Progressive English Skills

20 January 2025 21:03

#vocabulary

❇️ annihilate

/əˈnaɪ əˌleɪt/

- verb

🟣 Definition:
to destroy or defeat completely.

🔻Examples:

The approaching tornado was annihilating everything in its path.

To annihilate an army.


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18 January 2025 17:29

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17 January 2025 20:49

#vocabulary

American vs. British English


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Progressive English Skills

17 January 2025 09:27

#phrasal_verb

🟪 hang up

🔸 to end a phone conversation by cutting the connection:

She said "I'll be there in a minute," and hung up.


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Progressive English Skills

14 January 2025 22:47

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🟨 Sleep on it 

Ⓜ️eaning: to wait until the next day (in order to think carefully) before making an important decision.

⭐️ Examples:

I received two jobs offers today. I asked them both to let me sleep on it so I can review the offers and decide which is best.

I wish I had slept on the purchase because the next day I found a much nicer dress and I can't return the one I bought.


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Progressive English Skills

14 January 2025 16:50

#common_mistakes


❌ Wrong : You should not to smoke.
✅ Right : You should not smoke.


❌ Wrong: Do you like a glass of water?
✅ Right: Would you like a glass of water?

❌ Wrong: There is seven girls in the class.
✅ Right: There are seven girls in the class.

❌ Wrong: I didn’t meet nobody.
✅ Right: I didn’t meet anybody.


❌ Wrong: My flight departs in 5:00 am.
✅ Right: My flight departs at 5:00 am.


#grammar
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Progressive English Skills

12 January 2025 21:00

#picture_dictionary

Inside Car Vocabulary


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Progressive English Skills

11 January 2025 20:59

❇️ insurrection

 /ˌɪn.sərˈek.ʃən/

- noun

🔵 Definition:
An act or instance of rising in revolt, rebellion, or resistance against civil authority or an established government.

🔻Examples:

They were plotting to stage an armed insurrection if negotiations with the government should fail.

The day after that, the leaders of the insurrection surrendered.

It was widely believed that the outlaws had been plotting an insurrection.


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Progressive English Skills

10 January 2025 09:23

#conversation


🟡 Daily English Conversation

📍Can you break a twenty-dollar bill?

📎 Jackie has a 20-dollar bill and wants to break it so that she may have some smaller bills and change for the laundry.

Cashier: How can I help you, Miss?

Jackie: Could you break a 20 for me?

Cashier: Sure.  How do you want it?

Jackie: Could I have two 5's and the rest in ones?

Cashier: Well, I have some 5's, but I don't have enough 1's.  Are quarters fine with you?

Jackie: Oh, that's even better!  In that case, I won't have to worry about the small change for the laundry.

Cashier: Here you go!

Jackie: Thanks a million!


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Progressive English Skills

04 January 2025 19:27

#idiom

🟨 back in the saddle

Ⓜ️eaning: doing something that you had stopped doing for a while.

⭐️ Examples:

I started working out at the gym again and it feels great to be back in the saddle.

Don’t worry, it’s just an ankle sprain. you’ll be back in the saddle playing tennis in a couple of weeks.


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#conversation
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Progressive English Skills

31 December 2024 17:25

#video

Sweet Dessert Vocabulary

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25 December 2024 20:29

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Progressive English Skills

22 December 2024 20:39

🔶 Synonyms for 'oust'

🔸 fire
🔸 sack
🔸 can
🔸 expel


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Progressive English Skills

21 December 2024 18:34

#quote

Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges. So relax.

- Bryant McGill


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20 December 2024 09:28

#idiom

🟨 in the dark

Ⓜ️eaning: If you're in the dark about something, you don't know about it.


⭐️ Examples:

The company is going to cut some jobs, but they're keeping the workers in the dark so they won't cause trouble.

We were completely in the dark about Mark and Jenny and we still can't believe they're getting married next month.


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#conversation
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Progressive English Skills

18 January 2025 21:49

#grammar

Irregular Plurals


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18 January 2025 17:14

#vocabulary

❇️ yada-yada-yada

/ˌjæd.ə ˌjæd.ə ˈjæd.ə/

adverb/noun

🟡 Definition:
(adverb)
and so on; and so forth; it usually refers to something that is a minor detail or boring and repetitive.


