Spoken and Written English

Year 4, Semester 7

1. WORD COMBINATIONS
	to cheat in exam
	to tick sth off
	to swot up (coll.)
	to keep an eye open for sth/sb
	to mark and grade the papers
	to come out (about results)
	to adopt an attitude of… towards…
	to get through
	to cut sb short
	to rally one’s thoughts
	to call out names
	to raise one’s voice

2. WORDS AND PHRASES FROM THE TEXT “DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE”
	an anaesthetist
	an assistant editor
	authorities
	a straight contest
	a prize-fighter
	an examining committee
	an impressionable music enthusiast
	well-trodden paths of medicine
	an invigilator
	flagrant cheating
	nonchalant
	tripos
	to totter
	immediate punishment
	judgement day
	imminent thunderstorm
	to struggle like a cow in a bog
	a condemned cell
	a battered textbook
	a farewell embrace
	viva
	to be prejudiced
	undeserved sternness
	tetanus
	a severe accident
	a depressing experience
	to slink out of the exit
	opiate oblivion
	to rattle
	to scrape
	solemn
	a restless crowd
	to cease
	to halt
	blackjack
	to stumble

3. VOCABULARY NOTES
1. ANNOY
	His constant joking was beginning to annoy her.
	It really annoys me when people forget to say thank you.
	I’m sure she does it just to annoy me.
	Changing schools might unsettle the kids.
	The way she puts on that accent really irritates me.
	She never told me what irked her that Sunday morning.
	The memory of their conversation still vexed him.
	He swatted a fly that was annoying him.
	It bothers me to think of her alone in that big house.
	She was annoyed at his behaviour.
	The teacher was annoyed with noisy pupils.
	The annoying thing is he is usually right.
	A look of annoyance crossed her face.
	Alan found the constant noise of the traffic an annoyance.
2. CHATTER
	They chattered away happily for a while.
	They were all babbling away in a foreign language.
	I realized I was babbling like an idiot.
	He cowered in the corner, gibbering with terror.
	By this time I was a gibbering wreck.
	We sat in a cafe for hours chatting about our experiences.
	You two were gabbing so much you did not even see me.
	Her teeth chattered as she dressed.
	The only sounds we could hear were the birds chattering in the trees.
	Constitutional reform is popular among the chattering classes.
	I can’t stand your incessant chatter anymore!
	You could hear the chatter of birds everywhere.
	Everybody knows him to be a chatterbox.
3. CHEER
	A great cheer went up from the crowd.
	Three cheers for the winners!
	Does everybody have beer? Cheers!
	Let’s go to the football match and cheer for our favourite team.
	We all cheered as the team came on to the field.
	Cheering crowds greeted their arrival.
	My parents have always encouraged me in my choice of career.
	We were greatly encouraged by the positive response of the public.
	The general’s speech inspired vigour in the men.
	He cheered her, and it helped.
	One whisper of happiness cheered me.
	She was cheered by the news from home.
	He started to applaud and the others joined in.
	They rose to applaud the speaker.
	You’re not your usual cheerful self today.
	He felt bright and cheerful and full of energy.
	You’re in a cheerful mood.
	The walls of the room are painted in cheerful colours.
	The spectators cheered the runners on.
	Oh, come on! Cheer up!
	Give Mary a call; she needs cheering up.
	Bright curtains can cheer up a dull room.
4. GO
	She went into her room and shut the door behind her.
	I have to go to Rome on business.
	I want this memo to go to all managers.
	I want a rope that will go from the top window to the ground.
	Where does this road go?
	This dictionary goes on the top shelf.
	Where do you want the piano to go?
	“How did your interview go?” – “It went very well, thank you.”
	The old sofa will have to go.
	He’s useless – he’ll have to go.
	This all goes to prove my theory.
	It just goes to show you can’t always tell how people are going to react.
	Despite the threat of war, people went about their business as usual.
	You’re not going about the job in the right way.
	How should I go about finding a job?
	Things are going along nicely.
	They went at each other furiously.
	Can I go back to what you said at the beginning of the meeting?
	He never goes back on his word.
	Things will get easier as time goes by.
	The weeks went slowly by.
	That’s a good rule to go by.
	If past experience is anything to go by, they’ll be late.
	It all goes down in her notebook.
	Italy went down to Brazil by three goals to one.
	The suggestion did not go down very well with her boss.
	We need to go into the question of costs.
	Go into your work before you hand it in.
	He went into the events of the day in his mind.
5. RATTLE
	Small stones rattled on the underside of the car.
	A window rattled in the wind.
	He shook me so hard that my teeth rattled.
	They rattled the furniture around the big old house.
	A convoy of trucks rattled by.
	It rattled me to realize how close we had been to a real catastrophe.
	He was clearly rattled by the question.
	Her questions about my private life embarrassed me.
	She embarrassed the pupil for his unwillingness to answer.
	Who’s rattled his cage?
	She rattled through her speech in five minutes.
	She spent the last few years alone, rattling around the old family home.
	She can rattle off the names of all the presidents of the US.
	At every meeting she rattled on for hours.
	From the kitchen came a rattling of cups and saucers.
	I paid so little attention to the talk of this rattle.
6. REDUCE
	Reduce speed now.
	Costs have been reduced by 20% over the past year.
	The skirt was reduced to £10 in the sale.
	The world’s resources are rapidly diminishing.
	His influence has diminished with time.
	The noise began to lessen.
	The number of new students decreased from 210 to 160 this year.
	Hunger had reduced the poor dog to skin and bone.
	The doctor recommended her a personal reducing plan.
	People say “living in reduced circumstances” to avoid saying “poor”.
	They were reduced to begging in the streets.
	The whole town was reduced to ashes in the bombing.
	We can reduce the problem to two main issues.
	The goods are sold at a great reduction in price.

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