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Unit 8: Art
Adjectives and adverbs

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  1. 1 Pop-ups
  2. 2 Hidden talents
  3. 3 Can't buy me love
  4. 4 Travellers' tales
  5. 5 The colleague from hell
  6. 6 Jurassic mystery: unpacking the past
  7. 7 Career changes
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  10. 10 The dog ate my homework!
  11. 11 The diary of a double agent
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  13. 13 Flat pack skyscrapers
  14. 14 Extreme sports
  15. 15 Food fads
  16. 16 Me, my selfie and I
  17. 17 Endangered animals
  18. 18 A nip and a tuck: cosmetic surgery
  19. 19 I'm really sorry...
  20. 20 Telling stories
  21. 21 Fakes and phrasals
  22. 22 Looking to the future
  23. 23 Becoming familiar with things
  24. 24 From rags to riches
  25. 25 Against the odds
  26. 26 Our future on Mars?
  27. 27 Where is it illegal to get a fish drunk?
  28. 28 Dodgy dating
  29. 29 Annoying advice
  30. 30 I'll have been studying English for thirty weeks

Session 1

In this unit we look at words like dessert and desert, bored and boring. Learners of English often find it difficult to choose the right one. Do you? Practise using easily confused words with us.

በዚህ ክፍል ያሉ ክፍለ ጊዜያት

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Activity 3

Dessert in the desert

Listening practice

You've practised these easily confused words in a written context. But somtimes it's useful to test your listening skills too. Can you tell which words are used in these spoken sentences? And are the words right or wrong?

To do

Listen to the recording. In it you will hear eight example sentences. If the sentence uses the right word, drag it into the 'Right' column. If it's wrong, drag it into the 'Wrong' column.

Note

The words desert and dessert are pronounced slightly differently. Desert stresses the first syllable: DEsert. Dessert stresses the second syllable: deSSERT.

ድምፁን ያድምጡና ክንውኑን ይፈፅሙ

That doesn't sound right...

10 Questions

Listen to the recording. In it there are ten example sentences. Each of them contains at least one easily confused word. Are the words used correctly? If so, drag the example into the 'RIght' column, if not choose the 'Wrong' column

እንኳን ደስ ያለዎ ሙከራውን አጠናቀዋል
Excellent! Great job! መጥፎ እድል ነጥብ አስመዝግበዋል :
x / y

That doesn't sound right...

10 Questions

Listen to the recording. In it there are ten example sentences. Each of them contains at least one easily confused word. Are the words used correctly? If so, drag the example into the 'RIght' column, if not choose the 'Wrong' column

እንኳን ደስ ያለዎ ሙከራውን አጠናቀዋል
Excellent! Great job! መጥፎ እድል ነጥብ አስመዝግበዋል :
x / y

End of Session 1

That's the end of this session. We hope you're now more confident when using these easily confused words. And don't worry, if these are too easy for you, there are lots more easily confused words in English for you to master!

Session Vocabulary

  • sensible
    acting with good judgement

    sensitive
    easily upset

    boring
    not interesting at all

    bored
    feeling uninterested or with nothing to do

    desert
    an area of land with sand and rock where very little grows and there is little rain

    dessert
    a sweet dish at the end of a meal

    recipe
    instructions for making or preparing food

    receipt
    a small document, either paper or electronic, that shows you have paid money for something

    contents
    all the things that are inside something else

    ingredients
    individual parts that are combined to make something else, often food

ሙሉ የቃላት ትርጉም ማጣቀሻውን ይመልከቱ

የዳውንሎድ ማዕከል

የቅርብ ትምህርቶች ይዘት