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Academic

English
Week 4:
Dr. Rania Atef
Contents

Life’s too short Discussion


3C p. 26 The idea of
entrepreneurship

Develop your Semicolon


3Creading
p. 100, 101 Week 1 PPT
2 – a Read the texts. What caused each
disagreement?
p.26
Match 1 –3 with the words in the box

1. food

2. work

3. housework
3. Replace the underlined phrases in the
sentences with a word or phrase from the
following. (p. 27)
picks up a fight, ganged up on, find a
compromise, didn’t see eye to eye, backed
down, underlying issue, contradict, intervened,
had an issue with, clashed with
1. I had a disagreement or a fight with backed
them.
clashed with down

find and
2. They realised they were wrong a stopped
Exercise 3 – continued p. 27
picks up a fight, ganged up on, didn’t see eye to
underlying
issue, contradict, intervened, had an issue with,
4. You’re not supposed to say the oppositecontradict
of what
elders say. intervene
didn’t see eye
5. My boss got involved to ineye
the argument to fin
solution. picks a fight
6. We didn’t have the same opinion. underlying
issue
7. She often starts an argument with had
me. an issue
with
8. The basic problem is that she’s a ganged
control up
freak.
on
p.100

.Vocabulary:
ubiquitous (adj.): constantly encountered,
existing or being everywhere at the same time,
widespread
ultimate (adj.): most important, highest, last,
final
tedious (adj.): boring, dull, monotonous,
tiresome
revolutionary (adj.): completely new and having
a great effect, bringing or causing a great
3. How many sandwich revolutions have there
been?
Three

1. the invention of the sandwich

2. 2 the arrival of pre-prepared sandwiches

3. machines taking over the production of sandwiches


from humans.
3. Read the article again and choose the correct
option,
a 1.
–c,Why
to did
answer the questions.
John Montagu p.101
order the first sandwich?

a. He wanted a break from playing cards.

b. He wanted to eat without interrupting the card


game.

c. He didn’t have any other food to eat.


p. 101
2. How many people work in agriculture in the UK?

a. more people than those working in sandwich


production

b. the same number of people as those working in


sandwich production

c. fewer people than those working in sandwich


production
p. 101

3. Why is the sandwich so well suited to modern life?

a. You can eat it at 4 p.m.

b. It makes people stop their busy lives to eat it.

c. You can eat it anywhere without stopping.


p. 101
4. What changed in 1980?

a. People started eating sandwiches more quickly.

b. People started buying sandwiches which were


already made.

c. People started making sandwiches at home.


p. 101

5. How did pre-prepared sandwiches change what people ate?

a. They started to put new foods together in a sandwich.

b. They started to pay more for better sandwiches.

c. They stopped eating cheese in their sandwiches.


p. 101
6. What does a sandwich scientist do?

a. finds new ways to cut sandwiches

b. makes stronger boxes for sandwiches

c. solves problems with sandwiches


p. 101
7. What is the third sandwich revolution?

a. sandwiches made by machines

b. sandwich fillings that are more popular

c. sandwich fillings that are more interesting


p. 101
8. Where does the sandwich festival take place?

a. The article doesn’t say.

b. in a small town called Sandwich

c. in a different town each year


p. 100

4 a Look at the word momentous in the first sentence of

the article. Can you guess what it means?

very important because it will have a great influence in the


future
p. 100
b Read the Focus box, look at the dictionary extract and check your
answer.
Using a monolingual dictionary
A good monolingual dictionary can tell you a lot about a
new word (or a word you already know). Apart from the
meaning it can also tell you:
1. the part of speech (noun, adjective, verb, adverb)
2. other words in the word family
3. the syllables
4. the pronunciation in phonetic text (and in an audio clip)
5. common collocations
6. examples from a corpus (a collection of examples of
language)
p. 100
Example of a dictionary entry:
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listening
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