Unit 1
The state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions
What is poverty?
Extremely angry
What is furious?
You remember ............... dreams when you sleep badly.
What is more?
The correct verb tense is (want):
I .................... to learn how to sail since I was eight.
What is have wanted?
A problem that is very difficult to solve or a person who is very difficult to understand- a hard.............
What is a hard nut to crack?
Likely to be remembered or worth remembering
What is memorable?
Unusual in a pleasing and exciting or silly way
What is wacky?
The first successful electric car in the U.S. was made by chemist William Morrison in ...................
What is 1890?
The correct verb tense is (make):
I ........ always ........... silly mistakes.
What is am making?
Doubt the truth or value of something- you have to use the word SALT.
What is take something with a pinch of salt?
To meet or find somebody/something by chance
What is come across?
Sometimes but not often
What is occasionally?
Fill in the gap: LEGO bricks withstand compression ................ ........... concrete
What is better than?
I ............. working there for two weeks.
What is have been working?
What does the idiom mean: cost an arm and a leg?
What is to be very expensive?
To cancel a meeting or an arrangement that you have made with somebody.
What is put off?
Happening or done all day and all night
What is round the clock?
You don't like the sound of your own voice because of the ....................... in your head.
What is bones?
(They make our voice sound deeper)
The correct verb tenses are (read, notice):
I ...................... a tech blog the other day when I
....................... an ad for a table tennis robot.
What are was reading and noticed?
Which idiom- to do something difficult or unpleasant that you have been avoiding?
What is bite the bullet?
To expect someone or something to fail
What is give up on?
For that reason
What is therefore?
Ketchup was once sold as .................. (what?)
What is medicine?
The correct form of the word KNOW is used in the sentence:
"Why let all that ................ sit at home with me on the couch."
What is knowledge ?
Which idiom- very similar or close?
What is like two peas in a pod?