English learners can boost their fluency by strengthening three main elements of English: 1) Collocations, 2) Idioms, and 3) Phrasal Verbs. Learn how English fluency impacts your success. Understand collocations, idioms, and phrasal verbs and how a greater knowledge of them increases your English fluency!

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Boost Your English Fluency Today!
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by: Professor H. E. Colby

2. AGENDA
•What is English Fluency?
•What are the Benefits?
•Traits of English Fluency
•Idioms, Collocations, and Phrasal Verbs
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3. What is English fluency?
•Express your ideas, thoughts – communicate – in
English easily and accurately.
•Every person has different learning-language
potential.
•The time needed to reach “fluency” varies.
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4. Benefits of English Fluency
•Communicate better with friends, colleagues
and clients confidently.
•Understand songs, movies, and books better.
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5. Benefits of English Fluency
•Get a promotion.
•Get a raise!
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6. Traits of English Fluency
•Build and use strong vocabulary covering
many subjects.
•Speak and write articulately and confidently.
•….and
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7. Traits of English Fluency
•Use and understand idioms, collocations, and
phrasal verbs without fear.
•A surefire way to mimic native speaking and
writing.
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8. Collocations
•Collocations – a group of words or phrases that
seem to naturally go together and express one idea.
•EXAMPLES: business meeting, to do exercises
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9. Idioms
•Idiom – a fixed group of words established by usage
as having a meaning not understandable from those
of the individual words.
•EXAMPLES: a hot potato (difficult matter or issue)
blue moon ( a rare occurrence)
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10. Phrasal Verbs
•Phrasal Verb – verbs that combine with one or two
particles (preposition and/or adverb) to create a verb
with different meanings than the original one.
EXAMPLES: to break down (to stop working)
to give up something
(to stop doing or having something)
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11. Boost Your English Fluency Today!
•Learn 50 useful collocations,
idioms, and phrasal verbs.
•Test your learning with 3
quizzes
•Use as a handy reference in
class, in meetings, or talking
with friends, colleagues, and
clients.
•Check out now!
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12. About H. E. Colby
•Professor Colby, author of How to Be a
Business English Ace, has helped
students achieve their English goals for
many years.
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