHEET:
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What does it mean to be on the verge of crying? And what are some other ways we can talk about our emotions? Learn 'make someone do or feel something', 'on the verge of' and 'about to' in this episode, with Pippa, Phil and grammar guru Georgie.
How can you ask questions politely? Find out with our grammar guru.TRANSCRIPT AND WORKSHEET Find a full transcript for this episode and a worksheet ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/learning-english-grammar/251104FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE:
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What's the most interesting job you've ever had? What did you have to do? Neil and Beth talk about the most interesting jobs they've had while grammar guru Georgie explains how to use whose to make relative clauses.TRANSCRIPT AND WORKSHEET Find a full transcript for this episode and a worksheet ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/learning-english-grammar/251028 THE READING ROOM: Practise your reading skills here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/the_reading_room FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE:
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Do you want a house that's a bit, sort of or a lot bigger? Neil and Pippa talk about why they chose to live where they do, while grammar guru Georgie explains how to use 'a bit', 'sort of' and 'a lot' with comparisons, as well as how to compare something to a clause. TRANSCRIPT AND WORKSHEET Find a full transcript for this episode and a worksheet ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/learning-english-grammar/251021THE READING ROOM:
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Do you have any social obligations? Beth and Neil talk about doing things they don't really want to do and our grammar guru Georgie explains ways to talk about social obligations. Learn to use 'have to', 'be meant to', 'be supposed to' and how to use the second conditional.TRANSCRIPT AND WORKSHEET Find a full transcript for this episode and a worksheet ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/learning-english-grammar/251014 THE READING ROOM:
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What are your predictions about the future? Neil and Pippa talk about what they think will happen in the future, and our grammar guru Georgie explains the grammar of future predictions. Learn to use 'will', 'going to' and how to use the future perfect tense.TRANSCRIPT AND WORKSHEET
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Do you have any hobbies you'd like to start doing? Beth and Neil talk about things they enjoy and our grammar guru Georgie explains the grammar of -ing verbs and infinitives. Learn which verbs to use when we have two verbs together in English.TRANSCRIPT AND WORKSHEET
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What's the difference between 'loads of' and 'lots of'? TRANSCRIPT AND WORKSHEET
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فریزالوربها (phrasal verbs) سه دسته اصلی دارند: 1. **فعلهایی که مفعول میگیرند و جداشدنیاند** مثال: ask out, put on, turn off I asked my friend out / I asked out my friend 2. **فعلهایی که مفعول میگیرند ولی جداشدنی نیستند** مثال: go out with, look after, bump into Phil went out with a girl / I look after my dog 3. **فعلهایی که مفعول نمیگیرند (مگر با with)** مثال: get on, settle down, break up The team get on well / They broke up / Phil broke up with his girlfriend
blind date قرار ملاقات کور hit it off خیلی سریع صمیمی شدن، جور شدن whirlwind رابطه یا ماجرای خیلی سریع و پرهیجان break up = split up بههم زدن رابطه، جدا شدن got on well خوب با هم کنار آمدن، رابطه خوبی داشتن ask out کسی را به قرار ملاقات دعوت کردن settled down آرام گرفتن، تشکیل زندگی خانوادگی، سر و سامان گرفتن bump into به طور اتفاقی کسی را دیدن، برخورد کردن با کسی
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چه زمانی از ساختار مجهول استفاده میکنیم؟ از ساختار مجهول زمانی استفاده میکنیم که خودِ عمل مهمتر از فاعل آن باشد. این معمولاً وقتی اتفاق میافتد که: - فاعل مشخص نیست - فاعل مهم نیست - یا نمیخواهیم فاعل را ذکر کنیم مثالها: - When I was a student, my house was burgled. (خانهام دزد زده شد – مهم نیست چه کسی دزد بوده) - The shop was being broken into. (داشتند به مغازه دستبرد میزدند – فاعل نامشخص است)
burgle دزدی کردن possession دارایی torch چراغ قوه sipping مزه مزه کردن، چشیدن sentence محکوم شدن
a/an برای معرفی اولینبار چیزی the وقتی طرف مقابل میدونه درباره چی حرف میزنیم We're going to a party to celebrate Lara's birthday...... The party was so much fun. بدون article وقتی کلی صحبت میکنیم I prefer coffee to tea. کشورها معمولاً بدون the مثلاً Canada, Japan ولی اگر کشور حروف مخفف داشته باشه یا بصورت گروهی است با the می آید the UK, the USA, the Netherlands, The Phillipines جغرافیا با the the Nile, the Sahara, the Himalayas بدون the ما معمولاً از «the» برای نام کوهها و دریاچههای منفرد
برای صفت عالی: - **با -est**: برای صفات یکهجایی یا دوهجایی با -y *مثال: tallest, happiest, prettiest* - **با the most**: برای صفات سههجایی یا برخی دوهجایی *مثال: the most expensive, the most useful, the most tired* - **بیقاعدهها**: *good → best* *bad → worst* *far → furthest* همیشه قبل از صفت عالی از **the** استفاده میکنیم.
