> Other English exercises on the same topics: Making portraits, describing | Synonyms [Change theme]
	> Similar tests: - Describing a face - Describing a picture - 13 ways of seeing - Adjectives - Adjectives: where to place them? - I'm afraid ... - Bring or take - Vocabulary: hearing, listening
	> Double-click on words you don't understand

Vocabulary: laugh and smile...

It is a Sesame... It opens doors because it predisposes the people you're facing in your favour, showing them that you're concerned about everyone, and more particularly about them... It has an almost magical power. It's often difficult to "keep smiling", in some circumstances of life, but when you "are smiling", it's quite easy to pass on a smile, to "make someone smile", or to "put a smile back on someone's face".  It's very contagious, not as an illness, but as a medicine!  

IT LOOKS AND SOUNDS SO EASY!!! 

To smile	To simper	To beam= smile broadly
To grin        (showing your teeth)	To smirk            = stupid, self-satisfied smile	To sneer            = with scorn

Laughter may also have different forms, depending on the feelings which are associated to it. 

To chuckle	To giggle	To snigger (GB) (unkindly)
To snicker (US)	To chortle	To titter
To snort	To roar	To sneer

More vocabulary ! 

EXPRESSIONS and idioms about WAYS OF LAUGHING

Laugh one's head off	Laugh in someone's face	To laugh up your sleeve (GB)             laugh in your sleeve (US)            = being secretely amused

- To laugh like a drain=  To laugh coarsely or loudly, mocking others. 

- a barrel of laughs- To be laughing on the other side of one's face/ mouth.= to show sudden disappointment after appearing cheerful. 

- a horse laugh= a mocking and sarcastic laugh 

- To laugh at the carpet= to vomit  

- To have the last laugh= To prove successful, finally...

 

There you are...  There are so many expressions that you may think it will be difficult to choose among them, but as they are used frequently, I think the choice won't be too hard. Good luck ... You have THE FORCE. 

Twitter Share
English exercise "Vocabulary: laugh and smile..." created by here4u with The test builder. [More lessons & exercises from here4u]
Click here to see the current stats of this English test

Please log in to save your progress.

1. Remember that what’s important isn’t 'to laugh or not to laugh', but definitely to have the last laughbe the laughing stocklaugh your head offI don't know, and I will!


2. The stories he was telling were so funny that the whole audience were laughing their heads offbe the laughing stockhave the last laughI don't know...


3. Tell the truth, Sandra, if not, I’ll be the laughing stocka giggling girlthe last laughI don't know of the whole family, and I won’t have it.


4. That’s terrible, but during the lecture, I gigglingsmirkedgrinningburst out laughingI don't know, couldn’t stop and had to get out! Shame on me!


5. Hearing Frank just now is a real torture... The beaminggrinningsmirkingsnortingI don't know he lets out when laughing is not only ridiculous, but also scary.


6. The smirkgrinsnortinggiggleI don't know on his face was so broad that you could have mistaken it for insolence.


7. Would you please stop snortinggigglingsmirkgrinI don't know, girls... You’re really getting on my nerves...


8. In that horror film, the smirksmilegrinbeamlaughterI don't know sounded so evil that the audience were petrified.


9. The smirksnortinggigglesnortI don't know on Patrick’s face showed that he was totally despising whoever tried to help him.


10. When Trevor received his cheque, he was literally beaminggrinningsnortingsmirkinggigglingI don't know, thinking that his rough patch was over.