Idioms
Said when you are promising to keep a secret:
My lips are sealed.
to give an answer to a particular question when you do not have all the facts and so cannot be certain if you are correct:
to guess
the act of leaving your job and stopping working, usually because you are old:
retirement
Make a 'present continuous' sentence.
Subj + to be + verb + ing.
to accept or obey an agreement, decision, or rule:
to abide by
to make a lot of effort to do something:
to put the heart into something
to get involved in an activity or trip with another person or group:
to join
a set of clothes worn for a particular occasion or activity:
outfit
Is a special construction in English that we add to the end of a sentence to check information or to ask for agreement:
Tag Questions
to leave or to escape from someone who is holding you:
to break away
something you say when the person you were talking about appears unexpectedly:
speak/talk of the devil
to tell someone that you are sorry for having done something that has caused problems or unhappiness for them:
to apologize
the way in which people in a particular area, country, or social group pronounce words:
accent
Complete with the proper tag question:
Your parents have retired, __________?
Your parents have retired, haven't they?
to provide support for someone or something:
back somebody up
something that is very easy to do:
a piece of cake
....also, a child's play
to visit places where goods are sold in order to look at and buy/purchase things:
to go shopping
living, not dead:
alive
It refers to the past and uses the past participles of the verb:
Present Perfect
to improve your knowledge of something already learned but partly forgotten:
brush up on something
said to show that you cannot know what something or someone is like by looking only at that person or thing's appearance:
you can't judge a book by its cover
a statement that something is wrong or not satisfactory:
to complaint
not allowed, especially by law:
forbidden
Make a 'Present Perfect' sentence:
Subj + have/has + past participle + complement
to begin, or to begin using or doing something:
or
to escape from a place or a situation:
break out
Fighting has broken out all over the city.
Two inmates broke out of prison and are still at large.