English in a Minute:Verbs to use with 'interest'
Learning English Vocabulary
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🗓️ 18 September 2024
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You can drum up or feign interest in something. These are examples of verbs that are commonly used with the noun 'interest'. You can learn these and more with Phil
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to BBC LearningEnglish.com. |
| 0:04.9 | How can we catch your interest? |
| 0:07.4 | We could teach you verbs to use with interest. |
| 0:10.8 | If you want people to be interested in something, |
| 0:14.0 | you could do something to drum up interest. |
| 0:17.1 | If something gets people interested on its own, it sparks interest. |
| 0:21.6 | I've made some posters to drum up interest in my concert. |
| 0:25.6 | The professor's charisma sparked my interest in the topic. |
| 0:30.6 | If you pretend to be interested in something, you feign interest. |
| 0:35.6 | If you're losing interest in something, your interest is |
| 0:40.0 | flagging. I feigned interest in what he had to say until he found someone else to talk to. |
| 0:47.5 | I had hoped it would be a good film, but my interest was flagging by the second hour. We hope this video has sparked your interest, |
| 0:57.8 | but we'll stop before it starts flagging. |
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