#Collocations

🔘Sports

▪️The first important collocation involving sports is when to use the verbs play, do, and go.

🔸 We typically  use play for team sports – you play soccer, play basketball, play tennis, play baseball, and play golf. 
🔸The verb do is used for more individual sports – you do yoga, do gymnastics, do martial arts, and do aerobics. Also, in more general terms, you do exercise. Another common individual exercise is to lift weights.

🔸The verb go is used with most activities that end in –ing: you go swimming, go biking, go surfing, go rock climbing, go bowling, and go fishing.

🔸With the team sports, we can use the word game or match: a soccer game, a basketball game, a tennis 
match, etc.

🔸 You can win the game, lose the game, or tie the game – that’s when the final score is 1-1 or 2-2, for example. 

🔸A team can play a home game – when they play in their own stadium or field – or an away game – when they play at the opposing team’s stadium or field. When there are many teams that are playing many  games to see which one is the best, we call this a tournament. 

🔸When one team is winning in the middle of the game – for example, 3-1 – we say that team has the lead. However, the other team can make a comeback – score points from a losing position – and take the lead, 4-3.

🔸With the sports that use “do” and “go,” we typically use the word competition – a
gymnastics competition, a martial arts competition, a surfing competition, an ice skating competition, etc.

🔸The  exception is sports where you go from one place to another – like running, biking, and swimming – in that case, we often call the event a race.


🔸Athletes can enter a competition and try to win first place. Some athletes try to enhance their performance with illegal substances such as steroids. But if they fail a drug test, they’ll be disqualified 
from participating.


🔸If the athlete is performing well, they may achieve a personal best – and if they perform better than ANYONE ever has in the past, then they could even break the world record or set a new world record. If they get injured, however, they might have to withdraw from the competition (voluntarily leave the  competition) .

TO SEE THE LIGHT
🔹to finally realize something after serious consideration

📌I thought he would never agree with me, but eventually he saw the light.
📌After my terrible grade in mathematics I saw the light and started working harder.
📌 Finally, near the end of the meeting, John saw the light and withdrew his objections.
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⛳️Options for "Very Small"

✅Short is one way that a person or object could be very small. Or try one of the following words to precisely communicate what you mean by small.

🔷microscopic

🔷minuscule

🔷petite

🔷teensy-weensy

🔷tiny

⛳️Other Words for "Very Tired"

✅When you're so tired that it's hard to find a word to accurately convey just how very tired you are, consider one of these options.

☀️bone-tired

☀️exhausted

☀️fatigued

☀️pooped

☀️weary

☀️worn out

#Expressions


🔶Pin your hopes/faith on something/somebody


🔸to hope that something will happen or someone will help you, because all your plans depend on this.


🔸Chris is pinning his hopes on getting into Yale.

#confusing_words

🔘Beautiful / Pretty🔘


🔸These words describe something that is attractive, nice to look at.

🔸The word beautiful is stronger and more complete. You could describe a spectacular sunset as beautiful, or a very attractive woman in a fancy dress as
beautiful.


🔸The word pretty is more informal and superficial. A nice arrangement of flowers could be described as pretty. You can also describe girls, women, and clothing as
pretty – but it is not as strong as beautiful.

🔸The word cute is also informal, and means something is attractive in an adorable
way. It is often used for children and animals.

🔸When describing an adult (man or woman) as cute, it means the person is attractive, but not SUPER attractive (for super attractive we would say the person is beautiful/gorgeous - for a woman - handsome - for a man - or hot, has a sexy connotation, for both women and men).


🔸For boys and men, we don't use pretty or beautiful - we can use handsome (usually
for men), hot (also for men) or cute (usually for boys).

#confusing_words


🔘Spend / Pay🔘


▫️You spend money and time:
▪️I spent $100 on tickets to the baseball game.
▪️We spent three hours waiting in line to buy the tickets!


▪️You can also spend a period of time like the morning, afternoon, night, weekend, week, etc.
▪️I spent the weekend making repairs to the house.
The students spent the afternoon volunteering at the animal shelter.

▪️You pay the request, bill, or demand for the money: pay rent, pay a fine, pay your bills, pay your taxes.

▪️It’s also possible to use pay with quantities of money, but we use a different preposition:
~I spent $100 on the tickets.
~I paid $100 for the tickets.

#How_to_say

🔸Silence gives consent.


🔸السكوت علامة الرضا.

#phrases

🔘On hold


a) if something is on hold, it is going to be done or dealt with at a later date rather than now

➖The plans are on hold until after the election.

➖Since having the kids, my career has been put on hold.


b) if you are on hold, you are waiting to talk to someone on the telephone

➖We try not to keep people on hold for more than a couple of minutes.

➖The agent put me on hold while she consulted a colleague.

#Thesaurus

🔆pain noun [C,U]

🔸the feeling when part of your body hurts.

⚜A broken leg can cause a lot of pain.
⚜ He felt a sharp pain in his chest.



🔆ache noun [C,U]

🔸a continuous pain, especially one that is not very bad. Most commonly used in compounds such as headache, toothache, and backache.

⚜ I felt an ache in my back after decorating all day. Driving gives me a headache.


🔆twinge noun [C]

🔸 a sudden slight pain that comes and then disappears quickly.

⚜When I bent down I felt a twinge in my back.




🔆discomfort noun [U] (formal)

🔸 an uncomfortable feeling in your body, or a slight pain.

⚜The procedure takes five minutes and only causes slight discomfort.



🔆agony noun [U]

🔸a feeling of great pain, or a situation in which you feel a lot of pain the agony of childbirth.

⚜I was in agony by the time I got to the hospital.

#Vocabulary

🔘Painstaking

/ˈpeɪnzˌteɪkɪŋ/ adjective [usually before noun]

~very careful and thorough.

SYN : Meticulous.

⚡️ The work had been done with painstaking attention to detail.
Chris described in painstaking detail what had happened.

— painstakingly adverb

⚡️ The old painting was painstakingly restored.

#Phrasal_verbs
#Informal


🔘Hole up
(also be holed up)


~to hide somewhere for a period of time

: [hole up in/with/at]

➖The gunmen are still holed up in the town.