↘️🇬🇧 English with Natives 🇺🇸↙️
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🚘 🚖 Cars 🏎 🚙
GRAMMAR:
Patterns with car
🔅 You say get in a car or get into a car:
⚔️ Don’t say: get on a car
🔅 You say get out of a car:
⚔️ Don’t say: get off the car
🔅 You say that someone is in a car:
⚔️ Don’t say: on a car
🔅 You go somewhere by car:
⚔️ Don’t say: by a car
COLLOCATIONS
VERBS
☑️ go/ travel/ get in/ into/ get out of a car
☑️ drive a car - have/own a car - park a car
☑️ run a car (=have a car and pay for the petrol, repairs etc it needs)
☑️ take the car (=use a car to go somewhere)
☑️ back/reverse a car (=make it move backwards)
☑️ lose control of the car (=no longer be able to control its direction)
☑️ a car passes/overtakes somebody
☑️ a car drives off/away: The police car drove off at top speed.
☑️ a car pulls out (=moves away from the side of the road)
☑️ a car slows down
☑️ a car pulls up (=stops)
☑️ a car pulls over (=stops on the side of a road)
☑️ a car breaks down (=stops working because something is wrong with it)
☑️ a car stalls (=stops working for a short time until you start it again)
☑️ a car hits something/crashes into something
☑️ a car skids (=slides sideways in a way you cannot control)
CAR + NOUN
✔️a car crash/accident (also a car wreck American English)
✔️a car park/ door/engine/key etc
✔️the car industry
✔️a car manufacturer/ maker/ driver
✔️a car dealer (=someone who buys and sells used cars)
✔️a car chase
✔️car crime British English
✔️a car bomb (=a bomb hidden in or under a car)
ADJECTIVES/NOUNS + CAR
🚗 a used/second-hand car (=one that is not new)
🏎 a sports car (=a low fast car)
🚙 an estate car British English (=one with a door at the back and folding seats)
🚆 a racing car (also a race car American English)
🚓 a police car
🚚 a company car (=one that your company gives you to use)
🚕 a hire car British English, a rental car American English
IDIOMS
🚓 panda car: A police car. Primarily heard in UK
🌀wrap one's car around something: to drive one's car into something at fairly high speed
🌀highways and byways: If you travel the highways and byways, you take large and small roads to visit every part of the country
🌀a Sunday driver: a slow or not such good driver or
🌀Backseat Driver: Someone who likes to give (often annoying) advice to the driver of a car
🌀Put the Pedal to the Metal: Drive as fast as possible
🌀Amber Gambler: Someone who accelerates to try to cross an intersection before a traffic light turns red
#topic #collocations #vocabulary #Cars @sirjimmy
♨️ Today's Topic ♨️
🚘 🚖 Cars 🏎 🚙
GRAMMAR:
Patterns with car
🔅 You say get in a car or get into a car:
⚔️ Don’t say: get on a car
🔅 You say get out of a car:
⚔️ Don’t say: get off the car
🔅 You say that someone is in a car:
⚔️ Don’t say: on a car
🔅 You go somewhere by car:
⚔️ Don’t say: by a car
COLLOCATIONS
VERBS
☑️ go/ travel/ get in/ into/ get out of a car
☑️ drive a car - have/own a car - park a car
☑️ run a car (=have a car and pay for the petrol, repairs etc it needs)
☑️ take the car (=use a car to go somewhere)
☑️ back/reverse a car (=make it move backwards)
☑️ lose control of the car (=no longer be able to control its direction)
☑️ a car passes/overtakes somebody
☑️ a car drives off/away: The police car drove off at top speed.
☑️ a car pulls out (=moves away from the side of the road)
☑️ a car slows down
☑️ a car pulls up (=stops)
☑️ a car pulls over (=stops on the side of a road)
☑️ a car breaks down (=stops working because something is wrong with it)
☑️ a car stalls (=stops working for a short time until you start it again)
☑️ a car hits something/crashes into something
☑️ a car skids (=slides sideways in a way you cannot control)
CAR + NOUN
✔️a car crash/accident (also a car wreck American English)
✔️a car park/ door/engine/key etc
✔️the car industry
✔️a car manufacturer/ maker/ driver
✔️a car dealer (=someone who buys and sells used cars)
✔️a car chase
✔️car crime British English
✔️a car bomb (=a bomb hidden in or under a car)
ADJECTIVES/NOUNS + CAR
🚗 a used/second-hand car (=one that is not new)
🏎 a sports car (=a low fast car)
🚙 an estate car British English (=one with a door at the back and folding seats)
🚆 a racing car (also a race car American English)
🚓 a police car
🚚 a company car (=one that your company gives you to use)
🚕 a hire car British English, a rental car American English
IDIOMS
🚓 panda car: A police car. Primarily heard in UK
🌀wrap one's car around something: to drive one's car into something at fairly high speed
🌀highways and byways: If you travel the highways and byways, you take large and small roads to visit every part of the country
🌀a Sunday driver: a slow or not such good driver or
🌀Backseat Driver: Someone who likes to give (often annoying) advice to the driver of a car
🌀Put the Pedal to the Metal: Drive as fast as possible
🌀Amber Gambler: Someone who accelerates to try to cross an intersection before a traffic light turns red
#topic #collocations #vocabulary #Cars @sirjimmy