How to leave phone messages
Grammar
Housework vocabulary
Phrases about habits
How to say you are annoyed
100
Would / Could we try to fi nish the meeting on time?
Could
100
Correct the mistake
A: From Math, what other school subjects do you like?
B: I quite like English.
Apart from
100
What's the phrase?
turn up
100
I ______________ to give up smoking but I fail every time.
A. keep on
B. make an effort
C. make effort
d. keep
make an effort
100
Correct the mistake(s)
It gets my nerves when people play loud music out of their apartment windows.
gets ON my nerves
200
Will you / Do you think you will please hang up
your clothes before you leave?
Will you
200
Are these sentences same?
I love all my students except for the rude ones
I love all my students apart from the rude ones
SAME
200
Make somephere neater by putting things in the right place
tidy up
200
I often ______ doing housework because I'm never in the mood of cleaning or sweeping.
A. put on
B. put off
C. put of
D. put away
put off
200
It bug me how slowly the people aare moving in public places.
bugs
300
I wonder if you would mind to stay / staying behind
to help me clear up afterwards?
staying
300
I haven’t been outside yet – it_______ (snow) all day!
it's been snowing
300
Put something in the rubbish because you don't want it anymore
throw away
300
I c___ r___ eating chocolate. I want to give up but I just can't.
can't resist
300
I can stand it when people are chewing gum really loudly.
I can't stand
400
Hello, _____ is Monika Ingham_____. I’m calling
______ ask for your help.
it
here/speaking
to
400
When I ______ (get) to the top floor office I realised I _____ (leave) my phone in the car.
got
had left
400
buy something from the store (when you are going somewhere and you buy something on the way)
pick it up
400
Every time I t_____ u__ a language course, I only m______ to do for several months then I give up.
take up
manage
400
A: This light above my desk is drives me mad. It’s constantly buzzing.
B: It bother me too.
is driving
bothers
500
helping /me /you’d /I /lock up /wonder /if /mind helping me.
I wonder if you’d mind helping me lock up.
500
I was jogging / jogged along the beach when I suddenly, realised / had realised I didn’t have my wedding ring. I was dropping / had dropped it on the beach somewhere.
jogging
realised
had dropped
500
When you are giving detailed instructions:
go over them
500
I'm good at s_____ g_____ for my upcoming projects but I'm very bad at s_____ t_ them.
setting goals
sticking to
500
A: Oh no! I’ve lost one of my earrings. I’m usually doing that.
B: Yes, so annoyed! I always buy two pairs of earrings so that I have a spare pair.
I usually do that
annoying