Kids Vs. Parents - Phrasal Verbs

wait up -   click for definition                  calm down - click for definition
hold up - click for definition                    slow down - click for definition
shut up -  click for definition                   come down -  click for definition
clean up - click for definition                  sit down -click for definition
stay up -    click for definition                   put down - click for definition

Some Calvin to Cheer Up!

to yell - to say something in a loud voice
to walk over - move across
to step - a short movement made by putting one foot in front of the other
hose - a very long tube for carrying water to a garden or a fire

Top 100 Words in English

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The First Hundred
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How Would you Like your Eggs?

  HARD BOILED

 SOFT-BOILED

 OVER EASY

 OVER HARD

 SUNNY SIDE UP

 POACHED

 SCRAMBLED

 OMELET

Thank you!

Proverb of the Week

I really need to study French... I just can't keep on running away from meetings with my supplier from Lion. But I've got no time to attend a school!

Hey, where there's a will, there's a way! Why don't you look for a private teacher?!

When a person really wants to do something, they will find the means to make it come true. 

"Where there is a will, there is a way."

Simple Future - WILL

Use of will Future

• a spontaneous decision
  Wait, I will help you.
• an opinion, hope, uncertainty or assumption regarding the future
  He will probably come back tomorrow.
• a promise
  I will stop eating fast food!
  
  
  
  
  

Immediate Future - TO BE GOING TO

USE

• an action in the near future that has already been planned or prepared
  example: I am going to apply for a new job. I'm not happy where I am right now.
• a conclusion regarding the immediate future based on present evidence
  example: The sky is absolutely blue! It is going to be a lovely day.

Signal Words

• in, tomorrow, next

 GONNA instead of GOING TO

People may use to be gonna instead of to be going to, usually in an informal speech. Read the sentences below extracted from Jamie Cullum's song - Next Year Baby

example:           Gonna read more books = I am going to read more books.

                               Gonna keep up with the news = I am going to keep up with the news                               Gonna learn how to cook = I am going to learn how to cook

   Listen to the Song !  

Next yearThings are gonna changeGonna drink less beerAnd start all over again

Gonna read more booksGonna keep up with the newsGonna learn how to cookAnd spend less money on shoes

Gonna pay my bills on timeFile my mail away, everydayOnly drink the finest wineAnd call my gran every Sunday

Well resolutionsWell baby they come and goWill I do any of these things?The answer's probably no

But if there's one thing, I must doDespite my greatest fearsI'm gonna say to youHow I've felt all of these years

Next yearNext year

I'm gonna tell you how I feelI'm gonna tell you how I feel

Well, resolutionsBaby they come and goWill I do any of these things?The answer's probably no

But if there's one thing, I must doDespite my greatest fearsI'm gonna say to youHow I've felt all of these years