Choose one of the words below and try to explain it, starting with:
This is a person who/ a thing which/ a place where…
Whoever guesses which word you are describing first can make a question out of it and ask someone else
brand loyalty peer pressure rebel
chic fussy nostalgic
haunt see someone else strip off
heart-throb can’t stand macho
celebrity gossip mags tabloid wicked sense of humour
budget hype bored stiff/ bored out of my mind
rubbish let down dreadful
trainers make fun of rude
pester nag jingles
slob dejected skyscraper
abseiling gorgeous beg/ beggar
file for divorce flatter/ flattery scandal
“no smoke without fire” the personals/ small ads
broadsheet
Do the same with the new vocabulary below
swot cram playground
finals alumni old school tie (connections)
teacher’s pet lines year out/ gap year
class clown corporal punishment re-sit/ retake
scrape through by heart/ by rote fresher
postgraduate MA MBA
bottom of the class put down fail
top of the class PhD/ doctorate a straight A student
(student) halls single sex school boarding school
uniform tuition fees continuous assessment
school trips PE RE
cheat flunk drop out
cram school entrance test HE (= home economics)
score scholarship student loans
fall behind co-ed
What do you think the following expressions could mean? Work together to write as many possible guesses as possible. If any of your guesses are correct, you will score one point.
GCSE
detention
sixth form college
tell someone off
Read the Robbie Williams text in the book and check
How would you have dealt with Robbie Williams if you had been his teacher?
What is your definition of a good teacher?
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