Wednesday, 13 April 2016

ANIA B2.3 Lesson 12

Class

  • 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 
  1. lift off, leave the ground, take to the air, become airborne   ⇒ We eventually took off at 11am and arrived in Venice at 1.30pm.
  2. remove ⇒ Come in and take off your coat.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
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