01. I don't really want to go out.
RATHER
I ___rather prefer staying__ home.

02. I did it entirely by myself.
ALL
I did it __totally all by my___ own.

03. You should not be so shy.
SPEAK
You should _proudly speak for____ yourself.

04. He has been in hospital for six months.
WENT
It is six months ___since he went and got into__ hospital.

05. If only he had been taken to hospital sooner.
PITY
What __a pity he wasn't___ taken to hospital earlier.

06. The doctors tried very hard to save him.
BEST
The doctors _tried to do the best____ to save him.

07. She was surprised to find there was little she could do.
SURPRISE
She _had a suprise at finding____ there was little she could do.

08. Only Holland permits the smoking of marijuana.
PERMITTED
The smoking of marijuana is only permitted in_____ Holland.

09. The salesman said he was sorry he was late for the meeting.
APOLOGIZED
The salesman __apologized for being___ late for the meeting.

10. Our decision has not yet been confirmed by head office.
CONFIRMATION
We haven't __confirmation about our decision from___ head office.

unit 12

Prepositions+
Complete the spaces with an appropriate preposition.
01. It was a race ____ the clock to get the menus printed in time for the opening.
02. In a restaurant the maitre d' is the person _____ charge _____ all the the waiters.
03. It's typical _____ you to order the most expensive dish in the restaurant!
04. Welcome to Food Matters. In tonight's programme the focus is _____ Mediterranean food.
05. Luis has a reputation _____ eating too quickly.
06. Ravioli is usually filled _____ minced meat or cheese.
07. The emphasis in this restaurant is _____ quality, not quantity.
08. All the wedding guests were full of praise _____ the chef.
Have, Put, Take & Give
Match the beginning of each sentence (numbers) with the suitable ending (letters).
01. He had both...
02. He had another...
03. They put him...
04. She put a...
05. They gave him...
06. He gave her...
07. She took a...
08. He took his...
a. ...plaster on her cut.
b. ...an injection in his leg.
c. ...own temperature.
d. ...operation on his leg.
e. ...his legs in plaster for 6 weeks.
f. ...pill for her headache.
g. ...on a course of antibiotics.
h. ...a prescription, which she took to the chemist's.
due: October 22nd, 2010

adtional practice 11 and 12

01. She had not bought so much for a long time.
SINCE
It was a long time _sine she didn't do____ much shopping.
02. Rodolfo arrived there twelve months ago.
FOR
Rodolfo __has been there for a___ year.
03. If Melissa hadn't failed her driving test, she wouldn't be unhappy.
PASS
Melissa is unhappy ___because she didn't pass__ her driving test.
04. Rabbits used to be more numerous.
NOT
Rabbits __are not numerous as___ they used to be.
05. His new book has been widely criticized.
LOT
His new book has come _with a lot of___ criticism.
06. His secretary updated the list.
BROUGHT
His secretary _brought up the____ date.
07. I couldn't have managed it without your help.
NOT
If _If it wasn`t for____ your help, I couldn't have managed it.
08. Regular exercise kept him healthy.
OWED
He is healthy owed to__ regular exercise.
09. He couldn't lend us the car because it didn't belong to him.
HIS
The car _is not his to__ lend.
10. We were not surprised when he won.
CAME
His winning __came not as a_ surprise.

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excersise 9
1.would you mind lending...
2.he wasn't frightened
3.
1. May we borrow your ladder for an hour?
MIND
Would you _____your ladder for an hour?
2. I'm not frightened, he said; in fact, he was terrified.
BE
He pretended _____ frightened.
3. The Majestic is better than this hotel.
GOOD
This hotel _____ the Majestic.
4. To enjoy travel, you must go on your own.
ONLY
You _____ enjoy travelling if you go on your own.
5. You were very generous, giving us all that money.
OF
It was very generous _____ us all that money.
it was generous of you to give us all that money
6. he was sorry he had asked the bank to lend him money.
WISHED
He wished he didn't_____ asked the bank to lend him money.
7. I haven't owned a car for five years now.
SINCE
It is five years since i haven`t owned_a car.
8. Why didn't you warn me it was going to rain?
HAVE
You _should have told____ me it was going to rain.
9. Heavy smokers are more likely to suffer illness than non-smokers.
RUNS
A heavy smoker __runs with more possibilities of___ serious illness than a non-smoker.
10. Even though she knew she had to get up early, Mary still went to the disco.
DESPITE
Mary still went to the disco _despite____ that she had to get up early.

