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the Impression have/give the (false) impression that, do an Sense to, come to your senses, a sense of, na/one impression of, create/make an impression (on $, sense, common sense under the impression that, fst Impression® ‘ide side with sb, take sides, see both sides (of an ‘mental make a mental note (o/about), mental arithmetic argument, ook on the bright side, onthe plus/minus mental illness, mental age, mental health | __side, by sb’s side, on sb’s side, on either side (of) | ‘mind make up your mind, cross/slip your mind, have/bear in| straight set/out sb straight about, set/put the record | ‘ming, have a one.track mind, take your mind off, bring to. | staight, get/come straight to the point, get sth straight, mind, in two minds about, on your mind, state of mind, think/see straight, straight taking, straight answer narrow/broad/open/absentminded ew view sth as, take the view that, take a dim/poor view of, misapprehension under the misapprehension that ‘Come into view, in view of, with a view to, view on/about/ | __ that, in sb’s view, viewpoint, point of view | go to your head if success goes to your head, it makes you think that you are better or more important than | you really are have your wits about you be able to think quickly and make sensible decisions 7 \ in the dark (about) ‘ot knowing very much about something, because other people are keeping it secret from you | know what's what know the important facts about a situation ae zi not have a leg to stand on not have any way of proving that you are right about something | not see the wood for the trees used for saying that someone cannot understand what is important in a situation because they are thinking too much about small detais ut two and two together __guess what is happening or what something means based on what you have seen or heard quick/slow on the uptake taking a very short/long time to understand or realise something ring a bell something that rings a bell sounds familar to you, although you cannot remember the exact details om round the bend crazy | split hairs argue or worry about very small details or differences that are not important. | take stock (of) spend some time thinking about the situation you are in before you decide what to do next _| assume assumption, assuming, unassuming, assumed judge _judg(elment, judiciary, judiciousness, judicious, | believe disbelieve, belief, disbelief, (unlbeliever, judicial, judg(elmental, judiciously | (un)belevable, disbelieving, unbelievably | logic idlogicaltly) brilliant briliance, brilliantly | opinion opinionated concelve conceptualise, concept, conception, conceptual, | rational rationalise, rationalisation, rationalist, rationalism, (in)conceivable, (inJconceivably (inrationalty (irrationally) confuse confusion, confused, confusingly) reason reasoning, reasonableness, (unlreasonable, convince conviction, (unconvinced, (un}eonvincinglly) reasoned, (unreasonably i relly) ic , decider, decisiveness, deciding, sane _(in)sanity, insane tere (aiden) : sense _(deJsensitise, nonsense, sensitivity, sensibility, (in)decisive(ly) define definition, defined, definitive(y), (inldefinitety) | Se ESS See eae doubt —_doubter, doubtfully), undoubtedly), doubtless ick feast tikas tame eae explain explanation, explanatory, unexplained, thoughtlessness, (unthinkable, thoughtfully, (inlexplicable, inexplicably | thoughtless(iy) imagine yosenaioy megrngs meg Rneietncdontrineeit) un)imaginativelly)nn) $88 page 224 for definitions |e in ideology (n) plausible (ag) SUEY discriminate ingenious (ad) onder () cae dubious fad) inspiration (h prejudiced (ad based (ad) |_ estimate, 1) intuition in) oncentrate (V ) sty conser gather naive (ad) teckon | | contemplate (v) enius (n) | notion in) reflect (v) cynical (ad grasp (v) optimistic (ad Sceptical/sheptical (ad) seduce ) uesswork n) paradox (n) speculate (v) deliberate (v) [hunch in pessimistic (ad | suppose (v ACen aus 4 see page 225 for definitions | academic in, ag) Braduate (,n) intensive (ad) sett study (n) | conscientious (as) ignorant (ad) knowledgeable (ad) seminar (0) cram (V) inattentive (ad) lecture (, n) special needs (n phir) | curriculum in) intellectual (n, ad) |_mock exam (n ph tution (a Ldstance learning in phn) | inteligent ed) plagiarise (v) tutorial (a Huo aed | Brush up (on) practise and improve your skls or Piece together learn the truth about something by knowledge of something | considering all the separate bts of | ome (a}round (to) change your opinion or decision becauce | information you have Someone has persuaded you to agree | puzzle out solve a confusing or complicated | with them | problem by thinking carefully about it | come up with think of something such as an idea or a] read up