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#️⃣#️⃣#️⃣ Happy New Year from the O’Connor Family 🎆🎉 #️⃣ As the year comes to an end, we want to say a big thank you to everyone who has been learning English with us. New words, new grammar, new idioms — step by step, day by day, you’ve been moving forward...

#️⃣#️⃣#️⃣ O’Connor Grammar 🗣️❓ Questions in English: how word order really works #️⃣ Today we continue our O’Connor Grammar series and focus on questions in English. At first glance they look simple, but word order, auxiliary verbs, and special question words can easily confuse learners...

#️⃣#️⃣#️⃣ Idioms and stable expressions. "The ball is in your court" 🎾 #️⃣ Meaning The idiom “The ball is in your court” means that it is now your responsibility to take the next action or make a decision...

#️⃣#️⃣#️⃣ #️⃣ Phrasal Verbs with CUT ✂️📘 #️⃣ The verb cut is very common in English, and when it combines with particles like off, down, out, or back, it forms many useful phrasal verbs. These expressions are especially popular in everyday spoken English 🗣️...

#️⃣#️⃣#️⃣ Episode 18: “A Bittersweet Victory” 🥇🤼‍♂️ #️⃣ Friday night was loud, joyful, and a little too long. Sarah went out with her friends to relax after a hard week and had one drink too many 🍷😅. By Saturday morning, the result was obvious — a terrible hangover. Sarah stayed in bed for half the day, holding her head and whispering that she would never drink again 🤕. В пятницу вечером Сара хорошо отдохнула с друзьями, но утром у неё было сильное похмелье. #️⃣ John, on the other hand, was very careful...

#️⃣#️⃣#️⃣ Word Families & Collocations: Memory 🧠✨ #️⃣ Today’s word family is memory, a word we use to talk about how we remember things — events, facts, emotions, experiences. It has a rich family of related forms and many natural collocations used by native speakers every day. Let’s explore them clearly and with friendly examples from the O’Connor family. 😉 #️⃣ Word Family of “memory” 🧠➡️📚 1️⃣ memory — ability to remember 2️⃣ memorize — to learn something so you remember it 3️⃣ memorable —...

#️⃣#️⃣#️⃣ Proverbs and Wisdom: “Don’t Count Your Chickens Before They Hatch”: A Proverb with a Lesson #️⃣ The English proverb “Don’t count your chickens before they hatch” is one of the most well-known sayings in the English-speaking world 🐣🐔. It teaches a simple but essential idea: don’t celebrate success before it actually happens. In other words, avoid making plans based on something that has not yet come true. ||Не стоит радоваться заранее и планировать то, что может ещё не произойти.|| ...

#️⃣#️⃣#️⃣ Culture and language. St. Andrew’s Day — Scotland’s National Celebration 🏴✨ #️⃣ St. Andrew’s Day, celebrated on 30 November, is one of Scotland’s most important cultural events. It honours St. Andrew, the patron saint of Scotland, and marks the beginning of the winter festive season filled with music, traditions, and warm gatherings. 🥶🔥 #️⃣ Saint Andrew is known as one of the twelve apostles and is remembered for his kindness, humility, and willingness to help others. His symbol — the diagonal cross (the saltire) — became the national flag of Scotland...

#️⃣#️⃣#️⃣ The fascinating etymology. Candle 🕯️✨ #️⃣ When we think of a candle, we imagine warm light, cozy evenings, and maybe even a power outage rescue tool ⚡🕯️. But the history of this simple word is surprisingly rich 📚. The English candle comes from the Latin word “candēla”, which itself comes from th,e verb “candēre,” meaning “to shine” or “to glow.” ✨🔥 Когда мы думаем о свече, нам представляются тёплый свет, уютные вечера и, возможно, средство спасения во время отключения электричества...

#️⃣#️⃣#️⃣ O’Connor Grammar: Reported Speech 2: When the Situation Changes (and SAY/TELL Rules) 🗣️➡️📘 #️⃣ Today we continue our journey into reported speech — the moments when the O’Connor family retells each other’s stories, news, and complaints. This time we’ll focus on two big ideas: 1️⃣ When we do and do not change the verb tense. 2️⃣ How to use say and tell correctly. A little grammar, a little chaos — just how the O’Connors like it 😄. #️⃣ 1. When we DO NOT change the tense 🔄❌ If the...

#️⃣#️⃣#️⃣ Idioms and stable expressions. “By the Skin of Your Teeth” — What This Curious Idiom Really Means 😅🦷✨ #️⃣ Today we’ll explore a wonderfully strange English idiom — “by the skin of your teeth.” It sounds funny 😄, it looks odd 🤨, and it’s extremely common in real spoken English. Let’s break it down clearly and in a fun way. 😉 #️⃣ Meaning of the idiom 📘 The phrase “by the skin of your teeth” means to succeed or survive something by a very narrow margin, almost failing, but just barely making it...

#️⃣#️⃣#️⃣ Phrasal Verbs with COME 🚪➡️✨ #️⃣ Today we’ll explore common phrasal verbs with come — small verbs that appear everywhere in spoken English 😊. The O’Connor family will show us how each one works in everyday situations 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦. 1️⃣ come in — enter, go inside 🚪. #️⃣ John came in with a big bag of apples 🍎 and smelled of the market 😄. ||Джон вошёл с большим пакетом яблок и пахнул как с рынка.|| 2️⃣ come back — return (to a place or a topic) ↩️. #️⃣ “I’ll come back before dinner,” John said after his morning shift. ||«Я вернусь до ужина», — сказал Джон после утренней смены.|| 3️⃣ come up with — think of, invent (an idea or plan) 💡...