Phrasal Verbs – TURN

Hi, James!

I would like to thank you and your fellow teachers for sparing your time to make these great video lessons, they are very helpful and much more interesting than those boring textbooks I used to read when I was a student.

And I have a suggestion for your future (hope there will be more) lessons. Everyone knows your speech becomes more vivid if you use synonyms instead of repeating the same word all the time. Say, use the words “splendid, brilliant, marvellous, fantastic etc.” when talking about things one finds wonderful. The problem is, you can look them up in the dictionary and even write the synonyms down, but it’s difficult to remember them on-the-spot, when you are actually talking to someone. I believe that’s because you memorise them out of the context, so they just go into what we call “passive vocabulary”. So if you could make some lessons illustrating the situations where such words are used, that would be splendid-marvellous-fantastic :) I know your informal presentation and artistry make sure students remember the lesson properly :)

Here is a short list of other “often used and having lots of synonyms” words: like, dislike, good, bad, interesting, beautiful.

P.S.: sorry I write here, I don’t know why, but I can’t add a new topic in the Forum.