Upper-Intermediate 5B WB

put the words in the correct order

1. I / you / do the washing up

put the words in the correct order

2. I / my sister / not borrow / my clothes

put the words in the correct order

3. I / our neighbours / not park / outside our house

put the words in the correct order

4. I / my granny / get a hearing aid

put the words in the correct order

5. I / the bus / come

Write sentences with wish + would.

Write sentences with wish + would.

Write sentences with wish + would.

Write sentences with wish + would.

Write sentences with wish + would.

Complete the sentences with an adjective or a verb made from the word in bold.

Complete the sentences with an adjective or a verb made from the word in bold.

Complete the sentences with an adjective or a verb made from the word in bold.

Complete the sentences with an adjective or a verb made from the word in bold.

Complete the sentences with an adjective or a verb made from the word in bold.

Complete the sentences with an adjective or a verb made from the word in bold.

Complete the sentences with an adjective or a verb made from the word in bold.

Complete the sentences with an adjective or a verb made from the word in bold.

Complete the sentences with an adjective or a verb made from the word in bold.

Complete the sentences with an adjective or a verb made from the word in bold.Question:

Complete the sentences with an adjective or a verb made from the word in bold.

Read the article. Complete it with the missing sentences.

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Don’t regrets

2 ______. The first one was denial and she spent the first few hours saying to herself, ‘Make it go away!’ The second was a feeling of bewilderment in which she kept on asking herself, ‘How could I have done that?’ The third was a desire to punish herself, something along the lines of ‘I could kick myself. The fourth is something that psychologists call perseveration. This is the habit of focussing obsessively and repeatedly on the exact same thing. A person who is feeling regret has the first three components going around in their head again and again

Read the article. Complete it with the missing sentences.

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Don’t regrets

3 ______ not only the physical pain of her tattooed wrist, but the emotional pain of knowing that she had done something incredibly stupid.

Read the article. Complete it with the missing sentences.

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Don’t regrets

4 ______. The first is to take comfort in the fact that she is not alone. Figures show that around 17% of Americans regret getting tattoos at some point in their lives. The second is to learn to laugh at herself. Humour and black humour playa fundamental role in helping us come to terms with our regret. Apart from that, Ms Schulz recognizes the value of sitting back and waiting for the pain of regret to go away. Time heals all wounds as the saying goes, and in the case of regret this is most certainly true.

Read the article. Complete it with the missing sentences.

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Don’t regrets

5 ______. Most people who see it are disappointed, because they don’t think it is that bad; the problem is that she doesn’t like it. She got the tattoo when she was off travelling and she was worried that she would forget some of the lessons that she had learnt during that time. It is a lesson that she wants to share with other people. For her, the compass represented the two ideas in one image.

Read the article. Complete it with the missing sentences.

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Don’t regrets

6 ______. It reminds her how important it is to keep on exploring, and simultaneously how important it is to know where you’re heading in life. Ms Schulz believes that if we have goals and dreams and if we love people, we should feel pain when things go wrong. In her view, we need to learn to love the flawed things that we create and to be able to forgive ourselves for creating them. Ms Schulz says that her experience has taught her that regret doesn’t exist to remind us that we did badly; instead it is there to remind us that we know that we can do better.

Read the whole text again and choose the sentences T (true) or F (false).

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Don’t regrets

1 A. Unfortunately, she regretted getting it as soon as she left the tattoo shop. Until then, she had been proud of leading a life without regrets. She had gone through life working on the principle that you should always look forward and never look back. But that night, she remembers feeling regret for the very first time.
2 ______. The first one was denial and she spent the first few hours saying to herself, ‘Make it go away!’ The second was a feeling of bewilderment in which she kept on asking herself, ‘How could I have done that?’ The third was a desire to punish herself, something along the lines of ‘I could kick myself. The fourth is something that psychologists call perseveration. This is the habit of focussing obsessively and repeatedly on the exact same thing. A person who is feeling regret has the first three components going around in their head again and again
3 ______ not only the physical pain of her tattooed wrist, but the emotional pain of knowing that she had done something incredibly stupid.
4 ______. The first is to take comfort in the fact that she is not alone. Figures show that around 17% of Americans regret getting tattoos at some point in their lives. The second is to learn to laugh at herself. Humour and black humour playa fundamental role in helping us come to terms with our regret. Apart from that, Ms Schulz recognizes the value of sitting back and waiting for the pain of regret to go away. Time heals all wounds as the saying goes, and in the case of regret this is most certainly true.
5 ______. Most people who see it are disappointed, because they don’t think it is that bad; the problem is that she doesn’t like it. She got the tattoo when she was off travelling and she was worried that she would forget some of the lessons that she had learnt during that time. It is a lesson that she wants to share with other people. For her, the compass represented the two ideas in one image.
6 ______. It reminds her how important it is to keep on exploring, and simultaneously how important it is to know where you’re heading in life. Ms Schulz believes that if we have goals and dreams and if we love people, we should feel pain when things go wrong. In her view, we need to learn to love the flawed things that we create and to be able to forgive ourselves for creating them. Ms Schulz says that her experience has taught her that regret doesn’t exist to remind us that we did badly; instead it is there to remind us that we know that we can do better.

