Vocabulary exercises

term      compromising                 lack       depressing         extended            conventional        merchandise        virtually            obesity                trailing                promoting          critics browse               excursions         bonding

fill in the blanks with a word from the box above.

1. Students should find time to engage in sports without …………………… their studies.

2. The shop had a wide range of ……………. for sale.

3. This mall is very big. It has ……………. everything under the sun for sale.

4. Normally this shop is open only from 10 a m to 5 pm. But now they have …………….. their opening hours.

5. Your style of wearing clothes is very ……………………

6. The ……………… ‘couch potato’ is used to refer to a person who spends a lot of time on the couch in front of TV so that he becomes as fat as a potato.

7. On our way to Bandar, we stopped to …………around a bookshop for the latest novels.

8. ……………… of junk food say that eating junk food often will lead to sickness.

9. Our school arranges educational …………………… for students often.

10. Having dinner together will improve family ………………………

11. It is very ……………….. to see animals being treated badly.

12. The …………….. of exercise is making young people very unfit these days.

13. Childhood ………………….. is a very serious problem in many developed countries.

14. We should be ……………… physical activities instead of concentrating too much on academics.

15. I saw my friend John and his wife, with his children ………………… behind.