A very small amount or degree
Almost no milk remains or a sound is barely audible: express a very small amount or degree with an English adverb.
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Inferring from available clues
A locked gate suggests a closed museum: express a reasoned assumption without presenting it as a proven fact.
Read and practiseApproximate amounts and outlines
Forty visitors or an hour’s walk need not be exact: give an approximate number or a broad description.
Read and practiseCome on: encouragement and urgency
Encourage a friend or ask a group to move faster with a familiar spoken expression, and practise choosing a suitable tone.
Read and practiseCome over: visiting someone at home
Invite someone to visit your home and talk about a visit using a common informal expression with times and simple questions.
Read and practiseGet back: returning to a place
Talk about returning home or to another place, ask when someone will return, and practise the present and past forms.
Read and practiseHurry up: asking someone to move faster
Ask a person or group to act more quickly, and explore how a polite request differs from an impatient command.
Read and practiseLooking at someone or something
Direct your eyes towards a person or an object and practise the word order in simple everyday sentences.
Read and practiseGet up: leaving bed and morning routines
Describe when you leave bed with get up, gets up and got up. Compare waking with getting out of bed through examples and three exercises.
Read and practisePutting an object inside
Place an object inside a container and practise everyday word order with nouns and pronouns.
Read and practiseWake up: stop sleeping or wake someone
Talk about waking naturally or being woken by a sound. Practise wake me up, noun placement and the past form woke in three exercises.
Read and practiseTaking an object out
Remove an object from a container and practise everyday word order with nouns and pronouns.
Read and practiseSit down: taking a seat and inviting someone
Offer a seat and describe sitting down with sit, sat and sitting. Learn the spelling, common place phrases and three practical exercises.
Read and practiseWalking into a room
Enter a room on foot and practise the everyday expressions used with and without a named destination.
Read and practiseTurn on: start a device and place the object
Switch a device on with clear English word order. Learn turn the lamp on, turn it on and the difference between starting and being on.
Read and practiseTurn off: stop a device or supply
Stop an appliance or water flow with turn off. Practise turn it off, automatic shut-off and the difference between stopping and lowering volume.
Read and practiseWalking out of a room
Leave an indoor place on foot and practise naming the room you come from or leaving it understood.
Read and practisePut on: dress in an item and use put them on
Get dressed using put on for clothes and glasses. Learn noun and pronoun order, unchanged past put, and putting with a double t.
Read and practiseTurning to face the other way
Face the opposite direction with an everyday movement expression, and practise the form in simple sentences.
Read and practiseCome in: welcoming someone inside
Welcome a visitor with come in and ask permission with Can I come in? Practise come, came and coming while naming the room with into.
Read and practiseGo out: leaving home and making social plans
Plan a walk or dinner with go out. Learn goes and went, name a place with out of, and distinguish going out from simply being out.
Read and practiseLook for: searching for someone or something
Say what you are trying to find with look for. Practise looking for it and questions ending in for, and distinguish searching from looking at an object.
Read and practiseRequesting something with ask for
A polite request can name both the person you approach and the thing you want. Practise their order.
Read and practiseReturning a telephone call
Return a missed telephone call and practise where a person’s name or pronoun goes in the expression.
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