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Give someone a hand: asking for and offering help
Ask for help with give someone a hand. Practice requests, offers, task patterns and past forms, and distinguish helping from applauding.
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Phrases
- Ring a bell Ring a bell means to awaken a vague feeling of recognition or familiarity, even when you cannot remember specific facts or identify the… C2 4 s
- Singing your praises To sing someone's praises means to speak about someone with strong enthusiasm and clear approval. When you use this expression, you… B2 4 s
Lessons
- Appointment: arrange, change and keep a time Use appointment for an arranged visit, choose useful booking phrases, and distinguish a meeting from a reservation. B1
- Need and want: say what is necessary and what you would like Use need and want with things and actions, ask questions, explain a purpose, and make a simple request. A1
- Help: ask for support and say what you can do Ask for help, offer it, name the person and task, and use help as a verb or a noun in everyday situations. A1
- Available and free: check time, access and price Ask whether something can be used, arrange a time to meet, and distinguish free time from a free service. A2
- Spend, take and cost: talk about time and money Describe what you spend, how much something costs, and how long a task takes. Practice the patterns and past forms. A2
- Subject pronouns and be: I am, you are, she is Introduce yourself, describe people and places, and ask simple questions with am, is and are. A1
- Cost an arm and a leg: meaning and use Describe a high price in conversation. Practice cost and paid, past and present forms, and more neutral ways to discuss money. B1
- Countable and uncountable nouns Choose a, some, much and many, count amounts with units, and see why chicken or glass can have more than one meaning. A2
- Present simple: habits, facts and everyday questions Describe routines and facts, add the right ending, and make questions and negatives with do and does. A1
- Past simple: finished events, questions and negatives Tell someone what happened, choose regular and irregular past forms, and use did, didn't, was and were. A2
- A, an, the or no article? Choose articles by countability, sound and what your listener can identify, with practice in everyday situations. A2
- Hit the nail on the head: meaning and use Recognize an accurate comment or explanation. Practice the fixed phrase, verb forms and useful ways to agree or qualify your agreement. B2
- In, on or at for time: days, dates and clock times Choose time prepositions for schedules, learn at night and on Monday morning, and know when no preposition is needed. A2
- A piece of cake: meaning and use Describe a task that feels very easy. Practice full sentences, short replies, negative forms and considerate ways to talk about difficulty. B2
- Advice or advise: suggestions and the action Use advice as an uncountable noun, build common phrases, and choose advise when the sentence needs a verb. B1
- Present simple or present continuous? Describe routines, actions in progress and temporary situations, and choose the right form when a verb's meaning changes. B1
- Break the ice: meaning and use Talk about helping people feel comfortable at a first meeting. Practice the idiom, past forms, purpose clauses and natural conversation… B2
- Experience: skills, events and what happens to you Choose experience or experiences, describe work skills, and distinguish experiencing something from testing an idea. B1
- On the same page: sharing an understanding Use on the same page to check a shared plan or understanding. Practice the sentence patterns, clarify a misunderstanding and choose a plain… B1
- Opportunity: a chance to do something Use opportunity with to, of and for, talk about chances you take or miss, and distinguish opportunity from possibility. B1
- Reliable: people, things and information you can trust Describe dependable people and equipment, compare reliability, and choose reliable, reliably, reliability or rely on. B1
- Can and could: ability, permission and requests Use can and could to describe skills, ask permission, request help and suggest a plan. Practice the forms and choose meanings from everyday… A2
- Comparative and superlative adjectives Compare everyday things with forms such as cheaper, more comfortable and the best. Learn spelling changes, equal comparisons and how to… A2
- Gerunds: When to Use -ing A gerund names an activity rather than describing an action that is currently unfolding. Because it functions as a noun, a gerund can serve… B1 3 s
- benevolent meaning: kind people and actions Benevolent is a formal adjective describing a person, group, or action characterized by kindness, generosity, and goodwill. It also… B2 3 s
- Doubling Final Consonants Before -ing and -ed Doubling a final consonant is a spelling pattern rather than a change in meaning or grammatical tense. In English spelling, an extra… B1 2 s
Sentences from lessons
- Corner the market from ‘Corner the market’ B2 22 s Included with membership
- Our literature class read an epic about brave kings. A literature student describes a classic reading assignment. · from ‘Epic meaning: stories and grand scale’ B1 4 s
- Job interview English: Clear answers and pauses from ‘Job interview English: Clear answers and pauses’ B2 29 s Included with membership
- Present Perfect Continuous: Form and Everyday Use from ‘Present Perfect Continuous: Form and Everyday Use’ B2 3 s Included with membership
- Adverb Placement: Where Adverbs Go from ‘Adverb Placement: Where Adverbs Go’ B1 12 s Included with membership
