DR FINGERS’VOCABULARY CLINIC

USEFUL EXPRESSIONS
DR FINGERS’VOCABULARY CLINIC

Exercise
Make friends with someone Complete each sentence with the correct expression. You may have to
To become friends with someone. change some of the forms, or parts of the words.

1. Jim is responsible for this mess at work, but he would never

admit that he was ____________.
Give somebody a lift 2. The government decided to _______________ to find out about
To take someone in your car and to take that people’s voting intentions.
person where they want to go. 3. Hey, I’m late for the train. Do you mind ___________________
to the station?
4. Hey, could you _________________ and look after the baby for
three hours – I’ve got to go shopping.
Take shape
5. I’d like to __________________: the food was terrible and the
If something “takes shape”, it develops and service was very poor.
starts to look the way that people want it
6. Jenny is really easy to get on with and she never has any
to look.
problems ______________ with people.
7. If you go for a camping holiday in Scotland, you really
Do somebody a favour
______________ the weather.
To do something nice or helpful for someone.
8. Now that they’ve finished building the hospital and school, the
residential zone is really starting to ___________.

Be at fault
If something is “at fault”, that thing is
responsible for something bad that has
happened.

Take a chance
If you “take a chance”, you do something
even when there is a risk that it will fail, or
cause you problems.

Carry out a survey

To ask people questions in order to get
information about their opinions, habits and
customs.

Make a complaint
To tell someone why you are not happy
about a particular situation.

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