Friday, July 27, 2018

Vocabulary task

brassiere
marquee
martyr
nestle
stuntman


1.They snuggled, and cuddled, and ______ again.
2. The distance from the ______ to the place where Mrs Boyton was sitting is about 200 yards.
3. He thought he was a ______.
4.He can fly an aeroplane and he wants to become a ______.
5.I suggest that you wear your ______ when you go to London not every day.

Thursday, July 26, 2018

DATA -Singular or Plural?

Data is information, usually in the form of facts or statistics that can be analysed.
Such tasks require the worker to process a large amount of data.
This will make the data easier to collect.
Data is usually regarded as an uncountable noun and is used with a singular form of a verb.
2010 is the latest year for which data is available.
The latest data shows that lending fell by 10% in May.
People usually say this data, rather than 'these data'.
Processing this data only takes a moment.
In some formal and scientific writing, data is used with a plural form of a verb, and these data is used instead of 'this data'.
The economic data are inconclusive.
To cope with these data, hospitals bought large mainframe computers.
In other kinds of writing and in conversation, people usually use data as an uncountable noun.
Collins COBUILD English Usage © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 2004, 2011, 2012

Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Word family: COLOUR

Good morning, my dear English learners! Hope you work hard on your vocabulary every day!)))
Here is the word family table for the word COLOUR
coloured(adj)            discoloured (adj)
colourful (adj)           colorfully (adv)
colourless (adj)         colouring (n)
multicoloured (adj)

Vocabulary Task

Good morning, my dear English learners! Do you know these words? Let's check!
buggy
ceilis
contaminate
courtesy
strangle
pernicious
leprechaun
pavlova
snuggle
trickle


1.       James McAvoy has left his co-star Michael scarred for life after crashing their golf _____.
2.       He didn’t _____ this one – if he didn’t leave Ibiza until 21st.
3.       There’s also a _____ of studies showing how ELT professionalism can serve more appropriate local purposes.
4.       Many Asian scholars have shown how this has had _____ effects.
5.       How were _____ described in Celtic folklore?
6.       On average only 1 out 3000 eggs in the EU are _____ with the bacteria.
7.       All the top _____ have this.
8.       They want people to sing and laugh in their pubs, dance at their _____, and most important of all, to talk.
9.       He gracefully moved over with _____ for Grey Donkey, Pig and Clover.
They _____, and cuddled, and nested again.

Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Vocabulary Task

Good evening, my dear English learners!
Today there is a vocabulary task to practice. Enjoy it!

CCTV
darn
googly
inconsolable
render
scope


1.The on-board _____ cameras permit the pilots to see if there is a problem in the cabin without leaving the cockpit.
2.He lives in a world of cute, fluffy things, which makes being funny looking… pretty _____ hard.
3. But nobody loves a slightly hairy, I suppose a bit _____ eyed monster.
4. The company is already so big that it has very little _____ for expansion.
5. The death of a beloved wife is the most ______ of evils.