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See Class ScheduleCatch Word #136 – The numbers are skyrocketing
Episode description
What goes up must come down! Things are always changing in today’s world, and that’s why we decided to make an episode about things going up and going down. Especially in the news, we often hear about increases and decreases, and they use lots of different expressions to talk about this.This time, we’re talking about numbers, such as prices, statistics, and other amounts. Listen to this episode and we’ll see if our numbers start to soar!
Expressions included in the study guide
- A cottage
- The great outdoors
- To skyrocket
- To soar
- A homonym
- To be liking – Is this correct?
- What does up must come down
- To nosedive
- Back to the subject
- At any rate
- To hold off
- To jump at the chance
- To sink
- A start-up
Informal contractions in this episode
Informal contractions are unofficial short forms of other words, and they’re usually only used in casual conversation. For example, when a native English speaker talks casually, they might say gonna instead of going to, or whaddya instead of what do you. Even though informal contractions are usually only used in spoken English, we include them in the Culips written transcripts to help you get used to how they’re used and what they sound like.
These are the informal contractions used in today’s episode, along with their meanings:
- ’bout: about
- ’cause: because
- gonna: going to
- gotta: got to
- wanna: want to
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Catch Word #136 – The numbers are skyrocketing
Episode description
What goes up must come down! Things are always changing in today’s world, and that’s why we decided to make an episode about things going up and going down. Especially in the news, we often hear about increases and decreases, and they use lots of different expressions to talk about this.This time, we’re talking about numbers, such as prices, statistics, and other amounts. Listen to this episode and we’ll see if our numbers start to soar!Expressions included in the study guide
- A cottage
- The great outdoors
- To skyrocket
- To soar
- A homonym
- To be liking – Is this correct?
- What does up must come down
- To nosedive
- Back to the subject
- At any rate
- To hold off
- To jump at the chance
- To sink
- A start-up
Informal contractions in this episode
Informal contractions are unofficial short forms of other words, and they’re usually only used in casual conversation. For example, when a native English speaker talks casually, they might say gonna instead of going to, or whaddya instead of what do you. Even though informal contractions are usually only used in spoken English, we include them in the Culips written transcripts to help you get used to how they’re used and what they sound like. These are the informal contractions used in today’s episode, along with their meanings:- ’bout: about
- ’cause: because
- gonna: going to
- gotta: got to
- wanna: want to
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