Tuesday, April 8, 2025

6A: phrases

 1) accessories

2) casual

3) (to) return an item

4) (to) give customers a discount

5) a new purchase

6) (to) bargain / a bargain

7) (to) reduce waste

8) scruffy leather coat

9) baggy jumper

10) (to) receive a voucher

11) in a good condition

12) (to) donate 

13) loyalty card


Which shop? Where do you go to to buy...

1) .... meat and meat products?

2) ... some medicine, plasters and vitamin pills?

3) ... salmon, herring, cod, perch, seabass etc.?

4) ...carrots, cucumbers, cabbage, apples etc.?

5) ...magazines, newspapers?

6) ...lots of different things, such as clothes, shoes, books, gadgets, cosmetics etc.?

7) ... stamps, envelopes and send or collect your parcels? 



Now check your words

1) butcher's

2) chemist's

3) fishmonger's

4) greengrocer's / (market)

5) newsagent's

6) department store / (shopping centre / mall )

7) post office

6B phrases

 1) prepare orders

2) work in a warehouse

3) the high street

4) more convenient

5) choose items online

6) pay at the checkout

7) wait for your delivery

8) colleagues

9) oder form

10) figures

11) transactions

6B words

 1) to order / an order

2) warehouse

3) products

4) the high street

5) convenient

6) items

7) checkout

8) package

9) delivery

10) colleagues

11) order form

12) figures

13) transactions

14) average


Monday, April 7, 2025

Clothes Verbs


 

Unit 6

 Task 1: Negative prefixes 1

Task 2: Negative prefixes 2 

Task 3: Neg. prefixes 3


Black Friday

 The day after Thanksgiving has been regarded as the beginning of the United States Christmas shopping season since 1952.

For many years, it was common for retailers to open at 6 a.m., but in the late 2000s many opened at 4 a.m.–5 a.m. 

In 2015, Amazon.com was the first to offer "Black Friday in July" deals on what they called "Prime Day", promising better deals than on Black Friday. Amazon repeated the practice in 2016 and 2017, and other companies began offering similar deals.

In the United Kingdom, the term "Black Friday" originated within the Police and NHS to refer to the Friday before Christmas. It is the day when emergency services activate contingency plans to cope with the increase in workload due to many people going out drinking on the last Friday before Christmas. 

In Australia the term is controversial, in Australia Black Friday refers not to shopping at all but to the devastating Black Friday bushfires which occurred in Victoria 1938–39.

In 2008, a crowd of approximately 2,000 shoppers in Valley Stream, New York, waited outside for the 05:00 opening of the local Walmart. As opening time approached, the crowd grew anxious and when the doors were opened, the crowd pushed forward, breaking the door down, and 34-year-old employee Jdimytai Damour was trampled to death. The shoppers did not appear concerned with the victim's fate, expressing refusal to halt their stampede when other employees attempted to intervene and help the injured employee, complaining that they had been waiting in the cold and were not willing to wait any longer. Shoppers had begun assembling as early as 21:00 the evening before. 

During Black Friday 2010, a Madison, Wisconsin woman was arrested outside of a Toys 'R' Us store after cutting in line, and threatening to shoot other shoppers who tried to object.

On Black Friday 2011, a woman at a Porter RanchCalifornia Walmart used pepper spray on fellow shoppers, causing minor injuries to a reported 20 people who had been waiting hours for the store to open. The incident started as people waited in line for the newly discounted Xbox 360. A witness said a woman with two children in tow became upset with the way people were pushing in line. 


Is it all worth it?









Video: Shopping gone mad


Friday, April 4, 2025

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Food quantities

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U5 phrases

5A and 5B Phrases

 1) a vegetarian meal

2) dairy products

3) unfortunately

4) calcium and iron

5) vitamin pills

6) cause global warming

7) within fifty kilometres

8) local beef

9) ingredients

10) treatment of animals

11) six million tonnes of food

12) stop the waste of food / food waste


5C Phrases

1) traditional dishes

2) international food

3) the British Isles

4) a few raisins

5) pasty

6) famous poet

7) gravy

8) takeaway

9) jellied eels

10) a little vinegar


Which phrase or word goes into these sentences?

1) What ________ ________ does your country have?

2) People in Britain eat a lot of _______ ________, such as dishes from India or China. 

3) A cream tea is a scone a special type of bread with ____  ____  _____ in it.

4) There are a lot of tourists in Cornwall in summer and their favourite holiday food is a Cornish ____ .

5) A Scottish festival is on 25 January to remember Scotland's ______ ______ Robert Burns. 

6) You eat Yorkshire pudding with potatoes, vegetables, meat and _____ (a brown sauce).

7) People usually buy fish and chips as a _________ to eat at home or by the sea. 

8) You cook slices of eel with ___  ____ _____ and lemon juice. 

