- Running dictation
- Vocabulary skills
- Idioms, metaphors and phrasal verbs
Vocabulary
in one shot
to come/get to grips with
to tread carefully
to put an end to something
to fight a losing battle
open slather = complete freedom
to wind back (note pronunciation)
waɪnd
Notes
- Learn phrasal verbs in context as they often have many different meanings e.g. take off
- lift off, leave the ground, take to the air, become airborne ⇒ We eventually took off at 11am and arrived in Venice at 1.30pm.
- remove ⇒ Come in and take off your coat.
- depart, go, leave, split (slang), disappear, set out, strike out, beat it (slang), hit the road (slang), abscond, decamp, hook it (slang), slope off, pack your bags (informal) ⇒ He took off at once and headed home.
- do well, succeed, thrive, flourish, progress, boom, prosper, have legs (informal), turn out well ⇒ He joined the company in 2014, and his career took off.
- Learn phrasal verbs and dependent preposition not as grammar rules but as "chunks" of vocabulary e.g. depend on, look for, fluency/fluent in, responsible for, in charge of, a good knowledge of, to learn on the job.
Going Further
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