Friday, August 31, 2018

The Botanist's Daughter

Good evening,my dear English readers,
I wish you a great weekend and would like to share the book I'm reading now. What do you think about it? Do you like it?
https://books.google.co.uz/books?id=MvlKDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ViewAPI&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false


Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Word family: prospect

prospective(adj)
prospector(n)
prospectus(n)

Word family: prosper

prosperity (n)
prosperious (adj)

Word family: respect

respect(n)
respecter(n)
respectable (adj)
respected(adj)
disrespected(adj)
disrespect(n)
respectful(adj)
respecting(prep)
respectably(adv)
respectability(n)
respectfully(adj)

Grammar: Verbs +Infinitive


Verbs that Require an Infinitive in the Compliment
Remember that the following verbs require an infinitive for a verb in the compliment.
Agree
Appear
Arrange
Ask
Claim
Consent
Decide
Demand
Deserve
Expect
Fail
Forget
Hesitate
Hope
Intend
Learn
Manage
Mean
Need
Offer
Plan
Prepare
Pretend
Promise
Refuse
Seem
Tend
Threaten
Wait
Want
EXAMPLES
INCORRECT: He wanted speak with me.
CORRECT: He wanted to speak with me.

Monday, August 13, 2018

Vocabulary Task

ceilis
courtesy
brassiere

ledger
liability
martyr

prole
stuntman
snuggle
sniffle


1.     Divya can’t have the _____ today!
2.     In Britain, they call it the main books of account nominal ______.
3.     In Britain and the US, partnerships do not have limited ______ for debts, so the partners are fully liable or responsible for any debts the business has.
4.     They want people to sing and laugh in their pubs, dance at their _____, and most important of all, to talk.
5.     He gracefully moved over with ______ for Grey Donkey, Pig and Clover.
6.     They ______, and cuddled, and nestled again.
7.     He thought he was a ______.
8.     He can fly an aeroplane and he wants to become a _______.
9.     I suggest that you wear your _______ when you go to London not every day.
10. His voice was soft and he didn’t speak like a ______.

Word family: colour

coloured (adj)                      discoloured (adj)
colourful (adj)                      colorfully(adv)
colourless (adj)                     colouring (n)
multicoloured (adj)

Friday, August 10, 2018

Vocabulary Task

conjecture
encroach
cache
dumbfound
diffident
gloat
butler
CCTV
darn
googly
inconsolable

clogged
sniffle
render
scope
rebuffed
usurer


1.       Everything we know is based on _____, on finding common strands in modern- day languages and tracing these strands to a hypothetical mother tongue, Proto-Indo – European, which may never even have existed.
2.       For the most part these were probably not great exoduses but rather gradual _____ as such each new generation sought new pastured and hunting grounds.
3.       Explorers at the turn of the century were astonished to find a _____ of Buddhist documents written in two related but unknown languages in what is now the Chinese province of Sinkiang, along the old Silk Road.
4.       The notion would have left them ______.
5.       I was already known as Silas Gyde the _____, and men had hardened their hearts against me.
6.       My _____ attempts to make friends were rebuffed.
7.       I _____ over my books of clippings.
8.       Are you the _____?
9.       My diffident attempts to make friends were ______.
10.   The on-board _____ cameras permit the pilots to see if there is a problem in the cabin without leaving the cockpit.
11.   He lives in a world of cute, fluffy things, which makes being funny- looking… pretty _____ hard.
12.   But nobody loves a slightly hairy, I suppose a bit _____ exed monster.
13.   The company is already so big that it has very little _____ for expansion.
14.   To _____ man in accessible to suffering would be to change his nature.
15.   The death of a beloved wife is the most _____ of evils.
16.   Divya has the ______.
17.   When these viruses get into your nose and throat, they give you a sore throat, or a headache, or a _____ nose – or even all three at the same time.