ملخصات اللغة الإنجليزية توجيهي فلسطين

Period 1 / Reading and comprehension

• freshers = new students at a university or college
• like-minded – with similar attitudes
• participate – take part (in)
• field – area of interest
• on show – able to be seen

Tip 4:

• nowadays – around the present time
• fees – money you pay for a service
• inevitable – impossible to avoid
• personal – connected with yourself
• impatient – not wanting to wait

Reading: stories and coincidences

• It has been calculated that the number of people you need to have a 50% chance of two of them sharing a birthday is 23.
• And when there are 48 people in a room, the probability goes up to 95%.
• kept in touch – stayed in contact
• mentioned – said something about
• error – mistake

Reading: young people and technology

• A recent study in the US found that nearly a quarter of teenagers use social media sites at least ten times a day and 75% own mobile phones.
• The World Bank has calculated that in countries like this, a 10% increase in high-speed Internet connections leads to a 1.3% increase in economic growth.
• motivated – caused or encouraged
• citizens – people who live in a country
• trend – movement, fashion or change

The world of work

• employment – having or getting a job
• neglect – ignore, not pay attention to
• Jamal phoned Ahmed.
• ‘Who phoned Ahmed?’ ‘Jamal.’
• ‘Who did Jamal phone?’ ‘Ahmed.’

His top tips

• break down – stop working properly
• on business – for business reasons
• on time – at the right time
• He’s away all next week on business.
• Have an idea

Period 5 / Integrated skills

• referee – person who controls the game
• attack – attempt to score a goal
• infuriated – made very angry
• distribute – send to different places
• outweigh – be more important than

Period 2 tasks: Culture, language and identity (pp84-85)

• object – think or say something is wrong
• accent – way of speaking
• He wanted to go home.
• She refused to learn any English.
• They don’t object to paying local taxes.

Tenses

• I was born in 1942, so I must have been about six or seven at the time. (This is a logical conclusion about the past)