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- Greg Malivuk
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk
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- Monday, January 19, is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. (No BAE.)
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- Homework: p. 165 vocabulary (all)
- 1 Nouns
- a
- 1 city break (BrEng)
- 2 package holiday ("package vacation" in the US)
- 3 stopover (shorter ones are called "layovers")
- 4 day trip
- 5 guided tour
- 6 site (= location, "sight" = thing to see on a tour)
- 7 low-cost airline (budget airline)
- 8 long-haul (a long-haul trucker is someone who drives a truck across the country)
- b
- - trip
- - journey (voyage = long trip over water or in space)
- - travel
- 2 Verb phrases
- 1 take out
- 2 set off / set out
- 3 cut short
- 4 go
- 5 go on
- 6 postpone / put off
- 7 cancel
- 3 Adjectives
- 1 overrated
- 2 dull
- 3 touristy
- 4 spoilt ("spoiled" in AmEng)
- 5 lively
- 6 off the beaten track
- 7 overcrowded
- 8 breathtaking
- 9 picturesque
- tourist trap: a place designed to attract tourists and keep them (and their money) there, but maybe doesn't have a lot of good qualities of its own
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- p. 86 part 4 Homophones
- site/sight/cite - same pronunciation, different spellings
- (homographs: same spelling, different pronunciation - wind/wind, live/live)
- (homonyms: same spelling *and* pronunciation, but different meanings)
- 1 weight ("strength" and "length" are the only English words ending -gth)
- 2 board
- 3 brake
- 4 fare
- 5 peace
- 6 caught (homophones in BrEng, different pronunciation in AmEng)
- 7 sauce (BrEng homophone, not AmEng)
- 8 waste
- 9 sweet ("suit" sounds like "oo")
- 10 key
- 11 cereal
- 12 wood
- ladder / latter - homophones in Amercan English, but not British
- leader / liter - AmEng homophones
- madder / matter
- wader / waiter
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- p. 88
- grumpy: easily angered, bad-tempered
- snuggle: warm up, especially by wrapping yourself in blankets
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- Homework: 166 vocabulary
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