Vocabulary
True or false?
1. TRUE - Temporal: Relating to or concerned with time
2. FALSE - Synchronize: To cause to occur or operate at the same time.
True or False?
An eye-catching headline is an attractive headline, which must begin an article.
True
True or false?
Adolescence is a stage of life when a pesron expereiences a lot of physical changes.
False. It starts between the age of ten and thirteen with mostly social and emotional changes.
Provide definitions:
1. (to) race against time / (to) race against the clock
2. A matter of time
1. to have a limited amount of time to do something, especially with urgency.
2. something will definitely happen, although you are not sure when
Make the right order of structure elements:
- standfirst - end - headline - introduction - by-line
- headline - standfirst - by-line - introduction - end
What are the two driving forces of resilience formation? (Lesson 3)
Challenges and problems
True or False?
1. Interval - A period of time between two events or points in time.
2. to pass (the) time / to kill time (verb) – to do something that makes a period of time seem shorter, especially due to boredom.
3. Perpetual - Lasting for a very short time
4. Fleeting - Continuing indefinitely or enduring forever
TRUE 1. Interval - A period of time between two events or points in time.
TRUE 2. to pass (the) time / to kill time (verb) – to do something that makes a period of time seem shorter, especially due to boredom.
FALSE 3. Perpetual: Continuing indefinitely or enduring forever.
FALSE 4. Fleeting: Lasting for a very short time.
True or false?
A middle – engage your reader’s interest and introduce the main points of the topic to be discussed.
FALSE!
A middle – develop relevant and interesting points about the topic to interest and/or convince your readers to think about a particular perspective, use a subheading for each new paragraph, follow the principle: one idea – one paragraph.
Why is it we can move through space in any direction, but through time in only one? No matter what we do, the past is always stubbornly behind us. How do we call this phenomenon?
The arrow of time
Complete the sentences by using the first letter of it
1. This is a universe which has spatial and t________ dimensions.
2. Few businesses are f__________ in the present economic climate.
3. The buying process is analysed as a series of s__________ steps.
Temporal
flourishing
sequential
What is missing?
- eye-catching headline - by line - date line - subheadings for body paragraphs - an introduction - a middle - an end
standfirst
Why do you think Stephen Hawking’s time traveler party didn’t result in any visitors, and what could this imply about the nature or restrictions of time travel?
They might have been late for the party. Thus, time travelling might not be that precise. Or, going back in time is strictly prohibited for time travelers
Provide definitions:
1. Interval
2. to pass (the) time / to kill time (verb)
3. Lapse
4. Epoch
5. to take one's time (verb)
What is the role of:
Standfirst
subheadings
An end
1. brief summary of an article
2. Topis of discussion
3. draw points together and leave a reader with a clear impression of viewpoints
How is comfort defined by the speaker? (Lesson 3)
The enemy of progress.