Skip to main content

Young People & Humour

THE GIFTS OF YOUTH

vigour, imagination, creativity adventure, innovation, talent, ambition, enthusiasm audacity, rebellious, old-fashioned, intolerant, strong-headed, thoughtless, severe, bossy, careless, immature, untidy, disobedient, undemocratic, obstinate, adventurous, mean, nosy, authoritarian.


HUMOUR

humour, a joke, humorous, an impression, to make fun of someone, to kid, silly, witty, joy, anger, gaiety, despair, delight, depression, loneliness, sadness, frustration, cheerfulness, merriment, worry, vivacity, calm, satisfaction, enthusiasm, fear, optimism, jubilation. 

Exercise : Which words can you associate more with GIFT and which can you associate with                       HUMOUR?

amusement, fun, expertise, skill, genius, joking, faculty, entertainment, power, talent, aptness, kidding, pleasantry, competence, light-heartedness, laughter 
GIFT
HUMOUR
................................. , …..…………………..
.................................., ………………………
................................. , ………………………
................................ ,  ………………………
................................. , ………………………
................................ ,  ………………………

Writing.

1.      Many say that young people are the future of our country. How is that?

2.      Do you think that humour should be used at school and work? Why?




Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Collocations

" Collocation refers to how words go together or form fixed relationships." (English Grammar Today in Cambridge Dictionary). "The combination of words formed when two or more words are often used together in a way that sounds correct: The phrase "a hard frost" is a collocation." (Cambridge English Dictionary) adult illiteracy adult literacy boarding school brain drain civic education common good communication technology critical thinking cultural diversity developed countries developing countries digital camera educational system equal opportunity equal rights formal education gender gap general assembly generation gap have access have fun health care high priority higher education human rights informal education information technology international organizations local community look forward make a mistake/mistakes mobile phone natural disaster non-formal education non...

The Past Perfect

The Past Perfect Form:  had + past participle We use the past perfect to: Clarify order of two past actions (to show that one happened before the other) ·          In reported speech. ·          In conditional type three ·          To express a past wish Examples : I had phoned Jamal before I went out. Action 1 : I phoned Jamal. Action 2 : I went out Amin told me that he had been away for the whole week. If I had worked hard, I would have got the prize. I wish I had gone with you! Exercise : Put the verbs between brackets in the correct form. 1- Nadia (never read)..............................such an interesting story before she moved to university in Spain. 2- (Nadia, ever, study)..................................Spanish before she moved there? 3- She (be)............................