I CAN'T STAND IT WHEN...

photocopies from 28th March 
audio for listening activity

TO FEND FOR THEMSELVES

to fend for oneself to take care of and provide for yourself, without depending on anyone else, without help.

Now that the children are old enough to fend for themselves, we can go away on holiday on our own. 

photocopies from 21st March 
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wombat audio
wombat video 1 (listening activity 23rd March)
wombat video 2 (lively baby wombat) 
wombat video 3 (reverse pouch)
wombat video 4 (wombat poo continued) 

IT SUDDENLY DAWNED ON HER...

to dawn on somebody if a fact dawns on you, you understand it after a period of not understanding it; if something dawns on you, you realize it for the first time; to become known or obvious to someone, often suddenly:

It finally dawned on him that she’d been joking.

It was several months before the truth finally dawned on me.

Little by little it dawned on Archie that his wife was not coming back.

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SMALL FRY

small fry  noun

   1. Small children.

   2. Young or small fish.

   3. People or things regarded as unimportant:

They may be key players in their own company, but they're small fry in the industry itself.

adjective   

1. minor, unimportant a small–fry politician

   2  of, relating to, or intended for children; childish

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THE LOOMING CRISIS

to loom

to appear as a large, often frightening or unclear shape or object; to appear as a vague form, especially one that is large or threatening; (of an event regarded as threatening) to seem about to happen:

Dark storm clouds loomed on the horizon.

Vehicles loomed out of the darknes

There is a crisis looming

looming adjective (of something unwanted or unpleasant) about to happen soon and causing worry; imminent:

The looming crisis

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