Learn 35 English phrases for making friends & asking someone out on a date
source: English Jade - Learn English (engVid) 2018年4月4日
Learn 35 useful conversational phrases for making friends or asking someone out on a date. Meeting new people can be awkward, especially if you don’t know the language perfectly. In this lesson, I will teach you what to say when you first meet someone new at a class or activity, what to say when you meet someone by chance, and what to say when you want to get to know someone better and to deepen your relationship. Learn these phrases and you will improve your conversational ability in friendship and dating situations.
How to Use ACTUALLY, KiND OF, AT ALL?
source: Learn English with EnglishClass101.com 2018年4月21日
In this video, Alisha answers 7 questions.
- Could you explain, please, how to use the expressions: ""at all, kind of, actually and big picture""?
- Hey Alisha, what does ""you just made my day"" mean? I still don't fully understand it.
- Hi Alisha. I love your lessons. What's the difference between words: intelligent, smart and clever? Thank you so much.
- ""Back to back"", what does this mean? Sometimes I hear this in baseball games
- I'm reading Harry Potter and I've just seen the sentence: ""G'night, Harry"". How do you pronounce it?
- Wich is the diference of pronuciation about life and live?
- What is the correct use, is it ""I have breakfast... I have lunch... I have dinner"" or ""I breakfast... I lunch... I dine""?
10 Useful Tips to Help You Become an Excellent Writer ✍️
source: Interactive English 2018年4月28日
We use our writing skills all the time. So here are some useful & practical suggestions on how to become a better writer. Watch & learn.
Talk about food expertise in 6 minutes
source: BBC Learning English 2018年4月12日
More and more people in the UK are describing themselves as 'foodies', but do they really know that much about the things they eat? In this 6 Minute English, we hear from one of Britain's top chefs and learn some related vocabulary.
Vocabulary
foodie: someone who is very interested in all aspects of food
a little bit: a small amount
romantic: describes an imagined ideal situation
affordable: something we have enough money to buy
in danger of: the possibility of something bad happening
Seal pup accommodation crisis: Learn today's words and phrases: sanctuary, rescue centre, rehab, recuperation
source: BBC Learning English 2018年1月17日
# materials below: from http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/fea...
The story…
Seal pup accommodation crisis
Learn language related to…
recovery:
Need-to-know language
sanctuary – a place of safety
rescue centre – a place injured or ill animals or people are taken to be cared for
rehab – short for rehabilitation; the process of returning to good health
recuperate – to become well again after an illness or injury
Answer this…
Why is the situation so bad for the seal pups this winter?
Transcript
On a suburban estate… a pop-up seal sanctuary.
With the local rescue centres full, these orphaned pups are having to be housed in a garage near St Ives (UK). Father and son, David and Dan, are fully trained and caring for the seals 24-7.
Dan Jarvis, British Divers Marine Life Rescue
“We are at the point where we really are (struggling). I mean, this sort of speaks for itself really, having all of these guys here. The rehab centres just don't have the space to handle this many pups in such a short amount of time.”
Every day, volunteers from the group are racing to the Cornish coast to rescue unprecedented numbers of sick and starving pups, orphaned and injured in the winter storms.
Providing emergency food is the easy bit. Finding them somewhere to recuperate is much more difficult. They've had nearly 300 call-outs already this winter.
So why are things so bad this winter?
Sue Sayer, Researcher, Cornwall Seal Group
“Because we've had a succession of storms over really high tides; (it’s) flooded all the beaches, washed all those seal pups out without enough food inside them to survive.”
Rescue teams all around the UK are reporting record numbers of seals needing help.
Once these pups have recovered, they'll be sent back into the sea.
Conservationists say if we're going to avoid an accommodation crisis next winter, we need to start planning now.
Did you get it?
Why is the situation so bad for the seal pups this winter?
A succession of storms over really high tides has flooded all the beaches and washed out all the seal pups without enough food inside them to survive.
Did you know?
Like humans, seals take approximately nine months to gestate inside the womb. Once born, pups take up to six years to reach sexual maturity. Seals have an average lifespan of 25-30 years.
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