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Unit 22: Inversion
Changing the emphasis
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- 1Go beyond intermediate with our new video course
- 2Reported speech in 90 seconds!
- 3If or whether?
- 45 ways to use 'would'
- 5Let and allow
- 6Passive voice
- 7Unless
- 8Mixed conditionals
- 9The zero article - in 90 seconds
- 10The indefinite article - in 90 seconds
- 11The. That's right - the! Learn all about it in 90 seconds
- 12The continuous passive
- 13Future perfect
- 14Need + verb-ing
- 15Have something done
- 16Wish
- 17Word stress
- 18Different ways of saying 'if'
- 19Passive reporting structures
- 20The subjunctive
- 21When and if
- 22Inversion
- 23Phrasal verbs
- 24The future
- 25Modals in the past
- 26Narrative tenses
- 27Phrasal verb myths
- 28Conditionals review
- 29Used to - review
- 30Linking words of contrast
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Session 2 - News Review
squad
larger group of sports players from which a smaller team is chosen
outsiders
(here) players or team thought unlikely to win a competition
bookmakers
people whose job it is to take and pay money from betting
fairytale
(here) unreal or incredible
nuts/bonkers
crazy
a one-off
describes something which will only happen once
Session 3 - Lingohack
presumptive
likely to be
inappropriately
in the wrong way
long-standing
existing for a long time
Session 5 - The White Elephant
a recipe for disaster
something that will obviously go very wrong
up the creek without a paddle
in a difficult situation with no way of making it better
on the brink of disaster
about to go wrong
disaster averted
a bad situation has just been avoided
a close shave
(also) a bad situation has just been avoided