*01. Use the verbs and particles to make phrasal verbs and match them to the definitions below. Then, use them to complete the sentences.
Verbs: take/ make/ look/ get
Particles: up/ in/ out/ up to/ into/ away with
1. trick or deceive _____
2. investigate-look into_____
3. not to be punished for something -getting away with_____
4. see, hear, or understand with difficulty _____
5. invent (a story or excuse) ___make up something__
6. start doing __get into___
7. admire or respect __look up to___
8. do things you know you shouldn't _____
a. Is this story true or are you _making____ it __up___?
b. I couldn't __get___ what he was saying. I think he was drunk.
c. He said he had been robbed and needed some money for a taxi, but I wasn't _taken____ by his story.
d. You're a fool if you think you can drive so fast all the time, and _get away with____ it.
e. The police are __are looking for___ the causes of the accident.
f. Are you in trouble with the police again? What have you been __up to___ this time?
*02. Transform the words from the list into their appropriate form.
0. INCREASE-increasingly
1. BUILD-BUILDINGS
2. RESIDENT-RESIDENTIAL
3. AMAZE-AMAZING
4. REDUCE-REDUCTION
5. ROB-ROBBERY
6. EFFECT-EFFECTIVE
7. CRIME-CRIMINALS
8. PRESENT-PRESENCE
9. INVADE-INVASION
10. EVIDENT-EVIDENCE.
Close circuit television cameras are (0) increasingly becoming a fact of life in Britain. they can be seen in office (1) _____, shopping centres, banks, (2) _____ areas and even parks, and it ti estimated that the average Briton is filmed an (3) _____ 200 times a day. It is believed that CCTV leads to (4) _____ in certain types of crime, such as car theft, (5) _____ and street violence. Its supporters defend it as an (6) _____ way of improving security in town centres, and of helping to bring (7) _____ to justice. Civil liberties groups, who object to the (8) _____ of CCTV cameras, feel that they constitute a serious (9) _____ of privacy and say that there is little (10) _____ that they reduce offending.
due: September 24, 2010

01. Match each sentence beginning (number) with the appropriate ending (letter).

1. As soon as I gave up...C
2. The cooker was giving off...E
3. Suspected of giving away...A
4. He listened closely as they gave out...G
5. She said we had to give in...B
6. Street Aid is a charity which gives out...D
7. He says he can't give back...F

a. ...state secrets, he was arrested and held in jail.
b. ...the homework tomorrow morning.
c. ...smoking, I felt a lot better.
d. ...food to homeless people.
e. ...a strange smell, so I got someone to look at it.
f. ...the money I lent him until Friday.
g. ...the winning lottery numbers on the news.

02. Complete each sentence with a word from the list below.

List: (not all the words will be used)

LIFT
EXAMPLE
IDEA
IMPRESSION
CALL
PARTY
HAND
PERMISSION

1. Risk is a verb which takes the gerund. Can anyone give another EXAMPLE_____?
2. Dave gave me a _LIFT____ to work on his new car this morning.
3. I can't move this table on my own. Can anyone give me a _HAND____?
4. The manager has given me _PERMISSION____ to take two days off work.
5. He gave me the __IMPRESSION___ that he was bored; he kept sighing during the lesson.
6. I won't be at home tomorrow, but you can give me a _CALL____ on my cell.
7. Would you give me some __IDEA___ of what time you'll be coming home?

AWAY
BY
DOWN
OVER

1. It was such a sad, depressing film; it really got me ___DOWN__.
2. We were all very sick last week with food poisoning. I'm ok, but my parents still haven't got _OVER____ it.
3. I'm going to try to get _AWAY____ for the weekend. I'll probably go to the beach.
4. I don't know how they get _BY____; they're both unemployed and they've got 3 children.

01. Luis does not work half as much as he used to.
HARD
Ken used to work the doble_hard__than__ he does now.
02. The experts thought that the cost of petrol would rise next year.
EXPECTED
The cost of petrol __is expected___ next year.
03. Some people who start smoking find it difficult to stop.
ALWAYS
It is always difficult_____ to stop smoking once you have started.
04. If he isn't careful, he is bound to end up in hospital.
HIM
His carelessness is bound ____to end him up_ in hospital.
05. Because of his illness he could not work effectively.
IMPOSSIBLE
His illness _doesn`t help____ him to work effectively.
06. Scotsmen will never give anything to waiters.
TIP
No _scotsmen will tip a ____ waiter.
07. Mary said, I do not want to get married yet.
RATHER
Mary protested that she _rather not get__ married yet.
08. Mothers must try hard to understand.
BEST
Mothers must _do thei best in____ understanding.
09. The younger you marry, the greater the chance you will be unhappy.
LIKELY
The younger you marry, __the more likely you will___ be unhappy.
10. I was wrong to argue with him.
MISTAKE
__It was my mistake___ to argue with him.

