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What's Wrong with It?

The following is a summary of terms (Key Vocabulary and Expressions) taught in this unit. Puzzles use these words as answers. (See Puzzle Corner in Resources.)
 
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KEY VOCABULARY

Nouns
Appliances
air conditioner
central heating
electric blanket
fan
food processor
hair dryer
iron
oven
refrigerator
stove
telephone
television
washing machine

Other
apartment
back
bedroom
blade
burn
button
carpet
CD
chip
clothes
collar
control
crack
credit
curtain
damage
dent
dial tone
fountain pen
gas
hole
jacket
jeans
kitchen
lamp shade
leak
lightbulb
(jacket) lining
living room
pair (of)
pitcher
place
receipt
refund
scratch
shirt
stain
sunglasses
tablecloth
tear
temperature
tenant
vase
vegetable
wall
wastebasket
water
window
wood
Pronoun
everything

Adjectives
Past Participles
chipped
cracked
damaged
dented
(well) made
scratched
stained
torn
worn

Other
clean
dull
freezing (cold)
high
next
loose

Verbs
afford
burn
buy
chop
come off
cook
cool down
drain
empty
exchange
fix
heat up
leak
notice
paint
point out
repair
replace
return
shampoo
show
smell
soak
turn on
understand
wash
work (= function)

Adverbs
even (when)
over
right away/now

Conjunction
though

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EXPRESSIONS

Offering help
Can I help you?/What can I do for you?
    I'd like . . . .

Describing problems
Is there something the matter with it?/
What's wrong with it?
    It's torn/stained/damaged/scratched/cracked/chipped/worn.
What exactly is the problem?
    It has a tear/a hole/a stain/some damage.
    There's a crack.
    It's leaking./It has a leak.

Speaking truthfully about a problem
Well, to be honest, . . . .

Expressing a preference
I'd rather . . . .

Beginning a series of things
First of all, . . . .

Adding information
In fact, . . . ./. . . , in fact.

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