Work together to try and answer the questions below:
How do you spell /sta:k/?/ How is /sta:k/ spelt?
What does take someone at face value mean? / How would you explain the meaning of take someone at face value?
What’s the opposite of vanish?
What’s the verb of adaptation?
What’s the adverb of uncanny?
What’s the noun of subservient?
What’s the middle letter of conical?
What’s the second to last letter of trashy?
How do you pronounce feisty?/ How is feisty pronounced?
Is mystic pronounced the same as miss tick?
What’s the difference in pronunciation between pastiche and plastic?
What’s the vowel sound in role?
How many syllables does pre-feminist have? / How many syllables has pre-feminist got? / How many syllables are there in pre-feminist?
Where is the stress in geisha?
Could you give me an example sentence with reinvention in it, please?
What’s the difference between glossy and shiny?
Does convent mean the same as Catholic school?
Is there more than one meaning of mistress?
Ask your teacher any questions that you couldn’t answer
Ask each other different questions about the same words
Use these questions to test each other about other words and expressions in the Madonna text
Do the same with this other difficult vocabulary from Inside Out Upper Intermediate Unit 2
| hug | clown | compensate | humiliation |
| fool around | want the ground to open up and swallow you | chase | cuddle |
| dull | in the limelight | it’s a nightmare | see-through |
| a fortune | gorgeous | cosmetic surgery | dread |
| can’t stand | urge someone | let someone do something | make someone do something |
| keep fit | approve of | qualifications | chap |
| get on with | stand up to | go off | brunette |
| compatible | irritating/ annoying | hopeless at | keen on |
| cheers | chill out | shattered | on its last legs |
| telly | a cuppa | enclose | incidentally |
| up to my eyes in… | PS | split up | cottage |
| afternoon tea | go out with | half a dozen | to fancy |
| on its last legs | backroads | disapprove | miserable |
Without looking back at the past page, put one auxiliary verb into each sentence below:
How you spell /sta:k/?/ How /sta:k/ spelt?
What take someone at face value mean? / How you explain the meaning of take someone at face value?
What the opposite of vanish?
What the verb of adaptation?
What the adverb of uncanny?
What the noun of subservient?
What the middle letter of conical?
What the second to last letter of trashy?
How you pronounce feisty?/ How feisty pronounced?
mystic pronounced the same as miss tick?
What the difference in pronunciation between pastiche and plastic?
What the vowel sound in role?
How many syllables pre-feminist have? / How many syllables pre-feminist got? / How many syllables there in pre-feminist?
Where the stress in geisha?
you give me an example sentence with reinvention in it, please?
What the difference between glossy and shiny?
convent mean the same as Catholic school?
there more than one meaning of mistress?
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