get information on a particular subject by plan | (on/abour) Teading a lot about it face up to accept something and try to deal with it | swot up (on) study something very hard, especially for figure out be able to understand something or sol an examination ] a problem; understand what someone is. | take in understand and remember something tke and why they behave in the way that you hear or read; accept something | they do a real or true; trick someone into hit upon suddenly have an idea; discover believing something that is not true | something by chance think over Consider a problem or decision carefully | make out see, hear or understand someone or think through Consider the facts about something in an something with difficulty; suggest, imply organised and thorough way ‘mull over think carefully about something over a | think up invent or imagine something, especially | period of time | an excuse Phrases, patterns and collocations account account for, (give) an account of, take into account, | belief express betes), belie in/that, contrary to popular take account of, on account of, by all accounts, on sb’s "| belief, beyond bel, in the belief that, popular/wdely |__ account | _held/widespread/fimm/strong/growing belief \ hind, associate associate sth with | brain pick sb’s brains), rack your brain(s), the brains behind, r , brainwash, Eslanca (are fife balance, ste a bolas bss aei/4 | te sless branch of cameo lance, balance betweer/of, on balance, off | area is conclusion rg ho a caso cae te / ave / reach a conclusion, jump/leap to conclusions, in bass basis for, on a diyemporey/etc bass, onthe basis | ‘each concsn,io/ fotcal concusen Hae cit conclusionTopic vocabulary: Thinking A Circle the correct word. Dont be so optimistic / pessimistic, Everything's going to be fine, youll see! Most newspapers are usvally blased / prejudiced towards a certain political outlook \ fim stghtly dubious / cynical about whether Sean's idea is going to work i Fe Sesest that its possible to create a society without crime is ate naive / sceptical, sri i? ‘ Cay ingenious / plausible explanation | can think of is that Jenna got the dates wrong, \ Prease dor't baffle / discriminate me with loads of technical terminology. Use plain, simple English \ Teper always easy to assume / assess someone's sultabilty for a job just by taking to them in a How can the government justify / speculate spending so much on the armed forces? \ Looking at the damage, | would estimate / deduce that the painting will cost at least €2,000 to \ restore properly. ; | 10 | don't think you should reflect / presume that lots of people are going to help you with this project B Complete using the correct form of the words in ight fit the box. More than one word fit i but try to use alll the words. ee uae Concentrate * consider * contemplate * deliberate * gather * grasp * ponder * reckon * suppose It took me quite a long time to what the aim of the game was. The jury are still , but they're expected to reach a verdict soon from your tutor that you're thinking of changing course. very hard when you are doing calligraphy. asking for a pay rise tomorrow. itll take to get to Manchester? \ could borrow your lecture notes this weekend, could I? the question Why does the universe bother to exist”, then this is the book I'm seriously How long do you I don't 8 Ifyou've ever for you 9 Let's not even 2 3 4 You really have to 5 6 7 the possibilty of failure © Each of the words in bold is in the wrong sentence. Write the correct words on the lines. 1 fm ina real hunch because I've been invited to two parties on Saturday and | don’t know which one to go to. 2 Dave said he's got complete guesswork in us, and thinks we're going to do a great job. . 3 Sarah's a/an intuition when it comes to astrophysics, but she’s not very practical in everyday things You often need to use a little educated notion when you're starting a cryptic crossword. I've got a/an ideology that someone in this office is going to get promoted soon. Communism and capitalism are very different types of dilemma. Who gave you the faith for the main character in the book? fs Detective Tacker had absolutely no evidence that Roddard was involved, but all his paradox told him that 4 5 6 7 8 he was. {'ve got a small inspiration about the exam syllabus, Should | talk to Mrs Jacobs about it? Paying mothers a salary to raise their children is an interesting genius. The fact that more people would come here if the place wasn't so crow’ 10 es ded is a real query. 