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Let's get specific about prepositions:
mark on or in the calendar 🗓️ ✔️

Both "mark on" and "mark in" a calendar are acceptable, but usage often depends on the type of calendar. Use "on" for physical wall calendars (you mark on the surface), and "in" for diaries, planners, or digital calendar applications. Either works for noting down events to ensure they are remembered.

Key Usage Differences:

Mark on the calendar: Typically refers to a physical, flat calendar (e.g., "I marked the date on the wall calendar").

Mark in the calendar: Often refers to a notebook, diary, or app (e.g., "I've got it in my calendar/phone").

In April we work on prepositions of place and time. 📐

They can be tricky but this illustration can help. From bigger to smaller places.

It's April Fool's Day so don't do this...

Throw someone ____ the bus" is an English idiom meaning to blame or betray another person (often a friend, colleague, or ally) for selfish reasons, typically to protect oneself or gain a personal advantage.

🔵 Common Idioms for Time Passing Quickly

Time flies (when you're having fun): Used to describe enjoyable or engaging moments that pass without you noticing.

In the blink of an eye: Indicates that something happened so fast it was almost impossible to see or notice.

Before you know it: Describes something that happens sooner than you expected.

Gone in a flash: Used when an event or period of time ends very suddenly.

Where did the time go?: A common rhetorical question used when you are surprised by how much time has passed.

Overnight: Used for something that completed much faster than expected, often implying it happened while people were sleeping (e.g., "an overnight success").

In no time (at all): Suggests that a task or period was finished very quickly.

Time slipped away: A more reflective way to say time passed unnoticed, often used in quiet or emotional contexts.

As fast as lightning: Compares the speed of an event to a lightning strike.

Like sand through an hourglass: Refers to the regular, unstoppable passage of time.

A mile a minute: Often used for things happening at a very rapid, continuous rate (e.g., "talking a mile a minute").

I think that good life is a life that you can enjoy consistently. Working on long-term goals, like learning English.

What's your favorite?

I like "letting your life be ordinary but meaningful".

Let's talk about the first conditional.

It is used to talk about possibilities. The first conditional talks about an action and a reaction to it. For example, "if you consistently learn new words in English, you will increase your vocabulary".

The structure is if and the present simple tense, followed by the simple future tense. These clauses can be interchanged. You can then also say that "you will increase your vocabulary in English, if you consistently learn new words".

The second slide gives you prompts to try and finish the sentences yourself.

Let's get specific—because to be honest, that's how you go from an intermediate level English speaker to an advanced one.

What are the different types of foot actions?

You probably know kicking the soccer ball. But how about stomping when your team is put in penalty or tiptoeing so that no one knows you're going back to the kitchen for another piece of chocolate?

Marching is more than regular walking. Crossing legs is considered ladylike yet bad for blood circulation.

🔵 Wintery Expressions

To break the ice:
To start a conversation in a social setting.

"I decided to break the ice and asked the man who was standing alone a question."

To get cold feet:
To become nervous and back out of a commitment (like a wedding or a big presentation).

"Tom got cold feet and canceled the engagement."

The tip of the iceberg:
Only a small, visible part of a much larger problem.

"What we see here is only the tip of the iceberg. There are other issues to consider as well."

To Snowball:
Used as a verb. If a project or an idea "snowballs," it means it is gaining momentum and size very quickly.

"The sweet potato recipe snowballed and everyone went and bought sweet potatoes."

We went out to walk on the plains of Abraham during the English lesson. English learning can be fun and multifaceted. 💬

Come on, dish it out! What are you? 📡

I might be a social butterfly and an overthinker. It's all fun and games.
We all have unique value just the way we are. Never forget that!

🔵 Expression

"Sell like hot cakes" is an idiom describing a product that is in high demand, selling extremely quickly, and in large quantities. Originating in the 19th century—referring to popular, fast-selling cornmeal pancakes at church sales—it implies a rapid, enthusiastic, and high-volume sales volume.

Key Details Regarding "Sell Like Hot Cakes":

Meaning: Something is "flying off the shelves" or being bought almost immediately.

Usage: It is used for any popular, fast-selling, or trending item, from technology to apparel.

Origin: The phrase dates back to the 1800s, referring to pancakes (hot cakes) that sold quickly while fresh.

Synonyms: "Fly off the shelves," "sell like crazy," "be in high demand," or "be all the rage".

Examples in Context:
"The new video game console is selling like hot cakes; stores cannot keep it in stock".
"With the sudden cold snap, heaters are selling like hot cakes".
"Her handmade jewelry sold like hot cakes at the craft fair".

🔵 In English there's this expression called "cabin fever".

While our abilities to go to work and participate in other activities outside the home are under restriction, initial discomfort may quickly result in “cabin fever.” At least, that’s something people say. But is cabin fever real?

The origin of the term is a bit murky, but it probably dates back to the early 1900s in North America, when it may have referred to someone who was isolated in a remote area, or cabin, especially during the winter when it was necessary to stay indoors for days at a time. Another explanation traces further back to the early 1800s, when the phrase might have referred to being home bound with typhus fever.

“Cabin fever is not like a psychological disorder, so I wouldn’t say there’s any sort of official definition of it,” said Vaile Wright, a psychologist and director of clinical research and quality at the American Psychological Association.

It may not be a real condition, but the feelings it’s associated with are.
“It involves a range of negative emotions and distress related to restricted movement: irritability, boredom, some hopelessness and even, behaviorally, restlessness and difficulty concentrating. Those would be the constellation of symptoms one might expect if they were feeling that way.”

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Source CNN

Do I have ‘cabin fever?’ What it is, how to ‘cure’ it | CNN It may not be a real condition, but the feelings it’s associated with are.