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1. The document provides learning tips and tasks about idioms, verbs, and prepositions related to vocabulary. 2. The idioms task involves matching idiom phrases with their meaning explanations. 3. The verbs and prepositions task involves completing sentences using verbs and required prepositions to describe solutions to a problem about forgetting a dinner date.

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CELEBRITIES

1. The document provides learning tips and tasks about idioms, verbs, and prepositions related to vocabulary. 2. The idioms task involves matching idiom phrases with their meaning explanations. 3. The verbs and prepositions task involves completing sentences using verbs and required prepositions to describe solutions to a problem about forgetting a dinner date.

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CELEBRITIES VOCABULARY

LEARNING TIP: IDIOMS


Idioms are expressions in which the meaning isn’t obvious from the individual words. Fame and fortune
When you learn a new idiom, it helps to write an example sentence that explains or The words most likely
clarifies its meaning. to be used with fame
are:
1. Fame and fortune.
TASK 1: Match these sentences containing idioms with the explanations on the right. 2. gained fame.
3. hall of fame.
1. He’s been in the headlines a lot lately. C_ a. His career is going really well. 4. claim to fame.
5. achieved fame
2. He’s getting a lot of bad press. _H__ b. People think he’s going to be a great actor.
3. He’s an up-and-coming actor. _B__ c. He’s been in the news.
4. His career has really taken off. _A__ d. You don’t hear about him anymore.
5. He got discovered very young. __G__ e. He knew people who helped his career.
6. He had connections in the industry. _E__ f. He’s getting fewer and fewer acting roles.
7. He’s really dropped out of sight. _D__ g. He started his career at a young age.
8. His acting career is going downhill. _F_ h. The news media are criticizing him.

LEARNING TIP: VERBS + PREPOSITIONS.

 When you learn a new verb, find out what prepositions (if any) can come after it.
Example: ASK FOR – BORROW FROM – BUY FOR – FORGET ABOUT – LEND TO – REMIND ABOUT –
TALK TO – THINK ABOUT – WORRY ABOUT – PAY FOR – APOLOGIZE FOR – AGREE WITH

 Remember that when you use a verb after preposition, it has the _ing form.
Example: They apologized for making so much noise.

TASK 2: Read the problem below and complete the possible solutions (1-7) with one of the verbs in the box + a
preposition (about, for, and to).

REMIND - APOLOGIZE – THINK - PAY – WORRY – WAIT – BLAME – FORGET - SPEAK

PROBLEM: You forget you have a dinner date with a friend, and you don’t show up. Your friend calls you, and she
is very upset. What would you do?

1. I wouldn’t __to worry about___ it. People usually ____forget about__things like that.
2. I’d apologize immediately____for___ forgetting the date.
3. I’d offer to __pay for___ dinner another time.
4. I’d tell her I was thinking about other things.
5. I wouldn’t _ speak to___ her until she was less upset.
6. I’d _blame __ my boss____for_____ keeping me in a meeting at work.
7. I’d __wait for __her to finish, and then I’d __remind____ her ___about____ the time she didn’t meet me.

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