Preparing for Proficency

Some clues for the negative word formation in English (specially useful for the word-formation exercise!!) "a-" For words from a Greek origin: theist / atheist, chromatic / achomatic, rhythmic / arhythmic, symmetry / asymmetry or medical and scientific origin: apnea, anemia, apraxia, amitosis "non-" Usually with nouns: partisan / nonpartisan, sectarian / nonsectarian, violence / nonviolence, standard / nonstandard, compliance / noncompliance, proliferation / nonproliferation, sense / nonsense "in-", "im-" (before "m", "p", and "b"), "il-" (before "l") and "ir-" (before "r") For words from a Latin: articulate / inarticulate , polite / impolite, possible / impossible, modest / immodest, legal / illegal, reverent / irreverent, regular / irregular, sanity / insanity "dis-" Used to create a negative state or the absence of something, it may imply an ac...

Useful Expressions A guy crowd-surfing in a concert to pogo : to jump in concerts to headbanger : move the head in heavy to shoe-gaze : to play looking at your foot to stage-dive: jump from the stage to the crowd to crowd-surf: being passed over the heads in a concert to be music to my ears: very good for me to blow my (own) trumpet: to boast one-self to be in tune / to be out of tune to be out of touch: to be not trenddy to form a band / to form a group to rehearse music / to rehearse theatre to perform theatre / to perform music to play live / to sing live to mime / to lip-synch:  matching lip movements with sung or spoken vocals to see X live /  to see X in concert to go to a concert /  to go to a gig (gig=musical performance) to compose /   to write songs to put on/ to turn off music //  to turn up/ to turn down to be into... : to like or to be interested in something to get into... : to begin to...

Group of complacent cows Morbid : like unpleasant things like death or diseases Opinionated : dogmatic Vivacious : lively Pompous : like to show off Acquisiteve : like to buy objects compulsively Hoard : to store money or objects Discriminating : knowing precisely what to choose (it has anything to do with the word racist) Complacent : uncritical Unobstructive : poorly involved Simplistic : not expressing strong opinions Manipulative : presuading people to behave acording to one's will Shwerd : when something is going bad and one takes the right decision Cunning : to see the oportunity to take advantage. To be as cunning as a fox . Boastful: similar to pompous We could also make our negative adjectives by adding the prefix "Over-": Over-meticulous, over-ambitiuous

The football players came to blows There're a huge amount of expressions that contain the verb "come". Today we will learn some of them. Come to terms with: accept something Come across: find by chance Come up with: thought of Come to blows: start fighting Come out in sympathy with: suppot somebody side by side First come first served: who comes first is the one that will be firstly served Come up with goods: deliver, do something you promised (talk a big game) Come true: become real Come down in the world: come back to reality, especially with money Come forward: present one self to be a volunteer