Thursday, January 09, 2020

B1 8-9/1/20

means/mode/form of transport
- Horses were the only means of transport.
GRAMMAR: Countable or uncountable?
In this meaning, transport is an uncountable noun and has no plural form. You say:
Public transport is very cheap.
Don’t say: public transports

p. 51
She is surprised because the taxi driver gives her back her mobile phone.
Can you repeat that that that woman said.

Gives her a big tip
Rob misses London (homesick-nostálgico)
Kind – very friendly
regret doing something 
I regret leaving school so young.

Mean, just, hang, back, kind
3, 2, 5, 4, 1

p. 60

dial/daɪəl/●●○ verb (dialled, dialling British English, dialed, dialing American English) [intransitive, transitive]   
to press the buttons or turn the dial on a telephone in order to make a telephone call
- I think I dialed the wrong number.

Hang up phrasal verb
1 to finish a telephone conversation
- I said goodbye and hung up.

helpline /ˈhelplaɪn/ noun [countable]   
a telephone number that you can ring if you need advice or information

on hold
if you are on hold, you are waiting to talk to someone on the telephone
- We try not to keep people on hold for more than a couple of minutes.
- The agent put me on hold while she consulted a colleague.

colleague /ˈkɒliːɡ/
college /ˈkɒlɪdʒ/

get cut off to suddenly not be able to hear someone that you were speaking to on the telephone
- I don’t know what happened – we just got cut off.


The central heating goes off at 9 o’clock.
Suddenly, all the lights went off.
>STOP WORKING if a machine or piece of equipment goes off, it stops working
>MAKE A NOISE if an alarm goes off, it makes a noise to warn you about something
- The thieves ran away when the alarm went off.

7a, 10b, 1c, 6d, 9e, 5f, 3g, 11h, 2i, 4j, 8k.

ˌpay-as-you-ˈgo adjective [only before noun]   
a pay-as-you-go mobile phone or Internet service is one that you must pay for before you can use it → pre-pay

More satellites are needed to provide telephone coverage in remote areas.

Mobile phone users have complained of poor reception in the area.

Go- went-gone off

Unlimited home broadband and unlimited mobile data

A phone went off and he played the ringtone with the viola.

Audience ≠ public

Interrupted /id/
mes‧si‧ah /məˈsaɪə/
Aria /ˈɑːriə/
Despised/d/
despise /dɪˈspaɪz/ ●○○ verb [transitive]   
to dislike and have a low opinion of someone or something
- She despised her neighbours.
Stopped /t/
Turned /d/
Pointed /id/
Shouted /id/
Passages /iz/
pas‧sage /ˈpæsɪdʒ/
owner /ˈəʊnə/
protested /id/
against
/bɪˈheɪvjə/
theatre
device
cloakroom
au‧di‧ence /ˈɔːdiəns/

IT /ˌaɪ ˈtiː/ ●●○ noun [uncountable]   
(information technology) the study or use of electronic processes and equipment for storing information and making it available

Mobile phone users have complained of poor reception in the area.
>SIGNALS [uncountable] the act of receiving radio, television, or other signals, or the quality of signals you receive

shush!
spoken used to tell someone, especially a child, to be quiet SYN shh
- ‘Shush!’ said Jerry. ‘Not so loud.’

p. 61, ex. 2c
6, 4, 2, 3, 5, 1

p.210

Must and have to
(AFFIRMATIVE) Obligation

Must (personal decision) / have to (external obligation)
This difference is not really important.

(NEGATIVE)
Don’t have to->it’s not necessary
I don’t have to do the homework.

You mustn’t (PROHIBITED) smoke in hospitals.

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Should/ shouldn’t (advice)
You shouldn’t smoke


You have to be here at 7. You mustn’t be late.


Homework: p. 210 – grammar bank 4A a and b


palm /pɑːm
balm /bɑːm

calm - kɑːm
design - dɪˈzaɪn
dis‧hon‧est /dɪsˈɒnɪst/
doubt /daʊt/
foreign /ˈfɒrɪn/
half /hɑːf/
hour /aʊə/
is‧land /ˈaɪlənd/
knowl‧edge /ˈnɒlɪdʒ
lis‧ten /ˈlɪsən/
must‧n’t /ˈmʌsənt/
ought to /ˈɔːt/ > SYN should
rhythm /ˈrɪðəm/
should /ʃʊd/
talk /tɔːk/
walk /wɔːk/
whole /həʊl/

wrong /rɒŋ/

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