tailieunhanh - A complete English language course part 20

taxes – money we pay to the state for the government to use household – group of people sharing a home licence – a piece of paper you have to buy from the government to be allowed to do something adverts – short films designed to encourage you to buy things commercial breaks – interruptions during and between programmes to show adverts finance – fund distinct – visibly or noticeably different from each other viewers – people who watch television similar – looking almost the same as each other, having almost the same appearance increasingly – more and more in. | 174 taxes - money we pay to the state for the government to use household - group of people sharing a home licence - a piece of paper you have to buy from the government to be allowed to do something adverts - short films designed to encourage you to buy things commercial breaks - interruptions during and between programmes to show adverts finance - fund distinct - visibly or noticeably different from each other viewers - people who watch television similar - looking almost the same as each other having almost the same appearance increasingly - more and more in competition with - trying to be or do better than additional - extra more via - through satellite - machine that orbits the earth and relays TV and radio signals cable - an underground electronic bundle of wires that feeds television signals into homes subscribe - pay a regular amount of money to have a continual service fee - the payment you make to subscribe to a service dish - piece of equipment to receive satellite signals pick up - receive television and radio signals range - selection choice scheduled - planned to be shown set down in the TV guide remote - device for controlling your television at a distance so you don t have to get out of your chair to change channels station - channel but we say channel for TV and station for radio exercise - physical activity to keep yourself fit 11 I ll see you at half past five In this unit you will learn how to make arrangements with people tell the time use other time expressions buy tickets for public transport use prepositions in wh-questions Dialogue 1 Adrian s buying a train ticket over the phone. Adrian Could I have a return ticket to Glasgow for tomorrow Clerk Certainly. Where are you travelling from Adrian From Brighton. Clerk And when do you want to arrive Adrian I ve got a meeting at twelve. Will the seven o clock train get me there in time Clerk Yes but unfortunately you ve left it too late - there are no seats left on that train. I can book you onto .