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English with James, Weymouth (2026)

13/07/2021

Throwback to Mona's workshop photoshoot 🪚🐩
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It's a good idea to learn some tool vocabulary 🛠️ Lots of English slang and idioms come from the toolbox! 🧰
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Can you name these tools? (Answers below ⬇️)
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🔨
🔧
🪛
🪓
⛏️
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🪚 = Saw
🔨 = Hammer
🔧 = Spanner 🇬🇧
🔧 = Wrench 🇺🇸
🪛 = Screwdriver
🪓 = Axe
⛏️ = Pickaxe/Pick
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How many did you get? Do you know any expressions that use these words? 🧰
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#Անգլերեն #английский #אנגלית #อังกฤษ

30/05/2021

Happy birthday to me! 🥳
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I'm going to paint the town red tonight! 👨‍🎨🎨
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What do you think 'paint the town red' means? ⬆️ It's an idiom 🤔
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It means 'go out and party'! 🌃🎉🎈🍻💃🕺
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"I got paid today! Let's get drunk and paint the town red!" 🍷🍸🍹🍺🍾
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Can you guess how old I am today? Answers in the comments ⬇️
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25/05/2021

Do you have a sweet tooth? 🤤🦷❤️🍭🍫🍧🍩🍪🍬🍯
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I have a sweet tooth = I like to eat or drink sweet things 🤤🍰
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When you use this idiom, remember to use the singular 'tooth' and not the plural 'teeth' 🦷😁
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What's your favourite sweet treat?
Answers in the comments ⬇️
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#Անգլերեն #английский #אנגלית #อังกฤษ

06/05/2021

D'ya wanna go for a walk? 🚶🐩 Do ya wanna see your friends? 🐶🐶🐶
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D'ya = do you
Wanna = want to
Ya = you
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When we are speaking or writing informally in English, we often contract or shorten what we want to say 🗣️✍️
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D'ya wanna + V1 (the base verb, or the infinitive without 'to' - go, see, play, eat, watch) is a common informal way to make a suggestion or offer
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"D'ya wanna watch a movie tonight?" 🎥🍿
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A more polite or formal way to say this is: "Would you like to watch a movie tonight?"
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What d'ya wanna do tonight? 🤔 Answers in the comments ⬇️ Try and use 'wanna' in your answer!
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Remember, this is INFORMAL! Don't use it in your IELTS exam or technical research paper! 😆
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03/05/2021

Has Mona bitten off more than she can chew? 👄
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Bite (irregular verb) = to cut into or through something using teeth 🍕
V1 (infinitive) = BITE
V2 (past simple) = BIT
V3 (past participle) = BITTEN
Synonyms = sink your teeth into, nip
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Chew (regular verb) = bite something repeatedly in the mouth (usually to make it easier to swallow) 👄🧀🔃
Synonyms = masticate, champ, chomp, gnaw at, munch
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To bite off more than you can chew = to start a project, task, or job that is too big/difficult for you to complete
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"James is working 3 jobs to pay for all Mona's toys and treats. He isn't sleeping well and he looks terrible! I think he has bitten off more than he can chew!" 🐩
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When was the last time you bit off more than you can chew? 🤔
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22/04/2021

1 year old today! 🥳 Would you like a piece of cake? 🍰
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'A piece of cake' has another meaning in English. Do you know what it is? 🤔⬇️
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It means 'easy'! Did you know that? 🍰
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"That test was a piece of cake! I got every question right!" 💯
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Here are some other ways to say that something is easy:
It's a breeze
It's a cinch
It's a cakewalk
It's not rocket science 🚀
It's a walk in the park
It's as easy as ABC
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What was the last thing you did that was a piece of cake? 🍰
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#Անգլերեն #английский #אנגלית #อังกฤษ

03/04/2021

Happy Easter y'all! 🥚
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I'm gonna be scoffing eggs and slurping coffee on the sofa all weekend! What are your plans? ☕
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Y'all = you all = all of you (USA, especially in the south) 🇺🇲
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To scoff (regular verb) = to eat quickly 🗣️🌮
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To slurp (regular verb) = to drink (or sometimes eat) noisily 🗣️🧋
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Write your sentences below ⬇️ 😃
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26/02/2021

Who do you support? ⚽
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In British English, 'who do you support?' usually means 'what is your favourite football team?' ⚽⚽⚽♥️
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Football 🇬🇧 = Soccer 🇺🇲
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I support Newcastle United. I've supported them since I was a teenager. We haven't won anything for a LONG time 😆 We are also known as the Magpies or the Toon, and people from Newcastle are called Geordies 🙂
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Who do you support? How long have you supported them? Why do you support them?
Tell me about your team ⚽✍️⬇️
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13/02/2021

Happy Valentine's Day folks! 🐩♥️
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Here are some common relationship stages. Try to put them in the correct order. Which happens first? Second? Last? 😘
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To tie the knot
To split/break up
To go on a date
To fall in love
To have a crush on someone
To pop the question
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Got it? Did you understand them all? Answers below ⤵️
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1. To have a crush on someone = to be attracted to someone 😍
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2. To go on a date = to go somewhere together, usually in the early stages of a relationship 🍽️🎥🍿👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨
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3. To fall in love = to develop strong feelings for someone ♥️
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4. To pop the question = to say 'will you marry me?' to someone 💍
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5. To tie the knot = to get married 🤵👰💒
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6. To split/break up = to end the relationship 😟💔
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What stage are you at in your relationship, or are you happy being single? Try and use the expressions above ⤴️ Answers in the comments ⤵️
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26/01/2021

Let's hit the road! 🚗🛣️
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Hit the road = Leave, start to drive/travel somewhere 🚘
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"Thanks for a great party! We're gonna hit the road now, I've got work in the morning" 🍾
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Hit the + location noun = Go to a place ➡️
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"I'm going to hit the gym after work. Would you like to come?" 🏋️‍♂️
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Hit the hay/sack = Go to bed
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"I'm knackered (tired 😴). I think I'll hit the sack" 🛌
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What do you think this sentence means? ➡️ "Since his wife left him, he's been hitting the bottle pretty hard"
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Answers in the comments! ⬇️😁
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11/05/2020

Let's paint the town red! 🖌️
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Have you heard this idiom before? ⬆️
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Can you guess what it means from the context?
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"Social distancing has finished and I just got paid! Get your coat, we are gonna paint the town red tonight!" 🤪
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Did you guess the meaning? It means 'go out and party like a crazy person' 🍻💃🕺🍾🎉🎊
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Why? There are a few different explanations. One is that a rich kid and his friends got drunk in a town in England in 1837 and painted some of the buildings red 🍺🍺🍺
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Another explanation is that your face turns red when you drink! As with many idioms, nobody really knows which is true! 🤔
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Watcha gonna do when social distancing finishes? 🤸

15/04/2020

2019, when anyone could touch your face 👅😍
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Lick (verb/noun) - move your tongue over something, usually to taste or clean it 👅
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''Don't let him lick you, you don't know where he's been!'' 🤢
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'Lick' (noun) can also be a short musical phrase or solo 🎶
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''He picked up the guitar and played a few tasty licks'' 🎸🎵
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Can you play a musical instrument? 🎷🎺🎻 Answers below ⬇️
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