Try to listen and take down the words and their meanings
Grammatical tips
1) 'HAVE TROUBLE - ING'. 'HAVE DIFFICULTY - ING' etc:-
Have trouble/difficulty/a problem doing something.
* I had no trouble finding a place to stay. (NOT: I had no trouble to find........)
* Did you have any difficulty finding a visa?
* People always have problems reading my writing.
2) 'SPEND TIME'/'WASTE TIME'/'BE BUSY' is followed by 'VERB+ING':-
* He spent hours trying to repair the camera.
* All of us west a lot of time doing nothing fruitful.
* A good girl is always busy studying all the year.
3) We use 'Go+VERB' with 'ING' for a number of activities:-
(Go seeing, Go camping, Go reading, go swimming, Go shopping,)
* Every morning he goes swimming.
* When was the last time you went shopping?
* Every sport man should go jogging on a daily basis.
4) In the above-mentioned examples 'NO PREPOSITION' is required to be used.
Vocabularies
1) That's/There's a turn-up for the books (British & Australian informal).:- Something that you say when something strange or surprising happens,
* That's a turn-up for the books......a Frenchman who loves English food.
2) Give somebody the boot. (Informal):- To end a romantic relationship with someone.
* She gave him the boot because he wouldn't stop talking about his ex-girlfriends.
3) Put the boot in.(British informal):- To attack someone by kicking them again and again, usually when they are lying on the ground.
* Four lads pushed him down and then put the boot in.
4) Haul/pull yourself up by your bootstraps.:- To improve your situation by your own efforts without any help from other people.
* my father pulled himself up by his bootstraps to become one of the richest men in the country.
5) A bossy boots. (British and Australian informal):- An impolite way of describing someone who always tell other people what to do.
* Karen's such a bossy boots.....ordering us around all the time.
6) At the bottom of the hip/pile.:- In a worse situation than anyone else in a group of people.
* Those who are at the bottom of the heap feel that society has failed them.
7) Somebody's bottom drawer.:- The things a young woman collects to use in her home after she is married.
* We have given her a few silver cups saucer for her bottom drawer.
8) The bottom drops/falls out of the market.:- If the bottom drops out of the market of a product, people stop buying it.
* The bottom fell out of the market and dealers were left with hundreds of unsaleable painting.
9) Somebody's bottom line.:- The lowest amount of money that someone is willing to give or receive in payment for something.
* Her bottom line on this job is Rs 20000......She won't do it for less.
10) A bottomless pit.:- Someone or something that always need or wants more of whatever they are given, especially money.
* He will eat any food that is left over. He is such a bottomless pit.
Grammatical tips
1) 'HAVE TROUBLE - ING'. 'HAVE DIFFICULTY - ING' etc:-
Have trouble/difficulty/a problem doing something.
* I had no trouble finding a place to stay. (NOT: I had no trouble to find........)
* Did you have any difficulty finding a visa?
* People always have problems reading my writing.
2) 'SPEND TIME'/'WASTE TIME'/'BE BUSY' is followed by 'VERB+ING':-
* He spent hours trying to repair the camera.
* All of us west a lot of time doing nothing fruitful.
* A good girl is always busy studying all the year.
3) We use 'Go+VERB' with 'ING' for a number of activities:-
(Go seeing, Go camping, Go reading, go swimming, Go shopping,)
* Every morning he goes swimming.
* When was the last time you went shopping?
* Every sport man should go jogging on a daily basis.
4) In the above-mentioned examples 'NO PREPOSITION' is required to be used.
Vocabularies
1) That's/There's a turn-up for the books (British & Australian informal).:- Something that you say when something strange or surprising happens,
* That's a turn-up for the books......a Frenchman who loves English food.
2) Give somebody the boot. (Informal):- To end a romantic relationship with someone.
* She gave him the boot because he wouldn't stop talking about his ex-girlfriends.
3) Put the boot in.(British informal):- To attack someone by kicking them again and again, usually when they are lying on the ground.
* Four lads pushed him down and then put the boot in.
4) Haul/pull yourself up by your bootstraps.:- To improve your situation by your own efforts without any help from other people.
* my father pulled himself up by his bootstraps to become one of the richest men in the country.
5) A bossy boots. (British and Australian informal):- An impolite way of describing someone who always tell other people what to do.
* Karen's such a bossy boots.....ordering us around all the time.
6) At the bottom of the hip/pile.:- In a worse situation than anyone else in a group of people.
* Those who are at the bottom of the heap feel that society has failed them.
7) Somebody's bottom drawer.:- The things a young woman collects to use in her home after she is married.
* We have given her a few silver cups saucer for her bottom drawer.
8) The bottom drops/falls out of the market.:- If the bottom drops out of the market of a product, people stop buying it.
* The bottom fell out of the market and dealers were left with hundreds of unsaleable painting.
9) Somebody's bottom line.:- The lowest amount of money that someone is willing to give or receive in payment for something.
* Her bottom line on this job is Rs 20000......She won't do it for less.
10) A bottomless pit.:- Someone or something that always need or wants more of whatever they are given, especially money.
* He will eat any food that is left over. He is such a bottomless pit.
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