0 I'm writing to you from our hotel room on the Mediterranean island of............... X
00 Mallorca. Unfortunately, I can't tell to tell you very much about the island...... to
1 because we've had such a terrible weather that we've hardly been out of.......x......___
2 the hotel since we have arrived. On our very first day here the sky was........x..... ___
3 overcast and the temperature was about 20ºC, much lower than.......x.................. ___
4 normal is at this time of year. Then, the next day, we woke up to the........is.......... ___
5 sound like of torrential rain beating against the windows, and it's been....like............ ___
6 pouring with almost non stop ever since. We'd have brought more books....x........ ___
7 and games with us if we would have known it was going to be like this-........x........ ___
8 the kids are beginning to get bored with playing cards all the time. Poor.........x..... ___
9 Katie was really looking forward to go swimming in the sea, but it's far........x........ ___
10 too rough for that and she can't even go in the pool, which it has been.......it......... ___
11 closed. The weather forecast says us that it should begin to improve by........us..... ___
12 the end of the week, but some of the shopkeepers we've spoken to in the...x....... ___
13 town of Palma aren't so optimistic-they think it might well go on........x................. ___
14 raining for longer. We've decided that unless it will brightens up in the........will....... ___
15 next few days, we'll probably come home a week earlier than had planned. .had....

Units 5 and 6
1.an operation
2.look
3.The strenght
4.difficulty
5.influence
6.a go
7.common
8.sympathy

UNIT 3,PAGE 27 EXERCISE-28
2.B
3.C
4.B
5.D
6.A
7.B
8.D
EXERCISE 29
1.QUICKER
2.SPEEDIER-MORE CONVINIENT
3.ARE-TO
4.AS-AS
5.LESS THAN
6.TO
7.MORE HARDER
8.EASIER

A.Comparatives and superlatives
1.Quicker the quickest
Speedier spidiest/faster-the fastest
2.cleaner the cleanest/hotter the hottest/stranger the strangest/cleverer the cleverest

3.A bit is for small-far is for big-significantly is for big-a lot is for big-slightly is for small.

Match exercise
1c
2a
3e
4b
5f
6d

2.Talk about yourself with

3.Match response
1.d
2.C
3.A
4.
5.F
6.B

4.Complete the right way
1.The movie was some how far from what I thought it would be.
2.She isn't as sad as she was before.
3.This is the less enjoyable holiday I've ever had.
4.The harder you work the less you'll have to do later.
5.The others don't have quite more experience than kate.

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1.
succesful
skillful
homeless
cheerful
delightful
thoughtful
harmful harmless
painful
endeless
powerful
careful
priceless

2)1.helpful
2.helpless
3helpless
3)
1Skilled***
2Eventual
3Careless
4Toughtful
5Painful
6Harmful
7Succesful
8Cheerness
9Pointless
10Homeless

Noticing language
1Tan pronto como
2siempre y cuando
3Asi como
4en cuanto lo que a mi me concierne,por lo que a mi me concierne,

Complete
1Long
2soon
3many*
4well
5far
6much*


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Page 36 exercise
1)
1.
2.knife
3.oven
4.machine
5.sharpener
6.
7.control
8.
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10.

2)

1)comparisons
1d
2e
3a
4b
5h
6c
7f
8g

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1...the more I learn
2...the smaller I become
3...the less fat he's going to be
4...the more time I have to rest
5...the less we go out
6...the less clothes you wear

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mistakes
3 years,at,or,
4more time
5the art
6 write emails and to chat with friends
7the less
8the mobile phone
9.uses,in a prison cell
10.on the train
11.a young
12.young people
13.joined the fun
14.your phone
15.the one
16.mobile phone,the mountains

an e mail fan
1.painless
2.thoughtful
3.ungrateful
4.cheerfuly
5.disadvantage
6.embarrastment
7.careless
8.effortlessly
9.wonderfully
10.fortunate

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assigment 07

1.FASHION FILM INDUSTRY
2.MODEL NEWS AGENCY
3.POLITICAL BIRTHDAY PARTY
4.TELEVISION JOB INTERVIEW
5.SOCIAL SPORTING EVENT
6.FILM WORLD PREMIERE
7.NEWS BEDTIME STORY