Work routines, confusing words and rephrasing

How many expressions can you think of with the word “time”?

How could I rephrase this question using these words/phrases?

1. leave
2. clock out
3. head out
4. call

What time do you get off from work?

What social problems will governments never be able to free themselves of?

(Free yourself of something means the same as TWO of the expressions below)

• liberate
• release
• eradicate
• lighten up
• get rid of

Can you tell the difference between …

newspaper and journal

novel and telenovela

reporter and journalist

newsreader and newsagent

issues and samples

parrot and parakeet

Use ONE of the words from the list above. In one sentences, BOTH words can be used.

1. He was reading the daily …................ and enjoying a cup of tea.
2. The best I can manage is to say that the thriller is intended to thrill; it is a succession of exciting events, whereas the suspense …................... is designed to create suspense, a series of situations of which the outcome is in doubt.
3. No ................ will risk prison to put an article in the paper.
4. Our readers in Ireland, North and South can pick up their cards at their …....................
5. A final list of key …................ is prepared from all those suggestions put forward by the individual planners through informal discussions.
6. A smaller type of parrot, or a …................