Tell me no more...
What's missing? do/make/take
In my dad’s company, they predominantly …………………………. business with companies based in South America and China.
do business
Choose the right variant:
First of all, in order to drive, you …………… be 18 years old. In England, it’s 17.
a. need to b. should c. not allowed to
should be
Read and guess the meaning of the word given in the text:
When I first arrived in the UK, I wanted to meet lots of native speakers, so I put an advert in a newspaper stating that I was looking for friends. I remember the advert went out on the Thursday and that day I received roughly 80 phone calls and about 130 text messages. Everything was a little out of control and not as I had envisaged.
to imagine or expect something in the future, especially something good
Guess the idiom:
I would say I definitely do not have a gift/grasp/master for languages.
gift for languages (to have gift for something)
Last week, I was trying my hardest to (2) extend/perceive/memorise vocabulary for a test.
memorise
Read the definition in brackets and fill in the gap with ONE word
Secondly, when you’re on the road, you have to drive on the right hand side. This was very confusing. It means that when you approach a roundabout, you (it is important, necessary that you do it) ........... turn right onto it whereas in England, it’s left.
must
Read the second part of the story and fill in the missing letters. Answer the question after the text.
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What happened when Ana placed an advert in a newspaper?
A She was surprised by the response.
B She stopped it after a month.
C The people who replied were not native speakers.
D She could not understand why some people had called her.
C The people who replied were not native speakers.
Finish the popular English idiom:
John was born ..., so he doesn’t know what it’s like to work hard.
with a silver spoon in his mouth
Read the definition in brackets and change it with ONE word:
The band claims that the songs are inspired by their childhood and this is clear from the (beginning) ……………, with the opening track a tribute to The Ramones, one of the first bands they saw.
outset
Read the sentence and decide what form you need:
Suzy looked at her rusty, old bike and wondered how much it was worth. Last summer she …………………………. (sell) it, but in the end, she …………………………. (decide) against it.
was going to sell / had decided
Read the text and put words into the right order to make a sentence:
I work in / in the centre / a week, / not / seven days / I get my English/ which means / with countless / to practise / native speakers, have the / only do / chance to make friends. /of my town / a small coffee shop / but I also
I work in a small coffee shop in the centre of my town seven days a week, which means not only do I get to practise my English with countless native speakers, but I also have the chance to make friends.
Choose the right idiom for the definition
"Use this one when you have to pay a lot of money for something. You can also say that something "
a. cost an arm and a foot
b. cost a leg and a head
c. coat an arm and a leg
c. coat an arm and a leg
What's missing?
Initial testing of the product, which is taken in pill form, revealed that it had serious side …………………………. such as headaches and dizziness
effect
Choose the right variant:
But Suzy remembered fondly the day she had been given her first bike, precisely because it was the one thing she …………………………. (ask) for all year.
a. was asking b. had asked c. had been asking
c. had been asking
Read the text and fill in the right punctuation marks.
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If you had asked me three months ago what the key was to making friends in the UK, I would have told you I didn’t know. But now, I definitely know the answer. I’ve been living in shared accommodation for one month now and it has had an extremely positive effect on my life.
Use the right verb to finish the idiom:
I don’t make much from my job as a cashier, but I’m able to ... ends meet.
make
‘We have done …………………………. number of tests, made great improvements in our product and the results are impressive. On the strength …………………………. these new results, we hope to have it on the market by next summer.’
a / of
Decide what form of the verb is missing in both sentences:
She didn’t feel like …………………………. Jane the truth as her friend would have suggested …………………………. the money to her and then the situation would have been extremely awkward.
telling / giving
Read the text and fill in the gaps with the right missing word.
I must admit I had a pretty clear * of how I was going to find friends in the UK. * fact, I started before I came. I used an Internet site called FriendfinderUK. It’s simple to use and you can use filters to * for people by area, age, interest and gender. I was looking for people who were * films and writing
idea / In / look / into
Figure the idiom out:
Bad luck tends to double, so this idiom points this phenomenon out by saying it can’t just rain softly, it almost always will come pouring down
when it rains, it pours