Year: 2015
Days of the week and verbs related to daily activities (for beginners).
This video is designed for students, teachers and anyone wanting to learn English.
This is the content:
DAYS
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
ACTIVITIES
Do laundry
Take out the trash
Go to the gym
Go to the supermarket
Go bowling
Take out the recyclables
Go hiking
On Sunday
On Monday
On Tuesday
On Wednesday
On Thursday
On Friday
On Saturday
On Sundays, I do my laundry.
On Mondays, I take out the trash.
On Tuesdays, I go to the gym.
On Wednesdays, I go to the supermarket.
On Thursdays, I go bowling.
On Fridays, I take out the recyclables.
On Saturdays, I go hiking.
How about you?
What do you do on Sundays?
What do you do on Mondays?
What do you do on Tuesdays?
What do you do on Wednesdays?
What do you do on Thursdays?
What do you do on Fridays?
What do you do on Saturdays?
“Mate” – English slang
“When you can’t change the direction of the wind, adjust your sails”. – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“Dig in your heels” – English idiom
Conjugation of the verb “to dig“.
Examples from the web:
– Even though the developer offered them more than their houses were worth, the owners dug their heels in and refused to sell up and make way for the office block.
– I’m digging in my heels. I’m not going back.
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong”. – Mahatma Gandhi
Weak = not strong, breakable, delicate.
To forgive = to stop feeling anger toward someone who has done something wrong; to stop blaming someone.
Forgiveness = the act of forgiving someone; the attitude of someone who is willing to forgive other people.
SpellCheckPlus and Grammarly
SpellCheckPlus and Grammarly are two tools I recommend you if you want to improve your writing skills or just to avoid typos (typographical errors) or grammar mistakes.
They’re both available online for free and they both have a Premium version (not free and with more useful features).
If you want to use SpellCheckPlus you just need to copy your text and paste it. This tool will give you a feedback for possible corrections (it’s intended to be a teaching tool).
This is how it will appear you when you’ll copy your text:
As you can see, it highlights the mistakes and it gives you feedbacks:
Grammatical errors appear highlighted in yellow while spelling errors are highlighted in red.
Grammarly is also easy to use and it’s higher in accuracy. Furthermore, it is the only online grammar check service that has a tool to check for plagiarism.
You can add it to Chrome if you want to be always protected from spelling or grammar mistakes while writing on the web.
It will appear like this while you write (you can see the icon in the right corner):
If you make errors, it changes:
By clicking on the icon, this will appear on the screen:
“Deadline” – What does it mean?
5 ‘world’ English idioms
5 “world” English idioms video
1) They’re on top of the world since they had a baby.
=> They are extremely happy about it.
=> IDIOM: to be on top of the world.
2) I think the world of my parents.
=> I value and respect them.
=> IDIOM: to think the world of someone.
3) Nothing much. Just sitting here watching the world go by.
=> I am doing almost nothing, I’m just sitting around.
=> IDIOM: to watch the world go by.
4) He had the whole world at his feet by the time he was 30.
=> He had become extremely successful, popular and admired.
=> IDIOM: to have the world at your feet.
5) Congratulations on your new job. You’re really moving up in the world.
=> You are becoming more and more successful.
=> IDIOM: to move up in the world.
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