Question:

The first emotion Ms Schulz felt that night was a kind of confusion.

Read the whole text again and choose the sentences T (true) or F (false).

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Don’t regrets

1 A. Unfortunately, she regretted getting it as soon as she left the tattoo shop. Until then, she had been proud of leading a life without regrets. She had gone through life working on the principle that you should always look forward and never look back. But that night, she remembers feeling regret for the very first time.
2 ______. The first one was denial and she spent the first few hours saying to herself, ‘Make it go away!’ The second was a feeling of bewilderment in which she kept on asking herself, ‘How could I have done that?’ The third was a desire to punish herself, something along the lines of ‘I could kick myself. The fourth is something that psychologists call perseveration. This is the habit of focussing obsessively and repeatedly on the exact same thing. A person who is feeling regret has the first three components going around in their head again and again
3 ______ not only the physical pain of her tattooed wrist, but the emotional pain of knowing that she had done something incredibly stupid.
4 ______. The first is to take comfort in the fact that she is not alone. Figures show that around 17% of Americans regret getting tattoos at some point in their lives. The second is to learn to laugh at herself. Humour and black humour playa fundamental role in helping us come to terms with our regret. Apart from that, Ms Schulz recognizes the value of sitting back and waiting for the pain of regret to go away. Time heals all wounds as the saying goes, and in the case of regret this is most certainly true.
5 ______. Most people who see it are disappointed, because they don’t think it is that bad; the problem is that she doesn’t like it. She got the tattoo when she was off travelling and she was worried that she would forget some of the lessons that she had learnt during that time. It is a lesson that she wants to share with other people. For her, the compass represented the two ideas in one image.
6 ______. It reminds her how important it is to keep on exploring, and simultaneously how important it is to know where you’re heading in life. Ms Schulz believes that if we have goals and dreams and if we love people, we should feel pain when things go wrong. In her view, we need to learn to love the flawed things that we create and to be able to forgive ourselves for creating them. Ms Schulz says that her experience has taught her that regret doesn’t exist to remind us that we did badly; instead it is there to remind us that we know that we can do better.

Question:

By the time she got home, her wrist had stopped hurting.

Read the whole text again and choose the sentences T (true) or F (false).

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Don’t regrets

1 A. Unfortunately, she regretted getting it as soon as she left the tattoo shop. Until then, she had been proud of leading a life without regrets. She had gone through life working on the principle that you should always look forward and never look back. But that night, she remembers feeling regret for the very first time.
2 ______. The first one was denial and she spent the first few hours saying to herself, ‘Make it go away!’ The second was a feeling of bewilderment in which she kept on asking herself, ‘How could I have done that?’ The third was a desire to punish herself, something along the lines of ‘I could kick myself. The fourth is something that psychologists call perseveration. This is the habit of focussing obsessively and repeatedly on the exact same thing. A person who is feeling regret has the first three components going around in their head again and again
3 ______ not only the physical pain of her tattooed wrist, but the emotional pain of knowing that she had done something incredibly stupid.
4 ______. The first is to take comfort in the fact that she is not alone. Figures show that around 17% of Americans regret getting tattoos at some point in their lives. The second is to learn to laugh at herself. Humour and black humour playa fundamental role in helping us come to terms with our regret. Apart from that, Ms Schulz recognizes the value of sitting back and waiting for the pain of regret to go away. Time heals all wounds as the saying goes, and in the case of regret this is most certainly true.
5 ______. Most people who see it are disappointed, because they don’t think it is that bad; the problem is that she doesn’t like it. She got the tattoo when she was off travelling and she was worried that she would forget some of the lessons that she had learnt during that time. It is a lesson that she wants to share with other people. For her, the compass represented the two ideas in one image.
6 ______. It reminds her how important it is to keep on exploring, and simultaneously how important it is to know where you’re heading in life. Ms Schulz believes that if we have goals and dreams and if we love people, we should feel pain when things go wrong. In her view, we need to learn to love the flawed things that we create and to be able to forgive ourselves for creating them. Ms Schulz says that her experience has taught her that regret doesn’t exist to remind us that we did badly; instead it is there to remind us that we know that we can do better.

Question:

Ms Schulz isn’t the only American who regrets having a tattoo.

Read the whole text again and choose the sentences T (true) or F (false).

