Vocabulary handout and exercises

Many factors must be considered in explaining how fast the population has grown in the developing countries.

It is easiest to list foods and drinks according to where they are stored.

He can't remember a word, nor does he know why he is going to be executed.

Brian McHale

So we can see cyberpunk as…

Michel Foucault

You shouldn’t imagine that the world turns towards us a readable face we’d only need to have to figure out; the world isn’t the partner of our know-how, savvy.

Sandor Klapcsik

Watching The Matrix is really-really fun.

The normal people dig the action scenes in it.

Critics think that it’s a great flick, too.

It is because they find lots of similarities to philosophical books in it, such as, Jean

Baudrillard’s sayings.

They also think it’s about knotty things, such as things that we all care about.

So we can say nobody hates this movie.

But the question might pop into our head: what’ll people think of it in 10 years?

I guess, as times change, people’s taste will change, too.

Mieke Bal

Is it possible that people can inherently connect vision and male power?

People often believe “yes”, for example, after Laura Mulvey’s 1975 article, although not in every way.

This suspicion makes people assume that …

… vision is a quite unified way of perception and interpretation.

3 Identify the informal expressions in the following sentences. Rewrite the following sentences, replacing the informal expressions with a more formal equivalent.

With women especially, there is a lot of social pressure to conform to a certain physical shape.

They did not easily accept or put up with differences in others.

Significantly, even at this late date, Lautrec was considered a bit conservative by his peers.

Modern houses have so many labour-saving things that it is difficult for the person at home to have adequate exercise by doing chores, cooking, and looking after a family.

A primary education system was set up throughout Ireland as early as 1831.

This will cut down the amount of drug required and so the cost of treatment.

Simply making the effort to reclaim this wasted stuff for fertilizer would have a positive effect on greenhouse releases.

Fleming did well in isolating a streptococcus from the cerebrospinal fluid of the patient.

Effective vaccines prevent such hazards, but only if a social organisation makes sure that all potential mothers are vaccinated in good time.

Unfortunately, since there are so many possible explanations, the correct one is most difficult to find out.

It is certainly cheap, and does not need lots of effort, to mend our bicycle.

In the end, we will do it very quickly.

We start the task early – and we will finish it early.

The court thinks it just and reasonable to give back the property.