Match the words on the left with the words or phrases of similar meaning on the right

Find the English equivalents to the following words or phrases and use them in the sentences of your own.

Choose the right word from the above exercise for each of the sentences below.

Match the following definitions in the left column with the words in the right column. Find sentences with these words in the story.

Work out the questions the woman Ellen was talking to asked her.

Comprehension Check

Transcribe and pronounce correctly the words from the story.

Knock, half, through, pansy, dangerous, quiet, fright, upholstress, jing-a-jingling, quarrel, lily-of –the-valley, gorgeous, brooch.

1. to do one’s hair	to cheat smb
2.full of extreme anger, raging	to feel inclined to do smth
3. to get a feeling of pleasure or satisfaction that you or people who are connected with you have done smth well or own smth that other people admire	to make a picture of smb
4. to make smb look very beautiful or special	to recover
5. to succeed in accomplishing or achieving, especially with difficulty; contrive or arrange	to dress one’s hair
6. to be disposed to a certain preference, opinion, or course of action	to manage to do smth
7.to deal with, to get control over smth, to overcome	to be furious
8. to deceive by trickery; swindle	to take pride in smth
9. to make smth seem larger, better, wrse or more important than it really is	a sight
10. skillful in accomplishing a purpose, especially by the use of cunning or craft	to get over smth
11. a person who looks ridiculous, untidy, unpleasant	artful
12. to regain a normal or usual condition, as of health	to exaggerate

a) They …………… customers by overcharging them for purchases.

b) You are ………. at getting what you want!

c) She can’t ……………. her shyness.

d) She looks a ……….. in that hat!

e) Nobody ………………….. to argue with Smith.

f) The garden looks a …………. In the summer.

g) He tends ………………. The difficulties.

h) Mr. Barnstaple had recovered strength of body and mind.

i) A place where you can have your hair cut, washed and shaped is called a …………..

j) He ………….. to get a promotion.

k) She was absolutely …………… at having been deceived.

l) We …………………. in offering the best service in our town.

Надеюсь. я вам не помешала; вы не спали?; чтобы согреться; не нужно слишком спешить; вести список; я очень злюсь; все свалилось на меня; никто не различит; как это проявлялось; потом она умерла; парикмахерская; по последней моде; будешь знать! Он видеть меня не хотел; ослики не выходили у меня из ума; притворилась, что сплю; этому не суждено было случиться; мы часто встречались; он ни перед чем не останавливался; хочет ли она, чтобы я отложила все; я не дала ему слова сказать; спи крепко; думать вредно.

a) to be in a hurry to fail to recollect

b) to be through to go pale

c) afterwards to delay

d) to forget to make haste

e) put smth off to take care of

f) to mind about smb at a later time

g) to turn white awful

h) dreadful to finish

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