GOING FOR GOLD UPPER INTERMEDIATE - LANGUAGE MAXIMISER - UNIT 14

Rezolvarea exercitiilor de la Unit 14 din manualul de limba engleza pentru clasa a IX-a intitulat GOING FOR GOLD - UPPER INTERMEDIATE - LANGUAGE MAXIMISER, Editura Longman, Autori Richard Acklam si Araminta Crace, Editia 2003

GOING FOR GOLD - LANGUAGE MAXIMISER

Unit 14

Vocabulary 1

Going for Gold - Language Maximiser:

ex 1 / page 103

1. a TV guide 

2. a remote control

3. the screen

4. a DVD player

5. an actor

6. the stage

7. front row

8. the audience

Going for Gold - Language Maximiser:

ex 2 / page 103

1. soap

2. intervals

3. director

4. clapped

5. commercials

6. channel

7. reviews

8. seats

9. dubbing

10. acting

Going for Gold - Language Maximiser:

ex 3 / page 103

1. in

2. on

3. in

4. in

5. in

6. on

7. on

8. On

9. in

10. in, in

Going for Gold - Language Maximiser:

ex 4 / page 103

1. row

2. curtain

3. critics

4. subtitles

5. programme 

Grammar 1

Going for Gold - Language Maximiser:

ex 1 / page 105

1. more frequently

2. worse

3. better

4. more successfully

5. harder

6. more thoroughly

Going for Gold - Language Maximiser:

ex 2 / page 105

1. drives more carefully than

2. runs the fastest

3. speaks Chinese more fluently

4. doesn’t work as efficiently

5. dresses more fashionably than

6. did the worst

7.  smiles more sweetly

8. staying closer

9. running longer than

10. anyone perform better

Vocabulary 2

Going for Gold - Language Maximiser:

ex 1 / page 106

1. not

2. like

3. For

4. mind

5. no

6. well

7.  about

Going for Gold - Language Maximiser:

ex 2  / page 106

a. If you like 

b. I don’t mind.

c. How about it?

d. Of course not.

e. There’s no point.

f. For goodness sake.

g. We may as well.

Grammar 2

Going for Gold - Language Maximiser:

ex 1 / page 107

1. ok

2. The old cinema in the High Street is being completely renovated.

3. I think this bed has been slept in.

4. Over twenty thousand tons of rubbish is thrown away every month.

5. ok

6. We were told to be at the station by ten o’clock.

7. ok

8. My jacket is being cleaned.

Going for Gold - Language Maximiser:

ex 2 / page 107

1. have been chosen

2. were promised

3. had been collected

4. was repaired

5. ok

6. is served

7. am being met

8. being spoken to

9. was directed by

10. was made to do

Going for Gold - Language Maximiser:

ex 3 / page 107

1. was

2. the

3. were

4. on

5. by

6. who

7. made

8. are

9. been

10. youngest

Listening

Going for Gold - Language Maximiser:

ex 1 / page 108

a. 3

b. 2

c. 6

d. 5

e. 4

f. 1

Going for Gold - Language Maximiser:

ex 2 / page 108

1. A

2. C

3. A

4. A

5. B

6. A  

Tapescript

Extract 1

A: I’m told you weren’t sure about the part at the beginning?

B: No, not at all. I’ve always admired Spiegel as a director and I was really keen to work with him but I couldn’t see myself as Juliet at all.

Extract 2

A: Would you like to go out tonight and see a movie or stay at home and watch a DVD?

B: I don’t mind whatever you like.

Extract 3

For goodness sake! Turn that music down, will you? I can hardly hear myself think.

Extract 4

Just out! Janet Marquez’s latest. Includes her hit single ‘All the love in the world’. Available now at a record shop near you!

Extract 5

A: Would you like me to call Simon and invite him to the party?

B: Why bother? He won’t want to come anyway.

Extract 6

You won’t tell anyone what I just told you, will you? I mean it’s still pretty confidential.

Writing

Going for Gold - Language Maximiser:

ex 1 / page 109

1a. you can imagine the characters for yourself 

1b. the book is more complete and you will enjoy looking for differences between the book and the film 

2a. if you are going to read the book in English and you see the film in your own language, you’ll understand the book better

2b. you will find the film more exciting if you haven’t read the book 

Going for Gold - Language Maximiser:

ex 2 / page 109

The INCORRECT  expressions are:

1. At first

2. Furthermore

3. in addition

4. At once

5. At last

6. I am thinking