Progressive English Skills

19 November 2024 16:21

#acronym

Some Acronyms


🧩 ID = Identification

🧩 CD = Compact Disc

🧩 DVD = Digital Video Disc

🧩 ISO = International
Organization for Standardization

🧩 ICU = Intensive Care Unit

🧩 AIDS = Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

🧩 OPEC = Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

🧩 TOEFL = Test of English as a Foreign Language

🧩 IELTS = International English Language Testing System

🧩 UNESCO = United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization

🧩 UNICEF = United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund

🧩 PIN = Personal Identification Number

🧩 SIM card = Subscriber Identification Module card

🧩 W.H.O = World Health Organization


#vocabulary
@progressiveenglish

Progressive English Skills

16 November 2024 16:32

#vocabulary

❇️ hitchhike

 /ˈhɪtʃ·haɪk/

- verb

🟣 Definition:
To get free rides in other people’s cars by waiting next to the road.


🔻Examples:

Her car broke down, so she had to hitchhike back home.

He hitchhiked his way across the country last summer.


🔶 Synonyms:

🔸 hitch
🔸 thumb


#synonyms
@progressiveenglish

Progressive English Skills

16 November 2024 05:25

#collocation

Collocations with Rich


@progressiveenglish

Progressive English Skills

09 November 2024 20:33

#phrasal_verb

🟪 hold out for

🔸 to wait until you get what you want, especially when negotiating:

The workers held out for a better wage deal and, after another round of negotiations, they got it.

We held out for a better contract, and we got it after some hard bargaining.


@progressiveenglish

Progressive English Skills

07 November 2024 13:38

#quote

To enjoy life, we must touch much of it lightly.

- Voltaire


@progressiveenglish

Progressive English Skills

25 October 2024 17:46

#grammar

Past tense modals
could have & would have


#video
@progressiveenglish

Progressive English Skills

20 October 2024 18:19

#phrasal_verbs

🟪 see sb off

🔸 to go to the airport, train station, etc to say goodbye to someone who is leaving:

Carlo and I saw him off at the 34th Street bus station.

My best friend Judy came to the
airport to see me off.

✴️ SIMILAR TO: wave off, say goodbye to sb


@progressiveenglish

Progressive English Skills

19 October 2024 07:11

#picture_dictionary

Body Parts


#vocabulary #Picture
@progressiveenglish

Progressive English Skills

18 October 2024 11:04

#video

How to start your talk for IELTS speaking part 2


#IELTS #IELTS_speaking
@progressiveenglish

Progressive English Skills

17 October 2024 12:21

#song

🎼 All Alone

Song by The Beautified Project

Released: 2010
Album: Beyond the Butterfly...
Genre: Rock

Learn English with music


#music
@progressiveenglish

Progressive English Skills

11 October 2024 18:54

#Idiom 

🟨 Get the hang of something

Ⓜ️eaning: to learn to handle sth with skill, become good at sth, become proficient at sth.

⭐️ Example: Driving feels awkward when you are new to it, but it's easy once you get the hang of it.


#speaking #IELTS #TOEFL
@progressiveenglish

Progressive English Skills

10 October 2024 19:39

#vocabulary

❇️ Some of the abbreviated form of words and acronyms:

💧&=and
💧2=two, to or too
💧2day=today
💧2morrow=tomorrow
💧BTW= by the way
💧CU= see you
💧B=be
💧B4=before
💧Bf=boyfriend
💧Bro=brother
💧Bt=but
💧C=see
💧Gf=girlfriend
💧Gr8=great
💧Pls=please
💧Sis=sister
💧U=you
💧Ur=your
💧ASAP=as soon as possible
💧CUL=see you later
💧HAND=have a nice day
💧HRU=how are you
💧LOL=laughing out loud

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@progressiveenglish

Progressive English Skills

06 October 2024 13:04

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Progressive English Skills

05 October 2024 14:20

#proverb

🟩 Once bitten, twice shy.
 
Ⓜ️eaning: After an unpleasant experience, people are careful to avoid something similar.


#saying
@progressiveenglish

Progressive English Skills

04 October 2024 18:40

#expressions

☔ RAIN  EXPRESSIONS

❇️ It's drizzling: very light rain

❇️ It's raining: normal rain

❇️It's pouring: heavy rain

❇️ It's raining cats and dogs: heavy rain

❇️ It's lashing down: very heavy rain

❇️ It's bucketing down: very heavy rain - bucket of rain


#idiom
@progressiveenglish

Progressive English Skills

18 November 2024 12:54

#phrasal_verb

🟪 take after.

🔸 to be similar to an older person in your family:

He takes after his father. They're both very artistic and creative.


@progressiveenglish

Progressive English Skills

16 November 2024 16:18

#collocation

Collocations with Pay


@progressiveenglish

Progressive English Skills

12 November 2024 16:17

#common_mistakes

❌ You cannot buy all what you like!
✅ You cannot buy all that you like!

❌ She is success.
✅ She is successful.


❌ My mother wanted that I be doctor.
✅ My mother wanted me to be a doctor.

❌ The life is hard!
✅ Life is hard.

❌ How many childrens you have?
✅ How many children do you have?


