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    Milestones Vocabulary Worksheet

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    This document contains vocabulary from an English language podcast called Milestones. It discusses milestones along roads that show distances and whether other languages use the same word to refer to special events. It then provides a worksheet with gaps to fill using phrases from a word bank, relating to experiences growing up, achievements, exploration, technology, and communication. The answers are provided with explanations of usage.

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    Milestones Vocabulary Worksheet

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    This document contains vocabulary from an English language podcast called Milestones. It discusses milestones along roads that show distances and whether other languages use the same word to refer to special events. It then provides a worksheet with gaps to fill using phrases from a word bank, relating to experiences growing up, achievements, exploration, technology, and communication. The answers are provided with explanations of usage.

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    Milestones Vocabulary Worksheet

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    This document contains vocabulary from an English language podcast called Milestones. It discusses milestones along roads that show distances and whether other languages use the same word to refer to special events. It then provides a worksheet with gaps to fill using phrases from a word bank, relating to experiences growing up, achievements, exploration, technology, and communication. The answers are provided with explanations of usage.

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     podcastsinenglish.

    com
    vocabulary worksheet 2.143

    All the words for this activity come from the podcast
    Milestones

    1 Milestones are used along the sides of some roads to


    show distance.
    a What are these called in your country?

    b Do you use the same word to refer to special


    events too?

    2 Read the sentences and then choose a phrase from the box below to fill the
    gaps.

    a Well, as you know I ____________ on a small island.

    b So it was a ____________ for your family as well then.

    c I think because I __________ myself and it was very expensive.

    d Having passed it I felt really, really independent. And a great


    ____________.

    e I used to love reading about ____________ all over the world.

    f This was my chance to actually go out there and be ____________.

    g I remember using a computer at work, it was more just like a

    ____________.

    h Email was such a fantastic new thing at the time and it was a really

    fantastic way of ____________.

    i So ____________, what about you, the listener?

    glorified typewriter keeping in touch sense of achievement

    different civilizations nevermind us big thing my own explorer

    grew up paid for it all

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    answers 2.143

    2 a Well, as you know I grew up on a small island.


    b So it was a big thing for your family as well then.
    c I think because I paid for it all myself and it was very expensive.
    d Having passed it I felt really, really independent. And a great
    sense of achievement.
    e I used to love reading about different civilizations all over the world.
    f This was my chance to actually go out there and be my own explorer
    g I remember using a computer at work, it was more just like a
    *glorified typewriter.
    h Email was such a fantastic new thing at the time and it was a really
    fantastic way of keeping in touch.
    i So nevermind us, what about you, the listener?

    *glorified here is used to show that the computer is not so impressive really:

    “Why do people think being an air-hostess is glamourous? It’s just a glorified


    waitress afterall.”

    © www.podcastsinenglish.com

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