HOOK
5 minute practice in English
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Use the word ‘hook’ in conversation
(hook, hooks, hooked,
fishhook, boathook, hook and eye)
Two friends are
leaving the office.
I love summer
evenings.
Great!
We do not need to
take our coats off the coat hook.
No, the office
coat hooks are empty in summer.
Shall we watch
cricket?
Just for an hour. I really need time
to relax.
We will take time
off but I have work to take home.
We have finished
for today. We are off the hook.
Nobody can hook us back
to work.
We can please
ourselves.
Today the phone
never stopped ringing. I wanted to leave
it off the hook.
I kept thinking
about summer evenings.
I really must go
fishing one evening. I must check my fishhooks. Have I enough?
I really must
go boating again. I must check my boathook. Is it strong?
You must not float
away!
I might need to
hook onto something on the land.
We’ll
go fishing and boating another day. Don’t you
watch boxing matches now?
No! I saw a right hook to the jaw. It looked very painful. I seemed to feel it myself.
One boxer turned
his fist and punched a right hook on
the other? Nasty! Anyway, here we are at the cricket match.
He hooked the ball right across the pitch.
The bowler
tried to trick that batsman.
He hoped to trick
him, hook, line and sinker. He hoped to trick him like a fisherman tricks
a fish and catches it.
Yes, like going fishing. A fish may be tricked into swallowing the hook, even the line and the little
weight, the sinker.
The batsman was
not deceived.
Why?
My waistband is coming undone! A hook
and eye has broken. My trousers might fall down!
Here’s a safety
pin. My wife makes me carry one.
We can watch the
cricket easily from here.
ENDS
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and a CD. There are other good
dictionaries.
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