🔻 Examples:

Our history teacher told us about the Civil War, the shoelace tax of 1876, the election of 1880, yadda yadda yadda. 

Jenna told me every single detail about her trip -how big her room was, where she sat on the plane, yadda yadda yadda.


◻️ Etymology:

It comes from Yiddish, and became popular in the 1990's after it was featured on the popular TV show "Seinfeld."


🔶 Synonym: blah-blah-blah


#synonyms
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17 January 2025 17:29

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15 January 2025 20:58

#video

Confusing Words


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14 January 2025 22:32

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14 January 2025 06:45

#slang

📍Common Alternatives to "Sometimes"

🟣 From time to time: "I call him from time to time."

🟣 Every now and then: "Every now and then, I spend a day doing nothing."

🟣 Once in a while: "I only eat meat once in a while."

🟣 Every so often: "Every so often, I go to the movies."


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Progressive English Skills

11 January 2025 20:59

#synonyms

🔷 Synonyms for 'insurrection'

🔹 insurgency
🔹 rebellion
🔹 revolt
🔹 uprising
🔹 mutiny
🔹 riot
🔹sedition


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Progressive English Skills

11 January 2025 06:36

#vocabulary


See 🆚 Look 🆚 Watch


❇️ See: We use this when we perceive something with our eyes, often involuntarily. It's like when you "see" a rainbow after the rain or "see" your friend at a party.

❇️ Look: This is an intentional action. You "look" when you direct your gaze toward something specific. For example, you "look" at a beautiful sunset or "look" for your keys when they're missing.

❇️ Watch: This involves continuous or prolonged attention. You "watch" a movie, "watch" a soccer game, or "watch" your favorite TV show.


🌼 Remember, the key is the level of intention and duration. Seeing is passive, looking is intentional, and watching is sustained attention!


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Progressive English Skills

07 January 2025 17:14

#picture_dictionary

Shapes Names in English


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Progressive English Skills

03 January 2025 09:31

#conversation

Common Phrases


#slang
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Progressive English Skills

26 December 2024 06:29

#reading

Reading Passage

Many consider World War I to have been the first modern war, a total war where the civilian populations were deliberately endangered as a direct tactic of war, which has continued in all subsequent wars. While civilians have always died in wars, World War I made civilian casualties accepted and commonplace, from, for example, aerial bombardment. All aspects of the societies fighting were affected by the conflict, often causing profound social change, even if the countries were not in the war zone.


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Progressive English Skills

24 December 2024 19:52

#common_mistakes


❌ From where can I buy a good watch?

✅ where can I buy a good watch?

🍃 Where means at what place, while from where denotes the point of origin: From where do tourists come.



❌ I, you, we, and etc. are pronouns.

✅ I, you, we, ...etc., are pronouns

🍃 Etc. is the short form of et cetera,  a Latin phrase meaning and other things. The combination and etc. is wrong because it would mean and and other things.



❌ I am so tired so that I can't go.

✅ I am so tired that I can't go.

🍃 When so or such is completed by a clause of result, introduce the clause by that and not by so that.



❌ From now and on I will study hard.

✅ I will study hard from now on.

🍃 From now on = from this moment onwards.



❌ Kim lives two miles far from here.

✅ Kim lives two miles from here.

🍃 When we use a phrase of definite distance like two miles in a sentence, don't use the word far.


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Progressive English Skills

22 December 2024 20:39

#vocabulary

❇️ oust

 /aʊst/ 

Verb

🟣 Definition:
To drive out or expel (someone) from a position or place.


🔻Examples:

The school board voted to oust the school superintendent.

It is not the first time he has been ousted from a company.


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Progressive English Skills

20 December 2024 22:23

#song

🎼 My Heart Will Go On

Song by Celine Dion

Learn English with music


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Progressive English Skills

19 December 2024 13:00

#phrasal_verb

5 phrasal Verbs with 'Run'


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