Unit 1
Name 5 idioms (body idioms)
be under someone's thumb • do something behind someone's back • get something of your chest • give someone the cold shoulder • lend someone a hand • pull someone's leg • see eye-to-eye with someone • stick your neck out for someone
Name at least 5 compound nouns
driving licence
motorway
petrol station
road sign
roundabout
seat belt
steering wheel
Name these phrasal verbs:
1. Suddenly have an idea or discover smth by chance
2. Be immediately obvious to smb or immediately get their attention
3. To be very noticeable
1. hit on
2. leap out at
3. stand out
Give definitions:
1. to pass a disease from one person to another
2. to become infected with a disease
3. very common in a particular place or among a particular group
1. transmit
2. contract
3. prevalent
Complete the sentence
She has very strong opinions and she's not afraid to ______ (to say exactly what you think without worrying if it will upset anyone).
to say exactly what you think without worrying if it will upset anyone: She has very strong opinions and she's not afraid to speak her mind.
Name at least 3 nouns with the suffix -cy
accuracy
decency
frequency
Complete the following collocations:
offence
a difference
harm
use of something
take offence
make a difference
do harm
make use of something
...appointing
...jointed
..penetrable
...cast
..inspiring
...conscious
disappointing
disjointed
impenetrable
miscast
uninspiring
subconscious
Give definition:
1. to eliminate smth completely
2. to become extinct, esp after a period of gradual decline
1. wipe out
2. die out
Complete the sentence
We need firm and decisive action to deal with the _______ (near, coming, approaching) threat.
The Guardian (2018)
We need firm and decisive action to deal with the imminent threat.
The Guardian (2018)
If you say that something is imminent, especially something unpleasant, you mean it is almost certain to happen very soon.
Finish the following similes:
1. as clear as ...
2. as fresh as a .....
3. as solid as a ....
1. as clear as mud
2. as fresh as a daisy
3. as solid as a rock
Complete the 2nd sentence so that it has a similar meaning to 1st one. Use the word given.
His lights are on so I'm pretty sure Dan is at home. as
Dan ______ his lights are on.
Dan must be at home as his lights are on.
Enumerate 3 words that have this meaning
hasty and therefore not thorough or detailed
shallow
superficial
cursory
Complete the sentence
It’s likely that mosquito populations would ________ after a few years.
(recover in value, amount, or strength after a decrease or decline)
rebound
Finish the phrases / words:
twists and ...
thought-
mind-
ground....
far-
twists and turns
thought-provoking
mind-blowing
groundbreaking
far-fetched
1. To speak while you are breathing in suddenly, e.g. because you are surprised, shocked or in pain
2. To complain in a way that annoys other people
3. To speak in a loud, high voice, because you are scared or angry
1. gasp
2. whine
3. shriek
Enumerate at least 3 useful phrases to express disagreement
There can be no justification for ...
I believe there is no evidence to support ...
I cannot agree with ...
Make the sentences. Sometimes there is more than one possibility.
1 Our teachers / encourage / us / do / word puzzles.
2 My parents / make / us / finish / our homework before
we went out.
3 I / saw / Philip / run / for the bus yesterday.
4 Reading a book / help / me / sleep / at night.
1 Our teachers encourage us to do ...
2 My parents made us finish ...
3 I saw Philip running/run ...
4 Reading a book helps me sleep/to sleep ...
‘Malaria is debilitating and often fatal and we need to find new ways of tackling it.'
Give definitions for the words in italics
Tackle - make determined efforts to deal with (a problem or difficult task)
Debilitating - (of a disease or condition) making someone very weak and infirm."debilitating back pain"
Match parts to make compound nouns and adjectives
back off draw life set time back spring
lifetime
drawback
setback
offspring
Name 4 fillers (useful phrases to play for time)
The thing is ...
Hmm,
Well,
Let me think about that for a second
Name at least 3 useful phrases to express counterarguments
Despite the fact that ...
Although
Nevertheless / however
Give definitions:
1. usually a positive adjective which can describe, e.g. a film, a plot, a performance, an adaptation (gentle, funny or not serious)
2. a positive adjective which can describe, e.g. a film, a plot, a performance, a character, a soundtrack, special effects (so interesting and complicated that you can’t stop watching even though you are being carried along without knowing what’s happening).
3. an adjective that can be positive or negative and can describe a film, a plot, a performance, a soundtrack, ad adaptation (a little bit controversial or daring)
1. Light-hearted
2. Mesmerising
3. Risqué
‘What is most promising about our results is that they are _______. Once modified mosquitoes are introduced, males will start to produce mainly sons, and their sons will do the same, so essentially the mosquitoes carry out the work for us.'
‘What is most promising about our results is that they are self-sustaining. Once modified mosquitoes are introduced, males will start to produce mainly sons, and their sons will do the same, so essentially the mosquitoes carry out the work for us.'
Match parts of the words to make compound nouns and adjectives
out back set through out cut come look out out out break
cutback breakthrough outbreak outcome outlook outset