Learning English with Miss Karina

Hello Everyone!!!
Here three new phrasal verbs you should learn:

Merry Christmas!
I hope you receive one blessing after another this coming year.
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Words Informal & Formal say 🤓

Daily Conversations:

♦️When you need to explain why you are late

🔹I couldn't get a taxi.
🔹I couldn't get a cab.
🔹My ride didn't show up.
🔹I missed my ride.
🔹I missed the train.
🔹The bus was late.
🔹I ran out of gas.
🔹I had to stop for gas.
🔹I had to get gas.
🔹I was stuck in traffic.
🔹Traffic was slow.
🔹Traffic was hell.
🔹I got lost.
🔹I missed my exit.
🔹There was construction.
🔹There was an accident.
🔹I was looking for parking.
🔹I couldn't find a parking space.
🔹I couldn't find a place to park.
🔹It took me longer to get here than I thought it would.
🔹It took me longer to get here than I expected.
🔹I didn't realize this was so far away.
🔹I lost track of time.
🔹I misjudged the time.

SMALL TALK

Expressing Concern for Someone #1

A: Why weren't you at school yesterday?

B: I wasn't really feeling well.

A: What was wrong with you?

B: My stomach was hurting.

A: Do you feel better now?

B: I don't really feel too well yet.

A: Do you want anything to make you feel better?

B: No, thanks. I already took some medicine.

A: I hope you feel better.

B: Thank you.

4 Love Idioms for Valentine's Day 😍

Lets's Reflexione 🤔🧐🤓

✅Commonly Used Idioms

💠No pain, no gain
Meaning: You have to work hard in order to see results

💠On the ball
Meaning: Doing a good job, being prompt, or being responsible

💠Once in a blue moon
Meaning: Something that doesn’t happen very often

💠Pulling someone’s leg
Meaning: Joking with someone

💡Proverb:
"a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step"

🧐Meaning:
You must begin something if you hope to finish it; something that takes a long time to finish begins with one step.

✅ Example:

🗣 If you want to lose weight, you need to stop eating junk, and you need to start exercising. Today. Not tomorrow. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Interesting facts about Health Education 🤓🏃‍♀️😄

Don’t you just love the smell of rain? It smells fresh and clean. It smells like change.

When rain falls, it washes across the world and can make even a dirty old street look glistening and beautiful.

Nothing beats a rainy day to wash away any negativity you may be facing in your life. If those clouds above your head are turning gray, don’t wish them away.

Instead, embrace the drizzle that is about to come. Take some time to step outside and walk in the rain. Breath in the chilly, fresh air, and feel your body relax.

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✍️ 1 Off the beaten track

A place or route that is far away from where many people live.

The explorers have just found a village off the beaten track.

I want to stay on that island for all of summer vacation because it’s off the beaten track. I don’t want to be disturbed by the crowd.

Finding a campsite off the beaten track is an easy task for him because he’s an experienced camper.

●USEFUL EXPRESSIONS TO EXPRESS YOUR OPINION

In my opinion, ...
In my eyes, ...
To my mind, ...
As far as I am concerned, ...
Speaking personally, ...
From my point of view, ...
As for me / As to me, ...
My view / opinion / belief / impression / conviction is that ..
I hold the view that ...
I would say that ...
It seems to me that ...
I am of the opinion that ...
My impression is that ...
I am under the impression that ...
It is my impression that ...
I have the feeling that ...
My own feeling on the subject is that ...
I have no doubt that ...
I am sure / I am certain that ...
I think / consider / find / feel / believe / suppose / presume / assume that ...
I hold the opinion that ...
(I form / adopt an opinion.)
I dare say that ...
I guess that ...
I bet that ....
I gather that ...
It goes without saying that ...

PHRASAL VERBS

1️⃣ close down
Definition: close permanently

Example:
The bar was closed down because they served alcohol to minors.

2️⃣ close in on +
Definition: approach and threaten

Example:
The rebels were closing in on the capital, so the government called in the army.

3️⃣ close up
Definition: close temporarily

Example:
The ski resort is closing up for the summer.

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📖READING PRACTICE📖

My Flower Garden

My name is Anne. I love flowers. I have a flower garden. My garden is in front of my house. My neighbor has a garden too. My garden has different types of flowers. I have roses in my garden. I have tulips in my garden. I have petunias in my garden. My garden has different colours. I plant red flowers. I plant orange flowers. I plant blue flowers. I plant purple flowers. I take care of my garden. I water my garden every day. I kill the weeds in my garden. I kill insects that eat my flowers. I love my beautiful garden.

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🍀 A White Lie

🌀 Meaning:-
〽️ If you tell a white lie, you say something which is untrue,often in order to protect someone or to avoid upsetting someone

🌀 Usage:-
〽️ I said she looked nice, thinking it kinder to tell a white lie

*VOCABULARY*

• To be down in the dumps : to be discouraged, depressed, or sad.

• To foil a plan : to spoil a plan; to cause it to fail.

• To take time off : to take a break from one's employment or school.

• To turn down : to refuse someone's request.

• On the pretext of : a false reason used to explain why you are doing something.

• A deadline : time something should be delivered.

• To do without : to manage without something.

• For the time being : for the present; until some other arrangement is made.

• You’re kidding : You cannot be serious; I don't believe it; this can't be true.

• To hit the ceiling : to explode in anger; to go crazy.

• To step in : to become involved in a difficult situation, especially in order to correct it.

