Section • All Speaking part strategies

LESSON 2 .
Section 1
• Advanced grammar structures
• Advanced topic vocabs
• Advanced pronunciation features
Section 2
• All Speaking part 1 strategies
• Finding speaking partners


1. End up – to finally be in a particular place or situation
End up doing something. I ended up doing all the work by myself
End up +adverb/preposition. If you go on like this, you`ll end up in prison
End up + (being) + adjective. If she carries on working overtime, she will end up being sick


Verbal phrases:
End up being a nice person
End up getting rich (idiom)
End up getting home (get home, idiom)
End up understanding the plot
End up dropping out of school

Finally, she ended up a nice person

Finally, she ended up being a nice person


2.Hardly ever - very rarely, scarcely, seldom, barely
I hardly ever watch movies


Hardly any
Most of the participants were so young, they had hardly any experience

Hardly anyone
Hardly anyone came to the lesson yesterday

Hardly
We hardly know each other

3.So much so that – to such a great degree
It was a great project, so much so that it won the first prize
He was so clever so much so that he can solve math exercises in a few minutes


4. Unlike- …different from, dissimilar to
Unlike my sister, I`m tall

Unlikely that
I think it`s unlikely that he will win in the contest


5.Ahead – in front
Ahead, I saw the only tree for miles