Vocabulary

Lesson 2 - Ireland

  • Enhance your vocabulary: see and watch 
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Lesson 3 - Help The Homeless?

  • Vocabulary related to scandal and controversy.
http://www.english-test.net/esl/learn/english/grammar/ai044/esl-test.php

Lesson 4 - Terrorism
 Match the synonyms

1. spate                                                       a. focus on
2. intended                                                 b. placing
3. suspected of (+ing)                               c. handled
4. surrounded                                             d. planned
5. rebuffed                                                 e. threw
6. wounded                                                 f. thought to have (+p.p)
7. target                                                      g. injured
8. demands                                                 h. surrender
9. give oneself up                                      i. requirements
10. planting                                                j. encircled
11. cast                                                       k. denied
12. dealt with                                             l. series

  • Common Mistakes

 At the airport
Adjectives and verbs

Lesson 5 - The Penny Drops

  • Money Idioms 
Match the idiom to the meaning.

1.  as sound as a dollar/pound                                     a. very little money
2.  at all costs                                                            b. someone who spends very little money
3.  bet on the wrong horse                                          c. very reliable (person)
4.  bet one's bottom dollar                                          d.  very expensive
5.  beyond one's means                                              e. very cheap
6.  bring home the bacon                                           f. regardless of cost/effort
7.  caught short                                                        g. to spend money on
8.  cheapskate                                                          h. to wrongly predict the result
9.  chicken feed                                                       i. rich
10. cost an arm and a leg                                          j. more than one can afford
11. a dime a dozen                                                   k. earn enough to pay the bills
12. a fool and his money are easily parted                  l. money for nothing
13. for a song                                                         m. no way
14. (not) for love or money                                      n. live on very little money
15. fork out (for)                                                    o. to be very sure of something
16. get/give someone a run for one's money              p. earn a living
17. handout                                                            q. without enough money to pay       
18. keep the wolf/wolves from the door                    r. acting irresponsibly with money, it won't last
19. live from hand to mouth                                     s. have/give someone a challenge
20. loaded                                                               t. easy to get/of little value