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said it's an advanced English lesson and
today we're talking about think okay t h
i n k think so it's an advanced English
lesson col locations with think okay
I've got 10 of them okay I'm going to go
through them one by one and as always
you know by now what I do I'm going to
go back give you some examples show you
how you can use them and then I repeat
them at the end and let's hopefully
you'll be able to put some of them into
practice okay so here we go as I said 10
in total the first think hard if you've
forgotten something and it's deep in
your mind you know the situation you're
sitting there you're typing away and
then you suddenly just get a blank so
you have to really think hard what did I
want to say what was I trying to say
what was said in the meeting so you have
to really think hard and then ah a light
goes off yes I remember now so to think
hard means to think deep something
you've forgotten if Little Johnny comes
home and Johnny's upset and he's crying
because there was something happened in
the school and his mom sits him down and
says okay come on you can tell me what
happened I don't know I can't remember
this happened so quick so he doesn't
really know and Mom says okay I
understand but just think hard where
were you what happened who were you
talking to and then we'll be able to
work it out and we'll be able to see
what happened okay So eventually Johnny
is able to tell his mom where he was
what he was do doing and yeah Mom gets
it all sorted out as mom's do yeah so
you have to think hard about something
okay to think B badly of or think badly
about somebody don't think badly of him
he didn't really mean it so we often use
this expression when somebody did
something perhaps a little bit
insensitively okay but they're not
really bad people they just didn't
really think so perhaps the boyfriend
forgot your daughter's birthday I don't
think badly of him you know he's been
studying hard lately he'll probably come
around later and apologize or he'll say
something and then a minute later the
doorbell rings and there's a big bunch
of flowers sitting on the doorstep so
don't think badly of him don't think
badly about him okay so we can often
think badly of people because we just
take a disliking to them yeah we see
something in the newspapers or on the
Internet on social media and immediately
we jump to a conclusion or we
immediately form an opinion or our
impressions are that really we don't
like that person we think badly of them
okay so when you think badly of somebody
you don't really like them or there is a
something about them or something
they've done or said or forgotten to do
or said that you don't like so to think
badly of or about somebody or something
to think out loud you're sitting in a
meeting and you apparently start talking
to yourself well actually let me think
that if I was doing that what would I do
what was that is said don't mind me I'm
just thinking aloud yeah so when you're
thinking aloud or thinking out loud
you're you mean to keep it to yourself
but the words just come out so you think
out loud and the people around you are
looking at you thinking H I think
Harry's lost it yeah so to think out
loud or to think aloud means to have
some thoughts in your mind but then you
externalize them they come out and
people are looking at you and you say oh
forget it I was just thinking out loud
it just an idea I had but on second
thoughts it's not really going to work
so to think out loud to think twice or
think again you need to think twice
before you buy that car I think it to me
it looks really really expensive or you
should think again before you actually
hand over the money because why don't
you get it checked by a mechanic so this
is some advice that a friend friend or a
father might give you you're really
really anxious to get your hands on your
first car you you don't really take into
account all the little issues you're
perhaps not so familiar with cars you
really only want to get behind that
wheel and drive it we've all been there
I was there when I bought my first car
one of my sons when he bought his first
car nothing but trouble we spent a lot
of money trying to get it repaired so in
situations like that the advice that you
should have listened to is think twice
think twice before you do this think
again before you make such a serious
decision you might get a job offer and
you go home and think yeah it's it's
really really good but when you're
talking to your friends and they're
saying well actually do you really
really want that you're going to have to
move or you're going to have to get up
really really early and you're going to
be traveling for long periods of time if
I were you I'd think twice before
accepting that job perhaps you need to
think again about it why don't you take
the weekend let them know and you you'll
give them the answer on Monday or
Tuesday so to think twice or to think
again think positive or think positively
this is always a great piece of advice
to think positively about something even
in the worst of situations in the worst
of times we try to make good out of bad
so we try to think positively look I
know everything looks bad at the moment
everything is Bleak they cost of living
is going up the price of energy and fuel
is going up but I'm trying to think
positively well what could be positive
about that well you know it's probably
going to end sooner or later or the
government are going to step in and
they're probably going to spend more
money on alternative sources of energy
that has to be good so let's think
positively about the bad things think
positive yeah okay there's good there's
bad and out of bad situations
good will always rise okay so we're
trying to think positive or trying to
think positively and you do need a
really really strong consternation to
think positively about everything but
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often you hear this in the negative oh I
don't know I just can't think straight
today I think it's I just didn't sleep
well last night I've been trying to come
