Objectives

1. Exam practice (of course!)

2. Complete a health & fitness quiz

3. Think about the differences between competitive sports (where you try to beat an opponent) and individual sports (that you do alone).

4. Read about world sport

5. Start to use some intensifying adverbs

• Test your body parts knowledgehttp://www.playbuzz.com/kwizzical11/do-you-know-the-names-of-these-human-body-parts

Today’s words:

 convenient adjective

Opposite

inconvenient

thoroughly adverb (VERY MUCH)

B2 ​completely, very much:I thoroughly ​enjoyed the ​performance.

thoroughly adverb (CAREFULLY)

B2 in a ​detailed and ​careful way:We went through the ​report thoroughly but couldn’t ​find the ​information ​anywhere.

sincere adjective

C1 (of a ​person, ​feelings, or ​behaviour) not ​pretending or ​lying; ​honest:a sincere ​apologyHe ​seems so sincere.

Opposite

insincere

compete verb [I]

B2 to ​try to be more ​successful than someone or something ​else:It’s ​difficult for a ​small ​shop to compete against/with the ​big​supermarkets.Both ​girls compete for ​their father’s ​attention.figurative Turn the ​music down – I’m not competing against/withthat ​noise (= I can’t/won’t ​try to ​speak ​louder than that ​music)!B1 to take ​part in a ​race or ​competition:Are you competing in the 100 ​metres?The two ​athletes are competing for the ​gold ​medal.

empathize verb [I]

(UK usually empathise) UK   US   /ˈem.pə.θaɪz/

› to be ​able to ​understand how someone ​else ​feels:It’s very ​easy to empathize with the ​characters in her ​books.

Compare:

sympathize verb [I] (UNDERSTAND)

(UK usually sympathise)  

C2 to ​understand and ​care about someone’s ​problems:I ​know what it’s like to have ​migraines, so I really sympathize (withyou).

sympathize verb [I] (SUPPORT)

› to ​support and ​agree with someone or something:I sympathize with the ​general ​aims of the ​organization, but on this ​particular ​issue I ​disagree.

fair trade noun [U]

a way of ​buying and ​selling ​products that makes ​certain that the ​people who ​produce the ​goods ​receive a ​fair ​price:The ​charity says that ​fair ​trade ​brings a ​better ​standard of ​living for ​poor ​farmers in ​developing ​countries.​fair ​trade ​coffee/​chocolate

fairly traded

adverb UK   US

free-range adjective

› ​relating to or ​produced by ​farm ​animals that are ​allowed to ​move around ​outside and are not ​kept in ​cages:free-range ​eggs/​chickens

battery adjective [before noun]

› using a ​system of ​producing a ​large ​number of ​eggs ​cheaplyby ​keeping a lot of ​chickens in ​rows of ​small ​cages (= ​boxesmade of ​wire):battery ​farmingbattery ​hens/​eggs