UNIT 10 : What if ...?

Carry out research (verb phrases) Face a challenge (verb phrase)

▫ To conduct an investigation, you ▫ To have to deal with a

organize it and you perform it. challenging situation.

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 Gain knowledge (verb phrases)
▫ If a person or place gains
something such as an ability or
quality, they gradually get more of
it.
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Make a breakthrough (verb phrase)
▫ To make a sudden increase in
knowledge, understanding, etc.:
an important discovery that
happens after trying for a long
time to understand or explain
something.
 Make a connection (verb phrases) Make a discovery (verb phrase)

▫ To understand that there is a ▫ If someone makes a discovery,

relationship between two or more they become aware of
things. something that they did not
know about before.

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Notice a phenomenon (verb phrases) Provide insight (verb phrase)

▫ To detect observable events that ▫ To ease the ability to

occur in a natural or designed understand a person or a
system. situation very clearly.

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 Provide a solution (verb phrases) Blame (verb)

▫ If you provide something that ▫ Assign responsibility for a fault

someone needs or wants, or if you or wrong.
provide them with it, you give it to
them or make it available to them.

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 Correct a mistake (verb phrases) Fix a problem (verb phrase)

▫ You make a correction, a change ▫ When you think you have made
that rights a wrong. a permanent fix that will not
break again.

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 Get something right -wrong
Make something right (verb phrase)
(verb phrases)

▫ Wrong: to fail to understand ▫ To amend or correct something;

someone or something correctly. to make something more
accurate or fair or return it to its
desired position or status.

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 Blunder (noun) Epic fail (noun)

▫ A stupid or careless mistake. ▫ A notable, obvious, and usually

public failure.

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 Error (noun) Mistake (noun)

▫ An act or condition of ignorant or ▫ An action or judgement that is

imprudent deviation from a code of misguided or wrong.
behavior.

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 Misunderstanding (noun) Mix -up (noun)

▫ A failure to understand something ▫ A mistake that causes

correctly. confusion.

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 Anyway (adverb)

▫ Used to confirm or support a point

or idea just mentioned.
▫ Used to end a conversation, to
change the subject, or to resume a
subject after interruption.

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