Spotlight - 14.2019

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14/2019
Moving house

In Vocabulary (pages 48–49), Anna Hochsieder has advice on moving house. Try the
exercises on the following three pages to practise the relevant language.

Illustration: Martin Haake

1. What you need when moving house

Study the illustration and the text on pages 48–49 of the magazine to find the

compound nouns defined below. Some letters have been given.

A. a soft plastic sheet that you use to protect breakable items:

b b p

B. a large plastic bag normally used for rubbish, into which you can put items

such as bedding, cushions or clothes: b b

C. an extra length of electric wire that you use if the wire on an electrical

appliance is not long enough: x s c

D. a knife with a replaceable blade, used for opening cardboard boxes:

x-c

E. a small box or bag with things you need to give someone simple medical

treatment: t-a i

F. a firm that you can hire to move your furniture and belongings from one

house to another: m o o m

2. What you do when moving house

Read the text on page 49 again and match the verbs in bold to their definitions.

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Wortschatz

A. If you prioritize,...

B. If you declutter,...

C. If you borrow

something,...

D. If you dismantle

something,...

E. If you reassemble

something,...

F. If you panic,...

1. you are so worried that you cannot think clearly.


2. you take apart a structure so that it is in separate
   pieces.


3. you put the separate pieces of something back
   together again.


4. you decide in what order to do things, based on
   their importance.


5. you use something that belongs to someone else
   and give it back later.


6. you get rid of things you do not need so that you
   have more space.