Second Period Review for the Course of CAE 3
1.- Three-part Phrasal Verbs
2.- Personality Adjectives
Sentences with the Personality Adjectives suggested in our Textbook
• Almost overnight, that sweet little child had turned into an antisocial monster.
• She was a conscientious worker and I’ll miss her.
• If you have to deal with a difficult customer, try to stay cool.
• It was courageous of her to challenge the CEO's decision.
• Most sales people need to be extrovert.
• She supports a number of idealistic causes.
• The architects have made imaginative use of glass and transparent plastic.
• I wonder what it was about her upbringing that made her so insecure.
• It was a bit insensitive of Fiona to talk about fat people when she knows Mandy is desperate to lose weight.
• He's very modest about his achievements.
• She was very naive to believe that he'd stay with her.
• He has a natural talent for sports.
• If you are unable to accept someone else’s ideas, you are narrow-minded.
• Sales reps need to be outgoing, because they are constantly meeting customers.
• He's far too self-centered to care what you do.
• He looked uncomfortable, like a self-conscious adolescent.
• In this job we need someone who is entirely trustworthy.
• He has an unconventional attitude toward work.
• The team is very well-balanced.
Source: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/
Collaborative exercise 1 on page 84 on Wordwall
https://wordwall.net/resource/31928877
A 'concession' is a contrast between a predicted action and a circumstance which should logically prevent the action, so the action is opposed to the expected logic.
A concessive clause is a clause which expresses an idea that suggests the opposite of the main part of the sentence.
Yet:
Yet is used in formal contexts. We do not start a statement with yet.
These exclusive villas are only a five-minute walk from the resort, yet they are a haven of peace and tranquillity.
However/whatever/wherever, etc.:
They express the idea of ‘no matter what/who/where’, etc.
Whatever: no matter what
Whoever: no matter who
Whatever I say, she says the opposite.
Whatever caused the accident, it was not a broken bottle.
Whatever he says, I'm going away
Whoever was responsible, it was not the poor pedestrian.
However he tries, he will never...
Whenever it happened, it was certainly not yesterday.
Wherever you met her, it was not in my house.
Even so: despite that
Even so is a prepositional phrase that can be used in a similar fashion to introduce a fact that is surprising in the context of what has been said before. It connects ideas between clauses or sentences:
I know her English isn't very good, but even so I can understand her.
It rained, but even so we enjoyed the day.
The evidence was only circumstantial. Even so, he was convicted and spent ten years in prison for a crime that he perhaps did not commit.
There are a lot of spelling mistakes; even so, it's quite a good essay.
There are a lot of spelling mistakes. It's quite a good essay, even so.
| Concession is sometimes expressed by a subjunctive clause without a conjunction to introduce it. |
| 1. Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home. |
| 2. I will help you, cost what it may! |
Sources:
https://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-107625.php
http://englishadvanced2.blogspot.com/2013/12/speakout-advanced-p-72-concession.html
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