LANGUAGE NOTES: Unit 7

7 A

Ex. 1

Stress: Remember that in Noun+Noun compounds the stress generally falls on the first element (exhaust fumes, etc.), whereas in Adj+Noun combinations it is usually on the noun (global warming) Practise the pron. of the terms that appear here and elsewhere in the unit.

2. account for = ‘represent’. Find other verb+prep collocations and phrasal verbs in the unit.

3. The verb rise – rose – risen is intransitive (= ‘to go up’) while raise is transitive (‘to put something up’).

5. Note the use of over here (=’in the course of’).

Text 1: environmentally damaging: find other Advb+Vb collocations (one in Text 6)

cotton-producing states. Think of other phrases on this model (eg: Spanish-speaking countries) and cf. gas-guzzling vehicles (text 3).

Text 5: plummeting = ‘falling dramatically’. Find the opposite in the dictionary.

7 B

Note the expressions with make, including the phrasal verb to make do with s.t. (opposite: … without)

7 C

Note the phrasal verbs (to go about s.t. /go about doing s.t; to draw up a plan, etc.)

Stress in Noun+Noun compounds: lífe coaching , action plan…

l. 12 she was finding it hard to… Note the ‘it’ in this structure. It’s hard for me to relax > I find it hard to relax.

l. 33 in a month’s time. Note the possessive with expressions of time (eg today’s class, yesterday’s paper, in three weeks’ time)

l. 57 the goals I’ve set myself. Cf. to set one’s sights on s.t. (6A Text l.6). Find other collocations with to set in the dictionary (set the table, set homework, etc.).

7 D

Did you Know?

Expression: to look to sb to do st. Ph. Vb. to look up to sb