an
apple a day keeps the doctor away
Eat fruit every day and you'll stay healthy - you won't need to see the doctor.
Q What's worse than finding a worm in your apple? A Finding half a worm!
Eat fruit every day and you'll stay healthy - you won't need to see the doctor.
Q What's worse than finding a worm in your apple? A Finding half a worm!
to catch the sun
If you catch the sun then you have been in the sun long enough to go a little bit red - to get a little bit of sunburn.
I catch the sun very easily - sometimes 20 minutes in the sun can be enough for me to catch it.
The easiest way to stop yourself catching the sun is to wear sun cream (or to stay indoors!).
However, I caught the sun today despite using lots of sun cream. This was probably because I was on top of a mountain (at 1700m above sea level), and there was lots of snow around which intensified the power of the sun.
If you catch the sun then you have been in the sun long enough to go a little bit red - to get a little bit of sunburn.
I catch the sun very easily - sometimes 20 minutes in the sun can be enough for me to catch it.
The easiest way to stop yourself catching the sun is to wear sun cream (or to stay indoors!).
However, I caught the sun today despite using lots of sun cream. This was probably because I was on top of a mountain (at 1700m above sea level), and there was lots of snow around which intensified the power of the sun.
the coast is clear
The coast is the place where the land meets the sea. There could be a beach or a cliff there, but the general term is coast. New York is on the east coast of the USA, Brighton
is on the south coast of England.
A few hundred years ago smuggling (that's the importing of goods without paying taxes) was relatively common in Cornwall, England. This was because it's quite close to France and there are lots of small bays and caves along the coast where boats could land and goods could
be hidden. Naturally the Customs & Excise (the people who collect the taxes on imported goods) didn't like this and tried to catch the smugglers.
Whenever a boat crossed the channel they would wait for the signal that the coast was clear (that there were no Customs & Excise workers nearby) before landing. So, if the coast is clear it means that it's now safe to do something without anybody catching you.
If you rented a flat where pets were not allowed but you wanted to have your cat in the flat, you would wait until the coast was clear (that the owner of the property or the caretaker wasn't around) before taking the cat into the flat.
don't
look a gift horse in the mouth
When
buying a horse it's common to look in the horse's mouth, to look at the horse's
teeth, to
see if the horse is healthy or not - bad teeth could be a sign of a bad horse.
However, if someone gives you a horse then you shouldn't look in the horse's mouth first to see the condition of the horse's teeth. It's a gift, therefore you accept it whatever condition it is in.
Use - If someone gives you something then you shouldn't complain (at least, not to their face) about the gift. You should accept it happily - that's the polite way to do things.
see if the horse is healthy or not - bad teeth could be a sign of a bad horse.
However, if someone gives you a horse then you shouldn't look in the horse's mouth first to see the condition of the horse's teeth. It's a gift, therefore you accept it whatever condition it is in.
Use - If someone gives you something then you shouldn't complain (at least, not to their face) about the gift. You should accept it happily - that's the polite way to do things.
Mural A
large wall-painting
Cathedral A
big church
Haunted Troubled
constantly
Masterpiece An
artist’s best work
Countenance Face
Envisioned Imagined,
pictured in the mind
Enfeebled Made
weak
Tavern A
place where liquor is sold and drunk
Gaunt Corrupted
Threshold Doorstep
Profligate A
very immoral man
Compare
Spoon-Fork Chalk-Cheese Battery-Accumulator
Puppy-Cub Snake -Lizard Silk-Wool
Sand-Soil Lake-Pond Boxing-Wrestling
1)Find
another word for a big sheet of Ice? Glacier
2)Is
“ Brunch” a compound word or blend word? Blend word
3)Rearrange the letters in “nap” to make the word for
something used in the kitchen? Pan
4)Does
New Year’s Eve come before or after New year’s day? Before
5)The
plural of “flea” is fleas or flies? Fleas
6)Turn
the word ‘rat’ into a sticky black substance? Tar
7)What
kind of words will you find in a thesaurus – Synonyms or antonyms or both? Both
8)A
‘Pantheon’ is a temple dedicated to all gods or senior Buddhist monks?
Dedicated to all gods
9)Does
‘Septicemia’ mean food poisoning or blood poisoning? Blood poisoning
10)Who
lives in a priory – birds or monks ? Monks
11)Which
subject is named after the latin word meaning ‘to know’? Science
12)Correct
the verb in the sentence: “The mosquito bited on my arm”. The mosquito bit on
my arm.
13)What
is the name given to the beginning of a river? Source
14)If
a container is “unsealed” is it opened or closed? Opened
15)What
is mobile home called? Caravan
Fill
up the blanks:
1)Those are
probably the ___________ curtains in the store. Fanciest fanciest most
fanciest
2)Uncle Carl
is really ______________________ man. an old sweet a sweet, old a sweet old
3)The
Karmen-Ghia used to be _________________ sportscar.
a fine
German a German, fine a fine, German
4)Everyone
was home for the holidays. What could make for ___________ Christmas than
that?a merrier the merriest a merrier
5)They grew
up in ___________________ house in Mexico City.
a
comfortable, little a
little, comfortable a
comfortable little
6)Diehard is
the ____________ movie I've ever seen.
most excited most exciting most exciteable
7)Tina wanted
to take a course with _____________________ professor.
that
interesting new Japanese economics that Japanese interesting, new
economics
that
interesting, new, Japanese, economics
8)Of all the
mechanics in the shop, Jerzy is surely ______________ .
the less competent. the least competent. the competentest.
9)In the
fall, the valleys tend to be ___________ than the hilltops.
Foggy more foggier foggier
10)My cold is
definitely _________ this morning. Worse worst worser
Direct Questions
1)People
are usually asked to follow the maxim -- that a job worth doing is worth
doing well. If you are asked to add or
change, what would be your stand.
2)Do
you agree that danger is a part of life and life with no danger in it will be
too dull.
3)Do you support the philosophy of ‘ Eat, drink and be
merry for tomorrow we die’? give your opinions?
_____________________________
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