❇️ Idiom

♦️break a/the habit
توقف دادن یک عادت یا عمل روزانه

👉 To stop doing a routine action or activity.

✅ I struggled to break the habit of biting my nails.

✅ I was not able to break the habit of snoring.

✅ It's hard to break a habit that you have had for a long time.

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❇️ Phrasal verb

♦️ to call something off

👉 to cancel a meeting or event
لغو کردن یک جلسه یا برنامه

✅ Don't print those papers. The boss has called the meeting off.


✅ The coach called football practice off because of the rain.

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❇️ Numbers

♦️ Cardinal numbers refer to the number of or quantity of something.
اعداد اصلی به خاطر بیان کردن تعداد چیزی استفاده می شود.
♦️ Ordinal numbers refer to the numeral positions of something.
اعداد ترتیبی به جایگاه یا موقعیت تعدادی یک چیز اشاره می کند.

🛑 Cardinal Numbers

👉 Cardinal numbers refer to the number of or quantity of something.

One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine
Ten
Twenty-one
Thirty-five
Sixty-eight
Etc.
I have one dog.
I need two pencils.
We have three cars.
I leave in four days.
There are thirty students in this class.
I have one hundred pennies in my piggy bank.
We drove one thousand miles across the country.
I wish I had one million dollars.

🛑 Ordinal Numbers

👉 Ordinal numbers refer to the numeral positions of something.

First
Second
Third
Fourth
Fifth
Sixth
Seventh
Eighth
Ninth
Tenth
Twenty-first
Thirty-fifth
Sixty-eighth
Etc.
She came in first place in the competition.
This is my third time in Hawaii.
He is the seventh grandchild.
For the tenth time, please turn off the lights.
My grandparents are celebrating their fiftieth wedding anniversary.

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❇️ Idiom

♦️Sharp as a tack

👉 refers to someone who is intelligent and a quick-thinker
از این اصطلاح برای توصیف کسی استفاده می شود که لایق، زیرک و در فکر کردن سریع باشد.

✅ He is sharp as a tack, so he’ll find a solution to this problem soon.

✅ What a great English she is speaking! She is sharp as tack.

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❇️ Lessons of life


♦️ My life isn’t perfect, but I am thankful for everything I have.
زندگی من عالی نیست، ولی به خاطر هر چیزی که دارم سپاسگزارم.


♦️ Time and good friends are two things that became more valuable as you get older.
زمان و دوستان خوب دو چیزی هستند که با بالا رفتن سن ارزش شان بیشتر می شود.


♦️ Don’t put the key to your happiness in someone else’s pocket.
کلید خوشحالی خود در جیب کس دیگری نگذارید.


♦️ Storms make trees take deeper roots.
طوفان ها باعث می شوند ریشه ی درخت ها عمیق تر شوند.


♦️ Train yourself to see the good in every situation.
خودت را آموزش بده که در هر وضعیت قسمت خوب را ببینی.


♦️ Anything that costs you your peace is too expensive.
هر چیزی که به قیمت آرامش تان تمام شود خیلی گران است. ( هیچ چیز ارزش آرامش تان را ندارد)



♦️ Sometimes you know the value of a moment when it becomes a memory.
بعضی اوقات ارزش یک لحظه را زمانی میدانی که به خاطره مبدل شود.


♦️ Be careful with your words. Once they are said they can be only forgiven but not forgotten.
مواظب حرف های خود باشید. وقتی گفته شوند فقط می‌توانند بخشیده شوند اما فراموش نمی شوند.

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❇️ Common mistakes
اشتباهات رایج

❌ Don't say: When I will arrive, I will call you.
✅ Say: When I arrive, I will call you.

❌ Don't say: She doesn’t listen me.
✔ Say: She doesn’t listen to me.

❌ Don't say: You speak English good.
✔ Say: You speak English well.

❌ Don't say: The house isn’t enough big.
✔ Say: The house isn’t big enough.

❌ Don't say: I didn’t meet nobody.
✔ Say: I didn’t meet anybody.

❌ Don't say: I promise I call you next week.
✔ Say: I promise I’ll call you next week.

❌ Don't say: We studied during four hours.
✔ Say: We studied for four hours.

❌ Don't say: Can you give me an information?
✔️ Say: Can you give me some information?

❌ Don't say: "They cooked the dinner themself."
✔️ Say: "They cooked the dinner themselves."

❌ Don't say: Me and Johnny live here.
✔️Say: Johnny and I live here.

❌ Don't say: If I will be in London, I will contact to you.
✔️ Say: If I am in London, I will contact you.

❌ Don't say: We drive usually to home.
✔️ Say: We usually drive home.

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❇️ The past continues tense

The past continuous is used to indicate that something happened over a period of time in the past.
زمان گذشته جاری به عملی دلالت می‌کند که در گذشته برای یک مدت خاص در جریان بوده باشد.

Past Continuous

♦️ To discuss things that were in progress the past.
برای نشان دادن کاری که در گذشته در جریان بوده استفاده می شود.

✅ They were studying all night.

✅ He was sleeping during class.

✅ I was waiting for a long time.

Past Continuous

♦️ To discuss something that happened in the middle of something else.
برای توصیف کاری که در جریان کار دیگری اتفاق افتاده باشد.

✅ The children were sleeping when we got home.

✅ I was watching a movie when you called.

✅ People were sleeping when the smoke detector went off.

Past Continuous

♦️ To discuss two actions that were in progress at the same time in the past.
برای نشان دادن دو عملی که در عین زمان در گذشته در جریان بودند.

✅ I was watching TV while she was cooking.

✅ We were playing chess while they were studying.

✅ While we were playing football, they were looking for us.

🛑 Negative Past Continuous

✅ We were not playing soccer today.

✅ He was not studying last night.

✅ They were not walking to school yesterday.

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❇️ Idiom

♦️ gut reaction

👉 It is is a reaction that you have immediately and strongly, without thinking about something or being aware of your reasons.
این اصطلاح زمانی استفاده می شود که بخواهیم یک عکس العمل آنی و بدون فکر را بیان کنیم.

✅ At first my gut reaction was to never talk to him again, but later I decided to forget.

✅ I am trying not to trust my gut reaction in certain situations.

✅ My initial gut reaction was that the prices would go up, but I was wrong.

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❇️ Idiom

♦️ to put something off

👉 to postpone something
چیزی را به تعویق انداختن

✅ Many students put off doing their assignments until the last minute.
شاگردان زیادی کارخانگی های خود را تا دقیقه آخر به تعویق می اندازند.

✅ Let's put the party off until next weekend, okay?
بیایید که مهمانی را تا هفته ی آینده به تعویق بندازیم، درسته؟

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