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Build your English vocabulary with these short programmes. Each episode explores a new topic to improve your English.
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What does it mean to draw on and squander resources? Learn that and more in this podcast.TRANSCRIPT
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Learn how to use compound adjectives (e.g. low-fat yoghurt, high-quality carbohydrates). FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE:
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What verbs can we use 'task'? Learn some here.TRANSCRIPT
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Finn and Catherine give you some tips on how to remember new words. FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE:
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Make sure your English learning isn't hit-and-miss – be consistent! Learn this phrase and more in this podcast.TRANSCRIPT
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Boring or bored? Interested or interesting? We'll tell you the right adjective to use.FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE:
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Learn 4 phrases with 'red' in this podcast. Don't worry, none of them are red herrings!TRANSCRIPT
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Learn how to use these short English phrases made of two words that go together.FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE:
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What phrases do you know with 'head'? Beth has a few to tell you.TRANSCRIPT
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Do you like to eat a full English breakfast? Listen to find out how to use this phrase.FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE:
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If you 'play it by ear', you don't make a plan. Learn this phrase and more in this podcast.TRANSCRIPT
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Cough, thought, enough, although: Learn how to pronounce words with 'ough'.Try the new Learning English Grammar episodes - just search 'Learning English Grammar' in your podcast app, or go to our website:
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How many 'heart' phrases do you know? Phil talks about three he knows in this podcast.TRANSCRIPT
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Boring or bored? Learn about words that look similar but have very different meaning.FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE:
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What phrases do you know with 'sea'? Beth will teach you some in this podcast.TRANSCRIPT
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Did you know it can be a good thing to be 'on fire'? Learn this phrase and more in this podcast.TRANSCRIPT
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Carefree or careless? The suffixes -free and -less.FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE:
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Learn these three hat phrases! Phil will take his hat off to you if you do!TRANSCRIPT
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Do you suffer from dyspepsia? Could a detox diet help? Learn about prefixes.FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE:
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What phrases use the word 'face'? Beth has the answer in this podcast.TRANSCRIPT
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pool resources منابع را روی هم گذاشتن یا تجمیع کردن allocate resources تخصیص منابع draw on resources استفاده از منابع conserve resources حفظ منابع یا صرفه جویی در منابع use up resources تمام کردن کامل مصرف کردن squander resources اسراف کردن، هدر دادن
take on a task پذیرفتن یک کار یا عهده دار شدن وظیفه است get to grips with a task به چم و خم چیزی پی بردن assign a task to someone entrust someone with a task مسئولیتی به عهده کسی سپردن engrossed in a task غرق کاری شدن
number + (singular) noun ex. two-week trip
Compound adjectives without hyphens: adverb/noun + past participle after a noun the politicians were well respected three-word compound adjectives after a noun that voucher is out of date compound adjectives made with an adverb ending in –ly, both before and after a noun a carefully written letter, the letter was carefully written
Compound adjectives with hyphens: adjective/adverb + present participle a hard-working student ages and numbers before a noun a forty-year-old father, a two-door car numbers from twenty-one to ninety-nine fifty-two adjective/adverb + noun a last-minute decision noun + adjective a world-famous athlete adverb/noun + past participle before a noun well-respected politicians three-word compound adjectives before a noun out-of-date fashion
rain rainfall water level burst its banks water poured flooded soaked waterlogged lexical sets مجموع واژگانی
hit the ground running طوفان به پا کردن، گل کاشتن، شروع طوفانی hit the nail on the head زدی تو خال، درست گفتی hit or miss شانسی و اتفاقی، گاهی موفق گاهی ناموفق hit it up مجذوب هم شدن ، از هم خوششون اومدن
to see red از کوره دررفتن red faced سرخ شده از خجالت red hearing رد گم کن in the red بدهکار بودن
exes & pains دردی که جدی نیست black and blue کبود و زخمی sick & tired خسته و کلافه bit by bit نرم نرمک short & simple, quick & dirty , cheap & cheerful کوتاه و مختصر
give s.o a heads up کسی را درجریان گذاشتن head over hills دیوانه وار عاشق بودن loose your head از دست دادن خونسردی off the top of your head همین طوری یه چیزی گفتن اولین چیزی که به ذهن میرسد
Thanks.
thought cough roughly thorough although through
Chunks of language Groups of words naturally go together 1. Why does she have to leave? 2. Why do you think her English sounds a little bit unnatural? She has to go to class. On an empty stomach Full English breakfast Take long time Rush hour A lot of fun All of the world Back in a minute / bit
Mistake = fault
Misleading = confusing
What was the problem with Dave's food? Disagreed Uncomfortable intolerable Uncooked = raw Unhappy 😒 Unhygienic = not clean Disgrace =shame Un= not In=not Dis= not Inexpensive
It's excellent
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