单元 8: Art
Adjectives and adverbs
选择一个单元
- 1Pop-ups
- 2Hidden talents
- 3Can't buy me love
- 4Travellers' tales
- 5The colleague from hell
- 6Jurassic mystery: unpacking the past
- 7Career changes
- 8Art
- 9Project management
- 10The dog ate my homework!
- 11The diary of a double agent
- 12Fashion forward
- 13Flat pack skyscrapers
- 14Extreme sports
- 15Food fads
- 16Me, my selfie and I
- 17Endangered animals
- 18A nip and a tuck: cosmetic surgery
- 19I'm really sorry...
- 20Telling stories
- 21Fakes and phrasals
- 22Looking to the future
- 23Becoming familiar with things
- 24From rags to riches
- 25Against the odds
- 26Our future on Mars?
- 27Where is it illegal to get a fish drunk?
- 28Dodgy dating
- 29Annoying advice
- 30I'll have been studying English for thirty weeks
课程 1
In this unit we look at words like dessert and desert, bored and boring. Learners of English often find it difficult to choose the right one. Do you? Practise using easily confused words with us.
Listening practice
You've practised these easily confused words in a written context. But somtimes it's useful to test your listening skills too. Can you tell which words are used in these spoken sentences? And are the words right or wrong?
To do
Listen to the recording. In it you will hear eight example sentences. If the sentence uses the right word, drag it into the 'Right' column. If it's wrong, drag it into the 'Wrong' column.
Note
The words desert and dessert are pronounced slightly differently. Desert stresses the first syllable: DEsert. Dessert stresses the second syllable: deSSERT.
收听音频并完成练习

That doesn't sound right...
10 Questions
Listen to the recording. In it there are ten example sentences. Each of them contains at least one easily confused word. Are the words used correctly? If so, drag the example into the 'RIght' column, if not choose the 'Wrong' column
帮助
练习题
Listen to the recording. In it there are ten example sentences. Each of them contains at least one easily confused word. Are the words used correctly? If so, drag the example into the 'RIght' column, if not choose the 'Wrong' column
提示
You don't eat this...帮助
练习题
Listen to the recording. In it there are ten example sentences. Each of them contains at least one easily confused word. Are the words used correctly? If so, drag the example into the 'RIght' column, if not choose the 'Wrong' column
提示
This time we need the one you eat...帮助
练习题
Listen to the recording. In it there are ten example sentences. Each of them contains at least one easily confused word. Are the words used correctly? If so, drag the example into the 'RIght' column, if not choose the 'Wrong' column
提示
What do you get after buying something?帮助
练习题
Listen to the recording. In it there are ten example sentences. Each of them contains at least one easily confused word. Are the words used correctly? If so, drag the example into the 'RIght' column, if not choose the 'Wrong' column
提示
This example has two different easily confused words... are they both right?帮助
练习题
Listen to the recording. In it there are ten example sentences. Each of them contains at least one easily confused word. Are the words used correctly? If so, drag the example into the 'RIght' column, if not choose the 'Wrong' column
提示
What are the things you need to make a dish of food?帮助
练习题
Listen to the recording. In it there are ten example sentences. Each of them contains at least one easily confused word. Are the words used correctly? If so, drag the example into the 'RIght' column, if not choose the 'Wrong' column
提示
'Bored' describes your feelings...帮助
练习题
Listen to the recording. In it there are ten example sentences. Each of them contains at least one easily confused word. Are the words used correctly? If so, drag the example into the 'RIght' column, if not choose the 'Wrong' column
提示
'Boring' describes something that is not interesting at all帮助
练习题
Listen to the recording. In it there are ten example sentences. Each of them contains at least one easily confused word. Are the words used correctly? If so, drag the example into the 'RIght' column, if not choose the 'Wrong' column
提示
If you feel upset about something, you are ______ about it帮助
练习题
Listen to the recording. In it there are ten example sentences. Each of them contains at least one easily confused word. Are the words used correctly? If so, drag the example into the 'RIght' column, if not choose the 'Wrong' column
提示
If you feel upset about something, you are ______ about it帮助
练习题
Listen to the recording. In it there are ten example sentences. Each of them contains at least one easily confused word. Are the words used correctly? If so, drag the example into the 'RIght' column, if not choose the 'Wrong' column
提示
You need the word that means the things contained within another thingQuestion 1 of 10
Right
Wrong
Excellent!太棒了!Bad luck!加分:
That doesn't sound right...
