Advanced Grammar & Vocabulary student's book M. Skipper.pdf

(58986 KB) Pobierz
Student's book
Mark Skipper
Express Publishing
~
o
Unit 1
Unit 2
Unit 3
Unit 4
Unit 5
Unit 6
Unit
7
Unit 8
Unit 9
Unit 10
Adjectives I (Behaviour and Traits)
Adjectives II
Adjectives III ryvord formation)
and
Pair phrases
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
20
Unit 31
Unit 32
Unit
33
Unit 34
Unit 35
Unit 36
Unit 37
Unit 38
Unit 39
Unit 40
Informal Language
-ing form vs to
Introductions
it
...
..
Key Words I
Key Words II
Linking Words
Little Words - Modals
Looking / Seeing
Money I
Money II
Nature - Noise I
Noise II - Nouns I
Nouns II
Nouns III
Nouns IV
Numbers
-
Objects
of
of
I
II
64
66
68
70
72
74
76
78
80
82
84
86
88
90
92
94
96
98
100
102
104
106
108
110
112
Anger and Annoyance - Animals
Arguing
Body
Body Idioms
Chance and Probability
Choosing and Decisions - Clothes
(Adjectives)
22
Unit 41
24
Unit 42
26
Unit
43
28
Unit
44
30
Unit 45
Unit 11
Unit 12
Unit 13
Unit 14
Unit 15
Unit 16
Unit 17
Unit 18
Unit 19
Unit 20
Unit 21
Unit 22
Unit 23
Unit 24
Unit 25
Unit 26
Unit 27
Clothes II (Idioms) - Colours
Comparing
Cooking and Food
Crime I
Crime II (Vocabulary and Collocations)
....
32
Unit 46
Damage and Conditions
Determination
-
Likes-Dislikes
Driving
Eating and Drinking
Education
,
34
Unit 47
36
Unit 48
38
Unit 49
40
Unit 50
42
Unit 51
Emphasis (Extreme Adjectives - Very) ...... 44
Unit 52
Entertainment
Face
Fire and Light
Food I
Food II
Hands
­
Holding, Pushing, Pulling, Taking
56
58
60
62
Unit 58
Unit 59
46
Unit 53
48
Unit 54
50
Unit 55
52
Unit 56
54
Unit 57
Something, Anything, Nothing
­
Speaking and Communicating I
Speaking and Communicating II ­
Sport
Talking (Reporting verbs)
There is
- Time I
116
118
120
122
114
Sleep and Bed
Reactions - Short and Long
Problems
Place (Adjectives)
Physical Description
People and Personality
Unit 28
Unit
29
Unit
30
Health I
Health II
1
m
and En
Unit 60a
Time II
2
Unit
60b
Time
III
Unit 61
Unit 62
Unit 63
Unit 64
Unit 65
Unit 66
Unit 67
Unit 68
Unit 69
Unit 70
Unit 71
Travel
Under, Over and Out
Unhappy and Happy
Verbs I
Verbs II
Verbs III
Walking and Running
Ways of
Weather I
Weather II
Wishing, Wanting, Requests, Permission
and Preferences
Unit 72
Unit 73
Work and Earning a
Living
Compound Adjectives
­
Adverb Comb
inations
I
Unit 74
Unit 75
Unit 76
Unit
77
Unit 78
Unit 79
Unit 80
Unit 81
Unit 82
Adverb Combinations II
Noun Combinations I
Noun Comb
inations II
Noun Combinations III
Noun Combinations IV
Verb Comb
inations
I
Verb Comb
inations
II
Verb Comb
inations
III
Verb Comb
inations
IV
Verb Combinations V
A, Band C Prepositions
D to J Prepositions
K to P Prepositions
Rand S Prepositions
T to W Prepositions
-
At
.
Prepositional Phrases
.
124
126
128
130
132
134
136
138
140
142
144
Unit 89
Unit 90
Unit 91
In
On
Prepositional Phrases
Prepositional Phrases
182
184
Prepositional Phrases-Preposition
.
