Explain the word "hibernation"
Hibernation is a winter survival strategy in the animal world. While the animals hibernate, they stop eating, their heart rates slow and body temperature drop. All of these happen so the animal can use less energy and survive the winter by sleeping.
What is right?
I think I should prefer to arrive at the weekend, if it’s … to you.
a) all the time
b) all the same
c) all the rage
d) all the more
I have to begin the sentences with the words in brackets:
Billy arrived home yesterday. (IT, YESTERDAY)
= Yesterday, it was Billy who arrived home.
He ordered whisky on the rocks. (WHAT)
= What he ordered was whisky on the rocks.
My brother took the tablecloth to the dry-cleaner’s. (IT, DRY-CLEANER’S)
= It was the dry-cleaner’s where my brother took the tablecloth to.
Jackie promised to phone me by 6 o’clock. (WHAT)
= What Jackie promised was to phone me by 6 o’clock.
like or as?
It seemed like a good idea at the time, but now I’m not so sure.
A few years ago, I worked as a receptionist in that hotel.
We don’t need all the bedrooms in the house, so we use one of them as a study.
Your Arabic is so fluent. I wish I could speak like you.
Everybody in our family has gone down with ‘flu, so our house is a bit like a hospital at the moment.
The news of his sudden death came as a great shock to us.
What’s that noise? It sounds like an animal trapped inside.
He’s decided to give up his job as a teacher and become a priest.
Every, all, everybody, each or everything?
Every loaf of bread I buy from that shop always seems smaller than what you get elsewhere.
All teachers believe their own subject is more -important than anything else.
I spoke to everybody in the office about joining the -Worldwide Donkey Club.
I told each of my friends about the Worldwide Fund for Nature.
All he does is to sit around and watch TV.
I always knew he cheated at cards. Every of these cards here is marked in some way.
I told the police everything I knew.
Every/Each of the rooms in this hotel has a bathroom ensuite.
I have to begin the sentences with the words in bold.
a) I have never heard a weaker excuse in my life.
= Never have I heard a weaker excuse in my life.
b) The team has seldom given a worse performance.
= Seldom has the team given a worse performance.
c) You will not see a finer portrait of him anywhere else.
= Not will you see a finer portrait of him anywhere else.
d) She rarely speaks to me now.
= Rarely does she speak to me now.
e) I had no sooner got into the bath than the doorbell rang.
= No sooner did I have got into the bath than the doorbell rand.
f) The accused at no time expressed remorse for what he had done.
= At no time did the accused express remorse for what he had done.
g) We only noticed the break-in when we went into the kitchen.
= Only did we notice the break-in when we went into the kitchen.
h) Madeleine will not agree to that under any circumstances.
= Not under any circumstances will Madeleine agree to that.