steam (verb)
♻️ to cook in hot steam from boiling water
✔️ Steaming vegetables destroys fewer nutrients than boiling them.
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stir (verb)
♻️ to move a spoon or other implement around to mix something
✔️ If you don't stir the sauce enough, it'll be lumpy.
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stir-fry (verb)
♻️ to fry quickly over a high heat while stirring
✔️ Lots of people stir-fry all kinds of meat and vegetables these days.
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tablespoon (abbrev: "tbsp") (noun)
♻️ a large spoon used for serving, or the amount of an ingredient that fits in one
✔️ Add a tablespoon of flour to the melted butter and stir.
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teaspoon (abbrev: "tsp") (noun)
♻️ a small spoon or the amount of an ingredient that fits in one
✔️ You didn't use more than half a teaspoon of chili powder, did you?
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whisk (verb)
♻️ to mix something very quickly with a whisk
✔️ Break the eggs into a bowl and whisk until smooth.

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📔Under wraps

📋Meaning
If something is under wraps, it's being kept secret.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣The organisers keep the name of the winner under wraps until it's announced on the show.

🗣Our new products are always under wraps until their official launch because we don't want other companies seeing them and copying them.

✏️Note
The most common collocation for this idiom is "to keep (something) under wraps".
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✅ Expression time

Binominal Expressions🤓

💠 sick and tired 💠

🔸 to be angry or bored with something that has been happening for a long time

I'm sick and tired of your excuses

💠 more or less 💠

🔸 mostly, approximately, almost

It's 250 kilos, more or less

💠 give and take 💠

🔸 possibly a little more or less than the amount or time mentioned

It costs 100$, give and take

💠 pros and cons 💠

🔸 advantages and disadvantages

Each technology has its pros and cons

💠 short and sweet 💠

🔸 surprisingly short but pleasant

This morning's meeting was short and sweet

💠 soon or later 💠

🔸 at some time in the future

Don't worry, soon or later your cat will come home

💠 by and large 💠

🔸 generally

By and large, the people of this state arent happy with the governor's policies

💠 now and then 💠

🔸 from time to time

We go to the library now and then, but not as often we should

💠 on and off 💠

🔸 happening or existing some of the time

I've had toothache on and off for a couple of months


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⚜ Go before ⚜
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📚 Grammar for IELTS

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#Cambridge #Grammar #IELTS
#Book #self_study

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📚 Grammar for IELTS

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#Cambridge #Grammar #IELTS
#Book #PDF

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🍀Get the wrong end of the stick

🌀 Meaning:-
〽️ To understand a situation completely wrongly.

🌀 Usage:-
〽️ I got the wrong end of the stick. I thought she was gossiping about me.
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⚠️ The Differences between Who & Whom

🔰 According to the rules of formal grammar, who should be used in the subject position in a sentence, while whom should be used in the object position, and also after a preposition.


🔔 Examples 🔔

🔘 Who made this decision? [here, who is the subject of the sentence]

🔘 Whom do you think we should support? [here, whom is the object of support]
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. ⚜ Grammar Lesson ⚜

🔊 Except vs Except for 🔊

We use except(for) to introduce the only thing(s)or person/ people that a statement does not include:

🔔 Examples 🔔

🔅The price of the holiday includes all meals except(for) lunch.

🔅Everyone seemed to have been invited except for Mrs wood Ford and me.

🔅I had no money to give him except (for)the few coins in my picket.

🔻 Note: we use except,not except for, with to-infinitives,and that-clauses:

🔔 Examples 🔔

🔅I really need to go into the city center except to do some shopping.

📝 We usually use except before prepositions,bare infinitives,and that-clauses including those where the word that is left out. However,informally except for is something also used,although this is grammatically incorrect:

🔔 Examples 🔔

🔅There is likely to be rain everywhere today except in wale.

🔅There is nothing more the doctor can do except keep an eye on him.

🔅They look just like the real thing,except (that) they are made of plastic.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Level: beginner
Stage 2 (700 headwords)
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#Oxford #bookworms #Book #pdf #Novel #Lewis_Carrol
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Level: beginner
Stage 2 (700 headwords)
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#Oxford #bookworms #Book #pdf #Novel #Lewis_Carrol
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Little Women
By Louisa May Alcott

Level: Intermediate~Advanced
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#Book #pdf #Novel #Louisa_may_Alcott
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Little Women
By Louisa May Alcott

Level: Intermediate~Advanced
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#Book #pdf #Novel #Louisa_may_Alcott
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💠 About to

✔️ Be about to do (something)
🟣 For talking about the immediate future

🌻 Example:
▪️ The film is about to start.

📌 About to is not a tense. It is a special structure that we use to talk about the immediate future. If you are about to do something, you are going to do it very soon.

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#about_to #phrase #Subject
#Verb #present_simple
#past_simple #future_simple
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Alizée - La Isla Bonita

[ Video HD + Lyrics ]

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#Music #Video #Alizee #la_Isla_Bonita
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🎙 Alizee La isla bonita Lyrics 🎙

Last night I dreamed of San Pedro
Just like I'd never gone, I knew the song
A young girl with eyes like the desert
It all seems like yesterday, not far away

Tropical the island breeze
All of nature wild and free
This is where I love to be
La isla bonita
And when the samba played
The sun would set so high
Ring through my ears and sting my eyes
Your Spanish lullaby

I fell in love with San Pedro
Warm wind carried on the sea, he called to me
Te dijo te amo
I prayed that the days would last
They went so fast

Tropical the island breeze
All of nature wild and free
This is where I love to be
La isla bonita
And when the samba played
The sun would set so high
Ring through my ears and sting my eyes
Your Spanish lullaby
I want to be where the sun warms the sky
When it's time for siesta you can watch them go by
Beautiful faces, no cares in this world
Where a girl loves a boy, and a boy 
Loves a girl

Last night I dreamt of San Pedro
It all seems like yesterday, not far away

Tropical the island breeze
All of nature wild and free
This is where I love to be
La isla bonita
And when the samba played
The sun would set so high
Ring through my ears and sting my eyes
Your Spanish lullaby

Tropical the island breeze
All of nature wild and free
This is where I love to be
La isla bonita
And when the samba played
The sun would set so high
Ring through my ears and sting my eyes
Your Spanish lullaby

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#Lyrics #Alizee #la_Isla_Bonita
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#Collocation #Expression
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🌊 Commonly used expressions


💧To make sure =to ascertain, to be sure, to make certain.
💥 Could you make sure of the time? İ don't want to miss that TV show.

💧now and then= occasionally, sometimes ,now and again, from time to time, off and on, at times
💥 Tom gets a cold once in a while

💧to get rid of= to remove,to discard, to eliminate
💥 The stain was so bad that Tom finally had to get rid of his shirt.

💧every other (one), every second (one)= alternative (ones)
💥 We play tennis with friends every other Sunday.

💧first-rate= excellent, superb
💥 Five star hotel provides first-rate service to its guests.

💧to go with= to match, to compare well in color or design , to date
💥Rida went with Richard for six months ,but now she is going out with new boyfriend.

💧to mix up = to stir or shake well, to confuse, to bewilder
💥 You should mix up the ingredients well before you out them in the pan.

💧see about = to give attention or time to
💥Who is going to see about getting us a larger room for the meeting.
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