ENGLISH PILL 244/365: GIVING EXAMPLES

Érdemes megtanulni az alábbi kifejezéseket példák említésére:

1. People watch huge amounts of television. In the United States, FOR EXAMPLE, many children spend more hours watching television than they do attending school.

2. Our climate is already showing signs of change. Last year, FOR INSTANCE, was one of the hottest summers on record. (‘For instance’ is slightly less formal than ‘for example’.)

3. Tourism is very important for the economy, PARTICULARLY in the south of the country.

4. Many native English plants and animals are under threat. The red squirrel is A CASE IN POINT.

5. Many students are bored with their studies. CONSIDER the case of Christiana. She’s a hard-working student who plans to go on to college. Yet she says of her education, ‘It’s not like I’m thinking a lot here.’

6. Science has yet to answer some important questions. TAKE, for instance, the theory that the universe started with the ‘big bang’.

7. Revolutions often lead to dictatorships. BY WAY OF ILLUSTRATION, consider the events that followed the French Revolution. 

8. He wrote several famous books: ‘1984’, ‘Animal Farm’, and ‘The Road to Wigan Pier’, TO NAME BUT A FEW.

9. The factory produced electrical goods SUCH AS washing machines and cookers. 

10. Many writers have suffered from discrimination. THIS WAS TRUE OF Oscar Wilde, and also of André Gide.