Unit 19: Passive reporting structures
Transitive and intransitive verbs
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- 1 Go beyond intermediate with our new video course
- 2 Reported speech in 90 seconds!
- 3 If or whether?
- 4 5 ways to use 'would'
- 5 Let and allow
- 6 Passive voice
- 7 Unless
- 8 Mixed conditionals
- 9 The zero article - in 90 seconds
- 10 The indefinite article - in 90 seconds
- 11 The. That's right - the! Learn all about it in 90 seconds
- 12 The continuous passive
- 13 Future perfect
- 14 Need + verb-ing
- 15 Have something done
- 16 Wish
- 17 Word stress
- 18 Different ways of saying 'if'
- 19 Passive reporting structures
- 20 The subjunctive
- 21 When and if
- 22 Inversion
- 23 Phrasal verbs
- 24 The future
- 25 Modals in the past
- 26 Narrative tenses
- 27 Phrasal verb myths
- 28 Conditionals review
- 29 Used to - review
- 30 Linking words of contrast
Session 3
Get up-to-date with the latest news and understand it too with Lingohack. Listen to and watch authentic BBC World News bulletins and learn key words and phrases that help you make sense of the news.
Activity 1
Lingohack
Today's Headlines:
Hawking backs interstellar travel project
Russia celebrates cosmonaut anniversary
Baby wallaby becomes an internet star
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Leading scientists, including Professor Stephen Hawking, are giving their support to an ambitious project to send a spacecraft to another solar system. The ship would need to travel trillions of miles – much further than any before – and the plan is to develop a craft about the size of a microchip that could travel at exceptional speed.
Russia's been celebrating 55 years since Yuri Gagarin became the world's first spaceman. It was an historic moment and a triumph for the Soviet space programme at the height of the Cold War. Today astronauts are constantly in orbit on the International Space Station. Some of them did a live link-up with earth to mark the anniversary.
Take a look at how a baby wallaby is winning hearts across the internet. Here he is, popping his head out of his mother's pouch for the first time. The joey, from just south of Sydney, was born the size of a jellybean and spent six months inside his mother, Lily's, pouch. He has another three months until he emerges fully and becomes more independent.
To do
Try these questions to test your ability to use the words from this Lingohack video.
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5 Questions
Use one of the words or phrases from this Lingohack to complete the sentences. You may have to change the form of the word.
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Use one of the words or phrases from this Lingohack to complete the sentences. You may have to change the form of the word.
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extreme; greater than normalQuestion 1 of 5
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Use one of the words or phrases from this Lingohack to complete the sentences. You may have to change the form of the word.
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Have you got all the articles and prepositions right?Question 2 of 5
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Use one of the words or phrases from this Lingohack to complete the sentences. You may have to change the form of the word.
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difficult to achieveQuestion 3 of 5
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Use one of the words or phrases from this Lingohack to complete the sentences. You may have to change the form of the word.
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getting the affection of peopleQuestion 4 of 5
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Use one of the words or phrases from this Lingohack to complete the sentences. You may have to change the form of the word.
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great achievementQuestion 5 of 5
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Session Vocabulary
ambitious
(here) difficult to achieveexceptional
extreme; greater than normaltriumph
great achievementthe height of
a time when a situation is most activewinning hearts
getting the affection of people