Something that happens that delays or prevents a process from developing
Something that happens that delays or prevents a process from developing
Interview with Bill Gates
iSLCollective teacher trainer
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KIERAN DONAGHY ABOUT ISLCOLLECTIVE VIDEO QUIZZES:
«iSLCollective Interactive Video Quizzes are highly engaging and motivating multimodal texts for English language students to learn vocabulary and improve their listening skills. They are the perfect complement to the creative and innovative lesson plans on Film English.»
Kieran Donaghy,
Creator of FilmEnglish.com, a site with hundreds of high quality, free ESL/EFL lesson plans created around short films
Video quiz questions (printable)
1) Match the words with their definitions:
Match the items:
| spike | an essential or distinctive attribute or quality of a thing |
| properties | a very high amount, price, or level, usually before a fall |
| deterrence | the practice of discouraging or restraining someone |
2) Match the words with their definitions:
Match the items:
| cutting edge | something that you accept as true without question or proof |
| excess | the most modern stage of development in a particular type of work or activity |
| assumption | an amount that is more than acceptable, expected, or reasonable |
3) Match words with their definitions:
Match the items:
| setback | something that happens that delays or prevents a process from developing |
| on standby | (of people or a thing) ready to be used if necessary |
| surveillance | the careful watching of a person or place |
| cross training | the action or practice of training or being trained in more than 1 role or skill |
About the author
KIERAN DONAGHY ABOUT ISLCOLLECTIVE VIDEO QUIZZES:
«iSLCollective Interactive Video Quizzes are highly engaging and motivating multimodal texts for English language students to learn vocabulary and improve their listening skills. They are the perfect complement to the creative and innovative lesson plans on Film English.»
Something that happens that delays or prevents a process from developing
‘Smart’ traffic lights
Despite their importance, some traffic lights, especially older ones, are not ‘smart’, meaning they turn n or off at fixed predetermined intervals regardless of whether it is midday or midnight. It is fine at midday when the roads are packed and waiting for one minute at a red light is normal. However waiting for one minute at a red light at midnight when here are no vehicles around seems like forever. One is tempted to beat the lights.
Fortunately in my town, the planners have installed ‘smart’ traffic lights that change their lights according to the absence or presence of cars near the junction. This works very well, especially in the night. One does not have to wait forever for the lights to change.
The ‘smart’ traffic lights have detectors buried just under the road just behind the line where vehicles stop at the lights. The detectors are hardly visible but if one is observant, one can see a rectangular box on the road about the same width and length of a car behind every line. Each detector can detect any vehicle that stops on top of or passes over it. When this happens, it indicates to the control box to change the lights to green as soon as possible. So the lights stay red or green according to the traffic volume registered by the detectors. It is pleasing to arrive at an empty junction to see the lights quickly change to green when one stops behind the line. One does not have to wait long.
The only setback to this system is that many drivers are not aware of the detectors. Some stop beyond the stop line or before it and wonder why the lights do not change to green for them. The detector did not register their presence so the lights do not change quickly.
Something that happens that delays or prevents a process from developing
TODO
Doze = Дреметь
Kip = поваляться (отдохнуть, поспать, полежать)
Nap = Вздремнуть
Slumber = Сон, дремота (формально)
Snooze = храпеть
Crash out = вырубиться
Doze/drift/drop/nod off = задремать
Envy = зависть
Wide awake = бодрый
Fast asleep = крепко спящий
Drowsy = сонный, вялый
Seize = Воспользоваться
Presumably = предположительно
Frankly = откровенно
Doubtlessly = несомненно
Intake = the amount of something such as food, breath, or a liquid that is taken in by someone or something (the intake of fuel in a vehicle; a deep intake of breath)
Onset = the moment at which something unpleasant begins (the onset of winter; the new treatment can delay the onset of the disease by several years)
Back-up = someone or something that provides support or help (Remember, your colleagues are your backup system when things go wrong)
Setbacks = something that happens that delays or prevents a process from developing (There has been a slight/temporary setback in our plans)
Part and parcel = неотъемлемая часть
By and large = when everything about a situation is considered together (There are a few small things that I don’t like about my job, but by and large it’s very enjoyable)
Off and on = happening or existing only some of the time (He worked off and on as a bicycle messenger, but he never found permanent work)
Trough thick and thin = If you support or stay with someone through thick and thin, you always support or stay with them, even if there are problems or difficulties (She has stuck with me through thick and thin.)
