English Power Up!: Prepositions!

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

A link to a fun preposition game: preposition hangman

And a preposition quiz: you can do it!

Gloria Gaynor's version of I Will Survive:

I'll keep an updated list of our vocabulary words here:

VOCABULARY WORDS:

Deceive- lie to, mislead

Conceive- think up, dream up

Perceive- realize, notice

Receive- get, acquire

Ample- more than enough

Profoundly- very much

Vivid- bright, clear

Illustration- image, picture

Decline- decrease, go down

Insisted- demanded, not asked

Ideal- perfect

Poverty- lack of money, poorness

Institutions- organizations

Advent- beginning, start

Outsourcing- sending work to countries with cheaper labor

Lucrative- money-making, very profitable

VOCABULARY PHRASES:

Can you/can I/could you/could I- used to ask something (could you give me the number? can I get your email address?)

I’ll put you through- I’ll connect the call

I’ll see if she’s in- I’ll see if she is in her office to take calls

Please hold- please wait

Just a second- please wait

Just a minute – please wait

Hang on- please wait

I have no service- my phone has no signal to call

You’re breaking up- your call is cutting in and out

I will text the number- I will send a text message with the directions

He will not stop- he keeps doing this

I am ‘sick and tired’ of __- I don’t like ___