Everyday English with Irene

🌟 Common Pet Peeves

We all have those little things that make us cringe or get under our skin. 😣

✨ But first, what exactly is a pet peeve? 🤔

Think of it as a pesky mosquito buzzing around our heads, demanding attention. 🦟

Comment below with your most bothersome pet peeve and let's see if others can relate. 🙌

✨ Is it the sound of someone chewing with their mouth wide open? 🍽️
The nerve-racking habit of talking loudly on the phone in public places? 📱

Or something else? 😏

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At the restaurant 🍴
Here’re some useful phrases and words you might need while eating out. 😊
Save and share! ✅

🍝 How often do you eat out?
🍽️ What are the advantages and disadvantages of eating out?

P.S. I love eating out! ☺️ You can try new foods, you don’t have to cook! 😁, and you spend time with friends and family ❤️

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❓Are you good at keeping secrets? 😎
❓Do you have the ability to keep things to yourself? 🙄

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Useful phrases to express your opinion 📢

The most important thing is to save and use them. 😌

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Opinion 📣

COLLOCATIONS
VERBS
📍have/hold an opinion
Everyone seemed to have a different opinion.

📍ask somebody (for) their opinion (also ask for somebody’s opinion)

Nobody asked my opinion.
It’s a good idea to ask people for their opinions and suggestions.

📍give/express an opinion
(=say what your opinion is)

They gave their opinion only when asked.

📍voice/state an opinion (written) (=give your opinion, especially in a formal situation)

She has every right to voice her opinion.

📍form an opinion (=gradually decide what your opinion is)

People feel an emotion and boom!-they form an opinion.

🧷How long does it take you to form an opinion about a person?🙂
🧷Is it important to express your opinion?😎Why?

Please feel free to comment down below 👇🏻😉

🎁 Write Christmas wishes to a friend, family member, or co-worker.
🪄Choose the appropriate beginning and closing from the list below.

🥳 Beginning your wish:

• May you/your family...
• May Santa/this Christmas...
• Have a...
• We hope...
• Wishing you...
• We wish you...

🎄Closing your wish:

• Always in my heart,
• XOXO,
• Hugs and kisses,
• Hoping to see you soon,
• Best,
• Regards,

May Santa bring you what you wished for! 🫶

SHOWING OR EXPRESSING THANKS TO SOMEONE 🙏❤️

What are you grateful for? 😇


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change your mind

▫️ If you change your mind about coming tonight, just give me a call.

change hands

▪️ That Italian restaurant is nowhere near as good since it changed hands.

change your tune

▫️ He bragged that the test was easy, but when he saw his grade he changed his tune.

🔳 How often do you change your mind? 😎

📌Put stress on the first syllable when saying a noun.
📌Put stress on the second syllable when saying a verb.

❗️Caution: This rule does not apply to all words that can be used as either a noun or verb.

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📍Giving Compliments Makes You and Others Happier 🙌 😊🌼

💡How to compliment people?

1 Be genuine.
2 Be respectful.
3 Let it come in the moment.
4 Don't compliment expecting anything in return. 😁

☀️ Spread happiness around you and increase your own!

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📌 Different ways to say that a person is busy. 🕴️😓📝

1 I'm so busy (that) I can't even...

… go to the bathroom.
… go to lunch.
… think.

2 I’m tied up.

We are "tied up", so we are not free to go and do another thing.

3 I’m swamped with work.

Use this expression to show that you are extremely busy.

4 I’m buried with work.

This means that we have so much work that we are buried in it.

Feel free to drop a comment below 👇🏻
❓How busy are you right now? 🧐😁

📌5 expressions to Use In Speaking And Writing

Agreeing With People 👍

It's useful to have a number of formal and informal phrases that you can use to show agreement with what another person has said.

✅ Yes, absolutely.

- very strong agreement.

✅ I couldn't agree more.

- used in both formal and informal situations and shows very strong agreement.

✅ I'm with you on that one.

- used mainly in informal situations and shows quite strong agreement.

✅ Great minds think alike.

- is an old saying and compliments the speaker as well a agreeing.

✅ Hear, hear !

- idiom, said to strongly agree with what someone else has just said

Great phrases! 😎
Do you agree with me? 😁