1. Rubbish.

Use the words to complete the sentences.


Note:
Tip (noun) is a synonym for dump (noun).
We took the garden refuse to the tip.

Garbage and trash are used more frequently in American English where rubbish is used in British English. Also, in American English you put domestic garbage in a garbage can or trash can, whereas in British English you put it in a dustbin or a rubbish bin.

2. Rubbish.

Now match words from the previous exercise to the descriptions.

3. Hyphenated words.

Decades-old drift-nets float around, suffocating the occasional coral reef ... ... a kind of floating eco-friendly utopian experiment ...

Nets that drift are drift-nets. Something that is friendly to the environment is eco-friendly.


Write the hyphenated words that match the descriptions.

4. Water idioms.

Listen to 10 short extracts, all containing idiomatic use of words or phrases.
Put the words and phrases in the order that you hear them.

5. Water idioms.

Can you remember? Type in the missing words to complete the extracts from the previous exercise.

6. Nouns describing statements.

Look at the example from the review in Reading.
Nature writers' hyperbole led him "to expect too much".

Now match more nouns describing types of statements to their definitions.

7. Nouns describing statements.

Now match each statement to the noun that best describes it.

8. Binomial pairs.

A binomial pair is a pair of words (or phrases) that have a semantic relationship and are joined by and or or. They occur frequently in English. For example: sooner or later, more or less and now and then.

Match the two parts to complete the sentences containing binomial pairs.

9. Practice: Binomial pairs.

Type in the missing words to complete the sentences from the previous exercise.

10. Practice: Binomial pairs.

Can you remember the missing words? Say and record the complete sentences.