Nik 15

1) Oct 30th 2023 1 hr - Modal Verb introduction

2) Nov 2nd 1 hr – Have to / Must, incredible edibles

3) Nov 6th 1 hr – How do you feel?

4) Nov 9th 1 hr – will / going to, sleeping beauty

5) Nov 13th 1 hr – superlative and comparative / confusing words

6) Nov 16th 1 hr – much many a lot of

7) Nov 20th 1 hr – animals and adjectives

8) Nov 23rd 1 hr – Conditionals intro, travel roam

9) Nov 27th 1 hr – Articles intro / Collective nouns 2015

10) Dec 2nd 1 hr – Few / little / some / any, People qualities

11) Dec 4th 1 hr – Affluent Money

12) Dec 7th 1 hr – Exam preps

13) Dec 11th 1 hr – Exam preps

14) Dec 14th 1 hr – Exam preps / syn / adj

15) Dec 18th 1 hr – Exam preps

16) Dec 28th 1 hr – Exam / Something.....

17) Jan 1st 1 hr – Exam preps

18) Jan 4th 1 hr – Set of collective nouns

19) Jan 8th 1 hr – Take expressions

20) Jan 11th 1 hr – people places things

21) Jan 15th 1 hr – Rep Speech intro

22) Jan 18th 1 hr – Present Perfect Simple

23) Jan 22nd 1 hr – Pres Perf Cont

24) Jan 26th 1 hr – Future Perfect

25) Jan 30th 1 hr – Past perfect / Don't touch me

26) Feb 1st 1 hr – for during while

27) Feb 5th 1 hr – Settle down ph verbs

28) Feb 8th 1 hr – Advanced Adjectives

29) Feb 12th 1 hr – Accused of preps

30) Feb 15th 1 hr – Listening, speaking, writing

31) Feb 19th 1 hr – writing / speaking

32) Feb 22nd 1 hr – Speaking / writing, keep and lose

33) Feb 26th 1 hr – Business and more business

34) Feb 29th 1 hr – writing / collocations 2

35) March 5th 1 hr – chip in ph verbs

36) March 8th 1 hr – What do you do when?

37) March 12th 1 hr – go make do...

38) March 14th 1 hr – Adv Adjective cont

39) March 18th 1 hr – speaking and listening

40) March 21st 1 hr – body verbs flick

41) March 25th 1 hr – Binomial Pairs

42) March 28th 1 hr – speaking / listening / writing

43) April 2nd 1 hr – wonderful world of work

44) April 4th 1 hr – ABC

45) April 8th 1 hr – What time is it?

46) April 11th 1 hr – Absorb preps

47) April 15th 1 hr – butt in ph verbs

48) April 18th 1 hr – Exam prep / food vocab

49) April 23rd 1 hr – Common ph expression

50) April 25th 1 hr – Business for you

51) April 30th 1 hr – Rich or poor

52) May 4th 1 hr – money and ass vocab

53) May 7th 1 hr – Banking made easy

54) May 9th 1 hr – good communication

55) May 13th 1 hr – Mean clever...

56) May 17th 1 hr – what are you like?

57) May 20th 1 hr – My body verbs

58) May 25th 1 hr – Sex Change

59) May 27th 1 hr – Ph Verbs IN

60) May 30th 1 hr – composed of preps

61) June 3rd 1 hr – tag questions, euphemisms

62) June 7th 1 hr – jack of all trades idioms

63) June 10th 1 hr – Something and something, blow up ph verbs

64) June 14th 1 hr - politics

65) June 18th 1 hr – v to z voca

66) June 20th 1 hr – a to f vocab / Agatha Christi

67) June 25th 1 hr – Pass up ph verbs

68) June 28th 1 hr – Food and drink, Wayne's gym

69) July 2nd 1 hr – Medicine and Health IELTS, Achilles heel

70) July 7th 1 hr – Which adjective?

71) July 8th 1 hr – Make take pay catch...

72) July 11th 1 hr – Take / get / do / make, absorb preps

73) July 16th 1hr – scarce synonyms, wonderful ph verbs

74) July 23th 1 hr – burn the candle at both ends idioms

 75) July 25th 1 hr - ladies and gentlemen, feelings and emotions TOFEL

Business Expressions
The bottom line To open can of worms

A Bottleneck To call the shots

A false economy To chew things over

To call his bluff To jump the gun

To call it a day To rally the troops

1) After the lay-offs the president called a general meeting to _______________ and
refocus their attention to the tasks ahead.

