French revolt over hotel VB exercises

By Rosamund Place | September 22, 2009

Match these words from the article with their definitions

Answers for Quiz [1].

1. word used by the French to describe English / British people (because of their national dish of roast beef and Yorkshire pudding). (correct)
2. to follow a dream (correct)
3. have difficulties, fight (correct)
4. tucked away in a quiet / beautiful / comfortable spot (correct)
5. considerable (correct)
6. the typical dream about France / French life (correct)
7. people have become passionate about an issue (correct)
8. pretty (so pretty it could be in a picture) (correct)
9. to have to overcome certain obstacles in order to do sth (correct)
10. to make life difficult (correct)
11. simple (correct)
12. fight about the building and / or land (correct)
13. to be forced unwillingly into a number of court-cases (correct)
14. to organise (correct)
15. to state something is true or a fact, eg in court (correct)
16. given (correct)
17. to raise the cost of buying premises (usually houses) (correct)
18. to dislike because one is forced to accept or do sth one does not want to (correct)
19. in some areas (correct)
20. to pay such high prices for property that people buying their first property cannot afford to buy one at all (correct)

More words to match with definitions if you’d like to keep going…..

Answers for Quiz [2].

1. to become by accident or unwise action the property of people one did not intend to own it (correct)
2. disgraceful (correct)
3. member of an organisation trying to change or introduce some matter in society (correct)
4. to ask people to become more reasonable (correct)
5. thinking of completely changing it (eg a decision) (correct)
6. a serious financial waste or loss (correct)
7. to pay a lot of money for (correct)
8. to employ people for work (correct)
9. skilled workers (correct)
10. a narrow piece of decoration on a wall (correct)
11. open land with grass and trees (correct)
12. sand, earth or mud from a river (correct)
13. to make a formal complaint (correct)
14. decorations cut from stone (correct)
15. to laugh (sometimes maliciously) at something slightly amusing (correct)
16. a particular matter which is argued about over a long period of time (correct)
17. there is a serious fight about (correct)
18. a press in which juice is extracted from grapes to make wine (correct)
19. (here) on the Internet (correct)
20. to be sceptical about (correct)

Can’t stop?!

Answers for Quiz [3].

1. to allow (correct)
2. flat container (eg in an office) where documents are left until a person deals with them (correct)
3. to laugh (sometimes maliciously) at something slightly amusing (correct)
4. a particular matter which is argued about over a long period of time (correct)
5. there is a serious fight about (correct)
6. a device which extracts juice from grapes to make wine (correct)
7. (here) on the Internet (correct)
8. to be sceptical about (correct)
9. large (correct)
10. entering a place in large numbers, usually when unwanted or in order to damage something or seize possession of it (correct)
11. to walk in casually (correct)
12. as they like / want (correct)
13. an attempt to win people over by being very pleasant to them, (rather than by attacking them as one might expect) (correct)
14. for now, at present (correct)
15. this is not the case / truth at all (correct)
16. some typical English understatements which actually mean something much more forceful, eg he will most certainly not be inviting this man round to have tea at his house after the way he has treated him!! (correct)