IN THE ISSUE

  1. QUIZ
  2. NEW WORDS FROM THE VOCAB CLUB
  3. MAKE OR DO?
  4. MEASURING UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS
1. QUIZ

  1. Are you serious?
  2. I woke up this morning with a headache
  3. did you see the accident?
  4. We are doing to vacation on an island
  5. My to brothers in law are lawyers

2. NEW WORDS FROM THE VOCAB CLUB

Our daily vocab has leraned saved new words this week. Here are the seven new words ;

Fascinate = Amaze (Verb)
Limb = Arm or leg (Noun)
Hovel = A small or dirty living area (Noun)
Indigestion = Inability to digest food (Noun)
Jubile = Celebration (Noun)
Knead = Work dough (Verb)
Grumpy = Unhappy/Not nice (Adjective)

3. MAKE OR DO ?


There are a lot pharse in English that combine either "make" or "do" with an object noun or preposition. How do you know who to use "make" and when to use "do"?. One guideline is that when you use "make" it usually refers to something that you produce or create and "do" it usually used for a more physical action, here are example :

DO
- The dishes
- The housework
- The vacuming
- Exercise
- The laundry
- Homework

MAKE
- A mistake
- Breakfast, lunch and supper
- Food (any find)
- Your bed
- Money
- Amends (apologize)
- Fun of

SOME THAT MAY BE CONFUSING
- Do way with = to get rid of, or something kill something
- Make a way with = to steal
- Do up = to fasten
- Make up = to apologize

MEASURING UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS

Water is an uncountable (non account) noun and so is nine. Because it is either difficult (for rice) or impossible (foe water) to count the individual parts, so,how do you count them? you use countres such as one "glass" of water, or one "cup" of rice. Here are some more unusual countres :
A sheaf of paper A head of lettuce
A ream of paper A leaf of lettuce
A piece of food A bunch of grapes
A cob of corn A cord of wood
An ear of corn A bundle of wood
A spear of broccoli A tube of toothoaste