Touch and go = If a situation is touch and go, it is uncertain (The doctor says that it’s touch-and-go whether Mary will be okay)
Synonyms
problem
obstacle
a difficulty or problem that prevents you from achieving something
obstacle
an object that you must remove or go around in order to move forward
complication
something that makes a process or activity more difficult to do, deal with, or understand
barrier
anything that prevents progress or makes it difficult for someone to achieve something
barrier
something that prevents people from communicating, working together etc
intrusion
embarrassment
someone or something that causes problems for an organization or politician
disruption
brake
something that prevents another thing from happening
block
something that stops you from doing something or being successful
block
something that stops movement through a place or along something
bottleneck
a specific problem in part of a process, that causes delays to the whole process
dealbreaker
a factor or problem that will prevent someone from agreeing to something, doing something, or buying a particular product
something that makes something else develop or progress more slowly
encumbrance
formal something that prevents you from moving normally or from doing what you want to do
hang-up
informal American a problem that causes a delay or difficulty
hassle
informal a situation that causes problems for you or that annoys you very much
hindrance
hurdle
one of several problems that you must solve before you can do something successfully
impediment
formal something that makes it more difficult for someone to do something or more difficult for something to happen
inconvenience
an annoying problem or situation, especially one that forces you to make an extra effort to do something
millstone
a problem or responsibility that prevents you from making progress or doing what you want to do
literary something that makes it difficult for you to see
no through road
British something that prevents someone from going into a place or doing something
obstruction
something that blocks a path, passage, door etc so that it is difficult or impossible for someone or something to move along or through it
pain point
predicament
a difficult or unpleasant situation that is not easy to get out of
red tape
reversal
roadblock
informal something that stops someone from making progress
setback
speed bump
mainly American informal something that makes progress slower
sticking point
something that people cannot agree on and that stops them from continuing with a discussion
stumbling block
tie-up
American a situation where something cannot move, make progress, or work normally
10 things I learned after losing a lot of money
iSLCollective teacher trainer
Task description & scene summary
KIERAN DONAGHY ABOUT ISLCOLLECTIVE VIDEO QUIZZES:
«iSLCollective Interactive Video Quizzes are highly engaging and motivating multimodal texts for English language students to learn vocabulary and improve their listening skills. They are the perfect complement to the creative and innovative lesson plans on Film English.»
Kieran Donaghy,
Creator of FilmEnglish.com, a site with hundreds of high quality, free ESL/EFL lesson plans created around short films
Video quiz questions (printable)
2) What were her impulse purchases?
3) Why did she start working with students?
4) What is ‘financial setback’?
5) Put the words in correct order
6) Why she couldn’t afford to bake her daughter a cake?
7) How did she describe her failure? (put down the adjectives she mentions)
8) What is a ‘rock bottom’?
9) What does it mean ‘to be broke’?
10) What does ‘within six months’ means?
11) What is her ‘money project’ about?
12) What idea of money has she inherited?
13) Why did she mention 3 euros and 97 cents?
14) Put the words below in the correct order to make a sentence.
15) What does ‘consciously’ mean?
16) Put the words in the correct order.
17) Does she find it easy to value herself?
18) Is the way people are talking about you a reflection of who you are?
19) What is ‘circamstances’?
20) What lesson she could have learned from her grandma?
21) Unscrable the sentence.
22) What does ‘be out of money’ mean?
23) What is ‘Parkinson’s law’?
24) What has she learned from this project?
25) What is ‘scarcity’?
26) What helped her to become succesful?
27) When did she have the most profound moments of her life?
Vocabulary list
About the author
KIERAN DONAGHY ABOUT ISLCOLLECTIVE VIDEO QUIZZES:
«iSLCollective Interactive Video Quizzes are highly engaging and motivating multimodal texts for English language students to learn vocabulary and improve their listening skills. They are the perfect complement to the creative and innovative lesson plans on Film English.»