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Don’t regrets

1 A. Unfortunately, she regretted getting it as soon as she left the tattoo shop. Until then, she had been proud of leading a life without regrets. She had gone through life working on the principle that you should always look forward and never look back. But that night, she remembers feeling regret for the very first time.
2 ______. The first one was denial and she spent the first few hours saying to herself, ‘Make it go away!’ The second was a feeling of bewilderment in which she kept on asking herself, ‘How could I have done that?’ The third was a desire to punish herself, something along the lines of ‘I could kick myself. The fourth is something that psychologists call perseveration. This is the habit of focussing obsessively and repeatedly on the exact same thing. A person who is feeling regret has the first three components going around in their head again and again
3 ______ not only the physical pain of her tattooed wrist, but the emotional pain of knowing that she had done something incredibly stupid.
4 ______. The first is to take comfort in the fact that she is not alone. Figures show that around 17% of Americans regret getting tattoos at some point in their lives. The second is to learn to laugh at herself. Humour and black humour playa fundamental role in helping us come to terms with our regret. Apart from that, Ms Schulz recognizes the value of sitting back and waiting for the pain of regret to go away. Time heals all wounds as the saying goes, and in the case of regret this is most certainly true.
5 ______. Most people who see it are disappointed, because they don’t think it is that bad; the problem is that she doesn’t like it. She got the tattoo when she was off travelling and she was worried that she would forget some of the lessons that she had learnt during that time. It is a lesson that she wants to share with other people. For her, the compass represented the two ideas in one image.
6 ______. It reminds her how important it is to keep on exploring, and simultaneously how important it is to know where you’re heading in life. Ms Schulz believes that if we have goals and dreams and if we love people, we should feel pain when things go wrong. In her view, we need to learn to love the flawed things that we create and to be able to forgive ourselves for creating them. Ms Schulz says that her experience has taught her that regret doesn’t exist to remind us that we did badly; instead it is there to remind us that we know that we can do better.

Question:

In Ms Schulz’s opinion, regret usually disappears over time.

Read the whole text again and choose the sentences T (true) or F (false).

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Don’t regrets

1 A. Unfortunately, she regretted getting it as soon as she left the tattoo shop. Until then, she had been proud of leading a life without regrets. She had gone through life working on the principle that you should always look forward and never look back. But that night, she remembers feeling regret for the very first time.
2 ______. The first one was denial and she spent the first few hours saying to herself, ‘Make it go away!’ The second was a feeling of bewilderment in which she kept on asking herself, ‘How could I have done that?’ The third was a desire to punish herself, something along the lines of ‘I could kick myself. The fourth is something that psychologists call perseveration. This is the habit of focussing obsessively and repeatedly on the exact same thing. A person who is feeling regret has the first three components going around in their head again and again
3 ______ not only the physical pain of her tattooed wrist, but the emotional pain of knowing that she had done something incredibly stupid.
4 ______. The first is to take comfort in the fact that she is not alone. Figures show that around 17% of Americans regret getting tattoos at some point in their lives. The second is to learn to laugh at herself. Humour and black humour playa fundamental role in helping us come to terms with our regret. Apart from that, Ms Schulz recognizes the value of sitting back and waiting for the pain of regret to go away. Time heals all wounds as the saying goes, and in the case of regret this is most certainly true.
5 ______. Most people who see it are disappointed, because they don’t think it is that bad; the problem is that she doesn’t like it. She got the tattoo when she was off travelling and she was worried that she would forget some of the lessons that she had learnt during that time. It is a lesson that she wants to share with other people. For her, the compass represented the two ideas in one image.
6 ______. It reminds her how important it is to keep on exploring, and simultaneously how important it is to know where you’re heading in life. Ms Schulz believes that if we have goals and dreams and if we love people, we should feel pain when things go wrong. In her view, we need to learn to love the flawed things that we create and to be able to forgive ourselves for creating them. Ms Schulz says that her experience has taught her that regret doesn’t exist to remind us that we did badly; instead it is there to remind us that we know that we can do better.

Question:

When Ms Schulz shows people her tattoo, they are usually horrified.

Read the whole text again and choose the sentences T (true) or F (false).

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Don’t regrets

1 A. Unfortunately, she regretted getting it as soon as she left the tattoo shop. Until then, she had been proud of leading a life without regrets. She had gone through life working on the principle that you should always look forward and never look back. But that night, she remembers feeling regret for the very first time.
2 ______. The first one was denial and she spent the first few hours saying to herself, ‘Make it go away!’ The second was a feeling of bewilderment in which she kept on asking herself, ‘How could I have done that?’ The third was a desire to punish herself, something along the lines of ‘I could kick myself. The fourth is something that psychologists call perseveration. This is the habit of focussing obsessively and repeatedly on the exact same thing. A person who is feeling regret has the first three components going around in their head again and again
3 ______ not only the physical pain of her tattooed wrist, but the emotional pain of knowing that she had done something incredibly stupid.
4 ______. The first is to take comfort in the fact that she is not alone. Figures show that around 17% of Americans regret getting tattoos at some point in their lives. The second is to learn to laugh at herself. Humour and black humour playa fundamental role in helping us come to terms with our regret. Apart from that, Ms Schulz recognizes the value of sitting back and waiting for the pain of regret to go away. Time heals all wounds as the saying goes, and in the case of regret this is most certainly true.
5 ______. Most people who see it are disappointed, because they don’t think it is that bad; the problem is that she doesn’t like it. She got the tattoo when she was off travelling and she was worried that she would forget some of the lessons that she had learnt during that time. It is a lesson that she wants to share with other people. For her, the compass represented the two ideas in one image.
6 ______. It reminds her how important it is to keep on exploring, and simultaneously how important it is to know where you’re heading in life. Ms Schulz believes that if we have goals and dreams and if we love people, we should feel pain when things go wrong. In her view, we need to learn to love the flawed things that we create and to be able to forgive ourselves for creating them. Ms Schulz says that her experience has taught her that regret doesn’t exist to remind us that we did badly; instead it is there to remind us that we know that we can do better.

