3 Phrase Diet: Week 7

Well we're rolling along in the 3 Phrase Diet. For this week your homework is to find your own 3 phrases to study. Find 3 phrases much like the ones from previous weeks. Phrases you heard on a TV or radio show, read in a book or magazine, or anywhere you find phrases.

Once you have your 3 phrases post them in the comments or email them us at chromatic.english@gmail.com

Also, you can post them on our Facebook, Twitter or Google+ pages.

We look forward to hearing from you!!

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3 Phrase Diet: Week 6

Welcome to Week 6 of the 3 Phrase Diet.

Our 3 phrases this week....

Now you're cooking with gas
When talking or usually during an activity when you start to get in a rhythm we could say this phrase. When you add gas to a fire it really cooks the food so when, say, your playing basketball and you start to hit every shot you shoot its like adding gas to a fire. 

I've got to go home and get my beauty sleep
When it gets late and you want to go home you would say this phrase. Sleeping is good for the eyes and skin that give us a beautiful complexion. 

Wake the dead

When its late at night and people are sleeping and you say or do something very loudly your friend may respond with this phrase.

A: <CRASH!>
B: What are doing in here? Your loud enough to wake the dead!


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The fun of adding 'S' at the end of verbs (Revised with Audio)

We all know verbs can be tricky especially with people or nouns and pronouns he/she/it.

Noun + simple present verb 's'

That 's' can be very thin when listening to native speakers. But to get it just right we should do some exaggeration exercises.

Sleepssssss
Tastessssss
Playsssssss
Eatssssssss
Runsssssss

Pronunciation Tip: Say each as if you were a snake, sssssss!

A simple present sentence would look like this,
It eats fruit.

But works well when we add a prepositional phrase:

in the dark
good in summer.
at school
on the grass

Now practice them in a sentence:

Jane sleeps in the dark.
A watermelon tastes good in summer.
He plays soccer at school.
She runs on the grass.

As an exercise try making sentences with these indoor activities

use the computer
study
write an email
practice the piano
take a nap
do a puzzle
play video games
cook lunch

Don't forget to include the prepositional phrase and to be creative!

Ex. He takes a nap in the tree.

Post your examples in the comments.

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Happy studying.

Joshua