... gets up late
D. goes to bed early
22. In the summer, she ______ .
A. travels to different countries
B. goes to the cinema
C. meets students from other countries
D. goes to the seasid
Listen ...
1. Nice ______ you.
A. to meeting B. meet
C. meets D. to meet
5. The children wake _____ early in the
morning.
A. off B. to
C. up D. out
6. _ What’s the date today ?
_ It is _____ June. ... ______ English lesson today.
A. a B. an
C. the D. _
9.Bread, cake and potatoes are _______ .
A. vegetables B. meals
C. cooking D. food
10. Put these sentences in the correct
order to make...
... intonation of Englishto non-native speakers of
English. It is proposed that a framework of English intonation should include four major
intonational features: intonation units, stress, tones, and ... these tones; fall, low-rise, high-
rise, and fall-rise. Tones are assigned to intonation units in relation to the type of voice
movement on the tonic syllable. Finally, all intonation units have to ... which the tonic syllable
is underlined:
• I'm going.
• I'm going to London.
• I'm going to London for a holiday.
A question does arise as to what happens to the previously tonic...
... the former refers to unsystematic
errors of learners as opposed to the systematic errors of learners from which we are able to
reconstruct their knowledge of the language to date (Corder, 1978). ...
father try to stop learning.
• Misordering /Inversion: Is there a wrong order of items?
o Subject-verb inversion:
Now I don't know why are we taught this.
Empowering English Teachers to Grapple
with ... the language
learning process, there has been a shift in emphasis towards an understanding of the
problems learners face in their study of a language. Errors are indispensable to learners
since...
... refers to a girl, some-
times to a car. Adopted in America.
smashing
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stock cube, n. bouillon cube
stockholder, n. livestock farmer
In this usage, synonymous with stock-breeder and nothing to ... can be applied to any situation.
2. Inf. To put on side is to put on airs, put on the dog.
3. A billiards term, synonymous with spin. In this usage, to put on side means to
put English on the ... well.
stockinet, n. elastic knit fabric
Used especially for bandages.
stocking filler, n. stocking stuffer
stockist, n. retailer
A shopkeeper who stocks the articles in question. Who are the stockists...
...
something is to dig into it, that is, to pack in a hearty meal. See also tack; toke.
tumble to catch on to
Inf. To tumble to a concept, a hidden meaning, etc. is to grasp it, catch on to it, get ... block.
town, n. see comment
To someone in England, town is London, even though London is not a town but a
city. One has, for example, spent the day in town; tomorrow one is going to town
or up to ... or sausages coated in batter and baked.
toastip toasted sandwich
tobacconist’s shop cigar store
Toc H. See as dim as a Toc H lamp.
tod. See on one’s tod.
toff, n. Slang. swell
Slang. A distinguished...
...
often Victorian; now greatly prized by collectors. They originally contained vin-
egar or salts; ladies carried them to help them through fainting spells. They now
make nice pill boxes.
visitors’ ... feathers to young
men not in uniform. The taunt of cowardice was expected to shame them into
enlisting. This practice was revived during World War I. To show the white feather
means to ‘betray ... silly or useless.
2. v.i., Slang. To waffle conversationally is to engage in silly chatter; to gabble,
prate.
3. v.t., v.i., Slang. To waffle a cry of pleasure is to yelp it. Rarely, woffle.
wage...
... up; put together roughly
To cobble something, or to cobble something together, is to put it together roughly.
A professor in a hurry will cobble a lecture together. This verb is used also to mean ... one’s own job,’ generally, to
‘make oneself objectionable.’
come top Inf. come out on top
Inf. To win.
come to the horses, Slang. Slang. get down to brass tacks
come to the wrong shop. See shop.
come ... Britain but
on reels.
cotton bud, n. cotton swab/Q-Tip
cotton wool absorbent cotton
For metaphorical uses, see live in cotton wool; wrap in cotton wool.
council, n. approx. town
Literally, a local...
