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Say and Tell – Learn their different meanings and uses

Say and tell – English learners often make mistakes with these verbs. There are situations where we can use either, but there are also situations where only one is correct. Another tricky thing is the grammar patterns tell and say follow. Tell is followed by and object but say isn’t, so we say something but we tell someone something. And finally there are some common expressions with tell where we don’t follow the normal rules.

August 21, 2016 4 Comments

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American Baseball Idioms (See examples in action)

If you need to understand Americans, it really helps to understand baseball idioms. They often come up in conversation. We use many of these idioms in British English too, but not all. Watch these videos to learn their meanings and see lots of examples. There are four baseball idiom videos here, so keep scrolling down to watch them all. They’ll help you hit it out of the ball park! Baseball Idioms Video 1 (hit it

August 21, 2016 1 Comment

Intermediate

Miss or Lose? What’s the difference?

The verbs miss and lose have several different meanings and they can be confusing. In some languages there are situations where one verb covers them both. But they have different meanings in English, so let’s see how we use them so you can avoid mistakes. We have lots of examples here. Click here to see a video about lose, loose and loosen. Click here to see more grammar videos Click these links to see more videos

August 21, 2016 13 Comments

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Try to do and Try doing (gerunds and infinitives)

‘Try’ is a special verb in English because we can follow it with either a gerund (ing form) or infinitive. However the meaning changes. Watch the video and learn how ‘try to do’ is different from ‘try doing’. Watch videos about some other verbs that can be followed by gerunds and infinitives. Learn how their meanings change. used to do – be used to doing stop to do – stop doing Click here to watch

August 21, 2016 36 Comments

Intermediate

Hard and Hardly (adjectives and adverbs)

Are you working hard or hardly working? What’s the difference? Learn how to use the words hard and hardly correctly and avoid a common mistake. Click here to see more grammar videos. Click here to see more vocabulary videos. Be careful with these words. If you use them wrongly, you might say the opposite of what you mean. The adjective ‘hard’ has several different meanings. One meaning is solid and firm. Rocks are hard. A

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Intermediate

Suggest – Learn How to use this Verb and Make Suggestions

Suggest is a tricky verb in English. We use it in lots of different grammatical structures, but there are some where we don’t use it as well. For example, we might suggest doing something but we don’t say suggest to do or suggest me. These phrases are wrong. Also when you want to make a suggestion, to sound natural, you might need to use a phrase without the verb suggest. Watch the video to see

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Intermediate

Happy and Lucky (and Happy-go-lucky)

Happy and lucky . The meanings of these adjectives are covered by one word in some languages, but they mean different things in English. Learn how we use them here and find out what to say when you want to wish people good luck. Also learn the meaning of the expression happy go lucky. Click here to learn more about being unlucky with our funny video on Friday the thirteenth Click here to see more

August 21, 2016 1 Comment

Intermediate

Fun Funny – learn their different English meanings and uses

Fun Funny – these words can be confusing. They can both be adjectives and then fun means enjoyable and funny means comical. But fun can also be a noun, so for example, we can have fun telling funny jokes. Learn the different meanings and uses of these words here. Click here to learn about more tricky English vocabulary Fun Funny video script That’s funny. I thought we had some cookies. ‘Fun’ and ‘funny’. What’s the

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Intermediate

Watch, Look or See? How to use these English verbs

Do you know when to say look or see in English? What’s the difference? And do we see a movie or watch a movie? Learn how we use the English verbs look, see and watch in this video. Click here to learn how we use look in the expression looks like. Click here to learn how we use the verbs listen and hear. Click here to learn more about English sense verbs. Watch Look or

August 21, 2016 1 Comment

Intermediate

Effective – Efficient – They mean different things in English

What is effective? and What is efficient? The answer to these questions will probably be different. Learn about the different meanings of the words effective and efficient. This lesson is going to be really useful if you’re learning business English for your career. Click here to see more business English videos Effective and Efficient video script Here are some strong sleeping tablets, but don’t take them until you go to be. Why not? They’re very

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