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Sofia Karlberg - Rockstar [Lyrics](Cover)

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Billie Eilish - when the party's over (Lyrics)

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Halsey - Without Me (Lyrics)

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Hi guys 👋☺
This app is really good for those people that they want to find friends from other country and improve there language skills.

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Watch the video and fill the gap:
If I __ to bed earlier, I wouldn’t be tired now.
a) was going
b) went
c) had gone

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#slang

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How do you like your eggs?

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Run...😂
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#coronavirus

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A is correct 😉

Yawn, yawn! 🥱I’ve been working hard this week and I’m very tired.😫
Here are some phrases to use when you want to say that you feel like I do.

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What's the difference between 'continuously' and 'continually'? Roy's got the answer!
Watch and answer this:
I lived in Brazil for three years ___. I never left.
A) continuously B) continually

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Who sang it better?

(Old town road)

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💠happy as a lark
✍🏾Very happy; contented.
I've been happy as a lark ever since we moved to the countryside.
Johnny's in a bit of a bad mood, but just give him a new toy to play with and he'll be happy as a lark.

💠think (someone) hung the moon and the stars

✍🏾To consider someone to be extraordinary, the best, or exceptionally wonderful.
Your little sister absolutely adores you; she thinks you hung the moon and the stars!

🍂The Cold Planet

Thousands of miles from Earth is the planet of Fliptune. Fliptune gets no sun, and is therefore always cold and dark. It is inhabited by creatures who resemble dinosaurs. These creatures use torches to see. One day, a young Fliptunese called Neila put the wrong batteries in his torch. Suddenly the torch lit up and its bright golden rays travelled through the universe and touched planet Earth. The light hit a boy named Bamby. Even before Bamby could understand what was happening, he got sucked into the light and went higher and higher and landed on Fliptune. Neila watched wild-eyed. He had never seen a human before. Bamby was equally surprised. “It’s so cold and dark here,” said Bamby. “We don’t get the sun,” lamented Neila “I can get the sun for you,” replied Bamby. He lit the torch once again and helped Bamby return to Earth. Bamby took out a huge mirror and reflected the sun’s rays towards Fliptune. Now Fliptune was never dark and cold again.

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1. Double-double

This is not a slip of tongue. It is a common phrase said to order a coffee with two creams and two sugars. It is a kind of coffee from Tim Horton, the most popular coffee shop in Canada.

An example is “Could you order a double-double for me?”

2. Loonies and toonies

To appreciate these two words, a brief history about them is needed. The Canadian $1 bill was replaced with a $1 coin in 1987. An image of a common loon was on stamped the coin. This encouraged our animal-loving neighbors to refer to the coin as Loonie. In 1996, the Canadian $2 was also introduced, and the words “two” and “Loonie” became a single term, Toonie.

Example – “All I have on me is a loonie”. “I can get it for a toonie”.

3. Toque

It is pronounced toohk’. Speaking of the very cold weather over there in Canada, a toque is actually a winter hat. It’s what others commonly refer to as ski hats or beanies. It is formed from a French word that shares the same meaning, “cap”. Some spell this word tuque’.

Example – It’s too hot outside right now for a toque.

Slang words.

💠a wild goose never laid a tame egg

✍🏾Something will not be spontaneously different from that which came before. The phrase is used to describe things that are determined by nature and the environment, or else inherited from the generation before.
We must never presume that humanity will be without violence; after all, a wild goose never laid a tame egg.

Idiom

​​🍂The Wild Doves

One day, a Bird Catcher went to the forest to catch some Wild Doves. He took some of his own Tame Doves and tied them to his net. Next, he spread out the net and hid himself behind a tree.

Soon, the Wild Doves flew into that area. They saw their tame relatives happily sitting among the cords of the net. The Tame Doves did not look as if they were in any danger! So, the Wild Doves flew close to where the Tame Doves were sitting. Suddenly, the knots of the net tightened around their tender feet. The Wild Doves were trapped. They were very frightened and tried hard to escape. However, the Bird Catcher came running out from his hiding place.

The Bird Catcher easily caught the Wild Doves.

The Wild Doves said to the Tame Doves, angrily, ‘Why did you not warn us? Why did you let us get
caught? We are your relatives. Do you not care about us?”

The Tame Doves replied, ‘We wanted to make
our master happy. That is more important to us than pleasing our relatives!”

Good servants are always faithful to their
master.