2) Let’s _______________________, I am exhausted.

3) Try to stay away from the topic of what happened last year. We really do not want
to ________________________.

4) We mustn’t __________________. Perhaps the situations is not as serious as we

believe it to be.

5) Who here is ______________________? I need to speak to the man in charge.

6) Counting photocopies and limiting lunch allowances are examples of a

_______________ as the company used these to stimulate growth.
 7) Let’s adjourn for today. We will meet here next Tuesday at 9am. It will give us
all enough time to _________________ and come to a decision.

8) Energy shortages fueled by high oil prices are a serious ______________ to

growth.

9) He said he would help and now his opponents have _________________ and
asked him to provide the necessary funds.

10) Let’s put aside all the technical jargon please. In layman’s English, What is
___________________? Are we in a position to make the deal or not?

New WONDERFUL Phrasal Verbs (IELTS)

To Blow Up To Catch On
To Account For To Break Out
To Make Out To Call Around
To Cut Down On To Catch Up
To Get By To Get Along / On

1) I really need to study day and night if I want to ________________ with the rest of the
class.
2) I can _____________ on 100 Euro a month.
3) I ________________ everywhere but I still could not find the part I need.
4) You really do need to ___________________ on your smoking.
5) To be honest, I don’t believe that this new fashion will _______________ internationally.
6) How do you ____________________ the student improvement in your grades?
 7) Martha and her brother are like a cat and mouse. They just can’t seem to ____________
with one another.
8) Five prisoners ______________ in the daring escape last week. Two are still on the run.
9) The girls at school have a habit of _____________________ gossip to huge proportions.
10) Exports _______________ around 60% of our revenue.
11) He was so far away that I could barely _____________ what he was trying to say.

Advanced Matches

1) Can we count on it? A) Is it necessary to do it?

2) Can you fill me in? B) Do you think arguing will help?

3) Can we get out of it? C) Do we need to be prepared?

4) Can we find some sort of stop gap? D) Don’t be so direct?

5) Can we play it by ear? E) Don’t say anything yet?

6) Can we kick up a bit of a fuss? F) Give me the background, please.

7) Can we tone it down a bit? G) Let’s talk about the real problem.

8) Can you keep an eye on things for us? H) Will you take car of our interests?

9) Can we get down to brass tacks? I) Is it certain?

10) Can we keep this under our hats J) Is there a temporary solution?

for a while?

1) Then we got down to the nitty gritty A) Important Business

B) Small Details
 C) Items not on the agenda

2) That puts a different complexion on A) Things seem better now

things B) Things seem worse now

C) Thing seem different now

3) It left something to be desired A) It was a bit unnecessary

B) It was very unsatisfactory

C) It was not complete

4) I think they are rather dragging their A) Going deliberately slowly

feet B) Going slowly

C) Making it extra difficult

5) I think we can take that as read, can’t A) Not waste time with a document

we? B) Assume I am right

C) Agree without discussion

6) I think we’ve been taken for a ride A) Cheated

this time B) Not given enough details

C) Given special good treatment

7) He’s up to something A) Doing something good.

B) Doing something bad

C) Doing something I don’t know about.

8) They are bending over backwards A) Cheating us

for us B) Trying to agree with our views

C) Helping us as much as possible

9) I’ll put it in a word for you A) Correct what you have written

B) Try to help you

C) Explain what you meant

10) I think they are trying to string us A) Delay things

along B) Lie to us

1. Make us agree with them

COMMON ENGLISH EXPRESSIONS 2

Sharp Something comes up

As well as To figure something out

About to To go ahead

By the way To hold on

As long as No matter

1. ___________________ for a second. I cannot talk now. I am on the phone.

2. He will not change his opinion ____________________ what you say to him or what argument
you try to use to convince him.

3. Unless anything ________________ I will be attending the party.

4. It took me a while to _________________ what kind of business he is in.

5. You can go to the party with your friends ________________ you baby sit your sister tonight.

6. The meeting will commence at 5pm _______________. Don’t be late.

7. Please ___________________ and begin without me. I will catch up later.

8. ____________________, could you please bring your laptop with you tomorrow.

9. I was just ________________ leave the house when the phone rang. It was my sister.

10.He is a model ________________ an English teacher. I wonder how he finds time for
everything.

Opposites 2015

1) She has the IQ of a pickle jar. Really she is so _____________ and idiotic. Her sister on the other
hand is as _____________ as a whip and more cunning than most.

