Vocabulary
Adjective for boring
What is dull?
What is tedious?
What is the missing word?
There is ________ water in the cup.
What is little?
What is hardly any?
What is missing?
I _____ go to the library on Sunday afternoons.
What is would?
*Use would + infinitive without to to talk about things that happened regularly in the past.
Create the sentence:
hair / cut / she / tomorrow
What is She will have her hair cut tomorrow?
What is missing?
You should consider _____ (take) private English classes.
What is taking?
*verb = -ing form, e.g. consider, deny, dislike, enjoy, feel like, finish, practice, suggest.
Point of view.
What is perspective?
What is the missing word?
There are _______ cars on the highway at 5am.
What is few?
What is hardly any?
What is missing?
I ___________ speaking both Spanish and English.
What is am used to?
Create the sentence:
Next week / will / I / pay / they (agent)
What is I will get paid next week?
What is I will get paid by them next week?
What is missing?
She has ______ (decide) break up with her boyfriend.
What is decided to?
*verb = infinitive, e.g. appear, attempt, decide, manage, need, offer, promise, seem, want
Falling apart and abandoned
What is dilapidated?
What is derelict?
What is the missing word?
Can I borrow _______ money?
What is some?
What is missing?
This building ________ full of classrooms, but now it's a library.
What is used to be?
*We never use would to talk about states in the past.
Create the sentence:
Steal / mobile / He / metro
What is He got his mobile stolen on the metro?
What is He had his mobile stolen on the metro?
What is missing?
You should _______ (try/eat) just two meals a day; maybe that will help you lose weight.
What is trying eating?
*Try + -ing form: do something as an experiment
(Try + infinitive: make an effort to do something difficult: Carla's trying to lose weight.)
Something that uses new technology.
What is innovative?
What is the missing word?
I have __________ work to do; I can't go out.
What is too much?
What is missing?
When I was a child, my hair ______ blonde, but now it is brown.
What is used to be?
*Use used to + infinitive without to to talk about states that existed in the past, but no longer exist.
Create the sentence:
to beat / Our team / badly / Manchester
What is Our team got beaten badly by Manchester?
Complete the sentence:
Before you leave, please _______ (stop/see) if there are any letters in the mailbox.
What is stop to see?
*Stop + infinitive: stop one action in order to do something else.
(Stop + -ing form: thinking about at earlier action: I won't forget eating my first Thai curry.)
Adjective for bad.
What is awful?
What is dreadful?
What is the missing word?
Tonight __________ friends are coming over, so I have to clean up the apartment.
What is some?
What is a few?
What is missing?
He ______ play football every Saturday, but now he's injured.
What is used to?
*Use used to + infinitive without to for actions that were repeated in the past, but don't happen now.
Create the sentence:
To get / engaged / I / !
What is I got engaged!?
*Agent = to him
What is missing?
When we were little, our parents used to ___________(remind/talk/us/not) strangers.
What is remind us not to talk?
verb + object + infinitive, e.g. advise, allow encourage, invite, persuade, remind, request, tell.
The internet allows people to communicate.