Expressions With ’Turn’ - Pt. 2

Expressions With ‘Turn’ - Part 2

• It turns out that idiomatic language is critical to improving one’s colloquial skills in their second language.
• What about that job interview you’ve got your fingers crossed for? You certainly don’t want to get turned down for the job just because you don’t understand what was discussed in the interview!
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• I heard class was cancelled, but I walked by anyway, and guess what...lots of other students had turned up as well!
• He always turns up when something comes out of the oven…It’s like he can hear the oven door. He just appears out of nowhere!
• You probably threw away the sticky note with the phone number on it, but you never know…it might turn up yet.
• It turns out that there are a lot of phrasal verb idioms that we need to learn to be really good with holding a conversation.
• They had only studied grammar and formal stuff when they passed the TOEFL test, so everything they heard in classes just went over their heads.
• His grandmother would probably turn over in her grave if she knew how much slang he uses. She was strict about using good grammar!
• I’m not saying to turn a blind eye to the importance of grammatical rules. But, it turns out that you need to speak colloquially and listen to colloquial English to do well on the CELPIP test.
• How many people turned out on Friday night for the Edmonton Folk Music Festival?
• Oh, it was a really good turn out with almost a full house.
• If we want to win this tournament, we’ve got to really turn up the heat out there!

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for English for Academic Purposes (EAP).
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