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Why does your brain replay an awkward moment from years ago at 2 a.m.? A quick look at the negativity bias.
Write the whole sentence you hear.
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The structures this recording uses most, with the exact words you will hear:
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| Passive voiceIntermediatebe + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it |
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| Relative clausesIntermediatewho / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing |
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| Indirect questionsIntermediateDo you know where … is? I wonder what … — a question inside a sentence keeps statement word order |
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| Past continuousIntermediatewas/were + -ing — an action in progress at a moment in the past |
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| “Make / let” someone doIntermediatemake/let + person + verb — causing or allowing someone to do something |
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| Spoken sentence framesIntermediateThe thing is…, What I mean is…, It's worth -ing — set phrases that frame a sentence |
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| Verb + to-infinitiveIntermediatedecide / manage / seem / try + to-verb — verbs followed by to |
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| For / since / agoBeginnerfor + a period, since + a starting point, a time + ago — how long, from when, how long before now |
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| Prepositions of time: at / on / inBeginnerat 7 o'clock, on Monday, in the morning / in 2020 — which word goes with which time |
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| Ability with “can / could”Beginnercan/could + verb — what someone is able to do, or could do in the past |
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| Questions with do / does / didBeginnerdo/does/did + subject + verb — asking a question in the simple tenses |
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| Past simple (irregular verbs)Beginnerwent, saw, took… — a finished action in the past, with an irregular verb |
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