2) As a boy Nick was rather _____________ and shy. Today most would consider him to be very
_______________ and fun-loving.

3) I demand a ___________ trail. It is obvious that I will not get this here. All members of the jury
know the victim personally and are thus ________________.

4) When he was young he was attracted to the _______________ bimbo type beach blonde. Today
however, he seems to have matured and seeks out partners who are more _______________
and have opinions to share.

5) Please don’t invite her to the party. She is so ______________ and everybody seems to dislike
her. Why not invite Mary, she is quite polite and _______________ in comparison.
 6) Saint Augustine is said to have once lead a _____________ life of gambling, adultery and other
vice. Upon his conversion he chose to lead a life of ______________.

7) It is common ________________ to open a door for a woman. The younger generation however
doesn’t seem to know this and are _____________ in comparison.

Virtuous/Wicked, Fair/Biased, Timid/Outgoing, Dumb/Smart,

Shallow/Profound or Deep, Rude/Courteous,
Obnoxious/Inoffensive

ADVANCED COOKING VOCABULARY

The following verbs frequently appear when reading the cooking instructions in recipes. These
are some of the easier ones. Do you know what they mean?
Bake, Barbecue, Boil, Fry, Melt, Roast, Pour, Slice, Stir/stir fry
Here are some more which are more challenging:
Thaw Dough
Beat A Turkey
Chop Parmesan cheese
Crush Onions or tomatoes
Grate A frozen steak
Grease Garlic
Knead Some vegetables
Mince Eggs to make an omelet
Peel Onions
Sauté Meat
Scramble A cooking pan
Steam Potatoes, a Banana
Mash Potatoes
Carve Eggs

MONEY
1) Ryanair has the cheapest air fares on the market
Taxes fares – pay for transportation fees premiums - pay for insurance

2) Natalie was fined $400 for reckless driving.

Found retired loaned fined

3) If you buy 20 or more, you’ll get a discount.

Discount loss reject budget

4) She was very pleased because she made a profit of $ 10,000 on the sale of her house.
Loss profit fortune benefit
5) Take the receipt if you want them to change the shirt.
Recipe - instructions register receipt - check repayment

6) He spent all the money he had won on new clothes.

On for with from

7) I need some change for the coffee machine.

Exchange bills change finance

8) The mechanic didn’t charge me for repairing my car.

Change charge bribe tax

9) She let the family live in the cottage rent free.

Hire let rent accommodation

10) The contents of the shop were insured for $500,000.

For until on from

11) I’m going to ask my bank manager for a loan.

Lend borrow loan finance

12) Is it all right if I pay by cheque?

By in on from

13) The Yen has risen in value against the Dollar.

Exchange value currency change

14) So many people buy things by credit nowadays.

On by in from

15) The more I earn, the more income tax I pay.

Salary wages income expenditure

16) If you aren’t satisfied, we’ll refund your money.

Put away put aside refund reduce

Common Adjective and Prepositional Phrases

Keen Fond Afraid Tired Happy Bored Interested
Famous Worried
1) English is a school topic I was never really _______________.

2) Are you ______________ protecting the environment?

3) I am very ___________________ animals. I have many pets. But I am absolutely

_________________ spiders.

4) The Bill Gates Foundation is _________________ its charity work.

5) You mustn’t be ___________________ the exam. I am sure you did fine.

6) I was not ________________ the service in the restaurant and so I did not leave a tip.

7) I am so _____________ of this bad weather we are having lately!!

8) I think my girlfriend is getting __________________ me. I have a feeling she will break
up with me soon.

NEW PHRASAL VERBS

TO BREAK OUT/spread out – escaped from prison

TO SNAP UP – fast, quik

TO SELL OUT – gone, sold out, all sold/changed completely, Lose
ideals
TO BE UP TO – do what you doing that don’t know,

TO NOD OFF/doze off

TO KEEP AT SOMETHING – continue doing, keep doing it

TO WEAR OUT

1) Alina has been acting strange lately. What do you think she is up to?

2) A house at that price is a bargain. I am sure someone will snap it up quickly.

3) You must keep at it. Quitting is not an option.

4) Those old shoes are all wore out and are no longer presentable.
5) The prisoners managed to break out with the assistance of someone on the outside.
6) I couldn’t keep my eyes open during the lecture. I kept nodding off until I was finally
asked to leave.

7) I am afraid that item has been selling out. Can I interest you in something similar?