kelly’s english

🖤 ponder - to think carefully about something, especially for a noticeable length of time
🩶обдумывать

🌟she sat back for a minute to ponder her next move in the game.

🖤 come to your senses - to begin to use good judgment
🩶прийти в себя

🌟I'm glad she finally came to her senses and decided against those hideous bridesmaids' dresses.

🖤 indulge - to allow yourself or another person to have something enjoyable, especially more than is good for you
🩶позволять себе, предаваться удовольствиям

🌟we took a deliberate decision to indulge in a little nostalgia.

🖤 set your sights on something - to decide to achieve something
🩶нацелиться на что-либо

🌟Jenny has set her sights on winning the competition.

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😊✨fall flat

❤️‍🔥 If a joke, idea, or suggestion falls flat, it does not have the intended effect
📎 не удаваться, звучать неуместно

🫰 he made several jokes and each of them fell flat.

☠️✨let's face it

✨something that you say before you say something that is unpleasant but true
🩶посмотрим правде в глаза, будем откровенны

😏📎 let's face it, Hannah, you never wanted to go on this trip.

😋

📎

let's face it

, we both know why I stopped working there.

🤎🌟Work Idioms

📎 burn the midnight oil - to stay up late working on a project or task

👀 сидеть допоздна за работой

🌟Denise has been burning the midnight oil trying to finish this report, so she must be exhausted.

📎 pull (one's) own weight - to contribute to a group activity or project in proportion to one's abilities or role

👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨 вносить свой вклад

🌟

if you don't

pull your own weight

, our presentation will never be finished on time.

📎 make a killing - to earn a lot of money in a short time and with little effort

😝 заработать кучу денег, сорвать куш

🌟

they made a killing

with the sale of their London house.

📎 at the top of the ladder - In the highest or most important position in a group or organization

😙 на вершине карьеры

🌟

with her new promotion,

Jill is now at the top of the ladder

as CEO.

📎 back to the drawing board - back to the beginning of a process to start it again, because it is not working

🫲 вернуться к исходной точке

🌟

we need to

go back to the drawing board

on this project. I think it had some fundamental flaws from the start.

🦾✨by the skin of (one's) teeth - barely. often used to describe something that almost didn't happen
❤️‍🔥еле-еле, чудом

✨the whole building exploded because of the gas leak. thankfully, the crew escaped by the skin of their teeth.

fall off the wagon

1️⃣ to return to drinking alcohol after a period of abstinence. usually said of recovering alcoholics

😅📎 there have been a few times that I've nearly fallen off the wagon, but thinking of my responsibility to my daughter helps keep me sober.

2️⃣ by extension, to return to any discontinued behavior, usually one that is detrimental in some way

😝

📎

I gave up smoking for nearly a year, but

I fell off the wagon

at Jeff's bachelor party.

📍вернуться к пагубной привычке

🙍✨a memory like a sieve - the tendency to be exceptionally forgetful or absentminded; a poor memory
🧡дырявая память

🤎 sorry, I forgot your birthday. I have a memory like a sieve.

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❤️Taylor Swift – august
🧡listening worksheet

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friends 'til the end?✨

🕯️ being let down by a friend can provoke feelings of hurt that can last for decades...

🪷💀 интересная статья про эмоциональную травму от предательства друзей, в разработке вы найдете саму статью, вокабуляр из нее и карточки в wordwall со словами

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🤍Tate McRae - Just Keep Watching🤍
listening worksheet

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✨🫲 lash out at someone
🌟to suddenly get angry and say mean things to someone

❤️‍🔥 выместить злость/гнев на ком-то, сорваться на ком-то

😪📎 she lashed out at me for no reason.

🕳️📎 it’s not fair to lash out at your children when you’re feeling frustrated.

📎 я не люблю читать на английском

а что, если это журнал про Лану Дель Рей?🌟

👑🤍классная лексика, идиомы, и тексты про любимую Лану - идеальный материал для чтения

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💋 the world is someone's oyster - If the world is your oyster, you can do what you want or go where you want
📎 для кого-то все двери открыты, весь мир у чьих-то ног

👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨✨you're young and healthy and you have no commitments - the world is your oyster.

✨разберем несколько полезных фраз✨

🧡stew over something - to worry or fret about something for a long time
(беспокоиться, переживать)

😮‍💨 she stewed over the argument all night and couldn’t sleep.

🧡ring true - to sound or seem genuine, authentic, or believable
(звучать правдиво)

🫰

his explanation didn’t quite

ring true.

🧡have a flair for something
1️⃣to have a natural talent or aptitude for something; to be good at something
(иметь талант к чему-либо)

😪

she

had a flair for poetry

when she was young, and it only became more impressive as she got older.

2️⃣to have a tendency to exhibit some trait or behavior
(иметь склонность к определённому поведению)

😭

my sister

has a flair for stealing the spotlight.