Everyday English

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Chicken

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Chicken, countable one chicken. Two chickens, a chicken might be a hen, a rooster, a chick, or a cock. Don't be a chicken.

Uncountable, meaning meat roast chicken, fried chicken, chicken soup, For dinner we're having roast chicken.

Fresh/frozen/skinless/free-range chicken.

Chicken+Noun, chicken thigh/leg/wing/breastfeeding, you will need two chicken thighs per person. I am going to make a chicken sandwich/ pie/salad tonight.

a game in which kids do something dangerous and the winner is the one who quits last.

That's a chicken and egg situation/problem

Stuff a chicken, carve a chicken.

We don't raise chickens.

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Chicken 2

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Boy this chicken smells good.

Put the chicken into the marinade and leave for one hour.

Season the chicken well with salt and pepper.

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Chicken 3

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Chop the chicken breast into pieces. 9 pieces of juicy chicken in a Bucket= nine piece bucket. Small box of potato wedges 2.99.

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Combo

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A combination of different thing especially different kinds of foods used especially in product names. I'll have the fish combo and a beer/ a coffee.

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Drinks

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At a bar or restaurant you can say

A/ two coffee(s)/ beer(s)/orange juce(s)/water(s) but when you go your friend's the same will be rude. You should ask for a glass of water or coffee.

For some drinks people use a cup of even at restaurant like a glass of tea, wine, lemonade, milk. But you hear from a kid that he wants a milk or a lemonade sometimes.

For brand names you can do it everywhere like two Pepsis/Cokes/ Fantas...

An apple-juice, a fruit-punch,

In the school you say I want milk please and they ask which type you want.

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Coffee

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Coffee isn't just something you have, its a ritual.

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How can we classify foods?

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1) Cooling foods

2) Warming foods

3) Balanced, neutral foods (neither cool nor warm)

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Have

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With will and can.

I cannot have you over tonight. I will not have it any other way. I cannot have that behaviour in my office. I won't have anything to do with that.

I have flown in an airplane before. I have forgotten the words.

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Diet

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DI-ut, I'm on a healthy / balanced/ weightloss diet. I had a bad/ poor/ unhealthy diet. I have fruit and vegetable for my daily diet. I follow a strict diet. She is on a vegan diet. Crash/ starvation diets are very unhealthy. Try to have/ eat a balamced diet. My diet consisted of fruits and vegetables. Limit the amount of sugar in your diet. I'm on a diet of fruits. Would you like a diet drink? I can't follow / stick to my diets.

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Fruit

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Froot . The ripened reproductive part of a plant. Giving fruit. The trees fruited early this year. He Lived long enough to see/ didn't get to enjoy the fruit(s) of his policies. She bought fresh/ripe/rotten/ overripe/canned fruit at the market. Throw out unripe / rotten fruit. She put dried/ candied fruit on her cereal. The plant produces/bears very sweet/bitter fruit. They tried some exotic/tropical/wild fruits on their trip. We should pick the fruit soon. She prepared/ peeled a lot of fruit for the salad. Fruit tree/juice/smoothie/salad/punch/basket/bowl

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I'm gonna

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What you are planning to do at the eminent or in the near future. I'm gonna go to work.

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Have to

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I have to switch jobs/ schools// leave/ go to bathroom.

I don't have to leave or switch schools.

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I gotta

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I have got to / I've got to

I gotta obey the law/ impress my boss/ brush my teeth.

Adding have means that something should be done in the near future.

I've gotta study harder/ tell my wife that I'll be late tonight/ learn more about the laws/ be on time to work.

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I would like

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I'd like to explain my self/to thank you.

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Longest

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That would be the longest-lasting pants you ever bought. That would be the best-loved person in the world.

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Get

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I'm getting tired/ a job/ ready for the bed/a cold/ good at reading/a tooth ache / a puppy.

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Trying to

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I am trying to do my job/ to enjoy my dinner / to call my family/ to eat healthy/ a new food/ to express/ educate myself.

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Route

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407 is an express(iks'pres or ekx) toll) towl like cold/ route (root). Heavy vehicles in it must have a transponder(tran'spóndur).

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Stay

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Stay alert. Stay home. she's a stay-at-home mom. Stay away from fire. Stay put. We're staying in Ancaster we're not moving to Waterloo. Stay with me please. The smell stayed in the room. I had a four month stay there. They had a nice stay in Paris.

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Work

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It's a days' work.