Revision E
1 Match the beginnings and the ends of the definitions.
a place where you can watch films. A match is ""- a person who comes from America. A cinema is a thing that you light a cigarette with. A chair is a piece of furniture for sitting on. Breakfast is getting from a lower place to a higher place. Water is a meal that you eat in the morning. Climbing is something you wash yourself in.
Now choose ten or more of these and write definitions for them.
2 Look at this example. a book Is it animal, vegetable or mineral? l.i..'.$.....':!.. \;.qb. e.....JM d.....mi..g,k.,... Is it alive? N.Q.,.b..!. d!;...... Is it useful? 'j_g,..iJ<...i.............
Now answer these questions. a leather handbag 1. Is it animal, vegetable or mineral? 2. Is it alive? 3. Can you eat it? 4. Is it made of wool? 5. Is it useful? 6. Can you find it in a kitchen? 7. Is it liquid? 8. Is it very heavy? 9. Is it soft? 10. Is it manufactured? 11. Have you got one of these? 12. Can you see one now? 13. Do most people have one? 14. Can you put things in it? 15. Is it made of plastic? 16. Can you open and close it? 3 If you have Student's Cassette B, find Revision Lesson E, Listening Exercise 1 (only the first speaker is recorded here). Look up the words in the box in your dictionary. Then listen to the recording and try to write it all down.
"Don't ask me - I thought they were yours.";
4 Read the text with a dictionary.
IRON AND STEEL Copper and tin were used before iron: they melt at a lower temperature, and can be mixed to form a useful metal called bfonze. Iron was probably first extracted from meteorites, perhaps around 3000 BC. (Iron ornaments dating from 5,000 years ago have been found in the Middle East.) Later, iron was extracted from iron ore (impure iron) by the Hittites, around 2000 BC. The iron was first heated, then hammered to remove the impurities, then cooled. Finally, the iron was heated again and shaped into tools or weapons. Later, in India first of all, people found out how to make fires hot enough to melt iron (at a temperature of 1,539°C}, by driving air through the fuel. This made it possible to produce steel. §teel is made from iron mixed with a little carbon (0.15%::0.25%). Steel is harder than pure iron, and is less brittle (it does not break as easily). Every motorist is the owner of a ton of steel. Now put these in the correct order. a. Hotter fires became possible. b. People got iron from meteorites. c. Steel was produced. d. Bronze was first made. e. People hit heated ore to get iron.
5 Try to remember a phone conversation that you have had recently. Write about 100 words to report what was said.
6 Try the crossword. 15. I'm.................. the doctor about my leg tomorrow. 17. Opposite of heavy. 18. It's a quarter.................. four. 19. Do you mind.................. I call you Mike? 20. Be careful! I.................. my finger on that knife yesterday. 21. How long.................. did you start working here? 22. Opposite of high. 25. I'm seeing her.................. Tuesday. 26. Could I.................. your pen for a minute?
ACROSS 3. Opposite of quiet. 5. 'Why can't you come to the party?'.................. it's my best friend's birthday, and I'm taking him to dinner.' 6. His sister's ·.................. architect. DOWN 1. 'Where's John, do you know?' '.................. was here a minute ago.' 2. I didn't sleep well last night- the bed in the hotel was too................... 3. Some shoes are made of................... 4. Could you speak a little louder? I can't hear you - they're.................. and playing loud music upstairs. 7. Keys are made of................... 9. 'Where's the front door key?' 'I left.................. on the table.' 11. Is the room warm.................. for you? 14. Her family has been in the village.................. 1726. 15. It's very late- is Bernard.................. at the office? 16. It's.................. colder: I think it will snow tonight. 17. The new car is.................. than the old one, so it's more difficult to park. 7. Do you.................. if I smoke? 8. I've been to America..................: once in 1982 and 23• '.................. d1'dn't Jam.ce come. · 'I don't th'mk she was invited.'
10. Judy and I live in the same street, so we drive to work................... 12. Did you.................. to Barry's yesterday? 13. I've known her.................. twelve years now. 24. Debbie wasn't home,.................. I left a message with her daughter.
1 Look at the examples and then join the sentences together in the same way.
I have breakfast. Then I get dressed. (before) l....hP..Il.e....br.e.a.kfQ..I;.....be.f.ofe....I...aet...4c r;;ed..... I go to bed. Then I read for a bit. (after) r...r...fu.r:...9,....1;,... f.t......@9.tQ... ··'················· 1. I brush my teeth. Then I undress. (before) 2. I get into bed. Then I put the light out. (after) 3. I wake up. Then I get up. (as soon as) 4. I met Jane. Then my life changed. (after) 5. She was very unhappy. Then she left school. (until) 6. I thought I was very ill. Then I went to see the doctor. (before) 7. I telephoned Kate. Then I went to see her. (before) 8. I went to America. Then everything got better. (after)
2 Which happened first? 1. Before I went to France, I studied French for six months. fif.§.t..J.....kQ..igQ....fr.endl...Th.e.n..l....w t<.... to...F.r.o..r:\.'-e......................................................................... 2. After I left school, I made a lot of new friends. 3. Before I went out, I cleaned my shoes. 4. After you came to see me, I felt fine. 5. Before Andrew got to London, it started raining. 6. After it got dark, Paul went out for a walk. 7. Before I took off the handbrake, I looked in the mirror. 8. Just after your mother telephoned, your father came to see me.
3 Put in still, yet or already. 1. 'Haven't you finished..................?' 2. 'No, I'm.................. working.' 3. 'When's Mary coming?' 'She's.................. here.' 4. 'Are you ready?' 'No, I haven't done my packin
5. Ann's doing very well at school. She's.................. got a university place, and she's only sixteen. 6. 'What's the weather like?' 'It's..............:... raining.' 7. 'Is it lunchtime?' 'Not...................' 8. 'Have you phoned Godfrey..................?' 'No, I'm going to do it this evening.' 9. Look at the time! It's.................. eight o'clock. We really must go.
4 If you have Student's Cassette B, find Lesson 31, Exercise 6 (only the first part of the conversation is recorded here). Listen and write down what you hear
5 Put in such or so. 1. His letter was.................. rude that I didn't know how to answer. 2. Ann's friends are.................. strange! 3. I didn't know you had.................. a big house. 4. I'm.................. tired that I think I'm going to bed. 5. It was.................. a slow train that it would have been faster to walk. 6. I've never met.................. kind people as your family. 7. I didn't expect it to be.................. cold - I wish I'd brought my coat. 8. It's been.................. terrible weather that the farmers haven't been able to grow anything.
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"Let's get this straight, Simpson - after you had a bath, which plug did you pull out?";
6 See how much of this story you can understand without using a dictionary. Then choose only five words to look up in the dictionary and read it again.
THE LITTLE GIRL AND THE WOLF One afternoon a big wolf waited in a dark forest for a little girl to come along carrying a basket of food to her grandmother,Finally a little girl did come along and she was carrying a basket of food. 'Are you carrying that basket to your grandmother?' asked the wolf. The little girl said yes, she was. So the wolf asked her where her grandmother lived and the little girl told him and he disappeared into the wood. When the little girl opened the door of her grandmother's house she saw that there was somebody in bed with a nightcap and nightgown on. She had approached no nearer than twenty-five feet from the bed when she saw that it was not her grandmother but the wolf, for even in a nightcap a wolf does not look any more like your grandmother than the Metro-Goldwyn lion looks like the President of the United States. So the little girl took an automatic pistol out of her basket and shot the wolf dead. Moral: It is not so easy to fool little girls nowadays as it used to be.
(from The Thurber Carnival- adapted)
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once last year.
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