10 Questions
Listen to the recording. In it there are ten example sentences. Each of them contains at least one easily confused word. Are the words used correctly? If so, drag the example into the 'RIght' column, if not choose the 'Wrong' column
帮助
练习题
Listen to the recording. In it there are ten example sentences. Each of them contains at least one easily confused word. Are the words used correctly? If so, drag the example into the 'RIght' column, if not choose the 'Wrong' column
提示
You don't eat this...Question 1 of 10
帮助
练习题
Listen to the recording. In it there are ten example sentences. Each of them contains at least one easily confused word. Are the words used correctly? If so, drag the example into the 'RIght' column, if not choose the 'Wrong' column
提示
This time we need the one you eat...Question 2 of 10
帮助
练习题
Listen to the recording. In it there are ten example sentences. Each of them contains at least one easily confused word. Are the words used correctly? If so, drag the example into the 'RIght' column, if not choose the 'Wrong' column
提示
What do you get after buying something?Question 3 of 10
帮助
练习题
Listen to the recording. In it there are ten example sentences. Each of them contains at least one easily confused word. Are the words used correctly? If so, drag the example into the 'RIght' column, if not choose the 'Wrong' column
提示
This example has two different easily confused words... are they both right?Question 4 of 10
帮助
练习题
Listen to the recording. In it there are ten example sentences. Each of them contains at least one easily confused word. Are the words used correctly? If so, drag the example into the 'RIght' column, if not choose the 'Wrong' column
提示
What are the things you need to make a dish of food?Question 5 of 10
帮助
练习题
Listen to the recording. In it there are ten example sentences. Each of them contains at least one easily confused word. Are the words used correctly? If so, drag the example into the 'RIght' column, if not choose the 'Wrong' column
提示
'Bored' describes your feelings...Question 6 of 10
帮助
练习题
Listen to the recording. In it there are ten example sentences. Each of them contains at least one easily confused word. Are the words used correctly? If so, drag the example into the 'RIght' column, if not choose the 'Wrong' column
提示
'Boring' describes something that is not interesting at allQuestion 7 of 10
帮助
练习题
Listen to the recording. In it there are ten example sentences. Each of them contains at least one easily confused word. Are the words used correctly? If so, drag the example into the 'RIght' column, if not choose the 'Wrong' column
提示
If you feel upset about something, you are ______ about itQuestion 8 of 10
帮助
练习题
Listen to the recording. In it there are ten example sentences. Each of them contains at least one easily confused word. Are the words used correctly? If so, drag the example into the 'RIght' column, if not choose the 'Wrong' column
提示
If you feel upset about something, you are ______ about itQuestion 9 of 10
帮助
练习题
Listen to the recording. In it there are ten example sentences. Each of them contains at least one easily confused word. Are the words used correctly? If so, drag the example into the 'RIght' column, if not choose the 'Wrong' column
提示
You need the word that means the things contained within another thingQuestion 10 of 10
Excellent!太棒了!Bad luck!加分:
End of Session 1
That's the end of this session. We hope you're now more confident when using these easily confused words. And don't worry, if these are too easy for you, there are lots more easily confused words in English for you to master!
本课词汇
sensible
acting with good judgementsensitive
easily upsetboring
not interesting at allbored
feeling uninterested or with nothing to dodesert
an area of land with sand and rock where very little grows and there is little raindessert
a sweet dish at the end of a mealrecipe
instructions for making or preparing foodreceipt
a small document, either paper or electronic, that shows you have paid money for somethingcontents
all the things that are inside something elseingredients
individual parts that are combined to make something else, often food