Revision

Vocabulary

100

True or false?

1. irritated: Lasting for a very short time.
2. concurrent: Happening at the same time.

1. False - irritated (adj.) — annoyed or slightly angry

2. True - concurrent: Happening at the same time.

200

Provide definitions:

1. (to) race against time / (to) race against the clock

2. on time 

1. to have a limited amount of time to do something, especially with urgency.

2. according to a schedule or an agreed time 

300

True or False?

1. Interval - A period of time between two events or points in time.

2. to pass (the) time / to kill time (verb) – to do something that makes a period of time seem shorter, especially due to boredom.

3. adolescence - Lasting for a very short time

4. Fleeting - Continuing indefinitely or enduring forever

TRUE 1. Interval - A period of time between two events or points in time.

TRUE 2. to pass (the) time / to kill time (verb) – to do something that makes a period of time seem shorter, especially due to boredom.

FALSE 3. adolescence: the teenage period of growing and changing.

FALSE 4. Fleeting: Lasting for a very short time.

400

Complete the sentences by using the first letter of it

1. Getting that job did a lot to b________ his ego .

2. Few businesses are f__________ in the present economic climate.

3. To recover from sad and traumatic moments of life it is necessary to train good r_______.

Boost

flourishing

resilience

500

Provide definitions:

1. simultaneous

2. to pass (the) time / to kill time (verb)

3. Lapse

4. Intentional 

5. to take one's time (verb)

1. Occurring, existing, or done at the same time.
2.  to do something that makes a period of time seem shorter, especially due to boredom.
3. A temporary deviation or failure, often related to time.
4. deliberate
5. to take as much time as is necessary; to do something slowly or carefully.

Magazine article

100

True or False?

An eye-catching headline is an attractive headline, which must begin an article.

True

200

Make the right order of structure elements:

- standfirst - end - headline - introduction - by-line

- headline - standfirst - by-line - introduction - end

300

True or false?

A middle – engage your reader’s interest and introduce the main points of the topic to be discussed.

FALSE!

A middle – develop relevant and interesting points about the topic to interest and/or convince your readers to think about a particular perspective, use a subheading for each new paragraph, follow the principle: one idea – one paragraph.

400

What is missing?

- eye-catching headline - by line - date line - subheadings for body paragraphs - an introduction - a middle - an end

standfirst

500

What is the role of:

Standfirst 

subheadings

An end

1. brief summary of an article

2. Topis of discussion

3. draw points together and leave a reader with a clear impression of viewpoints

Content questions

100

True or false?

Adolescence is a stage of life when a pesron expereiences a lot of physical changes.

False. It starts between the age of ten and thirteen with mostly social and emotional changes.

200

What are the two driving forces of resilience formation? (Lesson 3)

Challenges and problems

300

Why is it we can move through space in any direction, but through time in only one? No matter what we do, the past is always stubbornly behind us. How do we call this phenomenon?

The arrow of time

400

If we understand the time, what will it help us to open our eyes on? (Lesson 2)

To understand time, even a little, is to understand what it means to be human.

500

How is comfort defined by the speaker? (Lesson 3)

The enemy of progress.