• To put a stop to : to cause to end.

• After all : used to add information that shows that what you have just said is true.

• To crack the whip : to use your authority to make someone else behave better or work harder.

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👅 Tongue Twisters 👅

***Give me the gift of a grip-top sock, A clip drape shipshape tip top sock.

***Not your spinslick slapstick slipshod stock, But a plastic, elastic grip-top sock.

***None of your fantastic slack swap slop from a slap dash flash cash haberdash shop.

***Not a knick knack knitlock knockneed knickerbocker sock with a mock-shot blob-mottled trick-ticker top clock.

***Not a supersheet seersucker rucksack sock, not a spot-speckled frog-freckled cheap sheik's sock off a hodge-podge moss-blotched scotch-bot hedge block.

***Nothing slipshod drip drop flip flop or glip glop Tip me to a tip top grip top sock.

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English Tips

■ Silent Words

🎯 Silent 👉🏽 N

Damn
Hymn
Autumn
Column

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🎯 Silent 👉🏽 D

Wednesday
Handsome
Badge
Handkerchief
Edge
Hedge

〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰

🎯 Silent 👉🏽 G

Sign
Resign
Gnarl
Design
Foreigner
Gnome

〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰

🎯 Silent 👉🏽 U

Guard
Guess
Guitar
Building
Rogue
Guest
Biscuit
Tongue

〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰

🎯 Silent 👉🏽 H

Why
When
Which
What
Whether
Ghost
White
While
Honest

〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰

🎯 Silent 👉🏽 T

Soften
Listen
Match
Butcher
Castle
Christmas

〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰

🎯 Silent 👉🏽 K

Knot
Knitting
Know
Knee
Knock
Knight
Knuckle
Knickers

〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰

🎯 Silent 👉🏽 B

Crumb
Climbing
Thumb
Lamb
Doubt
Limb
Plumber
Bomb

〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰

🎯 Silent 👉🏽 L

Palm
Yolk
Almond
Salmon
Talk
Walk
Half

〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰

🎯 Silent 👉🏽 W

Wreck
Wrestling
Whole
Sword
Two
Wrong
Writing
Wrist
Wrinkle.

Phrasal verbs

Look over :

to examine something quickly

Sentence:

We will look over these figures for you.

Look through :

to read something quickly

Sentence:

I have looked through the book but I have had no chance to read it completely .

Look at :

to think about a subject carefully

Sentence:

We are looking at the various possibilities.

Look for :

to search for someone or something, to seek

Sentence:

I am looking for Susan. Have you seen her?

Look back :

to thing about something that happened in the past.

Sentence:

When I look back ,I'm filled with happiness.

...Sentence Structure...🤓

📕📕Prepositions of Place: AT - IN - ON..

✅ 'IN'..
Countries:
in England.
Cities:
in London..
Neighborhood:
in Manhattan..
in Chinatown..

📘Enclosed space:
in a traffic jam..
in Time Square..
in a building..
in a car..
in a taxi..
in a boat..
in a helicopter..
in a lift (elevator)
in the living - room..
in the article ..

📕📘ON' .
Means of transport:
on a bus..
on a train.
on a plane..
on a ship..
on a bicycle; motorcycle..
on a horse..
📕Communications:
on the radio..
on the television..
on the phone..
on the Internet..

📘Surfaces:
on a table..
on a wall..
on the floor..
on the roof..
on the menu..
on the page..
on the door..
on the shelf..
on the second floor..

📕Avenues:
on The Seventh Avenue
Streets:
on Oxford street..
on Columbus ..

✅AT' ..

📘Specific Locations ; Points:
at The Empire State Building..

at the corner..
at the bus stop..
at the door..
at the top of page..
at the end of the road..
at the entrance..
at the crossroads..
at the front desk..
at a conference..
at a party..
at a concert..
at someone's house..
at the doctor's ; hairdresser's.
at the bus stop..
at the end of road..
at the crossroads. .
at the front..
at the back..
at the top..
at the bottom..
at the door..

Happy Day 🤓!!!

*Tongue Twister*

Dig dog dog dig
dog dog dig dig
go go go dog dig dog dig dog dig.

Blue Bird blue book's blue blue bird blue bird blue bird bird blue book's blue

Black blue blue black blue blue
blue black black black blue blue black black blue black.

🎯👆 *ONE FOOT IN FRONT OF ANOTHER ALWAYS*

The name of the game is called KEEP GOING....
With one foot ahead of the other, do what the clock does - KEEP MOVING...
Even if the world discourages - KEEP GOING....

They will call you names but KEEP GOING...
Difficulties and distractions will come - KEEP GOING...
You will win some and miss some - KEEP GOING....If you KEEP GOING, you will surely arrive at DESTINY'S PLACE !

Winning is not always about reaching your goals. You can still be a winner if you had a vision to make it happen, if you gave your best try and when you failed, you didn’t hesitate to try again.

The meaning of success that we are taught is all about the final outcome that can be seen but this meaning of success ignores one’s efforts and personal attributes. Even strongest people can fail and even the best efforts can not result in desired outcome.

This doesn’t always mean that one has lost. It just means that in that particular time, things didn’t work out for that person.

Never lose hope and always try your best. If that’s the best you could have done, consider yourself a winner.

Have a Fantastic day ahead! 👣🤾🏽‍♂️🏃‍♂️🤺⛹🏼‍♀️🚵🏼‍♀️🏇🏼✊💐👍