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Locate the following phrases in the text and study their connotation.

1. gripped the imagination of


2. dawned upon


3. ushered in


4. passed into current coin


5. passport of the future

1. Caught hold of the entire imaginative faculty

2. Understood the significance of


3. Show guidance to someone


4. have been brought into use


5. Going into future


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Discuss in groups of four.

The problems of overpopulation that directly affect our everyday life.

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The phrase ‘inter alia’ meaning ‘among other things’ is one of the many Latin expressions commonly used in English.

Find out what these Latin phrases mean.


1. prima facie-


2. ad hoc-


3. in-camera-


4. ad infinitum-


5. mutatis mutandis-


6. caveat-


7. tabula rasa-

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The words ‘grip’, ‘dawn’, ‘usher’, ‘coin’, ‘passport’ has a literal as well as a figurative meaning. Write pairs of sentences using each word in the literal as well as the figurative sense.

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Make posters to highlight the importance of the Green Movement.