SMART TIME VOCABULARY

Unit 1: Just the job

- bike rider-photographer for Google Maps
- travel nurse
- hippotherapist
- do transactions (on the till)
- ​the outback​: the area of Australia where nobody lives
- on horseback
- a day’s work
- film crew
- herpetologist

salary vs. wage

- ​salary​: a ​fixed ​amount payable at regular intervals, it can be weekly or monthly payments
straight to an employee’s bank account, agreed by ​contract
- ​wage:​ hourly or daily payments for work done ​during the working day​, may ​vary based
on hours worked & performance

Unit 2: Nature’s Fury

- volcanic eruption
- (hurricane) hit a coastline
- hail
- heatwave
- emergency service​s
- close encounter

- evacuate (a place)
be evacuated ​from
ex.​ Firefighters asked people to ​evacuate ​the burning building immediately.
A thousand people ​were evacuated from ​their homes following the flood.

save vs. rescue

- ​save:​ more ​informal​, preventative act from danger (have not happened); unintentional;
(sometimes used the same as ‘rescue’)
ex.​ ​saved ​by the bell
- ​rescue​: more ​formal​, intentional effort made by (groups of people, dolphins, …) to set sb
free from danger

Unit 3: Reflections
- frostbite
- hypothermia
- seaside trip
- frozen landscapes
- storage freezer
- expedition members
- a day trip
- check in ​to​ ​the hotel

▪ When did they move to the USA? (MOVED)

⇨ How _____________________________________ to the USA?

Unit 4: Law & Order

- press charges against
- charge sb with
- sentence sb to
- put sb in jail
- ​find​ sb innocent/guilty
- swallow sth whole
- worry ​about

- get away with (money, …)

ex.​ He ​got away with ​$10,000.
 PRACTICE TEST
I. Phonetics
Stress pattern
1. A. environment B. polite C. develop D. coward
2. A. business B. firm C. enterprise D. company
3. A. salary B. wage C. pension D. allowance

Pronunciation
1. A. envir​o​nment B. p​o​lite C. devel​o​p D. c​o​ward
2. A. business B. firm C. enterprise D. company
3. A. salary B. wage C. pension D. allowance

II. Vocabulary & Grammar

1. Many pensioners have to _______ very little money.
A. get by on B. get on with C. live by on D. live off with
2. It’s ______ policy not to allow the use of phones for personal calls during working hours.
A. business B. firm C. enterprise D. company
3. The starting ______ is £20,000 per year.
A. salary B. wage C. pension D. allowance
4. I ______ in the cold air, my feet numb from the wet grass.
A. froze B. shivered C. trembled D. startled
5. Firefighters worked for two hours to ______ people from the building.
A. evacuate B. extricate C. liberate D. rescue
6. I don’t mind you using the kitchen as long as you ______ afterwards.
A. clear up B. clean out C. mop up D. wipe down
7. He wrote that it was not as he had pictured it as the weather was _____ cold and wet with
______ rain everyday.
A. highly/heavy B. bitterly/strong C. chilly/torrential D. quite/light
8. The Titanic sank on her maiden ______.
A. trip B. voyage C. journey D. travel
9. We’ve been considering ______ the smaller studios out to local artists.
A. borrowing B. lending C. letting D. hiring
10. Please ______ to John when you see him.
A. drop a line B. give my regards C. send my hello D. give a call
11. I ________ in Can Tho Province for two years but now I live in Ho Chi Minh City.
A. have lived B. had lived C. was living D. lived
12. When his bank went bankrupt, the director was convicted of ______.
A. fraud B. blackmail C. forgery D. deception
13. How much money was he robbed ____?
A. from B. by C. of D. for
14. Earthquakes may cause devastating landslides or create gigantic tidal waves which, in
________, are colossal walls of water smashing into seashores with such force that they are
capable of destroying coastal cities.
A. fatality B. waste C. harm D. loss
15. Most frequently, the earthquake lasts 30 to 60 seconds, so usually there is no time to
________ the mortal upshot once the shaking starts.
 A. avert B. evade C. abstain D. restrain
16. A tsunami struck the coast with waves up to 30 ft high, sweeping ______ many vehicles.
A. away B. off C. round D. over