... etymologically related to dune and has nothing to do with
the direction down.
down tools Inf. to stop work/go on strike
down train see comment
Train from London. A train in Britain goes up to London even ... a farm
property, sometimes with livestock and sometimes including dead stock. Undoubt-
edly, an echo of the common term livestock.
dead to the wide. See to the wide.
deaf-aid hearing aid
deals, ...
speaker, to mean ‘go’ or ‘come to the country,’ i.e., to somewhere outside of London.
But people living in Scotland or in the north of England may talk of going down (i.e.,
south) to London to the...
... up
Inf. To fine (something) down, away or off is to make it thinner. Transitively, refer-
ring to the brewing of beer, it means to ‘clear up’. Intransitively, referring to any
liquid, it means to ... sent to Bath to be cured by its mineral waters.
go to bed have sexual intercourse
go to ground Inf. lie low
Inf. Hide out; from fox hunting, when the pursued beast takes to its lair.
go to the ... expression give the guy to someone, guy
means ‘slip’ and to do a guy is to ‘perform a vanishing act.’ As an intransitive verb
(slang), to guy means to ‘take it on the lam,’ i.e., to ‘decamp.’
3. v.t.,...
... appliance used for stove-top cooking. See also
cooker.
hockey, n. field hockey
To a Briton hockey means ‘field hockey’; to an American, ‘ice hockey.’ If a Briton
wants to talk about the type ... of residence dormitory
Halt, v.i. Stop
The equivalent of an American Stop sign used to be and sometimes still is a Brit-
ish road sign reading halt, but stop is now coming into general use. Once ... Intransitive use, referring to either sex.
have jam on it Inf. have it easy
Inf. To be in clover, be feeling no pain, etc. To want jam on it is to want egg in your
beer.
have no mind to Inf. not care a...
... comment
Workers who grouped together in the 18th century to destroy machinery that
caused loss of jobs. Now used for anyone deemed to be irrationally opposed to
new technology.
luge, n. toboggan
luggage, ... not
good enough to use or be seen by your guests, not bad enough to throw away;
you never really want to see it again but you can’t bear to part with it. So you put
it into your lumber-room ... long-term
Applied, e.g., to hospital patients.
long stop 1. see comment
2. backstop; reinforcement
1. In cricket, the fielder back of the wicket-keeper, who is there to stop the balls
that get...
... determined.
meant to supposed to
A Briton asks, for instance, Are we meant to throw rubbish in that bin? Or he might
say, The Russians are meant to be good chess players, i.e., reputed to be.
mear. ... roads
with layers of crushed stone. Tarmac, short for tar macadam, added tar to the
crushed stone layers. But since tar is almost universally added to the crushed
stones these days, macadam road ... practice is to put an apostrophe s after the
combination word: I’m going to the fishmonger’s; I have to get my lamp repaired at the
ironmonger’s. Monger fits into other combinations of a derogatory...
... toy
Inf. The meaning toy refers to educational toys, and looks like a portmanteau
formation of play and toy. In other words, a toy that keeps the kids busy with a
job, like fitting things together. ... a baby sitter, when you get a last-minute invitation
to play dinner or to bridge. To organize somebody or something is to ‘get hold of,’
to ‘arrange for,’ the person or thing that fills the ... one
one hundred percent copper-bottomed
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2. To change the bowling (literally, to put in a new bowler) is to make a change gener-
ally, as when a firm has to replace an executive or any employee,...
... comment
2. see comment
1. Inf. To stay at a dance through the Queen is to stay to the very end. The term
dates from the days when it was usual to play God Save the Queen to close the pro-
ceedings, ... a punting pole with a flange near the tip to prevent its sinking into mud,
used to propel the boat along. As a verb, to quant is to pole the boat, or to punt.
quantity, bill of. See bill of quantity.
quantity ... article on the bottom of a shallow
vase into which you stick the stems.
rot, v.t., v.i. 1. spoil
2. Inf. kid
1. Slang. To rot a plan is to spoil it.
2. Slang. Intransitively, to rot is to kid or kid...