#confusing_words


🔘Employees / Staff🔘


▪️Both of these words refer to people who work at a company – but staff is always
singular and uncountable – it describes the entire group of workers as one thing.

▪️Employees is plural and countable – it describes the collection of individual workers.
➖The entire staff was happy about the extra day off.
➖ All the employees were happy about the extra day off.

▪️Note that “staff” takes the singular verb was, and “employees” takes the plural verb were .

▪️Whenever you use a specific number, use employees or staff members.
➖Thirty employees received raises.
➖Thirty staff members received raises.
➖ Thirty staff received raises.

#confusing_words

🔘Extend / Expand🔘

▪️Both of these words mean to get bigger, or to make something bigger.

▪️Extend has more the sense of making something longer in one direction, whereas
expand gets bigger in all directions.
➖ You extend a TV antenna.
➖A balloon expands when you blow it up.
➖You extend your arm.
➖A pregnant woman's belly expands.

▪️We also use extend, not expand, when making a period of time longer:
➖extend a visit
➖extend a deadline


▪️We use expand when talking about businesses or areas getting bigger:
➖ The company expanded its operations to five additional countries.

#SpokenEnglish
#usefullanguage


💭Need I ask/need I say more/need I go on, etc? 

♦️ used to say that it is not necessary to ask or say more about something, because the rest is clear.

♦️She’s lazy, slow, and stubborn. Need I say more?



💭Bottoms up!

♦️a call to drink; to empty one’s glass.

♦️ We had better finish our drinks because the bar is
closing. Bottoms up!


💭...... and whatnot.

♦️used at the end of a list of things when you do not want to give the names of everything

♦️Put your bags, cases, and whatnot in the back of the car.

#Expressions

⚜See the forest for the trees.

🔅(idiomatic) To discern an overall pattern from a mass of detail; to see the big picture, or the broader, more general situation.

🔅Smith is good at detail, but can't see the forest for the trees.

#Expressions

⚜Look askance (at somebody/something)


🔅 if you look askance at someone or something, you do not approve of them or think they are good.

🔅A waiter looked askance at Ellis’s jeans.

#Expressions

🔘LETTER PERFECT

▪️exactly right

1. The boss was always happy with Meg’s typing because
it was letter perfect.

2. The actor practiced his lines over and over so that he
wouldn’t make any mistakes on stage. He wanted to
get his lines letter perfect.

▪️The expression is used only in reference to writing or speech.

#Vocabulary

⚜Wham /wæm/ 
#interjection

🔅1🔅used to describe the sound of something suddenly hitting something else very hard.

Wham! The car hit the wall.


🔅2🔅used to express the idea that something very unexpected suddenly happens.

🔅Life is going along nicely and then, wham, you lose your job.

— wham noun [C]

#common_mistakes

😨 The magazine gives a list of all the computers in the market.❎
😇The magazine gives a list of all the computers on the
market.✅

⚜on the market (NOT in) = available in shops for people to buy; for sale:
'It's not the cheapest machine on the market, but it's certainly the best.'

🔅#Advanced 🔅


⚜Answer Key⚜


💡She struggled to come to terms with the bad news.


💡You will get the hang of it sooner or later.


💡At no www.tg-me.com/point was I told about the issue. 



💡We are having our house done up at the moment.


💡Much to our surprise, we managed to pass the exam.


💡Her decision to quit her job came down to money.


💡John objected to what people were saying about him. 

💡Students are thought to have vandalised the school last night.

💡Not once did it occur to me to ask Teresa her opinion.
The film did not live up to my expectations.

💡Despite having booked/booking in advance we had to queue to enter. 

💡It is not worth inviting Rocio because she doesn’t like parties.

💡I wish I had not turned down the job offer.

💡We are in danger of not getting to the station in time.

🪩 Get into deep water

🪄This idiom is pretty close to the literal meaning: being in deep water means you’re in a tricky situation that is hard to escape.

Example:
He got into deep water when he borrowed a lot of money from a loan shark.
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▪️I would like to + (verb)

- I would like to answer that question.
انا أود الإجابة على ذلك السؤال.
- I would like to compete in a cooking contest.
أود التنافس في مسابقة طبخ
- I would like to explain myself.
أود أن أشرح نفسي
- I would like to invite you over.
أود أن أدعوكم مرة أخرى
- I would like to practice.
أود أن أتدرب.
- I would like to become a doctor.
أود أن أصبح طبيبة.
- I would like to see you more often.
أود أن أراك كثيرًا
- I would like to thank you.
أود أن أشكركم.
- I would like to learn about animals
أود التعرف على الحيوانات
- I would like to meet the President.
أود مقابلة الرئيس

▪️I would like to + (verb)

- I would like to answer that question.
انا أود الإجابة على ذلك السؤال.
- I would like to compete in a cooking contest.
أود التنافس في مسابقة طبخ
- I would like to explain myself.
أود أن أشرح نفسي
- I would like to invite you over.
أود أن أدعوكم مرة أخرى
- I would like to practice.
أود أن أتدرب.
- I would like to become a doctor.
أود أن أصبح طبيبة.
- I would like to see you more often.
أود أن أراك كثيرًا
- I would like to thank you.
أود أن أشكركم.
- I would like to learn about animals
أود التعرف على الحيوانات
- I would like to meet the President.
أود مقابلة الرئيس

🌼Such as مثل
🌼For instance على سبيل المثال
🌼In other words بعبارات أخرى
🌼An instance نموذج
🌼As revealed by كما كشفت
🌼To show that لعرض ذلك
🌼In the case of في حالة ما اذا
🌼As an example كمثال
🌼For one thing لأجل شئ واحد

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#idioms

⚜FAIR TO MIDDLING


🔅average; neither good nor bad.

🔅 Don asked Melissa what she thought of the new
restaurant. She told him she had been to better ones,
but it wasn’t bad. It was fair to middling.

🔅Now that I’m beginning to get over my cold, I’m feeling fair to middling. I feel better than I did last week, but I still have a stuffy nose.

#idioms

⚜IN THE PINK

🔆in good health or good condition.

🔅 After several days in the hospital, Paul wanted to go
home. He told the doctor he was feeling in the pink
and there was no reason for him to stay any longer.

🔅I always get my car serviced on time. That way it
stays in the pink and I don’t have to worry about it
breaking down.

🔅Antonym: under the weather

🔅In the pink can be applied to both people and things, while
under the weather is limited to people. The expression probably originates from the idea that a healthy person’s complexion is described as pink, while a sick person’s skin is pale or chalky.

#idioms

⚜PAY THE PIPER

🔆to pay for one’s mistakes; to live with the consequences of one’s (wrong) actions.

🔅Catherine thought she could play her way through school, and now she has to stay after class to make up her failed grades. She should have known she would have to pay the piper.

🔅I cheated people out of their money. I got caught,
and now I’m in prison, paying the piper for what I
did.

~A piper is a musician who plays on a pipe.