Buildings
A word meaning very wealthy beginning with A
What is Affluent?
When one person takes a football off another person in a game
What is a Tackle?
To feel sick
Weather idiom
what is to feel "under the weather"?
The police raided a house near me and seized £10,000 worth of Ivory.
What crime has been committed?
Smuggling
Something that makes a person or a company a lot of money.
Idiom
What is a cash cow?
What you might want to do to a hideous building.
(phrasal verb)
When you serve the ball into a net playing tennis, twice in a row
What is a double-fault?
We were driving along the motorway and suddenly we just hit it. it was really thick and you could hardly see the car in front. We had to come off the motorway and wait for it to lift.
What am I talking about?
Fog
Burning down a house or building.
What is Arson?
A word meaning £1000 or $1000
What is a Grand?
When someone lets you stay in their house for free, they "___ you ___"
Phrasal verb
Define "Put Up"
When you bang your head very, very hard
Concussion
Or others
The low numbers of young people ____ part in sport or ____ regular exercise continues to be a cause for concern. (Take, Do)
Participle clauses
The low numbers of young people taking part in sport or doing regular exercise continues to be a cause for concern.
The length of time you have to serve in prison.
What is someone's sentence?
Damaged hair can (not repair) by shampoo.
Passives
Damaged hair can not be repaired by shampoo
Is this a defining or non defining relative clause
"This is the only building on the street which has water"
Defining
She ____(think) before using twitter. All of the trouble she then got into _____(Be) avoided.
Could and Should
She should have thought before using twitter. All of the trouble she then got into could have been avoided.
Someone who is very friendly when things are going your way, but is never there for you in times of need.
Idiom
a fairweather friend
To throw the book at someone
To give the maximum possible punishment
"We have all your details and you ____ as soon as a decision ____."
Contact and Make
Passives
We have all your details and you will be contacted as soon as a decision has been made.
One of them we use for personal plans
I've _____ loved playing cards - ever _____ I was a child
Present perfect simple/continuous
I've always loved playing cards - ever since I was a child.
When they _____ (drive) to Rome, it started to hail. It was terrifying because they were the biggest hailstones they_______ (see), so they pulled over and waited for it to stop.
Narrative tenses
When they were driving to Rome, it started to hail. It was terrifying because they were the biggest hailstones they'd ever seen, so they pulled over and waited for it to stop.
Modals of deduction
Your glasses must be somewhere. You can't have looked very hard!
How I wish I _____(never open) that bag.
How I wish I had never opened that bag.