WORDS

1. Compliment
- an action that shows you admire someone;to praise or express admiration for
someone:
I was just complimenting Robert on his wonderful food.
I complimented Robert on his great cooking.
complement - something that is added to complete or enhance somethings; to make
something else ssem better or attractive when combining with it:
Strawberries and cream complement each other perfectly.
The music complements her voice perfectly.
2. Courage
- the quality of being brave when you are facing a difficult or dangerous situation, or
when you are very ill
3. Seek
- to try to achieve or get something
4. Indirectly
- not saying or showing something in a clear definite way
5.Pretend
- to behave as if something is true when in fact you know it is not, in order to deceive
people or for fun
6. Stage Effect
- a special effect created on the stage by lighting, sound, etc
7. Sympathy
- the feeling of being sorry for someone who is in a bad situation
8. Applause
- the sound of many people hitting their hands together and shouting, to show that they
have enjoyed something
9. Apperance
- he way someone or something looks to other people
10. Strategy
- a planned series of actions for achieving something
11. Bland
- food that is bland has very little taste
12. At the last minute
- as late as possible; almost too late

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NOTES
1. Chicken out of
- to lose the courage to do something; a challenge
>You were excited earlier. Are you going to chicken out of this challenge now?

=to decide not to do something because you are too frightened:

I was going to go bungee jumping, but I chickened out.

2. Fish for
- to seek something indirectly; a compliment
>I know you said you got a haircut but now you’re just fishing for a compliment.

=to try to get people to say good things about you:

I’m not trying to fish for compliments, but do you like my new haircut?

3. Beef up
- to add more to something to make it better or stronger; security
>We had to beef up security after someone broke into our house last week.

=to make something stronger or more important:

We need to find some new players to beef up the team.

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Practice 1
1. How about beefing up your essay with a few more facts?
2. You promised to climb Mt. Fuji with me, so don't chicken out of it now.
3. I can tell by Tim's voice that he's just fishing for approval.
4. I fished for details about her new boyfriend but she didn't tell me anything.
5. Using visual aids will help beef up your presentation.
6. Several people chickened out of the skydiving lessons on the first day.

Practice 2
1. A. I heard you got nervous and chickened out of playing in the basketball
tournament last weekend. Is that true?
B. No, I was actually feeling sick that day.
A. Did your teammates believe you?
B. No, they thought I was pretending to be sick to fish for sympathy.

2. A. What did you think of the concert last night?

B. It was OK. But I thought the band could have beefed up their show with more stage
effects.
A. Did they do an encore?
B. Yes, they did several encores. I think were just fishing for applause.