Week 27: April 27th-May 3rd

Unit 5D: English in Action (instructions)

• ex. 1 p. 44
• ex. 2
• ex. 3a

Follow-up: Boosting skills

• Develop your writing p. 103
• Develop your reading p. 114

Notes Monday 27th April

NOUN PHRASE:

determiner + (adjective)+NOUN

TO

mARY is too busy to take care ..

so busy that she has very little time to take car

since we started .... we have had too many/ a lot of

start - a point in time (we started in 1999)

you don't need to run there's enough time

enough= plenty of

plenty of IS NOT full of

THE ROOM IS PLENTY OF CHAIR

THERE ARE PLENTY OF CHAIRS IN THE ROOM

YOU DON'T NEED TO HURRY / TO RUSH

RUSH HOUR

YOU DON'T HAVE TO HURRY

I like neither red cars nor green cars

which one would you like?

both of them = two

either of them = one of them

neither of them

1 quantifier+ (adjective) + (adj) +NOUN

2 quantifier + ADJECTIVE

all day (100%)

all the cake / the whole cake (100%)

all cakes are good (a group of items)

every teacher has

whole=complete

(electric) appliances

ALL + PLURAL (A GROUP=

ALL + SG (100%

EVERY + SG (ONE BY ONE TO THE LAST ONE)

EACH + SG

ENGLISH GRAMMAR IN USE , UNITS 90, 91 (all, every, whole /) (each every)

ALL DAYS

what colour? which colour?

past action with present consequence

I have wasted all the money

I spend all the time looking at GC

Every time I see GC I faint/I pass out

each player has 3 cards

I asked two people the way to the station buy neither of them could help me

(electric) appliances

dishwasher

kettle

phone

washing machine

hoover

wash up the dishes by hand (wash them up)

sweep

dust

it does the dusting for you

how long does it / do you take to go from . to ?

USEless / USEful

CAREless / CAREful

switch it on

turn it on

to switch

Lots of people have SWITCHED to renewable energies (change from A to B)

brand-switching

PHRASAL VERBS:

word + particle (where it?)

go on (intransitive)

ON

power (electricity)

continue

on the body (put clothes on)

OFF

lack of power

go away (planes TAKE OFF=

KICK OFF

off the body

UP

upwards

100% (drink it up)

(emphatic)

all together

Notes Thursday 27th April

1) (NOUN PHRASE)

determiner + (adjective) + NOUN

a beautiful woman

some beautiful women

a few beautiful women

2) ADJ PHRASE

quantifier + adjective

few / a few (C)

little / a little (U)

half-empty / half-full glass

Im afraid there's little water (less than expected)

Thank God! there's still a little water! (more than expected)

He spoke little English

He spoke a little English

to spread = to expand

a little = a small

a little water = a little bottle of water

a little cake

a little piece of cake

to be worth -ing

It's not worth working so hard for the money

That book is worth reading

London is worth visiting

LITTLE / A LITTLE

FEW / A FEW

ALL /EVERY/EACH

a piece of cake

all (of)the cake

all the cakes are off/stale

every cake has a choc ball

ALL = group (a rough estimate) / 100%

EVERY = 100% of the items, individual, without exception

ALL + plural except with uncountable nouns

EVERY +singular

all day (24h in the day) / the whole day

all days

all the cake = the whole cake (complete)

all the teachers are good (the staff)

every teacher has their password

every and each

every (a high number of individuals)

each (a small number)

the room is plenty of chairs (NO!!!!)

the room is full of chairs

there are plenty of chairs in the room (enough)

Let's kiss ourselves

Let's kiss one another

Let's kiss each other

BOTH / EITHER / NEITHER / SOME / NONE

I want both

either

neither

none

I like neither the strawberry one nor the pineapple one

too much

too many

so much

so many

too

so

1) quantifier + adjective + adj +noun

TOO MANY CHAIRS

SO

2) quantifier + adjective

TOO TALL

SO

my table is too hard to write on

my table is so hard that I can't write on it

SUBJECT + VERB + COMPLEMENT

noun phrase noun phrase

adj phrase

Notes Wed. 29th April

all + plural (groups)

all the teachers at the EOI have a blog (a rough estimate)

every teacher has a link (without exception)

each (small number)

I have 3 pens

I don't like any of them = I like none of them

some /any (adj/ pron)

no (adj) / none (pron) (emphasize)

there's no wine left

there's none

all of them

I have 2 pens

I don't like either of them = I like neither

either/neither --- 2 things

TWO THINGS

either /neither /both

OTHER/ ANOTHER

OTHER (adj/pron)

article + other + NOUN

article + OTHER

another beer

the other beer

(some)/- other teachers are bad

the other teachers are bad

I would like other furniture (U)

definite article (the) (my finger!!!!)

other (pronoun) - plular -s

the others

others

collocate

to watch TV

to do the homework

(a gap-fill exercise)

Every evening I like ::::::::: the TV with my family.

(see)

workload

the boot (car compartment in the back)

iced tea

the perfect cuppa (cup of...)

freshly-boiled water

(ORIGAMI)

(ORIGAMI - compounds usually in the noun phrase)

pet-FRIENDLY hotels

environmentally-friendly

a student-friendly book

child-friendly

tea made in cup (tea bag) - milk 2nd

tea made in a teapot - milk 1st

Earl Grey ( softer)

English Breakfast TEa (strong)

tea bags / loose-leaf

a spoonful per person + one for the kettle

builder's tea

white without

dunking = dipping

(basketball - slam dunk)

plain

not handsome

without adding anything

plain Gloria

fill the tank with water

capsule

watery soup

wishy-washy

Notes 30th April

to switch brands / (from X) to X

switch to renewables (renewable energies)

I'm going to switch to H.

Let's switch back to English

storm

Mary stormed out of the room

brainstorm

GC took the audience by storm

load the dishwasher