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)

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.

Vocabulary Task

chiropodist	invidious	dispense	innate	millet	maven
overkill	dispatch	flummox	reminiscent	scope (for)	tantalizingly

1.       The Duchess was sure that the man was a sort of _____ and was scared.

2.       Maybe you don’t have the time or money to get it professionally edited, or this maybe ______ for a personal blogpost.

3.       So why not check your credentials as a language ______ and give the quiz a go?

4.       The company is already so big that it has very little _____ for expansion.

5.       The diet of Kwaku and his friends is mostly based on a locally grown grain, _____, and is high in carbohydrates.

6.       There are many well- rehearsed reasons why NNESTs should have equal access to professional opportunities in ELT, not least the fact that any form of discrimination on purely biological, geographical, or biological grounds is _____.

7.       Without getting too technical about it this means that with certain types of verbs we use a present participle to create sentences like “I am going for a walk” but with other verbs we ______ with the present participle which is why we say “I like you” and not “I am liking you.”

8.       All of this would seem to suggest that certain properties of language are ______.

9.       _____ to India as a judge in 1783, Jones whiled away his evenings by teaching himself Sanskrit.

10.    The Sanskrit for ten, dasa, is _______ of the Latin decem.

11.   But, once again, some of the most important breakthroughs were the work of inspired amateurs, among them Henry Rawlinson, an official with the British East India Company, who deciphered ancient with the British East India Company, who deciphered ancient Persian more or less single- handed, and somewhat later, Michael Ventris, an English architect who deciphered the famously difficult Linear B script of ancient Minoa, which had ______ generations of academics.

12.   The Roman even followed Etruscan, a language that had greatly contributed to their own, to be lost, so that today Etruscan writings remain _______ untranslated.

Grammar: Missing Main Verb

Remember that every English sentence must have a subject and a main verb.
Ex: The sound of the dryer (Subject) bothers (Verb) my concentration.
Avoid using an -ing form, an auxiliary verb, or another part of speech instead of a main verb.
EXAMPLES
INCORRECT: The prettiest girl in our class with long brown hair and brown eyes.
CORRECT: The prettiest girl in our class has long brown hair and brown eyes.
INCORRECT: In my opinion, too soon to make a decision.
CORRECT: In my opinion, it is too soon to make a decision.
INCORRECT: Sam almost always a lot of fun.
CORRECT: Sam is almost always a lot of fun.
EXERCISES
Arizona _____ a very dry climate.
A) has
B) being
C) having
D) with

Bilingual Books

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