Bibliothèque de leçons d’écoute en anglais B2

Cut to the chase

Cut to the chase means to stop wasting time on minor details and talk directly about the most important subject.

Cynical Meaning: How to Use It

Despicable Meaning: Strong Moral Judgment

Dichotomy Meaning: Two Opposing Sides

Didactic Meaning: When Teaching Sounds Preachy

Distributive Adjectives: Choose Each and Every

Each, Either, Neither: Choose the Right Word

Easier said than done

Someone tells you to stop worrying before an important interview. The advice is sensible, but following it feels much harder than giving it. How can you respond?

Educational Goals Essay: Planning Your Main Steps

Egregious Meaning: Calling Out Severe Errors

Elicit or Illicit: How to Choose

Elusive: Meaning and Everyday Use

Empathy meaning: how to use it

Emphatic pronouns: clear rules and uses

Epiphany meaning: sudden clear realization

Expressions with get

Get in touch means start communicating with someone. Get rid of means remove or throw away something unwanted. Get used to means become familiar and comfortable with a new situation.

Eye to eye

Two team members have different working styles, but both want to delay the launch until the product is safer. How can you describe the opinion they share?

Facetious: Meaning, Tone, and Use

Finite and non-finite verbs: find what changes

For the time being

Your office is being repaired, so you are working from a library until another arrangement is ready. The plan is temporary, but there is no exact end date. What phrase fits?

Foreign Phrases in English: Clear Everyday Guide

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From scratch

A damaged spreadsheet cannot be repaired, and there is no clean copy. You open a blank file and recreate every part. How did you start?

From the ground up

A company does not make a few changes to its service. It redesigns the basic rules, the technology, and every customer step. How can you emphasise the complete rebuild?