LIKE/DON'T LIKE; SYNONYMS

MY IDEA OF HEAVEN IS…

I LIKE
I’m really into…
I’m a big fan of…
I really like things like…
I like lots of different things, but mainly I read crime fiction
Mainly=mostly
I’m really into Amy Winehouse/ I’m crazy about.../ I’m a big fan of...
I’m absolutely mad about The Clash
I’m keen on … = I like
I’m keen on the idea of going away to a country house for a weekend.
I’m keen on playing ball sports
I’m fond of collecting stamps / I’m fond of= I like


THINGS YOU DON’T LIKE VERY MUCH
I’m not a big fan of...
I wouldn’t mind joining a golf club. It may be good fun.



THINKS YOU DON’T LIKE AT ALL
I really hate + VP-ing/ NP
I’ve never liked Paul Mc Cartney
I’ve never ever liked football
I don’t like swimming. It’s boring
I don’t like it when (SVO)
I don’t like it when people drive very aggressively
I don’t like it when people shout in the streets
I hate it when people throw away rubbish on the street
I absolutely hate it when people are very impatient at times.

Well, it’s not my cup of tea, I guess
It’s not my kind of thing, I suppose

The Rolling Stones are not my cup of tea









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FOOD AND MOODS SCRIPT

I was browsing through a bookshop today and I picked up a book on food,
which is quite usual for me cause I love food, em, but this book was a bit
different, em, it tried to make the connection between the kind of food you
eat and how it makes you feel so, for example, sometimes if I'm, if I'm a
bit sad, we’ll say, I think to myself, oh, I’d love some chocolate and that
will make me feel better, and sometimes it does, or it feels like it does anyway.
I’m not sure if that really works, but the author of this book seemed to think
that there’s a definite link between, what you, you know, what you eat and
how you feel, or how it makes you feel. She talks about things like, em, yeah,
things like chocolate and other sweet things. She says that it releases endorphins,
so that, you know endorphins are chemicals, they kind of, they make you feel good,
I think is the idea. They help you deal with stress as well as she says, so yeah, that
seems to, that seems to work, I think. One of my friends told me recently that
when she feels a bit, a bit sluggish as if she doesn’t have much energy, she’ll
go to a restaurant or go home and cook some meat cause she feels that that
gives her, gives her energy, so I was interested to read today that this author,
she mentions how sometimes the body will feel a need to, I don’t know, to be
more sharp, or to have energy and that sometimes that means that you need protein
and protein obviously would comes from meat. It seems to work for my friend
anyway, but I haven’t tried it myself anyway.

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TOPIC: LIKES AND DISLIKES

 TOPIC: LIKES AND DISLIKES

What kind of music do you like?
I can’t stand traditional folk music
What kind of music are you really into?
All sorts, but mainly pop music
Green Day, stuff like that
I’m thinking of going to the concert and I’m trying to find someone to go with
All their songs sound the same
I’ve never heard of him
She’s OK, I suppose
I love anything by Mark Smith
I like anything with Jackie Chan in
I like lots of different things, but mainly I read crime fiction
I’m really into Amy Winehouse/ I’m crazy about.../ I’m a big fan of...
Well, it’s not my cup of tea, I guess
I’m not a big fan of...
I’m absolutely mad about The Clash
How often do you...?
Not as much as I used to
I wouldn’t mind joining a golf club. It may be good fun.
I’m a big football fan and I support...

I’m useless at playing
I’m horrible, awful, very bad at + VP-ing
I’m wonderful, very good at ...
I suppose I’m a bit boring, really
I’m a bit of a couch potato.
I don’t really have any spare time at all.

I just stayed in and had an early night

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WORKING AND BRINGING UP CHILDREN

Akane: Ruth, what do you think about stay-at-home parents?

Ruth: Do you mean like one parent staying at home with a child?

Akane: Yeah, one parent staying at home and the other one working?

Ruth: Ah, I think it's really bad if a child stays at home with one parent actually.

Akane: Really, why would you say that?

Ruth: I think children who are brought up like that generally don't know how to socialize with other people except for their parents.

Akane: Oh, well, why would you think that?

Ruth: Well, they're really not given the opportunity to interact with different people, I mean, they spend pretty much all day, every day, with that one parent, and I think it's a real shame. They don't learn how to share or, you know, how to get along with and talk to different people.

Akane: Well, I think that the child will actually get more interaction if there's a stay at home parent because the parent will be able to take them to different activities and to other houses to have playmates and at the same time, they'll be able to spend more time with that parent and have socializing time with family members.

Ruth: But I think children could get those same experiences from different people who look after them. It wouldn't necessarily have to be there family who looked after them surely.

Akane: Well, sure but, I think that it's different when a person who is not related takes care of a child. I'm sure that they do their best but the love is not there. The caretaker would not love the child as much as the parent would and at the same time if there's one person taking care of ten different children at the same time I would wonder about the amount of attention that the child would get,and safety issues as well.

Ruth: But I think you've got to look at the practical aspect of this. It's not always practical for people who don't have much money to have one parent staying at home all of the time.

Akane: That's true. I really agree about that.

Ruth: Oh, good we agree on one thing.

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ORAL EXAMS

Please remember that our oral exams will be on 6,7 or 8 June.

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TOPIC: TECHNOLOGY, COMPUTERS

TOPIC: TECHNOLOGY, COMPUTERS

· What kind of computer do you have? A desktop, a laptop,...

· Why did you choose that make? Are you happy with it?

· Are you good with computers? What kind of things do you know how to do?

· Is there anything you would still like to learn how to do?

Have you got a scanner?

Make sure you’ve plugged the mike into the right socket

Have you tried rebooting?

Have you checked the connection?

Yeah, but it didn’t work.

Yeah, but it made no difference.

I deleted an important file by accident

The printer ran out of ink

IT, USB, DVD, PDF,WiFi

My computer keeps to crash

My laptop busted/ went bust

Their new web phone is the hot new thing this winter

Upgrade

Navigate/ surf the net

Speak English via Skype

Use a webcam

I’m really hooked onto chatting

Hackers

Spam

The right for privacy

Screen, keyboard, keys, mouse, printer

Typing, emailing, faxing,...

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PERSUADING OTHERS

PAIRWORK SPEAKING
PERSUADING OTHERS

Have you ever thought that…?
Let’s suppose that.../imagine that...
Why don’t we suppose...?
What you say is right, but I strongly believe that...
I understand your point/your reasons, but I still think that...
Yes, but what if we say that...?
Please, try to understand what I ‘m saying
Sorry. My opinion is like that and I won’t change it.

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