"Fire" Idioms

Fire is pretty hot and dangerous, don’t you think? Well, in English we have a number of idioms that come from this idea about fire and use the word fire in them. For today’s English lesson, let’s take a look at five idioms that have word fire. I hope this lesson isn’t too hot to handle!

1 letter of the English alphabet

One may think it's so easy, but check out these words with the "o" letter combinations:

• spot
• collect
• corn
• coat

All 4 have different o-sounds.

This podcast is all about the letter "o" and how it is commonly mispronounced by non-native English speakers. There're a number of reasons why this sound isn't pronounced the way it's supposed to be, and mainly it's because of the non-native tendency to be "hyper" correct, which in this case works against us. Learn the 4 main ways this letter is mispronounced and practice different groups of words with this letter

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Too, Enough and So…

The adverbs too and enough are used to indicate excess or sufficiency. In these sentence structures, enough is always placed after the adjective it qualifies while too is placed before the adjective. Enough and too are followed by infinitive phrases (to + verb). Sometimes they are also followed by a phrase beginning with for.

collocations with the word "country"

You can describe a country based on its climate/temperature:

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