Vocabulary

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English weight loss vocabulary – a success story

Find out how Vicki and Jay lost 80 lbs and learn lots of useful English weight loss vocabulary. For example:put on weightgain weightlose weightplump, chubbycalorie counting dietscrash dietsfad dietslow carb/ high carb dietsvegan dietgoing on a dietgetting back on a dietbreak your dietruin your dietplateaucut back oncut down oncut outfull, full upendurancewatch your weight Some …

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6 interesting English idioms and the stories behind them. (Set 2)

Learn some interesting English idioms and the stories that lie behind them.We’ll show you what they mean and also how to use them in action. In this video you’ll learn about these common English idioms: put your best foot forward burn the midnight oil spill the beans born with a silver spoon in your mouth …

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Business English Phrasal Verbs

12 Useful Business English Phrasal Verbs

In this video you’ll learn 12 useful English phrasal verbs. You’ll hear them all in lots of contexts, but they’re particularly useful for business English conversations.Here are the verbs:turn someone downtake onsnowed underhand overtake overback outfill someone inrun something by/past someonezero in onfigure something outpush back onspell out Click here to learn some phrasal verbs …

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Colloquial English: 14 useful phrases you should know (set five)

How’s your colloquial English? Maybe your grammar is great, but what about your spoken English? Does it sound natural and conversational? Here’s the 5th video in our series on colloquial English. We’ll show you how to common conversational phrases like: Go for it!You bet!not have a cluenot have the foggiest (idea)Don’t hold your breath.Just say …

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9 really useful English three-word phrasal verbs (transitive verbs)

See some three-word English phrasal verbs in action. Yes, three-words, not two! Most phrasal verbs are made up verb and another small word – a particle. But some phrasal verbs have three words – a verb and two particles. In this video lesson you’ll learn nine common ones: look forward to get away with come …

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