FEEDBACK AFTER session 09/10/2014

• VOCABULARY
• WORDS IN THE NEWS
• charges (vb. charge with)
• alleged
• hearing
• trial
• gang-raping
• eleventh hour plea
• lavish
• draws to a close
• instability (adj. stable/steady)
• derail

•  PHRASAL VERBS
• Go off
• Be into
• Keep up with
• Come out
• USEFUL PHRASES
• a fair bit; quite a bit
• I guess so
• all sorts
• stuff like that; what kind of stuff?
• It was ON TV
• I turned over
• a bit too weird for my liking
• As I say...
• It's not really my kind of thing
•  pretty heavy
• It's not the kind of thing you can watch and just switch off...
• I'll give it a go/a try/a miss
• a bit dull
• a bit of a nerd
• Let me write that down
• Not as a rule
• Not that keen on
• tackle issues
• I do read the occasional graphic novel
• What about you?
• It was so over-the-top, just so disgusting and then the plot!

• LEARNING STRATEGY
• Remember that to improve your spoken English you have to learn English in chunks: learn word combinations as opposed to single words. Here is an article and a video on How Words Hook Up With Each Other in Spoken English

• PRONUNCIATION
• WORDS IN THE NEWS - WORD STRESS
• control
• consolidate
• grenade
• decadent
• Communist
• financial
• microscopes
• lunar

•  GRAMMAR

• Revise the structure from AV1 I'd rather...