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/

 /ˈsæt^əˌlaɪt/

Cat’s eyes