FAMILY WORDS:

Learning the Word

1. First, read the entry for ABOUT in the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. Do this very carefully, and try and understand as much as you can from the entries. ABOUT has a lot of different meanings and usages.   
2. Look at the way ABOUT is used in sentences by clicking ABOUT,
3. (Advanced) Find words with similar meanings to ABOUT by using the thesaurus.

Reviewing the Word

Now complete the following matching activity related to ABOUT.

Purely for Relaxation: Music, Song, and Film

All I Care About: Read the Lyrics from the song from the hit musical Chicago.

Watch a performance of All I Care About

More about ABOUT

How about following up some of these derived terms from the entry for ABOUT in Wiktionary?

• bring about
• come about
• go about
• how about
• roundabout
• set about
• walkabout
• what about

Practising the Word

Use your BLOG to write an entry with the title 'All I care about'. Include the things you don't care about as well! 

First however, you might like to get some more practice with ABOUT by answering some questions in the Great Animals Vocabulary WIKI.

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