Feel It
Choose the correct words: Although we were (exhausted / exhausting) after the flight, the view from the hotel was so (amazed / amazing) that we forgot about sleep.
exhausted, amazing
Complete: I didn’t know when the museum opened, so I had to ______ the opening hours online.
look up
Complete: You two should be proud of ______!
yourselves
Я случайно встретил своего бывшего учителя на вокзале.
I ran into my former teacher at the station.
Make the plural: sister-in-law · passer-by · toothbrush
sisters-in-law · passers-by · toothbrushes
Fix the sentence: After the marathon, I was very exhausted.
completely / absolutely exhausted
Complete with the correct form: It took her almost a year to ______ the shock of losing her job.
get over
Make a subject question: Someone called the manager when the lights were turned off.
Who called the manager when the lights were turned off?
Фильм оказался намного интереснее, чем я ожидал.
The film turned out to be much more interesting than I had expected.
What does the phrase «Things are looking up» mean?
Things are getting better / the situation is improving.
Complete with -ed or -ing: Although the ending was (disappoint), we were (amaze) by the acting.
disappointing, amazed
Complete: We ______ a very difficult year, but we ______ it together.
went through, got through
Fix TWO mistakes: It took me a month to get used to live alone, and I often felt myself lonely.
get used to living alone; felt lonely
Мне понадобилось полгода, чтобы привыкнуть жить одному в чужом городе.
It took me six months to get used to living by myself in a foreign city.
Rewrite as ONE B1 sentence: I didn’t know about the problem. I read about it on the internet. I was shocked.
For example: I was shocked when I found out about the problem on the internet.
What is the difference in meaning? She’s embarrassing. vs She’s embarrassed.
embarrassing = её поведение вызывает неловкость у других; embarrassed = ей самой неловко
Say it in a more natural way with a phrasal verb: We had very little money, but we were able to live on it.
We managed to get by (on very little money).
Anna and Tom had an argument, and now they don’t speak to (themselves / each other). Which is correct and why?
each other = действие взаимное. Themselves значило бы, что каждый говорит сам с собой
Кто помог тебе пережить тот сложный период, когда ты потерял работу?
Who helped you get through that difficult period when you lost your job?
Explain the difference: I used to live in a small town. vs I’m used to living in a small town.
used to + глагол = в прошлом так было, сейчас уже нет; be used to + -ing = мне это привычно сейчас
Find and fix THREE mistakes: The lecture was so boring that I felt myself very exhausted, and the students looked interesting only during the break.
The lecture was so boring that I felt completely exhausted, and the students looked interested only during the break. (лишнее myself, very exhausted, interesting → interested)
Write ONE sentence with turn out that also has an -ed / -ing adjective and a relative clause with which.
For example: The hotel, which I had expected to be disappointing, turned out to be amazing.
Correct the question: Who did helped you to get used to live in a foreign country?
Who helped you (to) get used to living in a foreign country?
Фильм, который все так хвалили, оказался настолько разочаровывающим, что мне стало скучно уже через двадцать минут, и я ушёл, не дождавшись конца.
The film, which everybody had praised so much, turned out to be so disappointing that I was bored after twenty minutes and left before the end.
Find and fix FIVE mistakes: Yesterday I ran in my old friend at the metro station. I was so surprising that I forgot to say hello. We had been talking about him earlier, so when he appeared I said, «Speak of devil!» Then we went to a coffee’s shop, and he told me that he had get over a very difficult year.
ran into; I was so surprised; «Speak of the devil!»; a coffee shop; he had got over (or gotten over)