Section • All Speaking part strategies

Ahead – in advance, in the lead
If you are ahead in your work or achievements, you have made more progress than you expected an you are performing well

Ahead – future
There will be many cheerful and happy days ahead

Go ahead (idiom) – to wish good luck
Go ahead! You will achieve super results


TOPIC VOCABULARY: T-SHIRT
1. A must - something that is very needed or important
• T-shirts are a must in hot summer time

2. Dress up for special occasions - put on beautiful/formal clothes for special events

• I usually dress up when I go to any party

3. Casual clothes - clothes which are comfortable to wear, and which are suitable for informal occasions

• I feel comfortable in casual clothes

4. Stylish - trendy, fashionable

• Girls like to look stylish

5. Presentable - good-looking enough

• I don't need to be so attractive. As long as I'm presentable, that's fine.

6. Practicality - quality of being suitable for a particular occasion or use:

• I bought these shoes for their practicality, not their appearance

7. Simplicity - the fact that something is ordinary, traditional, or natural, and not complicated.

• These days youngsters try to look fashionable whereas older people like the simplicity and practicality of clothes.


ESSENTIAL WORDS
1. Luxury - a state of great comfort or elegance, especially when involving great expense.
• He lived a life of ease and luxury

2. A sense of accomplishment - a feeling of achievement

• It gives me a sense of accomplishment.

3. Over-protective - too worried about someone’s safety, so that you prevent them from being independent

• My mum used to be overprotective when I was little.

4. Priority - a thing that should be done first as it is more important than others.

• My top priority is to make sure that students of mine are making good progress.

5. Ultimate goals - most important, highest, last, or final:

Your ultimate goal is to play the game as well as you can

6. See the sheer amount of joy in his eyes - to see someone who is so excited and happy

• it is true happiness to see the sheer amount of joy in my dad's eyes.

7. Adjusted my sleep schedules - change my sleep patterns

• Finally, I've been able to adjust my sleep schedules.

8. Have a good sense of humour - a person who can tell good jokes and can understand others' jokes, too.

• He has a good sense of humour.

9. Crack jokes - tell jokes in a wonderful way

• I love the way he cracks a joke.

10. Advanced in years - a polite way of saying "old"

• She is quite advanced in years.

11. Hand-made items - things that are made by using hands

• Hand-made items can be more long-lasting

12. Long-lasting - something that remains in a good condition for a long period of time

• Expensive products are usually long-lasting.