Question:

Ms Schultz wanted a tattoo that reminded her of the places she travelled to.

Read the whole text again and choose the sentences T (true) or F (false).

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Don’t regrets

1 A. Unfortunately, she regretted getting it as soon as she left the tattoo shop. Until then, she had been proud of leading a life without regrets. She had gone through life working on the principle that you should always look forward and never look back. But that night, she remembers feeling regret for the very first time.
2 ______. The first one was denial and she spent the first few hours saying to herself, ‘Make it go away!’ The second was a feeling of bewilderment in which she kept on asking herself, ‘How could I have done that?’ The third was a desire to punish herself, something along the lines of ‘I could kick myself. The fourth is something that psychologists call perseveration. This is the habit of focussing obsessively and repeatedly on the exact same thing. A person who is feeling regret has the first three components going around in their head again and again
3 ______ not only the physical pain of her tattooed wrist, but the emotional pain of knowing that she had done something incredibly stupid.
4 ______. The first is to take comfort in the fact that she is not alone. Figures show that around 17% of Americans regret getting tattoos at some point in their lives. The second is to learn to laugh at herself. Humour and black humour playa fundamental role in helping us come to terms with our regret. Apart from that, Ms Schulz recognizes the value of sitting back and waiting for the pain of regret to go away. Time heals all wounds as the saying goes, and in the case of regret this is most certainly true.
5 ______. Most people who see it are disappointed, because they don’t think it is that bad; the problem is that she doesn’t like it. She got the tattoo when she was off travelling and she was worried that she would forget some of the lessons that she had learnt during that time. It is a lesson that she wants to share with other people. For her, the compass represented the two ideas in one image.
6 ______. It reminds her how important it is to keep on exploring, and simultaneously how important it is to know where you’re heading in life. Ms Schulz believes that if we have goals and dreams and if we love people, we should feel pain when things go wrong. In her view, we need to learn to love the flawed things that we create and to be able to forgive ourselves for creating them. Ms Schulz says that her experience has taught her that regret doesn’t exist to remind us that we did badly; instead it is there to remind us that we know that we can do better.

Question:

She thinks regrets teach us to accept our mistakes.

Look at the highlighted words and phrases in the text and try to work out their meaning. Then match them to definitions 1-10.

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Don’t regrets

1 A. Unfortunately, she regretted getting it as soon as she left the tattoo shop. Until then, she had been proud of leading a life without regrets. She had gone through life working on the principle that you should always look forward and never look back. But that night, she remembers feeling regret for the very first time.
2 ______. The first one was denial and she spent the first few hours saying to herself, ‘Make it go away!’ The second was a feeling of bewilderment in which she kept on asking herself, ‘How could I have done that?’ The third was a desire to punish herself, something along the lines of ‘I could kick myself. The fourth is something that psychologists call perseveration. This is the habit of focussing obsessively and repeatedly on the exact same thing. A person who is feeling regret has the first three components going around in their head again and again
3 ______ not only the physical pain of her tattooed wrist, but the emotional pain of knowing that she had done something incredibly stupid.
4 ______. The first is to take comfort in the fact that she is not alone. Figures show that around 17% of Americans regret getting tattoos at some point in their lives. The second is to learn to laugh at herself. Humour and black humour playa fundamental role in helping us come to terms with our regret. Apart from that, Ms Schulz recognizes the value of sitting back and waiting for the pain of regret to go away. Time heals all wounds as the saying goes, and in the case of regret this is most certainly true.
5 ______. Most people who see it are disappointed, because they don’t think it is that bad; the problem is that she doesn’t like it. She got the tattoo when she was off travelling and she was worried that she would forget some of the lessons that she had learnt during that time. It is a lesson that she wants to share with other people. For her, the compass represented the two ideas in one image.
6 ______. It reminds her how important it is to keep on exploring, and simultaneously how important it is to know where you’re heading in life. Ms Schulz believes that if we have goals and dreams and if we love people, we should feel pain when things go wrong. In her view, we need to learn to love the flawed things that we create and to be able to forgive ourselves for creating them. Ms Schulz says that her experience has taught her that regret doesn’t exist to remind us that we did badly; instead it is there to remind us that we know that we can do better.

Look at the highlighted words and phrases in the text and try to work out their meaning. Then match them to definitions 1-10.