superlative (صفت) تفضیلی (در گرامر) chewiest جویدنی ترین vivid زنده furthest دورترین emu burger ایمیو برگر( برگر شترمرغ استرالیایی) the least likely کمترین احتمال، غیرمحتمل ترین beans on toast لوبیا روی نان تست reckon گمان کردن، حساب کردن، در نظر گرفتن Laos کشور لائوس basque باسک (منطقه ای در اسپانیا و فرانسه)
will + فعل ساده برای بیان عادت یا گرایش رفتاری مثال: I'll usually book flights last minute. might + فعل ساده برای رفتارهای معمول با احتمال کمتر یا انعطافپذیر مثال: I might watch some TV. tend to + فعل ساده برای گرایشهای پایدار یا رفتارهای رایج مثال: I tend to book all the activities. be the type/kind of person برای توصیف ویژگیهای شخصیتی مثال: I'm the type of person who packs the night before.
tendencies تمایلات ، گرایش ها beforehand از قبل spreadsheet کاربرگ، جدول اکسل disorganized بی نظم carry away حمل کردن
1. May/Might برای حال یا آینده فرمول: May/Might + فعل ساده (Base Verb) مثال: They may go to the party tonight. 2. May/Might برای گذشته فرمول: May/Might + have + فعل سوم (Past Participle) مثال: She might have finished her work already. 3. گزارش گفتار غیرمستقیم (Reported Speech) فرمول: تغییر زمان فعل به یک زمان به عقب (مثلاً حال ساده → گذشته ساده) مثال: He said he was happy. (حرف مستقیم: "I am happy.") 4. گزارش گفتار مستقیم (Direct Quote) فرمول: نقل عین عبارت بدون تغییر زمان یا ضمیر مثال: She said
gossip شایعه casual chat گپ دوستانه speculate حدس و گمان modal verb افعال معین reported speach نقل قول غیرمستقیم juicy gossip شایعه داغ look forward to مشتاقانه منتظر dying to hear از فضولی دارم میمیرم، مشتاق شنیدن flirtatious عشوه گر chat someone up شروع یک صحبت به قصد جذب (معمولا جذب رمانتیک یا جنسی) chat-up lines, pick-up lines جمله های کلیشه ای آشنا شدن (دختر بازی)
زمان Past Perfect برای بیان کاری است که قبل از یک اتفاق دیگر در گذشته انجام شده. ساختار: had + past participle. قیدها و مثالها: - previously: I'd previously lived in Paris before moving to Rome. - recently: I'd recently finished the book when the movie came out. - once before: I'd tried sushi once before, but didn’t like it. - properly: I'd never learned how to cook rice properly. - already: She'd already left w
bolognese نوعی سس ایتالیایی که با پاستا سرو میشود tuna pasta پاستای تن ماهی
الف) ساختار: در این ساختار بخشی از عمل را دیدیم یا شنیدیم. see / hear / notice + object (اسم یا ضمیر) + verb-ing مثال: I saw my friend standing in the queue. (دیدم دوستم در صف ایستاده است.) I saw him standing in the queue. (دیدم او در صف ایستاده است.) ب) ساختار: در این ساختار کل عمل را دیدیم یا شنیدیم. see / hear / notice + (that) + subject + was/were + verb-ing مثال: I saw (that) my friend was standing in the queue. (دیدم که دوستم در صف ایستاده بود.)
my boyfriend at the time دوست پسرم در آن زمان، دوست پسر سابقم propose خواستگاری کردن Queue صف sense verbs افعال حسی personal pronouns ضمایر شخصی regular object مفعول ساده slithering خزیدن chant شعار دادن
کاربردهای اصلی "try" 1. تلاش برای انجام کاری (ممکن است موفق نشوید): - ساختار: **try + to + فعل** - مثال: *Try to organise your work.* 2. امتحان کردن یک روش یا فعالیت برای دیدن نتیجه یا احساس: - ساختار: **try + فعل ing** - مثال: *Try sticking to an exercise plan.* 3. در زبان گفتاری غیررسمی: - ساختار: **try and + فعل** - مثال: *Try and practise every day.* نکته: - "try to" بیشتر برای **تلاش جدی** است. - "try -ing" بیشتر برای **امتحان کردن یک روش یا تجربه جدید tray and.. غیر رسمی
funny side جنبه بامزه put you in the other's shoes خودت را جای دیگری گذاشتن، از دید او نگاه کردن commuter مسافر London commuter مسافر لندن (کسی که هر روز برای کار به لندن رفت و آمد میکند یا دانشجو..) take up running شروع به دویدن کرد( شروع منظم یک ورزش)
3. be on the verge of something* در آستانهی انجام کاری بودن **فرمول:** `be + on the verge of + gerund (-ing verb)` یا `be + on the verge of + noun` **مثال:** *She was on the verge of crying.* (او در آستانهی گریه کردن بود.) --- 4. be about to do something* نزدیک به انجام کاری بودن **فرمول:** `be + about to + base verb` **مثال:** *I’m about to leave.* (دارم میرم، همین الان.)
1. make someone do something وقتی چیزی باعث میشه کسی کاری انجام بده **فرمول:** `make + someone + base verb` **مثال:** *Spicy food makes me drink water. (غذای تند باعث میشه آب بخورم.) --- 2. make someone feel something وقتی چیزی باعث میشه کسی احساسی داشته باشه **فرمول:** `make + someone + adjective` **مثال:** Cold weather makes me sleepy.* (هوای سرد منو خوابآلود میکنه.) ---