11Sune gun AYPIINESP SAPMIE HN WNL. Topic vocabulary: Learni D Choose the correct word, | Letter to the editor —— | heeds major over. Frsty, the | brightest and most (2) much testing and not enough le | @ fore The Prine Ministers coments yesterday on edacatio Ing or spring iss the pont, as the secondary efucation syst alo system only views the weakest eamers as having special (7) The Students are nat encouraged to develo to their fl potential Secondly, thers too Sing. My fite-yearol daughter fr example has just pent the last mouth o 69 exams These aren Siete portant eas, as her GCSES lb net yar Thee just | Saas the work shes been doing really going to make her more (5) about her subjects, or wl she forget ital tomorrow? suspect the latter Thirdly, the standard (6) docs give students any () in developing practical | workrelated, ving and social sil, ori skls recessany for higher education. How many students entering university have the frst idea what the differences beuween (8) someone else's work and waking good use of someone else's ideas? shouldn't they have taught ths at schol? How many of them are really able to go about (9) > & sl thats essential a university because here are no teaches to tll you what odo — na efficient way? Indeed, how many students (70) from university totally unable to spell even sivmple English | words corretiy? the system is letting ur children down 1 Arequests B desires ants 2 Ainattentive B ignorant D conscientious 3° Acramming B lecturing D practising 4 Afalse B mock D artificial 5 Aknowledgeable 8 intellectual D intelligent 6 Atimetable B lecture D curriculum 7 Alesson B subject C tuition D tutorial 8 Awriting Begoing over C plagiarising D repeating 9 Areviewing B revision Cdistance learning _D self-study 10 Adqualify Bgraduate C depart Dexit Phrasal verbs E Match to make sentences. 1 Im going to have to mull this 2 Detectives are still trying to piece 3 It took him a very long time to take 4 Tell us how you hit 5 Ittook us ages to figure 6 Ivejust thought 7 I'm not sure we've thought together exactly what happened that evening, in the fact that he'd never see her again. up a brilliant excuse to tell Rachel. over for a while before | make a final decision, this through properly yet. ut how to get everyone to the sports centre without Phil knowing, upon such a great idea for a website. A B Pa D E F G 1516 Pa 1 Reed to consider your offer very carefully before | make a decision, need to Over your offer very carefully before | make a decision, 2 Lee had the briliant idea of booking a clown for the endotterm party. Lee came {he briliant idea of booking a clown for the enc-otterm party 3 It's time you realised that you've got responsibilities now. It's time you faced the fact that you've got responsibilities now. 4 Im going to have to improve my spoken German betore | go to Munich, lim going to have to brush my spoken German before | go to Munich, 5. I didn’t like the idea at first but now | do, "didn't ike the idea at first but ve round it now, © Its a general knowledge quiz so you cant do any revision for it There's nothing to swot as it's a general knowledge quiz 7 We were right at the back of the hall so | couldn't hear what the speaker was saying. was unable to out what the speaker was saying because we were right at the back of the hall, 8 We finaly thought of a way to get the band into the hotel without the press knowing, We finally puzzled 2 way to get the band into the hotel without the press knowing. 9. !ve found out alot of information about the history of English language teaching recently, lve been up on the history of English language teaching recently, G Phrasal verbs with out, such as puzzle out, are often connected to the idea of finding information. Which of these phrasal verbs with out are also connected to this ides? 1 Did you find out what time the parents’ Meeting is? 2 Ive been checking out whether its better to go by ferry or plane Susie reckons she's sussed out a great way to get into the club for free We all piled out into the playground. \ can't figure out how to change my password, The band were completely drowned out by all the screaming fans {im going to sound Bob out about his investing in the company, Two essays really do stand out from the rest. Jan's good at keeping secrets, so you'll have to worm it out of her! None of us could fathom out why the experiment wasn't working. Sem FH ew Phrases, patterns and collocations H_ Write one word in each gap. the misapprehension that tomorrows a holiday. it isnt. previous research done in this field, of focus, but you can still see their faces. the bright side ~ it's nearly the end of term. 1 Jim seems to be .. 2 These findings cast doubt... 3 This photo's a tie 4 Look 5. fim not against animal testing suse... principle. 6 I think I'l always associate this song our holiday in Majorca. 7 You have to bear mind that there'll be quite a few children there. 8 9 Where did Susan's belief reincarnation come from? Dad said that my borrowing the car tonight was of the question.