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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