{"id":75463,"date":"2025-05-14T20:05:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T20:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allearsenglish.com\/?p=75463"},"modified":"2025-07-27T09:04:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T09:04:35","slug":"lifts-a-weight-off-your-shoulders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allearsenglish.com\/lifts-a-weight-off-your-shoulders\/","title":{"rendered":"IELTS Energy 1485: Vocabulary That Lifts a Weight Off Your Shoulders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Are you stressed about studying for IELTS?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hopefully today&#8217;s episode will lift a weight off your shoulders!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;ll learn vocabulary and phrases for describing stress and anxiety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This will be extremely useful on test day!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:48px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Vocabulary That Lifts a Weight Off Your Shoulders - IELTS Energy Podcast 1485\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GjrOqeGQpL0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:48px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-today-s-question\"><strong>Today&#8217;s question<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A student in our community asked about the idiom \u201ca weight lifted off my shoulders.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They were wondering if it should be shortened to just \u201ca weight lifted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both work!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can say the long version or shorten it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We often do this with longer idioms in English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, we shorten &#8220;the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We often just say, &#8220;Grass is greener!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:48px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-stress-on-ielts\"><strong>Stress on IELTS<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Stress and anxiety often come up on the exam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Questions could be asked on IELTS Speaking that will allow you to share about stress and stress relief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ll also share band 9 sample answers with today\u2019s vocab!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are examples of questions you might see on IELTS speaking:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pt 1: How do you deal with anxiety? 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