PRACTICE 6: GIVING DEFINITIONS

 describing people

personality: introvert, shy, awkward, polite

physical characteristics: slim, tanned, chubby, muscular

description of a person:

How does the person smell? What does that smell remind you of?

Does that person act mature? Is she/he outgoing?

description of an object:

Is it big? What can you do with that object?

Is it flexible? Can hurt you?

A.

a) instrument

b) organs

c) organisation

d) material

e) behaviour

f) process

g) theory

h) grains

B.

Lecture: a formal talk on a serious subject given to a group of people, especially students.

Tuberculosis: a serious infectious disease that can attack many parts of a person's body, especially their lungs.

The Red Cross: an international organization that takes care of people who are suffering because of war, hunger, disease, or other problems.

An idiom: a group of words in a fixed order that have a particular meaning that is different from the meanings of each word on its own.

2.

A.

a) failed project

b) development

c) attachment

d) self brightening

e) globalisation

B.

Capital punishment: a punishment by death, as ordered by a legal system.

E-books: an electronic book that can be read on a small personal computer.

Obesity: the fact of being extremely fat, in a way that is dangerous for health.