How you can enrich your skills in English. A game to be followed by. Real-life idioms and phrases as well as phrasal verbs with examples.

1. Become fluent in English

2. Active Critical Jovial Resoursef
ul
Appreciativ
e
Determine
d
Kind
Sociable Awesome Earnest Knowledge
able
Sincere Bright Energetic
Laughing Skillful Brilliant Engaging Learned Supportive Broadmind
ed
Enthusiasti
c
Loyal Suspicious Careful Forgiving Motivating Sympatheti
c
Caring Cheerful Generous Optimistic Tolerant Clear-eyed Goal-
mined
Patient Unbiased Competitiv
e
Humble Pleasant Visionary Influential
Positive Wise Cooperativ
e
Innovative Profession
al
Youth Creative
Inspiring Quick-
wtted
Zealous Nurturing Talented humble
Choose Four

3. • Think of an adjective beginning with the first letter of your
name to describe yourself
• Introduce yourself to others using that adjective
• Remember the adjectives others use to describe themselves
• Introduce two or three colleagues to class
Name Game

4. What is a WORD?
A SINGLE DISTINCT MEANINGFUL ELEMENT OF
SPEECH OR WRITING, USED WITH OTHERS (OR
SOMETIMES ALONE) TO FORM A SENTENCE
AND TYPICALLY SHOWN WITH A SPACE ON
EITHER SIDE WHEN WRITTEN OR PRINTED

5. Why learn more words?
• To meet our needs
• To communicate effectively
• To build thoughts
• To understand ideas
• To contribute to human knowledge

6. HOW MANY WORDS TO LEARN
People who know 250 to 500 words are beginners. Those who know 1,000 to 3,000 words can carry on everyday
conversations. Knowing 4,000 to 10,000 words makes people advanced language users while knowing more
than 10,000 words puts them at the fluent or native-speaker levels.

7. Is spelling important ?

8. Is spelling important ?

9. Homonyms

10. Some synonyms and antonyms list
Very Serious Solemn
Very Neat Immaculate
Very Beautiful Exquisite
Very poor Destitute
Very painful Excruciating

11. How to avoid using very
afraid terrified
neat immaculate
old ancient
angry furious
bad akrocious
capable accomplished
conventional conserrative
bright dazzling
dirty squalid
fierce ferocious
good superb
happy jubilant
beautiful exquisite
clean spotless
big immense
poor destitute
clever brilliant
very parched
eager keen
fast quick
hot scalding
large colossal

12. NOOB VS PRO
Very Thirsty
03 Parched
Very worried
02 Anxious
Very Clean
05 Spotless
Very dirty
04 Squalid
Very happy
01 Jubilant

13. Try this…...
VERY
STOP USING
thirsty
good
Slow
Happy clean worried rich
Parched
Sluggish
Jubilant Spotless Anxious
Wealth
Superb

14. Antonyms to learn
Allow Forbid
Autumn Spring
Annoy Satisfy
Cellar Attic
First Final
Deep Shallow
Exit Entrance

15. Phrasal Verbs

16. Phrasal Verbs

17. Phrasal Verbs
Some common phrasal verbs
Phrasal Verbs Meaning Example
Carry Away To be excited and
lose control
After his recent success, alex got carried
away and ended up alienating himself
from his friends.
Stand by Support or help I knew that my parents were always going
to stand by my decision.
Look into investigate The police decided to look into the matter
they were convinced it was a robbery

18. Phrasal Verbs
Some common phrasal verbs
Phrasal Verbs Meaning Example
Drop in Visit someone The doctor decided to drop in and
check on Mrs Smith
Make up End a fight,
Compromise
The feud between the neighbours had
gone on long enough, it was time to
make up.
find out discover We don't know where he lives. How
can we find out?

19. Phrasal Verbs
Some common phrasal verbs
Phrasal Verbs Meaning Example
back something up reverse You'll have to back up your car so
that I can get out.
blow up explode The racing car blew up after it
crashed into the fence.
calm down relax after being
angry
You are still mad. You need to calm
down before you drive the car
fall down fall to the ground The picture that you hung up
last night fell down this morning.

20. Phrasal Verbs
Let’s Play a game !
The job was taking (1) a toll on Roger (2), he was completely burnt away (3).
Which part of the sentence is wrong?
Ans: The correct answer is (3). Burn away is not the phrasal verb to be used
here. The correct verb is ‘burn out’ which means to be exhausted and tired.
So the correct sentence will be “The job was taking a toll on Roger, he was
completely burnt out.
As soon as he reached (1) home he set up (2) doing the
housework (3). Which part of the sentence is wrong?
Ans: The correct answer is (2). Set up means to establish
something. the correct phrasal verb here should be ‘set
about’ which means to start doing some work. So the
correct sentence will be “As soon as he reached home he set
about doing the housework”.

21. Phrasal Verbs
Let’s Play a game !
It was getting late (1), so the teacher decided to wind (2) his work and leave for home
(3). Which part of the sentence is wrong?
Ans: The answer is (2). Here the verb that is correct is “wind up”. ‘wind’ means air,
whereas ‘wind up’ means to wrap up something. So the correct sentence will be “It
was getting late, so the teacher decided to wind up his work and leave for home”.
As the storm weakened the wind died ____.
a) down
b) away
c) off
d) none of the above
Ans: The correct answer is A. ‘Die down’ means to
gradually disappear or weaned. So the correct sentence will
be “As the storm weakened the wind died down”.

22. idioms and phrases
Most Common idioms for all of us

23. idioms and phrases
Idioms Meaning Example
Break a leg Good luck You have an exam tomorrow? Break a leg!
Sell like hot cakes If something sells
like hot cakes, it
sells very fast.
More than five thousand cars sold so far.
The new model is selling like hot cakes.
Burn the candle at both ends If you burn the
candle at both
ends, you work
excessively hard,
say, by keeping
two jobs or by
leading a busy
social life in the
evening.
Mitch is burning the candle at both ends.
He is working two jobs, one in the evening.
On cloud nine If you’re on
cloud nine,
you’re very
happy.
I was on cloud nine after receiving the
news of my promotion.

24. idioms and phrases
Idioms Meaning Example
call it a night going to bed I’m going to call it a night
a matter of time when
something is
inevitable
It's only a matter of time until they find
a cure for cancer
about time said to convey
impatience
I've been waiting for you for an hour.
It's about time you arrived!
all ears listen carefully Jane asked if I was paying attention. I
told her, "I'm all ears!"
apple of my eye an adored
person
My precious daughter is the apple of
my eye.
better late than never doing
something late
is better than
not doing it
You finally visited the dentist. Better
late than never!

25. idioms and phrases
Idioms Meaning Example
Spoil someone’s plans To ruin
someone’s
plans
The heavy overnight rain spoilt our
plan to play cricket next morning.
Barking up the wrong tree To ask the
wrong person
or follow the
wrong course
The sales team blamed the engineers
for the organization’s failure to bag the
mega deal, but they were barking up
the wrong tree.
Chicken and egg situation If a situation is
chicken and
egg, it is
impossible to
decide which of
the two came
first and caused
the other one.
I need to have experience to get job,
but without job, I can’t have
experience. It’s a chicken and egg
situation.

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