III. Word form

1. In some countries, it is _______ to smoke in public places. (LAW)
2. It is important to wear ___________ clothing at work on the construction site. (PROTECT)
3. You will have your driving license taken away if you are caught _________ the speed limit
(EXCESS)
4. Don’t worry too much about your health. Just wait for the blood _________. (ANALYSE)

IV. Open cloze

a. Christopher Bohm and Elke Verheugen have started a business called “Teddy in
Munich”. Basically, it’s a service that provides vacations for teddy bears. People who
feel that their teddy bears deserve a little time away can send their (1) _______ to
Christopher and Elke. Once there, the bears are treated to a one-week vacation in
Munich like their owners, to relax and unwind from the hustle and (2) ______ of their
busy lives. As part of the vacation, the teddy bear will visit popular tourist (3) __________.
There is also a focus on Bavarian traditions, (4) _________ a standard trip to the local
beer. The vacation (5) _______ 99 euros for local bears and 149 euros for out-of-towners.

b. Nowadays there are far too many stories of homeowners (1) _____ have been away on
holiday and come home to find that their house has been broken into. Unfortunately,
simply locking the doors and cancelling the newspapers is never enough to keep out
burglars.
A much better way to prevent your house from being (2) ________ is to employ a
professional house-sitter, either through an agency such as “Home sitters”, or by
placing an advertisement in a magazine like The Lady. House-sitters are paid around
£10 a day, including a food allowance, to live in a house while its owners are away. An
extra charge is made if the house-sitter is required to (3) _______ care of one or more
pets.
Agencies, which charge a considerable fee for their services, accept full responsibility
for anything that might go (4) _______. House-sitters are therefore chosen very carefully;
as well as the usual interview and personal references, inquiries are (5) _______ about
any previous criminal convictions.

c. On the hunt for the best young female entrepreneurs.

Founded in 1972, the Veuve Clicquot Business Woman Award is celebrated in 27
countries. Veuve Clicquot has now introduced a new award to complement its Business
Woman of the Year category, Called The New Generation Award, (1) ______ recognizes
the best young female talent across business and corporate life.
 The first winner of the award, Kathryn Parsons, (2) _______ innovative start-up
company, Decoded, teaches people to code in a day, has joined the judging panel to
help find this year’s winner. ‘The importance of these awards cannot be
overestimated’, she says. ‘Women need role models that prove to (3) _____ they can do
it, too.’
The New Generation Award is open to entrepreneurial businesswomen (4) ______
between 25 and 35. They can run their own business or hail from corporate life. ‘This
award isn’t about how much money you’ve made or how long you’ve been in business,
it’s about recognizing young women (5) ______ a mission and a vision,’ says Parsons. ‘We
want to meet women who are working to make the world a better place.’

d. VOLCANOES
A volcano is a rupture on the crust of the Earth that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and
gases to escape from a magma chamber below.. The hot molten rock deep below the
Earth’s surface is called magma and it rises upward. If the magma (1) ______ the surface
of the Earth it may flow out as lava, or it is hurled out when the volcano erupts. Magma
is liquid rock inside the volcano; lava is liquid rock on the outside of the volcano.
Scientists have classified volcanoes (2) ______ three main categories: active, dormant,
and extinct. The Earth is (3) ______ to approximately 1500 volcanoes which are
considered active, and about 100 of those are under the oceans. Erupting volcanoes
have been known to (4) ______ out entire forests, trigger tsunamis, flash floods,
earthquakes, mudflows, avalanches, mudslides, and rock falls, However, volcanoes that
erupt can also create new islands (5) _______ the hot lava cools off, especially those near
the coast or below the ocean’s surface.

V. Sentence transformation
1. When did they move to the USA? ​(MOVED)
⇨ How _____________________________________ to the USA?
2. John is used to using chopsticks during meals.
⇨ John has no __________________________________________.
3. The current situation is very stressful for everyone concerned. ​(DEAL)
⇨ Everyone involved ____________________________________ stress.
4. We had to wait over an hour because of her. ​(WAITING)
⇨ She _____________________________________________________.
5. Diana wasn’t always as rude as that. ​(BE)
⇨ Diana did ______________________________________________.
6. Nobody has heard from Lucas for a week.
⇨ Lucas was __________________________________________________.