hi and welcome to this my latest video I'm Andrew, and this video is about idioms
phrasal verbs collocations and less common words in English it is intended
especially to help students taking the IELTS speaking exam but it will also be
good for any candidate taking any spoken exam in English and any student that
wants to learn idioms phrasal verbs collocations and less common words what
we're going to do in this lesson is I'm going to show you a number of each of
these things idioms phrasal verbs collocations and less common words I'm
going to show you them in sequence and then at the end of the lesson I am going
to show you how to put all of this material together to form a really good
answer to a part two speaking question about the environment topic which is a
common IELTS topic but crucially almost all of the vocabulary that I'm going to
show you you can use to talk about all kinds of different topics with one or
two exceptions most of the words are not specific to the environment at all so
first of all collocations collocations are words that very often appear
together and in your speaking and written exams for IELTS to get a good
score you need to news collocation you need to
put words together in combination in the way that a native speaker would so here
on the screen are some collocations and major incidents warning lights toxic
spill potential problems and a huge array and you can see there on the
screen what these things mean a major incident when something very serious
happens warning lights light switch flash when something goes wrong a toxic
spill when poisonous chemicals are accidentally allowed to go somewhere
they shouldn't potential problems problems that might happen a huge array
a great IFE of something lots of different
things some less common words waterways a body of water that you can use to
travel from A to B such as a river or a canal to trace to find out where
something came from such of a leaked ecosystem all the plants and animals
that live in an area and the relationship between them and their
environment distraught this means extremely upset idiomatic expressions
asleep at the wheel this means not paying attention to keep an eye on
something this is the opposite really of not paying attention it's to watch
something very closely very carefully beside himself is another way of saying
distraught it means extremely upset phrasal verbs two of them here in this
lesson to wipe out meaning to kill large numbers of something but note if a
person says I feel wiped out they mean they feel really tired to get over
something this means to feel better after something has happened
that's something being something that has affected the way that you feel so
here is a sample answer to a part two question about the environment in which
we bring all of this vocabulary together talk about an environmental problem
which has been in the news well recently there was a major incident in which a
toxic chemical by the name of dioxin was leaked into one of our major waterways
the Thames the leak was traced to a paper processing plant
apparently the supervisor with a sleep at the wheel and failed to keep an eye
on the panel of warning lights that should have alerted him to potential
problems the toxic spill wiped out a huge array of fish
experts say the ecosystem will take years to recover they say that the
supervisor is beside himself completely distraught and that will that it will
take him years to get over his mistake so here you see how we put all these
collocations idioms phrasal verbs and less common words together to form one
really good answer for an IELTS speaking question so I hope you've enjoyed this
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