Monday, October 19, 2009

COUNTDOWN TO FIRST CERTIFICATE - UNIT 11 - FUNNY OLD WORLD

- propeller


- While walking around the square, the police officer came across the scruffly dressed man.




- come up with: to think of or to suggest a plan or idea, a solution to a problem, or an answer to a question - A team of advertisers is hard at work trying to come up with a slogan for the product. Experts have failed to come up with an explanation of why the explosion happened.





- a criss-crossed leotard






- criss-cross: verb v [I or T] - to move or exist in a pattern of lines crossing something or each other - This area of the city is criss-crossed by railway lines.




- drift: v [I usually + adverb or preposition] to move slowly, especially as a result of outside forces, with no control over direction - No one noticed that the boat had begun to drift out to sea. A mist drifted in from the marshes. After the band stopped playing, people drifted away in twos and threes.



- hover: verb [I] 1- in air - to stay up in the air but without moving anywhere
- make do with: accept something less satisfactory because there's no alternative - There's no coffee, so we'll have to make do with tea




- turn down sb/sth or turn sb/sth: refuse an offer or request - He was offered the job but he turned it down because it involved too much travelling. Look, I'm offering you a free meal - you're surely not going to turn me down?




- turn out: to happen in a particular way or to have a particular result





- WHAT IS YOUR MAIN AMBITION?

Frame 1 - Reading - pages 106 and 107

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