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Don’t regrets

1 A. Unfortunately, she regretted getting it as soon as she left the tattoo shop. Until then, she had been proud of leading a life without regrets. She had gone through life working on the principle that you should always look forward and never look back. But that night, she remembers feeling regret for the very first time.
2 ______. The first one was denial and she spent the first few hours saying to herself, ‘Make it go away!’ The second was a feeling of bewilderment in which she kept on asking herself, ‘How could I have done that?’ The third was a desire to punish herself, something along the lines of ‘I could kick myself. The fourth is something that psychologists call perseveration. This is the habit of focussing obsessively and repeatedly on the exact same thing. A person who is feeling regret has the first three components going around in their head again and again
3 ______ not only the physical pain of her tattooed wrist, but the emotional pain of knowing that she had done something incredibly stupid.
4 ______. The first is to take comfort in the fact that she is not alone. Figures show that around 17% of Americans regret getting tattoos at some point in their lives. The second is to learn to laugh at herself. Humour and black humour playa fundamental role in helping us come to terms with our regret. Apart from that, Ms Schulz recognizes the value of sitting back and waiting for the pain of regret to go away. Time heals all wounds as the saying goes, and in the case of regret this is most certainly true.
5 ______. Most people who see it are disappointed, because they don’t think it is that bad; the problem is that she doesn’t like it. She got the tattoo when she was off travelling and she was worried that she would forget some of the lessons that she had learnt during that time. It is a lesson that she wants to share with other people. For her, the compass represented the two ideas in one image.
6 ______. It reminds her how important it is to keep on exploring, and simultaneously how important it is to know where you’re heading in life. Ms Schulz believes that if we have goals and dreams and if we love people, we should feel pain when things go wrong. In her view, we need to learn to love the flawed things that we create and to be able to forgive ourselves for creating them. Ms Schulz says that her experience has taught her that regret doesn’t exist to remind us that we did badly; instead it is there to remind us that we know that we can do better.

Look at the highlighted words and phrases in the text and try to work out their meaning. Then match them to definitions 1-10.

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Don’t regrets

1 A. Unfortunately, she regretted getting it as soon as she left the tattoo shop. Until then, she had been proud of leading a life without regrets. She had gone through life working on the principle that you should always look forward and never look back. But that night, she remembers feeling regret for the very first time.
2 ______. The first one was denial and she spent the first few hours saying to herself, ‘Make it go away!’ The second was a feeling of bewilderment in which she kept on asking herself, ‘How could I have done that?’ The third was a desire to punish herself, something along the lines of ‘I could kick myself. The fourth is something that psychologists call perseveration. This is the habit of focussing obsessively and repeatedly on the exact same thing. A person who is feeling regret has the first three components going around in their head again and again
3 ______ not only the physical pain of her tattooed wrist, but the emotional pain of knowing that she had done something incredibly stupid.
4 ______. The first is to take comfort in the fact that she is not alone. Figures show that around 17% of Americans regret getting tattoos at some point in their lives. The second is to learn to laugh at herself. Humour and black humour playa fundamental role in helping us come to terms with our regret. Apart from that, Ms Schulz recognizes the value of sitting back and waiting for the pain of regret to go away. Time heals all wounds as the saying goes, and in the case of regret this is most certainly true.
5 ______. Most people who see it are disappointed, because they don’t think it is that bad; the problem is that she doesn’t like it. She got the tattoo when she was off travelling and she was worried that she would forget some of the lessons that she had learnt during that time. It is a lesson that she wants to share with other people. For her, the compass represented the two ideas in one image.
6 ______. It reminds her how important it is to keep on exploring, and simultaneously how important it is to know where you’re heading in life. Ms Schulz believes that if we have goals and dreams and if we love people, we should feel pain when things go wrong. In her view, we need to learn to love the flawed things that we create and to be able to forgive ourselves for creating them. Ms Schulz says that her experience has taught her that regret doesn’t exist to remind us that we did badly; instead it is there to remind us that we know that we can do better.

Look at the highlighted words and phrases in the text and try to work out their meaning. Then match them to definitions 1-10.

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Don’t regrets

1 A. Unfortunately, she regretted getting it as soon as she left the tattoo shop. Until then, she had been proud of leading a life without regrets. She had gone through life working on the principle that you should always look forward and never look back. But that night, she remembers feeling regret for the very first time.
2 ______. The first one was denial and she spent the first few hours saying to herself, ‘Make it go away!’ The second was a feeling of bewilderment in which she kept on asking herself, ‘How could I have done that?’ The third was a desire to punish herself, something along the lines of ‘I could kick myself. The fourth is something that psychologists call perseveration. This is the habit of focussing obsessively and repeatedly on the exact same thing. A person who is feeling regret has the first three components going around in their head again and again
3 ______ not only the physical pain of her tattooed wrist, but the emotional pain of knowing that she had done something incredibly stupid.
4 ______. The first is to take comfort in the fact that she is not alone. Figures show that around 17% of Americans regret getting tattoos at some point in their lives. The second is to learn to laugh at herself. Humour and black humour playa fundamental role in helping us come to terms with our regret. Apart from that, Ms Schulz recognizes the value of sitting back and waiting for the pain of regret to go away. Time heals all wounds as the saying goes, and in the case of regret this is most certainly true.
5 ______. Most people who see it are disappointed, because they don’t think it is that bad; the problem is that she doesn’t like it. She got the tattoo when she was off travelling and she was worried that she would forget some of the lessons that she had learnt during that time. It is a lesson that she wants to share with other people. For her, the compass represented the two ideas in one image.
6 ______. It reminds her how important it is to keep on exploring, and simultaneously how important it is to know where you’re heading in life. Ms Schulz believes that if we have goals and dreams and if we love people, we should feel pain when things go wrong. In her view, we need to learn to love the flawed things that we create and to be able to forgive ourselves for creating them. Ms Schulz says that her experience has taught her that regret doesn’t exist to remind us that we did badly; instead it is there to remind us that we know that we can do better.

