Skills 3

Convey a message

Enormous, huge, casualties, property damage, breaking news.

Indirect speech: imperatives – tell and say + to + verb negative not to (indications you use to +
base form)

They said to read the weather report

She told me not to go out without money.

A drought a flood a tornado a hurricane/typhoon

Indirect speech: always change the tense when you are talking about an update

They said that the weather was awful

They all had had the flu.

Mild moderate severe deadly catastrophic

Magnitude-strength, factors-things, lessen-reduce, due to, caused by, city- population center

Evacuate, an emergency, a power outage, a shelter a first-aid kit, a flashlight, non-perishable food.

Settle on: make a final decision that is not going to change

Pick someone’s brain: ask someone about something.

I was going to study phycology but I didn’t

They said they would pay for their studies but they didn’t

It’s hard to make a living – talked me out of it

Would become would pay would improve etc

I don’t know why she married him. He must have been the only man available

I should have studied medicine. I must have been very good

It might be too hard to learn Chinese

I may have decided the wrong career

Talents : innate

Skills: abilities that you learn

Knowledge; Gained from the experience or study

Qualificatons are all of them