{"id":6025,"date":"2017-02-28T10:31:39","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T08:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/?p=6025"},"modified":"2021-10-11T09:28:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T07:28:07","slug":"vocabulary-killing-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/2017\/02\/vocabulary-killing-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Vocabulary: Killing time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/p02fv3tj.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6026 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/p02fv3tj.jpg\" alt=\"p02fv3tj\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/p02fv3tj.jpg 640w, https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/p02fv3tj-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/p02fv3tj-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>B1 &#8211; Intermediate<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This activity is meant to practice your listening skills and increase your vocabulary. Listen to the podcast to understand the idiom &#8220;Killing Time&#8221; and how to use it.<\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/learningenglish\/english\/features\/the-english-we-speak\/ep-141230#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Killing time<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Discuss:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. What does it mean when you kill time? How would you use it in a sentence?<br \/>\n2. When you have appointments, do you like being early then just kill time? Or do you prefer being on time?<br \/>\n3. What are things you like to do when killing time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B1 &#8211; Intermediate This activity is meant to practice your listening skills and increase your vocabulary. Listen to the podcast to understand the idiom &#8220;Killing Time&#8221; and how to use it. Killing time Discuss: 1. What does it mean when you kill time? How would you use it in a sentence? 2. 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