The document provides activities and exercises to consolidate vocabulary, including matching words, finding synonyms, writing definitions, and producing a crossword puzzle. It also includes lists of idioms, social issues to rank from most severe to least, possible measures to address social problems, and controversial issues for discussion. The purpose is to provide vocabulary consolidation activities through exercises that require analyzing, comparing, defining, and ranking different words, idioms, social issues and policies.

2. Activities to
consolidate
1. Match vocabulary
2. Find the near synonyms and then fill
in the gaps
3. Write definitions and produce a
crossword puzzle
4. Find at least two differences between
the four words in each group

3. IDIOMS  To drag one’s feet
 A storm in a teacup
 A drop in the ocean
 To fight a losing battle
 To bite off more than one can chew
 Common knowledge
 A law unto oneself
 To make a mountain out of a molehill
 To outstay one’s welcome
 To drive a wedge between

4. Get to an agreement and Rank these Social Issues
(1 = worst)
 Single-parent family  Class distinctions
 Social exclusion  People power
 Poverty trap  Inner-city unrest
 Police harassment  Job seeker's allowance
 Grey power  Cardboard box cities
 Asylum seekers  Minimum wage

5. Possible measures
 Better education
Social
 Public sports facilities
problems
 Vocational training for
school leavers
 Child labour
 Family welfare schemes
 Juvenile crime (allowances)
 Old-age: poverty and  Stricter controls on
loneliness advertising
 High rate of divorce  Social workers
 Stronger police force
 Materialism &
 Abolishing unemployment
Consumerism benefit

6. Discuss: Controversial Issues
 Basic human rights
 Freedom to choose
 Foundation of democracy
 Civic duty

7. “Education’s purpose is to replace
an empty mind with an open one”
Malcom Forbes (US Publisher)

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