Here's a list of useful vocabulary from this week's lessons:
Reading and listening
- make a resolution
- keep a resolution
- achieve a resolution
- draw a conclusion
- slip or make a mistake
- double your efforts
- break a goal into smaller steps
- give yourself a reward
- map out your progress
Writing task 2
- experience various problems
- considerable numbers of people
- intense competition
- oversupply of labour
- an abundance of working-age adults
- higher rates of poverty
- falling living standards
- meet the demand for
- provision of housing and public services
- rates of crime and antisocial behaviour
- the needs of .......... are not met
- poorer working conditions
- bring wages down
- exploit workers
- forced to migrate abroad
- in search of work
- an exodus of well-qualified young graduates
- brain drain
- not a desirable outcome
Speaking
- a specific example of
- it's thought to be
- I'd probably say that
- the most impressive .......... that I've ever seen
- areas of woodland
- commonly found in
- it stands out from
- has traditionally been used in
- a tourist attraction
- to marvel at something
- it symbolises history, strength and reliability
- legendary or mythical status
- the stories that are associated with it
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