You can learn a lot of new words/phrases essential to everyday situations through popular culture, for example, films, songs, etc. To make those words/phrases part of your vocabulary, you have to practice using them repeatedly. The following tasks are designed to help you understand, remember and use the target vocabulary.
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Task One
Watch the trailer and answer the following comprehension questions:
Task Two
Watch the trailer again and fill in the blanks in the transcript.
Task Three
The following words are extracted from the transcript, refer to the context of the trailer and match the word with its definition.
Task Four
Fill in the blanks in the following sentences by using the words provided in the box below. Use the correct form of the words to make your choice grammatical.
Task Five
You can improve your memory of a word by associating it with its synonyms. A synonym is a word that has the same, or nearly the same meaning as another word.
Select the synonyms of each words.
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