The Boston School
Rose Anne Nassif Travers
Bahnhaldenstrasse 32
8050 Zürich
tel. 044 310 30 38
website: www.thebostonschool.com
e-mail:[email protected]
VOCABULARY EXERCISE:
Match the following words with their meaning
PART 1:
1. Sneakers
a. husband’s father
2. Flip flops
b. Before having (one’s own)
children
c. times that people enjoy
celebrating together something
special
d. Have incredibly clean floors.
3. Bending down
4. Father-in-law
5. Dusting
8. Special occasions
e. The man who is engaged to be
married – a future husband
f. Footware you usually wear at the
beach because they’re easy to
take off
g. Footware you wear when you are
doing sport because they have no
heels and are comfortable to wear
h. The noun form of “easy”
9. Fiancé
i.
10. Ease
j.
6. Before children come along
7. Eat off the floors
Cleaning the tops of furniture and
floors with a cloth or feather
You must do this to touch the
floor. If you have sore knees or a
bad back, this is difficult to do
The Boston School
Rose Anne Nassif Travers
Bahnhaldenstrasse 32
8050 Zürich
tel. 044 310 30 38
website: www.thebostonschool.com
e-mail:[email protected]
PART 2
11. A free pass
k. Keep it looking very nice
12. Establish the rule
l.
13. Neat freak
14. A polite gesture
15. Maintain its beauty
16. Posting a nagging sign
17. A casual visit
Slang: allow someone to do something
without payment or punishment
m. Put a sign up that may aggravate
someone because it reminds them to do
things they don’t want to
n. An everyday visit
o. a person who is obsessed about being
neat and clean
p. Doing a kind and thoughtful act for
someone
q. Make sure people do or don’t do what is
important in an official way
PART 3
18. OCD tendencies
r. Without wearing any shoes or socks
19. Dings
20. Stains
s. The opposite of to clean or tidy up
t. When you spill things on your clothes or
furniture they leave this behind so it is
very difficult to clean
u. A magazine that highlights beautiful
home or building designs
v. As a host of a party, you act friendly and
accommodating so that people feel
comfortable and enjoy themselves
w. If something is hit hard enough, it can
be damaged to make a mark that can’t
be removed easily
x. Taking pictures to be used for
advertising for example on a website or
magazine
y. The likelihood of having Obsessive
Compulsive Disorder habits and doing
things over and over again without
knowing when to stop
21. Photo spread
22. Architectural digest
23. Barefoot
24. Mess (something) up
25. Gracious hospitality