though, although, even though, despite, in spite of

Vocabulary Unit 1 to Unit 4

Let's keep revising. Now vocabulary:

• a Food and restaurants
• b Sport
• c Personality
• d Money
• e Transport and travel
• f Appearance
• g Education
• h Houses

Food

Watch and learn . . .

Riddle

What about this one?

Office Supplies

What are you short of in the office?

Connectors

Identity

Fill in the gaps with words from the box. Put them in the right form:

   A) Many Americans are obsessed with  finding their (1) . Recently, a researcher discovered that one  of Barack Obama’s (2)  was Irish, so in his last visit to the country, President Obama paid a visit to his relative’s town.

       B) Human beings (3)  half of their genes from each parent.

       C) My upstairs neighbor is really (4) . She never takes her high heel shoes off when at home!

      D) I can’t stop (5)  with James; he’s such a stubborn man! But he’s also a reliable person, so I (6)  him.

      E) I’d never have guessed they were related! She’s got red hair and green eyes and she’s extremely serious, but her mother’s a brunette and one of the funniest women I’ve ever met…does she (7)  her father?

     F) Jeremy hates his family business; I’ve heard he (8)  by writing short stories for an English magazine. People say he’s really talented!

      G) My mother got married to a man who has three children, so I now have four siblings: a sister and three (9) .

     H) When her parents died, Elena (10)  a fortune.

How are you? - Adjectives

Here are some adjectives that can help you to answer the question:

Tenses, Writing, Vocabulary

 GRAMMAR

PRESENT PERFECT

PRESENT PERFECT WITH FOR AND SINCE

PRESENT PERFECT WITH JUST, YET & ALREADY
PRESENT PERFECT: PUT THE WORDS IN ORDER PRESENT PERFECT OR PAST SIMPLE?
PREDICTIONS
WILL FOR PROMISES & OFFERS
WILL FOR PROMISES & OFFERS

FUTURE CONDITIONAL
FIRST CONDITIONAL
FIRST CONDITIONAL
PRESENT PASSIVE
PRESENT PASSIVE

PAST PASSIVE

RELATIVE WORDS: WHO, WHICH OR WHERE?
RELATIVE WORDS


WRITING:

REWRITING TEXTS (DIFFERENT TYPES OF TEXTS)

VOCABULARY:
TRANSPORT, JOBS, ETC.
FILMS
PERSONALITY & FEELINGS 

Some social English

Some of the most important phrases, responses and common expressions used in English every day. These are sets of phrases that always go together. Some people call them adjacency pairs. Learn many of these vital expressions in this episode of Luke's English Podcast, one of the fastest growing English language learning podcasts online.

Listen to Luke's podcast, it's really interesting. You will find the written expressions he mentions on this page

Rather long but quite interesting. Don't miss it! 

AMBROISE BIERCE

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