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Mac 3 - Test 2 Flashcards

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Proverbs and Idioms flashcards
1
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Unreal past

Would rather/would just as soon

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Used to express preference

I’d rather they didn’t visit us this weekend
I’d just as soon you didn’t mention this to anyone else.

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Unreal past

I wish / if only

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Used to express regrets and wishes for things that are unlikely to happen

I wish/If only you didn’t live so far away

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Unreal past

Wish + Would

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Used to express a wish for action

I wish you would stop making that noise

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Unreal past

What if / supposing / suppose

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Used of a question to ask about the consequences of something

What if I wasn’t here to help you - what would you do?
Supposing we were to ofter you a salary increase - would you stay?

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Unreal past

It’s time

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To say that somehing needs to be done very soon

It’s time I had a holiday

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Unreal past

Do you wish that you felt more in control of things

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A wish

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7
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Unreal past

Pherhaps it’s time you looked into emotional intelligence training

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A sentence that says what should be done now

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Unreal past

Suppose you were someone who felt very on edge when speaking in public

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A picture of an unreal situation

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Unreal past

I’d rather your listeners took one of our courses

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A preference for what someone would like to happen

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10
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Unreal past

What if I were to tell you that’s you’d already made one of these?

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A picture of an unreal situation

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11
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Unreal past

If only I was better at building rapport with my patients

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A wish

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12
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Inversion conditionals

If you need help, call me

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Should you need help, call me

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Inversion conditionals

If she won the lottery, she would travel the world

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Were she to win the lottery, she would travel the world

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Inversion conditionals

If they had told me about that, I wouldn’t have gone there

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Had they told me about that, I wouldn’t have gone there

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Inversion conditionals

If I were nervous, I would try to calm down

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Where I nervous, I would try to calm down

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Inversion conditionals

If someone asks who told you, Don’t give them my name

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Should someone ask who told you…

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Inversion conditionals

If I had thought about it for longer, I would have got the answer right

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Had I thought…

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Inversion conditionals

They wouldn’t be in this situation now if they had taken my advice.

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Had they taken my advice, they wouldn’t…

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Inversion conditionals

If we took the risk, I’m sure tbat we wouldn’t regret it

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Were we to take risk…

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Inversion conditionals

Would the world be a better place if everyone thought more carefully before acting?

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Were everyone think…

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Inversion conditionals

If something is unclear, you can always call me on this number and ask.

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Should something be unclear…

22
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Inversion conditionals

Should you get them wrong, don’t worry

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If you get them wrong, don’t worry

23
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Inversion conditionals

Had someone already mentioned that the temperature today was 82• fahrenheit, you answer would hage been a higher number

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If someone has already…

24
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Inversion conditionals

Were the same question presented as a logical formula, few would make this mistake.

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If the same question were presented…

25
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Inversion conditionals

Some even say that had it not been for this irrational thinking, the banking crisis of 2008 may not have occurred.

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Some even sat that if it hadn’t been for irrational…

26
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Word focus move

Her story of having to look after her sick brother moved everyone _______

A

To tears

Comovente

27
Q

Word focus move

That’s your Ferrari? You’re moving ____________

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Up in the world

Successful

28
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Word focus move

Don’t move ________! There’s a bee on your collar. I’m going to brush it off

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A muscle

29
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Word focus move

They’ve moved __________. They are now saying the candidates must have worked for at least two years.

A

The goalposts

Move the rules in the middle of the proccess

30
Q

Word focus move

When his opponent started playing better, he just moved ___________ and won the match easily.

A

Up a gear

To go faster and better

31
Q

Language focus approximation

In a career spanning fifty-______ years

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Odd

Around so

32
Q

Language focus approximation

Before Bill arrived, the ______ in the magazine was travel-postcard photography

A

Stuff

General

33
Q

Language focus approximation

It must be ____________ rough on the outside

A

Kind of

Not exactly

34
Q

Language focus approximation

I found myself seeking _______ idea for a story

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Some

Any

35
Q

Language focus approximation

Five years ago, I took a trip to Madagascar…

A

Around five years…

36
Q

Language focus approximation

I had met at ____ party…

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Some

37
Q

Language focus approximation

Normally, I spend two months _____ researching a place before I go there.

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Or so

38
Q

Language focus approximation

I had only a short____ amount of tine before I had to be back…

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Shortish

39
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Language focus approximation

I packed my belongings and left the next day.

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I packed my stuff and left…

40
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Language focus approximation

This is home to more than 200.000 different species of plants and animals

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This is home to well over different species of plants and animals

41
Q

Qualifiers

Quite / pretty / fairly

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Bastante, muito

42
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Qualifiers

rather

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Mediano

43
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Qualifiers

Slightly, a little, a bit

A

Pouco

44
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Qualifiers

(Wich does not fit in the sentence)

Basho was rather / quite / fairly a modest man ib the many respects.

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Fairly

45
Q

Qualifiers

(Wich does not fit in the sentence)

Basho also suffered a bit / quite / slightly from health problems

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Quite

46
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Qualifiers

(Wich does not fit in the sentence)

It’s a bit of / pretty / quite difficult to imagine how he managed such a journey

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A bit of

47
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Qualifiers

(Wich does not fit in the sentence)

The route he took has now brcome a bit of / pretty / quite a famous trail in Japan

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Pretty

48
Q

Qualifiers

(Wich does not fit in the sentence)

A haiku is a fairly / pretty / quite short poem: only 17 syllables

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Quite

49
Q

Qualifiers

(Wich does not fit in the sentence)

Sometimes, when I translated, they are fairly / a bit / slightly shorter

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Fairly

50
Q

Qualifiers

(Wich does not fit in the sentence)

I pretty / quite / rather like reading his poetry

A

Pretty

51
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Qualifiers

(Wich does not fit in the sentence)

It’s quite / rather / a little easy to see why it’s so popular

A

A little

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