Health

help someone switch off

help someone relax mentally

To help someone stop thinking about work or problems and relax.

B2 common mostly spoken

expression

Hear it in real life

Why do you go running in the evening?

It helps me switch off before bed.

Play the conversation

Listening to music helps me switch off after a stressful day.

The mistake everyone makes

Not: Music helps me switch off myself after work.

Say: Music helps me switch off after work.

When “switch off” means relax mentally, it does not take “myself” as an object.

Build it

How it fits in a sentence.

help someone switch off; helps me switch off after work

Your turn: say it out loud

Listening to music helps me switch off after a stressful day.

Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.

help someone switch off

help someone relax mentally

“Listening to music helps me switch off after a stressful day.”

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