Arakin 4 kurs new 001 176. indd

SPEECH PATTERNS
1. What I really lacked
was experience.
What he suffered from was inferiority complex.
What we need is love and money.
2. The most powerful ideas are the ones
you absorb indirectly.
The most interesting books are the ones you haven’t read yet.
The most challenging roles are the ones the actor hasn’t got 
yet.
3. Little did she guess what
he had on his mind.
Little did they realize why he was being so nice to them.
Little did we know what the future had in store for us.
PHRASES AND COLLOCATIONS
to come first/second/last
short of (smth./doing 
smth.)
to bring/keep smth. up-to-date 
in/during one’s lifetime

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to embrace functions/ideas/ 
ill-informed (ill-tuned,
religions
ill-bred 
etc.)
to date back to (smth.)/to date
to come into existence/
from (smth.) 
into popular usage
ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY
1. 
alarm
 n
1) a call to arms or action; a warning of danger: 
When 
the people in the street noticed the clouds of smoke coming out of the 
window, they gave the alarm.
2) a sudden feeling of fear and excitement 
because of the possible approach of danger:
 The mother rushed out of 
the house in alarm when she heard her son crying loudly in the yard.
an alarm bell
: 
The soldiers were roused from their sleep by the sound 
of the alarm bell.
an alarm (clock)
: a clock that will ring and wake up a person at 
any time he wishes: 
I didn’t hear the alarm clock and overslept. She 
always sets the alarm for six o’clock.
a false alarm
a hoax: 
There is nothing to be panicky about, it was a 
false alarm.