Look at the highlighted words and phrases in the text and try to work out their meaning. Then match them to definitions 1-10.

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Don’t regrets

1 A. Unfortunately, she regretted getting it as soon as she left the tattoo shop. Until then, she had been proud of leading a life without regrets. She had gone through life working on the principle that you should always look forward and never look back. But that night, she remembers feeling regret for the very first time.
2 ______. The first one was denial and she spent the first few hours saying to herself, ‘Make it go away!’ The second was a feeling of bewilderment in which she kept on asking herself, ‘How could I have done that?’ The third was a desire to punish herself, something along the lines of ‘I could kick myself. The fourth is something that psychologists call perseveration. This is the habit of focussing obsessively and repeatedly on the exact same thing. A person who is feeling regret has the first three components going around in their head again and again
3 ______ not only the physical pain of her tattooed wrist, but the emotional pain of knowing that she had done something incredibly stupid.
4 ______. The first is to take comfort in the fact that she is not alone. Figures show that around 17% of Americans regret getting tattoos at some point in their lives. The second is to learn to laugh at herself. Humour and black humour playa fundamental role in helping us come to terms with our regret. Apart from that, Ms Schulz recognizes the value of sitting back and waiting for the pain of regret to go away. Time heals all wounds as the saying goes, and in the case of regret this is most certainly true.
5 ______. Most people who see it are disappointed, because they don’t think it is that bad; the problem is that she doesn’t like it. She got the tattoo when she was off travelling and she was worried that she would forget some of the lessons that she had learnt during that time. It is a lesson that she wants to share with other people. For her, the compass represented the two ideas in one image.
6 ______. It reminds her how important it is to keep on exploring, and simultaneously how important it is to know where you’re heading in life. Ms Schulz believes that if we have goals and dreams and if we love people, we should feel pain when things go wrong. In her view, we need to learn to love the flawed things that we create and to be able to forgive ourselves for creating them. Ms Schulz says that her experience has taught her that regret doesn’t exist to remind us that we did badly; instead it is there to remind us that we know that we can do better.

Look at the highlighted words and phrases in the text and try to work out their meaning. Then match them to definitions 1-10.

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Don’t regrets

1 A. Unfortunately, she regretted getting it as soon as she left the tattoo shop. Until then, she had been proud of leading a life without regrets. She had gone through life working on the principle that you should always look forward and never look back. But that night, she remembers feeling regret for the very first time.
2 ______. The first one was denial and she spent the first few hours saying to herself, ‘Make it go away!’ The second was a feeling of bewilderment in which she kept on asking herself, ‘How could I have done that?’ The third was a desire to punish herself, something along the lines of ‘I could kick myself. The fourth is something that psychologists call perseveration. This is the habit of focussing obsessively and repeatedly on the exact same thing. A person who is feeling regret has the first three components going around in their head again and again
3 ______ not only the physical pain of her tattooed wrist, but the emotional pain of knowing that she had done something incredibly stupid.
4 ______. The first is to take comfort in the fact that she is not alone. Figures show that around 17% of Americans regret getting tattoos at some point in their lives. The second is to learn to laugh at herself. Humour and black humour playa fundamental role in helping us come to terms with our regret. Apart from that, Ms Schulz recognizes the value of sitting back and waiting for the pain of regret to go away. Time heals all wounds as the saying goes, and in the case of regret this is most certainly true.
5 ______. Most people who see it are disappointed, because they don’t think it is that bad; the problem is that she doesn’t like it. She got the tattoo when she was off travelling and she was worried that she would forget some of the lessons that she had learnt during that time. It is a lesson that she wants to share with other people. For her, the compass represented the two ideas in one image.
6 ______. It reminds her how important it is to keep on exploring, and simultaneously how important it is to know where you’re heading in life. Ms Schulz believes that if we have goals and dreams and if we love people, we should feel pain when things go wrong. In her view, we need to learn to love the flawed things that we create and to be able to forgive ourselves for creating them. Ms Schulz says that her experience has taught her that regret doesn’t exist to remind us that we did badly; instead it is there to remind us that we know that we can do better.

Look at the highlighted words and phrases in the text and try to work out their meaning. Then match them to definitions 1-10.

