Reviewing Studied Words

(Examples for Recently Studied Words)

 

(1) The football game was replete with excitement and great plays.

(2) The eminent author received the Nobel Prize for literature.

(3) My cousin is so steeped in schoolwork that his friends call him a bookworm. ( = soaked, drenched, saturated)

(4) After skiing, I find that I have a voracious appetite.

(5) Modern warfare often results in the indiscriminate killing of combatants and innocent civilians alike.

 

combatant: someone who fights in a war

 

(6) The mayor refused to prognosticate as to his margin of victory in the election.

(7) The time is approaching when human workers may be replaced by automatons.

(8) A clever salesman will always ask a matron if her mother is at home.

(9) The western plains used to abound with bison before those animals were slaughtered by settlers.

(10) The man may be freed from backbreaking labor by the products of scientific technology.

 

In the following image, you can see a bison.

backbreaking: physically difficult and makes you very tired

The Past Progressive

The Past Progressive

We make the past progressive by using was and were, followed by the main verb with -ing ending, for example, I was looking, they were laughing.

The past progressive is used in the following ways:

(1) We use the past progressive when we want to talk about something that happened in the past and continued to happen for only a limited period of time.

 

(Example)

(1) We were living in France at that time.

(2) I was trying to get the waiter's attention.

(3) The man was looking at me in a very strange way.

Reading - An Ice Age Wolf Head Was Found Perfectly Preserved in Siberian Permafrost

Don’t lose your head in Siberia, or it may be found preserved thousands of years later.

A group of mammoth tusk hunters in eastern Siberia recently found an Ice Age wolf’s head—minus its body—in the region’s permafrost. Almost perfectly preserved thanks to tens of thousands of years in ice, researchers dated the specimen to

Daily 5 New Words-4

badger: to try to persuade someone by asking them something several times (Synonym) pester

(Phrase)

(1) badger someone to do something

(2) badger someone into doing something

 

(Example)

(1) It is difficult to change someone's opinion by badgering him.

Simple Past

We usually make the simple past by adding -ed to the end of the verb.

(Example)

(1) I walk --> I walked

(2) we wait --> we waited

(3) they jump ---> they jumped