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Vocabulary: usual or unusual - English lesson

There's a lot of vocabulary besides a great variety of interesting constructions in order to speak about "what's USUAL and what's UNUSUAL". These notions often lead us to "the norm", what's "normal" and what's "abnormal... Please, be very attentive to the constructions "to be used to/ be accustomed to" which are always followed by an - ING form. (A particularity which is far from being automatic for learners! May the FORCE be with You!

I) A HABIT=>THE NORM, USEFUL...

A habit	from habit out of habit
A custom	according to custom
To become a habit	to do sg automatically
A bad habit	to get into bad habits
Usual	customary
Usually/ as a rule	as usual
Ordinary/ ordinarily	common (place) [adjective]
It's the norm It's the standard practice	traditional/ a tradition
The stock reply/ reaction	average/ the average
Regular/ regularity	banal/ banality
Everyday	a common place
HUMDRUM	routine
Familiar	to happen/ to occur
To take place	often/ always
Nearly always =>

The norm: the standard practice

EXPRESSIONS and IDIOMS:

- To be in the habit of doing/ to have the habit of doing

- I'm used to it!

- To be accustomed to doing it

- It was her custom to do it

- He would do it/ he used to do it

- To get used to doing

- Don't make a habit of it!

- It's worse than usual!

- It's a tradition that...

- ...above/ below average

- To familiarise oneself with something/ to get to know sth/ to become acquainted with sth

- To know stg well/ to be familiar with sth

- It's unheard of

Normal or abnormal electrocardiogram?

II) The "NORM", what's UNEQUAL, different, and therefore "ABNORMAL"!

Unusual/ unaccustomed	To be unaccustomed to do sth
To break a habit To shake off a habit	rare// rarely/ seldom
Hardly ever/ almost never	remarkable
Extraordinary	original/ originality
Out-of-the-ordinary Out-of-the-way	curious
Peculiar/ odd/ queer	a pecularity / an oddity
Abnormal	deviant/ deviance from

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