Preposition I
186
Preposition II
188
190
192
194
196
198
200
202
204
206
208
210
212
214
216
218
220
222
224
Unit 92
Unit 93
Unit 94
Unit 95
Unit 96
Unit 97
Unit 98
Unit 99
Preposition
A. Band C Phrasal Verbs
D. E and F Phrasal Verbs
G to M Phrasal Verbs
N,
a
and P Phrasal Verbs
Rand S Phrasal Verbs
T and W Phrasal Verbs
Phrasal Verbs I
:
146
148
Unit
100
Phrasal Verbs
II
Unit
101
Phrasal Nouns
150
152
154
156
158
160
Unit 107
Get (Expressions I)
162
Unit 108
Get (Expressions II/Phrasal Verbs)
164
Unit 109
Give (Expressions/Phrasal Verbs)
166
Unit 110
Go
(Expressions)
168
170
172
174
176
178
Unit 111
Go
(Phrasal
Verbs)/Have
(Expressions)
..
226
Unit 112
Make (Combinations/Expressions
I)
228
Unit 102
Be
(Phrases)
Unit103
Break
-
Bring
-
Catch
(Phrases)
Unit 104
Come
(ExpressionslPhrasal
Verbs)
Unit
105
Do or Make
Unit 106
Fall (Expressions/Phrasal Verbs)
..
Unit 83
Unit 84
Unit 85
Unit
86
Unit 87
Unit 88
Unit 113
Make (Expressions II/PhrasalVerbs) ...... 230
Unit 114
Put (ExpressionslPhrasal Verbs)
Unit 115
Set
(CombinationsiExpressions/
Phrasal Verbs)
234
236
232
180
Unit 116
Take (Expressions/Phrasal Verbs)
3
1
Adjectives I (Behaviour
and Traits)
Note: Adjectives with
a
negative connotation
are followed by
(-),
those with
a postitive
connotatlon
'are
followed by
(+),
and those that are neithernegative
nor positiveare followed
by
(-/+)
.
All the adjectives below can be
used
before a noun or after it, often with the verb
to
be.
.-.'
blunt:
(-/+)
if sb is blunt, they say
:
!
what they really think, even if what
they say is impolite and will hurt or
offend someone
I knew from his curt tone that he
was
angry.
j
ruthless:
(-)
!
.;:,
:
if sb is ruthless, they are
1
fickle:
j
(-)
if sb is fickle
,
they are not
faithful or loyal to their friends
How can you have trusted someone
as
fickle
as
Joan?
a
blunt reply/ remark/refusal
To
was
cowardly and pathetic.
did be blunt, I think that what he
bra h:
(-) if sb is brash, they are
annoyingly loud, overconfident
and aggressive
That TV presenter is far too noisy
and brash for my liking
.
1
:
.~
!
!
!
cruel and cold and have no mercy
or feelings for others [Note: also
used to describe actions]
a
ruthless decision/(in football)
a
ruthless tackle
The dictator
was
ruthless in
silencing opposition and had the
mass
media strictly censored.
Inqul ftlve:
(i) (-)
if
sb is inquisitive,they
are always trying to find out about
other people's lives, often by asking
a lot of questions (ii)
(+)
interested
in many different things and always
wanting to know more about them
(often used about children)
She
was
nervous. Theman
in
front of
her
was
being unusuallyinquisitive.
He is
a
very inquisitive child. He's
going to love school.
squeamish:
(-/+)
if
sb is squeamish
,
they do not like the sight of, and
are usually upset by, unpleasant
things such as blood or needles
This horror film is not for people
who are squeamish
.
!
calculaUng:
(-)
if sb is calculating,
they get what they want by careful
and clever planning, without
caring about anyone else
Percy is disliked by most of his
colleagues because of his sly and
calculating ways of getting what
he wants.
sullen:
(-)
if sb is sullen they are bad
tempered and do not speak much
Rob sat in his room
,
in one of his
sulten moods again.
(-)
if
sb
is
un
scrupu lous:
unscrupulous, they are prepared
to act in an immoral and dishonest
way to get what they want
He's
probably
the
most
unscrupulous businessman I've
ever met. He'd do anything to
make
a
profit.
meticulous:
(-/+)
if sb is meticulous
,
they are very careful about what
they do, paying attention to small
details and making sure that
everything is correct or in order
Mother
was
always meticulous
about her appearance.
callous
:
(-)
if
sb is callous, they are
cruel and heartless
His callous disregard of her
feelings' upset her.
cantankerous:
sb
is
cantankerous, they are bad­
tempered and tend to argue with
people about insignificant things
(-)
if
persistent:
(-/+)
if sb is persistent
,
they refuse to give up
,
despite
difficulties or opposition
The customer
was
most persistent
and refused to speak to anyone
but the manager.
volatil
e:
(-)
if sb
is
volatiie
,
they lose
their temper very qu
ickly
and very
easily
Paul is not an easy person to have
as a
friend, because he is
so
cantankerous.
reckless:
(-)
if
sb is reckless, they do
dangerous things without thinking
about the consequences of their
actions (a reckless driver) [Note:
reckless driving
also used to
descr
ibe
actions]
That was
a
very reckless thing to
do. Do you realise you put your
own life in danger?