@progressiveenglish

Progressive English Skills

08 November 2024 09:36

#video

Learning verbs with video


#vocabulary
@progressiveenglish

Progressive English Skills

28 October 2024 11:28

#Idiom

✳️ Widely Used Idioms
 

🟨 A blessing in disguise

Ⓜ️eaning: A good thing that initially seemed bad.


🟨 A dime a dozen

Ⓜ️eaning: Something that is very common, not unique.


🟨 Adding insult to injury

Ⓜ️eaning: To make a bad situation even worse.


🟨 Beat around the bush

Ⓜ️eaning: Avoid sharing your true viewpoint or feelings because it is uncomfortable.


🟨 Beating a dead horse

Ⓜ️eaning: giving time or energy to something that is ended or over.


#speaking #IELTS #TOEFL
@progressiveenglish

Progressive English Skills

25 October 2024 10:30

#vocabulary

📒 Signs and symbols with their names in English.

▫️ , comma  

▫️. period, decimal point

▫️ ; semicolon

▫️: colon 

▫️ ! exclamation mark

▫️ ? question mark

▫️ ' apostrophe, prime

▫️ " quotation mark 

▫️ ( ) parenthesis

▫️ [ ] square bracket, bracket

▫️ { } brace

▫️ < less-than sign 

▫️ > greater-than sign

▫️ / slash

▫️ % percent 

▫️ - dash, hyphen 

▫️ # number sign 

▫️ & ampersand, and

▫️@ at sign

▫️ * asterisk

▫️ # hash

▫️ • bullet

▫️ _ underscore


@progressiveenglish

Progressive English Skills

20 October 2024 18:05

#phrasal_verb

🟪 gloss over

🔸 to try to hide; to cover up a mistake or a crime; to hush up or whitewash:

They glossed over the problem, hoping that the customers wouldn't notice.

She glossed over the details of her accident.


@progressiveenglish

Progressive English Skills

18 October 2024 17:49

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Progressive English Skills

17 October 2024 12:59

#song_lyrics

Watching the mirror stare at me
Watching the future spit on me
Watching me going down
It was hard watching you walk away

Sitting here all alone
Comes tomorrow I'll be gone
Even my neighbour Jerry the nun
Hasn't got a clue what's going on

Getting high all alone
All our lives pretending clones
What is wrong with a bit of shame?
When you know you're the one to blame
Whispers will turn to louder screams
My life will fall like an autumn leaf
Shadows of the past haunting our dreams
Tonight is the night and I'm so pleased

Sitting here all alone
Comes tomorrow I'll be gone
Even my neighbour Jerry the nun
Hasn't got a clue what's going on

Hey, hey pain
Sitting here all alone
Resting on the table a little gun
Even my neighbour Jerry the nun
She hasn't got a clue
She hasn't got a clue what's going on


@progressiveenglish

Progressive English Skills

13 October 2024 20:16

#interjection

📙 widely used interjections


🟧 ah

💧expressing pleasure:
Ah, that feels good.

💧expressing realization:
Ah, now I understand.

💧expressing resignation:
Ah well, it can't be helped.

💧expressing surprise:
Ah! I've won!


🟧 alas

💧expressing grief or pity:
Alas, she's dead now.


🟧 eh!

💧asking for repetition:
A: It's hot today.
B: Eh?
A: I said it's hot today.

💧expressing enquiry:
What do you think of that, eh?

💧expressing surprise:
Eh! Really? Let's go


🟧 er!

💧expressing hesitation:
Lima is the capital of...er...Peru.


🟧 hey!

💧calling attention:
Hey! look at that!

💧expressing surprise, joy etc:
Hey! What a good idea!

💧used as a greeting:
Hey, Kate. How is everything?


#conversation
@progressiveenglish

Progressive English Skills

11 October 2024 10:43

#vocabulary

American 🆚 British Vocabulary

🇺🇸 line
🇬🇧 queue

🇺🇸 yard
🇬🇧 garden

🇺🇸 cotton candy
🇬🇧 candyfloss

🇺🇸 takeout
🇬🇧 takeaway

🇺🇸 corn
🇬🇧 maize

🇺🇸 drugstore
🇬🇧 chemist

🇺🇸 clothespin
🇬🇧 clothes peg

🇺🇸 janitor
🇬🇧 caretaker

🇺🇸 truck
🇬🇧 lorry

🇺🇸 bill
🇬🇧 note

🇺🇸 cookie
🇬🇧 biscuit

🇺🇸 candy
🇬🇧 sweets


@progressiveenglish

Progressive English Skills

07 October 2024 19:45

#quote

Be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe
No less than the trees and the stars.
In the noisy confusion of life
Keep peace in your soul.

- Max Ehrman


@progressiveenglish

Progressive English Skills

05 October 2024 14:23

#proverb

🟩 One today is worth two tomorrow.
 
Ⓜ️eaning: What you have today is better than what is promised or hoped for.


#saying
@progressiveenglish

Progressive English Skills

05 October 2024 14:19

#proverb

🟩 No man is an island.
 
Ⓜ️eaning: We all need other people.


#saying
@progressiveenglish

Progressive English Skills

04 October 2024 10:40

#grammar

Correlative Conjunctions


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