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 !
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
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