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🔔INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT BIG BEN

1️⃣—The tower is officially known as Elizabeth Tower, renamed as such to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II (prior to being renamed in 2012 it was known as the “Clock Tower” or St. Stephen’s Tower).

2️⃣—The size of Big Ben (including the tower) is 96.3 meters (315.9 feet). That is equal to about 16 stories. The first 61 m (200 ft) at the bottom are comprised of brickwork and Anston limestone cladding.

3️⃣—The rest of the tower is made up of cast iron. The tower is set on a square raft measuring 15 meters (49 feet). The raft is made up of concrete 3 meters (9.8 feet) thick. It is 4 meters (13 feet) deep underground.

4️⃣—The clock faces are about 55 m (180 ft) over the ground. Measurements show the inner volume is 4,650 cubic meters (164,200 cubic feet). The tower’s interior is not usually open to the public except on certain occasions.

5️⃣—Big Ben’s clock is the biggest four faced clock on the planet. The hour hand is 3.2 m (8 feet) long. By contrast the minute hand is 4.3 meters (14 feet) long.

6️⃣—The clock dials are set in an iron frame 7 meters (23 feet) in diameter, supporting 312 pieces of opal glass, rather like a stained-glass window(on each side).

7️⃣—Each clock face has an inscription in Latin in gold that reads “DOMINE SALVAM FAC REGINAM NOSTRAM VICTORIAM PRIMAM” or “Oh Lord, keep safe our Queen Victoria the First”.

8️⃣—The clock and dials were designed by Augustus Pugin.

9️⃣—Big Ben chimes every fifteen minutes and can be heard for up to 8 kilometers (5 miles) around.

🔟—The clock faces are cleaned every 5 years using.A group of window washers rappels down the belfry down to the faces and have to be careful not to break the glass panes or lean on the hands.

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📕📘So Say and tell are irregular verbs.
📚 The past simple of say is said,
📕the past simple of tell is told:

📚They asked if I was looking for work and I said yes.

✅Then he told me how he had got the job by lying about his age.

📕📘We use say and tell in different ways in reported speech.
📚 Say focuses on the words someone said and tell focuses more on the content or message of what someone said:

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📚Tell normally takes an indirect object (one or more people = ).

📕However, we use tell without an indirect object with words such as the truth, a lie, a joke, a story:

📕You should never tell a lie.

Not: … say a lie ❌

✅Come on Sara, You’re good at telling jokes.

✅Say does not take an indirect object. Instead, we use a phrase with to:

📘And then she said to me, ‘I’m your cousin. We’ve never met before.’

Not: And then she said me …❌

📕📘Tell + indirect object + to-infinitive

📕We use tell with an indirect object and a to-infinitive to report a command or an instruction. We don’t normally use say in this way:
✅They told us to com.
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8 REALLY USEFUL PHRASAL VERBS!

1️⃣ Call off
If you “call something off ”, you cancel it.
He called the meeting off because three members of staff were sick.
If you “call off ” something that is already happening, you decide to stop it.
After six days, they called off the search for the missing crew members.

2️⃣ Come up with
If you “come up with” an idea, you think of it.
They came up with a solution to the problem.
If you “come up with” something, you produce or provide it to other people who want or need it.
If we don’t come up with the money by 6pm, they said they’d call the police.

3️⃣ End up
If you “end up” in a particular place, you are in that place
in the end.
After the party, everyone ended up at Paul’s house.
If you “end up” doing something, you do that thing in the end.
After six years travelling around the world, I ended up working in my hometown.

4️⃣ Fall apart
If something “falls apart”, it breaks into different parts, often in a sudden and unexpected way,
The model plane fell apart in my hand as I was trying to fix it.
If someone “falls apart” emotionally, they are unable to live in a normal way because they’re suffering from a lot
of emotional pain
She completely fell apart after coming back from the war zone.

5️⃣ Carry on
If you “carry on” walking in the same direction, you continue walking in that direction.
Carry on down the street for about 100 metres, then take the first turning on the right.
If you “carry on” something that someone else started, you continue working on it after the other person has stopped.
He carried on running the restaurant after his parents retired.

6️⃣ Get away
If you “get away”, you go somewhere, often for a short holiday.
I can’t wait to get away for a few days. I could really do with a rest.
If robbers (for example) “get away” with a crime, they aren’t caught or punished for it.
They stole over six million euros and never got caught. I can’t understand how they ever got away with it!

7️⃣ Hold on
If you “hold on” to something, you keep your hands on it and don’t let go.
Hold on to the rope or you might fall!
If you “hold on” to something, you keep that thing and don’t lose it.
Despite the very poor sales results, she managed to hold on to her job at the company.
If you ask someone to “hold on” when you’re speaking on the phone, you ask them to wait while you connect
them to another number. You could also ask them to hold the line.
Please hold on while I put you through to Ms Jenkins.

