Tuesday, 26 March 2019
Tuesday, 19 March 2019
Article to read for Monday 25 March
Overprotective parents
Questions
1.
In what way is our psyche similar to
our immune system?
2.
How have parents changed their
approach to raising children? Why have they done it? Is the change justified?
3.
What are the benefits of ‘free play’
and ‘independent mobility’?
4.
How do current mental health
statistics for teenagers compare with the past? How is this change explained?
5.
Summarise the overall premise of the
article in one sentence.
Monday, 18 March 2019
Tuesday, 12 March 2019
Word list for February / March 2019
There will be a test on this on Tuesday 19 March.
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Holy Grail
a pension
a donation
baggy
the
till
stuffed
to
fill in / to fill out
to
gather (dust)
clothes
racks
chipped
(mug)
threadbare
walking
stick
a goblet
spectacles
to
shrug
a mantelpiece
to
soak
a
dash of
late
(husband)
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Stories for 2019
to fall apart
unprecedented
impeachment
witch
hunt
to
boost
to
encourage
to shrink
labour
shortage
illegitimate
aging
(population)
built-in
migrant
workers
carbon
emissions
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Global News
an alliance
to
launch sth
an assault
to
confirm
to
hand sth in
a
defendant
a
detention camp
reportedly
to
risk sth
to abandon sb/sth
a
giant
ruthless
in
response to
to
interfere in/with
to
challenge
a
stigma
to
stigmatise sb/sth
significant
to
poach / poacher
a
round (of talks)
to come
to an end
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Utopia for Realists
to
conduct = to carry out
to decline
to
pay off
formerly
noticeably
inadvertently
(un)lit
an
indication
a
coincidence
on
average
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The best stats
preconceived
idea
life
expectancy
child
mortality
fertility
rate
GDP
per capita
average
birth
control
to
conceive
immaculate
conception
contraception
contraceptives
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Important things exist only
in our imagination
unique
peculiar
to
enable sb to do sth
limitless
misleading
distracting
immense
(close/distant)
relatives
to
gather
(to
know) intimately
leftovers
to
lock sb up
at
the heart of
to
crucify sb
whereas
in
contrast to
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Monday, 4 March 2019
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