Speak Better English with Harry | Episode 565

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  Hi there, this is Harry, and welcome back to Advanced English Lessons with Harry,

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  where we try to help you to get a better understanding of the English language.

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  And in the lesson today, we're looking at trends, okay?

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  And this is Advanced English, and these are co-locations for trends.

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  Trends are things that are happening around this time, okay?

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  So trends can be in fashion.

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  trend can be in sport, the trend can be in cooking.

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  Now,

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  these particular trends were focusing on business English and business English trends and a lot of them,

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  therefore, are to do with economics.

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  Okay, so I'm going to go through these particular collocations for trends.

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  Remember, advanced English collocations for trends, there are 12 of them in total.

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  I'll give them to you and then I'll go through and give you an example as to when you might hear them or when you might use them.

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  Okay, let's go.

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  remain broadly stable there's a mouthful to remain broadly stable to fall gradually to drop slightly decrease sharply go up dramatically rates rise substantially increase steadily Prices are set to rocket.

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  Consumer spending collapses.

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  Inflation soars.

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  Debt shoots up by a percentage.

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  And finally growth rates or growth rate picks up growth rate.

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  picks up.

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