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by: Professor H. E. Colby

AGENDA

•What is English Fluency?

•What are the Benefits?

•Traits of English Fluency

•Idioms, Collocations, and Phrasal Verbs

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What is English fluency?

•Express your ideas, thoughts – communicate – in English easily and accurately.

•Every person has different learning-language potential.

•The time needed to reach “fluency” varies.

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Benefits of English Fluency

•Communicate better with friends, colleagues and clients confidently.

•Understand songs, movies, and books better.

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Benefits of English Fluency

•Get a promotion.

•Get a raise!

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Traits of English Fluency

•Build and use strong vocabulary covering many subjects.

•Speak and write articulately and confidently.

•….and

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Traits of English Fluency

•Use and understand idioms, collocations, and phrasal verbs without fear. •A surefire way to mimic native speaking and writing.

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Collocations

•Collocations – a group of words or phrases that seem to naturally go together and express one idea.

•EXAMPLES: business meeting, to do exercises

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Idioms

•Idiom – a fixed group of words established by usage as having a meaning not understandable from those of the individual words.

•EXAMPLES: a hot potato (difficult matter or issue) blue moon ( a rare occurrence)

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Phrasal Verbs

•Phrasal Verb – verbs that combine with one or two particles (preposition and/or adverb) to create a verb with different meanings than the original one.

EXAMPLES: to break down (to stop working) to give up something (to stop doing or having something)

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Boost Your English Fluency Today!

•Learn 50 useful collocations, idioms, and phrasal verbs.

•Test your learning with 3 quizzes

•Use as a handy reference in class, in meetings, or talking with friends, colleagues, and clients.

•Check out now!

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About H. E. Colby

•Professor Colby, author of How to Be a

Business English Ace, has helped

students achieve their English goals for

many years.

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