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Don’t regrets

1 A. Unfortunately, she regretted getting it as soon as she left the tattoo shop. Until then, she had been proud of leading a life without regrets. She had gone through life working on the principle that you should always look forward and never look back. But that night, she remembers feeling regret for the very first time.
2 ______. The first one was denial and she spent the first few hours saying to herself, ‘Make it go away!’ The second was a feeling of bewilderment in which she kept on asking herself, ‘How could I have done that?’ The third was a desire to punish herself, something along the lines of ‘I could kick myself. The fourth is something that psychologists call perseveration. This is the habit of focussing obsessively and repeatedly on the exact same thing. A person who is feeling regret has the first three components going around in their head again and again
3 ______ not only the physical pain of her tattooed wrist, but the emotional pain of knowing that she had done something incredibly stupid.
4 ______. The first is to take comfort in the fact that she is not alone. Figures show that around 17% of Americans regret getting tattoos at some point in their lives. The second is to learn to laugh at herself. Humour and black humour playa fundamental role in helping us come to terms with our regret. Apart from that, Ms Schulz recognizes the value of sitting back and waiting for the pain of regret to go away. Time heals all wounds as the saying goes, and in the case of regret this is most certainly true.
5 ______. Most people who see it are disappointed, because they don’t think it is that bad; the problem is that she doesn’t like it. She got the tattoo when she was off travelling and she was worried that she would forget some of the lessons that she had learnt during that time. It is a lesson that she wants to share with other people. For her, the compass represented the two ideas in one image.
6 ______. It reminds her how important it is to keep on exploring, and simultaneously how important it is to know where you’re heading in life. Ms Schulz believes that if we have goals and dreams and if we love people, we should feel pain when things go wrong. In her view, we need to learn to love the flawed things that we create and to be able to forgive ourselves for creating them. Ms Schulz says that her experience has taught her that regret doesn’t exist to remind us that we did badly; instead it is there to remind us that we know that we can do better.

Look at the highlighted words and phrases in the text and try to work out their meaning. Then match them to definitions 1-10.

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Don’t regrets

1 A. Unfortunately, she regretted getting it as soon as she left the tattoo shop. Until then, she had been proud of leading a life without regrets. She had gone through life working on the principle that you should always look forward and never look back. But that night, she remembers feeling regret for the very first time.
2 ______. The first one was denial and she spent the first few hours saying to herself, ‘Make it go away!’ The second was a feeling of bewilderment in which she kept on asking herself, ‘How could I have done that?’ The third was a desire to punish herself, something along the lines of ‘I could kick myself. The fourth is something that psychologists call perseveration. This is the habit of focussing obsessively and repeatedly on the exact same thing. A person who is feeling regret has the first three components going around in their head again and again
3 ______ not only the physical pain of her tattooed wrist, but the emotional pain of knowing that she had done something incredibly stupid.
4 ______. The first is to take comfort in the fact that she is not alone. Figures show that around 17% of Americans regret getting tattoos at some point in their lives. The second is to learn to laugh at herself. Humour and black humour playa fundamental role in helping us come to terms with our regret. Apart from that, Ms Schulz recognizes the value of sitting back and waiting for the pain of regret to go away. Time heals all wounds as the saying goes, and in the case of regret this is most certainly true.
5 ______. Most people who see it are disappointed, because they don’t think it is that bad; the problem is that she doesn’t like it. She got the tattoo when she was off travelling and she was worried that she would forget some of the lessons that she had learnt during that time. It is a lesson that she wants to share with other people. For her, the compass represented the two ideas in one image.
6 ______. It reminds her how important it is to keep on exploring, and simultaneously how important it is to know where you’re heading in life. Ms Schulz believes that if we have goals and dreams and if we love people, we should feel pain when things go wrong. In her view, we need to learn to love the flawed things that we create and to be able to forgive ourselves for creating them. Ms Schulz says that her experience has taught her that regret doesn’t exist to remind us that we did badly; instead it is there to remind us that we know that we can do better.

Look at the highlighted words and phrases in the text and try to work out their meaning. Then match them to definitions 1-10.

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Don’t regrets

1 A. Unfortunately, she regretted getting it as soon as she left the tattoo shop. Until then, she had been proud of leading a life without regrets. She had gone through life working on the principle that you should always look forward and never look back. But that night, she remembers feeling regret for the very first time.
2 ______. The first one was denial and she spent the first few hours saying to herself, ‘Make it go away!’ The second was a feeling of bewilderment in which she kept on asking herself, ‘How could I have done that?’ The third was a desire to punish herself, something along the lines of ‘I could kick myself. The fourth is something that psychologists call perseveration. This is the habit of focussing obsessively and repeatedly on the exact same thing. A person who is feeling regret has the first three components going around in their head again and again
3 ______ not only the physical pain of her tattooed wrist, but the emotional pain of knowing that she had done something incredibly stupid.
4 ______. The first is to take comfort in the fact that she is not alone. Figures show that around 17% of Americans regret getting tattoos at some point in their lives. The second is to learn to laugh at herself. Humour and black humour playa fundamental role in helping us come to terms with our regret. Apart from that, Ms Schulz recognizes the value of sitting back and waiting for the pain of regret to go away. Time heals all wounds as the saying goes, and in the case of regret this is most certainly true.
5 ______. Most people who see it are disappointed, because they don’t think it is that bad; the problem is that she doesn’t like it. She got the tattoo when she was off travelling and she was worried that she would forget some of the lessons that she had learnt during that time. It is a lesson that she wants to share with other people. For her, the compass represented the two ideas in one image.
6 ______. It reminds her how important it is to keep on exploring, and simultaneously how important it is to know where you’re heading in life. Ms Schulz believes that if we have goals and dreams and if we love people, we should feel pain when things go wrong. In her view, we need to learn to love the flawed things that we create and to be able to forgive ourselves for creating them. Ms Schulz says that her experience has taught her that regret doesn’t exist to remind us that we did badly; instead it is there to remind us that we know that we can do better.

