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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I started to translate the book.))) Here is the link:
https://drive.google.com/drive/my-drive
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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.

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

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 21^st.

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.