Name: 20 IMPORTANT IDIOMS Through STORY! Native English Vocabulary Lesson
Uploaded: 2022-02-05T16:38:14.000Z
Duration: 19 min 18 s
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Now if you are a member of my email list,

if you signed up to receive my PDFs and my newsletters,

then you will know that we have been doing a big focus

Lots of you seem really keen to expand your vocabulary.

And an amazing way to do that is to learn idioms.

Idioms are so hard because they don't have literal meanings.

You can't read the words and understand what they're about.

but they are much, much easier to learn and process,

So this is how today's lesson is going to work.

I am going to read you a story that I wrote,

For the first part of the lesson, I will read the story.

but I want you to listen and see if you can identify

Hold your hands like this each time you hear one,

After that, we will go through the story phrase by phrase,

and I will help you understand each and every idiom.

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There is also one other thing that I wanted to discuss.

you get a text containing between six and 10 idioms.

I read through the text so you can improve your listening,

and I talk about the meanings of all of the idioms.

you've watched the video, you can take the exercises.

I start to test you on what you've learned in previous days.

This challenge starts on the 1st of February,

It has 30 videos, lessons and sets of exercises,

but you have lifetime access so you can take it at any time.

just click on the link in the description box.

and these students loved it, it was amazing.

Let's get started with this idioms lesson.

As I said, there are 20 idioms in this story.

With your hands, see if you can identify them all.

Obviously, I don't expect you to have 20 fingers.

I want you to use this as a listening exercise as well

because we're going to go through phrase by phrase.

If you do need the extra help, you can turn on subtitles.

I woke up in the morning feeling a little under the weather.

I took a deep breath and tried to pull myself together.

You've got to bite the bullet and attend the interview,

I went downstairs to have some breakfast.

She made me a big plate of eggs and I wolfed it down.

I started to feel really nervous about the interview.

To add insult to injury, I'd been unemployed for six months.

Or perhaps I should throw caution to the wind and just go.

To make matters worse, I spilled some coffee on my shirt.

but the boss said, "Better late than never".

She said that she would give me the benefit of the doubt

She was really on the ball and asked me lots of relevant,

By the end of the interview, I felt a lot better.

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20 IMPORTANT IDIOMS Through STORY! Native English Vocabulary Lesson

pronunciation

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appreciate

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