PHRASAL VERBS
He looks up to his mother:
-admires her
-requests his mum's care
-lifts the eyes and looks at her
Admires
They can't see enough of each other means....
a. They are fed up with each other.
b.They want to see each other more.
c. They live apart.
Write the verbs in the correct tense:
I .... (not visit ) my grandmother in the last ten years but I .... (go fishing) with my grandfather last summer
I haven't visited
Went fishing
How do you pronounce...?
cultural
/ˈkʌl.tʃər.əl/
A word for brothers and sisters
siblings
Finish the sentence:
My sister always ....... my nerves
gets on my nerves
"They are going through a ...............patch"
"They are going through a rough patch"
If I .... (be) you, I .....tell your little brother off. (second conditional)
Which word does phonetic transcription correspond to?
/ˈɑː.kɪ.tek.tʃər/
A word for a brother that shares only one parent with another brother.
half-brother
What is the missing preposition?
Her mother tells her ..... when she behaves badly.
off
Finish the sentence and explain the meaning:
They stick together through thick and ...
thin
They are together through good and bad times
I remember ..... (post) the letters, I am pretty sure about that.
posting
Read the following word:
surface
/ˈsɜː.fɪs/
What is the meaning of "expecting" in this context:
Expecting my first born, I was immersed in sheer chaos.
Being pregnant with a first child
"put up with somebody means ..."
to accept somebody that is annoying or unpleasant
An idiomatic expression to mean that two people are totally different ...
They are like chalk and cheese
When I was a kid, I got used to .....(do) my homework as soon as I arrived home after school.
doing
to get used to + ing: acostumbrarse a
Read the following phrase, paying special attention to the words in between inverted comas:
"Nature" blooms in a wide "variety" of "colours" in spring time
"Nature" blooms in a wide "variety" of "colours" in spring time
/ˈneɪ.tʃər/
/vəˈraɪ.ə.ti/
/ˈkʌl.ər/
Explain the meaning of:
"It takes a village to raise a child"
Verb and tense:
My little brother doesn't like ....................out
being left out
An idiomatic expression to mean that a relationship is not undergoing its best moment ... this expression should contain a word from the natural world
Their relationship is on the rocks.
Rephrase the following sentence starting with:
Under no circumstances...
Passengers shouldn't take their seatbelts off before the plane lands.
Under no circumstances should passengers take their seatbelts off before the plane lands.
Read the following sentence:
I cannot bear to have a beer when I have a beard.
I cannot bear to have a beer when I have a beard.
/beər/: bear
/bɪə/: beer
/bɪəd/: beard
Explain the meaning of the word:
"flighty"
Easily angry