Happy Campers – exercise 2
Happy Campers – exercise 2
The exercise encourages you to take a closer look at the vocabulary in the recording. Can you jot down (= write down in note form) the words required here? You need to pick them out from the English you hear – but they are in the order you hear them! Remember it is always better, when learning a language, to leave a recording running rather than switch it off while you write!
1 What word is used to describe holidays being ‘valuable‘, ‘dear‘ or ‘much valued‘?
2 What phrase is used which means ‘the hard, gruelling week’s work’?
3 What is the noun used meaning the ‘remedy for‘ something?
4 What phrase means ‘the pressures‘?
5 What phrase means ‘does not express adequately or fairly‘?
6 What are the words used meaning ‘unhappy fate‘?
7 The peace and quiet was ‘ruined‘ – what word was used for this?
8 What adverb means ‘somewhere else‘?
9 How is the phrase ‘however much we tried to shut out their conversation(s)‘ expressed here?
10 Which two words together mean ‘comfortably and happily settled‘?
11 The meeting place was chosen ‘to suit all parties‘. Which two words express this?
12 What is the noun used meaning ‘effect‘ on others?
13 What phrasal verb is used meaning ‘to meet up‘?
14 How is the recommendation of sharing out the responsibility for entertaining people expressed?
15 What phrase conveys the meaning ‘It’s entirely understandable….’?
16 How is the idea of ‘unfortunate people‘ expressed?
17 How is the idea ‘What is / would be an even better idea.…’ expressed?
18 What is the phrase used meaning ‘on sites which are close to one another‘?
19 What phrase is used meaning ‘create the least disturbance‘?
20 What phrase indicated that the writer had given his / her details to the editor of the magazine or newspaper, but had asked for them to be left out (omitted) in the correspondence column?