8️⃣ Get over
If you “get over” a problem, you stop being affected by it.
He’s going to do a course to help him get over his fear of flying.
If you “get over” a bad experience, you stop feeling sad about it or being affected by it.
He soon got over the divorce after he started dating Michelle.
If you “get over” an illness, you become healthy again.
It took me more than a week to get over that cold – it was terrible.
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Remember the Name
Ed Sheeran
Featuring Eminem & 50 Cent
Produced by Shellback, Max Martin, Fred Gibson & 1 more
Album No.6 Collaborations Project

Verse 1: Ed Sheeran
Yeah, I was born a misfit
Grew up 10 miles from the town of Ipswich
Wanted to make it big, I wished it to existence
I never was a sick kid, always dismissed quick
"Stick to singing, stop rappin' like it's Christmas"
And if you're talkin' money, then my conversation's shiftin'
My dreams are bigger than just bein' on the rich list
Might be insanity, but people call it "gifted"
My face is goin' numb from the shit this stuff is mixed with
Watch how the lyrics in the songs might get twisted
My wife wears red, but looks better without the lipstick
I'm a private guy and you know nothin' 'bout my business
And if I had my 15 minutes, I must have missed 'em
20 years old is when I came in the game
And now it's eight years on and you remember the name
And if you thought I was good, well, then I'm better today
But it's ironic how you people thought I'd never be great
I like my shows open-air, Tokyo to Delaware
Put your phones in the air if you wanna be rocked
You know I want way more than I already got
Give me a song with Eminem and 50 Cent in the club

Chorus: Ed Sheeran & 50 Cent
You know it ain't my time to call it a day
I wanna crack on and I wanna be paid
But it's 'bout time you remember the name
Ayy, ayy
You know it ain't my time to call it a day
I wanna crack on and I wanna be paid
But it's 'bout time you remember the name
Ayy, ayy
(Hey, hey, hey)

Verse 2: Eminem
I can still remember (What?) tryna shop a deal (Uh-huh)
From Taco Bell to TRL
I climbed the Billboard charts to the top until
As fate would have it (Yeah), became an addict
Funny 'cause I had pop appeal
But they said time would tell (What?) if I'd prevail (Huh?)
And all I did was (What?) put nine inch nails (Where?)
In my eyelids now (What?)
I'm seein' diamond sales like I'm in Zales (Yeah)
Without a doubt, by any means
If rap was skinny jeans, I couldn't do anything in 'em
I'd be splitting seams of denim when I'm spitting schemes
Which really means, no "if," "ands," or "buts" are squeezin' in between
You sleep on me 'cause you're only fuckin' with me in your dreams
Not even when I'm on my deathbed
Man, I feel like Ed, it isn't time to drop the mic yet
So why would I quit?
The thought that I would stop when I'm dead
Just popped in my head
I said it, then forgot what I said

Chorus: Ed Sheeran & Eminem
It isn't my time to call it a day
I got rap locked and I'm already paid
But it's 'bout time you remember the name
Ayy, ayy
You know it ain't my time to call it a day
I got rap locked and I'm already paid
But it's 'bout time you remember the name
Ayy, ayy

Verse 3: 50 Cent
Ain't nobody cold as me, I dress so fresh, so clean
You can find me in my whip, rockin' my Fendi drip
Man, you know just what I mean
Shinin', wrist with the rocks on it, Buscemis with locks on it
Everything my voice on, this shit knock, don't it?
Balenciaga saga, I'm in Bergdorf ballin'
It's just another episode, my hoes, I spoil 'em
She like the fly shit and I like to buy shit
Shit, I'm gettin' stupid money, what else we gon' do with money?
Bitch, we be ballin' out, the king bring you 50 bottles
Tonight, we gon' blow a check, worry 'bout your shit tomorrow
The turn up be so real, we 'bout to be super lit
Boy, I'm kickin' straight facts, that's just how we do this shit
Tomorrow, we hangin' over 'til we start feelin' sober
Then it's time to start it over, here we go again

Chorus: Ed Sheeran & Eminem, 50 Cent
You know it ain't my time to call it a day
I got rap locked and I'm already paid
And it's about time you remember the name
Ayy, ayy
You know it ain't my time to call it a day
I got rap locked and I'm already paid
But it's 'bout time you remember the name
Ayy, ayy
(Hey, hey, hey)

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CONTRADICT v.
🔹 to disagree with something, especially by saying that the opposite is true

📌🎧 Ken was always fighting with his little sister because she kept contradicting him.
📌 Deborah opened her mouth to contradict, but closed it again.
📌 The two stories contradict each other.


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REPETITIVE adj.
🔹 happening, in the same way, many times

📌🎧 Working on an assembly line making cars every day is a repetitive job.
📌 Machines can now perform many repetitive tasks in the home.
📌 Repetitive practice on the court helped the basketball player improve her skill day after day. ⛹️‍♀️


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