We
need someone who is calm,
patient and level-headed. Joe is
far too volatile.
cheerful
:
(+)
if sb is cheerful, they
are happy and in a good mood
Why are you
so
cheerful today?
withdrawn:
(-/+)
if sb is withdrawn
,
they are very quiet and do not like
talking to others
Katy is
so
withdrawn and
introverted that you can hardly get
a
word out of her.
curt:
(-)
if sb is curt, they are very
abrupt (and rude, as a result)
when they talk to another person
C
Practice
1.
Read the text anddecide whether the statements thatappear below are true
(T)
orfalse
(P).
Bob,
Can you arrange
a
meeting with Joe Figgis? I think the
three of us should get together. I've just received another
script from him.
It's
terrible. I can
't
believe we are paying
him to produce this kind of rubbish. Below is
a
copy of his
character outlines, which should give you an idea of what
the rest of the script
is
like,
Known as the Black Widow, she is
beautiful and sophisticated
.
She is
also poison
.
Driven by money and
power, she will do anything to get
what she wants. She lets nothing
stand in her way. Everything is for
the taking. Immoral, heartless and
utterly unfeeling.
1 Scarlet has moral scruples.
2
3
4
5
Scarlet is calculating
.
Vance is ruthless
.
Vance is squeamish
.
Vance is very thorough and is
careful that mistakes are never
made.
Scarlet's right-hand man. Cold
,
cruel
and callous. Steel blue eyes, steel
cold heart. The man in black. A man
of few words and no emotion, who
shows no mercy. He is meticulous
.
efficient and dangerously loyal to
Scarlet. He can neither understand
nor tolerate weakness.
6
Vance is fickle
.
7
D' Avila loses his temper
easily.
8
D' Avila is brash.
9
Jansen is withdrawn.
10
Jansen is reckless.
11
Jansen is cheerful.
12
13
Bonom
i
is cantankerous.
Bonomi will not say what he
thinks to avoid hurting sb's
feelings.
I
Also works for Scarlet. Built like a truck, he is loud­
mouthed, flashy and swaggeringly arrogant. He drips
gold. He likes to take risks
in
every area of his life. Violent
and volatile.
14
Laura Hyde
is
inquisitive.
15
Laura Hyde gives up easily.
A rugged, handsome cop who
is
no longer the guy every
cop wants for a partner
.
He keeps himself to himself
,
is
curt and sullen. He doesn't seem to value his life anymore
and often takes outrageous risks
in
his quest to discover
the true identity of the Black Widow
.
2. a.
"
M
atch the extracts asyou hear them with the
speakers (A-H).
A
a photographer
B a stuntman
C a film director
Extract
1
Extract
2
Extract
3
Extract
4
Extract
5
Thirty
years on the force
.
A big man. A blunt man
.
He has
seen it all. Only truly happy when he
is
shouting
.
He will
argue for argument's sake
.
Known as Captain Outburst,
he is in fact fiercely protective of his men. The booming
voice behind the door.
...
:.
.
o
a librarian
E a book dealer
F
an accountant
G
an antiques dealer
H
a physician
D
D
D
D
D
Young, blonde and beautiful. A crime
reporter with the
LA Mercury.
Curious, and at times foolhardy.
Always on the lookout for a
ground-breaking story
.
Obsessed
by the Black Widow, who is
responsible
-for
the disappearance
of her brother. She will not give up
until she finds the truth about the
Black Widow and her story
.
b.
"
Listen to the short extracts again and match
each speaker with one of the adjectives (A-H).
A
reckless
B
meticulous
C blunt
o
withdrawn
E
cantankerous
F
squeam
ish
G
persistent
H unscrupulous
Extract
1
Extract
2
Extract
3
Extract
4
Extract
5
See what I mean?
We
must sort this out. Is
10
o'clock
okay? Fax
me
to confirm.
Tony.
D
D
D
D
D
Zgłoś jeśli naruszono regulamin