Grammar 3 - "Advice"

Advice

û Her advices are always good.

ü Her advice is always good.

‘Advice’ is, in most senses, uncountable, so cannot be plural or used with ‘an’.

Grammar 2 - "Accompany"

Accompany

û I accompanied with my father to the concert.

ü I accompanied my father to the concert.

‘Accompany’ means to ‘go with’, so another ‘with’ is not needed.

Vocabulary 1 - frighten, scare, alarm, intimidate, startle

frighten, scare, alarm, intimidate, startle
All these words mean to make sb afraid.

1. frighten - to make sb feel afraid, often suddenly.
--> He brought out a gun and frightened them off.
2. scare - to make sb feel afraid.
--> They managed to scare the bears away.

frighten or scare?
Both are very common words, and are very similar, so you can use either one correctly. 
Scare is slightly more informal than frighten.

3. alarm - to make sb anxious or afraid.
--> It alarms me that nobody takes this problem seriously.

frighten or alarm?
The subject of alarm is usually a thing, an event or a situation rather than a person.

û You're alarming me.

It is used to describe a feeling that sth unpleasant or dangerous is going to happen in the future, and the feeling is often more of worry than actual fear.

4. intimidate - to frighten or threaten sb so that they feel nervous or so that they will do what you want.

--> They were accused of intimidating people into voting for them.

5. startle - to make sb feel suddenly frightened or surprised, usually because of sth sudden or unexpected.

--> A sudden noise startled her.

Patterns & Collocations

1. Stop it! You're frightening/scaring me!

2. Oh sorry. I didn't mean to frighten/scare/startle you.

3. to frighten/scare sb/sth away/off

4. I was frightened/scared/alarmed/intimidated/startled by what he said.

5. He frightened/scared/intimidated me into telling him what happened.

Saying 1

Rome wasn't built in a day./Rome was not built in a day.
Meaning : used to say that a complicated task will take a long time as well as a lot of effort and needs patience.
Sample Sentence : Take things one at a time. Rushing will only result in a mess as Rome was not built in a day.

Science Facts 1

Did you know?

300 million cells die in the human body every minute.
As you age, your eye colour gets lighter.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Health Tips 1 - Eat more low-fat yogurt, Avoid after-dinner snacks

Eat more low-fat yogurt. The calcium in low-fat yogurt triggers a hormonal response that inhibits your body from producing fat cells.

Avoid after-dinner snacks. But if you want to munch on something while watching T.V., eat an apple or other fruits instead of junk food.

Samples of good sentences

The fleet-footed leopard runs so fast that it almost seems to be flying.
Procrastination is the thief of time.

Grammar 1 - "According to"

According to

1. û According to my opinion, we should go swimming.

ü In my opinion, we should go swimming.

‘According to’ is used with another person or source of information and is not used with ‘opinion’, eg.

ü According to Mary, the beach is closed.

ü According to the timetable, there is a bus at 10 a.m.

2. û According to all these reasons, she decided to change jobs.

ü For all these reasons, she decided to change jobs.

‘According to’ is not used with ‘reason’.

What kind of people will not succeed in life?

1. Those who spend most of their time, discussing problems instead of solutions.

2. Those who are stubborn even to learn through mistakes

3. Those who are hesitant to spend money today for the fear of what tomorrow will be like.

4. Those who lacks of solitude

5. Those who compares themselves with others.

6. Those who are slave to sex and drugs.

Bonus: Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.   - David Frost

简单学英文！！！

英文 三字趣味经：

我家dad，脾气bad，让我sad。

有只cat，非常fat， 专吃rat。

放下plate，赶到gate，已经late。

撇下net，鱼没get，衣服wet。

没给tip，把我lip，装上 zip。

一只kite，颜色white，被狗bite。

轻轻hop，跳上top， 唱起pop。

把眼close，用我nose，去闻rose。

找个excuse，借车use，遭到refuse。

开着car，向着star，路途far。

想变smart，必须start ，学习art。

一个driver，掉进river，生命over。

穿上shirt，脱下skirt，扔进dirt。

个子short，喜欢sport，跑到airport。

燃烧oil，直到boil，倒进soil。

一个fool，掉进pool，真是cool。

西瓜round，长在ground，被我found。

天在snow， 风在blow，树在grow。

一座town，不停down，快要drown。

一只bee，躲进tree，没人see。

抱着Barbie，吃着cookie, 看着movie。

丢了glue，没有clue，脸气blue。

一颗pea，掉进sea，泡壶tea。

身体weak，爬上peak，无力speak。

吞进lead，摸摸head，已经dead。

吃着bread，报纸spread，开始read。

不停train，没 有pain，哪有gain。

如果shy，不敢try，无机会fly。

不停cry，眼泪dry，下锅fry。

很多day，没发pay，无话say。

顽皮monkey，捡起key，扔向donkey。

为了honey，节省money。

有个boy，玩着toy，心中joy。

一只hare，居然dare，对我stare。

天气fair，凉爽air，吹拂hair。

崭新chair，滚下stair， 需要repair。

昨天fire，今天hire，后天retire。

离我near，含着tear，叫我dear。

一只deer，举起beer， 大喊cheers。

洗完face，系好lace，参加race。

听听music，变变magic，吃吃garlic。

脱下jacket，忘记 ticket, 还在pocket。

同学each，手拿peach，来到beach。

观众watch，激烈match，球来catch。

天气sunny，身无penny，感觉funny。

最快runner, 成了winner, 享受dinner。

一首song，歌词long，总唱wrong。

美好spring，歌儿 sing，鲜花bring。

一头fox，躲避ox，藏进box。

身体ill，买来 pill，堆成hill。

饭后hurry，书包carry， 迟到sorry。

做个dream，掉进stream, 大声scream。

穿着dress，下着chess, 结果mess。

心中wish，钓到fish，做成dish。

飞机crash，烧成ash，损失cash。

高高sky ，不知why，掉下spy。

站在peak，对天speak。

到了night，打开light，保护sight。

方法right，坚持fight，前途bright。

猫吃mice，味道nice，想吃twice。

这对twin，总是win！