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https://youtu.be/u6QrbYDsj1g According to the Oxford English dictionarу, approximately how many words are in use in the English language? a) 171,146 b) 271,146 c) 371,146 Listen to the programme to find out the answer. Vocabulary underestimate; think that something is smaller or less important than it really is; anticipat ing; guessing or expecting a certain outcome; to pluck up (the) courage; to force yourself to do something that you’re scared or nervous about; connect; start or have a good relationship with someone; mood; the way we feel; introvert; person who prefers to spend time on their own;
Podcast
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/general-english/audio-series/podcasts/podcasts-series-3/episode-01 1. Choose the correct answer. Tess and Ravi are talking about a famous British dish called... fish and fries. chips and fish. fish and sheep. fish and chips. The fish is... fried in a mixture of flour and oil. covered in a mixture of water and flour. cooked in a mixture of water and oil. When Ravi and Tess were young, fish and chips were wrapped in... waterproof paper. newspaper. tissue paper. Tess eats fish and chips... once a year. once a month. once a week. every day. Cod is getting less popular because... people don't like the taste. there are fewer fish in the sea. it's not very healthy.
The complex object
The complex object. Exercises The direct and the prepositional indirect object may be simple and complex. The complex object consists of two components, of which the second stands in predicate relation to the first. The two components form an indivisible unit and consequently must be regarded as one part of the sentence. The complex object can be non-prepositional and prepositional. I observed Agnes turn pale. (Dickens) Thus these two waited with impatience for the three years to be over. (Buck) The first component of the complex object is a noun in the common case or in the possessive case, a personal pronoun in the objective case, or a possessive pronoun; the second is an infinitive, a participle, a gerund, seldom a noun, an adjective, a word denoting state, or a prepositional phrase. He hated her to work in the boarding house. (Prichard) On looking towards her again, I perceived her face clouded with...