Wednesday, October 19, 2011

ni2 19/10/11

P 13 ex 7
1. progress
2. completed
3. repeated
4. completed
5. progress
6. repeated
7. completed
8. how long

P 13 ex 8
1. a) normally she lives there b) emphasis in how long.
2. a) in progress b) I’ve tried once or twice, it didn’t work.
3. a) normally b) complete
4. a) progress b) repeated

gardener / ˈɡɑːdnə(r)/
Phone booth = box

Why have you been living in this phone box?
How long have you been living in here?
What have you been doing for food?
How have you been sleeping?

Pick‧y informal
someone who is picky only likes particular things and not others, and so is not easy to please:
He's a very picky eater.
Good riddance (to somebody)
spoken a rude way of saying you are glad someone has left:
She was awful. Good riddance to her, I say!
Crisp [countable] British English
a very thin flat round piece of potato that is cooked in oil and eaten cold [↪ chip; = potato chip AmE]
a packet of crisps
Quit past tense and past participle quit also quitted British Englishpresent participle quitting
1 [intransitive and transitive] informal to leave a job, school etc, especially without finishing it completely:
He quit his job after an argument with a colleague.
I quit school at 16.
She has decided to quit show business.
People are now calling on the chairman to quit.
2 [intransitive and transitive] especially American English to stop doing something, especially something that is bad or annoying [↪ give up]:
The majority of smokers say that they would like to quit the habit.
Quit it, Robby, or I'll tell mom!
We've done what we can. Let's quit.

Homework: grammar bank 1D and page 17

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