Look at the highlighted words and phrases in the text and try to work out their meaning. Then match them to definitions 1-10.

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Don’t regrets

1 A. Unfortunately, she regretted getting it as soon as she left the tattoo shop. Until then, she had been proud of leading a life without regrets. She had gone through life working on the principle that you should always look forward and never look back. But that night, she remembers feeling regret for the very first time.
2 ______. The first one was denial and she spent the first few hours saying to herself, ‘Make it go away!’ The second was a feeling of bewilderment in which she kept on asking herself, ‘How could I have done that?’ The third was a desire to punish herself, something along the lines of ‘I could kick myself. The fourth is something that psychologists call perseveration. This is the habit of focussing obsessively and repeatedly on the exact same thing. A person who is feeling regret has the first three components going around in their head again and again
3 ______ not only the physical pain of her tattooed wrist, but the emotional pain of knowing that she had done something incredibly stupid.
4 ______. The first is to take comfort in the fact that she is not alone. Figures show that around 17% of Americans regret getting tattoos at some point in their lives. The second is to learn to laugh at herself. Humour and black humour playa fundamental role in helping us come to terms with our regret. Apart from that, Ms Schulz recognizes the value of sitting back and waiting for the pain of regret to go away. Time heals all wounds as the saying goes, and in the case of regret this is most certainly true.
5 ______. Most people who see it are disappointed, because they don’t think it is that bad; the problem is that she doesn’t like it. She got the tattoo when she was off travelling and she was worried that she would forget some of the lessons that she had learnt during that time. It is a lesson that she wants to share with other people. For her, the compass represented the two ideas in one image.
6 ______. It reminds her how important it is to keep on exploring, and simultaneously how important it is to know where you’re heading in life. Ms Schulz believes that if we have goals and dreams and if we love people, we should feel pain when things go wrong. In her view, we need to learn to love the flawed things that we create and to be able to forgive ourselves for creating them. Ms Schulz says that her experience has taught her that regret doesn’t exist to remind us that we did badly; instead it is there to remind us that we know that we can do better.

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Listen to a couple, Max and Ella, discussing the characteristics of different members of their families. choose M (Max’s mum) or D (Max’s dad). I here are two adjectives which you don’t need to use

Listen again.

Read the article about the zero waste policy in San Francisco Complete it with the missing sentences I here is one sentence you do not need to use.

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San Francisco: Zero Waste City

Each year, Americans throw away about 250 million tons of garbage. That’s roughly two kilos per person per day, most of which ends up in a landfill site. 1______ As well as being an eyesore, landfills create environmental damage and emit harmful greenhouse gases, which have been shown to contribute to climate change. These concerns have prompted San Francisco and a handful of other cities to aim for a once-unthinkable goal: zero waste.

Read the article about the zero waste policy in San Francisco Complete it with the missing sentences I here is one sentence you do not need to use.

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San Francisco: Zero Waste City

In 2009, San Francisco became the first city In the country to require that residents and businesses alike separate from their trash biodegradable items, like food scraps, and recyclable goods, like paper, metals, and plastic, into separate bins. And that has led to a big reduction in the amount of garbage headed to the landfill. The city’s new laws have helped to keep 80% of its waste away from landfills, when the national average is 35%, However, the city mayor, Ed Lee, wants to go even further.2________

Read the article about the zero waste policy in San Francisco Complete it with the missing sentences I here is one sentence you do not need to use.

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San Francisco: Zero Waste City

San Francisco’s 80 year-old private garbage company has recently Invented a new name for itself: Recology.3_______This can be used to make a substance called compost, which can be added to soil to help plants grow. So, Recology set about building a new composting facility on an enormous complex to the northeast of San Francisco. Here they turn all of the city’s organic waste into rich compost that is used by some of the nation’s best vineyards. In the rest of the country, where composting Is a rarity, 97% of food waste is disposed of in landfills.

Read the article about the zero waste policy in San Francisco Complete it with the missing sentences I here is one sentence you do not need to use.

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San Francisco: Zero Waste City

Surprisingly, it isn’t only food that residents are told to put into their compost bins; they are encouraged to put in all sorts of ether garbage as well. This includes packaging where meat has been sold, food wrappings, paper napkins, tissues, used paper plates, and even milk cartons. In the right conditions, paper will biodegrade in two to four weeks. Compost bins provide these conditions because they are warm and moist.4_________However, Ed Lee has found a solution to this problem, too: he has banned them from the city.

Read the article about the zero waste policy in San Francisco Complete it with the missing sentences I here is one sentence you do not need to use.

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San Francisco: Zero Waste City

Not all San Franciscans are enthusiastic about Ed Lee’s recycling policy because they say it is costing them more. Since last year, residents have had to pay for their recycling and compost bins, as well as their trash bins. 5_______Those who refuse to sort their garbage can face fines ranging from $100 to $1,000. Teams of workers from the city go round knocking on doors of residents who, without realizing it, have had their garbage cans inspected by auditors early in the morning. The idea is to educate people on composting and recycling and answer any questions they may have. So far, no fines have been imposed and only warnings nave been given out. And city officials say that the more people know about zero waste, the keener they are to support the policy.