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Unit 1

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• (act or) (n) a person who acts in a play. as

if( as if) (conj) 1. As it would be if ….. He

looked as if he were ill.

• 2. as a person would do if. . . The man spoke

as if he knew me.

Actor

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(bring up) (v- irreg. brought up-) take care of

a child in the family until he or she becomes

an adult. Orphans are often brought up in

special homes.

bring up

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(ca reer) (n) a person’s working life.

He had a successful career as a teacher.

career

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(char acter ) (n) 1. what

makes one person different from another. To be

the leader of a country, a person must have a

strong character.

2. a person in a book, a play or a story.

This play has seven characters in it.

character

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• (gen tleman) (n) 1. a man who acts well

towards others. He is always polite. He is a

rea gentleman.

• 2. (in the nineteenth century) some who

had enough money so that he did not need

work.

gentleman

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• gentlemen (plural) 1. Used by speakers

when they begin to speak to a group of

men. Gentlemen, I would like to talk to

you today about..................

gentleman

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• 2. On a sign on a door in a public place.

gentlemen means a toilet for men. A toilet

for women has the word ladies on the

door.

gentleman

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• (in sur ance) (n) an agreement to pay

money in case of illness, death or accident.

In many countries, you must have car -

insurance before you can drive on the

road.

insurance

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• (adj) helpful; interested in the happiness

of others. You should be kind to animals.

A kind gentleman helped me when my

car stopped.

kind

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• kindness (kind ness) (n) The noun is

formed by adding -ness to the adjective. If

an adjective ends in -y, the y changes to i:

happy - happiness lazy-laziness. *Can you

think of other examples like this?

kindness

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• lonely (lone ly) (adj) unhappy when alone

or without friends. The little boy was lonely.

He had nobody to play with. *Read the note

under kindness above and make a noun

from lonely.

lonely

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• part owner (part ow ner)(n) a person

shares the ownership of something. I am

part owner of a boat. I use it one

weekend and my partner uses it the next.

part owner

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• play (n) 1. an activity for enjoyment only. The

children are at play while their father is at work.

2. a piece of writing for the theatre. There is a

new play on TV tonight. *Look up the words

actor, stage and theatre on the page and see

the use of word play.

play

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• poem (poe m) (n) a piece of writing that

often has lines and repeated sounds. It

may describe what people think, feel or

experience.

• poet (po et) (n) a person who writes

poems.

poem

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• poetry (po etry) (n) poems in general. *Read this

short peom. Are the sounds regular? What sounds

are repeated?

Twinkle, twinkle, little star

How I wonder what you are.

Up above the world so high,

Like a diamond in the sky.

poetry

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• stage (n) the part of a theatre on which

actors stand when they are acting in a

play..

stage

theatre

• theatre (thea tre) (n) the building in which

plays are performed.

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• whom (pronoun) the object form of who,

The gentleman whom we discussed has

written to us. (You may read the word

whom but do not say or write it

yourselves.)

whom

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