Speak Better English with Harry | Episode 519

和哈利说更好的英语 | 第519话

Speak Better English with Harry

语言学习

2025-01-22

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In this episode, I’ll help you learn adjective + preposition collocations, a key part of improving your English fluency. Many learners struggle with using prepositions correctly, so I’ll show you how to avoid common mistakes and use them naturally. Whether you’re preparing for exams like IELTS, CAE or TOEFL or want to speak confidently in everyday conversations, this lesson is for you.You’ll learn the most important rules for adjective + preposition combinations and see how they’re used in re...
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  • Foreign hi there, this is Harry.

  • Welcome back to Advanced English Lessons with Harry where I try to help you to get a better understanding of the English language, to help you with your conversational skills, your business English skills, interview skills, whatever your goals are, we're here to help.

  • And for those of you and your friends or family who want one to one lessons, well, you know what to do.

  • Just get in touch www.englishlessonviascype.com and you can apply for a free trial lesson.

  • And we'd be very happy to hear from you and very happy to help you.

  • The class today we're going to look at, in particular at collocations for any English proficiency exam that you wish to take.

  • So we're going to look at adjectives and the prepositions and the emphasis is going to be on the correct preposition that we use with English, each of those adjectives.

  • So what I'm going to do, I'm going to go through the list of these adjectives and their prepositions and I'm going to give you an example and hopefully you'll get a better understanding as to how to use them.

  • Okay, so let's start so accustomed to he is accustomed to having two cups of coffee in the morning before he leaves for work.

  • So accustomed to that's what he's used to he's accustomed to to having two cups of coffee in the morning before he leaves for work.

  • Capable of he's capable of so much more.

  • So the statement on the school report, your son is really good at maths and chemistry, but he's capable of so much more.

  • He needs to imply apply himself a little better.

  • Capable of Good at He's really good at sports.

  • He loves all ball sports, football, rugby, soccer, whatever it might be.

  • He's really good at sports, but perhaps not so good at something more academic.

  • Good at Relevant to this document is relevant to the conversation we had yesterday.

  • I think you'll need it.

  • You'll have to refer to that document when you send the reply.

  • It's relevant to meaning related or has some connection.