420 LASER B2 Getting Ready For The Examination in Oral Practice 1

LASER B2
(1) Getting Ready for the Examination in Oral Practice
UNIT ONE
Relationships
A topic for discussion:
 What problems can teenagers face because of parents?

 other people at school?
 brothers and sisters?
 friends?
1. Give the similar meaning of the following words or phrases:
1. Brainchild good idea

2. Concept idea
3. Sort out solve
4. Chat have a conversation
5. Work miracles do impossible things
6. Anxieties worries
7. Bring up introduce
8. Issues problems and situations
9. Solution answer
10. Range variety
11. Childish immature; like a child
12. Miserable unhappy; very sad
13. Sympathetic understanding; ready to listen and help
14. Traumatic very painful and upsetting; causing suffering
15. Bearable tolerable, not impossible
16. Impulsive without thinking first/beforehand
17. Charity philanthropic organization
18. Launch start
19. A friendly ear a sympathetic listener
20. Turn to ask for advice
21. Frustrations feeling of annoyance at not being able to do something
22. Look into investigate
23. Get over recover from
24. Go through experience
25. Come between cause a disagreement or argument between
26. Treat do something special for
27. Come about happen
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2. Phrasal verbs and their definitions
1. Bring up raise
2. Grow up get older
3. Take after be like
4. Look after take care of
5. Put up with tolerate
6. Split up end a relationship
7. Let down disappoint
UNIT TWO
Travelling
Put these holidays in order of preference. Discuss why you’ve chosen that order.
 An activity holiday
 A beach holiday
 A self-catering holiday
 A camping holiday
 A package holiday
 A holiday near your home
1. Location Place; position

2. Destination Place you are going to
3. Exotic Foreign and interesting
4. Budget A total amount of money available
5. Resort A place where people go on holiday
6. Hometown The place where you are born or live
7. Cover Have enough money to pay for something
8. Coast An area of land by the sea
9. Objections A statement which shows you disagree with something
10. Peer pressure The pressure on someone to do smth. because their friends are
doing it
11. Awesome Cool; excellent
12. Interfering Become involved in smth. even though you have no right to
13. Bound to Certain to
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14. Flock Go in large numbers
15. Appeal Attraction
16. Constructed Built
17. Thermal Very warm
18. Carved Shaped, formed
19. Rink Artificial ice pool
20. Huskies Dogs
21. Vow Promise to yourself
22. Holidaymaker Someone on vacation
23. Acquaintance Someone you know, but not very well
24. Colleague Someone you work with
25. Stranger Someone you do not know at all
26. Rep Someone who works for a holiday company
27. Adolescent Someone who is almost an adult
1. See off Go to an airport, station, etc, to watch someone leave

2. Get back Return from holiday
3. Slow down Decrease your speed
4. Take off Leave the ground
5. Check in Present your ticket, passport and luggage at an airport
6. Speed up increase speed
UNIT THREE
Technology
 Technology is a big part of my life

 Young people are better at using technology than older people
1. Predict Say what will happen in the future

2. Computer literate Able to use a computer
3. Burn Put data or music onto a CD yourself
4. Applications Computer programs
5. Download Get a file from the internet
6. Online On the internet
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7. Digital Able to store information as numbers or electronic signals
8. Competence Ability
9. Phenomenal Impressive or surprising; great
10. Optional Available if you want it, but you don’t have to have it
11. Come to terms with Accept or learn to live with a situation
12. Your elders People older than you
13. Adept Skilful
14. Statistics Figures and percentages
15. Grants Money from the government
16. Take for granted Don’t think about
17. Numerous Lots of
18. Hey presto Suddenly
19. Granted Given, allowed to have
20. Gradually Slowly, step-by-step
21. Incidentally Unrelated to the subject
22. Figure out Solve the problem
23. Seal Close (so the air can’t go in or out)
24. Debt Money which you owe
25. Brainwave Brilliant idea
26. Emigrate Leave a country
27. Run out of Don’t have any more of
28. Undeterred Not discouraged
29. chisel Sharp tool like a knife
1. Break down stop working (for machines, cars, etc)

2. Come on develop, improve
3. Come up with have, create, invent, think of (an idea)
4. Cut off disconnect
5. Get through connect (to someone on the phone)
6. Look into examine
7. Put in install (a piece of equipment, etc)
3. Complete the sentences:
1. When you owe money to people or

banks, you are in … . debt
2. If you have a really wonderful new idea,
it’s called a … . brainwave
3. When people leave their own country
and move to another they … . emigrate
4. If you have … the solution to the figured out
problem, you have found the solution.
5. When something is closed so tightly that
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no air gets in or out, it is … . sealed
6. If you do something slowly or step-by-
step, you do it … . gradually

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LASER B2

(1) Getting Ready for the Examination in Oral Practice

A topic for discussion:

 What problems can teenagers face because of parents?

1. Brainchild good idea

A topic for discussion:

1. Give the similar meaning of the following words or phrases:

1. Location Place; position

2. Phrasal verbs and their definitions

1. See off Go to an airport, station, etc, to watch someone leave

A topic for discussion:

 Technology is a big part of my life

1. Give the similar meaning of the following words or phrases:

1. Predict Say what will happen in the future

2. Phrasal verbs and their definitions

1. Break down stop working (for machines, cars, etc)

3. Complete the sentences:

1. When you owe money to people or

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