up with some ideas for that marketing
plan and I just can't think of anything
I think I'll go out for some fresh air
or a walk or might even close the door
and just put my feet up and have a doze
for a few minutes that might help so to
think straight means to think logically
to think clearly yeah now think straight
where were you when you put the car keys
down so you can't find the car keys you
don't know where they are you've got the
house keys on it the car keys the office
keys everything is on that little bunch
of keys so you need to think straight
where were you so you retrace your steps
where were you when you left the office
last night where did you go did you get
on the bus did you get on the tube did
you go to the shops did you call into
the the bank when perhaps you went into
one of these 80 Ah that's it I put my
keys down on the bench bes inside the
ATM machine that's where they'll be okay
so to think straight think logically or
as I said some people often say ah I
can't think straight because there's too
much noise around me I need to get away
from here I need to close the door I
need some silence to enable me to think
straight so that I don't have any
disturbance think for yourself well when
we use this expression to think for
yourself it means to avoid doing things
that other people tell you to do why
can't you think for yourself for once
why do you have to do everything that
they do I remember my mother and father
telling me that many many occasions ah I
want to join the Boys Scouts oh I want
to go here oh I want to go there do you
really is that is that just your friends
Well everybody's going all the guys in
the class are going yeah but why can't
you just think for yourself is it really
what you want to do so when you think
for yourself you make the decisions that
suit you you make the decisions that are
are going to be in your best interests
and the you make decisions that will be
to your advantage so learn to think for
yourself so it could be a bit of advice
you give the kids you'll soon soon learn
how to think for yourself when you get
to 12 or 13 or 14 you'll make up your
own mind you won't be guided or directed
by or LED or misled by other people you
will think for yourself okay so it's
good advice doesn't always happen but
try try and think for
yourself think carefully well we always
get this advice about everything now
think carefully before you answer if
you're sitting in front of an examiner
and they're telling you what they want
what sort of questions for example for
it or something like that so think
carefully before you answer don't make
mistakes or if you want time to answer
you might say to the examiner if I could
just have 30 seconds or a minute yes of
course just relax think carefully and
then give me your answer okay or if you
watch detective programs and they're
looking for some evidence to support
their investigation about some crimes
that has been committed they might be
talking to some witness now we'd like
you to think very very carefully what
happened on the night in question where
were you what did you see just tell us
every little detail that you can think
of think very carefully so you want
clear message and clear information to
think big well there's no harm in
thinking big I'm going to be an
astronaut that's it son you think big
and if you keep thinking big you'll
achieve that someday don't think so big
it'll not happen you'll be disappointed
with everything in life so you can be
very positive about it but also you can
be a little bit stupid and a little bit
negative about and not to think so big
why do you think big all the time why
don't are you not just happy with what
you have why aren't you just happy with
the house you have the car you drive the
job you have well of course people like
to think big because they want to
improve and they like to believe that to
improve you need certain assets you need
a bigger house a better job a bigger car
and therefore you can think big Mr Big
to think big as I said there's no harm
in thinking big it's it gives you some
ambition and ambition as long as it's
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then the last one we have three options
I dread or I hate or a word you might
not have heard of I shudder to think so
we usually use this in the negative I
dread to think what the boss is going to
say when I tell him that account has
closed I'd hate to to think what he's
likely to say when I give him the news
that I crashed the car I should to think
what people are going to say when they
get the next gas and electricity bill
and they see that it's gone up by 300%
okay so I dread I hate or I should are
all negative ways to say I dread to
think what I hate to think what I should
have to think what the reaction will be
that are all about negative situations
okay so I dread to think what the
traffic is going to be like tomorrow if
it snows
overnight so you're really not sure what
it's going to be like you'll have to get
up
early I hate to think of him getting
away with it that's three or four times
he's done it he always blames somebody
else I shudder to think where we'll be
in two or three years time if the cost
of living continues to rise the way it's
rising at the moment okay so all
negative thoughts Okay so we've got
collocations collocations connected with
think we've got 10 of them let me give
them to you again I've given you the
examples and you can practice using them
and see how you get on so think hard
think badly of or think badly
about think out loud think TW twice or
think again think positive or
positively think straight or I can't
think straight think for yourself think
carefully think big and then finally I
dread to think I hate to drink oh I
think I sorry about that I dread to
think I hate to think and I shter to
think little fraudulence slip there okay
so think drink drink think so I dread to
think I hate to think I should to think
what might happen so you need to
practice those make sure you can
understand them they're good
collocations they're good ways to to
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