catch up (with someone)
Intransitive
Meaning: to update someone on the most recent information
Example: Let’s grab a coffee and catch up some time this week.
Step 1: Fill the 5 gallon jug and then pour it into the 3 gallon jug. The 5 gallon jug has
2 gallons left.
Step 2: Now throw the 3 gallon water away. Pour the 2 gallons from the 5 gallon jug to the 3 gallon jug. So now the 3 gallon jug has just 2 gallons of water.
Step 3: Fill the 5 gallon jug again, and pour 1 gallon to the 3 gallon jug. What do u have left in the 5 gallon jug? 4 gallons of water!
I love riddles!
If you had a three-gallon bucket and a five-gallon bucket and were told to get four gallons of water to fill up another bucket how could you do it?
I’ll let you know the answer tomorrow 🙂
Kelly Clarkson says it best: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-3vPxKdj6o
Make sure that you brush up on your English for some time every day! Listen to your favorite English song today and read along with the lyrics.
There are other ways to learn English BESIDES reading boring grammar books.
Watch this video explaining the difference between BESIDE and BESIDES:
Remember the difference between “come” and “go” depends on whom you’re talking to. If you are speaking with the people you are leaving, use “go.” If you are speaking with the people you are joining, use “come.”
For example, my family lives in New York, but here I am in Ecuador. When speaking to my family I might say, “Mom, Dad, I am coming back to NY for Christmas!” But when I am speaking to my friends in Ecuador I might say, “Amigos, I am going back to NY for Christmas.”
Did you know that the average number of people a person dates before marriage is 24? How many boyfriends/girlfriends did you try out before you found “the one”?
try out for something
Transitive, Inseparable
Meaning: a test to determine the qualifications of applicants, as for an athletic team or theatrical role.
Example: After much practice, he decided to try out for the high school basketball team.
She decided to try out for the role of Lady Macbeth in the school performance.
The world’s most widely spoken languages by number of native speakers and as a second language, according to figures from UNESCO are: Mandarin Chinese, English, Spanish, Hindi, Arabic, Bengali, Russian, Portuguese, Japanese, German and French.
There are actually more non-native speakers of English than native speakers in our world today.
Of all the languages in the world, English has the largest vocabulary about 800,000 words.
Can you read this?
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Pretty cool, right?