Topic 20: Dancing Do you like dancing?
What kinds of dancing are popular in your country?
Is traditional dancing popular among young people in your country?
What kind of dancing do people like watching?
Nouns ballet ballroom dancing salsa break-dancing
ethnic minority
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Verbs boogie twist twirl
Adjectives rhythmic ritual ceremonial
Idioms Two left feet (describing someone who cannot dance) I can’t dance at all, in
face I’ve got
two left feet .
All the rage (= fashionable) Nowadays break-
dancing is
all the rage. Topic 21: Learning languages What languages do you speak?
Do you think it’s important to learn a foreign language?
What languages are spoken in your country?
Would you like to learn another language in the future?
(see vocabulary for Topic 9: learning English)
Nouns Native tongue
Dialect
Verbal communication
Verbs Be fluent in
Converse
Chat
Adjectives Understandable
Unintelligible
Meaningless
Idioms Have a chinwag (= have a conversation)
When I travelled to France, I tried to have a chinwag with the locals.
All Greek (= a language that one doesn’t understand)
When I went to Korea, I tried to converse with some people but the
native tongue was all Greek to me.
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Topic 22: Weather What’s the weather like where you live?
What do you do when the weather is bad?
What type of weather do you like best?
Would you like to have that type of weather all year round?
