Category: Vocabulary
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Adjectives and opposites
Find the opposites of the words on the left. Choose from the ones in the box on the right:
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Taken from Peter Watcyn-Jones (2000), Test Your Vocabulary 2, Edinburgh, Pearson Education Limited.
“Wrapping paper” – Do you know what it is?
“To ascertain” – What does it mean?
Thesaurus:
Example sentences from the web:
- She hasn’t told the truth as far as anybody can pretty much ascertain for anything significant in years.
- The level of local government debt nationwide is hard to ascertain.
- He looked at the sky to ascertain that a half day’s light remained.
iSLCollective
iSLCollective (Internet Second Language Collective) is a website where you can find useful resources. You must register in order to download the handouts, but it’s for free. For example, this is a poster on daily activities:
This one is on action verbs:
This one is on Indirect/Reported Speech:
On this website, you can also find this kind of printable handouts:
As you can see, there are grammar rules for a quick review, then exercises with answer keys.
“Unconditional” – What does it mean?
Example sentences from the web:
- No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted.
- This position corresponds to the American strategy to accelerate unconditional liberalization of the world market.
- After the disaster, there was so much unconditional love around people, they were ready to sacrifice their own lives for others, for strangers.
Unconditionally – Kate Perry
Oh no, did I get too close oh?
Oh, did I almost see what’s really on the inside?
All your insecurities
All the dirty laundry
Never made me blink one time
Unconditional, unconditionally
I will love you unconditionally
There is no fear now
Let go and just be free
I will love you unconditionally
Come just as you are to me
Don’t need apologies
Know that you are all worthy
I’ll take your bad days with your good
Walk through this storm I would
I’d do it all because I love you, I love you
Unconditional, unconditionally
I will love you unconditionally
There is no fear now
Let go and just be free
I will love you unconditionally
So open up your heart and just let it begin
Open up your heart, and just let it begin
Open up your heart, and just let it begin
Open up your heart
Acceptance is the key to be
To be truly free
Will you do the same for me?
Unconditional, unconditionally
I will love you unconditionally
And there is no fear now
Let go and just be free
‘Cause I will love you unconditionally (oh yeah)
I will love you
I will love you
I will love you unconditionally
LyricsTraining link to this song: (Fill in the gaps).
‘Evidence’ – What does it mean?
Example sentences from the web:
- The judgment is thus based on inadmissible evidence.
- This argument was not substantiated by any documentary evidence.
- The evidence is there that cancer is rising amongst young children in particular.
‘Dedication’ – What does it mean?
Example sentences from the web:
- I am sure you will do it with great effectiveness and dedication.
- His dedication went far beyond what would normally be expected of a chief election observer.
- Her dedication to medicine was so great that she had time for little else.
DEDICATION – Noora Noor
This song is for my mother
Who told me to work harder
The way she loves
Makes me feel free
This song is for my brothers
With them, so much wiser
The way they love
I feel so complete
Everyone (love) thought that I could (love) do
Whatever, whenever, wherever I set my mind on
Everyone (love) thought that I could do (love)
Whatever, whenever, wherever I set my mind on
This song is for my sister
I melt when I’m around her
So much joy she brings for me to see
This song is for my father
Without him, I’m so much stronger
From Heaven he guides me through a rainy day
Everyone (love) thought that I could do (love)
Whatever, whenever, wherever I set my mind on
Everyone (love) thought that I could do (love)
Whatever, whenever, wherever I set my mind on
Believe in me
I believe in you
Believe in me
I believe in you
Believe in, believe in, believe in me
I believe in you, you
In you, you
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah yeah…
I promise I’ll be better
Everyone (love) thought that I could do (love)
I set my mind ???? ????
Everyone (love) thought that I could do (love)
Do whatever, whenever, wherever I set my mind on
Yeah
Comic on this topic by British Council with comprehension test:
Comic on dedication.
“To endure” – What does it mean?
Other synonyms:
Example sentences from the web:
- I cannot endure your insolence any longer. => Here “endure” means “tolerate”, “bear”, “support”.
- The style endured for centuries. => Here “endured” means “continued in the same state”, “lasted”.
- Even in the darkest ages humanity has endured. => Here “endured” means “suffered patiently”, “suffered without yielding”, “persisted”.
Words from the example sentences you may not know:
- INSOLENCE => being rude or impolite, show a lack of respect or other people.
- YIELDING => TO YIELD => to collapse, to give up, to surrender.
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