VOCABULARY
touristy [not touristic!]
Fill in the gaps: If I ______________ [HAVE] a million dollars, I __________________ [BUY] a yacht. [Unit 7]
had; would buy (2nd conditional)
Justice Strauss is _____________________.
Wall Street is a famous ______________ in New York's ___________________ district.
street/road; financial/banking
Alliteration.
Say this number correctly: 5 327 421 [Unit 7]
Five million [NOT MILLIONS!] three hundred twenty seven thousand four hundred twenty one
Fill in the gap: I went out after I _______________ [DO] my homework. [Unit 7]
Accept: intrusive, unreliable, (annoying)
Sherlock Holmes is _____________________.
A famous British fictional detective.
3 words that rhyme with "feet" are: ___________.
Accept any reasonable answer. Examples: meat, neat, sweet...
a smuggler
Put this sentence into reported speech: The suspect protested, "I did not commit a crime last night." [Unit 8]
The suspect protested that s/he had not committed a crime the night before. [Remember to change pronouns, backshift the tense and change the time adverbial if necessary.]
The polish "bomba" was the prototype of the _____________________ which British and French code-breakers used to try and break German secret codes in World War 2.
computer
Using exaggeration to make a point or for humour (or both).
looting
Put this sentence into reported speech: The police officer asked me, "Will you talk with us now or do you want a lawyer?" [Unit 8]
The police officer asked if I would talk with them at that moment or if I wanted a lawyer.
The ending of The Bad Beginning could be described as _____________________.
bittersweet
Name 3 famous British foods.
Accept any reasonable answer. Examples: fish'n'chips, toad in the hole, Yorkshire pudding, curry (yes -we culturally appropriated it from India!).
"As quiet as a mouse" is an example of a _____________.
Simile.
Out of nylon, cardboard, copper and glass, which one is the most synthetic material?[Unit 9]
Nylon.
Put this sentence into passive voice: The scientist sent the first text message in 1992. [Unit 9]
The first sentence was sent (by the scientist) in 1992.
Some techniques for creating suspense in The Bad Beginning are: ____________ and __________.
Name 3 cities in the UK that are NOT London.
How many stressed and unstressed syllables are in this line of poetry? "I wandered lonely as a cloud"
4 unstressed and 4 stressed, for a total of 8 syllables