Vocabulary activator
Describe the play you’ve read or recently seen so that your fellow-students could guess what play it is.
Exercise 13.
Make up a conversation with your friend on one of the topics:
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Helpful phrases I wonder if … Do you mean to say …? Don’t get away from the point. You’ve got it all wrong. Do you happen to know … Have you got any idea … Someone has told me that … All things considered, I must say … If you ask me … On top of that … May I have my say? First of all … To begin with … As far as … concerned … Talking (speaking) of … I’d like to point out that … What do you mean? More than that … On the whole … Yes, I should say so. In short … To put it in a nutshell … We are talking at cross purposes … You are talking sense (rubbish)! I don’t quite see what people find in … Summing it up … |
Fill each of the blanks with a suitable word
or phrase. Think of two different ways of
completing each sentence, as in the example
Learning English … learning to drive a car.
a. is almost as difficult as b. is not so easy as
His sister … that she can beat everyone in her age group.
Track and field athletics … jogging.
She’s a very good runner: she can … .
Fishing … energetic … swimming.
Playing football is … that I can think of.
II. Use the words from the box to fill the blanks in the sentences.
cyclist water skying bike (2) motorcyclist sailing motorbike |
Riding a … or riding a … both require a good sense of balance.
As far as safety is concerned, neither … nor … are as safe as people in cars.
A new … costs much less than a … and riding one is good exercise.
However, you can go much faster on a … .
… is as difficult as … .
III. Complete the passage with proper words. The first letter of each word is given.
Henley Regatta is a series of boat r…(1)… for rowing boats that are h…(2)… every year on the river Thames near the town of Henley in the south of England. Officially it is an international rowing c…(3)… with many handsome silver trophies to be w… (4)… . Henley is also a fashionable social e…(5)…, especially for rich and upper-class people.