Thursday, December 15, 2016

C1 14-15/12/16

Homework: reading activity p.48

p.41

/ɔːlˈðəʊ/
put it bluntly
blunt‧ly /ˈblʌntli/ ●○○ adverb  speaking in a direct honest way that sometimes upsets people ‘You’re drunk, ’ she said bluntly. To put it bluntly, she’s not up to the job.

Though he tried very hard, he failed the course.
My brother went, but I did not.
We have not yet won; however, we shall keep trying.
Although we miss you, we will not ask you to return.
Admittedly, this isn't the world's greatest view.
Indeed, it did rain as hard as predicted.
She was ill, and so stayed home (= and because she was ill, she stayed home).
Your interest rates will go down; thus, you'll save money.

/ˈpriːvɪəs/
/ˈnɛsəˌsɛri/

Punctuation mark


Period    .
Question mark     ?
Exclamation mark       !
Colon     :
Semicolon     ;
Hyphen         -
Dash      —
Parentheses         ( )
Brackets               [ ]
Ellipsis          . . . 
Apostrophe          ’
Quotation marks  “ ”  (open close inverted commas)
Slash      /
Comma         ,    
(full) Stop (and new paragraph)


p.46

Necessity is the mother of invention
Sew /səʊ/

Weird, silly, bizarre, useless, crazy, risky, funny original, scary, unusual, useless...

Tandem bicycle
Barefoot

Take sth for granted
inventions come about
be littered with something
if something is littered with things, there are a lot of those things in it syn be full of something
Recent business news has been littered with stories of companies failing.
unworthy of the attention
conduct daily businesses
envisaged /ɪnˈvɪzɪdʒd/ the telephone
vaccines come to mind
make our lives more convenient
dissmissed by Time magazine (online shopping)
entrepeneurs
a luxury for the rich
come to common use

groceries[plural] food and other goods that are sold by a grocer or a supermarket

publishing house  ≠ editorial /ˌedəˈtɔːriəl◂/ ●○○ AWL noun [countable]  a piece of writing in a newspaper that gives the editor’s opinion about something, rather than reporting facts
/lʌɡˈzjʊəriəs, ləɡˈʒʊəriəs $ ləɡˈʒʊriəs/
/ˈlʌkʃəri/
/ˈlɪtərəri $ ˈlɪtəreri/
/ˌɒntrəprəˈnɜː $ ˌɑːntrəprəˈnɜːr/
/ˌspekjəˈleɪʃən/
 /ˈsætəˌlaɪt/


Cat’s eyes

Resultado de imagen de cat's eyes road

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