nb2 19/1/12

Homework p. 135 Grammarbank 5B

Sun‧bathe [intransitive]

To sit or lie outside in the sun, especially in order to become brown:

Her mother was sunbathing in the back garden.

Lie down [intransitive always + adverb/preposition] to put yourself in a position in which your body is flat on the floor or on a bed.

Sea‧side

The seaside

British English the areas or towns near the sea, where people go to enjoy themselves:

A trip to the seaside

At the seaside

A day at the seaside

My daughter found it hard to believe that I wanted to talk to her about boys.

Trek past tense and past participle trekked, present participle trekking[intransitive always + adverb/preposition]

1 informal to make a long and difficult journey, especially on foot[= hike]

Trek up/down etc

The elevator was broken, so we had to trek up six flights of stairs.

Whole

1 [only before noun] all of something [= entire]:

You have your whole life ahead of you!

 His whole attitude bugs me.

 We ate the whole cake in about ten minutes.

        The whole thing (=everything about the situation)       just makes me sick.

 We just sat around and watched TV the whole time (=the only thing we did was watch television).

I don't believe she's telling us       the whole story (=all the facts).

 It was months before      the whole truth  came out.

The whole school/country/village etc (=all the people in a school, country etc)

The whole town came out for the parade.

Me too

Me neither

Jeans /dʒiːnz/

Suit ¹ /suːt / || /suːt/ , /sjuːt/

Business / ˈbɪznəs / || / ˈbɪznɪs/

Famous / ˈfeɪməs/

Tracksuit ['træksʊ:t]

polite /pəˈlaɪt/

dangerous / ˈdeɪndʒərəs/

patient 1 / ˈpeɪʃənt/

rubbish ¹ / ˈrʌbɪʃ/

Book (Verb)

1 [intransitive and transitive] to make arrangements to stay in a place, eat in a restaurant, go to a theatre etc at a particular time in the future [↪ reserve]:

Have you booked a holiday this year?

The flight was already fully booked (=no more seats were available).

To get tickets, you have to book in advance.

The show's booked solid (=all the tickets have been sold) until February

Above all

I like when I have time for myself and I can do whatever I want (what I like/ the things that I like)