Gateway 2 Unit 3: The Gifts of Youth

Gateway 2 Unit 3: The Gifts of Youth

Gateway 2 Unit 3: The Gifts of Youth

Vocabulary: Qualities Of Youth

• Adventure: willingness to take the risk.
• Imagination: the mental ability to form new ideas.
• Passion: intense enjoyment, interest, or excitement.
• Ambition: a strong desire to do or achieve something.
• Vigor: physical strength or good health.
• Creativity: the ability to generate new methods or innovative ideas.
• Vitality: the state of being strong and active.
• Talent: natural aptitude, ability, or skill.
• Audacity: courage, fearlessness, disposition to do something.

Some Youth Think Adults Are: old-fashioned, intolerant, severe, bossy, undemocratic, mean, nosy, authoritarian

Some Adults Think Youths Are: rebellious, intolerant, strong-headed, thoughtless, careless, immature, untidy, disobedient, adventurous.

Idiomatic Expressions  

an Idiom is an expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its separate words. It rather has a separate meaning of its own. here are some examples:

• Rain cats and dogs: to rain heavily. It’s raining cats and dogs.
• In the bag: Certain or extremely likely to occur. Don’t worry about the final exam. It’s in the bag. 
• Dead loss: something described as a dead loss is absolutely unsuccessful or useless (a complete failure) When it comes to maths, my sister is a dead loss. 
• With flying colors: easily and excellently. They had their exam with flying colors.
• Be a cold fish: be a person who is distant and unfeeling. He rarely talks to his colleagues. He’s a cold fish.
• A bad penny refers to a person or thing which is unpleasant, dishonorable, or unwanted that is likely to reappear, particularly at inconvenient times.
• Hard to swallow: something Hard to swallow is Difficult to believe

Functions/Communication: Complaints

What is a Complaint?

A complaint is expressing displeasure or discontent about a situation or an event.

NOTICE:

Complain (verb)

Complaint (noun)

How to Make a Complaint?

Making complaints can be done with different statements or expressions that introduce your displeasure or discontent. A direct complaint can be considered rude or even impolite.

1. I have got a bit of a problem here, you see…………………
2. I am afraid I have to make a serious complaint
3. I just don’t know how to say it but,…………………………
4. Look, I’m not really satisfied with the way you…………
5. I am in the obligation of saying that……….
6. I have a serious complaint about………….
7. I have been patient long enough, but……………
8. I want to complain about….
9. Excuse me if I’m out of line, but…
10. There may have been a misunderstanding about…
11. I’m sorry to bother you, but..

How to Respond to Complaints

A- Accepting Complaints

1. I do apologize for…
2. I must apologize for…
3. I apologize for…
4. I’d like to apologize for…
5. I am so sorry for…
6. I shouldn’t have…
7. It’s all my fault.
8. I’m ashamed of…
9. Please, forgive me for…
10. Excuse me for …
11. I’m terribly sorry for…
12. Pardon me for this…
13. Please, forgive me for my….
14. Please, accept my apologies for…

B- Rejecting Complaints

1. Well, I’m afraid there is nothing we can do about it actually.
2. I’m afraid there isn’t much we can do about it.

Grammar: Phrasal Verbs

Phrasal verbs consist of a verb + a particle (preposition, adverb). The particle can change the meaning of the verb completely. For example::

• look up – consult a reference book (look a word up in a dictionary)
• look for – seek (look for her ring)
• look forward – anticipate with pleasure (look forward to meeting someone)

to see a list of phrasal verbs click on PHRASAL VERBS

Writing: Cause and Effect Essay

Click on this link to see How to Write a Cause and Effect Essay