Language Notes

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 526.

۩ Travel / journey / trip / tour / voyage / cruise / expedition

۩ Travel السفر عموما (لا تجمع) ۩ Travels رحلات

● Future generations look forward to space travel as a holiday option.

● We met some very interesting people on our travels in Thailand.

۩ journey رحلة (عادة طويلة)

●It was a long train journey to France.

۩ trip رحلة (عادة قصيرة)

●He went on a school trip to Disneyland.

۩ tour جولة

●The prime minister has left for a three-week tour of South America.

۩ voyage رحلة بحرية

●The voyage from England to India used to take six months.

۩ cruise رحلة بحرية من أجل المتعة

●He went on a Nile cruise with his friends.

۩ expedition رحلة استكشافية (رحلة منظمة لأماكن غير مألوفة) / رحلة قصيرة لغرض معين

●He went on an expedition to the North Pole.

●We're going on a shopping expedition on Saturday.

۩ frighten = scare يُخيف

●Computers used to frighten me, but not now.

۩ fear يخاف

●Police fear that there may be further terrorist attacks.

۩ recipe وصفة (طريقة عمل وجبة معينة) ۩ prescription وصفة طبية (روشتة)

●Could you give me the recipe for that chocolate cake?

●I got the prescription filled on the way home.

۩ spontaneous عفوي / تلقائي / بدون تخطيط ۩ simultaneous شيء يحدث في نفس الوقت

●Her offer of help was spontaneous.

●The speeches will be broadcast live, with simultaneous translation.

۩ bully (v) يمارس البلطجة / يستأسد علي من هم أضعف منه

●Ahmed used to bully the younger kids in the neighborhood.

۩ bully someone into doing something يرغم شخص أضعف علي القيام بعمل معين

●Don't let anyone bully you into doing something you don't want to do.

۩ bullying (n) البلطجة

●Bullyingis a problem in many schools.

۩ Whatever you do: تعبير يستخدم في الحديث لتحذير شخص من شيء ما (إياك أن ..)

●Don't tell Paul, whatever you do!

● Whatever you do,don't move.

Exercises on Vocabulary and Language Notes:

Choose the correct answer:

1. Some people (think – regard – believe – wait) playing computer games as a waste of time.

2. Charles Dickens was one of the nineteenth century's most famous (storytellers – bestsellers – fortunetellers – tellers).

3. After the (enhancement – embarrassment – engagement – excitement) of the day, the children couldn't sleep.

4. Many people agree that Shakespeare is the most (infectious – illegal – influential – initial) writer in the English language.

5. Children who (fully – bully – truly – awfully) other children at school should be sent home.

6. My cousin believes in (spontaneity – stupidity – ambiguity – brutality). He never plans what he's going to do.

7. I didn't think about what I was doing. I just did it (slowly – abundantly – spontaneously – alarmingly).

8. Our holiday to Australia was a great (acupuncture – agriculture – adventure – failure). We spent two months exploring the country

9. In some countries, It is the (convention – dimension – decision – infection) to shake hands whenever you meet someone

10. She finds long train journeys very (tired – tires – tiredness – tiring). She really doesn't enjoy them.

11. He felt very (relaxing – relaxed – relaxes – relax) after his holiday. He had had a really lovely time.

12. My (adventurous – ambitious - spontaneous – religious) reaction was to run away.

13. Playing together teaches children social (collections – combinations – comparisons – conventions) such as sharing.

14. You'd love Australia. It's an (amazement – amazed – amazing – amaze) place.

15. Our survey indicates that one in four children is (bullied – faded – buried – pretended) at school.

16. Jurassic Park is one of the most (excited – exciting – excitement – excites) films I've ever seen.

17. Don't let anyone (bury – carry - bully – hurry) you into doing something you don't want to do.

18. I get (bore – bores – boring – bored) if I have nothing to do.

19. To (bully – apply – comply – clarify) means to frighten someone or threaten to hurt them, especially if they are weaker or smaller than you.

20. (Strenuous – Stimulus – Spontaneous - Serious) means something that is done because you want to do it, not because you planned to do it.

21. To (affluence – influence – advance - announce) means to have an effect on the way someone or something develops, behaves or thinks.

22. (Frightened – Abandoned – Excited - Bored) means happy, interested or hopeful because something good has happened or is expected.

23. A (lifestyle – lifeboat – lifetime - lifeblood) is the way that someone lives, including their work and activities, and what things they own.

24. To (contribute to – allow to – intend to - lead to) is to cause something to happen.

25. A (concert – symphony – funeral- grave) is a ceremony for someone who has just died.

26. To (regard – approve – despise - bully) is to think about someone or something in a particular way.

27. To (put out – watch out - find out – come out) is to get information about something or someone.

28. (Ambiguous – Adventurous – Anxious - Cautious) means exciting and involving danger.

29. (International – Conventional – Emotional – Functional) means thinking and behaving in the normal and traditional way.

30. The Council had considerable (influence – acceptance – absence - appearance) over many government decisions.

31. A group of kids stood by and watched the school (belly – silly – folly - bully) beat up a smaller boy.

32. My husband is a (banker – tanker – forger - marker) with a very demanding schedule.

33. Regular exercise is part of a healthy (lifelong – lifestyle – life cycle – life story).

34. Hundreds of mourners attended the (party – celebration - funeral – arrival) of the two boys who were killed by the robbers.

35. I'm not very (dangerous – advantageous – treacherous – adventurous) when it comes to trying new food.

36. Reducing speed limits should (lead - result – cause – induce) to fewer deaths on the roads.

37. A woman in her (seven – seventeen – seventy – seventies) killed her husband last week.

38. The (curious – glorious - obvious – deleterious) way of reducing pollution is to use cars less.

39. I've always (took - got - put – made) on well with Henry.

40. By the time he reached his (destination – condemnation – contamination – coronation), seven days later, he was half-starved and broke.

Find the mistakes in each of the following sentences then write them correctly:

1- He is a retired bank manager and lives a confessional life.

2- I can think of so many things I'll really mess when I leave.

3- I love working abroad and meeting people from different culprits.

4- He has very unusual stories to speak.

5- He was surprised by her sudden advertisement that she was going to resign.

6- There is no odious solution to the problem of environmental pollution.

7- Though they have different personalities, they put on very well.

8- I finally managed to precede my parents to let me go out with my friends.

9- She is always superstitious and seems to make decisions without thinking.

10- She reduced him to her old friends.

11- Meeting that famous man had a strong difference on her life and personality.

12- Why are you so pessimistic? You should take at life in a different way.

13- The village people tried very hard to maintain their traditional lifespan.

14- Travel and experiments of other cultures can change people.

15- Travel can close people's eyes to different ways of life.

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