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Lesson 1
being vague in English sounds the most natural because well imagine if we were super specific all the time how old are you twelve thousand days old yeah that would be weird so h...
Lesson 2
expressions for different things for example to be vague about numbers we use these when you want to guess huge amounts we use the term a ballpark figure for example if you had...
Lesson 3
thereabout these all mean the same and are used in the same way it's an approximate number for example I went to sleep around 9 o'clock last night not exactly 9 o'clock maybe a...
Lesson 4
number 4 ballpark figure how much money do you think the Queen has and number 5 if you took the IELTS test right now what kind of score do you think you would get 4 things conce...
Lesson 5
canola remember to be vague in your comparisons adjectives but again it's not the exact thing you want to be imprecise a bit vague kind of sort of you can use those with adjecti...
Lesson 6
today and describe the type of music that your favorite musician or band plays for actions you will hear this a lot and it sounds natural to do example wow you got a really good...
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