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Quantifiers

Task 1: Quiz

Task 2: Gap filling

Task 3: Another gap-fill exercise (multiple choice)

Task 4: Correct or incorrect?

Task 5: Memrise => Group 6 => 12. Food


5C phrases

 1) international food

2) the British Isles

3) a few raisins

4)  scone

5) pasty

6) famous poet

7) gravy

8) takeaway

9) jellied eels

10) a little vinegar

11) bowl

12) jug

13) mug

Monday, March 10, 2025

Food Quantities

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Now check your words:

1. a carton (of orange juice)

2. a slice (of bread)

3. a tin (of tomato soup)

4. a jar ( of honey)

5. a packet  (of biscuits)

6. jug

7. a can (of lemonade / Sprite)

8. bowl

9. knife

10. mug

11. plate

12. cup (and a saucer)

Friday, March 7, 2025

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

5A: Words

 1) special diet

2) dairy products

3) iron

4) vitamin pills

5) cause global warming

6) produced within 50 / fifty kilometres

7) local salmon

8) ingredients

9) environment

10) treatment of animals

11) terrible waste

12) vegetarian

Monday, February 17, 2025

Food: Fruit and Vegetables

 Task 1: Nuts and berries

Task 2: Vegetables game

Task 3: Name the vegetables

Task 4: Write the vegetables

Task 4: Write the vegetables 2

Task 5: Show what you know


Task 6: Divide the following words into two groups: 1. Fruit and Berries, 2. Vegetables. Translate them into Estonian if needed. 

apricot, asparagus, broccoli, cranberry, Brussels sprouts, crabapple, date, fig, chives, ginger, iceberg lettuce, lingonberries, pomegranate, raspberry, spinach, tangerine, grapefruit, leek, parsnip, zucchini (Am.E.)/ courgette (Br.E.)



asparagus

crabapple

date

chives

lingonberries

spinach

parsnip

pomegranate

Thursday, January 23, 2025

Describing a photo

 

Choose a picture. 

1) What can you see? 

Use different sentence structures: I can see..., there is/are..., in the background, in the foreground, in the middle, on the left, on the right

2) How do things or people look like? What are they wearing? What have they got? 

3) Find similarities and differences in the photo. 

4) What is happening in the photo? What are the people doing? 

5) Talk about the weather, season or try to guess the place, country. 

6) How do they feel? 

7) What did they do before the photo was taken? 

8) What do you think they  will do next?

9) Have you been in a similar situation? 

Try to speak 2 minutes and cover all 9 parts! 






Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Group work: Weather

Task 1: Translate or explain

1) air pollution (polluted)
2) air pressure
3) avalanche
4) blizzard
5) breeze (breezy)
6) drizzle (drizzly)
7) heat wave
8) humidity (humid)
9) icicle (icy)
10) muggy
11) precipitation
12) shower (showery)
13) sleet (sleety)
14) thaw (thawy)
15) (low / high) visibility (visible)
16) weather vane

( jahutav tuul / kerge tuul; kuumalaine; niiskus / niiske või lämbe; tugev lumesadu; lumelaviin; uduvihm; jääpuraikas; lörts; nähtavus; õhurõhk; hoovihm; sula; tuulelipp; õhusaaste; niiske / raske õhuga; sademed ) 


Task 2: What is in the photo? What causes it? Why is it good or bad? 

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Task 3: Fill in the missing words

1. _________   is the weight of the atmosphere pressing down on the earth. It is measured by a barometer in units called millibars. Most barometers use mercury in a glass column, like a thermometer, to measure the change in ____________.

2. This word is used to describe the atmosphere when humidity is high relative to temperature. Nights after humid days tend to be ___________ . 

3. The clouds that produce ________ have low bases, usually less than 1,000 feet in altitude. Fog is often present when __________ falls. 

4. A/An ________ is a spike of ice formed when water dripping or falling from an object freezes.

5. A/An _________ is a mass of snow, ice, and rocks falling rapidly down a mountainside.

6. _________ occurs when a frozen substance, such as ice, snow becomes liquid or soft as a result of warming up.

7. In meteorology, ________ is a measure of the distance at which an object or light can be clearly discerned. __________ affects all forms of traffic: roads, sailing and aviation.

8. In meteorology, ___________ is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls under gravity. The main forms of __________ include drizzle, rain, sleet, snow, and hail.

9. A / An _________  an instrument for showing the direction of the wind. They are typically used as an architectural ornament to the highest point of a building.

10. A / An _________ is a severe snowstorm characterized by strong  winds of at least 56 km/h and lasting for typically three hours or more. A ground __________  is a weather condition where snow is not falling but loose snow on the ground is lifted and blown by strong winds.




Now check your answers

1) air pressure
2) muggy / humid
3) drizzle
4) icicle
5) avalance
6) thaw
7) visibility
8) precipitation
9) weather vane
10) blizzard