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Going to the abandoned house seems like harmless fun, but should Amy be worried?

Amy normally hated Monday mornings, but this term had been different. Kamal had joined her art class in September and she certainly didn’t hate Kamal; in fact, quite the opposite. She was waiting outside the art class when her friend Tara arrived.

Put Someone Down

If you “put someone down” it means that you say something mean or unkind to them for the purpose of hurting them. The phrase to “put someone down” is usually used when someone is intentionally trying to hurt another person’s feelings.

For example, if someone says, “Do you think my website looks good?”

How to: Talk on the Phone in English

Unless you live in the past, under a rock in Outer Mongolia, or have a serious fear of technology, you will have used a telephone before.

The first telephone call was made in 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell, but at the time there were not many people to ring. Today though, in countries all around the world, almost everyone has a telephone. This means that when learning how to speak English, knowing how to correctly speak to people on the phone is an essential skill.

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A Gerund Is a Verb and a Noun in One

A gerund is a verb that also functions as a noun. For example, one can say one is engaged in the act of writing, but one can also say that what one is doing is a thing called writing. A gerund can be part of the subject of a sentence (“Writing takes a lot of effort”) or part of the object (“I’ve done a lot of writing”). Most writers generally employ gerunds without 

Don’t Give a Damn

Don’t Give a Damn

This is a VERY useful and common phrase native English speakers use all the time.

If someone says, “I don’t give a damn” about something, it means, “I don’t care” about something. They are saying it’s not important and it’s not interesting in their opinion. It also means something like, “That doesn’t matter to me at all”.

How to use “mean”

I’ll never forget my sixth grade teacher, Mrs. Jensen. She was very mean to all of the students. Well, looking back now, I would say she was strict, but at the time we all thought she was mean. Maybe when I was twelve I didn’t understand what strict means. I mean, I was probably too young to appreciate her strong discipline.