A new school year, new coursebooks, new matura exam… Well, it is actually the last year of the old matura exam as a completely new one is about to come in 2015 J  Anyway, it is high time for us to bring brushing up on your English into focus, so why don’t we take up the gauntlet and start fighting for the best matura exam results ever? First, approach some questions:

1.     To start from scratch means the same as to start from zero. True or False?

2.  It’s high time they memorize these rules. Is the sentence gramatically correct?

3.  If  sth is out of the question, is it possible?

4.  Being ecstatic after hearing the news he couldn’t stop limping. Which word is out of place?

5.  Which one is not correct: a possibility to do sth or a possibility of doing sth?

And for dessert scan the post quickly and:

1.  find a phrasal verb which might make you think of an object we use for cleaning

2.  find an idiom with a piece of clothing in it

Answer key:  1) T  2)No. Memorized instead of memorize.         3) No, it isn’t.               4) Of course!!! It’s a must           

5) a possibility to do sth is not correct, so stop using it        Phrasal verb: to brush up on sth      Idiom: to take up the gauntlet