A2/B1 Expressing likes and dislikes

07/19/21 • 12 min

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Today I'm doing another session on A2/B1 English for Cambridge exam or IELTS 4.5 and useful vocabulary. And the vocabulary category today is likes and dislikes. First of all, I suppose most of the verbs which express like have verbs after them or the infinitive after them, which ends in ING. So, for example, we say I enjoy playing football, I enjoy playing football. Also, I talk about when we say interested with 'ed' and when we say interesting 'ing'. You can find the audioscripts to these podcasts at https://www.practisingenglish.com/

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